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Hunting: nets and snares for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493420i- Pictures
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Hunting: a wolf, with its head caught in a trap (above), and details of the trap (below) Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493496i- Pictures
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Hunting: nets for catching ground-feeding birds, and a wolf-trap (?) Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493458i- Pictures
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Hunting: nets for catching ground birds, and hunting at night with torches. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493421i- Pictures
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Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
Reference: 493457i- Pictures
A bookbinding workshop using marbled papers: workmen variously sponging sheets, folding papers, placing books to dry on a block (top), equipment (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Prevost.
Reference: 40505i- Pictures
A workshop for the production of marbled papers: workmen variously grinding colours, dipping and combing papers, hanging sheets to dry on a line (top), equipment (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Prevost.
Reference: 40504i- Pictures
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A workshop for the production of cardboard and papier-mache: workmen variously squeezing sheets in a press, driving a horse which powers the mill, and filling a mould (top), tools (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by B. L. Prevost.
Reference: 40506i- Pictures
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Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Reference: 40828i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40868i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40869i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40871i- Pictures
Africa: lions and other indigenous animals of this continent. Etching by Lacour after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Reference: 42161i- Pictures
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Hunting: nets for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762.
Reference: 493418i- Pictures
Clocks: various examples of gears, bevel, crown, epicycloid, and "peg and paddle", also a universal joint. Engraving [by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier].
Reference: 40814i- Pictures
Clocks: fusee-engine, or taper-cutting lathe. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
Reference: 40813i- Pictures
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Clocks: fusee-engine, or taper-cutting lathe. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland?].
Reference: 40812i- Pictures
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Clocks: side elevation of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
Reference: 40821i- Pictures
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Clocks: plan of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Defehrt [after G. d'Heuland].
Reference: 40820i- Pictures
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Male liane of Chilli (Lardizabala biternata Ruíz & Pavón): flowering stem and floral segments. Engraving by Heath, c.1798, after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: 1 November 1798Reference: 18603i- Pictures
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Female liane of Chilli (Lardizabala biternata Ruíz & Pavón): fruiting stem with tendrils and floral segments. Engraving by Heath, c.1798, after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: 1 November 1798Reference: 18604i- Pictures
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The washing of ore. Etching by Bénard after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 29360i- Pictures
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An allegory of surgery. Engraving by R. Benard after B.L. Prevost, 17--.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 94i- Pictures
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A mine: cross-section and diagrams of furnaces. Etching by Bénard after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 29359i- Pictures
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Calcination of ore and the instruments used in calcination. Etching by Bénard after Prevost.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 29361i