ENCYCLOPEDIA OR REASONED DICTIONARY OF SCIENCES,... Lot 22

ENCYCLOPEDIA OR REASONED DICTIONARY OF SCIENCES, ARTS AND TRADES, by a society of literary people. Put in order and published by M. Diderot; and as for the mathematical part, by M. D'Alembert. Third edition. Geneva and Neufchatel, by Pellet, at the Société typographique, 1778-1781. 45 volumes (36 volumes of text, 3 volumes of plates, 6 volumes of tables), marbled calf, spine with ornamented nerves, red edges, binding of the time). Edition in quarto format, it is decorated with the portrait of Diderot and d'Alembert engraved by Cochin in the first and second volume, with 12 large folding tables distributed in the text volumes and with 443 engraved PLATES gathered in the last 3 volumes. The 6 volumes of tables which are generally missing are present. The first few leaves of the first volume are stained, with scattered foxing, and several headpieces are missing.