![FELICE, Fortunato Bartomeo de (1723-1789; editor), [Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)]. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Universel Raisonné des connoissances humaines... Planches. Yverdon: 1775-1780. 10 volumes, 4° (240 x 190mm). Half titles. (Very occasional minor light toning to paper.) 1255 engraved plates, many folding. (Lacking ?9 plates.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, with red and green morocco labels, these lettered in gilt, all edges red, Swedish royal arms gilt-stamped to upper boards, 'HAGA' gilt-stamped to rear boards, green silk markers (extremities lightly rubbed, spines chipped, 2 vols. with some loss to top compartment). Provenance: Swedish royal family (armorial stamp) -- Haga Palace (stamp).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_08952_0099_000(felice_fortunato_bartomeo_de_denis_diderot_and_jean_le_rond_dalembert073529).jpg?w=1)
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FELICE, Fortunato Bartomeo de (1723-1789; editor), [Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)]. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Universel Raisonné des connoissances humaines... Planches. Yverdon: 1775-1780. 10 volumes, 4° (240 x 190mm). Half titles. (Very occasional minor light toning to paper.) 1255 engraved plates, many folding. (Lacking ?9 plates.) Contemporary French mottled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, with red and green morocco labels, these lettered in gilt, all edges red, Swedish royal arms gilt-stamped to upper boards, 'HAGA' gilt-stamped to rear boards, green silk markers (extremities lightly rubbed, spines chipped, 2 vols. with some loss to top compartment). Provenance: Swedish royal family (armorial stamp) -- Haga Palace (stamp).
A SUPERB COPY OF THE PLATE VOLUMES OF THE FIRST PROTESTANT ENCYCLOPAEDIA WITH A FINE ROYAL PROVENANCE. The Yverdon Encyclopaedia was no mere reprinting of Diderot and d'Alembert's ground-breaking Encyclopédie, providing new and updated articles with a profoundly Protestant world view. These would have sat well in the neo-classical pavilion of Gustav III (1746-1792) at Haga, and subsequently in his son Gustav IV Adolf's (1778-1837) Haga Palace, commissioned in 1802, now the home of the Crown Princess of Sweden. cf. PMM 200; cf. Norman 637.
A SUPERB COPY OF THE PLATE VOLUMES OF THE FIRST PROTESTANT ENCYCLOPAEDIA WITH A FINE ROYAL PROVENANCE. The Yverdon Encyclopaedia was no mere reprinting of Diderot and d'Alembert's ground-breaking Encyclopédie, providing new and updated articles with a profoundly Protestant world view. These would have sat well in the neo-classical pavilion of Gustav III (1746-1792) at Haga, and subsequently in his son Gustav IV Adolf's (1778-1837) Haga Palace, commissioned in 1802, now the home of the Crown Princess of Sweden. cf. PMM 200; cf. Norman 637.