René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur manuscripts and illustrations for Descriptions des arts et métiers, 1721-1787 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Consists of material for Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, a text on technical skills of 18th-century engineering, including autograph manuscripts by Réaumur, Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Auguste Denis Fougeroux de Bondaroy, and other unidentified hands; some correspondence; drawings, and proofs and other strikes of engravings