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Author: [Diderot, Denis and Jean le Rond d'Alembert]
Title: Recueil de Planches, pour la Nouvelle Edition du Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Avec leur Explication. Tome Huitieme.
Place Published: Berne
Publisher:Chez Beat Louis Walthard
Date Published: 1792
Description:

41 pp., with 89 fine engraved plates, many folding. (4to) 27x21 cm (10½x8¼") early grey wrappers, paper spine label; untrimmed on heavy paper.

Contains plates illustrating sections on forges and iron-works, forged products, printing presses, type and equipment, and marble mining and marble works. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. The Encyclopédie is most famous for representing the thought of the Enlightenment. According to Denis Diderot in the article "Encyclopédie", the Encyclopédie's aim was "to change the way people think."

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Light wear to wrappers; a bit of offsetting to first page, a few scattered dots of light foxing in page margins, interior bright and crisp; very good or better.