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ENCYCLOPAEDIA. DIDEROT.
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43
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ENCYCLOPAEDIA. DIDEROT.
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
ENCYCLOPAEDIA. DIDEROT.
[Set of volumes].
LOT of 4 volumes of plates, sewn in temporary cardboard covers or bound, contemporary.
-A collection of plates from the Encyclopédie arranged by subject.
3 very small folio volumes sewn in contemporary temporary cardboard covers.
Volume One, 1783. (4) folios (including title page and table of contents), 183 plates.
Volume Three, 1784. (2) folios (title page and table of contents), 157 plates.
Volume Four, Paris, Panckoucke, Liège, Pompeux, 1785.
(2) ff. (title page and table of contents), 205 plates.
With generous margins, printed on laid paper (a few edges slightly tarnished, a few scattered pinholes, temporary paper spines missing on 2 volumes, a few stains on 2 ff. in Volume 3, but good copies).
Fine engravings.
-Continuation of the collection of plates on the Sciences, the Liberal Arts, and the Mechanical Arts. With their explanations. Volume Three.
Geneva: Pellet, 1779.
In-4. Contemporary marbled fawn calf, decorated ribbed spine, gilded floral panels, title and volume number, gilt title, blind-stamped border on the covers, red edges (spine slightly rubbed, a few tarnished or soiled borders, but a fine copy that has retained its freshness).
Fine engravings.
64 pp., 77 plates, numerous fold-out sheets and 10 maps, including the map of the Five Californias.
Engraved ex libris of the period bearing the coat of arms of the Count of Lamotte Vauvert (Comte de La Motte de Broons de Vauvert), a member of the Breton nobility from the Côtes-d’Armor, Château de Lescouët-Jugon.
A fine copy.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the decorative arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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