Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication
This is a plate volume from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, published in Paris in 1762 for a general readership of artisans, scholars and craftsmen, showing trades and machines through engraved plates. The pictures are precise black-and-white copperplate engravings with labelled figures, cross-sections and workshop scenes, useful to a designer for their clear linear diagrams of tools, furniture and mechanisms.
