[Rarebooks] FS: Earliest Known Treatise on the Lathe, 1701, with 72 full-page engraved plates

[Charles Agvent]

PLUMIER,  Charles.  L'ART DE TOURNER, OU, DE FAIRE  EN  PERFECTION
TOUTES  SORTES D'OUVRAGES AU TOUR.... Paris: Aubouin, Riou, &  Jombert
1706.  First Edition. Second issue of the first edition of 1701,  with
a  new title page only and retaining the original title page as  well.
Folio  (10" x 14-5/8") bound in modern half morocco and boards;  [30],
187  pages plus plates. Illustrated with 72 full-page engraved  plates
after  Plumier  and  Rousseau,  some by Bouchet.  THE  EARLIEST  KNOWN
TREATISE  ON THE LATHE. Describes the turning of wood, metals,  ivory,
diamonds,  etc.  and the tools and machines to be used. Further  shown
are  objects to be made in this way, such as vases, urns, knives,  and
snuff-boxes.  Plumier  spent many years in America studying flora  and
notes  in his preface to this book that while in America he worked  on
turning  many  of  the instruments which he describes and  which  were
unknown  in  Europe at the time. Some dampstaining  and  discoloration
throughout  but usually with no significant impact on the plates.  The
top  two  inches of the spine leather is lacking. Very Good or  better
copy of this important and scarce book.                       $2500.00

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