[Rarebooks] FS:12 vol. 1813 encyclopedia with 355 plates (171 hand-colored)

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(ENCYCLOPEDIAS) Good, John Mason and Olinthus Gregory and Newton Bosworth 
(eds.). PANTOLOGIA. A New Cyclopaedia... Alphabetically Arranged; with a General 
Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Words... Illustrated with Elegant 
Engravings; Those on Natural History Being from Original Drawings by Edwards and Others, 
and Beautifully Coloured After Nature... London: Printed for G. Kearsley et 
al. 1813. Lg. 8vo. Unpaginated. 12 vols. Double column text. Illustrated with 
355 copper engraved plates (1 a map), of which 171 are nicely hand-colored (2 
folding). Orig. brown cloth over boards, paper spine labels (rubbed), uncut. 
Hinges split (or splitting) but holding nicely. Occasional chipping & fraying at 
extremities of spine. Hand lettered volume numbers added to tops of spines. 
Plates with some foxing (the color plates only occasionally foxed).     
$1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The plates are mostly machinery (steam engines, printing presses, hot air 
balloons, ship building, etc.); and scientific instruments (microscopes, 
telescopes, etc.) and some printed music. The color plates are of birds, mammals, 
reptiles, insects, fossils, flowers, etc.

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