List of 18th-century encyclopedias

In English

General

• The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary by Jeremy Collier (1701)
• An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (1703)
• Lexicon Technicum by John Harris (1704)
• Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences by Ephraim Chambers (1728)
• General Dictionary, Historical and Critical by Thomas Birch (1734-41)
• Dictionarium polygraphicum by John Barrow (1735)
• An Universal History of Arts and Sciences by Dennis de Coetlogon (1745)
• A new universal history of arts and sciences (1759)
• A new and complete dictionary of arts and sciences (1763)
• Complete Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences by Thomas Henry Croker (1764–1766)
• The new complete dictionary of arts and sciences, or, An universal system of useful knowledge Vol. 2 (1778)
• New Royal Cyclopaedia and Encyclopaedia (1788). Edited by George Selby Howard and published in London in 1788, this was largely a plagiarization of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia. ^[1]
• Encyclopædia Perthensis (1796–1806, ed 2 by 1816)

Britannica

• Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771)
• Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition (1777–1784)
• Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition (1797)
• Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)
• Moore's Dublin Edition (1788–1797; largely a reprint of the Britannica's 3rd edition)

Specialized

• The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry
• Medicinal Dictionary by Robert James (1743–1745),
• The universal dictionary of trade and commerce by Malachy Postlethwayt (an adaptation of Dictionnaire universel de commerce. by Jacques Savary des Brûlons (1751)
• Urania or, A compleat view of the heavens: containing the antient and modern astronomy, in form of a dictionary by John Hill (1754)
• Chemical Dictionary by William Nicholson (1795)
• A mathematical and philosophical dictionary by Charles Hutton (1795)

In Chinese

• Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (1725–26), Qing dynasty
• Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (1782), Qing dynasty

In French

• Dictionnaire de Trévoux (1704–1771)
• La Science des personnes de cour, d'épée et de robe by Chevigny (1707)
• Nouveau dictionnaire historique et critique by Jacques-Georges Chauffepié (1750)
• Dictionaire historique by Prosper Marchand (1758)
• Encyclopédie , by Diderot and D'Alembert (1751–1772)
• Descriptions des Arts et Métiers (1761–1788)
• Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines , Yverdon, (1770–1780)
• Encyclopédie Méthodique by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1782–1832)

Specialized

• Dictionnaire philosophique , Voltaire

In German

• Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon by Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz (1704)
• Curieuses Natur- Kunst- Gewerk- und Handlungs-Lexicon by Paul Jacob Marperger (1712)
• Allgemeines lexikon der Künste und Wißenschaften by Johann Theodor Jablonski (1721)
• Musicalisches Lexicon by Johann Gottfried Walther (1732)
• Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon by Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (1733–1751)
• Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon by Johann Heinrich Zedler (1751–1754)
• Oekonomische Encyklopädie by Johann Georg Krünitz (1773–1858)
• Deutschen Encyclopädie (1788)
• Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonküstler by Ernst Ludwig Gerber (1790–1792)
• Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten (1796–1808; see Brockhaus)

In Hebrew

• Ma'aseh Toviyyah (1707)

In Italian

• Vincenzo Coronelli Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana (1701–1707)
• Gianfrancesco Pivati Nuovo dizionario scientifico e curioso, sacroprofano (1746–1751)
• Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Idea dell'Universo (1778-1792)

In Japanese

• Wakan Sansai Zue (1712)

In Polish

• Nowe Ateny (1745)
• Zbiór potrzebniejszych wiadomości (1781)

See also

• List of 19th-century encyclopedias
• List of 20th-century general encyclopedias
• List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias
• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica

References

1. Collison, Robert Lewis. 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. New York, Hafner (1966), p. 112.