A NEW AND COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF ARTS & SCIENCES – 1754 – JEFFERYS

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge – by a Society of Gentlemen – c.1754 – Copper Plates Engraved by Mr Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty – Printed for W. Owen at Homer’s Head, in Fleet Street…

Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719–1771), “Geographer to King George III”, was an English engraver, publisher and cartographer who was the leading map supplier of his day.

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences... c.1754 – facing page 863

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences… c.1754 – facing page 863
1.Grapnels; 2.Grubbing-Hook; 3.Gudgeon; 4.Gryllotalpa; 5.Guinea-Pig; 6.Gules; 7.Gusset; 8.Geranium Crane’s Bill

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 871

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 871
1.Delphinium; 2.Dermestes; 3.Demi-Cross; 4.Dentalia; 5.Designing; 6.Dentaria or Tooth-Wort

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1159

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge
by a Society of Gentlemen – c.1754 – Copper Plates Engraved by Mr Jefferys, Geographer to His Majesty.
Printed for W. Owen at Homer’s Head, in Fleet Street… – facing page 1159
1.Exocoetus, the Flying Fish; 2.Extreme; 3.Excentricity; 4.Evolute; 5.Euonymus, the Spindle-Tree

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1183

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 1183
1.Faber; 2.Fagonia; 3.Falcinellus

 A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1198

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 1198
1.Fallopian Tube; 2.Fasscines; 3.Fesse; 4.Field-Fare

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1604

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 1604
1.Hellebore; 2.The Ash-Coloured Heron; 3.Hierachium

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1637

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 1637
1.Homologous; 2.Horopter; 3.Honey-Comb; 4.Horn-Work

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1648

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 1648
1.Hour; 2.Reduction of a Luxated Humerus

 

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences - 1754 - Jefferys - facing page 1653

A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts & Sciences – 1754 – Jefferys – facing page 1653
1.Hooks; 2.Horminum, Clary; 3.Reduction of a Luxated Humerus; 4.Huso, the Isinglass-Fish

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