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HARP - DIDEROT ET D'ALEMBERT FIRST-EDITION PLATES
Paris/Amsterdam, c. 1770. In matching mats, each having a total measurement of 19.5" h x 14.5" w. In very good condition. Some light wrinkles. Worm hole at each left margin (not affecting).Engraved large first-edition plates from the Lutherie section of the great eighteenth-century Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, showing the construction of a harp and the completed instrument.
GPH-16511$500The Encyclopédie was produced between 1751 and 1772. First editions appeared in both Paris and Amsterdam.
