Lot 1116: JOUSSE, MATHURIN.

L'Art de charpenterie... Corrigé & augmenté de ce qu'il y a de plus curieux dans cet art, & des machines les plus nécessaires à un charpentier. Paris: Thomas Moette, 1702

Condition Note: folio (314 x 195mm.), [4], 208pp., illustration : 7 engraved plates, woodcut vignette on title, numerous woodcut illustrations in text (most full-page), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, binding : contemporary vellum, last 2 engraved plates and a few full-page woodcuts very slightly shaved

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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

BAL RIBA 1639
CATALOGUE NOTE

First published in 1627 entitled Le Théâtre de l'art de charpentier, this work was the first devoted entirely to carpentry. Three further editions were published in the seventeenth century before the present edition, which was expanded by Philippe de La Hire. As well as additional text, it contains a revised introduction, a Table de matières and seven engraved plates.