Architecture.- Diderot, D. and J. le Rond d'Alembert. (Encyclopédie). Recueil de planches,...
Architecture.- Diderot, D. and J. le Rond d'Alembert. (Encyclopédie). Recueil de planches, pour la nouvelle édition du dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Architecture, et parties qui en dépendent. Geneva, Pellet, 1779. 47 pages. With 101 copperplate engravings, some folded, some double-page. 4to. Contemporary new leather binding using the contemporary cover leather.
The complete section on architecture from the small edition of the well-known Encyclopédie, with the supplementary plates.- On orders of columns and with examples of building types (townhouses, churches, palaces including interior decorations), also on stonemasonry, carpentry, brickmaking and other crafts.- Half-title and title page in copy, some plates slightly trimmed.
Architecture.- Diderot, D. and J. le Rond d'Alembert. (Encyclopédie). Recueil de planches, pour la nouvelle édition du dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Architecture, et parties qui en dépendent. Geneva, Pellet, 1779. 47 pages. With 101 copperplate engravings, some folded, some double-page. 4to. Contemporary new leather binding using the contemporary cover leather.
The complete section on architecture from the small edition of the well-known Encyclopédie, with the supplementary plates.- On orders of columns and with examples of building types (townhouses, churches, palaces including interior decorations), also on stonemasonry, carpentry, brickmaking and other crafts.- Half-title and title page in copy, some plates slightly trimmed.
