PANCOUKE. - Lot 50

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PANCOUKE. - Lot 50
PANCOUKE. Set of numerous leaves in 4°, to accompany the release , and the various stages of its publication over the course of it, including the very rare prospectus of 1782. As follows: A -PROSPECTUS Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre des matières, par une société de gens de lettres de savans et d'artistes, précédée d'un vocabulaire universel, servant de table pour tout l'ouvrage...Proposée par souscription, au même prix de sux cens soixante-douze livres pour chaque édition. Paris, Liege chez Plomteux...1782. In 8°, br. 80 pp Ep. pamphlet; margins creased but not missing. B - Set of delivery announcements, in folios, in 8° and in 4° from 1782 to 1797. The first nine leaves, in 8°, from 1 to 11, without the 3rd and 9th delivery announcements. Note, in the 11th issue, dated "October 1784", the announcement that "Cook's Third Voyage" had gone to press. The thirty-eight leaves to follow, in 4°, cover the periods from May 1785 to July 97, from the thirteenth to the sixty-second issue; with missing issues. Leaves a little faded C -Table of objects contained in the present encyclopedia memoir. Booklet of 56 pp, in 4°, br. presenting the state of the publication. D -Table et apperçu (sic) du nombre de volumes de discours & de planches que doit avoir encyclopédie par ordre des matières, avec le détail des accroissements , des changemens, des améliorations, des parties nouvelles et omis dans le Prospectus..56 pp, in 4°, en ff., ttes marges Attached is a set of miscellaneous leaves on the same subject. Approx. 72pp
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