L'Art du Tourneur par M. Paulin Desormeaux avec figures dessinees par L'auteur
by Desormeaux, M. Paulin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See Description/None
- Seller
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Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Audot, Libraire-Editeur, 1824. Book. See Description. Hardcover. First Edition. 12 " x 8 7/8". [The Art of the Turner, with figures designed by the author]. Plate volume only, title page, text page 'avis concernant les figures', full-page plates A, B, both finely coloured by hand, 37 numbered full-page engraved plates, four of which are folding, mainly annotated N.L. Rousseau Sculp., relating to the tools and craft of turning. A fine early plate volume on the Art of the Turner. Hard covers, in marbled paper covered boards, sensitively re-backed and the original spine laid down, generally a very good copy of this scarce plate volume.
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- Bookseller
- Trinder's Fine Tools
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003944
- Title
- L'Art du Tourneur par M. Paulin Desormeaux avec figures dessinees par L'auteur
- Author
- Desormeaux, M. Paulin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - See Description
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Audot, Libraire-Editeur
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1824
- Size
- 12 " x 8 7/8"
- Keywords
- Turning Craft Woodwork
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About the Seller
Trinder's Fine Tools
Biblio member since 2004
Clare, Sudbury, Suffolk
About Trinder's Fine Tools
Peter and Rosemary Trinder are PBFA members, and trade as Trinders' Fine Tools from our book and tool shop in Clare, Suffolk, UK, and our web site at http://www.trindersfinetools.co.uk We specialise in quality reference books on all aspects of fine and applied arts and crafts.
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- Re-backed
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- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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- Spine
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