Jean LE ROND D'ALEMBERT

First quarto edition, complete with all volumes and plates, commonly referred to as the “Third Edition” of the Encyclopédie, and also known as the “Encyclopédie de Pellet” or “Encyclopédie de Lyon” or “Encyclopédie du Lac” by Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet.

Full marbled and polished brown sheepskin contemporary bindings, spines with five raised bands and four gilt compartments decorated with pomegranate gilt tools, two gilt decorative rolls at foot, title and volume lettering-pieces in red and green morocco, boards twice framed in blind, board edges gilt, all red edges, marbled pastedowns and...

New edition.
With 110 plates, some of them folding.
One small clear stain to foot of spine.
Rare.

First collected edition; only the first volume had appeared in 1779, published by the author; it is reprinted as issued with its relay title page. A series found quite rarely.
Contemporary full speckled blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine with two repeated tools (wheat sheaf and urn). Ornate black morocco title label and ornate beige morocco volume label. Restoration at head of volume I with a fawn leather piece covering the first two compartments; the first volume therefore no longer has its title label. Upper and lower joints of volume I largely cracked; joints restored on volumes 2, 3, 4; partly cracked at upper joint on volume 5. Good overall appearance. The eulogies are biographies...

New collected edition of the works of Montesquieu.

Illustrated with a fine frontispiece portrait by de Sève and engraved by Littret, appearing here for the first time in its first state, along with two folding maps in the first volume.

Contemporary full marbled calf bindings, spines with raised bands with gilt compartments, floral gilt tooling, and guilloché tooling on the bands, red morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels, boards framed in gilt with floral cornerpieces, gilt tooling on board edges, marbled edges; rubbing to edges and corners, one corner of vol. I worn, some scuffing, small wormtrack with a lack of leather on the front board of vol. I, minor...

DIDEROT Denis & ALEMBERT Jean Le Rond d’
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, par une société de gens de lettres [Encyclopedia, or Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Art, and Trades]
Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, Geneva 1777-1779, in-4 (19 x 25,5 cm), 39 volumes, contemporary calf
Third edition of the Encyclopedia, with a portrait of Diderot and d’Alembert at the beginning of volume one, drawn by Charles-Nicolas Cochin and engraved by Louis-Jacques Cathelin, as well as numerous borders and culs-de-lampe. The engravings in the collection of plates are the work of Bernard Direx and Richomme and make...