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17512605210193Chez Briasson David Le Breton Durand A Paris; Amsterdam 1751 - 1777 1751. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. The Organization of Enlightenment Thought: The Revolution in Ideas. A first edition of this foundational encyclopedia of 18th century knowledge. A massive thirty-five volume set. Large folios volumes 39.5 x 25 cm. Bound in 18th-century French calf. Spines gilt with raised bands. One volume non-uniformly bound in light calf. <br> The set includes: Encyclopedie Paris: 1751-57 & Neuchatel 1765. 17 volumes; Recueil de planches. Paris: 1762-72. 11 volumes 1 2 part I 2 Part II 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11; Supplement a l'Encyclopedie. Paris & Amsterdam: 1776-77. 5 volumes including the Suite de recueil de planches; Table Analytique. Paris: 1780. <br> Profusely illustrated with engraved plates. <br> Diderot's famous Encyclopedie was initially a modest translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. It grew as a project into a massive project which attempted to collect human knowledge from a rationalistic perspective instead of by nature or theology. In organizing knowledge from a position where human reason was paramount the supremacy of the Church was imperiled. As a result the Encyclopedie was widely controversial and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Catholic Church. In discussing fundamental philosophical issues such as on political authority and natural rights articles in the Encyclopedie shifted the basis of governmental authority from the divine right of Kings to radical concepts popular consent was the basis of legitimacy and the ideals of a social contract. The work was banned by the King of France. It spread the foundational ideas of the French Revolution and enlightenment thinkers. "No encyclopaedia perhaps has been of such political importance or has occupied so conspicuous a place in the civil and literary history of its century. It sought not only to give information but to guide opinion." "It was a war machine; as it progressed its attacks on both the church and still more on despotic government as well as Christianity itself became bolder and more undistinguished and it was met with persecution and opposition unparalleled in the the history of encyclopedias." - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed p. 1483. "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motive force in undermining the ancien regime and in heralding the French Revolution" Printing in the Mind of Man 200. Refs: Grolier/Horblit 25b; Norman 637; PMM 200. <br> Includes: 17 v. : ill. ; 41 cm. supplement 4 volumes plates 11 volumes plates supplement 1 volume. Table Analytique 1 volume. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Chez Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, A Paris; Amsterdam (1751 - 1777) hardcover
176227797A Paris: Chez Braisson David Le Breton Durand M. DCC. LXII. 1762 .- TOMO I Premiere Livraison: 2 h. 6 p. 18 p. 2 p. 21 p. 1 p. 19 p. 1 h. 1 h. 3 p. 7 p. 2 p. todas de texto 269 artÃsticas planchas magistralmente grabadas al cobre; en Gran Folio 405 x 17 cm; magnÃfica impresión sobre gran papel verjurado; Encuadernación en Media Piel época de color verde lomera de 6 nervios con tÃtulo y hierros dorados cortes pintados en color granate tapas o planos en papel de aguas.- CONTIENE los siguientes oficios y profesiones: AGRICULTURE ET ECONOMIE RUSTIQUE: Labourage 5 planches Semoir 3 pl. Conservation des grains 2 pl. Moulins à vent et à l'eau pou lé blé 9 pl. Moulins à exprimer l'huile des fruits et des graines 4 pl. Fabrique de tabac 6 pl. Culture et travail du chanvre 2 pl. Culture et travail deu coton 5 pl. Culture de la vigne 2 pl. Pressoirs 4 pl. Pressoir à cidre 3 pl. Sucrerie et affinage 7 pl. Travail des sabots et des échalats 1 pl. Charbon de bois 4 pl. Jardinage 7 pl. Jardin potager 6 pl. Fontainier 4 pl. Mouches à miel 1 pl. Vers à foie 1 pl. Basse cour 1 pl. Laiterie de la meute 1 pl. Art de Faire èclóre les poulets 3 pl. AIGUILLIER: Le coupeur le perceur et Le empointeur 2 pl. AIGULLIER BONNETIER 1 pl. AMIDONNIER 1 pl. ANATOMIE 33 pl. ANTIQUITES 12 pl. ARCHITECTURE 86 pl. Moulin à scier les pierres 4 pl. MAÇONNERIE 14 pl. Tuilerie 3 pl. Couvreur et carreleur 3 pl. ARGENTEUR 2 pl. ARMURIER 2 pl. ARQUEBUSIER 7 pl. ART MILITAIRE 38 pl. ARTIFICIER 7 pl. EL INTERIOR EN PERFECTO ESTADO TANTO PARA EL TEXTO COMO PARA LAS LAMINAS GRABADAS. Encuadernación de la época con el lomo de piel algo rozado pero en muy buen estado general. Tapas restauradas de pequeñas faltas en las esquinas. Papel de aguas con diversas rozaduras. SOLO OFRECEMOS ESTE PRIMER VOLUMEN de "Recueil des Planches sur les Sciences les Arts.". La obra completa consta de 11 volúmenes los 17 volúmenes de "La Enciclopédie" a la que seguÃan. La estructura de la Encyclopedie tanto en su diagramación formato y por supuesto contenido ideológico dio respuesta al complejo entramado de variables que supuso ese proceso disparador de nuevas ideas inteviniendo intelectuales como Voltaire Buffon Montesquieu D'Alembert Quesnay Turgot d'Holbach Rousseau de Jacourt y por supuesto Diderot; proceso también rompedor de los secretos tecnológicos del cerrado universo de las corporaciones gremiales del modo feudal de producción. En este sentido la obra presenta dos núcleos entrelazados: el Diccionario y las