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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
JUINBB25<p>Genève Jean-Leonard Pellet 1780. </p><p>10 volumes 8vo and one atlas volume 4to : I/ 1 portrait xvi pp. 532 pp. 2 bl.ll. ; II/ 2 ll. 1 engraving viii pp. 582 pp. ; III/ 2 ll. 1 engraving vii pp. 580 pp. ; IV/ 2 ll. 1 engraving viii pp. 472 pp. ; V/ 2 ll. 1 engraving vii pp. 405 pp. ; VI/ 2 ll. 1 engraving vii pp. 484 pp. pp. 281-304 bound in duplicate; VII/ 2 ff. 1 engraving table of pp. v à xvi 558 pp. ; VIII/ 2 ll. 1 engraving viii pp. 548 pp. ; IX/ 2 ll. 1 engraving table pp. v à viii 412 pp. ; X/ 2 ll. 1 engraving table of pp. v à vi 538 pp.</p><p>Atlas : 2 ll. 28 pp. 1 folding map 49 maps on double page 23 tables including 12 folding and 1 on double page. Red morocco double gilt fillet around the covers flat spines very nicely decorated with special irons inner gilt edges gilt edges. <i>Contemporary binding.</i></p><p>202 x 123 mm ; 257 x 203 mm for the atlas.</p><p><b>"First edition" of this "key work of the crisis of the Ancien Regime" filled with pieces of the revolutionary eloquence often due to Diderot's hand.</b></p><p><b>The bibliographers emphasize the extreme importance of this third enlarged edition so filled and radicalized by Diderot that it constitutes a new work completely revolutionary and condemned by the Parliament which brought glory and exile to its author. </b></p><p>Precious copy of the 8vo format edition published conjointly with the 4to format edition.</p><p>Copy complete with the 10 frontispieces including one portrait by <i>Cochin</i> and 9 figures by <i>Moreau</i> engraved by <i>Dambrun</i> 1 <i>de Launay</i>6 <i>Delignon</i> I <i>Romanet</i> 1 and <i>Simonet</i> 1 and with the<b> atlas that contains 50 plates</b> numbered 1 to 49 with a plate 17 bis and 23 unfolded charts.</p><p><i>"Jesuit born in Aveyron in 1713 Abbot Raynal went to Paris and soon left Church for Philosophy. He collaborated to the Encyclopedia the Mercure de France and to the Correspondance littéraire and wrote bread and butter works or propaganda books inspired by the French government: 'Histoire de Stathouderat' 1747 'Histoire du Parlement d'Angleterre' 1748.</i></p><p><i>He received an order for a history of colonization which could have been only an additional compilation had he not gathered around him a host of collaborators Holbach Naigeon and especially Diderot and if the commercial venture had not become a great political and philosophical treatise.</i></p><p><i>A second enlarged edition was published in 1774 and a<b> third signed by Raynal and radicalized by Diderot's interventions in 1780</b>. It is repression and glory for Abbot Raynal: the Parliament condemns the work the author must be exiled and he assumes the character of the persecuted philosopher across Europe before being allowed to settle in Marseille. The revolutionaries were ready to welcome the septuagenarian as a thought and act leader; they were more than disappointed furious of the conservative speech that this author held against them overwhelmed by his work.</i></p><p><b>Diderot was thus one of the main writers. </b></p><p>"<i>The 'Histoire des deux Indes' mixes an ordinary history of the explorations and of the commercial settlements of the Europeans in the world with a sometimes violent denunciation of slavery and exploitation of the colonies by the mainlands</i>".Michel Delon <i>En Français dans le texte Dix siècles de lumière par le livre</i> n°166.</p><p>This treatise thus enriched with literary pieces of choice was a resounding success and was reissued a dozen times at the end of the 18th century.</p><p>Academic criticism sees it as one of the key works of the crisis of the Ancient Regime.</p><p><b>Superb copy extremely fresh printed on Holland paper with blue shades bound in very elegant contemporary red morocco bindings.</b></p><p><u><br /></u></p><p><u>FRENCH</u></p><p>Genève Jean-Leonard Pellet 1780. </p><p>10 volumes in-8 et un volume in-4 d'atlas : I/ 1 portrait xvi pp. 532 pp. 2 ff.bl. ; II/ 2 ff. 1 gravure viii pp. 582 pp. ; III/ 2 ff. 1 gravure vii pp. 580 pp. ; IV/ 2 ff. 1 gravure viii pp. 472 pp. ; V/ 2 ff. 1 gravure vii pp. 405 pp. ; VI/ 2 ff. 1 gravure vii pp. 484 pp. pp. 281-304 reliées en double ; VII/ 2 ff. 1 gravure table des pp. v à xvi 558 pp. ; VIII/ 2 ff. 1 gravure viii pp. 548 pp. ; IX/ 2 ff. 1 gravure table pp. v à viii 412 pp. ; X/ 2 ff. 1 gravure table des pp. v à vi 538 pp.