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Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication ..

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784, Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783, Bénard, Robert, b. 1734, engraver, Hague, Marian, donor. DSI, Delarüe, Henriette, former owner. DSI · 1762 · A Paris : Chez Briasson ... David ... Le Breton ... Durand ... · 10 pictures

This is a plate volume from Diderot and d'Alembert's Recueil de planches, published in Paris in 1762 by Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand for readers of the French Enlightenment encyclopedia. Its engraved plates show trade tools and apparatus, with numbered figures and small labelled parts laid out in a grid on each page; a designer could draw on their clean, technical diagram style and orderly arrangement of objects.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French

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