77/1801 Diderot, D. and d'Alembert, J. Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Vol. 1. Paris, Briasson a.o., 1762, 265 (of 269) engr. plates w. accomp. textp., contemp. calf, gilt spine w. brown mor. letter- and volume-piece, folio.

- Double-p. plates are counted as 2 plates. Lacks 4 plates (incl. 1 double-p.) and a few textp. (p.17ff of the anatomy section; 5 plates added from another copy, incl. 2 dupl.). Joints splitting; spine-ends dam.; corners showing.

= PMM 200; Graesse II, p.389. The plates to the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers, first published 1751-1765, covering all aspects of science, industries and arts. Contains plates of i.a. the following series: "Fabrique de tabac", "Sucrerie & affinage", "Anatomie", "Antiquités", "Architecture", "Arquebusier", "Art Militaire" and "Artificier".