76/1966 [Artists' manuals]. Plumier, C. l'Art de tourner, ou de faire en perfection toutes sortes d'ouvrages au tour. Ouvrage très-curieux et très-nécessaire à ceux qui s'exercent au Tour. Paris, C.-A. Jombert, 1749, 2nd impr. and enl. ed., XXVII,(1),244p., engr. title, title-vignette, 2 ident. headpieces, 80 plates, contemp. calf, folio.

- Text lvs. occas. sl. yellowed; ±8 plates at the end vaguely waterst. Binding sl. worn and w. some dam. spots; corners showing.

= Rare and richly illustrated monograph on the practice of wood-turning. Second and best edition (first 1701), enlarged with two chapters and 8 plates. Cf. Kat. Orn. Berlin 1246. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.