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Premier Catalog Auction - Session II

Fri, Nov 16, 2018 09:00AM EST
Lot 977

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1773 edition

Estimate: $400 - $600

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[A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences] by a Society of Gentlemen in Scotland, London: Printed for John Donaldson, 1773, three volumes (complete), illustrated with one hundred and sixty copperplates, some of which fold-out and some have been hand-colored, an early edition of the famous [Encyclopaedia Britannica], the first edition being 1768, bound in full leather, five raised bands, morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt decorated spines, inner gilt dentelles

Condition

wear at the extremities, some boards starting, tops and bottoms of spines are worn otherwise good

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