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4 - [ENCYCLOPEDIA]. DIDEROT (Denis) & ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond d')…
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[ENCYCLOPEDIA]. DIDEROT (Denis) & ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond d'). Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers [...]. A Paris, Neufchastel & Amsterdam, 1751-1780. 33 volumes in-folio (out of 35), calf with ornate ribbed spine (contemporary binding). - Text: A Paris, Chez Briasson, David, Le Breton & Durand, 1751- 1757 (volumes I to VII), and A Neufchastel, Chez Samuel Faulche, 1765 (volumes VIII to XIV and XVI to XVII) [16 vol. (of 17)]. - Planches:A Paris,Chez Briasson,David,Le Breton & Durand,1762- 1772 (10 vols. out of 11). - Supplément:AAmsterdam,Chez M.M.Rey,1776-1777 (5 vols. of text and one volume of plates (tomé "Planche XI").A Paris, Chez Panckoucke, Stoupe et Brunet et A Amsterdam, Chez M. M. Rey, 1777. Together 5 volumes. - Tables: Paris, Panckoucke, and Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1780 (2 vols.). 2,562 engraved plates (of 2,795-233 plates in vol. II), corresponding to 2,899 plates according to the publishers' method of counting (of 3,132). Copy enlarged with the frontispiece by COCHIN, the folded "Tableau du système figuré des connoissances humaines" (t. I), and the large folded genealogical tree "Essai d'une Distribution généalogique des Sciences et des Arts Principaux [...]" (Weimar, 1769, "Table" t. II). ORIGINAL EDITION of this collective work edited by DIDEROT and d'ALEMBERT, bringing together texts by GRIMM, HOLBACH, ROUSSEAU,TURGOT and providing a wealth of information on technical, scientific and industrial fields, mixed with the presentation of philosophical principles which, in 1752 and 1759, twice led to the condemnation of this work which could only be completed thanks to the protection of Guillaume de LAMOIGNON de MALESHERBES and Marc Pierre de VOYER d'ARGENSON, Secretary of State for War from 1743 to 1757, to whom the work is dedicated. The text of this gigantic publishing venture was first printed in Paris between 1751 and 1757 by Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand, and then continued clandestinely under the false address of Faulche in Neuchâtel in 1765. The eleven volumes of plates were published in Paris by Libraires Associés between 1762 and 1772. Volumes XV of the "Text" and II of the "Plates" (233 plates) are lacking. The coats of arms which were on pieces of leather attached to the feet of the last volumes of the text, the volumes of plates and tables have been scratched off. Plate V of the "Plumbing" in Volume VII is duplicated. Several plates are not bound in their section but in the following one the following one: "Fer blanc" (3 plates, vol. V), "Teinture des Gobelins" (11 plates, vol. IX), "Machines de théatre" (9 plates [XIV to XXII], vol. X), "Pipes a fumer le tabac" followed by five of "Porcelaine" (5 plates, vol. XII) and "Tailleur d'habits" (4 + 5 + 1 plates, vol. XII). A few damaged headpieces, corners and spines (including one badly damaged, with lack, t.VI of the plates), some spotting, notably on the first cover of vol. II; a few plates russeted; important rodent work in the margin of the foot corner of ff. 248 to 750 of vol. I.
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