Jean-Léonard Pellet

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...

Third and final edition with some parts in first edition, the best and most complete as regards the text, bringing the number of volumes to 10 against the 7 published until then. The work appeared in a luxurious version, quarto (certain octavo printings have thicker and higher quality paper and do not have the same collation, as is the case with ours) and in a more modest version. Ten superb frontispieces by Moreau Le jeune illustrating colonialism including the portrait of Raynal in volume 1 by Cochin re-engraved by Lardy.
Contemporary full marbled and speckled blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartmented fleurons (daisy flower). Red morocco title label, green...

Third and definitive version published during Raynal's lifetime of the Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, issued in Geneva by Jean-Léonard Pellet. The text appeared in 1780 simultaneously in four quarto volumes and ten octavo volumes; the present copy belongs to the octavo issue reissued with cancel titles dated 1781. Substantially enlarged from the versions of 1770 and 1774, this is the fullest form of the text published during Raynal's lifetime.

 

10 volumes, octavo. The first volume opens with a portrait of Raynal designed by...

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...