1835 Manuel du Coutelier, Traite Theorique et Pratique - M.H. Landrin, Fold-Outs

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Manuel du Coutelier, ou Traite Theorique et Pratique de l'Art de Faire tous les Ouvrages de Coutellerie; Par M.H. Landrin, Ingenieur civil, et membre de plusieurs Societes savantes. Ourage orne de Planches. Paris, A La Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 1835, contemporary library binding with original paper covers, three large fold-outs, 431 pp, 6 x 4", 18mo. In fair condition. Modern binding very clean - light scuffing to edges & corners. Head of spine bumped. Gilt lettering and ruling bright and clean. Original front paper cover chipped on both top and fore-edges. Bottom corner of front cover dog-eared/bumped. Marginalia found at top of front cover; finger-soiling & general soiling present. The same marginalia is also found at the top of title page. Toning & finger-soiling throughout text-block. P. 281 through the remainder of text-block exhibits a water dampness stain to fore-edges. All edges of text-block remain untrimmed. Modern binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Henri Landin wrote and published this work as an update of the reference work by Jean-Jacques Perret (1730-1784), The Art of the Cutler: Part I (1771) & The Art of the Cutler expert in Surgical Instruments: Second Part (1772). Perret's father was a cutler & Perret apprenticed his father over the course of his childhood. Arriving in Paris, Perret sought out the most skilled and renowned master cutler in the capital to offer his services. The master cutler, who mainly manufactured surgical tools (a specialty unfamiliar to Perret), ordered him to make a lancet, an instrument whose manufacture required the greatest care and the most extensive knowledge on the manipulation of steel. The perfection of the instrument Perret made for the master cutler was so extraordinary and the turn of the lancet so new that the cutler, named Foucou, became his friend and protector. Perret's career in surgical tools and other forms of cutlery was so widespread and renowned, his store on rue de la Tixeranderie quickly became the busiest in Paris. France, Italy, Spain, Savoy, England, Germany & Russia all paid their respects to his mastery. Henri Landin, in this work, presents faithful testimony and an exhaustive inventory of the techniques used in cutlery in the first half of the 19th century. Three large fold-out plates with upwards of fifty different illustrations between them. Incredibly scarce & interesting. N° de ref. del artículo RAREF1835HOQX

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