The circle of the sciences, a cyclopaedia of experimental, chemical, mathematical, & mechanical philosophy, and natural history ... / Written ... by Professor Owen ... and others. With an introductory discourse of the ojects, pleasures, and advantages of science. By Henry, lord Brougham ... Edited by James Wylde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wylde, James, editor.

Contributor:

Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Genre:

Three-quarter bindings (Binding)

Endpapers (Binding)

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1870.

Marbled edges (Binding)

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 4. : illustrations, maps, plates (part folded), portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : London Printing and Publishing Co., [1862-1867].

Contents:

I. Experimental, chemical, mathematical, and mechanical philosophy.

II. The natural history of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdom; geology.

Notes:

Another edition published the same years by Brain & co., London.

Two volumes bound in 4; v. 1, [pt. 2] and v. 2 [pt. 2] have no. t.p.

Vol. 2 has title: The circle of the sciences. With an introductory discourse of the objects, pleasures, and advantages of science. By Henry, lord Brougham. Edited by James Wylde.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Three-quarter bindings with brown leather and red leather; marbled edges; marbled endpapers; stamped in gilt. Front cover illustration of a globe on a stand.

OCLC:

3891550