Planchas. Sin embargo hay que reconocer que la potente originalidad está concentrada en "Recueil des Planches sur les sciences les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques avec leur explication" en que se despliega a través de descripciones gráficas y de textos aclaratorios una impresionante cascada de datos sobre la situación fundamentos y perspectivas de las técnicas oficios y talleres. EN DEFINITIVA OFRECEMOS EL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE "RECUEIL DES PLANCHES." SIN DUDA LA MAS GRANDE Y AMBICIOSA PRODUCCIÓN EDITORIAL DE LA FRANCIA DE LA ILUSTRACION. EN CONJUNTO CONTIENE 296 IMPRESIONANTES PLANCHAS GRABADAS AL COBRE POR LOS MEJORES ARTISTAS DEL MOMENTO ALGUNAS A DOBLE PAGINA. TODAS ELLAS CONSERVADAS PERFECTAMENTE. "TodavÃa no se ha hecho ni durante mucho tiempo se hará una colección tan considerable y tan hermosa de máquinas" Diderot. FILOSOFÃA E HISTORIA DE LA CULTURA Livre en français Chez, Braisson, David, Le Breton, Durand hardcover
1798K8FG3X3S7BMNParis 1798. 8vo. Desray Deterville back of half-title vol. I: printed by Charles Crapelet Contemporary uniform half sprinkled calf sewn on recessed supports richly gold-tooled spines each with 2 morocco labels red and green in the 2nd and 5th of 6 fields green ribbon markers. With a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Charles Étienne Gaucher after a 1766 drawing by Jean-Baptiste Greuze 16 engraved plates numbered 1-7 1-9 a folding letterpress hierarchical table of all kinds of human knowledge for the Encyclopédie 52 x 37.5 cm and letterpress music three 5-line staves with G C and F clefs. 15 volumes. in total about 7500 pp. First edition of the works of Denis Diderot 1713-1784 published fourteen years after his death. Diderot one of the widest ranging and most creative minds of the Enlightenment is best known as the motive force behind and author of many articles in his 28-volume Encyclopédie 1764-1772 which occupied him for more than twenty years but he published works on a wide range of subjects before and after the Encyclopédie. The present 15 volumes published from Diderot's manuscripts including correspondence and totalling about 7500 pages therefore covers plays novels and poetry as well as essays on philosophy mathematics including music literature art and religion and includes correspondence with numerous men and women including Voltaire. Although his Encyclopédie articles are not included many were based on or carried further in publications included here and 220 pages of vol. III are devoted to the Encyclopédia. Diderot's Encyclopédie though enormously influential left him in financial straits. The French government banned it and the French establishment shunned him as a radical but from 1773 to his death he worked under the patronage of Catharine the Great of Russia who bought his library and paid him to oversee it in Paris giving him the freedom to pursue his literary and scholarly interests.In very good condition with only some minor foxing an occasional quire very slightly browned and an occasional minor marginal defect. With a small hole in the spine of one volume but the bindings are otherwise also very good.l Adams Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot A6 pp. 98-109; CCfr 3 copies; Diderot Contes 1963 item 12 p. 206; Johansson Études de Denis Diderot 1927 p. 197 cf. p. 30. unknown
176347776A Paris: Chez Braisson David Le Breton Durand M. DCC. LXIII 1763.- TOMO II Seconde Livraison Premiere Partie: 2 h. 10 p. 1 h. 2 p. 3 p. 1 p. 1 p. 26 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 3 p. 1 p. 2 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 3 p. 17 p. 16 p. 1 p. 5 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 2 p. 1 p. 1 p. 11 p. todas de texto 233 artÃsticas planchas magistralmente grabadas al cobre; en Gran Folio 405 x 17 cm; magnÃfica impresión sobre gran papel verjurado; Encuadernación en Media Piel época de color verde lomera de 6 nervios con tÃtulo y hierros dorados cortes pintados en color granate tapas o planos en papel de aguas.- CONTIENE los siguientes oficios y profesiones: Balancier 5 planches Faiseur de bas au mètier & Faiseur de metier à bas 19 pl. Batteur d'or 3 pl. Blanchissage des toiles 2 pl. Blason ou art heraldique 29 pl. Boisselier 2 pl. Bonnetier de la Foule 2 pl. Boucher 2 pl. Bouchonnier 1 pl. Boulanger 1 pl. Bourrelier & bourrelier-batier 7 pl. Boursier 3 pl. Boutonnier 6 pl. Boyaudier 1 pl. Brasserie 5 pl. Brodeur 2 pl. Fonderie en carácteres 8 pl. Carácteres et alfabets de langues mortes et vivantes 25 pl. Carácteres ou écriture françoise 16 pl. Cardier 1 pl. Cartier 6 pl. Cartonnier et gaufreur en carton 2 pl. Ceinturier 2 pl. Chainetier 3 pl. Chamoiseur & mègissier 5 pl. Chandelier 2 pl. Chapelier 3 pl. Charpente 70 pl. EL INTERIOR EN PERFECTO ESTADO TANTO PARA EL TEXTO COMO PARA LAS LAMINAS GRABADAS. Encuadernación de la época con el lomo de piel algo rozado pero en muy buen estado general. Tapas restauradas de pequeñas faltas en las esquinas aunque a la posterior le falta el ángulo inferior externo. Papel de aguas con diversas rozaduras. SOLO OFRECEMOS ESTE SEGUNDO VOLUMEN de "Recueil des Planches sur les Sciences les Arts.". La obra completa consta de 11 volúmenes los 17 volúmenes de "La Enciclopédie" a la que seguÃan. La estructura de la Encyclopedie tanto en su diagramación formato y por supuesto contenido ideológico dio respuesta al