ENCYCLOPEDIE DIDEROT et D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie ou dictionn - Lot 18

ENCYCLOPEDIE DIDEROT et D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Put in order and published by M. Diderot; and as for the mathematical part, by M. d'Alembert. New edition. A Genève, chez Pellet imprimeur-Libraire, rue des Belles Filles, 1777-1779. 39 volumes (including 3 volumes of plates and 1 in-8° volume from 1780). In-4° contemporary calf, 5-rib spine, ornate caissons, roulette on the edges, red edges, 18th-century engraved bookplate. Containing a total of 417 plates (including 2 frontispieces), some folding. Scattered foxing, stains, bends, split jaws, damaged heads and tails, bindings rubbed in places, woodworm holes, volume XXVII replaced by an in-8° volume of the Lausanne and Bern 1780 edition, condition. Text: Volume I: portrait of d'Alembert after Cochin bound opposite the title, 3 folding plates; Volume II: portrait of Diderot after Cochin bound opposite the title, 1 folding plate; Volume III: 1 folding plate; Volume XIII: 1 folding plate. folding; Vol. XVI: 1 folding plate; Vol. XXVI: 1 folding plate; Vol. XXVII: absent, replaced by vol. XXVII in-8° of the Lausanne and Bern edition of 1780; Vol. XXXIV: 2 folding plates; Vol. XXXVI: 1 clockwork plate at end of volume. Illustrations: Volume I: geometry and miscellaneous: 77 plates, military art: 18 plates, navy and naval evolution: 44 plates / Volume II: anatomy: 29 plates, surgery 34 plates, chemistry: 24 plates, architecture: 64 plates, music: 19 p. at end of volume 26 pp. of tables of numbers / Volume III: supplement of illustrations: geometry, astronomy: 15 p., maps: 10 p., physics, architecture: 17 p., chemistry: and architecture: 20 p., military art: 30 p., surgery: 7 p., music: 21 p. Total: 404 plates, some folding.