Lot Essay
The subjects of the plates include birds, fish, shellfish, and a sequence showing the eruption of the Vesuvius in 1757.
Details
DIDEROT, Denis & Jean le Rond d'ALEMBERT. [Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonnee] [?Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication], one volume only, [n.p. ?Paris: n.d.], 2°, 175 engraved plates, 6 double page and one folding (lacking title, a few plates torn, soiled, occasional dampstaining, margins brittle, brown tape to inner margin of a few leaves), disbound. Sold as collection of plates not subject to return.