Denis Diderot et Jean Le Rond d’Alembert

par societé de gens de lettres, in Paris, 1751-1780. Original first edition, complete with supplements, in 35 volumes (17 proof volumes, 11 volumes of tabulations, 5 volumes of supplements, 2 volumes of general tabulations). Nineteenth-century full leather binding with rich friezes and gold titles on the spines.

First edition, known as the "Paris edition", of the famous Encyclopedia, a work of capital importance in the history of ideas, a contribution of the Enlightenment to universal knowledge