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 by Briasson, David, Le Breton and Durand for a general readership of craftsmen and educated readers. The pictures are precise black-and-white engravings of joinery and carriage-making, with numbered figures and dimensioned parts that a designer could use as a reference for profiles, curves and frame construction.
