Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457
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Sale 2457 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SHIPS, SHIPBUILDING, etc.) Recueil de Planches de l'Encyclopédie [Méthodique] . . . Tome Cinquième. 262 (of ?) engraved plates, including many folding. Letterpress title and contents leaf. 4to, 260x195 mm, worn contemporary gilt-armorial sheep, decorated paper endleaves; contents relatively clean, clean tears in marine plates 56 and 82 and partial hand-coloring on plate 108. Paris: Panckoucke & Liège: Plomteux, 1787
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Plate volume from the revised version of the Diderot/d'Alembert Encyclopédie, containing 175 (of ?) engravings pertaining to naval architecture and related subjects, as well as depictions of wood turning (19); basket making (2); pasta making (2); glassmaking and glassblowing (53); vinegar and mustard making (2); glasswork (8); and an iron arch bridge. The contents leaf gives discrepant numbers for the marine plates, but the non-marine plates collate complete.