Histoire de l'horlogerie depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours [...].

4to: [6]-408-[1] pp.

Publ. gilt decor. aubergine cloth, flat blind-st. spine, a.e.g.

First and only edition of this rare and sought after work by the French watchmaker P. Dubois (1802-1860). Ill. with b/w woodcuts in-text, 42 full-page pl. outside text of which 4 chromolithographed and heightened in gold and silver by Lemercier after Kellerhoven, 11 double-paged and 2 folding, representing watches and clocks, astrolabes and various horological mechanisms.
Ref. Tardy 81. - BnF. - Baillie (Watchmakers & Clockmakers), p. 90.