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

1762–72

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 099

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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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 Quarto
Curatorial Department: Thomas J. Watson Library

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