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COURTIN (Eustache-Marie). Modern encyclopedia or abridged dictionary of sciences, letters and arts, with the indication of the works where the various subjects are developed and deepened. Paris, at the encyclopedia office, 1824. 26 volumes in-8 (including the last 2 volumes of plates in a larger format) half green morocco, spines decorated (period binding). The 2 volumes of atlases contain 82 plates (including a watercoloured plate of pavilions) some of them folding, 8 tables out of text and 16 pages and 1 folding plate of engraved music, (agriculture 8 pl., architecture 8 pl., military art 2 pl., astronomy 4 pl., botany 2 pl., chemistry 3 pl., surgery 2 pl., civil engineering 1 pl., geometry 10 pl., natural history 6 pl., navy 2 pl. of which 1 in colour (according to the table plate 2 does not exist), medicine 5 pl., general grammar 11 pl., music 17 pl., metallurgy 2 pl., physics 8 pl., shorthand 1 pl., technology 8 pl.) Spines slightly sunned, a few lightly rubbed, small ink stain on the edge of the 1st volume, 2 scratches on the spines of the first 2 volumes, small dark angular stain on several ff. of volume 7.
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COURTIN (Eustache-Marie). Modern encyclopedia or abridged dictionary of sciences, letters and arts, with the indication of the works where the various subjects are developed and deepened. Paris, at the encyclopedia office, 1824. 26 volumes in-8 (including the last 2 volumes of plates in a larger format) half green morocco, spines decorated (period binding). The 2 volumes of atlases contain 82 plates (including a watercoloured plate of pavilions) some of them folding, 8 tables out of text and 16 pages and 1 folding plate of engraved music, (agriculture 8 pl., architecture 8 pl., military art 2 pl., astronomy 4 pl., botany 2 pl., chemistry 3 pl., surgery 2 pl., civil engineering 1 pl., geometry 10 pl., natural history 6 pl., navy 2 pl. of which 1 in colour (according to the table plate 2 does not exist), medicine 5 pl., general grammar 11 pl., music 17 pl., metallurgy 2 pl., physics 8 pl., shorthand 1 pl., technology 8 pl.) Spines slightly sunned, a few lightly rubbed, small ink stain on the edge of the 1st volume, 2 scratches on the spines of the first 2 volumes, small dark angular stain on several ff. of volume 7.
