Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication
This is an 18th-century French encyclopedia plate volume, the Recueil de planches of Diderot and d'Alembert, published in Paris in 1762 for readers of the Encyclopédie's technical arts. Its engraved plates, drawn with fine hatching, document metallurgy, mining, and craft tools in step-by-step detail. A designer could draw on their precise line work, labelled cutaway views, and clear diagrams of furnaces, shafts, and implements.
