Essai d'une Nouvelle Theorie De La Resistance des Fluides by d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond - 1966

Paris: Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, 1760. Very good. 2 pages of plates and one letterpress page of caption information, 15 x 10 inches; 38 x 25.5 cm. Very good, showing laborers in a metalwork shop and various instruments in metalwork and metal inlaying.

Paris: Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, 1765. Very good. 2 pages of plates and one letterpress page of caption information, 15 x 10 inches; 38 x 25.5 cm. Very good, some toning and taning particularly to lower left quadrant. Showing "gold beaters" and various instruments for gold smithing.

Paris: Chez Briasson & Le Breton, 1769.. 41 x 27 cm. with half title, title page and 4 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1765.. 41 x 27 cm. with half title, title page and 10 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David, Durand & Le Breton, 1762.. 41 x 27 cm. with half title, title page and 6 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates.

Paris, 1751. 1st Edition . No Binding. Fine. Six Plates. Four Plates, 23.7 X 39 Cm., On Growing And Manufacture Of Cotton, Illustrating Aspects Of Cotton Processing. Fine. With A Copy Of The Two Pages Of Text Describing These Plates.

Bern, Beat Louis Walthard, 1792. 2 Bl. Erklärungen, 2 Orig.-Kuperstiche (27 x 21 cm), Privat-Lwd.-Mappe., Min gebräunt, tadellos Text. franz. Text. franz. 1750 verfasste Diderot einen in ganz Europa verschickten Prospekt, in dem er Interessenten zur Subskription der Encyclopédie aufrief. 1751 erschienen die beiden ersten Bände der «Encyclopédie...». Der buchhändlerische Erfolg des Werkes war enorm, doch die Jesuiten und die Sorbonne diagnostizierten eine unchristliche Tendenz und erwirkten beim königlichen Kronrat ein Verbot. Da aber Madame de Pompadour (die Mätresse von Ludwig XV.), einige Minister, viele einflussreiche Freimaurer und der Chefzensor Malesherbes auf der Seite der Encyclopédisten standen, konnten 1753–1756 trotz des Verbots vier weitere Bände erscheinen.Danach jedoch wuchs der Druck der Gegner. 1758 wurde das Verbot erneuert, 1759 setzte Papst Clemens XIII. das Werk auf den Index. Inzwischen hatte aber die Regierung die Deviseneinnahmen schätzen gelernt, die trotz des… Read More

Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1767.. 41 x 27 cm. with title page and 10 pages of text. Useful for someone collecting the plates. Manuscript invoice on verso of title page dated 12 Juin 1773.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1762-1767.. 395 x 255 mm. with 18 pages of letterpress descriptionsRustic economy. Rustic economy is the art of knowing the useful and profitable products of the countryside, appropriating and conserving them, and drawing the greatest possible advantage from them. This method of enriching oneself has unlimited scope: it is a tax imposed on all matter, even on the elements. A simple exposition of the subjects embraced by the term ‘rustic economy’ would be a considerable undertaking. [1] These are the primary ones: whoever wishes to live in the countryside and profit from his stay there should know the arts of agriculture and gardening in the finest detail. He should be ignorant of nothing which pertains to the buildings he requires for himself and his family, servants, animals, and various crops; hunting, fishing, and falconry; stud farms, water, and forests; rustic work, and the manufacture of a variety of products such as stoneware, pottery, lime,… Read More