Suite du Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Mechaniques. Avec leur explication. Tome Troisieme. (volume 3 only)

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4to. Hardcover. Contemporary half mottled calf over mottled boards, raised bands, edges stained red. 25.3×19.5×4.5 cm. Pellet. Geneve. 1779. 64 pages plus 133 plates. 133 engraved plates, many folding, including 10 folding maps. Very good, boards worn, one leather corner missing, lower corner lightly bumped, old bookseller’s pencil notes to pastedown, maps and plates clean and bright. French text. Volume 3 only of the atlas of plates to accompany the quarto edition of“Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers”. Subjects include mechanics, astronomy, geography, architecture, military equipment and armament, surgery and music. Lacks 3 mathematic plates, and 5 (of 21) music plates. The large folding maps include Vaugondy’s North American and California maps. weight: 2.8 lb.