PLUMIER (Charles). L'art de tourner ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour... Lyon, Certe, 1701. In-folio, [14] f., 187 p., fr., pl., contemporary brown calf, 6-ribbed spine (spine roughly restored, some caissons uncovered, sustained wetness throughout the volume, as is).
First edition of the first treatise devoted entirely to the art of woodturning. Relay label of the bookseller C. Jombert in Paris.
The illustration consists of 82 copper-engraved plates, including the title-frontispiece. This working copy is complete with 81 (of 82) plates listed in the table (there is no plate 66); it contains 3 unlisted plates (one facing p.52 and two at the end), as well as a second copy of folding plate 69.
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