Main entry:

Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication. Selections.

Title & Author:

Théatres.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1772 and 1780]

Description:

4, 9 pages, 80 leaves of plates in various foliations (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 43 cm

Notes:
Title from spine (binder's title).
Many plates signed "G.S." or "D.S."
The work corresponds to the section on theaters and stage machinery of the 10th volume (Neuvième livraison ou dixième volume) of 'Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication' (Paris : Briasson [and others], 1772). However, this is not the same edition. The plates are slightly different and lack the level of precision. The Recueil was issued over the course of eleven years as an accompanying series of illustrations to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, which began to appear in 1751.
Théâtres, contenant trente-huit planches à cause de sept doubles -- Machines de théâtre, contenant quarante-neuf planches à cause de quatorze doubles & de quatre triples.

Subject:

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French Early works to 1800.
Stage machinery.
Theaters.
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires français Ouvrages avant 1800.
Machines de théâtre.
stage machinery.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French.

Form/genre:

Early works.

Added entries:

Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783.
Encyclopédie.

Théâtres, contenant trente-huit planches à cause de sept doubles
Machines de théâtre, contenant quarante-neuf planches à cause de quatorze doubles & de quatre triples

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 67899
Call No.: M2801; ID:86-B10018
Status: Available