after Charles-Nicolas COCHIN, Louis Jacques CATHELIN
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers[Encyclopaedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts]
Chez Pellet, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue des Belles Filles • Charles-Joseph Panckoucke • Joseph-Benoît Duplain • Société typographique de Neuchâtel • Imprimerie de J.F. Bassompierre, Genève / De l’Imprimerie de J.FR. Bassompierre |Geneva • Lyon • Neuchâtel • Trévoux • Grenoble 1777-1779|20.6 x 26.5 cm|Relié
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 band 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 endpapers.
Discreet restorations to a small number of spine-ends and
€25,000
