Batteur D'Or (Gold smithing), 2 folio copperplates and caption page, 1765 from the Encyclopedie
Paris: Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, 1765. 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.