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an open book with a picture of different colors of wood on itthree books sitting on top of each other on a white surface
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666 - Decorative Arts – Furniture – Woodturning
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Decorative Arts – Furniture – Woodturning Bergeron, Louis Georges Isaac Salivet Manuel du Tourneur, a work in which the craft is taught to amateurs. With an engraved title page and 96 (8 colour, 41 double-sheet, 5 folded) copper plates. 2 volumes of text and an atlas. Paris, Bergeron, 1816. XXXIJ, 509 pp., XI., 542 pp. + atlas. Contemporary cloth binding. Brunet I.785 – Second expanded edition of this superbly illustrated handbook for woodturners. The *Manuel du tourneur* is regarded as the most significant and comprehensive textbook on the art of woodturning (tour à pointes, à lunettes, en l’air, guilloché, eccentric, oval and epicycloidal turning) from around 1800 and was used throughout the 19th century as the standard reference for cabinetmakers, ivory and metal turners, as well as for courtly and scientific woodturning. Originally published between 1792 and 1796 by the author himself under the pseudonym ‘L.-E. Bergeron’, this second edition—which has been considerably expanded and improved compared with the first edition—was published in 1816 by Hamelin-Bergeron in Paris, edited by Pierre Hamelin-Bergeron, the son-in-law of the actual author, Louis-Georges-Isaac Salivet. The section on turning techniques itself is preceded by detailed chapters on the science of wood, joinery, blacksmithing, hardening and metal casting – a foundation indispensable for the practical training of ‘amateurs’, which also makes the work an important source for the history of technology in the early 19th century. The accompanying atlas volume contains a total of 96 engraved plates (39 in Part I, 57 in Part II), many of which are folded or double-sided and depict in detail tools, lathes, mechanisms and finished works in wood, ivory and metal. The first eight plates depict various types of wood and – as is customary with the finest known copies of this edition – are finely hand-coloured, which further emphasises the quality and decorative appeal of this particular copy. This copy is particularly impressive for its uniform, decorative contemporary binding in red half-maroquin with rich gilt spine, as well as its large, wide margins – features that are rarely found together in such high quality in this sought-after standard work of the history of technology and bibliophilia. - A copy with wide margins and largely in clean condition. Arts and crafts – furniture – woodturning. – With an engraved title page and 96 (8 colour, 41 double-sheet size, 5 folded) copper plates. - Second expanded edition of this superbly illustrated woodturner’s manual. The *Manuel du tourneur* is regarded as the most important and comprehensive instructional work on the art of turning (tour à pointes, à lunettes, en l’air, guilloché, eccentric, oval and epicycloid turning) from the period around 1800, and it was used throughout the 19th century as the standard reference for cabinet turners, ivory and metal turners, and for courtly and scientific turning crafts alike. Originally published by the author himself in 1792–1796 under the pseudonym “L.-E. Bergeron”, the present second edition of 1816 – considerably expanded and improved upon the first – was published by Hamelin-Bergeron in Paris, edited by Pierre Hamelin-Bergeron, son-in-law of the actual author, Louis-Georges-Isaac Salivet. The technical section on woodturning proper is preceded by extensive chapters on the study of woods, joinery, forging, tempering and metal casting – an indispensable foundation for the practical training of ‘amateurs’, which also makes the work an important source for the history of technology in the early 19th century. The accompanying atlas volume contains a total of 96 engraved plates (39 in Part I, 57 in Part II), many of which are fold-out or double-page, depicting tools, lathes, mechanisms and finished works in wood, ivory and metal in great detail. The first eight plates show various species of timber and, as is customary in the finest known copies of this edition, were finely hand-coloured during the period, which further emphasises the quality and decorative appeal of this copy. This copy is distinguished by its uniform, decorative contemporary binding in red half-morocco with a richly gilt spine, as well as by its generous, wide margins – qualities which, for this much-sought-after standard work of technical history and bibliophilic interest, are rarely found together in such fine condition. A wide-margined and largely clean copy. – Broad margins and largely clean copy. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to standard taxation. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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