DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT - Facsimile. Encyclopédie ou Dictio - Lot 3

DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT - Facsimile. Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts Libéraux et des Métiers par une société de gens de lettres - Parma, Franco Maria Ricci, 1970-1979 - 18 vol. in-folio (41 x 26.5) - bound, in slipcase - Limited edition of 3,000 copies (no. 645) Accompanied by its certificate of authenticity issued in Paris on December 26, 1984 (good condition, minor wear to slipcase and scratches to binding, one slipcase cover damaged) Notice : "twelve volumes of plates More than three thousand engravings, conforming to the original Paris edition, carefully reproduced in facsimile. These 12 volumes constitute the most extensive iconographic atlas of the period: 83 plates are devoted to agriculture, 72 to medicine, 94 to architecture and building, 33 to arms, 29 to heraldry, 51 to metallurgy, 25 to chemistry, 70 to carpentry, 58 to hunting and fishing, 310 to natural history, 101 to glassmaking, 64 to clockmaking, 120 to furniture, 210 to the textile industry, etc - five volumes of texts A rigorous examination of the Encyclopaedia has enabled the specialists in charge of this republication to group together in five volumes the most significant texts, making this immense work, whose fundamental themes and articles were hitherto drowned in an overly vast corpus, finally readable. These fundamental texts for understanding 18th-century illuminist culture are also reproduced in facsimile and in their original alphabetical order - a volume of studies The committee of contributors has put together this volume, where curious readers and scholars alike will find essays on various aspects of illuminist culture, written by leading contemporary experts. "