</p><p>Atlas : 2 ff. 28 pp. 1 carte dépliante 49 cartes sur double page 23 tableaux dont 12 dépliants et 1 sur double page. Maroquin rouge double filet doré et roulette autour des plats dos lisses très joliment ornés avec fers spéciaux roulette intérieure tranches dorées. <i>Reliure de l'époque</i>.</p><p>202 x 123 mm ; 257 x 203 mm pour l'atlas.</p><p><b>" Edition originale " de cet " ouvrage clef de la crise de l'Ancien régime " truffé de morceaux de l'éloquence révolutionnaire souvent dus à la plume de Diderot.</b></p><p><b>Les bibliographes soulignent l'extrême importance de cette troisième édition originale à ce point truffée et radicalisée par Diderot qu'elle constitue un nouvel ouvrage totalement révolutionnaire et condamné par le Parlement qui valut la gloire et l'exil à son auteur.</b></p><p>Précieux exemplaire de l'édition de format in-8 publiée en même temps que l'édition de format in-4.</p><p>Exemplaire bien complet des 10 frontispices dont un portrait par <i>Cochin</i> et 9 figures par <i>Moreau</i>gravés par <i>Dambrun</i> 1 <i>de Launay</i> 6 <i>Delignon</i> I <i>Romanet</i> 1 et <i>Simonet</i> 1 et de <b>l'atlas qui contient 50 planches </b>numérotées 1 à 49 avec une planche 17 bis et 23 tableaux dépliants. <br /></p><p><i>"Jésuite né dans l'Aveyron en 1713 l'abbé Raynal monta à Paris et quitta bientôt l'Église pour la Philosophie. Il collabora à l'Encyclopédie au Mercure de France et à la Correspondance littéraire et rédigea des travaux alimentaires ou livres de propagande inspirés par le gouvernement français : 'Histoire de Stathouderat' 1747 'Histoire du Parlement d'Angleterre' 1748.</i></p><p><i>Il reçut commande d'une histoire de la colonisation qui aurait pu n'être qu'une compilation supplémentaire s'il n'avait rassemblé autour de lui une pléiade de collaborateurs d'Holbach Naigeon et surtout Diderot et si l'entreprise commerciale ne s'était muée en un grand traité politique et philosophique.</i></p><p><i>Une seconde édition augmentée paraît en 1774 et une troisième signée par Raynal et radicalisée par les interventions de Diderot en 1780. C'est la répression et la gloire pour l'abbé Raynal : le Parlement condamne l'ouvrage l'auteur doit s'exiler il assume le personnage du philosophe persécuté à travers l'Europe avant d'être autorisé à s'installer à Marseille. Les révolutionnaires étaient prêts à accueillir le septuagénaire comme un maître à penser et à agir ; ils furent plus que déçus furieux du discours conservateur que leur tint cet auteur dépassé par son œuvre. "</i></p><p><b>Diderot fut donc l'un des principaux rédacteurs</b><b>.</b> <i>" Sous le masque de Raynal il s'abandonne à toute sa fougue libertaire contestataire et dénonciatrice. Il abomine l'intolérance l'influence de l'église dans les affaires temporelles n'admet qu'une morale universelle celle qui a pour objet la conservation et le bonheur commun de l'espèce humaine. ".</i> Raymond Trousson.</p><p>" L'Histoire des deux Indes mêle de fait une banale histoire des explorations et des installations commerciales européennes dans le monde et une dénonciation parfois violente de l'esclavage et l'exploitation des colonies par les métropoles. Les emprunts aux mémoires administratifs et aux traités antérieurs alternent avec des morceaux d'éloquence révolutionnaire souvent dus à la plume de Diderot." Michel Delon <i>En Français dans le texte Dix siècles de lumière par le livre</i> n°166.</p><p>Ce traité ainsi enrichi de morceaux littéraires de choix connut un éclatant succès et fut réédité une dizaine de fois à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.</p><p>La critique universitaire le considère comme l'un des ouvrages clefs de la crise de l'Ancien Régime.</p><p><b>Superbe exemplaire de parfaite fraîcheur imprimé sur papier de Hollande aux nuances bleutées revêtu de très élégantes reliures de l'époque en maroquin rouge.</b></p> hardcover
19541604031Les Éditeurs Français Réunis Paris 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed Limited edition. 1/100 signed by Picasso of a total limited edition of 530. Picasso illustrated this essay of Diderot's with four portraits of the great thinker whose mind "anticipated and epitomized moral psychological and social opportunities and stresses attending the assimilation of science into culture" DSB 4: 84. The portraits are reproduced in lithograph print form by Mourlot Frères Paris. There were also 430 copies printed on vélin pur Lafuma. Text in French. Housed in publisher's slipcase. One of the smallest signed limited editions by Picasso. Les Éditeurs Français Réunis, Paris 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
