L' Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne Des Sciences Des Arts et des Metiers (5 volume Readex Compact Edition)

Denis Diderot [Editor]; Jean d'Alembert [Editor];

Pergamon Press, 1969

5 volume set. Folios, 40 cm. Red cloth. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 1491, 1481, 1190, 1146, 1453 pp. Foxing to edges. 

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: Paris : Briasson, 1751-1776.  Reproduced so as to print four of the original pages on one page. 17 volumes printed as 5.  Most of the 71, 818 articles in the Encyclopedie were written by Diderot and d'Alembert. Other contributors included Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Baron d'Holbach, Necker, Turgot, Buffon and other noteworthy writers.  

Contents: v. 1. Tomes I-VI; v. 2. Tomes VII-XII; v. 3. Tomes XIII-XVII; v. 4. Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication, Tomes XVIII-XXVIII, Suite; v. 5. Supplement a l'Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne ..., Supplement I-IV, Table I-II.

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