By Various
Chicago   Encyclopaedia Britannica, LTD
11" by 8.5"
A wonderful complete twenty five volume set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with an Atlas and plates throughout.
By Various

1950 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Chicago   Encyclopaedia Britannica, LTD
11" by 8.5"
A wonderful complete twenty five volume set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with an Atlas and plates throughout.
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Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The Britannica’s progressive history has been one of expansion and enlargement and the aim of these volumes is to render the vast store of available knowledge as accessible to all who read.

Vol. 1 is from A to Annoy and has 50 plates.
Vol. 2 is from Annual Register to Baltic Sea and has 78 plates.
Vol. 3 is from Baltimore to Braila and has 53 plates.
Vol 4. is from Brain to Casting and has 82 plates.
Vol. 5 is from Cast-Iron to cole and has 73 plates.
Vol. 6 is from Colebrooke to Damascius and has 53 plates.
Vol. 7 is from Damascus to Education in Animals and has 66 plates.
Vol. 8 is from Edward to Extract and has 55 plates.
Vol. 9 is from Extraction to Bambrinus and has 53 plates.
Vol. 10 is from Game to Gun-Metal and has 75 plates.
Vol. 11 is from Gunnery to Hydroxylamine and has 49 plates.
Vol. 12 is from Hydrozoa to Jeremy, Epistle of and has 93 plates.
Vol. 13 is from Jerez de la Frontera to Liberty Party and has 55 plates.
Vol. 14 is from Libido to Duchess of Burgundy and has 60 plates.
Vol. 15 is from Maryborough to Muschet Steel and has 86 plates.
Vol. 16 is from Mushroom to Ozonides and has 69 plates.
Vol. 17 is from P to Planting of Trees and has 99 plates.
Vol. 18 is from Plants to Raymund of Tripoli and has 83 plates.
Vol. 19 is from Raynal to Sarreguemines and has 54 plates.
Vol. 20 is from Sarsaparilla to Sorcery and has 76 plates.
Vol, 21 is from Sordello to Textile Printing and has 86 plates.
Vol. 22 is from Textiles to Vascular system and has 71 plates.
Vol. 23 is from Vase to Zygote and has 58 plates.
Volume 24 is an Index to volumes 1 to 23, atlas, index to atlas.

Collated, complete. 

Volume number twenty five contains a complete Atlas of the world, a historical atlas and index to the atlas and historical atlas, with 208 pages of colour maps.

A wonderful, hugely comprehensive set of encyclopaedias.

Condition

All uniformly bound in half morocco with cloth covered boards. Externally, lovely. Volume 25 is a little worn to the spine. Internally, all are firmly bound with bright and clean pages.

Near Fine

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