[Recueil de planches de l'Encyclopédie méthodique]. Horlogerie.

[Paris, Panckoucke; Liège, Plomteux, c. 1784]

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Lot description

Folio: 25 pp.; 64 pl. (missing title, some pp. sl. brown., some faint spotting, one pl. loose, some wormtracks at the end).

Sewn, kept in a mod. folder and slipcase.

Complete with the text of F. Berthoud, watchmaker of Swiss origin (1727-1807), and the set of 64 large beautiful technical pl. representing different models, mechanisms, machines, tools, instruments, etc., engr. by Defehrt, Benard, Prevost, etc. after various designers.
Ref. Tardy 87.
Joined: Berthoud - Essai sur l'horlogerie [...]. Paris, Jombert, Musier, Panckoucke, 1763. 2 vol., 4to (browning and (damp)staining, some pp. loose, margins of pl. underl.). Contemp. brown sheep (def.). 1st ed. Ill. with 38 engr. pl. by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. Ref. Tardy 51. - Houzeau & Lancaster 10199. - Poggendorff I:168. Prov. Baron G. De Joigny (label). (3 vol.)