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BERNARD (ACTIVE 18TH CENTURY), and DEFEHRT (ACTIVE 18TH CENTURY), AFTER LOUIS-JACQUES GOUSSIER (1722-1799), and J.R. LUCOTTE (ACTIVE 18TH CENTURY) Art du Distillateur d'Eaux Fortes &c. Laboratoire Pour les Esprits de Vin, from Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire des Science, des Arts et des Metiers. : Sixty-One Plates sixty-one engravings, circa 1780, on laid papers, all with margins, light-, mat and time staining, minor surface soiling, handling creases mostly in the margins, occasional scattered foxing, a few plates with areas of moisture staining, old hinge remains on the reverse of the upper margins, small losses and tears to the margin edges, nine plates with central and auxiliary folds where previously bound, a group of nine and another group of five plates still bound, other minor defects, thirty-five not examined out of the frames, twenty-six unframed fifty-four P. approx. 13½ x 9 in. (342 x 228 mm.) fifty-four overall approx. 21 x 15 3/8 in. (533 x 390 mm.) seven P. approx. 13½ x 18 in. (343 x 457 mm.) seven overall approx. 20 13/16 x 24 7/8 in. (528 x 632 mm.) (61)