Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers]. Suite du recueil de planches, sur les sciences et les arts: collection of plates.

[DIDEROT, Denis; ALEMBERT, D'

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18th c

Folio, loose + 6 text ff. of table of plates (soiling, tears, margins and wormtracks repaired, some pl. sl. age-toned).

122 plates (some on double page) from the Encyclopédie figuring various subjects such as astronomy, surgery, agriculture, antiquities (Egypt, Babylonia, ruins of Baalbek, catacombs of Naples...), geometry, mechanics, natural history, architecture, etc.