ROUBO, ANDRÉ JACOB. L'art du Menuisier [from: l'Académie des Science, Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, 1761-89]. [Paris: de l'Imprimerie de L. F. Delatour] 1769-75. 6 vols. [Menuisier Parts I and II; Part III, section I: Menuisier-Carrossier; Part III, section II: Menuisier en Meubles; Part III, section III: Menuisier Ébéniste; Part IV: Treillageur, ou Menuiserie des Jardins], large folio, modern red blind-tooled morocco, turn-ins gilt, uncut, by Lesort, rubbed, vol. VI title-leaf and plate 337 laid down on heavy paper, plate 208 creased, a very few marginal paper defects or short tears, some light foxing or discoloration, affecting the plates mostly marginally, marginal dampstaining to vol. V and last 10 plates of vol. VI, some faint offsetting to the folding plates. FIRST EDITION, divisional title to each part, continuous pagination, 383 engraved plates (including plate 107bis in vol. VI) of which 49 double-page or folding, by Benard, Berthault, Beurlier, Bichard, Cor, Haussard, Laurent, le Roy, Michelinot, Pelletier and Roubo, after Roubo. Berlin Kat. 1263 (citing 382 plates only). (6)

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ROUBO, ANDRÉ JACOB. L'art du Menuisier [from: l'Académie des Science, Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, 1761-89]. [Paris: de l'Imprimerie de L. F. Delatour] 1769-75. 6 vols. [Menuisier Parts I and II; Part III, section I: Menuisier-Carrossier; Part III, section II: Menuisier en Meubles; Part III, section III: Menuisier Ébéniste; Part IV: Treillageur, ou Menuiserie des Jardins], large folio, modern red blind-tooled morocco, turn-ins gilt, uncut, by Lesort, rubbed, vol. VI title-leaf and plate 337 laid down on heavy paper, plate 208 creased, a very few marginal paper defects or short tears, some light foxing or discoloration, affecting the plates mostly marginally, marginal dampstaining to vol. V and last 10 plates of vol. VI, some faint offsetting to the folding plates. FIRST EDITION, divisional title to each part, continuous pagination, 383 engraved plates (including plate 107bis in vol. VI) of which 49 double-page or folding, by Benard, Berthault, Beurlier, Bichard, Cor, Haussard, Laurent, le Roy, Michelinot, Pelletier and Roubo, after Roubo. Berlin Kat. 1263 (citing 382 plates only). (6)