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Denis
DIDEROT, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopedie, ou
Dictionnaire Raisonnédes Sciences, des Arts et des
Métiers. Recueil de Planches, sur lesSciences, les Arts
Libéraux, et les Arts Mécaniques, avec leur
Explication]. . . . ..................First published over the course
of more than twenty years (1751-1777), the 32 volumes of the
Encyclopédie include 21 volumes of text with more than
70,000 articles on subjects ranging from asparagus to zodiac. The
remaining 11 volumes contain beautifully engraved plates illustrating
many of the articles. The Encyclopédie was the major
achievement of the French Age of Enlightenment whose aim, in Diderot's
words, was to "change the common way of thinking" through the expansion
of knowledge and the development of critical modes of thought.
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. This is actually a translation of Cyclopædia, a Dictionary
of arts and sciences of the English editor Ephraïm Chambers.
France did not have at the time any similar work, the trades and the
mechanical arts being held for minors at that time. This modest project
takes soon under the editorship of Diderot and D' Alembert with a
desire to popularize knowledge of the time.
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. .The Encyclopédie was a collaborative project, the work of
a "society of men of letters," as its title page declared. By the time
the last volume was published, more than 140 people had contributed
articles to its pages
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appropriate ; most are sold as sets etc
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Chaudronnier
Metal working ; full set of four wood
& copper engravings plus index/info page RARE. Folio from the
original edition, measuring 14 , 1/8 inch high by 9 inch wide (measured
from the plate marks) some very slight age toning otherwise perfect
unmounted untinted £65
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Chandelier
Candle Manufacture; full set of two
wood & copper engravings plus index/info page RARE. Folio from
the original edition, measuring 14 , 1/8 inch high by 9 inch wide
(measured from the plate marks) some very slight age toning otherwise
perfect unmounted untinted. £40
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Chamoisier et Megassierr
Chamois /Leather Manufacture;
full set of five wood & copper engravings plus index/info page
£65 RARE. Folio from the original edition, measuring 14 , 1/8
inch high by 9 inch wide (measured from the plate marks) some very
slight age toning otherwise perfect unmounted untinted.
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Coutelier
Cutlery Manufacture; full set of two
wood & copper engravings plus index/info page RARE. Folio from
the original edition, measuring 14 , 1/8 inch high by 9 inch wide
(measured from the plate marks) some very slight age toning otherwise
perfect unmounted untinted. £40
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Mineralogie
set of six wood & copper
engravings RARE. Folio from the original edition, measuring 14 , 1/8
inch high by 9 inch wide (measured from the plate marks) some very
slight age toning otherwise perfect unmounted untinted. £40
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Cirier
Tallow ie dip Candlemaking pl 2 single
wood & copper engraving RARE. Folio from the original edition,
measuring 14 , 1/8 inch high by 9 inch wide (measured from the plate
marks) some very slight age toning otherwise perfect unmounted
untinted. £20
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Charpentre
Carpentry pl 3 single wood &
copper engraving RARE. Folio from the original edition, measuring 14 ,
1/8 inch high by 9 inch wide (measured from the plate marks) some very
slight age toning otherwise perfect unmounted untinted. £20
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Charpentre
Carpentry pl 1 single wood &
copper engraving RARE. NOT Folio from a later edition some very slight
age toning otherwise perfect unmounted untinted. £15
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Charpentre
Carpentry pl 9 single wood &
copper engraving RARE. NOT Folio from a later edition some very slight
age toning otherwise perfect unmounted untinted. £15
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