AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Encyclopedias.

Lexicon Technicum, or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: explaining not only the terms of art, but the arts themselves. By John Harris. London, 1708.

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Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences : containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify'd thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine: the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial : the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial : with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c : among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks, &c : the whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning. By E. Chambers, Gent. London, 1728. —The link above goes to a page with both original volumes and the posthumous Supplement of 1783 in excellent scans, but with cumbersome navigation, at the University of Wisconsin—Madison.The links below go to copies at Archive.org:

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A Supplement to Mr. Chambers's Cyclopaedia: or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences. London, 1753.

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Vol. II.

Encyclopedia Americana (1903-1904). As often happens, it is impossible to find all the volumes at Google Books, but when we find the missing volumes elsewhere, they are digitized by Google. It would be delightful if Google could come up with some method of accounting for multiple-volume sets, as Hathi Trust does.

1 (A to Aromatics) (at Hathi Trust).

2 (Aromatic Vinegar to Black, Joseph)

3 (Black, William, to Campomanes, Pedro Rodriguez)

4 (Campos, Arsenio Martinez, to Clarence, George)

5 (Clarence Harbor to Czuczor, Gergely)

6 (D to Emerson)

7 (Emerton, Ephraim, to Georgian, or Ibernian, or Grusinian)

8 (Geotropism to India Rubber)

9 (Indian, Education of the, to Lorca)

10 (Lord to Munich)

11 (Municipal Accounting to Paombong)

12 (Papacy to Prohibitive Duties)

13 (Projectiles to Ruddy Duck)

14 (Rude, François, to Spawn-Eater)

15 (Speaker to United Society of Believers) (at Hathi Trust).

16 (United States to Zymotic Disease)