Encyclopaedia Britannica
Production date
1823
Description
Seventeen volumes from a twenty volume set of Encyclopaedia Britannica (6th ed.) published in 1823 and sent out in the second emigrant ship Amelia Thompson to the settlement of New Plymouth by Thomas Gill of Plymouth, England.
Annotation: 'This work presented to the Infant Colony of New Plymouth by Thomas Gill Esq. of Plymouth, England, March 1841'.
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Object detail
Box 1
Volumes 1 to 6 (vol. 4 missing)
Box 2
Volumes 7 to 13 (volume 12 missing)
Box 3
Volumes 14 to 20 (missing vol. 19)
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