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• Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
  ...yclopaedia Britannica 1911.png|300px|thumb|right|Encyclopædia Britannica, the eleventh edition]] ...special value and interest to modern scholars as [[cultural artifact]]s of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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• Encyclopædia Britannica
  | image_caption = New American edition of the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (1899) | genre = [[Reference work|Reference]] [[encyclopedia]]
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...loped several "spin-off" products to leverage its reputation as a reliable reference work and educational tool. ...nica''. The first encyclopedia to include biographies of living people was the 64-volume ''[[Grosses Universal-Lexicon]]'' (published 1732–1759) of [[Jo
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• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
  ...r a million words in any edition, and all editions are now in the [[public domain]]. ...ndary/SMIGRA/home.html 1875 edition] at [[LacusCurtius]] (about 50% of it: the Roman articles)
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• A Military Encyclopedia
  ...1885. The contents of ''A Military Encyclopedia'' are now in the [[public domain]]. [[Category:Encyclopedias on the military]]
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• Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste
  ...ann Gottfried Gruber]], therefore also known as the "Ersch-Gruber." One of the most ambitious encyclopaedia projects ever, it remained uncompleted. ...rent sections at various times were some of the best-known men of learning in Germany, including Gruber, M.H.E. Meier, [[Hermann Brockhaus]], W. Müller
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• An Encyclopaedia of Occultism
  ...ce]], published in 1920. As such, it should be in the [[public domain]] in the United States. ...s," "tinker's talk"). Numerous profiles of historical figures with ties to the occult include [[John Dee]], Mary Baker Eddy, and [[Catherine de Medici]].<
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• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
  ...nd supplementary lists, and thematic indexes to the whole work, was issued in 1901. ...eral hundred views of birthplaces, residences, monuments, and tombs famous in history.<ref name="appletons">{{Cite Appleton's|Preface|year=1900}}</ref>
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• British Encyclopaedia
  {{distinguish|The British Encyclopedia}} ...cyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences''''' was published in 1809 in six [[octavo]] volumes and around 150 plates.
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• Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten
  ...ch Arnold Brockhaus]] in 1808 and formed the basis of the many editions of the [[Brockhaus encyclopedia]], which continues publication to this day. [[Category:Reference works in the public domain]]
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• Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
  ...''Cyclopaedia'' was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English. The 1728 subtitle gives a summary of the aims of the author:
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• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
  The '''''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''''' (1849, orig ...s and 3,700 pages. It is a classic work of 19th-century [[lexicography]]. The work is a companion to Smith's ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquitie
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• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
  ...Geography vol 1.jpg|275px|right|thumb|Title page to the 1856 edition of ''The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography'', vol. 1.]] ...forgetting those mentioned solely in the Bible. The work was last reissued in 2005.
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• International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
  ...uage and literature of Bible lands, customs, family life, occupations, and the historical and religious environments of Bible people. ...tion there is a newer version which should not be confused with the public domain 1915 edition that can be found freely available at various sites.
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• Encyclopædia Perthensis
  ...to be bound in to the main text as described in the directions for placing the plates. ...which only one could be described as a map, a plan of [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1800 by [[Andrew Ellicott]].
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• Abramowitz and Stegun
  ...egun]] of the [[United States|U.S.]] [[National Bureau of Standards]] (now the ''National Institute of Standards and Technology''). Its full title is ''' ...elds of [[applied mathematics]]. The notation used in the ''Handbook'' is the ''[[de facto]]'' standard for much of applied mathematics today.
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• Jewish Encyclopedia
  ...ent state of [[Judaism]] and the [[Jew]]s as of 1901. It is now a [[public domain]] resource. ...[[Middle Ages]]. From the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, now in the public domain.]]
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• The Nuttall Encyclopædia
  .... [[James Wood (encyclopedist)|James Wood]], first published in [[London]] in 1900 by [[Frederick Warne & Co]] Ltd. ...as ''Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language'' (published in 1863), were eventually acquired by Frederick Warne, and would be published
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• Catholic Encyclopedia
  ...e."<ref>[[s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Encyclopedia preface|Preface]] to the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://oce.catholic.com/ ...clopedia and its Makers |location=New York |publisher=[[Encyclopedia Press|The Encyclopedia Press]] |pages=iii–viii |nopp=yes|oclc=748253}}</ref>
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• Synecdemus
  ...of Byzantium]] were the principal sources of [[Constantine VII]]'s work on the Themes (De Thematibus). ...ks.google.com/books?id=HIITK93F54wC Hieroclis Synecdemus; Leipzig, 1893]). The most recent major publication was by E. Honigmann (Le Synekdèmos d'Hiérok
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