ENCYCLOPEDIE - DIDEROT - D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopedia or Diction - Lot 148

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ENCYCLOPEDIE - DIDEROT - D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopedia or Diction - Lot 148
ENCYCLOPEDIE - DIDEROT - D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopedia or Dictionary of Arts and Crafts, by a society of literary people. Paris, Neuchâtel, 1751-1772. 28 volumes in-folio, marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (binding of the time). First edition of this famous work, the greatest enterprise of printing put at the service of French thought and technique. It consists of 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes gathering 2882 plates engraved in intaglio by the best artists. The engraved frontispiece and the table are also present. In the following years and until 1780, the publisher Panckoucke will publish five volumes of supplements (including one of plates) and two volumes of tables by P. Mouchon. Some spotting and evenly browned pages, the copy is in almost uniform bindings, several restored or cracked head and spine joints, traces of mold in the margins of the leaves of volume X. Stamps on titles.
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