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A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia

Of Trades and Industry

Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopedia, ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of

Denis Diderot

Edited with Introduction and Notes by Charles Coulston Gillispie

485 Plates in Two Volumes

Illustrated throughout with more than 350 stills and posters, 16 in colour.

Dover Publications, Inc. 1959. 1st edition.

Measures approx 9" x 12".

This is a rare find, two original volumes, first editions in case.

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