complejo entramado de variables que supuso ese proceso disparador de nuevas ideas inteviniendo intelectuales como Voltaire Buffon Montesquieu D'Alembert Quesnay Turgot d'Holbach Rousseau de Jacourt y por supuesto Diderot; proceso también rompedor de los secretos tecnológicos del cerrado universo de las corporaciones gremiales del modo feudal de producción. En este sentido la obra presenta dos núcleos entrelazados: el Diccionario y las Planchas. Sin embargo hay que reconocer que la potente originalidad está concentrada en "Recueil des Planches sur les sciences les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques avec leur explication" en que se despliega a través de descripciones gráficas y de textos aclaratorios una impresionante cascada de datos sobre la situación fundamentos y perspectivas de las técnicas oficios y talleres. EN DEFINITIVA OFRECEMOS EL SEGUNDO VOLUMEN DE "RECUEIL DES PLANCHES." SIN DUDA LA MAS GRANDE Y AMBICIOSA PRODUCCIÓN EDITORIAL DE LA FRANCIA DE LA ILUSTRACION. EN CONJUNTO CONTIENE 233 IMPRESIONANTES PLANCHAS GRABADAS AL COBRE POR LOS MEJORES ARTISTAS DEL MOMENTO ALGUNAS A DOBLE PAGINA. TODAS ELLAS CONSERVADAS PERFECTAMENTE. "TodavÃa no se ha hecho ni durante mucho tiempo se hará una colección tan considerable y tan hermosa de máquinas" Diderot. FILOSOFÃA E HISTORIA DE LA CULTURA Livre en français Chez, Braisson, David, Le Breton, Durand hardcover
17772308270001Geneva: Pellet 1777-79; Neuchatel: La Societe Typographique 1777. troisieme. Hardcover. Very Good. The Organization of Enlightenment Thought: The Revolution in Ideas 41 of 45 volumes. Quartos 25 x 19.5 cm. Bound in handsome catspaw calf. All edges red. Good bindings and covers. Clean unmarked pages. Includes Vol. 1-36 of the Encyclopedie important note: lacks 3 text volumes 23 30 31; Vol. 37-38: Recueil de planches pour la nouvelle edition du dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers; lacks the final plate volume v.39 Vol. 40-45 Table Analytique Et Raisonnee Des Matieres. <br> Diderot's famous Encyclopedie was initially a modest translation of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. It grew as a project into a massive project which attempted to collect human knowledge from a rationalistic perspective instead of by nature or theology. In organizing knowledge from a position where human reason was paramount the supremacy of the Church was imperiled. As a result the Encyclopedie was widely controversial and placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Catholic Church. In discussing fundamental philosophical issues such as on political authority and natural rights articles in the Encyclopedie shifted the basis of governmental authority from the divine right of Kings to radical concepts popular consent was the basis of legitimacy and the ideals of a social contract. The work was banned by the King of France. It spread the foundational ideas of the French Revolution and enlightenment thinkers. "No encyclopaedia perhaps has been of such political importance or has occupied so conspicuous a place in the civil and literary history of its century. It sought not only to give information but to guide opinion." "It was a war machine; as it progressed its attacks on both the church and still more on despotic government as well as Christianity itself became bolder and more undistinguished and it was met with persecution and opposition unparalleled in the the history of encyclopedias." - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed p. 1483. Geneva: Pellet, 1777-79; Neuchatel: La Societe Typographique hardcover
179652668Paris Buisson 1796/97 - An Cinquième De La République. 8vo. Very nice contemporary half calf with gilt spine. Minor barely noticeable repair to upper capital and slight bumping to corners. A very nice and clean copy with only very minor brownspotting. Printed on good paper. With the half-title bearing the "Décret concernant les Contrefacteurs" on verso. Book plate of Guy de Portuales to inside of front board. 4 411 1 pp. <br/><br/><em>The very rare first edition of Diderot's famous novel "The Nun" which was actually begun as an elaborate practical joke but which ended up as one of the most famous novels of the period. A great succes-de-scandale "The Nun" has both fascinated and unsettled the vast reading public since its first appearance. It started out as a series of letters from a fictitious character the nun Suzanne to one of Diderot's friends the Marquis de Crosmare who Diderot was trying to lure back to Paris describing her intolerable life in the convent and imploring him to help regain her freedom and her renounce her vows. The fictitious letters were later revised and written in to the novel that we know today. The work was completed in ab. 1780 and was published posthumously in 1796/97 attracting enormous attention and bringing to light a number of issues that had not previously been publically addressed. It focuses on the then-current practice of forcing young women into convents in order to get them out of the way on the unnatural life of the convents and on the corruption in religious institutions and among the clergy. As such it caused an outrage when it appeared and and became an instant succes-de-scandale. "A novel mingling mysticism madness sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succes de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material which he placed disconcertingly at the end of the novel and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction." From the Oxford University Press edition 2005. Tchemerzine IV:471 </em> unknown
