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PLUMIER, Charles. L'art de tourner ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour ..., Lyon: Jean Certe, 1701. 2 (372 x 246mm.), title printed in red and black, additional engraved title, 72 engraved plates after Plumier by Bouchet, engraved headpiece (light marginal worming at beginning), contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments (head and tail of spine chipped, joints partly broken but cords still holding, extremities quite rubbed).
FIRST EDITION of the earliest known treatise on the lathe.
FIRST EDITION of the earliest known treatise on the lathe.