DIDEROT (Denis) - ALEMBERT (D’) Lot n° 48

DIDEROT (Denis) - ALEMBERT (D'). Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Science, Arts and Crafts. By a Society of People of Letters. Lausanne and Bern (or Bern and Lausanne): Typographical Societies, 1779-1781. - 36 volumes of text in-8 and 3 volumes of plates. Marbled calf, marbled edges, spines with ribs decorated with gold motifs, minor accidents to some headdresses. Damaged binding of volumes 19 and 30, and plate volumes 2 and 3. Volumes 1 to 5, dated 1778. Volumes 6 to 18, dated 1779. Volumes 19 to 30, dated 1780. Volumes 31 to 36, dated 1781. The edition includes an engraved portrait of Diderot and D'Alembert in the first volume. Ex-libris : To Monsieur or to the Citizen Ch. COTTIER First Consul of the City of Carpentras, Year 1787 Vice-president of the Apostolic Chamber in Carpentras, Year 1786 (Judge at the Court of Appeal, séant in Nismes) in Carpentras, Year 8 of the Republic Member of the Central Jury of Public Instruction of the Department of Vaucluse in Carpentras, Year 6 President of the Criminal Court of the Department of Vaucluse in Carpentras, Year 9 Judge of the Superior Court of the Comté-Venaissain in Carpentras, Year 1790 President of the Socitété d'Economie rurale of the Department of Vaucluse in Carpentras, Year 7