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Encyclopedias and dictionaries - History

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    Notable encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : nine predecessors of the Encyclopédie / edited by Frank A. Kafker.

    | Date: 1981
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    The business of enlightenment : a publishing history of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 / Robert Darnton.

    | Robert Darnton | Date: 1979
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    Encyclopaedias : their history throughout the ages; a bibliographical guide with extensive historical notes to the general encyclopaedias issued throughout the world from 350 B.C. to the present day / Robert Collison.

    | Robert Lewis Collison | Date: 1966
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    Hugues Maret (1726-1786) : sa contribution a l'encyclopédie de Diderot et d'Alembert / Gérard Rudolph.

    | Rudolph, Gérard. | Date: 1984
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    The Encyclopédie in eighteenth century England and other studies / John Lough.

    | John Lough | Date: 1970
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History, 18th Century
France
Medieval

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