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'" SCIENCES] DIDEROT, D'ALEMBERT Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers par une société de gens de Lettres, Genève, Pellet, 1777-1779. 39 volumes in-4 (36 vols. of text and 3 vols. of plates) in full marbled calf, ribbed spine, gilded decoration with I: frontispiece, LXXXVIIJ, 784 pages, 4 tables hors texte; II: front, 823 pages, 1 out-of-text table; III: 910 pages, 1 out-of-text table; IV: 788 pages; V: 886 pages; VI: 804 pages; VII: (2), 892 pages, 1 out-of-text plate; VIII: 975 pages; IX: 956 pages; X: 1063 pages; XI: 1031 pages; XII: 1027 pages; XIII: (2) then from 5 to 1042 pages, 1 plate out of text; XIV: 983 pages; XV: 1022 pages; XVI: 904 pages, 1 plate out of text; XVII: 993 pages, (3), then from 995 to 1029 pages; XVIII: 1044 pages; XIX: (2), 1078 pages, 1 plate out of text; XX: 1044 pages; XXI: 1014 pages; XXII: 1036 pages; XXIII: 1014 pages; XXIV: 1060 pages; XXV: 1011 pages; XXVI: 934 pages, 1 plate out of text; XXVII: 967 pages; XXVIII: 982 pages; XXIX: 1008 pages; XXX: 1020 pages; XXXI: 980 pages; XXXII: 980 pages; XXXIII: 970 pages; XXXIV: 904 pages; XXXV: 848 pages; XXXVI: (5), 1 pl., 560 pages & 3 volumes of plates from I: 35 pages, 77 plates in black, 87 pages, (1), 19 plates, 31 pages (1), 37 plates, 14 pages, 2 pages, 7 plates; II: from page 5 to 56, 29 plates, 47 pages, (1), 65 plates, 11 pages, (1), 24 plates, 8 pages, 34 plates, 48 pages, 19 plates, (1), 52 pages; III: (1), from page 6 to 64, 134 plates. Mention of new or third edition (vol. XXIX). First quarto edition, incorporating the contents of the original published in Paris between 1751 and 1772. The engravings in the plate collections (some marked double, triple or quadruple) are by Bernard Direx and Richomme. The plate volumes in this copy feature 445 plates, distributed as follows: 140 in the first volume, 171 in the second and 134 in the last; in addition, there are tables, plates and frontispieces in the text volumes. Copy without the six table volumes printed in Lyon in 1780. Corners and headpieces dulled, spotting, some pages browned. Freckling in volume XXVI with heavy wetness. Corners of volume XXVII dulled with leather missing. Volume XVII: several (217) to (227) then p224 + missing leaves Ffff3 and Ffff4 / Volume XX: addition of a leaf *Tttt2 (p697, 698, 699, 700); Volume XXIII: no pages 0ooo3 and 0ooo4, Pppp3 Pppp4; vol. XXVI addition of a page *Ggg (p423/424); addition of *Ooo Ooo2 **Ooo **Ooo2 ***Ooo ***Ooo2; vol. XXVII: missing Nnnnn2 Nnnnn3 (p835 836 837 838); volume XXX: addition of a notebook *Vvvv; volume XXXIV: addition of a notebook *Hh, *Ii, *Kk, missing Xxxx3 and Xxxx4, Zzzz2 Zzzz3 Zzzz4, addition of a notebook *Hhhhh