95 - Diderot, Denis, and J. L. d'Alembert. Collection of Plates for the New Edition, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades, with Explanations. 3 volumes. With a total of 496 copperplate engravings (including many double-page-sized and fold-out plates). Lausanne, Sociétés Typographiques, 1779–1781. 22.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with spine label and gilt lettering (joints partially restored).

Diderot, Denis, and J. L. d'Alembert. Collection of Plates for the New Edition, or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Trades, with Explanations. 3 volumes. With a total of 496 copperplate engravings (including many double-page-sized and fold-out plates). Lausanne, Sociétés Typographiques, 1779–1781. 22.5 x 17 cm. Contemporary leather bindings with spine label and gilt lettering (joints partially restored). The complete set of plates for the “Encyclopédie.” — Volume 1: Sciences. Mathematics. (4), 32 pp. and 102 copperplate illustrations (geometry, trigonometry, surveying, algebra, Conic Sections, Analysis, Mechanics, Hydraulics, Optics, Perspective, Astronomy, Geography, Cartography, Gnomonics, Navigation, Mathematical Instruments, Physics, Pneumatics); Land Surveys. Military Science. 76 pp. and 33 copperplate engravings (tactics of battle, fortification, siege); Naval Science. 51, (1) pp. and 36 plates; Naval Science. Naval Maneuvers. 12 pp. and 7 copperplate engravings. - Volume 2: Anatomy. 48 pp. and 33 copperplate engravings; Architecture and Related Fields. 40 pp. and 68 copperplate engravings (column orders, facades, floor plans, staircases, vaults, windmills, masonry, brickmakers, roofers, tilers); Chemistry. 9, (1) page and 24 copper plates (laboratory, element symbols, experiments, crystals); Surgery. 6 pages and 39 copper plates (including frontispiece); Music. 40 pp. and 19 copper plates (musical notation systems of various cultures); Table for Finding the Divisors of Numbers up to 100,000. 52 pp. – Volume 3: Supplement to Volumes 1 and 2. 56 pp. and 135 copper plates (Geometry 1, Algebra 1, Mechanics 3, Optics 2, Astronomy 8, Geography 10 maps, Gnomonics 7, Physics 3, Music 21, Architecture 17, Brickmaking 1, Lime Burning 2, Roofing 2, Brest Prison 5, Theater Architecture 9, Naval Engineering 1, War Machines 13, Military Tactics of the Greeks 2, Military Tactics of the Romans 3, Fortification 1, Military Tactics of the Turks 3, Artillery 4, Weapons Manufacturing 8, Surgery 8. — Slightly stained in places. *