176347777A Paris: Chez Braisson David Le Breton Durand M. DCC. LXIII 1763.- TOMO II Seconde Livraison Seconde Partie 3º de la obra: 2 h. 2 p. 31 p. 2 p. 4 p. 4 p. 1 h. 1 p. 2 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 3 p. 2 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 1 p. 12 p. 1 p. 1 p. 2 p. 2 p. todas de texto 201 artÃsticas planchas magistralmente grabadas al cobre; en Gran Folio 405 x 17 cm; magnÃfica impresión sobre gran papel verjurado; Encuadernación en Media Piel época de color verde lomera de 6 nervios con tÃtulo y hierros dorados cortes pintados en color granate tapas o planos en papel de aguas.- CONTIENE los siguientes oficios y profesiones: Charron 8 planches Chasses 23 pl. Chauderonniers grossier Planeur et Faiseur d'instrumens de Musique 4 pl. Chimie 25 pl. Chirurgie 39 pl. Choregraphie 2 pl. Blanchissage de cires 3 pl. Cirier 4 pl. Fabrique de la cire à cacheter 2 Ciseleur & Damasquineur 2 pl. Cloutier grossier 2 pl. Cloutier d'épingle 2 pl. Coffretier-Malletier-Bahutier 3 pl. Confiseur 5 pl. Corderie 6 pl. Cordonnier et Cordonnier-Botier 2 pl. Corroyeur 2 pl. Coutelier 2 pl. Découpeur et Gaufreur d'étoffes 3 pl. Dentelle et façon du point 3 pl. Dessein 39 pl. Diamantaire 3 pl. Distillateur d'eau-de-vie 1 pl. Doreurs sur meteaux cuir et bois 4 pl. Draperie 13 pl. EL INTERIOR EN PERFECTO ESTADO TANTO PARA EL TEXTO COMO PARA LAS LAMINAS GRABADAS. Encuadernación de la época con el lomo de piel algo rozado pero en muy buen estado general. Tapas restauradas de pequeñas faltas en las esquinas. Papel de aguas con diversas rozaduras. SOLO OFRECEMOS ESTE TERCER VOLUMEN de "Recueil des Planches sur les Sciences les Arts.". La obra completa consta de 11 volúmenes los 17 volúmenes de "La Enciclopédie" a la que seguÃan. La estructura de la Encyclopedie tanto en su diagramación formato y por supuesto contenido ideológico dio respuesta al complejo entramado de variables que supuso ese proceso disparador de nuevas ideas inteviniendo intelectuales como Voltaire Buffon Montesquieu D'Alembert Quesnay Turgot d'Holbach Rousseau de Jacourt y por supuesto Diderot; proceso también rompedor de los secretos tecnológicos del cerrado universo de las corporaciones gremiales del modo feudal de producción. En este sentido la obra presenta dos núcleos entrelazados: el Diccionario y las Planchas. Sin embargo hay que reconocer que la potente originalidad está concentrada en "Recueil des Planches sur les sciences les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques avec leur explication" en que se despliega a través de descripciones gráficas y de textos aclaratorios una impresionante cascada de datos sobre la situación fundamentos y perspectivas de las técnicas oficios y talleres. EN DEFINITIVA OFRECEMOS EL TERCER VOLUMEN DE "RECUEIL DES PLANCHES." SIN DUDA LA MAS GRANDE Y AMBICIOSA PRODUCCIÓN EDITORIAL DE LA FRANCIA DE LA ILUSTRACION. EN CONJUNTO CONTIENE 202 IMPRESIONANTES PLANCHAS GRABADAS AL COBRE POR LOS MEJORES ARTISTAS DEL MOMENTO ALGUNAS A DOBLE PAGINA. TODAS ELLAS CONSERVADAS PERFECTAMENTE. "TodavÃa no se ha hecho ni durante mucho tiempo se hará una colección tan considerable y tan hermosa de máquinas" Diderot. FILOSOFÃA E HISTORIA DE LA CULTURA Livre en français Chez, Braisson, David, Le Breton, Durand hardcover
174566927Amsterdam: chez Zacherie Chatelain 1745. First edition. xxx 297 1 blank 10 tables des matières errata pp. With title-vignette two engraved frontispieces one for each part and two head-pieces by Fessard after Durand.<br> <br> Citron morocco gilt back with raised bands gilt triple-rule border on sides with gilt stamped floral ornament in corners inner gilt-dentelles all edges gilt. Lower cover slightly discolored otherwise a beautiful copy. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell.<br> <br> "Rather a paraphrase than a translation of Lord Shaftesbury's An Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit. Yet it is a very important work indeed for the growth and development of his thought. It was Diderot who furnished the Réflexions in a preliminary discours and lengthy footnotes to which students of Diderot now turn for precious indications of the unfolding of his ideas.It will be noticed that the French version is anonymous neither Shaftesbury's name nor that of the translator was mentioned. The reason was that there was some danger involved in presenting to the French public a work that declared so boldly for the existence of a natural morality independant of any particular religion or church" Arthur M. Wilson Diderot p. 50.<br> <br> Tchemerzine-Scheler II p. 916. Thomas A checklist of major French authors in Oxford libraries 1526-1800 p. 47.<br> <br> HBS 66927.<br> <br> $5000. chez Zacherie Chatelain unknown
