Encyclopaedia of Diderot and Alembert, Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, Troyes, France

Mineralogy, with diagram of a cross-section of a mine and of various veins of metal deposits underground, plate from the Encyclopaedia of Diderot and Alembert, first edition, published 1751, 35 volumes, in the library of the Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, with over 32,000 books, specialising in manual labour, housed in the Hotel de Mauroy, built c. 1560, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Mineralogy, with diagram of a cross-section of a mine and of various veins of metal deposits underground, plate from the Encyclopaedia of Diderot and Alembert, first edition, published 1751, 35 volumes, in the library of the Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere, with over 32,000 books, specialising in manual labour, housed in the Hotel de Mauroy, built c. 1560, in Troyes, Aube, Grand Est, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen