Recueil de Planches, Pour La Nouvelle Édition du Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. Avec Leur Explication. Tome Troisieme (Volume 3)

A Lausanne et a Berne: Chez les Sociétés Typographiques, 1781. Nouvelle édition. Leather bound. Odd volume. The third plate volume. Octavo [21.5 cm] Full brown leather with a gilt tooled spine. Marbled endpapers. Extremities worn; underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges; brief contemporary notation on the title page. Binding solid. Complete. All plates present. French text.

Astronomy plates- final three plates present, but out of order.
Musical plates- Plate 11 is present, but out of order.

With plates on Geometry, Algebra, Mechanics, Optics, Astronomy, Geography, Gnomonics, Physics, Music, Architecture, the Brickyard, Limeburners, Roofers, the Brest Prison, Theatre, War Machines and Weapons, Greek Military Tactics, Roman Military Tactics, Old Fortifications, Turkish Fortifications, Weapons, and Machines, New Artillery, Weapon Manufactures, Ammunition Rifles, and Surgery. Very good. Item #60967

An odd volume, but chock full of fabulous and odd charts. With much informative explanatory text.

Price: $500.00