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DIDEROT, (DENIS), - D'ALEMBERT, (JEAN). Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Par une Sociètè de gens de lettres. Mis en ordre & publié par m. Diderot, & quant à la partie mathématique, par m. d´Alembert. Édition exactement conforme à celle de Pellet, in-quarto. I-XXXVI + Recueil des plansches I-III. Berne - Lausanne (Les Societés Typographiques) 1778-81. (Not complete, lacking vol. 18).

In 4to. 2 engraved frontispiece portraits of the authors, 426 engraved maps and plates, of which 97 folding and 52 in double page (mainly clean, some dampstains, some minor spotting), folding printed tables).
Contemporary brown full calf bindings, partly worn and scuffed, gilt spines in compartments and labels. Text with some minor spotting, some dampstains. Bookplate of Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm. 38 vols.

Not complete. Lacking vol. I8 (Hyw-Jom).

The first edition was published in Paris, Neufchastel and Amsterdam in 1751-80, 35 volumes and was in folio.
The Great French Encyclopedie is a monument in the European intellectual history, which formed the base for the Age of Enlightenment and contributed to the French revolution. Diderot's aim was "to change the common way of thinking". Some of the more famous contributers were Rousseau, Daubenton, Montesquieu and Voltaire, but more than 140 people contributed with articles to the work and Diderot himself wrote almost 1000 articles on various subjects.

Provenance, Carl Gustaf Löwenhielm (1721-1788), Swedish count, chamberlain and colonel at the cavalry in southern Sweden.

Auktionsnummer:

6001

Datum:

2020-12-10