2344/2003

A Monument in the History of European Thought. (39)

Diderot, Denis, and Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Édition exactement conforme à celle de Pellet, in-quarto. Lausanne and Berne: Société Typographique. 1778–81. 36 vols. With two engraved portraits, folding charts and one plate at the end of vol. 36. And Recueil de planches. 3 vols. With 443 engraved plates (vol. I: 140, vol. II: 170, vol. III: 133). In all 39 vols. Bound in uniform cont. full calf with spines richly gilt. With slight shelf wear. (39).

A very fine set of the Lausanne edition, printed exactly after the Geneva edition (Pellet). Diderot’s encyclopedia is one of the great landmarks of Western intellectual history: “A monument in the history of European thought” (Printing and the Mind of Man # 200).

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