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Paris, Panckoucke, 1784-1787. Three volumes in four. 4to (27.5 x 21.3 cm). Three titles to the Encyclopédie, three titles with wood-engraved vignette, to the Finance volumes; 2359 pp. [12, lx, 685; 787, 416, 417-797, xvii, iii, iv, iv]. Original uniform boards with printed paper label on the spines. = 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, translator, and compiler Jacques Philibert Rousselot de Surgy (1737-1791). The first two parts are published in one thick volume each; the third and last volume was issued in two parts, as more usual for the Encyclopédie Méthodique. The first volume contains a 12 pp. avertisement and a 60 pp. (Roman numbered) preliminary part. The last part contains a 17 pp. (Roman numbered) description of the contents, and three separate (Roman numbered) errata. Contrary to what is indicated by Schmitt (p. 237), all three errata were published simultanously in the last part, in 1787. Uncut, as issued. Some wear to the boards; spines partly abraded with several labels lost - as often; otherwise, a very good, clean and complete set. Schmitt, S. (2018) Inventaire des livraisons, des auteurs et du contenu de l’Encyclopédie méthodique (1782-1832).