Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Troisième livraison.

Folio: 298 pl. (local toning or staining, blank margins sl. browned, 1 pl. loosening).

Contemp. calf, gilt spine with raised bands (rubbed, corners bumped, spine def., joints split).

First edition of this plate vol. of the Encyclopédie, with 274 engr. full-page pl.(of which 24 double-page), containing i.a. "Ebénisterie-marqueterie" (11 pl.), "Eperonnier" (16 pl.), "Escrime" (15 pl.), "Forges" (51 pl.), "Glacerie" (47 pl.) and "Horlogerie" (64 pl.).
Prov. Ms. ex dono from Ladislas Paridant to Jean Vanden Corput, 21 Juli 1849, Brussels, and from Jean Baptiste Vanden Corput to J. Grevisse, 25 March 1850.