Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Libéraux, et les Art Méchaniques, avec leur Explication. Seconde Livraison:, Première & Deuxième parties: from Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. First edition. by Diderot, Denis and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert:

Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Image, 2002. Paperback. 4to. Lightest shelfwear; very good+.

New York, Readex Microprint Corporation, 1969. Hardcover. Leather backstrip over cloth. Covers faintly spotted; backstrip light cracked, with ends rubbed and a few small scuffs on rear; otherwise very good condition (no dust jacket). . 1446p. Illus. Folio. Four original pages to one printed page. A reproduction of the "Plates" volumes of the Great Encyclopedie.

Paris: Chez Briasson & Le Breton, 1769.. 41 x 27 cm. with half title, title page and 4 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1765.. 41 x 27 cm. with half title, title page and 10 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David, Durand & Le Breton, 1762.. 41 x 27 cm. with half title, title page and 6 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1767.. 41 x 27 cm. with title page and 10 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates. Manuscript invoice on verso of title page dated 12 Juin 1773.

Paris: Briasson. Extracted and disbound. First Edition. All of the explication for all sections is present. The six sections [Tisserants, Passementiers, Marti, Gazier, Rubanier, Soierie] are missing 9 plates, 2 of them doubles. Part of an encyclopedia that was one of the greatest works of the Enlightenment. The plates constituted one of the most important parts of the encyclopedia, representations of the crafts and techniques of the 18th century. All of the plates have dampstaining in the lower left hand corner, and some plates have loss along edges. Fair. . Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1772.

Paris: Cercle du Livre Precieux, 1964-1966. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Complete six volume set, leather bound, limited to 3000 copies, #789. Modern mottled leather, raised bands, red and green leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, compartments decorated in gilt. Modern mottled leather, raised bands, red and green leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, compartments decorated in gilt. Most pages are plates with many fold-outs, red ribbon markers. An astonishing collection of engravings with accompanying keys (text in French) covering a wide range of subjects including Mathematical figures, astronomy, military formations and tactics, navigation, marine signaling, hydraulics and so on. Most of the plates fold out, sometimes with two folds. Facsimiles of the 1762-1772 set. Huge, heavy volumes that make overseas shipping prohibitive. Very good plus with only the front fly leaf in Volume 6 gone. Record # 412377