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9780486274287
First paperbound edition of 485 remarkable plates (over 2,000 illustrations) that accompanied landmark work of the Enlightenment. Sharply detailed royalty-free images depict agriculture, military science, metalwork, mining, textile manufacture, masonry, carpentry, much more. Invaluable resource for art and craft use. Introduction and detailed captions by Charles C. Gillispie. Bibliography.Gillispie, Charles C. is the author of 'Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopedie, Ou Dictionnai' with ISBN 9780486274287 and ISBN 0486274284.
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