1924ST19296Paris: Auguste Blaizot 1924. No. XXI OF 355 COPIES. 310 x 225 mm. 12 1/4 x 8 3/4". 3 p.l. XI 1 blank 197 5 pp. <br/> SPLENDID INDIGO CRUSHED MOROCCO BY ÉMILE MAYLANDER stamp-signed on front doublure covers with elegant gilt frames featuring flowers and acanthus leaves raised bands spines richly gilt in compartments with pomegranate sprig centerpiece MOSAIC MOROCCO DOUBLURES with inlaid frame of maroon morocco and gilt-latticed cornerpieces of blue morocco on a caramel-colored background maroon silk endleaves all edges gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Housed in matching morocco-trimmed chemise lined with leather in matching slipcase. With three engraved vignettes in the text and 34 plates by Bernard Naudin two of them double-page. AN IMMACULATE COPY.<br/> <br/> Virtually unchanged since the day it left the bindery this is a beautiful luxury edition of Diderot's vicious satire skewering the hedonism cynicism and materialism of opponents of the Enlightenment. The work takes the form of a dialogue between "Moi" the narrator standing in for Diderot and "Lui" the jaded sophisticated "Nephew of Rameau" of the title. The operas of French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683-1764 are among the topics Moi and Lui debate--the alleged superiority of Italian opera being one of the "culture wars" of the day--along with the worship of money and the possibility of morality without God. Fearing repercussions from political and cultural elites mentioned by name in the work Diderot never published it. The manuscript was in the library he sold to Catherine the Great of Russia and a copy found its way via Schiller into the hands of Goethe who translated it into German and published it in 1805. In 1890 French librarian George Monval found a copy of the manuscript in Diderot's own hand and the original text finally came into print. Our edition uses this text enlivened by the etchings of Bernard Naudin 1876-1946 whose genius for satirical caricature is well matched to the subject. Born into the trade as the son of a gilder in the Marius Michel workshop Emile Maylander 1866-1959 was still a child when he began to train with the best doreur of the day Gustave Bénard. By the age of 10! he was working for the atelier of Domont where he perfected his craft. He later worked for the great Cuzin and for Émile Mercier in whose workshop he was the premier doreur. After Mercier's death in 1910 he began doing high-end gilding work for other binders before opening his own studio in 1920. Flety tells us he quickly established a grand reputation among collectors. According to Duncan and De Bartha Maylander preferred bindings that used classical designs "which he executed with a faultless technique drawing the admiration of a number of bibliophiles." He chose such a classical design appropriate to the late 18th century for this work creating a harmony of text illustration and binding. Auguste Blaizot unknown
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
119431Londres mais probablement Paris 1793. 12mo. 99 pages. Half-calf with corners smooth decorated spine binding of the time. First Edition of this text from "Jacques le Fataliste" Diderot's masterpiece of which it is the first appearance although fragmentary in book form. The story of the publication of "Jacques le Fataliste" is particularly complex. A first partial version of the novel was first inserted in about fifteen issues of Grimm's very confidential manuscript "Correspondance Littéraire" from 1778 to 1780. It was there that Schiller had spotted the present text which he translated into German and published in 1785 in the first issue of his journal "La Thalie Rhénane". This German translation served as the basis for the French version developed by the French writer and freethinker Jean-Paul Doray de Longrais 1736-1800 who had the work printed clandestinely during the Reign of Terror at the probably false address in London. It was not until three years later in 1796 that "Jacques le Fataliste" was finally printed for the first time in extenso in a largely incomplete version. "It is even thanks to this fragment retranslated into French and published in London in 1793 by a certain Doray de Longrais a cavalry officer and man of letters in his spare time that the French public knows in advance Jacques the fatalist at least through this detached piece translated from Yannick