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  • Hunting: nets for catching ground-feeding birds, and a wolf-trap (?) Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • 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.
  • Diamond cutters: interior view (a) a diamond cutters' wheel (b) elevations and sections of cutting machines with various components. Etching by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Great sea urchins of the North West Coast of America. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
  • Lamp shells and ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching after B. L. Prevost, ca. 1798.
  • Clocks: a repeater clock mechanism, exploded view. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
  • 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.
  • Ship-building: fore and aft views of a ship of the line. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: a machine, devised by Pierre Patte, for sawing piles to the correct length underwater. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Men with two boys attending a demonstration on the anatomy of the horse. Etching with engraving by Prevost after C.F. Sollier, 17--.
  • A lateral incision into the hypogastrium for removal of bladder stone. Engraving by B. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • 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.
  • Ship-building: an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: a heavy barge (top), and a lighter, plans and sections. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • The ear and the temple after Duverney, Valsalva and Ruysch. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.
  • Sea urchins of the North West Coast of America, some cross-sectioned. Etching by B. L. Prevost.
  • Ammonites from the Pacific Ocean, some cross-sectioned. Etching by B. L. Prevost.
  • Two heads in profile. Engraving by B.L. Provost after Raphael.
  • Clocks: a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • A female figure beside a river with a townscape beyond. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after Titian.
  • A seal-cutter and his assistant in his workshop, with diagrams of seal-cutting tools beneath. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after Boucher.
  • Oval heads. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Ship-building: view of an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • The arteries of the head after Haller; the eye, after Ruysch; the tongue after Heister. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.
  • 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.
  • Calcination of ore and the instruments used in calcination. Etching by Bénard after Prevost.
  • Three winged boys floating above a reclining boy who holds a platter, with a ewer beside him. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Chemistry: various crystalline salts. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.