‎ROBINET, JEAN-BAPTISTE-RENÉ (edt.).‎
‎Dictionnaire Universel des Sciences Morale, Économique, Politique et Diplomatique". ou Bibliothèque de l'homme d'état et du Citoyen. 30 vols. - [ROBINET'S ""DICTIONNAIRE UNIVERSEL""]‎

‎London, chez les Libraires associés, 1777 - 1783 [Presumably printed in Liège by Clément Plomteux in association with Elmsly in London, van Harrevelt in Amsterdam, Rosset in Lyon and Panckoucke in Paris]. 4to. Uniformly bound in 30 contemporary half calf binding with leather title-label with gilt lettering to spines. Wear to extremities and small paper-label paper on to top of spines. First few leaves in most volumes with light soiling, otherwise internally very fine and clean. Complet.‎

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‎First edition of Robinet monumental encyclopedia, still regarded as being the first main encyclopedia on European social sciences. Robinet, in collaboration with Charles-Joseph Panckoucke were exponents of Diderot's Encyclopédie, and published a supplement to it in four volumes (1776-1777), the present work published as a direct extension to the Encyclopédie.Robinet is one of the precursors in the history of evolutionary thought who contributed to the process which later crystallized in the work of Charles Darwin.‎