Author: DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT,
Title: Recueil de planches pour la nouvelle édition du Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, avec leur explication. Tome premier.
Description: Lausanne & Berne, Sociétés Typographiques, 1782. Small 4to. Half title, title + 32+75+37 (last 3 pages misnumbered) +12 text pages + 179 engraved plates, following the numbering on the plates (incl. fold./double-page). Hardcover. Contemp. half calf with red title lable on gilt spine, marbled boards. (Edges of binding sl. rubbed). VG. ¶ Plate vol. 1 (of 3), incl. 101 plates on mathematics (incl. a large section hydraulics/mills, optics, astronomy, geography), 34 on military (art of warfare, fortification), 44 on shipping (navigation, war & merchant ships, flags, art of naval warfare).

Keywords: Reference books naslagwerken science mathematics art of warfare. Shipping & navigation. Ships shipping flags funnels merchant . Navy naval warships. Maritime sailing ships. France oceans seas maritime alembert d' 1782


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