Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, 131 Volumes

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans and John Taylor 1830-1841, 1830. Hardcover. Good. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans and John Taylor, 1830-1841. First edition. Good. Comprising: Sir Walter Scott, History of Scotland (2 volumes); William Desborough Cooley, History of Maritime Discovery; Michael Donovan, Domestic Economy, I A Treatise on Brewing, II Human Food; Henry Kater and Lardner, Mechanics; Henry Roscoe, Lives of Eminent British Lawyers; Sir Janes Mackintosh, William Wallace and Robert Bell, History of England (10); Thomas Keightley, Outlines of History; Thomas Colley Grattan, The History of the Netherlands; Eyre Evand Crowe, History of France (3); Henry Fergus, The History of the Western World; the United States of America (2); John Herschel, Preliminary Discourse on Natural Philosophy; Lardner, Hydrostatics and Pneumatics; David Brewster, Treatise on Optics; Samuel Astley Dunham, History of Poland; John Forster, The Lives of British Statesmen of the Commonwealth (7); George Richardson Porter, A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture; John Holland, A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement, and Present State of Manufactures in Metal (3); George Robert Glieg, Lives of the Most Eminent British Military Commanders (3); George Richardson Porter, History of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass; Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi, History of the Italian Republics; Samuel Astley Dunham, History of Spain and Portugal (5); Anon., The History of Switzerland; Michael Donovan, Treatise on Chemistry; Lardner, A Treatise on Heat; Robert Southey, The Naval History of England (5); Henry Stebbing, History of the Christian Church (2); John Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy; Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Chronology of History; Samuel Astley Dunham, The History of Europe during the Middle Ages (4); Eyre Evan Crowe, George Payne and Rainsford James, Eminent Foreign Statesmen (5); Thomas Dusley Fosbroke, History, Arts, Manufactures, Manners and Institutions of Greeks and Romans (2); Robert Bell, History of Rome (2); Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi, Fall of the Roman Empire (2); Baden Powell, History of Natural Philosophy; Lardner, Treatise on Arithmetic; William John Swainson, Discourse on the Study of Natural History; Mary Shelley, David Brewster, James Montgomery and others, Lives of Literary Men ofItaly, Spain and Portugal (3); Thomas Moore, History of Ireland (4); William John Swainson, A Treatise on the Geography of Animals; Connop Thirlwall, History of Greece (8); William John Swainson, The Natural History and Classification of Quadrupeds; John Stevens Hemslow, The Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany; Henry Stebbing, History of the Reformation (2); Robert Bell, A History of Russia (3); William John Swainson, A Natural History and Classification of Birds (2); Samuel Astley Dunham and others, Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain (5); John Phillips, A Treatise on Geology (2); William John Swainson, Animals in Menagerie; Mary Shelley and others, Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France (2); Augustus de Morgan, Essay on Probabilities; William John Swainson, Fish, Reptiles and Amphibians; Samuel Astley Dunham, History of Norway, Denmark and Sweden (3); William John Swainson, Habits and Instincts of Animals; William John Swainson, Taxidermy; Lardner, Geometry and its Applications; William John Swainson and William Edward Shickard, On the History and Arrangement of Insects; Lardner and Charles Vincent Walker, Manual of Electricity, Magnetism and Meteorology. The two missing volumes are William John Swainson, Shells and Shell-fish and Anon., Cities and Principal Towns of the World. Volumes were originally made available at a price of six shillings each (or £39, 18s cloth lettered for all 133 volumes), which was later reduced to three and six as public enthusiasm for them tailed off. They were not, however, all issued in sets; the History of England, for instance, are Volumes VIII, VXIII, XXXVII,