DIDEROT (Denis) and D'ALEMBERT (Jean Le Rond). Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres. Genève, Pellet 1777-79. Set of 45 in-4 volumes, comprising 36 volumes of text, 3 volumes of plates and 6 volumes of in-4 tables. Illustrated with a portrait of Diderot in the first volume, the clock plate in volume 36 and 444 plates in the dedicated volumes (140, 170 and 134 plates respectively). Complete with the rare table volumes. Uniform full contemporary marbled calf binding, 5-ribbed spine, brown morocco title-pieces. Handwritten bookplate Pellicot de Seillans. (some minor damage to the bindings, more marked in the table volumes, with snags to the spine of the fifth volume and to the boards of the sixth, missing at the bottom of the first board of volume 36, some discreet restoration to the headpieces, some freckling and wormholes in the margins). Expert : Mr. Nicolas Asvisio