A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'EncyclopÈdie, ou Dictionnaire RaisonnÈ des Sciences, des Arts et des MÈtiers" of Denis Diderot. 2-volume set
by Diderot, Denis; Charles Coulston Gillispie (Editor)
Reprint
Price: $125.00
- Bookseller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
- Seller Inventory #: 23729
- Book condition: vg
- Edition: Reprint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1959
Book Description
New York Dover Publications Inc. 1959 Reprint vg Large quarto. XXX, 485 plates, (4)pp of Index of persons and places, (20)pp of index of subjects illustrated in plates. Original pictorial cardboard slipcase and pictorial dustjackets over blue cloth. Gold lettering on spines. Frontispiece. This fascinating work is the first reissue in nearly two centuries of these amazing copperplates. They were engraved to illustrate the first work of its kind, the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers. Slipcase split on lower fore edge, firmly holding. Dustjackets slightly sunned on spines. Slipcase in overall good-, dustjackets in very good, interior in fine condition
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