L'Art de Tourner, ou de Faire en Perfection toutes Sortes d'Ouvrages au Tour

Paris: Pierre Aubouin et al., 1706. Second edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf. Very good. 187 pages. Folio, 37.5 x 24.5 cm. 72 engraved plates including engraved additional title. French and Latin text. The first tome devoted exclusively to the lathe and concerned primarily with ornamental wood turning. Interior contents faultless and fresh. Owner inscription verso of free endpaper dated 1835 and small inscriptions top and bottom of title page. Raised bands, spine panels richly gilt with arabesques, binding very tight, maroon spine label printed in gilt. Some adhesions to covers contemporaneously repaired and not distinguishably.