Hungarian lexicon explained

The Hungarian lexicon (Hungarian "Magyar lexikon"), subtitled the encyclopaedia of all sciences (Hungarian "Az összes tudományok encziklopédiája"), was a general Hungarian lexicon..

History

The work appeared in Budapest between 1879 and 1885 in 160 booklets, which were later bound into 16 volumes. (There were also 17 volume versions.) The work contained 160 pictorial appendices. Its editor was Ede Somogyi. A I – XIV. published by Frigyes Rautmann. A XV. volume was published by Lajos Gerő's Publishing Office, the 16th was published by Pallas Literary and Printing Company.

The small-shaped (21 cm x 15 cm) volumes have a total volume of about 10,200 pages. The work is now rare in antique offerings. There is no reprint edition.

Order of volumes

Volume IA–Asuncion1879640
Volume IIAsuncion–Banko1879631
Volume IIIBankok–Bianchi1879640
Volume IVBianchi–Bunkócz1879640
Volume VBunsen–Danhauser1880636
Volume VIDánia–Encziklopédia1880640
Volume VIIEncziklopédisták–Franczia művészet1880636
Volume VIIIFranczia nyelv–Haute volée1881636
Volume IXHautgout–Julianna1881636
Volume XJulianus–Könyvnyomtatás1882636
Volume XIKönyvornamentika–Magyar Tempe1882636
Volume XIIMagyar tengermellék–Nogáll1883636
Volume XIIINogat–Planetarium1883636
Volume XIVPlanetoidok–Sopor1884624
Volume XVSopornya–Vezér1884636
Volume XVIVézére–Zsuzsok / Appendix: A–Zsuvat1885635

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