Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences, les Arts Liberaux, et les Arts Mechaniques, avec Leur Explication. Quatrieme Livraison, ou Cinquieme Volume

Livourne: l'Imprimerie des Editeurs, 1774. Troisieme Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary decorative paper over boards, backed in beige calf, lettering and ornament stamped on spine; folio (434x278mm); pp. [4] (half-title p., title-p.), 15, [1], 7, [1], plus 245 (of 248) plates (lacking #152, 166, 171). Spine and edges of boards bumped and scuffed; boards rubbed and dust-smudged. Some light foxing to first and last few leaves; tiny marginal wormhole to last 100 or so leaves, not affecting the images.