Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves. In two volumes.

Main entry:

Harris, John, 1667?-1719.

Title & Author:

Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves. In two volumes.

Edition:

The fifth edition. Now digested into one alphabet : with very considerable additions and improvements from later discoveries in mathematicks and philosophy, &c. illustrated with several additional copper-plates , and many new diagrams.

Publication:

London : Printed for J. Walthoe, etc., MDCCXXXVI [1736]

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm

Notes:
"In two volumes."
Library copy: bookplate of Rob Shafto, Esq. mounted on p. [2] of cover; bookplate of William Adair, Esq. mounted on p. [3] of cover.
Library copy: two of three v. uniformly bound.

Subject:

Art Dictionaries.
Art Early works to 1800.
Science Dictionaries.
Science Early works to 1800.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Art Ouvrages avant 1800.
Sciences Dictionnaires anglais.
Sciences Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art.
Science.

Form/genre:

Dictionaries.
Early works.

Added entries:

Provenance. Adair, William. Bookplate.
Provenance. Shafto, Rob. Bookplate.
Bookplates. Adair, William.
Bookplates. Shafto, Rob.

Universal dictionary of arts and sciences
Binder's title: Harris's lexicon

Holdings:

Location: Library main 12565
Call No.: ID W11477 AE5.H3; ID:87-B341
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 12564
Call No.: ID W11477 AE5.H3; ID:87-B341
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

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