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ENCYCLOPÉDIE, ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines: suplément / mis en ordre par M. de Felice.- Yverdon: s.n. [Fortunato de Felice], 1770-1780.- 58 vols.: il.; 25 cm.- E. Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723-1789), philosopher, scientist and editor, born in Rome but based in Yverdon (Switzerland), gathered a team of about three dozen collaborators who, between 1770 and 1780, published the "Enclopédie d 'Yverdon". The project, of great editorial scope, although inspired by the counterpart of Diderot and d'Alembert, followed a different orientation, less anti-religious and more tolerant and came to have great acceptance and popularity in the Protestant countries of Northern Europe. Complete set, consisting of the following 58 volumes: 42 volumes of text (1770-1775); six volumes of supplement to the texts (1775-1776); 10 volumes of engravings (1775-1780), together with the respective pages of descriptive text, containing a total of 1242 copperplate prints (alias 1240), 125 of which are doubles, eight triples and one quadruple, all very well folded; the remaining prints, simple ones, are full page. Apparently, the set lacks only one print: engraving VII of ch. XIII ("Fonte des cloches"), from volume IV. Exceptionally clean copy, lightly trimmed, with carmine edge. All volumes feature the typographed label of D. Lourenço de Lima on the back cover and the label of the Bookstore of Dr. José Joaquim Lopes Praça on the title pages (sometimes also on the label). Full flecked sheepskin (identical) bindings of the time, with the slight worn spines, especially those of the first 20 volumes of text; they keep the original endpapers in marbled paper.

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