179675946à Paris: Chez Buisson 1796. Fine. Chez Buisson à Paris An Cinquième de la République 1796 12 x 20.70 cm relié First edition posthumous printed on Holland paper. Contemporary full marbled brown calf binding spine in compartments richly decorated red morocco title label black morocco volume label a small loss to the lower joint at the foot rubbing marks surface abrasions to the upper cover with a small loss of leather one corner bumped marginal loss to the right corner on pages 247 and 257.Paper generally fresh. This copy has been bound as a single volume following the 1772 edition of Diderots Works in 6 volumes Volume VI II.A good copy. The introductory text à la mémoire de Diderot is by Jakob-Heinrich Meister a friend of Necker and successor to Frédéric Melchior Grimm at the Correspondance littéraire. The novel conceived from 1765 onwards was first issued in instalments in this journal between 1778 and 1780. The published version however is not definitive as Diderot continued to expand it until his death: the work which comprised 125 pages in 1771 reached 200 pages in 1778 208 in 1780 and 287 in 1783. Yet the work was already known in Germany prior to its French publication thanks to Schillers translation published in 1787 in his journal Thalia. Following this version Doray de Longrais produced a French version of the same narrative. In 1792 Germany discovered the complete text through a new translation by Mylius. Finally in 1796 the original text was published in France based on a copy likely supplied by Grimm or Goethe. An unclassifiable work breaking free from all the conventions of the novel it draws on the picaresque tradition and inherits the freedom of a book that deeply influenced Diderot: Vie et opinions de Tristram Shandy by Sterne. Chez Buisson hardcover
176730188Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: The 37 plates includes two sections : first section numbered 1 -11 plates are drawings describing the Pipe Organ with minute details. Plate 11 is an index to a tuning scale. Second section plates numbered 1- 22 describes foreign ancients modern instruments & percussion plus different sorts of beautifully made instruments. Plate 10 on this section is doubled and on which described all tools needed in the making of the wind instruments.<br /> Plate 13 is damaged with a missing corner affecting text and border but not drawings. Plate 22 is double page. Four descriptive text sheets. unknown
174861041Au Monomatapa Paris 1748 8vo. Uniformly bound in two contemporary Cambridge-style mirror bindings with four raised bands and richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spines. Wear to spines some of gilting worn off. Internally nice and clean. 8 370 pp. 5 plates; 4 420 pp. 2 plates complete. <br/><br/><em>The rare first edition of Diderot’s first novel published anonymously being an allegory portraying Louis XV of France as Mangogul Sultan of Congo who owns a magic ring that makes women's vaginas talk. For unspecified reasons Diderot did not venture further into this subject however he did make sure to portray Madame de Pompadour the mistress Louis XV in a flattering light most likely to ensure her support for his Encyclopedie – a support he received and in 1751 he together with D'Alembert published their seminal ‘Encyclopédie’. Tchemerzine IV 430 </em> hardcover
176730191Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: This suite of 71 plates comes in divided sections and each section is devoted to the explanation of a different branch of science thus each one of these 17 sections is numbered individually followed by 16 text pages. <br /> <br /> GÉOMÉTRIE <br /> 5 plates numbered 1-5 are an extensive work showing all the figures and instruments used in the practice of science of geometry.<br /> <br /> TRIGONOMÉTRIE <br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 demonstrate the relationship involving lengths and angles of triangles and shows how this science emerged from applications of geometry to astronomical studies.<br /> <br /> ARPENTAGE<br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3 illustrate the science of surveying it's tools and the way are used in land and sea mapping . These science is known since human built the first large structures.<br /> <br /> ALGEBRE ET ARITHMÉTIQUE <br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 demonstrat figures practiced in this science and on plate two we have the Machine of Arithmétique de Pascal figures in three dimensions.<br /> <br /> SECTIONS CONIQUES<br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3 contains figures practiced in conic section .<br /> <br /> ANALYSE <br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 display figures used in this branch of science.<br /> <br /> <br /> MECHANIQUE<br /> 5 plates numbered 1 to 5 illustrate simple machines levers balances screws pulleys etc. and diagram their functions.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> HYDROSTATIQUE HYDRODYNAMIQUE et HYDRAULIQUE <br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3 display fountains instruments such as the Archimedan Screw <br /> <br /> MACHINES HYDRAULIQUES<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 show detail Marli’s impressive machine.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered contains different views of sewer reservoir pump.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered describes the fire pump and arm pump. This plate has 2 inches nicely repaired tear at top.<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 are drawings detailing the machine of scientist Dupuis.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered displays the windmill of Meudon. This mill is located in the park of the castle of Meudon near the farm of Vibon. We see all the internal mechanism in this plate and it is to show it the cage which contains it all around has to destroyed.