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(Diderot, Denis).

RECUEIL DE PLANCHES, SUR LES SCIENCES,

Les Arts Libéraux, et Les Arts Méchaniques, avec Leur Explication ... PLATES TO MANUFACTURE DES GLACES [Only]. Paris: Chez Briasson … 1772.
Slim Folio. 9pp. text. Drop title. 47 engraved plates including 8 double-page. Light browning, minor light waterstain to head of several leaves, new e.ps., rebound in buckram lettered in gilt to upper board. The plates and explanations taken from the eleven volumes of plates of the 35-volume edition of the Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, published between 1751 and 1777, comprising 17 volumes of text, 11 volumes of plates, 4 supplementary volumes, 2 volumes of index, and 1 supplementary volume of plates. The work comprised 71,818 articles, and 3,129 illustrations.
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