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(Diderot, Denis).

RECUEIL DE PLANCHES, SUR LES SCIENCES,

Les Arts Libéraux, et Les Arts Méchaniques, avec Leur Explication. ... PLATES TO VERRERIE [Only]. Paris: Chez Briasson … 1772.
Folio. 9pp. text. Drop title. 54 engraved plates, including 15 double-page. Some light browning, new e.ps., rebound in gilt lettered buckram. 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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