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Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?

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  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Carpentry: an oblique pile-driving machine, floating by a river bank. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Chemistry: various furnaces. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762.
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    Hands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.

    | Reference: 33849i
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    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
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    Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

    | Reference: 40730i
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    Carpentry: an assortment of tools. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Reference: 41131i
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    Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

    Bourgeois. | Reference: 40868i
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