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Title: Complete set of the miniature 'Circle of the Sciences' in 8 volumes. [THREE COMPLETE SETS RECORDED].
Description: Dublin: Printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, J. Esdall, M. Williamson, and H. Saunders, 1752. 0. Hardcover. A Spelling-Dictionary of the English language, on a new plan. For the use of young gentlemen, ladies, and foreigners. Being a supplement to the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. Sextodecimo. [iv], iv, 268pp. Third edition. ESTC T61547. AND Arithmetic made familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies. Being the second volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. Sextodecimo. x, 200pp. Third edition. With engravings. ESTC T182694. AND Chronology made familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies. To which is added, table of the most memorable events from the beginning of the world to the present time. Being the [s]eventh volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the king's authority. Sextodecimo. [ii], ix, [i], 257, [i]pp. Third edition. ESTC T217836. AND Geography made familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies. Being the sixth volume of the Circle of the Sciences. Published by the King's authority. Sextodecimo. xiv, 315, [v]pp. Third edition. With an engraved, folded map of the world signed: John Ridge Sculp. ESTC N18598. AND Grammar made familiar and easy to young gentlemen, ladies, and foreigners. To which is added, The art of writing, iilustrated with copper-plates: together with a collection of letters, and directions for addressing persons of distinction, eithter [iN] writing or discourse. Being the first volume of the Circle of Sciences. Intended to make the youth of each sex universally beloved and admired; and to make them rich, wife, and happy. Published by the King's authority. Sextodecimo. 2 parts. I: [vi], xvi, 144pp.; II: xviii, 110pp. Third edition. A reissue with a collective title-page of the third edition of 'Circle of the Sciences,' volume I, parts 1 and 2, which were also published separately in the same year. With 4 plates of engravings. ESTC T221169. AND Logic made familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies. To which is added, a compendious system of metaphysics, or, ontology. Being the fifth volume of the Circle of Sciences, &c. Published by the King's Authority. Sextodecimo. xl, 264pp. Third edition. ESTC T109990. AND Poetry made familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies, and Embelish'd with a great variety of the most shining Epigrams, Epitaphs, Songs, Odes, Pastorals, &c. from the best authors. Being the fourth volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's authority. Sextodecimo. [viii], 218pp. Third edition. ESTC T202684. AND Rhetoric made familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies, and illustrated with several beautiful orations from Demosthenes, Cicero, Sallust, Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, &c. Being the third volume of the Circle of the Sciences, &c. Published by the King's authority. Sextodecimo. ix, [i], 269, [iii]pp. Third edition. ESTC T171306. The complete, eight volume, miniature set, uniformly bound in contemporary calf, repaired. Some volumes have the bookplate of the 'Academia Hibernian.' Only the Morgan (Julia P. Wightman gift), the National Library of Ireland, and Cambridge University Libraries seem to have complete sets. A search of other library catalogues has not revealed additional copies of the set. Very Good.

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