Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication ..
This is a plate volume from the Recueil de planches of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, published in Paris in 1762 by Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand, with engravings by Robert Bénard for readers of French science and the mechanical arts. The pictures are fine black-and-white copperplate engravings of technical instruments and apparatus, labelled with lettered figures and captions, showing hydraulic machines, navigation instruments and astronomical diagrams; a designer might borrow their precise line work, dense cross-hatching and diagrammatic layout.
