User:Rhododendrites/lists/encyclopedias

To do: separate general and specialist, break into time periods

Encyclopedia titles

Academic American Encyclopedia (talk) - general - 21 volumes published in 1980 acquired by Grolier in 1982. also published under the names Grolier Academic Encyclopedia (talk), Grolier International Encyclopedia (talk), Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia (talk), Macmillan Family Encyclopedia (talk), Barnes & Noble New American Encyclopedia (talk), and Global International Encyclopedia (talk)
Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (talk) - (full title Akkadisches Handwörterbuch: unter Benutzung des lexikalischen Nachlasses von Bruno Meissner (1868-1947))
Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste (talk) - general - German, 19th century
AnaBritannica (talk) - Turkish, based on Britannica's Micropaedia
Al-Tasrif (talk)
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (talk) - 1995, James Randi
An Outline of Modern Knowledge (talk)
Anarchist Encyclopedia (talk)
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (talk)
Appropedia (talk)
Arabic Legislations Encyclopedia (talk)
Baidu Baike (talk)
Banglapedia (talk) - Bangladesh-related topics - Bengali
Barsa (encyclopedia) (talk)
Base de datos (talk) - Spanish wiki-based encyc - since 2002 - no history
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (talk)
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia (talk)
Bergen Byleksikon (talk)
Bharatkosh (talk)
Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana (talk) - 1701-07 - unfinished - by Vincenzo Coronelli
Biographia Britannica (talk)
Bra böckers lexikon (talk)
British Encyclopaedia (talk) - The British Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; Comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge, 1809, nominally edited by William Nicholson, mostly by Jeremiah Joyce
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (talk) - general - Russian
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (talk) - general - German
Burmese Encyclopedia (talk)
Byelorussian Soviet Encyclopedia (talk)
Cassell’s Book of Knowledge (talk) - also published as The Book of Knowledge, but not the better known Book of Knowledge listed here as The Children's Encyclopaedia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia (talk)- 1859 by W. & R. Chambers (not Ephraim). Was respected/important though.
Childcraft (talk)
Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia (talk) - published by Dorling Kindersley - lots of illustrations
Chinese Encyclopedia (talk)
Citizendium (talk)
Codex Mendoza (talk)
Codex Seraphinianus (talk)
Collier's Encyclopedia (talk)
Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland (talk)
Columbia Encyclopedia (talk) - general - one volume from Columbia University Press last published in 2000
Companion to British History (talk)
Compton's Encyclopedia (talk) - general - 26 volumes
Conservapedia (talk)
Constable's Miscellany (talk)
Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten (talk)
Crnogorska Enciklopedija (talk)
Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature (talk)
Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States (talk)
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (talk) - 1728 by Ephraim Chambers
Den nya nordiska floran (talk)
Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (talk)
Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (talk)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (talk)
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (talk)
Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (talk)
Digital Universe (talk) (unclear if this is an encyclopedia)
Dinosaur Encyclopedia (talk)
Diplopedia (talk)
Disney A to Z (talk)
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (talk) - biographical dictionary - Italian - 1925
Dobson's Encyclopædia (talk)
Doosan Encyclopedia (talk)
EcuRed (talk)
Eesti Üleüldise teaduse raamat ehk encyklopädia konversationi-lexikon (talk)
Eerste Nederlandse Systematisch Ingerichte Encyclopaedie (talk)
Edinburgh Encyclopædia (talk)
Ekşi Sözlük (talk)
Encarta (talk)
Encarta Webster's Dictionary (talk)
Enciclonet (talk)
Enciclopedia Dantesca (talk)
Enciclopedia Libre Universal en Español (talk)
Enciclopedia moderna (talk) - general - Spanish
Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana (talk) - general - Spanish -
Enciclopedia Universal Micronet (talk)
Enciklopedio Kalblanda (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica (talk) - general
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica Second Edition (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition (talk)
Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite (talk)
Encyclopaedia Cursus Philosophici (talk) -- Alsted was attempting with his Encyclopaedia to emulate the combinatorial system of Ramon Llull as set out in Llull's 1308 Ars Magna
Encyclopædia Dramatica (talk)
Encyclopædia Metropolitana (talk)
Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (talk)
Encyclopaedia Biblica (talk) - 1899, edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black - critical encyclopedia of the Bible
Encyclopaedia of Islam (talk) - about Islamic studies discipline (about the Islamic World, not an Islamic encyclopedia) - first edition published 1913-1938, primary editor Martijn Theodoor Houtsma
Encyclopaedia of Persian Language and Literature (talk)
Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (talk)
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (talk)
Encyclopaedia Sinica (talk)
Encyclopædia Universalis (talk)
Encyclopedia Americana (talk) - print and now a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Brunoniana (talk)
Encyclopedia Galactica (talk)
Encyclopedia of Afghan Jihad (talk)
Encyclopedia of China (talk)
Encyclopedia of Earth (talk)
Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (talk) - about 20th century onwards Ukraine, published by Institute of Encyclopaedic Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 8 volumes published by 2009.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (talk)
Encyclopedia of Serbian Historiography (talk)
Encyclopedia of Soviet Lithuania (talk)
Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (talk)
Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel (talk)
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (talk)
Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire (talk)
Encyclopedia of Ukraine (talk) - in English. print is 5 volumes, first published in the 1980s. Now online, free, run by Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies at UAlberta and Shevchenko Scientific Society in France
Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia (talk) - national encyc - Serbo-Croatian
Encyclopedia Sindhiana (talk)
Encyclopedia Talmudit (talk)
Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon (talk)
Encyclopédie (talk)
Encyclopédie nouvelle (talk)
Encyklopedia Internautica (talk)
Encyklopedia Polski (talk)

English Cyclopaedia (talk)
English Encyclopaedia (talk)
Enquire Within Upon Everything (talk) - general - 1856 - UK - how-to book for domestic life
Ensiklopedi Umum dalam Bahasa Indonesia (talk)
Etymologiae (talk)
Etymologicum Magnum (talk)
Everybody's Enquire Within (talk) - an illusrtated book of miscellaneous knowledge issued in wekkly installments from 1937-8
Everyman's Encyclopaedia (talk)
Everything2 (talk)
GNE (encyclopedia) (talk)
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (talk)
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana (talk)
Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse (talk) - published between 1982-1985 by Editions Larousse - encyc and dictionary merged
Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (talk)
Grand Larousse encyclopédique (talk)
Great Greek Encyclopedia (talk)
Great Olympic Encyclopedia (talk)
Great Russian Encyclopedia (talk)
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (talk)
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (talk)
Gujin Tushu Jicheng (talk)
Gyuhap chongseo (talk)
Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia (talk)
Holocaust Encyclopedia (talk)
Hortus deliciarum (talk)
Household Cyclopedia (talk)
Hudong (talk)
Hutchinson Encyclopedia (talk)
Infoplease (talk)
International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (talk)
International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (talk)
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (talk)
Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (talk)
Interpedia (talk)
Judaic Digital Library (talk)
Kdo byl kdo (talk)
Keyinpedia (talk)
King Abdullah Abdul Aziz Health Encyclopedia (talk)
Knol (talk)
Kyrgyz Soviet Encyclopedia (talk)
Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia (talk) - book series of 133 volumes edited by Dionysius Lardner (article redirects to List of works in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia (talk)
Lexicon Universale (talk)
Lexikon der gesamten Technik (talk)
Lexikon des Mittelalters (talk)
Lincoln Library of Essential Information (talk)
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men (talk)
Macmillan Family Encyclopedia (talk) - redirect, other name for Academic American Encyclopedia
Macropædia (talk)
Malayalam Britannica (talk) - redirect, common name for Malayalam Encyclopedia
Malayalam Encyclopedia (talk)
Marathi Vishwakosh (talk)
