Lot 1114: JOUSSE, MATHURIN (1607-1692).

La fidelle ouverture de l'art de serrurier... Ensemble un petit traicté de diverses trempes. La Flèche: George Griveau, 1627

Condition Note: folio (306 x 210mm.), [8 (including engraved title)], 152pp., illustration : engraved title, numerous engraved and woodcut illustrations (some full-page), woodcut head-pieces and initials, binding : contemporary vellum, occasional light staining, covers lightly soiled

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LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Berlin Catalogue 1333
CATALOGUE NOTE

first edition. Jousse was a silversmith by trade and the present work contains fine illustrations of designs for locks, keys, door-handles, bolts, bells, brackets, well-heads, window-grilles, a rolling-chair and prosthetics. This book may well have been intended as a companion volume to Jousse's Le Théâtre de l'art de charpentier, first published by Griveau in the same year. A supposed 1624 edition of the present work is unsubstantiated.