<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 these plates show six figures detailing the harmonious work of the implements in the Machine of Nymphembourg. This machine is the invention of the Count de Whal. It is empowered to raise the water at sixty feet in height.<br /> 5 plates numbered 1-5 describe and display all the parts internal and external of the Water Mill.<br /> 4 plates numbered 1-4 are impressive views of the Noria water wheel. This is an ancient invention <br /> 1 plate unnumbered contains a scene of Canal et Écluses Canal and Locks.<br /> 6 plates numbered 1-6 are figures and plans of fire pompe. Thaïs machine has been employed in the Bois de Boffu near Saint-Guilain in the Province of Hainault. Plates 4 5 are internal views of the steam pompe while is it on pate 6 is profile of the Giant cylinder and other tools.<br /> 1 plate unnumbered showing four aspects of the filtering fountain.<br /> <br /> <br /> OPTIQUE <br /> 6 plates numbered 1-6 show attractive images of optics such relative to glasses lenses colors magnitude lanterns virtual focus and more.<br /> <br /> <br /> PERSPECTIVE<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 represent drawings of perspective distortion visual graphical aerial and geometry and the effect of visual perspective in graphic arts.<br /> <br /> <br /> ASTRONOMIE<br /> 26 plates numbered 1-26 are beautifully representing the instruction and the making of instruments used in this science and the way are used <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> GEOGRAPHIE<br /> 3 plates numbered 1 1 2 represent construction and usage of maps and world map measurement of inaccessible distances. Plate tow is construction des globes.<br /> <br /> GNOMONIQUE<br /> 2 plates numbered 1-2 showing projections and equipment<br /> <br /> NAVIGATION<br /> 1 plate showing an astrolabe maps and other instuments.<br /> <br /> .<br /> <br /> INSTRUMENS DE MATHEMATIQUES<br /> 3 plates numbered 1-3. First plate opens with an attractive atelier displaying two craftsmen involved in the making of the instruments described on the rest of the plates.<br /> <br /> PHYSIQUE<br /> 5 plates numbered 1-5. Aurora borealis water spouts snowflakes scientific instruments<br /> <br /> PNEUMATIQUE<br /> <br /> 3 plates barometers thermometers an air-gun wind mills anenometer. unknown
177275451à Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1772. Fine. Chez Marc-Michel Rey à Amsterdam 1772 12 x 19.70 cm 6 volumes reliés First collected edition but not authorized by the author. It contains 25 plates including 3 frontispieces and several with geometry diagrams. Handsome edition elegantly composed and printed but it contains four texts that are not by the author: Le Code de la Nature by Morelly Les Principes de Philosophie Morale by Étienne Beaumont La Justification de Plusieurs Articles de l'Encyclopédie by Abbé Monlinot and Lettre au P. Berthier sur le Matérialisme by Abbé Coyer. Originally Marc-Michel Rey had an editorial project with Diderot for his works but this project was aborted. Multiple paginations each text having its own pagination and table of contents. Contemporary full marbled and glazed blond calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label beige morocco volume labels. Traces of rubbing. A cut at head of volume I. Small lack at head of volume III. A tear with lack in the last compartment of volume IV. A hole along the lower joint of volume V. On volume VI on the lower joint worming over 1cm. Relatively fresh set the first 30 pages of volume V yellowed. Leaf 165 of volume IV badly cut with a small lack to lower margin. Despite slight defects handsome copy. Vol. 1: Essai sur le mérite et la vertu le Code de la nature. Vol. 2: Lettre sur les sourds et muets Lettre sur les Aveugles. Vol. 3: Le Père de famille et De la poésie dramatique Vol. 4: Le Fils naturel. Vol. 5: Les Bijoux indiscrets. Vol. 6: Traité du Beau Du beau absolu De la philosophie des chinois Science subséquente Acoustique Mémoires sur différents sujets de mathématiques. Chez Marc-Michel Rey hardcover
1783013039Paris: A Paris A Lie`ge : chez Panckoucke. chez Plomteux 1783. Complete in 4 volumes. Text volumes measure 26x20.5.cm. Atlas 28x22.5.cm. Collation xii folding chart 712pp 784pp 978pp 4pp avertissement 175 plates of which 93 are double page or folding each volume has the half title. Printed dates. 1783 1786 1787. Text volumes bound in full period calf raised bands fluer de lis gilt tooling leather title labels. At some time the spine on each volume has been professionally relaid. Calf lightly rubbed some minor scuff or age wear. All bindings in very good clean condition. Atlas volume is bound in period or early quarter calf marble boards raised bands fluer de lis gilt tooling not an exact match but very similar to text volumes . At some time the spine has been professionally rebacked boards rubbed bumped on edges minor wear to hinge joints. Internally text and plates in very good clean condition. A very nice set in very attractive bindings. F. Full Calf. Very Good. Quarto. A Paris A Lie`ge : chez Panckoucke. chez Plomteux Hardcover
1787x08156<p>A. Padoue 1787. Three volumes. Two volumes of text with plates in the third. 4to. lxxvi 728: 4 979: Complete with 108 plates numbered from 1 to 118 with 10 folding plates receiving a number for each side. Publication dates 1787 1789 1790 respectively. Good. Spines chipped and cracked although hinges still sound. Some dealer prices inked to front endpapers. Hardcover. Good.</p> A. Padoue hardcover
