Diderot, Denis, and d’Alembert, Jean de, bound plates and text from Encyclopedia, ou dictionaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des mtiers, comprising of 4 pages of description of the plates followed by 36 plates of surgical technique and instruments including the allegorical frontispiece with a further 8 plates from the supplement and 3 plates on hermaphrodites each titled ‘Histoire Naturelle Hermaphrodites, folio, printed Paris 1762-1777
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Diderot, Denis, and d’Alembert, Jean de, bound plates and text from Encyclopedia, ou dictionaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des mtiers, comprising of 4 pages of description of the plates followed by 36 plates of surgical technique and instruments including the allegorical frontispiece with a further 8 plates from the supplement and 3 plates on hermaphrodites each titled ‘Histoire Naturelle Hermaphrodites, folio, printed Paris 1762-1777
Auction: Fine Scientific & Medical Instruments and Books, 24th Nov, 2022