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ENCYCLOPEDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES METIERS, par une société de gens de lettres. Put in order and published by M. Diderot,... and d'Alembert. Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1751-1765. [from Volume VIII: Neuchatel, Samuel Faulche, 1765]. 16 volumes in folio. Set of the Encyclopédie text volumes, Volumes 1 to 12, 14, 15, 17 and Supplément à l'Encyclopédie Tome 2 [Amsterdam, Rey, 1776], lacking Volumes 13 and 16 of the text volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title and appendices. Brunet II-701. First edition of this monumental literary undertaking of the Spirit of Enlightenment, completed after thirty years of work, and which triumphed over two condemnations. This copy could not, however, escape the obscurantism and fanaticism of the hand of a ruthless censor of the time; indeed, many articles have been redacted and covered with white paper in order to hide the text, and some leaves have been cut out: Soul, Atheism, Authority, Christian, Conscience, God, Education, Fanaticism, Faith, Geneva, Jesuit, Immortality, Inquisition, Freedom, Liturgy, Negro, Religious Order, Pentateuch, Religious, Universe,... Testimony to an act of censorship that illustrates the violence of the reactions of the Encyclopedists' opposing party. (some damage to headpieces and rubbing, otherwise a fine copy in almost uniform binding, frontispiece missing, wetness on one cover of volume VI binding).
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ENCYCLOPEDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES SCIENCES, DES ARTS ET DES METIERS, par une société de gens de lettres. Put in order and published by M. Diderot,... and d'Alembert. Paris, Briasson, David, Le Breton, Durand, 1751-1765. [from Volume VIII: Neuchatel, Samuel Faulche, 1765]. 16 volumes in folio. Set of the Encyclopédie text volumes, Volumes 1 to 12, 14, 15, 17 and Supplément à l'Encyclopédie Tome 2 [Amsterdam, Rey, 1776], lacking Volumes 13 and 16 of the text volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf, spine ribbed and decorated, title and appendices. Brunet II-701. First edition of this monumental literary undertaking of the Spirit of Enlightenment, completed after thirty years of work, and which triumphed over two condemnations. This copy could not, however, escape the obscurantism and fanaticism of the hand of a ruthless censor of the time; indeed, many articles have been redacted and covered with white paper in order to hide the text, and some leaves have been cut out: Soul, Atheism, Authority, Christian, Conscience, God, Education, Fanaticism, Faith, Geneva, Jesuit, Immortality, Inquisition, Freedom, Liturgy, Negro, Religious Order, Pentateuch, Religious, Universe,... Testimony to an act of censorship that illustrates the violence of the reactions of the Encyclopedists' opposing party. (some damage to headpieces and rubbing, otherwise a fine copy in almost uniform binding, frontispiece missing, wetness on one cover of volume VI binding).
