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Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
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Denis Diderot (French, 1713-1784) and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (French, 1717-1783) a collection of eighty-one hand-colored copperplate engravings of various seashells and sea life from Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une Societe de Gens de lettres - Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Mechaniques, avec leur Explication, published between 1751-1772, engraved by Robert Benard (b. 1734), sheet sizes approximately 11-1/2" x 8". Diderot's "Encyclopedie" profusely illustrated work of the French Enlightenment and contained 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors on the arts and sciences. The sea life prints are from the volume devoted to "The Three Realms of Natural History".
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Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

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