HARRIS, John (1667?-1719). Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, London: Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe [and others], 1704-10, 2 volumes, 2° (318 x 198mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 engraved plates, all but 6 folding (new endpapers to vol. I, lacking endpapers to vol. II, small hole to b4 of vol. I & 5Y2 of vol. II affecting text, leaves of first half of vol. I cockled, title to vol. II on guard, some dampstaining, browning and spotting), contemporary calf (joints repaired, rather worn). [Norman 992; PMM 171; Wallis 383.5-501].

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HARRIS, John (1667?-1719). Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, London: Dan. Brown, Tim. Goodwin, John Walthoe [and others], 1704-10, 2 volumes, 2° (318 x 198mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 engraved plates, all but 6 folding (new endpapers to vol. I, lacking endpapers to vol. II, small hole to b4 of vol. I & 5Y2 of vol. II affecting text, leaves of first half of vol. I cockled, title to vol. II on guard, some dampstaining, browning and spotting), contemporary calf (joints repaired, rather worn). [Norman 992; PMM 171; Wallis 383.5-501].

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The first English encyclopedia arranged in alphabetical order and "the first English dictionary of arts and sciences, and the earliest modern encyclopedia of science ... The introduction to Vol. II contains the first printing (in Latin and English) of Newton's "De natura acidorum", his only published work on chemistry; and the articles "Quadrature" and "Curves" give the first English translations of the "Two treatises" from Newton's Opticks." (Norman)

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