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Plumier, Charles (1646-1704) L'Art de Tourner.
Paris: Claude Jombert, 1701.
Folio, cancel slip with updated imprint on title, covering over the Lyons: Jean Certe, 1701 imprint; title page printed in red and black, engraved title vignette by Le Clerc, vignettes at head of dedication and first leaf of text with cherubs in the turning workshop, containing an additional seventy (of seventy-one) full-paged plates (one folding), numbered irregularly, lacking plate sixty-six; text in parallel columns in French and Latin throughout; bound in full contemporary calf with gilt-tooled spine, worn, but structurally sound, ex libris French owner circa 1730 with inscription to ffep, 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Plumier's is the first work dedicated exclusively to lathe work. In it he describes how to build the lathe itself, and how to use it to fashion wares in ivory, various metals, and wood.
