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an old black and white drawing of a skeleton sitting at a tablean old drawing of a building with a clock tower on top of ita drawing of a table with a number of people in itan old book sitting on top of a white table next to a white wallan open book on a white surface with a black and white titlean old book with pictures of ships on ita drawing of ships in different stages of development
Maître Paul PASTAUD

49 - DIDEROT (Denis) & d'ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond). Set of 2 miscel…
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DIDEROT (Denis) & d'ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond). Set of 2 miscellaneous volumes of plates in period bindings, in-4: - Collection of plates for the new edition of the *Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers* [...] Volume One. Geneva, Pellet, 1778. Half-vellum. Complete set of 140 plates, as per the table of contents. Wear to the binding; interior in good condition. - Collection of plates for the new edition of the *Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers* […] Volume Two. Geneva, Pellet, 1779. Marbled calf, ribbed spine. Binding worn. Complete set of 197 plates, as per the table of contents. The final pages of the table of division are missing. The first two volumes of the three-volume set of plates from the new quarto edition of the Encyclopédie, published in Switzerland, which is more manageable than the first folio edition of the Encyclopédie published in 1751 in Paris, Amsterdam and Neuchâtel. Ex-libris of Paul Chapuy, mining engineer.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 1 of 4 – Nos. 1 to 549
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Auction time 08/19/2026 at 11:00 AM
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