Séité's preface to the reprint given in 2014 by Éditions des Équateurs. This tale depicted the meticulously prepared revenge of an aristocrat who abandoned by her lover develops a Machiavellian plan to throw him into the arms of a young prostitute whom she passes off as a model of virtue. The unexpected epilogue reveals Diderot's propensity to elaborate a moral model detached from the social conventions of his time. The work had a considerable influence and it was adapted for the cinema twice. "It has been adapted for the screen several times such as the silent 1922 production 'Die Intriguen de Madame de la Pommeraye' directed by Fritz Wendhausen and in 1945 as 'Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne' directed by Robert Bresson and written by Bresson and Cocteau" Block. "Ce succès d'un épisode autonome de Jacques le Fataliste qui inspirera également Sacher-Masoch Sternheim et au cinéma Robert Bresson Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne 1945 est paradoxalement fidèle à la construction rhapsodique d'un roman égrenant et émiettant les récits et réflexions qu'échangent les deux protagonistes au long d'un voyage sans départ ni arrivée" Encyclopaedia Universalis. This first edition is extremely rare. We have only been able to locate five copies in public collections around the world National Libraries of France Poland and Austria Rouen Library and Cologne Library. No copies are listed in the United States. Some traces of wear on the binding. Good copy. On the film adaptation of the text see Marcelline Block "Vendetta and Veritas in Diderot's Madame de la Pommeraye and Bresson's Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne" in: 'Vendetta: Essays on Honor and Revenge' edited by Giovanna Summerfield Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010. On the translator Doray de Longrais see Wheeler 'A Biographical Dictionary of Free Thinkers' 1889 p.112. 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
91061Paris Briasson / David / Le Breton / Durand 1762. 2° 405 x 275 cm Schmutztitel gestochenes u. gefaltetes Frontispiz Titelbl. 6 S. Register zus. 75 S. Text u. 276 tlw. gefaltete Taf. Priv.-Ldr. m. 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildchen auf 6 Bünden Rundum-Rotschnitt Kl. Rückenverlust am Kopf Fuss m. Riss berieben u. kratzspurig Ldr. m. einigen kl. Abspleissungen untere Ecken etw. bestossen Blattränder min. gebräunt; innen frisches Ex. In 276 und nicht wie auf dem Titelblatt angegeben 269 Tafeln kompletter Tafelteil. Lieferung 1. Vorhanden sind die Abteilungen: «Agriculteur et économie rustique» «Aiguillier» «Aiguillier-bonnetier» und «Amidonnier» 18 u. 2 S. 5 u. 84 Taf davon 3 gefaltet; «Anatomie» 21 S. 33 Taf.; «Antiquités» 1 S. Text 11 Taf. davon 1 gefaltet; «Architectures et parties qui en dépendent» 19 S. Text 68 Taf. davon 13 gefaltet; «Argenteur» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Armurier» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Arquebusier» 3 S. Text 6 Taf. davon 1 gefaltet; «Art militaire» 7 S. Text 58 Taf.; «Artificier» 2 S. Text 7 Taf. 010 Paris, Briasson / David / Le Breton / Durand, 1762 unknown
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
1964LMMM31507Paris: Cercle du Livre Precieux 1964. Elegantly bound facsimile of the famous 1751-1772 edition; Bound as 6 Volumes complete; This edition magnificently printed; Numbered & limited to 3000 copies; Full brown sheep with black sponge pattern gilt spine titles on red & green labels gold spine decoration raised bands marbled endpapers/pastedown most pages are plates with many fold-outs red ribbon markers A very good set with occasional hint of foxing to foredge; Unpaginated. Size: 10"x15.25". Hardcover. Cercle du Livre Precieux Hardcover
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
91060Paris Briasson / David / Le Breton / Durand 1763. 2° 405 x 275 cm Schmutztitel Titelbl. zus. 80 S. Text u. 195 tlw. gefaltete Taf. Priv.-Ldr. m. 