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Diderot, Denis - d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste Le Rond

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1751

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Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, S. Faulche, 1751-'65 [last volume: Neufchastel, Samuel Faulche]. In 2nd. 404 x 270mm. - Table Analytique et Raisonée du Dictionnaire... Paris/Amsterdam, Panckoucke-Marc-Michgel rey, 1780. In 2°, 2 vols. - Recueil de Planches sur le s Sciences...Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, S. Faulche, 1762-1772. In 2nd, 11 vols. 2534 plates (missing 351 plates). - Nouveau Dictionnaire pour servir de Supplement. Paris, Panckoucke, Stoupe, Brunet, 1776-'77. In 2nd 5 vols. including a tome of Planches au Supplement, 1777. 244 plates. Complete set of 35 volumes, of which 23 of text and 12 of plates. Coeval bindings in bazzana with spine with six raised bands and spray size, five volumes have a different binding, still in bazzana but with a darker calfskin and the cuts are red. Ex libris to the Aldo Maffey backplate.


Specialist Notes

L'Encyclopédie was originally conceived by the publisher, André le Breton, as a simple translation from the Cyclopaedia by Chambers, from English to  French. Denis Diderot, as editor, together with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, pushed the work far enough to be counted, as editor, together with the mathematician Jean Le Rondessere d'Alembert, in the Enlightenment tradition. A large number of writers of the century XVIII contributed to the work and Diderot, as editor, would take the writings and subtly reshape them to his world view.
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