Beschreibung:

Diderot, Denis and Jean d'Alembert ENCYCLOPÉDIE, OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNÉ DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES MÉTIERS, PAR UNE SOCIÉTÉ DE GENS DE LETTRES (NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE, POUR SERVIR DE SUPPLÉMENT; TABLE ANALYTIQUE ET RAISONÉE DES MATIERES). PARIS: BRIASSON, DAVID, LE BRETON AND DURAND, 1751-1757 (VOLS 8-17: NEUCHÂTEL: SAMUEL FAULCHE & CIE, 1765); PLATES: PARIS: BRIASSON ETC., 1762-1772; SUPPLEMENT: PARIS: PANCKOUCKE, STOUPE AND BRUNET; AMSTERDAM: REY, 1776-1777; TABLE: PARIS: PANCOUCKE; AMSTERDAM: REY, 1780 35 volumes, comprising 17 volumes of text, 12 of plates, 4 of supplement and 2 of tables, folio (395 x 252mm.), half-titles (except in text vols 8-17), woodcut device on title-pages, some woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, 7 folding letterpress tables, a few woodcut illustrations, 2790 engraved plates (some double-page or folding), contemporary uniform marbled calf, spines gilt in compartments, morocco lettering-pieces, red edges, extremities rubbed, some corners bumped, a few small cracks in joints, some spines slightly chipped, a few small repairs to bindings, traces of old shelf label at foot of spines