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[Clocks and watches] - LEPAUTE, Jean André -

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 EUR
[Clocks and watches] - LEPAUTE, Jean André -
[Clocks and watches] - LEPAUTE, Jean André - Traité d'horlogerie contenant tout ce qui est nécessaire pour bien connoitre et pour regler les pendules et les montres (...) [and] Tables du tems moyen au midi vrai. Paris, Jacques Chardon père & Jacques-Charles Cardon fils, 1755, 4to, contemp. sheep (rubbed), spine on 5 raised bands, [4]-xxviij-308-xxxv-[1] pp. (some (damp)stains and foxing). Good copy with wide margins. € 400/600 The rare original edition (reprinted 1767) of an interesting treatise on clocks and watches by J.A. Lepaute (1709-1789). Ill. with 17 folding engraved plates. Ref. Conlon, Siècle des Lumières 55: 859. BN Paris (1). NUC (2). Not in BL London.
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