Marefa (talk)
Merit Students Encyclopedia (talk)
Metapedia (talk)
Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (talk)
Micropædia (talk)
Mining Encyclopedia (talk) - Ukranian encyclopedia of mining
Mohazzabul Lughat India (talk) - Urdu
Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna (talk) - National Key to Sweden's Flora and Fauna - began 2005, plans more than 100 volumes - largest work ever in Swedish literature if completed
Natural History (Pliny) (talk)
Naturales quaestiones (talk) - by Seneca the Younger ~65 AD
New American Cyclopedia (talk)
Nordisk familjebok (talk) - Swedish, first published 1876
Norrländsk uppslagsbok (talk) - Swedish encyclopedia of Norrland published in the mid 1990s
Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (talk) - Norwegian biographical dictionary about prisoners at the Grini concentration camp - 1946
Norsk konversasjonsleksikon Kringla Heimsins (talk) - Norwegian, 1930s
Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945 (talk) - Norwegian work about WW2, published 1995
Norsk pop & rock-leksikon (talk) - Norwegian, music, 2005
Nowe Ateny (talk) - first Polish encyclopedia, published 1745-1746. by Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski
Nupedia (talk)
Oracle Encyclopaedia (talk) - general - UK - five volume encyc published in 1895
Otia Imperialia (talk)
Otto's encyclopedia (talk) - early 20th century, largest Czech language encyc
Pakistan Chronicle (talk) - Pakistan history encyc, 2010
Pantologia (talk) - English, 12 volumes, 1813, full title: A New Cyclopedia, comprehending a complete series of Essays, Treatises and Systems, alphabetically arranged, with a general dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Words: the whole representing a distinct Survey of Human Genius, Learning and Industry, illustrated with elegant engravings; those on Natural History being from original drawins by Edwards and others, and beautifully coloured after nature
Papyrus Larousse Britannica (talk) - general - Greek - based on the French Grand Larousse encyclopedique and English Britannica
Pears Cyclopaedia (talk) - general - UK - launched in 1897 by Pears Soap
Penny Cyclopaedia (talk) - general - English - published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Petit Larousse (talk) - French encyclopedic dictionary, published by Editions Larousse - first in 1905, edited by Claude Auge - has a dictionary for common words and encyclopedia of proper nouns (two sections)
Pieni tietosanakirja (talk) - Finnish, 4 vols, "The Small Encyclopedia", 1920s -- successor to Tietosanakirja
Prehistoric Life (book) (talk) - 2009
Propædia (talk) - single volume - first part of the 15th edition of Britannica (along with Micropaedia and Macropaedia). Intended for topical organization of its contents, complementary to alphabetical organization of the other two parts. Introduced 1974 to, along with Micropaedia, replace the index of the 14th edition. After a lot of criticism, Britannica restored the index as a two-volume set in 1985. Propaedia's core is the Outline of Knowledge.
Pseudodoxia Epidemica (talk) - by Thomas Browne - challenging common errors/supserstitions of his age (17th century)
Quid (encyclopedia) (talk) - French, published annually 1963-2007 - general
Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie (talk) - formerly Reallexikon der Assyriologie - about Ancient Near East - German - founded by Bruno Meissner in 1922, reformed in 1966 by Ruth Opificius
Rees's Cyclopædia (talk)
Soviet Encyclopedic Dictionary (talk)
Store norske leksikon (talk) - SNL, Noewegian, 1978-2010
Suda (talk) - massive 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world
Svensk uppslagsbok (talk) - Swedish, published 1929-1955, two editions
Table Alphabeticall (talk) - abbreviated title of the first monolingual dictionary in English, Robert Cawdreey, first published 1604
Tamil Encyclopedia (talk) - published by Tamil Academy, funded by government of India after Indian independence, chief editor was Periyasaamy Thooran
Tatar Encyclopaedia (talk) - Tatar Encyclopaedic Dictionary - first published in the Tatar language about history of Tatarstan and the Tatar people, produced by Tatar Encyclopedia Institute of the Republic of Tatarstan Academy of Science, first published in RUssian in 1999
The Anatomy of Melancholy (talk) - 1621, by Robert Burton, presented as a medical textbook but much more general than that
The Book of Healing (talk) - general, scientific and philosophical, Arabic, by Abū Alī ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) from Asfahana. Not concerned with medicine despite title. Also called The Cure (to cure/heal ignorance of the soul). Completed around 1020, published 1027.
