(Diderot, Denis et Jean Le Rond d'Alembert): Textile manufacturing. - Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux et les arts méchaniques. Avec leur explication. Dixième et dernière livraison, ou onzième et dernier volume. Troisième édition. Vol. XI. Livorno w/o Printer 1778. 40,8 x 27,5 cm. Containing 194 (out of 293) folded copper plates (plates numbered 1–8; 1–29; 1–8; 1–4; 1–10; 1–135). 2 leaves, 2, 7 pp., 1 leaf, 3, 40 pp. Half-leather, with a gold-stamped title on the spine and some decorative detailing on the spine

(Battered and bruised. Joints split open; spine detached near the top. Pages slightly tanned and with water-stains.)

Brunet II, 700 ff. Graesse II, 389. Carter/Muir 200. – The second edition, published in Italy. – Contains six self-contained instalments with text on textile production, weaving, silk, etc.