DIDEROT (Denis) - ALEMBERT (D'). - Lot 48

DIDEROT (Denis) - ALEMBERT (D'). Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. New edition. Genève: Pellet, 1777-1779 [Tomes I à XXXIX]; Lyon: Amable Le Roy, 1780-1781 [Table]. - 45 volumes in-4, 252x197. Marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled edges (period binding). Adams, G6, pp. 343-365. Second Geneva edition, the first in-4, of Diderot-D'Alembert's famous "Encyclopédie". The 36 volumes of text include a portrait of Diderot and D'Alembert after Charles-Nicolas Cochin in the first volume, as well as 11 fold-out tables outside the text. The 2 fold-out tables in the 34th volume are included in the pagination and constitute pages 717 to 720 and 731 to 734. Without the clock plate in volume XXXVI. In addition, there are 430 plates (one double plate counts as one plate) and 10 fold-out maps, spread over the last three volumes. These 39 volumes are all from the second Geneva edition, with the exception of volumes XXXIII and XXXVI, which belong to the third. Contrary to Adams' description, volume XIII here is dated 1777 and not 1778, with a vignette of Mercury on the title and not Pegasus. A rare enriched copy, in uniform bindings, of the 6 volumes of tables published in Lyon by Amable Leroy in 1780 under the title Table analytique des matières contenues dans les XXXIX volumes in-quarto du Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers. A very well-preserved copy overall, with only a few snags and slight wear to some covers. Volumes XI and XII are slightly smaller. Some browned leaves. Wormholes in volume XIII and in the margin of the last leaves of volume XX and at the beginning of volume XXI.