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Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire.

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Other Authors: Gaillard, Gabriel-Henri, 1726-1806 (Editor), Agasse, Henri, 1752-1813 (Printer), Ballard, Marie-Anne-Geneviève, active 1765-1789 (Printer), Ballard, Pierre-Robert-Christophe, 1744-1812 (Printer), Hérissant, Veuve, -1797 (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:French
Published: A Paris : A Liège : Chez Plomteux, imprimeur des États, Chez Panckoucke, libraire, hôtel de Thou, rue des Poitevins ; MDCCLXXXIV [1784]-an XII - 1804.
Series:Encyclopédie méthodique ; t.17.
Subjects:
History > Dictionaries > French.
Heraldry > Dictionaries > French.
Biography > Dictionaries > French.
Chronology > Dictionaries > French.
World history > Early works to 1800.
Heraldry > Early works to 1800.
Biography > Early works to 1800.
Chronology > Early works to 1800.
Encyclopedias > France > 18th century.
Encyclopedias > France > 19th century.
Dictionaries > France > 18th century.
Dictionaries > France > 19th century.
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Item Description:Edited by Gabriel-Henri Gaillard; see Braunrot & Hardesty Doig.
"Avec approbation et privilège du roi."
Volume 1 has separate title page for "seconde partie."
Volume 4-5 imprints give Panckoucke only; volume 6 has imprint: A Paris : Chez H. Agasse, imprimeur-libraire, rue des Poitevins, no 18.
Colophon (volumes 1-2): De l'imprimerie de la veuve Ballard & fils, imprimeur du roi, rue des Mathurins; (volume 5, page 30): Veuve Hérissant, imprimeur des bâtimens du roi, premier juillet 1791.
Volume 1: 1784; volume 2: 1786; volume 3: 1788; volume 4: 1790; volume 5: 1791; volume 6: 1804.
Accompanying plates for heraldry are found in volume 7 of: Recueil de planches de l'encyclopédie par ordre de matières. A Paris : Chez Panckoucke ... ; A Liège : Chez Plomteux ..., MDCCLXXXIX [1789].
Volume 1: [4], viij, 400, [4], [401]-792 pages; volume 2: [4], 731, [1] pages; volume 3: [4], 663, [1] pages; volume 4: [4], 725, [1] pages; volume 5: [4], 30, [2], 748 pages; volume 6: [4], 768 pages.
Signatures: volume 1: pi² A-3D⁴ chi² 3E-5G⁴; volume 2: pi² A-4Y⁴ 4Z²; volume 3: pi² A-4O⁴; volume 4: pi² A-4X⁴ 4Y⁴ (-4Y4); volume 5: pi² A-D⁴ ²A-5A⁴ 5B²; volume 6: pi² A-5D⁴.
Title ornaments; tail-pieces.
Text in double columns.
Physical Description:6 volumes ; 28 cm (quarto) + 33 plates (all illustrations ; 32 cm)
Place of Publication:France -- Paris.
Belgium -- Liège.