Faiseur de metier a bas....et faiseur de bas au metier

by Weaving, Faiseur de metier a. bas... et faiseur

$750 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

Paris ? : n.p., n.d. 4to. 8 pp., including errata plus 11 engraved plates 8 folding and 3 full-page . Text in double columns within decorated woodcut borders. Page 1 is a front wrapper; bound into recent marbled boards; some browning and marginal staining. Item #3315 One of the earliest books on the construction and operation of a textile machine that fashioned hosiery. This invention, introduced in the mid-eighteenth

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