Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication

1762–72
Not on view
Chiefly engraved plates (some double, some folded) accompanying "Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers." Livraison 5-10 also called volume 6-11.

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Object Information
  • Title: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication
  • Author: Denis Diderot (French, 1713–1784)
  • Author: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (French, 1717–1783)
  • Author: Pierre Mouchon (French, 1733–1797)
  • Publisher: Briasson
  • Date: 1762–72
  • Geography: Paris, France
  • Dimensions: 11 volumes ; H: 15 3/4 in. (40 cm)
  • Credit Line: Jane E. Andrews Fund, in memory of her husband, William Loring Andrews, 1955
  • Object Number: AE25 .E531 1762 Q

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