The British Encyclopedia (talk) - 12-vol, 1933
The Canadian Encyclopedia (talk)
The Children's Encyclopedia (talk) - by Arthur Mee - UK - published 1908-1964. Grolier acquired rights to publish it in the US under the name The Book of Knowledge (talk)
The Dante Encyclopedia (talk) - about Dante
The Encyclopaedia of Oxford (talk) - city of Oxford, first published 1988, edited by Christopher Hibbert
The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (talk) - two volumes, edited by Christian Zentner and Friedemann Bedurftig
The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia (talk)
The Laws of Australia – Encyclopedia (talk)
The London Encyclopaedia (talk) - about London, 1983
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (talk) - about Americans, published since 1890s
The New Book of Knowledge (talk) - general, but mainly for kids 3rd-8th grade - 1966 published by Grolier (a version of The Children's Encyclopaedia)
The New Encyclopedia of Snakes (talk)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (talk) - published since late 19th century
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science (talk) - history of science, covers 16th-21st century, edited by JL Heilbron, 2003
The Persian Encyclopedia (talk) - based in part on The Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia, published 1966 (first part), second not until 1996
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience (talk) - about Skeptics Society's scientific findings - 2volume, edited by Michael Shermer, published in Skeptic Magazine originally, 2002
Tietosanakirja (talk) - "knowledge word-book" or "knowledge dictionary", 11 vols, 1909-1922, first Finnish language encyc
Treccani (talk)
Trondheim byleksikon (talk) - about Trondheim, Norway, written by Terje Bratberg, 1996
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Catholicism (talk) - series of 150 short works, originally published in France, edited by Henri Daniel-Rops, divided into 15 sections
Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (talk) - encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR. first volume in 1930. commissioned by Mykola Skrypnyk. only 3 of the 20 planned volumes were produced. printed copies destroyed, plans for the 1934 edition dissolved. "In early 1948, interest in the USE returned as a response the publication of the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies; an attempt to preserve a Ukrainian national heritage believed to be under threat by the Soviet regime in Ukraine. However work did not resume until after the death of Stalin. From 1959 to 1965 the first edition of the USE was published spanning 17 volumes with more than 45,000 articles. The foreword stated that the URE "should show fraternal unity of the people with a Russian and all other peoples of the Soviet Motherland" and that it is against "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism", a reference to the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies."
Uncyclopedia (talk)
Universal Encyclopedia (talk) - Encyklopedia Powszechna - published by Samuel Orgelbrand 1859-1868
Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia (talk) - published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute since 2001, first in independent Lithuania, replaced Soviet Lithuanian Encyclopedia (13 vols, 1976-1985)
Urdu Encyclopaedia of Islam (talk) - published by University of the Punjab, began 1950s as translation of Encyclopaedia of Islam into Urdu. editor Muhammad Shafi. only one of 20-22 planned volumes published when Shafi died in 1963, with the second in press. resumed in 1971, and by 1985 21 out of 25 were published
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (talk) - Lithuanian, published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute since 2001
Wes Kussmaul (talk)
WIEM Encyklopedia (talk) - (full name in Polish: Wielka Interaktywna Encyklopedia Multimedialna - "Great Interactive Multimedia Encyclopedia"; 'wiem' in the Polish language also means "I know") - associated with Onet.pl
WikiLosRíos (talk) - Spanish, wiki-based, about Los Rios region of Chile
World Book Encyclopedia (talk) - general - American - published since 1917, with new editions every year with very few exceptions
World Brain (talk)

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