Encyclopedias you've got?

[Comte Arnau]

As a hommage to The Age of Encyclopaedias, now that they're dead or agonizing, tell us, which one(s) do/did you have at home, if any?

Do any of you have the Britannica, the Espasa, the Treccani or the Brockhaus?

To those of you who are prewikipedians, which one did you more regularly use before know-all Internet appeared?

Discuss. :thumb001:

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[Eldritch]

I am the proud owner of the 1962 edition of Otava (http://www.otava.fi/en_GB/)'s Ensyklopedia Fennica.

Said cornucopia of knowledge is currently packed up in plastic bags, at my late grandparents' farm, in what used to be the chicken coop.

But I'm positive that any day now I'll come across a question that Wikipedia or Google can't handle, and I'll have occasion to dig it out. :p

[Comte Arnau]

Great! I mean, the fact of having it, not of having it in plastic bags! :D

May this thread also be useful to enlighten us about the encyclopaedic diversity of the world.

[Piparskeggr]

I mostly consulted the Encyclopedia Britannica and Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia.

[ironman]

Encylopedia Britannica 1957
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[Alex Delarge]

To those of you who are prewikipedians, which one did you more regularly use before know-all Internet appeared?


I have plenty of books about many things but no encyclopedias. Before internet, whenever i needed something for school i would just go to the library.

[Comte Arnau]

I have plenty of books about many things but no encyclopedias. Before internet, whenever i needed something for school i would just go to the library.

And do you remember which one would you use there? Any of these two?

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[Alex Delarge]

I don't remember. In those days i was more interested in other things, and i never had problems in having good grades anyway :p
But probably something from Verbo, Porto Editora or Edições Europa-América for sure.

[ironman]

I also own "peoples of all nations" 1959. All volumes.

[Piparskeggr]

One of my old favorite "encyclopedic" collections is "The Chemical Formulary" from the Chemical Publishing Company of Brooklyn, NY. I have the 1st 20 volumes...at this stage of my finances, I could not afford to replace them.

[Detfri]

Ok don't ask me their names but I have in books:

-an enciclopedy of classical music
-a medical enciclopedy
-a scientific enciclopedy (from the atoms to the human mind)
-a psicological enciclopedy
-a general enciclopedy for children
-a general enciclopedy for adults
-the history of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire until the 90s
-a collection in 11 volumes of the major European painters
-two volumes about the history of Greeks and the history of Romans.

My father also wanted to buy the Treccani, but I made him notice that first he had to buy a new house to place all those books.