List of works in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia

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This is a list of works in the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia , edited by Dionysius Lardner.

Contents

VolumeYear (of first volume, in set)AuthorTitle
I, IV1830 [1] Walter Scott History of Scotland [2]
II, XI, XVI William Desborough Cooley [3] History of Maritime Discovery [2]
III, XCIVMichael DonovanDomestic Economy. I: A Treatise on Brewing and II: Human Food [2] [4]
V Henry Kater, LardnerMechanics [2]
VI Henry Roscoe Lives of Eminent British Lawyers [2]
VIICities and Principal Towns of the World [2]
VIII, XVIII, XXXVII, [5] XLII, [6] LXIX, [7] LXXXI, [8] XCV, [9] CIV, [10] CXIII, [11] CXXIV [12] Sir James Mackintosh, continuation by William Wallace and Robert Bell [13] [14] History of England [2]
IX1831Anonymous (Thomas Keightley) [15] Outlines of History [2]
X Thomas Colley Grattan The History of the Netherlands [2]
XII, XV, XXIII Eyre Evans Crowe History of France [2]
XIII, XXXIII [16] 1830 [17] Anonymous (Henry Fergus) [18] The History of the Western World: the United States of America [2]
XIV John Herschel Preliminary Discourse on Natural Philosophy [2]
XVII1831 [19] LardnerHydrostatics and Pneumatics [2]
XIX David Brewster Treatise on Optics [2]
XX Samuel Astley Dunham [20] History of Poland [2]
XXI, LXXVIII, [21] XCI, [22] XCIX, [23] CI, [23] CVIII, [12] CXV [12] 1831 [24] John Forster The Lives of British Statesmen, [2] also Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth
XXII George Richardson Porter [25] A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the Silk Manufacture [2]
XXIV, XLII, [26] LII [27] John Holland [28] [29] A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement, and Present State of Manufactures in Metal
XXV, XXVIII, [30] XXXVI [31] 1831 George Robert Gleig Lives of the most Eminent British Military Commanders [32]
XXVIPorter [28] History of the Manufacture of Porcelain and Glass
XXVII1832 Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi History of the Italian Republics [33]
XXIX, XXX, [34] XXXII, [35] XXXV, [36] XXXVIII [37] 1832Dunham [27] History of Spain and Portugal [38]
XXXI1832Anonymous [14] The History of Switzerland [39]
XXXIV1832DonovanTreatise on Chemistry [40]
XXXIXLardnerA Treatise on Heat [41]
XL, XLVII, [42] LVII, [27] LXXXVII, [43] CXXVIII [12] Robert Southey The Naval History of England [44]
XLI, LII [27] 1833 Henry Stebbing History of the Christian Church
XLIII1833HerschelA Treatise on Astronomy [45]
XLIV1833 Nicholas Harris Nicolas Chronology of History [46]
XLV, XLIX, LIII, LVIII [27] Dunham [47] The History of Europe during the Middle Ages [48]
XLVI, LXXVI, [49] LXXXII, [50] LXXXIX, [51] CII [23] Crowe, George Payne Rainsford James [51] [52] Eminent Foreign Statesmen [42]
XLVIII, LXX [53] Thomas Dudley Fosbroke [3] History, Arts, Manufactures, Manners and Institutions of Greeks and Romans [42]
XLIX, LXXIII [54] 1833Anonymous (Robert Bell) [55] History of Rome [42]
LVI, LXI [27] SismondiFall of the Roman Empire [42]
LI [27] Baden Powell History of Natural Philosophy [42]
LV [27] LardnerTreatise on Arithmetic [42]
LIX [27] William Swainson Discourse on the Study of Natural History [42]
LXIII, LXXI, [56] XCVI [12] [57] By Mary Shelley, Brewster, James Montgomery and others [58] Lives of Literary Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal [12] [59]
LX, LXIV, LXVII [12] [60] DunhamHistory of the Germanic Empire [61]
LXV, XC, [62] CXXI, [63] CXXXIII (final volume) 1846 [12] [64] Thomas Moore History of Ireland [65]
LXVISwainsonA Treatise on the Geography of Animals [66]
LXVIII, LXXIV, [67] LXXX, [68] LXXXVIII, [69] CIII, [70] CXIV, [11] CXXV, [12] CXXXII [12] Connop Thirlwall History of Greece [71]
LXXII1835SwainsonThe Natural History and Classification of Quadrupeds [72]
LXXV1836 [73] John Stevens Henslow The Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany [74]
LXXVII, [75] LXXXVI [12] 1836StebbingHistory of the Reformation
LXXIX, LXXXV, C [23] 1836Robert Bell [47] A History of Russia [76]
LXXXIII, XCII [77] 1836SwainsonNatural History and Classification of Birds [78]
LXXXIV, [79] XCIII, [80] CVI, [12] CXII, [12] CXIX [12] 1836Dunham and others [12] Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain
XCVII, CXI [12] 1837 John Phillips A Treatise on Geology [81]
XCVIII1838SwainsonAnimals in Menagerie [82]
CV, CXVII [12] 1838Mary Shelley and othersLives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France [83]
CVII Augustus De Morgan Essay on Probabilities [12]
CIX, CXVI1838SwainsonFish, Reptiles and Amphibians [12]
CX, CXVIII, CXXII [12] DunhamHistory of Norway, Denmark and Sweden [84]
CXXSwainsonHabits and Instincts of Animals [12]
CXXIIISwainsonShells, and Shell-Fish [12]
CXXVISwainsonTaxidermy [85]
CXXVIILardnerGeometry and its Applications [12]
CXXIX [12] 1840Swainson and William Edward Shuckard On the History and Natural Arrangement of Insects [86]
CXXX, CXXXI [12] 1841Lardner, Charles Vincent Walker Manual of Electricity, Magnetism and Meteorology

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