City Readers Digital Historic Collections at the New York Society Library

Encyclopædia Britannica; or, a dictionary of arts, sciences, &c. On a plan entirely new: By Which, the different sciences and arts Are digested into the Form of Distinct treatises or systems, comprehending The History, Theory, and Practice … whether Relating to Natural and Artificial Objects, or to Matters Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, Commercial, &c. Together with a description of all the Countries, Cities, Principal Mountains, Seas, Rivers … a General History, Ancient and Modern, of the different Empires, Kingdoms, and States; and An Account of the lives of the most Eminent Persons in every Nation ... The whole compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages, … dictionaries, as well of General Science as of particular branches; the transactions, journals, and memoirs … the Ms. Lectures of eminent professors on different sciences … The second edition ... Illustrated with above two hundred copperplates. Vol. I. Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti.