DIDEROT (Denis) & d'ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond). Collection... Lot 8

DIDEROT (Denis) & d'ALEMBERT (Jean le Rond). Collection of plates on the sciences, the liberal arts, and the mechanical arts, with their explanation. Sixth volume, 294 plates. Paris, Briasson, David and Le Breton, 1768. In-folio, waiting cardboard. (2) ff. 8, 2, 13 pp; Animal and vegetable kingdom: 29 plates (ch. I-XXIX). (ch. I-XXIX), 11 pp. and 22 pl. (ch. XXX-L bis), 18 pp. and 43 pl. (ch. LI-XCIII), 3 pp. 11 pl. (ch.XCIV-CIV); Mineral kingdom: 4 pp., 45 pl. (ch. I-XIV, I-IX, I-III, I, III, V, VI-VIII, I-VII), 4 pp. 9 pl. (1 unnumbered, I-III, I-II, I-III); Metallurgy: 1 p., 1 pl.; Mining: 1 p., 2 pl.; Mercury: 1 p., 1 pl.; Gold: 1 p., 3 pl.; Copper: 2 pp., 10 pl.; Calamine: 1 p, 6 pl.; Tin: 1 p., 1 pl.; Tinplate: 4 p., 3 pl.; Pontpean machines: 1 p., 5 pl.; Lead: 1 p., 1 pl.; Bismuth cast iron: 1 p., 1 pl.; Zinc: 1 p., 1 p.; Cobalt and Arsenic: 1 p., 1 p.; Sulfur: 1 p., 3 p.; Saltpetre: 4 pp., 8 p.; Powder manufacture: 7 pp., 19 p.; Vitriol: 1 p., 1 p.; Alum: 1 p., 1 p.; Saltworks: 3 pp, 11 plates; Salt marshes: 1 p., 5 plates; Salt work: 1 p., 1 plate; Coal: 2 pp., 2 plates; Slate works of the Meuse: 8 pp., 5 plates; Slate works of Anjou: 12 pp., 1 plate. (of 7); Working with lampblack: 1 p., 1 pl.; Cheese from Auvergne: 2 pp., 1 pl. (of 2). 254 PLATES IN TOTAL (out of 263). Missing plates II and IV of the 6th collection of mineralogy (Eruptions of Vesuvius in 1754 and Summit of Vesuvius), 6 plates for Ardoiseries d'Anjou, and 1 plate for Fromages d'Auvergne. Heavy dampstaining on the last few pages, from the Charbon, leaves and plates heavily damaged by humidity with missing parts and tears from the Ardoiserie d'Anjou. Ex-libris of the botanist Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy (1732-1789) of the Royal Academy of Sciences.