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildchen auf 6 Bünden Rundum-Rotschnitt Etw. berieben u. kratzspurig obere Ecken etw. bestossen Blattränder min. gebräunt; innen frisches Ex.Somewhat rubbed and scratched upper corners somewhat bumped margins slightly browned; inside a fresh copy. In 195 und nicht wie auf dem Titelblatt angegeben 201 Tafeln kompletter Tafelteil Lieferung 1/2. Vorhanden sind die Abteilungen: «Charron» 2 S. Text 7 Taf. davon 1 gefaltet; «Chasses» 31 S. Text 23 Taf. «Chaudonnier» 2 S. Text 4 Taf.; «Chimie» 4 S. Text 24 Taf. davon 1 gefaltet; «Chirurgie» 4 S. Text 39 Taf.; «Choréographie ou l’art d’écrire la danse» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Blanchissage des cires» 1 S. Text 3 Taf.; «Cirier» 2 S. Text 4 Taf.; «Fabrique de la cire d’Espagne ou à cacheter» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Ciseleur et damasquineur» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Cloutier grossier» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Cloutier d’épingles» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Coffretier-malletier-bahutier» 1 S. Text 3 Taf.; «Confiseur» 3 S. Text 5 Taf.; «Corderie » 2 S. Text 4 Taf. davon 2 gefaltet; «Cordinnier et cordonnier-bottier» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Corroyeur» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Coutelier» 1 S. Text 2 Taf.; «Découpeur et gaufreur d’étoffes» 1 S. Text 3 Taf.; «Dentelle et façon du point» 1 S. Text 3 Taf.; «Dessein» 12 S. Text 38 Taf. davon 1 gefaltet; «Diamantaire» 1 S. Text 3 Taf.; «Distillateur d’eau de vie» 1 S. Text 1 Taf.; «Doreur» 2 S. Text 4 Taf.; «Draperie» 2 S. Text 11 Taf. davon 2 gefaltet. 010 Paris, Briasson / David / Le Breton / Durand, 1763 unknown
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
51-5271Livourn: L'Imprimerie des EÌditeurs 1771. Folio. 28 x 41cm. Original calf covers and spine preserved and laid onto to new goatskin support by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. 269 engraved plates many folding with letterpress introductions.OCLC Number 254243543 . Livourn: L'Imprimerie des EÌditeurs, , 1771 unknown
51-6746Paris: Panckoucke; Liège: Plomteux 1783-1784. 3 volumes in-4 20 x 26cm. demi-basane fauve dos à nerfs orné pièces de titre et de tomaison de veau rouge et vert gardes de papier peint tranches rouges reliure de l'époque. Tomes 1 à 3 contenant les planches des métiers de la lettre A à M. On dénombre ainsi 742 planches gravées 586 simples et 156 doubles. Coins usagés mors which 156 are double-page. Half roan decorated ribbed spine red and green calf title and volume labels painted paper endpapers red edges contemporary binding.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:2398186: Pagination: v. 1: 8 p. 227 leaves of plates; v. 2: 8 p. 249 leaves of plates; v. 3: 4 266 leaves of plates; The double page plates mesasure 26 x 37cm. Paris: Panckoucke,; Liège: Plomteux, 1783-1784 unknown
51-5505Livourne: L'Imprimerie des EÌditeurs 1773. Folio. 27 x 41.5cm. Part of original spine integrated in new half goatskin binding by the the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.Numerous series of subjects included each group of plates preceded by letterpress descriptions. OCLC Number: 254259789. Livourne: L'Imprimerie des EÌditeurs, 1773 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
63704Paris Diderot et d'Alembert 1768. Folio 43.2 x 27.2 cm. 4 pp. 130 plates partly folded. Disbound. = Part of the massive famous and notoriously complex Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert being the first true encyclopaedia. This is most if not all published on mining and mineralogy. The text pages contain a description of the plates subdivided in "Collections". In total the Regne minérale consists of seven "collections" with 47 plates which are all present. This includes 14 plates with fossils and 11 with crystals as well as three large folded plates of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1754 and 1757. Various other minéralogie sections not listed as "collections" follow this. These include for instance Géometrie souterraine one plate Sonde de terre three plates Instruments des mines two plates Coupe d'une mine three plates Mercure one plate and an explanatory text leaf Cobalt idem Souffre two plates and text etc. etc. Some of these sections dealing with specific minerals are quite large; for instance the one on Salpetre has four text pages and nine plates of which two are larger and folded. Another larger section deals with the Ardoiserie de la Meuse slate mining along the Meuse river with eight text pages and five plates a similar one with slate mining in the Anjou region and another large section on salt mining as well as one on fabricating gunpowder. In total there are 129 plates of which many are large and folded or double folded all with explanatory text leaves. Some soiling a few old paper repairs but in general a very good set. Nissen ZBI 4622. unknown
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
