LEPAUTE (Jean-André). A TREATISE ON CLOCK-MAKING... - Lot 130 - De Baecque et Associés

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LEPAUTE (Jean-André). A TREATISE ON CLOCK-MAKING... - Lot 130 - De Baecque et Associés
LEPAUTE (Jean-André). A TREATISE ON CLOCK-MAKING CONTAINING ALL THAT IS NECESSARY TO KNOW WELL AND TO ADJUST CLOCKS AND WATCHES,... Paris, Chardon, 1755. In-4° of [4]-28-306 (ill. chif. 308)-35-[1] pages, brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Lepaute presented 3 years earlier to Louis XV, an innovative clock with a wheel that marked the minutes and seconds. Benefiting from the royal recognition, he was appointed clockmaker to the King and published this treatise which was republished many times. This one gives the description of the most useful clockwork parts, repetitions, equations, one-wheel clocks, and those of the new escapement, with a treatise on gears, and several tables, First edition of this important treatise written with the help of the astronomer Jérôme Lalande, it is illustrated with 17 folding plates in intaglio. The latter frayed in the margins with traces of wetness, some torn without missing, well executed restorations to the spines and corners, modest ex.
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