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PLUMIER, Charles L'art de tourner, ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour [...]. Composé en françois et en latin en faveur des étrangers, & enrichi de quatre-vingt planches. New edition [...]. Paris Ch. A. Jombert (impr. de J. Chardon) 1749 In-f° : [2]-xxvii-[1]-244 pp.; 80 plates (lightly browned, a few small wormholes in the margins of the plates). Mottled calf, spine gilt, red tr. (spine and corners rebacked, boards rubbed). Reissue (orig.: 1701) with 2 chapters of this juxtalinear French/Latin technical treatise by Père Minime Ch. Plumier (1646-1704), the king's traveler and botanist with a keen interest in mathematics, mechanics and painting. Complete with engraved title and 80 out-of-text plates (n. 1-80) featuring tools, diagrams and achievements; engraved vignette on title, repeated headband at dedication and p. 1. The work also contains qqs recipes for dyeing, marbling and varnishing. Ref. Cp. Berlin Kat. 1246. - BnF.
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PLUMIER, Charles L'art de tourner, ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour [...]. Composé en françois et en latin en faveur des étrangers, & enrichi de quatre-vingt planches. New edition [...]. Paris Ch. A. Jombert (impr. de J. Chardon) 1749 In-f° : [2]-xxvii-[1]-244 pp.; 80 plates (lightly browned, a few small wormholes in the margins of the plates). Mottled calf, spine gilt, red tr. (spine and corners rebacked, boards rubbed). Reissue (orig.: 1701) with 2 chapters of this juxtalinear French/Latin technical treatise by Père Minime Ch. Plumier (1646-1704), the king's traveler and botanist with a keen interest in mathematics, mechanics and painting. Complete with engraved title and 80 out-of-text plates (n. 1-80) featuring tools, diagrams and achievements; engraved vignette on title, repeated headband at dedication and p. 1. The work also contains qqs recipes for dyeing, marbling and varnishing. Ref. Cp. Berlin Kat. 1246. - BnF.
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