[Rarebooks] FS: Knight's illustrated technology dictionary (3 vols. + supplement) 1874-84

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(ENCYCLOPEDIAS) Knight, Edward H. KNIGHT'S AMERICAN MECHANICAL DICTIONARY: 
Being a Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes and Engineering; 
History of Inventions; General Technological Vocabulary... Illustrated with 
Upwards of Five Thousand Engravings... New York: J. B. Ford and Company. 
1874-1884. 4to. 4 vols. (the 3 original volumes plus the Supplement). 
viii,832;(4),(833)-1664; iv,(1665)-2832pp. Plus viii,960pp. (supplement). Double column text. 
Profusely illustrated with 75 plates (1 folding), printed by various 
processes (including a tinted lithograph), and 7,395 text figures. Plus an additional 
56 plates and 2,549 text figures in the supplement. The 4 vols. uniformly 
bound in 20th c. green simulated leather, spines stamped in silver (stamping a bit 
rubbed off).     $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
This set, with the supplement volume, is the "best edition" of this important 
American dictionary of technology.

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