Denis Diderot / Renaud Bénard - Recueil de planches de l'Encyclopédie, par ordre de matières - 1783

Rare original edition of this illustrated work aimed at reorganizing and disseminating the vast iconographic corpus of Diderot and Renaud Bénard's Encyclopédie.

Volume I gathers the engraved plates organized by thematic classification, offering a systematic presentation of the technical, scientific, and artisanal knowledge of the 18th century.

These plates, created by numerous engravers based on the original drawings, precisely illustrate mechanical arts, trades, scientific instruments, industrial processes, and everyday objects, reflecting the encyclopedic ambition to make visible and understandable the entirety of human knowledge.

Panckoucke, a major publisher of the late century, reorganizes and arranges this material to make it more accessible, separating the images from the text and grouping them by fields, which facilitates consultation and enhances the educational value of the work.

Denis Diderot / Renaud Bénard - Collection of plates from the Encyclopédie, arranged by subject - 1783 - Tome I - Panckoucke & Plomteux
8 pages, 227 leaves of plates; volume 2: 8 pages.

Good condition of the binding, book in its original cardboard case, scuffs with loss of material mainly on the back, missing headcaps, rounded corners and edges, frayed spine, well-bound book.

Good interior condition, foxing and water stains, work enriched with numerous plates outside the text, including some on double pages.

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