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RECUEIL DE PLANCHES, SUR LES SCIENCES, Les Arts Libéraux, et Les Arts Méchaniques, avec Leur Explication ... PLATES TO VERRERIE [And] MANUFACTURE DES GLACES [Only]. Paris Chez Briasson … 1772. 1st Ed. Folio. 58 plates (including the 4 plates of Vitrier often not found) + 47 plates thus 105 in total including 23 double page. With main t.p. and half title + explanatory text included. 9pp. + 4pp. + 9pp. Some light marginal browning, early marbled papers enclosed, neat inscription, bound in C20th cloth with gilt lettered title label to spine.
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¶ 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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