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NEW Edinburgh encyclopædia
- Title
- NEW Edinburgh encyclopædia / conducted by David Brewster ... assisted by upwards of one hundred gentlemen in Europe, most eminent in science and literature: and now improved for the greater satisfaction and better information of the people of the United States.
- Publication
- New-York : Whiting and Watson, theological and classical Booksellers, no. 96 Broadway. Also, by Daniel Whiting, Troy--Whiting & Tiffany, New-Haven, Con.[sic]--B.B. Hopkins, Philadelphia--and A. Seward, Utica--by whom subscriptions are received for this work. J. Seymour, printer, 1813-1831.
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- Additional Authors
- Brewster, David, 1781-1868.
- Description
- 18 v. in 36 : illus.; 30 cm
- Subject
- Note
- Cover title.
- At head of title: Second American edition.
- Vol. 1, pt. 1 has engr. t.p., with title vignette: Whiting & Watson's American edition of the New Edinburgh encyclopaedia ... New York [n.d.].
- Binder's title; New Edinburgh encyclopaedia. 2d American edition by David Bruster [sic].
- Title pages for the 1st American edition published in Philadelphia in 1832 by J. and E. Parker, and "General explanation of plates belonging to volume sixteenth" are bound in vol. 18, pt. 2.
- Imprint varies: v. 7, pt. 2; v. 8, pts. 1-2; v. 9, pt. 2; v. 10, pts. 1-2; v. 11, pt. 1; v. 17, pt. 1 have imprint New York, John L. Tiffany ... v. 9, pt. 1; v. 12, pt. 1; v. 13, pts. 1-2; v. 14, pts. 1-2; v. 15, pt. 2; v. 16, pts. 1-2 have imprint New York, Samuel Whiting .. v. 11, pt. 2 has imprint New York, Samuel Whiting and John L. Tiffany ... v. 12, pt. 2 has label pasted over imprint: New York, Samuel Whiting, .. v. 15, pt. 1 and v. 18, pt. 2 have imprint: Philadelphia, Published by J. Parker.
- Some vols. printed by William Brown.
- "List of the authors of the principal articles ... ": p.[ix]-xiv preceding plates in back of v.18, pt.2.
- Call Number
- *AL (Edingburh encyclopedia)
- OCLC
- 24438673
- Title
- NEW Edinburgh encyclopædia / conducted by David Brewster ... assisted by upwards of one hundred gentlemen in Europe, most eminent in science and literature: and now improved for the greater satisfaction and better information of the people of the United States.
- Imprint
- New-York : Whiting and Watson, theological and classical Booksellers, no. 96 Broadway. Also, by Daniel Whiting, Troy--Whiting & Tiffany, New-Haven, Con.[sic]--B.B. Hopkins, Philadelphia--and A. Seward, Utica--by whom subscriptions are received for this work. J. Seymour, printer, 1813-1831.
- Added Author
- Brewster, David, 1781-1868.
- Research Call Number
- *AL (Edingburh encyclopedia)