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[DIDEROT, Denis, D'ALEMBERT].
Encyclopaedia, or A Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades, by a Society of Men of Letters.
Paris, published by Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1762–1771, volumes 1–11 [&] Paris and Amsterdam, published by Panckoucke, Stoupe [&] Brunet; Rey, 1777 (for the Supplement).
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Encyclopaedia, or A Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Trades, by a Society of Men of Letters.
Paris, published by Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1762–1771, volumes 1–11 [&] Paris and Amsterdam, published by Panckoucke, Stoupe [&] Brunet; Rey, 1777 (for the Supplement).
12 volumes of plates, including a supplementary folio volume, all in matching contemporary bindings of speckled fawn calfskin, with 6-ribbed spines, title labels in red morocco and fawn volume numbers (though missing on most volumes), richly decorated panels, gilt rouleaux on the edges, red edges (some caps worn or missing, corners worn, some spines split by a few centimetres, slight rubbing, repairs to a few covers; rare defects inside, mostly in the margins, except for volumes VIII and X which have light water stains affecting the plates or text; the pages are slightly and uniformly browned but the interior remains fresh).
Adams, G1. In French in the text, no. 156.
Twelve volumes of plates, including the supplementary volume, from the first edition of Diderot and d’Alembert’s monumental Encyclopédie.
A major work of the Age of Enlightenment, one of the most ambitious editorial and intellectual projects of the 18th century.
A fine copy, in its original period binding.
Complete with all its plates except the frontispiece and 3 plates (Vol. 4: plate no. 7 of the ‘Fencing’ section; Vol. 6: plate no. 18 of the ‘Natural History, Animal Kingdom’ section and plate no. 8 of the ‘Mineralogy and Saltworks’ section).
There are a total of 2,791 plates. (Detailed collation available on request).
It should be noted that the publisher counts each panel of double, triple and quadruple plates separately, thus arriving at a total of over 3,129 plates if one refers to the numbering mentioned on the title pages.