[Rarebooks] FS: Plumier, 1706 Americana & Science, with 72 plates: THE EARLIEST KNOWN TREATISE ON THE LATHE, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS  $2500.00    NOW  $2000.00

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 
and the first book to describe and illustrate previously secret 
techniques of turning wood as well as 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 (he was the first to identify and 
describe the fuchsia plant) 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. 		$2,000.00

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