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Paris, Panckoucke, 1792. 4to (27.4 x 21.5 cm). viii, 870 pp. Original grey boards. = A rare part of the Ultimate Encyclopaedia and the largest of all great Encyclopaedias and the most important work published during the French Enlightement. This section - complete in itself - written by the French writer and editor Jacques Lacombe (1721-1811), who was responsible for many sections of the famous Encyclopédie Méthodique (e.g., Arts et Métiers Mecaniques, Arts aratoires, etc.). This is the complete text. An atlas, with 86 plates, was published separately. Spine covered with 19th-century blank paper; light damp staining in the top gutter of the firstbfew leaves; otherwise, very good, clean. Schmitt, S. (2018) Inventaire des livraisons, des auteurs et du contenu de l’Encyclopédie méthodique (1782-1832).