"COLLECTION OF CRAFT MACHINES: MILL MACHINERY,... Lot 9

"COLLECTION OF CRAFT MACHINES: MILL MACHINERY, WEAVING LOOMS, RIBBON PRESSES, SPINNING MACHINES, SPINNING WHEELS, AGRICULTURAL MACHINES, GRINDING WHEELS, CART ACCESSORIES, CARPENTRY INSTRUMENTS, WOODEN TOOL MACHINES, CLOG MAKING INSTRUMENTS Nice set of sixty watercolour plates, pen and ink enhanced with watercolours 28 x 22 cm. Plates : 28 x 16 cm. 17th century. Bound in leather from the 20th century, in the taste of the 18th century. Spine decorated with foliate scrolls. In a cardboard box. Provenance : WIART, Architect in Pau. The quality of these plates, as well as the presence of letters referring to legends, indicates a work for an encyclopaedic work.