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SOIRIE / Set of 112 engraved plates from Diderot and D'Alembert's "Encyclopédie" devoted to silk, including 19 double plates, from Volume XI, folio format (26.5 x 40 cm, soiling and foxing, 2 plates missing), numbered 61 to 194 (plates 72 to 91 and 174 are missing to complete the set).

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SOIRIE / Set of 112 engraved plates from Diderot and D'Alembert's "Encyclopédie" devoted to silk, including 19 double plates, from Volume XI, folio format (26.5 x 40 cm, soiling and foxing, 2 plates missing), numbered 61 to 194 (plates 72 to 91 and 174 are missing to complete the set).

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