Albert Schiffner - Allgemeines deutsches Sach-Wörterbuch - 1824-1831





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Liechtenstern / Schiffner – Allgemeines deutsches Sach-Wörterbuch – 10 volumes including supplement – 1824 onwards
Ten-volume collection of the early nineteenth-century German encyclopaedia “Allgemeines deutsches Sach-Wörterbuch aller menschlichen Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten”, begun by Joseph Freiherr von Liechtenstern and continued by Albert Schiffner. Published in Meissen by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche. The first volume’s title page is dated 1824.
Includes volumes 1–8, volume 10 and the supplement volume numbered 11. Volume 9 is missing.
Uniform period half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards, gilt spine decoration, pale blue spine labels and red page edges. German text printed in Fraktur in two columns. Volume 1 includes a subscribers’ list.
An appealing historical reference work, covering a broad range of knowledge and offering a glimpse into the intellectual world of the early nineteenth century.
Liechtenstern / Schiffner – Allgemeines deutsches Sach-Wörterbuch – 10 volumes including supplement – 1824 onwards
Ten-volume collection of the early nineteenth-century German encyclopaedia “Allgemeines deutsches Sach-Wörterbuch aller menschlichen Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten”, begun by Joseph Freiherr von Liechtenstern and continued by Albert Schiffner. Published in Meissen by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche. The first volume’s title page is dated 1824.
Includes volumes 1–8, volume 10 and the supplement volume numbered 11. Volume 9 is missing.
Uniform period half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards, gilt spine decoration, pale blue spine labels and red page edges. German text printed in Fraktur in two columns. Volume 1 includes a subscribers’ list.
An appealing historical reference work, covering a broad range of knowledge and offering a glimpse into the intellectual world of the early nineteenth century.