1780047124Paris 1780. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Disbound sets of plates with the plate lists and descriptions comprising the section of theater floorplans and theater machines. Plans for the Théatre de Turin Salle de la Comédie de Pyon Tprdionne à Rome Théatre Royal à Naples la Salle de Spectacle de la Comèdie Françoise etc. 31 plates with an additional 13 plate supplement. The second set of plates shows designs for theatrical machines for simulating tempest tossed ships landslides fires. The plates depict the intended result and a wide shot of the apparatus and then close up of the gears that make the machines function. 49 plates. Plates ca. 15" x 10" with some folding out. undated ca. 1780. Housed in an old cloth portfolio. Some soiling to a few sheets minor flaws most plates fine or nearly so. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 047124. unknown
1762B3 - LA - HAY199481762. A Paris Chez Briasson David Le Breton et Durand. relié plein veau de l'époque. Mors fendus en tête et en pied 3 coins usés ; nombreuses épidermures sur les plats ; l'intérieur texte et planches est exempt de rousseurs et exceptionnellement frais ; bon exemplaire. in-folio . avec 251 planches dont certaines sur doubles pages sur les 269 annoncées première Livraison ; dos à 6 nerfs avec caissons ornés de doubles filets d'encadrement et motifs floraux dorés pièce de titre et de tomaison en maroquin brun et vert avec doubles filets d'encadrement et caractères dorés ; toutes tranches rouges. unknown
1749276297London 1749. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes bound in one. 150; 4 141 7 pages with text in French. Illustrated with 5 of 6 plates in 1st volume and 3 plates in second volume. 12mo contemporary calf-backed speckled boards; gilt spine with red label. Londres: no publisher stated i. e. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey 1749 & 1751. Near fine copy of 2 scarce titles.<br/> <br/> Both titles by Denis Diderot published anonymously with a fictitious imprint "Londres 1749" on title page: Probably the 3rd or 4th edition published in Amsterdam the same year as the first edition --Adams LG4; Tchemerzine 1977 II 925d. OCLC lists only 6 copies of this edition of "les Aveugles" Cornell Stanford Dartmouth Exeter British Library & Biblioteca Nacional de Espana. "les Sourds et Muets" is one of several editions published in Paris in 1751 each with slightly varying title pages and pagination. OCLC lists 13 copies.<br/> <br/> unknown
1773elala1661<p>London: 1773. 1773. 5 Volumes. 8vo. with half-titles in Vols. II-V. folding table. 10 engraved plates. contemporary mottled calf gilt backs several joints cracked extremties rubbed a few gatherings foxed. Included are four works which are not by Diderot: Le Code de la Nature by Morelly Les Principes de Philosophie Morale by Étienne Beaumont La Justification de Plusieurs Articles de l'Encyclopédie by Abbé Monlinot and Lettre au P. Berthier sur le Matérialisme by Abbé Coyer. Quérard II 455. Tchemerzine IV 462. Hardcover.</p> London: 1773. hardcover
176032903-246Paris and Neuchâtel Briasson David a.o. c. 1760. 12 pp. of text. Folio. Boards. Paris and Neuchâtel Briasson David a.o. c. 1760. First edition. On locksmith work excerpt from: "Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des metiers". (Paris and Neuchâtel, Briasson, David, a.o. hardcover
1771410481771. DIDEROT. Tapestry-weaving in 3 parts: 7 pp. 45 plates of which 11 are double-page. From vol. 8. Folio bound in half terra-cotta morocco over salmon cloth boards gilt. Tapissier with a view of the Boutique and the many products available therein including curtains bedspreads upholstery and so forth. With two additional suites entitled Tapisserie de basse-lisse des Gobelins and Tapisserie de haute-lisse des Gobelins which illustrate the practice of the famous Gobelins tapestry factories. These tapestries were decorated with pictorial subjects; painted; embroidered; woven in colours gold and silver thread and so forth. Alan Summerly Cole distinguishes between the practices of Gobelins and Beauvais: "At the Gobelins the warp threads are stretched in frames standing vertically high warp or haute lisse: at Beauvais in frames placed horizontally with the ground low warp or basse lisse." This suite of plates and text derives from the great French eighteenth-century Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond D'Alembert. The Diderot & D'Alembert Encyclopédie remains "A monument in the history of European thought; the acme of the age of reason; a prime motivating force in undermining the Ancien Régime and in heralding the French Revolution; a permanent source for all aspects of eighteenth-century civilization." Printing and the Mind of Man. hardcover
176730163Paris 1767. The following plates come from a defective copy of Volume 5 and are generally in excellent condition with full margins: 32 plates divided into six suites showing engravers in ateliers equipment<br /> tools and several types of engraving: 8 plates containing attractive drawings of different steps in the art of engraving such as etching copper-plate engraving mezzotint engraving crayon engraving black engraving and including the tools needed. With their accompanying 9 text pages . Plates are numbered 1-8 and plate 1 is a double plate. unknown
