Books by Diderot Denis

Paris: Gallimard,, 1950.. 8vo, 310pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good.. First Edition. ... more information

Paris: Ministere de la Culture / Editions de la Reunion des Musees Nationaux. 1984. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Small square quarto. Softcover, 548 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, owner's small signature in ink on the titlepage, sticker to rear cover, soil and discoloration to the covers and the page- edges including some paint-stains, wear to covers including creasing at spine and some tearing or loss to tips. Not a very pretty copy, but contents clean and readable an... more information

Paris:: Bookking International,. 1996.. Hardcover. Near new, fresh unused condition, covers bright, text clean & binding. tight / near new dust jacket. Size: 9"x11.75", 315pp., profusely illustrated in black & white. Text in French ... more information

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 A... more information

New York Dover Publications, Inc. (1959) Reissue vg Two Volumes. Sm. Folio. 485pl. Blue library cloth with gold lettering on spine, with pictorial dust jackets and cardboard slipcase. Illustrated throughout with 485 full-page plates. "Artists, illustrators and collectors, together with historians of art, invention, and economic life, will welcome the first reissue in a century and a half of these charming copperplates. They were engraved to illustrate the first work of its kind, the Encyclopedie, ou Dictio... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (9.25 x 14.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on rag stock and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work extolled the artistic virtues and la... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

Paris: Diderot & D'Alembert, 1763. Matted in Rag Board First printing Fine Folio. (11.25 x 17.25 inches). A fine original copperplate engraving printed on heavy handmade deckle-edged rag stock, uncut and published as part of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers; the essential exploratory encyclopedia of arts, science and industry produced during the Age of Enlightenment. This keynote work ... more information

A Amsterdam,: MCCLVII, (1757).. First edition.. (ii) iii-x, 11-299pp. 8vo, 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches.. Full mottled calf, raised bands; spine elaborate gilt in six compartments with title in gilt on red leather label; marbled endpapers; edges red. OCLC 19760426. With original green silk ribbon bookmark. Last page, consisting of page number, three lines of text, and "fin" almost invisibly replaced on old paper; short inch split in rear hinge tail of spine. One of the two prose dramas written by Didero... more information

New York: Dover Publications, 1959. hardcover. very good. 485 plates. 4to, blue cloth. New York: Dover Publications Inc, 1959. Cloth edges a bit worn, but internally clean. Very good(+) copies. Volumes I & II. ... more information