Description: VERY SPECIAL LOW STARTING BID ON THIS VOLUME! DIDEROT/d'ALEMBERT's L'ENCYCLOPEDIE Volume on The CRAFTS and CRAFTSMANSHIPBaking - Butchering - Sports Equipment Distilling Alcohol - Playing Cards FACSIMILE of the ORIGINAL, and ONE of a SERIES of volumes published by Denis DIDEROT and Jean D'ALEMBERT in 1758 as L'Encyclopedie Diderot & D'Alembert. This recent copy of the famous L'ENCYLOPEDIE was produced in Paris by Bibliotheque De l'lmage. The book is 9" X 12.5" X 0.5", and consists of the ENTIRE ORIGINAL TEXT (in French) andOVER 80 FULL PAGE B/W ENGRAVINGS and PLATES On Heavy Paper and WONDERFUL DETAIL!!! Diderot's 18th-Century efforts were phenomenal in that the project produced literally thousands of wonderfully-detailed engravings and bookplates that REVEALED GREAT MYSTERIES and secrets not only on CRAFTSMANSHIPdetailed in the volume now up for auction, but of Cannons, Ceramics, the Art and Sport of Fencing, Military, Tanning, Astronomy, Horsemanship, Writing, Metal-founding, Weaving and Upholstery-Work, Drawing and Painting, Science and the many other technologies of the world on the eve of the Industrial Revolution! The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are only a few of the 18th century artisans whose secrets are revealed in this volume, along with candy-making, construction of rackets for sports, enameling, distilling alcoholic spirits, and the making of playing cards! Diderot was persecuted for decades by Jesuit Priests and the French government (he lost his editorial partner, d'Alembert, in the process), but was delightfully persistent in his efforts to reveal the state of human affairs near the end of the 18th Century. This facsimile volume of DIDEROT & d'ALEMBERT's L'ENCYCLOPEDIE is offered here at NO RESERVE and an extremely reasonable starting bid! The PLATES ALONE in this volume, with others in the series, provide a SPECTACULAR COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATIONS from the era covering every aspect of life and culture in "modern" Europe centuries ago! BUY OTHER DIDEROT/D'ALEMBERT VOLUMES in the Series of DOZENS of Volumes! at ANDEROBE'S SPECIAL STORE EXAMINE IMAGES for DETAILS and SEE MORE in ANDEROBE'S STORE! Google “CRICKET SCIENCE” for MORE OPTIONS!
Price: 24.95 USD
Location: Pocatello, Idaho
End Time: 2024-02-26T04:14:00.000Z
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