[Rarebooks] FS: First Quarto Edition of DIDEROT, 1779, with 448 copper engravings

[Charles Agvent]

DIDEROT, Denis & D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond]. RECUEIL DE PLANCHES, POUR LA 
NOUVELLE EDITION DU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES 
METIERS... Neufchatel/Geneva: La Societe Typographique, 1779. First 
Edition. The First Edition of the three plate volumes of the First 
Quarto Edition (7-3/4" x 10") of this landmark work (There were also 36 
text volumes not present here.). Bound in uniform contemporary diced 
calf with elaborately gilt-decorated spines and contrasting morocco 
spine labels. Complete with a total of 448 copper engravings, many 
folding and ten of which are maps, and various tables. Of the first 
edition published in 1751-1765, Carter and Muir in PRINTING AND THE MIND 
OF MAN state: "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; a permanent source for 
all aspects of eighteenth-century civilizations" (PMM 200). 
Insignificant wear. A Fine set with wonderful plates.    $12,500.00	

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