179119464<p><b>1791 Diderot Encyclopedia Plates ROME Colosseum Pantheon Architecture Machines</b></p><p>Through the mid-18th-century large collections of knowledge were relegated to specific areas of study like law medicine or religion. However Denis Diderot's '<i>Encyclopedie'</i>changed the public's knowledge base as well as setting a standard for future generations of acquiring knowledge on many different subjects. This was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many different named writers. It also was the first encyclopedia to describe work-related topics like agriculture engineering cooking and trade.</p><p>One of the aspects that made this work so desirable was the incredible detailed full-page engravings. In fact the illustrations themselves were so sought-after that they were of published on their own apart from the encyclopedia.</p><p>This volume of '<i>De Planches'</i> or the plates from Diderot's encyclopedia include some of the following engravings:</p><p>· Ancient and modern alphabet</p><p>· Ancient Rome architecture</p><p>o Colosseum arches Pantheon</p><p>· Weapon making</p><p>· Agriculture tools gardening</p><p>· Weaving clothes making</p><p>o Needle making</p><p>· Rustic economics – windmills</p><p>Item number: #19464</p><p>Price: $1500</p><p>DIDEROT Denis</p><p><b><i>Recueil De Planches du dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers… tome 4</i></b></p><p>A Berne : Chez BeÌat Louis Walthard 1791.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages </p><p>o 48</p><p>o <b>86 engraved plates folding and full-page </b></p><p>· Language: French</p><p>· Binding: Leather; secure</p><p>· Size: ~10in X 8in 25.5cm x 20cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>19464</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> BeÌat Louis Walthard hardcover
179219467<p><b>1792 Diderot Encyclopedia Plates Inventions CANNONS Horses Gunpowder Bell Towers</b></p><p>Through the mid-18th-century large collections of knowledge were relegated to specific areas of study like law medicine or religion. However Denis Diderot's '<i>Encyclopedie'</i>changed the public's knowledge base as well as setting a standard for future generations of acquiring knowledge on many different subjects. This was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many different named writers. It also was the first encyclopedia to describe work-related topics like agriculture engineering cooking and trade.</p><p>One of the aspects that made this work so desirable was the incredible detailed full-page engravings. In fact the illustrations themselves were so sought-after that they were of published on their own apart from the encyclopedia.</p><p>This volume of '<i>De Planches'</i> or the plates from Diderot's encyclopedia include some of the following engravings:</p><p>· Cannon making</p><p>o Gunpowder decorative art cannons</p><p>· Equestrian statues – art of horses and horse riders molds</p><p>· Engraving making</p><p>· Bell towers and bell ringing</p><p>Item number: #19467</p><p>Price: $1500</p><p>DIDEROT Denis</p><p><b><i>Recueil De Planches du dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers… tome 7</i></b></p><p>A Berne : Chez BeÌat Louis Walthard 1792.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 73-143 1</p><p>o <b>87 engraved plates folding and full-page </b></p><p>· Language: French</p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p>· Size: ~10in X 8in 25.5cm x 20cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>19467</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> BeÌat Louis Walthard hardcover
179219468<p><b>1792 Diderot Encyclopedia 89 Plates PRINTING PRESS Anvil Forges Marble Working</b></p><p>Through the mid-18th-century large collections of knowledge were relegated to specific areas of study like law medicine or religion. However Denis Diderot's '<i>Encyclopedie'</i>changed the public's knowledge base as well as setting a standard for future generations of acquiring knowledge on many different subjects. This was the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many different named writers. It also was the first encyclopedia to describe work-related topics like agriculture engineering cooking and trade.</p><p>One of the aspects that made this work so desirable was the incredible detailed full-page engravings. In fact the illustrations themselves were so sought-after that they were of published on their own apart from the encyclopedia.</p><p>This volume of '<i>De Planches'</i> or the plates from Diderot's encyclopedia include some of the following engravings:</p><p>· Forges</p><p>o Anvil and anchor forging</p><p>· Print type printing printing press</p><p>· Marble working</p><p>Item number: #19468</p><p>Price: $1500</p><p>DIDEROT Denis</p><p><b><i>Recueil De Planches du dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers… tome 8</i></b></p><p>A Berne : Chez BeÌat Louis Walthard 1792.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p>· Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p>o 41 1</p><p>o <b>89 engraved plates folding and full-page </b></p><p>· Language: French</p><p>· Binding: Leather; tight and secure</p><p>· Size: ~10in X 8in 25.5cm x 20cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p>19468</p><p>Photos available upon request. </p> BeÌat Louis Walthard hardcover
