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  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, long section and plan. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: a forge (top), details (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: two variants of a trap for catching roosting birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: fore and aft views of a ship of the line. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A lateral incision into the hypogastrium for removal of bladder stone. Engraving by B. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: view of an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A lay figure. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: anchor of a ship of the line. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Chemistry: various implements. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Chemistry: various crystalline salts. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: a trap for a ploughed field (top), and details of a trap for roosting birds (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: details of anchor casting. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • A sheet showing eye defects, apparatus and an examination. Engraving by Prévost, 1763, after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: an oblique pile-driving machine, floating by a river bank. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles inside a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: a caisson for driving piles. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Cabinet-making: a collection of tools. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: a bridge at Rouen on pontoons, plan (top and bottom) and elevation (middle). Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: a heavy barge (top), and a lighter, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Carpentry: an assortment of dividers, and calipers. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • A standing nude female figure seen from behind. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin.
  • Manufacture of tin products with various tools of the trade. Etching by Defehrt after Prevost.
  • Medals: a die-engraver in his workshop (top), with diagrams of die-engraving tools (below). Engraving by B.L. Prevost after F. Boucher.
  • A lapidary, sitting at his foot-operated grinding wheel (above), an elevation and plan of his worktable (below). Engraving by B. L. Prevost after J. N. F. Boucher.
  • Science: the engraved titlepage to the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Engraving by B.L. Prevost, 1772, after C.N. Cochin, the younger, 1765.
  • Ground plan of a school of drawing: cross-section with a vignette above showing art students drawing after a life model and sculpture. Etching by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin, 1763.
  • A seal-cutter and his assistant in his workshop, with diagrams of seal-cutting tools beneath. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after Boucher.