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17651378717Paris: Briasson David Le Breton 1765. Quarto 23 1 pages 64 plates. In Very Good minus condition. In later rough paper wraps. Front wrap detached but present. Some wear and rubbing to extremities of text block. Some foxing and toning throughout.<br /> <br /> <br /> PB consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. The 64 plates were engraved by Bernard after drawings by Goussier. They cover large format from pendulum clocks grandfather clocks and tower clocks to small carrying watches and pocket watches. Also depicted are star clocks calendar clocks and gear related mechanicals such as music boxes gear trains and extravagant dials.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology now the National Museum of American History before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378717. Special Collections. [Briasson, David, Le Breton] unknown
175423490Paris 1754. A pair of copper engraving /etchings from the famed "Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences des Art et des Metiers.". These plates illustrate the effects of volcanic activity in Italy including the eruption of Vesuvius in 1754. <br /> <br /> The Encyclopedie was published between 1751 and 1772 in 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates. It contained over 70000 articles written by more than 140 contributors. Meant to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightenment the impact was enormous. <br /> Platemarks 17 3/4 x 14" with small margins on the left and right. Printed on laid paper in very good original condition. unknown
72391Paris Briasson 1768. Single sheet. Folio 39.8 x 25.6 cm. Engraved plate with printed caption; finely hand-coloured; frame gilted. = A very rare contemporarily coloured plate published in the atlas of the first - folio - edition of the famous great Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers a massive work edited and partly written by Diderot d'Alembert and Voltaire being the first true encyclopaedia epitomizing the age of Enlightenment. Published between 1751 to 1772 it synthesized the knowledge of the time. It became not only a source of knowledge but also a political weapon on the battleground for power between secular and ecclesiastical thinkers and writers. The plate was drawn by François Nicolás Martinet and engraved by Robert Bénard. Its dimensions indicate that this plate comes from a large-paper copy which according to Brunet ".sont assez rares". Brunet does not record coloured copies. Plates with modern colouring are not unheard of but this is altogether different - not only is the colouring very well done but the printed border is carefully gilted too often yellow in modern colouring. The animals figured are two primates "le jocko" that is: a chimpanzee but obviously not actually seen by Martinet himself and "le gibbon" which is a gibbon indeed. The engraving is by Prévost after an original drawing by Martinet. Pinpoint holes in the left margin and a thin red line on the other three edges indicate that this plate comes from a once bound copy. Some toning - stronger in the margins otherwise a very good copy. Brunet 2 pp. 700-701; Nissen ZBI 4622; PMM 200. unknown
72385Paris Briasson 1768. Single sheet. Folio 39.8 x 25.4 cm. Engraved plate with printed caption; finely hand-coloured; frame gilted. = A very rare contemporarily coloured plate published in the atlas of the first - folio - edition of the famous great Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers a massive work edited and partly written by Diderot d'Alembert and Voltaire being the first true encyclopaedia epitomizing the age of Enlightenment. Published between 1751 to 1772 it synthesized the knowledge of the time. It became not only a source of knowledge but also a political weapon on the battleground for power between secular and ecclesiastical thinkers and writers. The plate was drawn by François Nicolás Martinet and engraved by Robert Bénard. Its dimensions indicate that this plate comes from a large-paper copy which according to Brunet ".sont assez rares". Brunet does not record coloured copies. Plates with modern colouring are not unheard of but this is altogether different - not only is the colouring very well done but the printed border is carefully gilted too often yellow in modern colouring. The animals figured are the Eurasian and North American Lynx figure 2 top and the North American Cougar or Mountain Lion figure 1 bottom. The engraving is by Prévost after an original drawing by Martinet. Pinpoint holes in the left margin and a thin red line on the other three edges indicate that this plate comes from a once bound copy. Small chip in lower left corner a tiny smudge in the left margin otherwise a very good copy. Brunet 2 pp. 700-701; Nissen ZBI 4622; PMM 200. unknown
176726647Avignon Libraires Associés 1767. Small 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Richly gilt back. Back lightly rubbed. VII9247 pp. Title with small rubberstamp and a little browned lower right corner neathly repaired no loss. Internally fine with a few brownspots. Printed on good paper. <br/><br/><em>First edition. A work treating the history of the Mendicant Friars although issued anonymously is attributed to d'Alembert. - Barbier II:684. </em> unknown
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72386Paris Briasson David Le Breton 1768. Oblong folio 39.7 x 67.6 cm. Broadsheet plate with a fine large engraving with fine contemporary hand-colouring gilt border and printed caption. = This is a highly unusual contemporarily coloured copy of an exceptionally large plate showing an extraordinarily small and peculiar animal. It was published in the atlas of the first folio edition of the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers and is a highlight in the history of microscopy. The massive Encyclopédie was edited and partly written by Diderot d'Alembert and Voltaire being the first true encyclopaedia epitomizing the Age of Enlightenment. Published between 1751 to 1772 it synthesized the knowledge of the time. It became not only a source of knowledge but also a political weapon on the battleground for power between secular and ecclesiastical thinkers and writers. The plate was drawn by François Nicolás Martinet and engraved by Robert Bénard after the famous image of Robert Hooke's Micrographia from 1665. Its dimensions indicate that this plate comes from a large-paper copy which according to Brunet ".sont assez rares". Brunet does not record coloured copies. Plates with modern colouring are not unheard of but this is altogether different - not only is the colouring very well done but the printed border is carefully gilted too often yellow in modern colouring. Two vertical fold as always; a few minor marginal spots otherwise clean. The colouring bold and accurate. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. Brunet 2 pp. 700-701; Nissen ZBI 4622; PMM 200. unknown
72387Paris Briasson David Le Breton 1768. Oblong folio 39.2 x 45.9 cm. Broadsheet plate with a fine large engraving with fine contemporary hand-colouring gilt border and printed caption. = This is a highly unusual contemporarily coloured copy of an exceptionally large plate showing an extraordinarily small and peculiar animal. It was published in the atlas of the first folio edition of the famous Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers and is a highlight in the history of microscopy. The massive Encyclopédie was edited and partly written by Diderot d'Alembert and Voltaire being the first true encyclopaedia epitomizing the Age of Enlightenment. Published between 1751 to 1772 it synthesized the knowledge of the time. It became not only a source of knowledge but also a political weapon on the battleground for power between secular and ecclesiastical thinkers and writers. The plate was drawn by François Nicolás Martinet and engraved by Robert Bénard after the famous image of Robert Hooke's Micrographia from 1665. Its dimensions indicate that this plate comes from a large-paper copy which according to Brunet ".sont assez rares". Brunet does not record coloured copies. Plates with modern colouring are not unheard of but this is altogether different - not only is the colouring very well done but the printed border is carefully gilted too often yellow in modern colouring. A vertical fold as always; some weak marginal fraying a short tear in the left margin; a few minor marginal spots; otherwise clean. The colouring bold and accurate. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. Brunet 2 pp. 700-701; Nissen ZBI 4622. unknown
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107-00BParis bei Briasson David Le Breton 1765. Pappband im Stil der Zeit gesprenkelte Bezüge. . Folio. 45 1 S. 52 Tafeln auf ebensoviel Blatt. Sauberes Exemplar. Erste Ausgabe. - Erschienen im dritten Tafelband Recueil de Planches sur les Arts libéraux et les Arts méchaniques avec leur explication. zur Encyclopédie von Diderot & d'Alembert. Erste Ausgabe. - Erschienen im dritten Tafelband Recueil de Planches sur les Arts libéraux et les Arts méchaniques avec leur explication. zur Encyclopédie von Diderot & d'Alembert. Erste Ausgabe. - Erschienen im dritten Tafelband Recueil de Planches sur les Arts libéraux et les Arts méchaniques avec leur explication. zur Encyclopédie von Diderot & d'Alembert. Paris, bei Briasson, David, Le Breton 1765. unknown
14812Paris: Andre Le Breton. Wraps. Very good condition. Bell casting with suite of 8 copper engraved plates complete plus 8 pp of accompanying text. In French. 1750 - 1772. Extract from Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers. Produced in the age of Enlightenment this encyclopedia documented all the trades of the time.<br /> <br /> Folio 8pp extract text in two columns complete with the 8 plates the first one being a large folding copper plate entitled 'Fonte Des Cloches Echantillons et Diapasons'. Stitched binding early blue paper wraps printed on the inside with ads for other published works the one at the rear being an architectural history dated 1857. Blue wraps very good. Andre Le Breton unknown
177045526Berlin Haude et Spener 1770. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres" L'Année 1763 tome XIX pp. 235-254 pp. 255-266 pp. 267-291. Lambert's paper: pp. 292-310. <br/><br/><em>First printing of all 4 papers. D'Alemberts letters to Lagrange deals with the mathematical treatment of a problem that taxed the minds of the major mathematicians of the day discussing Bernouilli's and Eulers solutions on the vibrating string. D'Alembert had introduced the wave-equation in physics for the first time in in 1747.Lambert made importent contributions to the theory of equations. </em> unknown
177144806Berlin Haude et Spener 1771. 4to. No wrappers as issued in "Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres". tome XXV pp. 265.-284. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of one of D'Alembert's importent papers on the mathematical theory of acromatic lenses and abberation. </em> unknown
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177130284Paris 1771. No stated edition. Unbound. Good. 3p many engraved ills. on 16 plates. Removed from a bound volume but still sewn together; no covers. Age browned; the impressions are good and rich. Ca. 10 x 16 inches. In French. This section from the monumental Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert contains the plates illustrating the manufacture of bits 14 plates spurs 1 plate and stirrups 1 plate and their related captions. The plates show metal-working tools workshop scenes component parts and finished articles. They were designed by Goussier and engraved by Defehrt. Mennessier de la Lance 1:446 Shipping/handling may be extra; please keep this in mind when ordering. unknown
