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(HOROLOGY.) Berthoud, Ferdinand. Histoire de la Mesure du Temps par les Horloges. 23 folding engraved plates. [2], xxviii, 373, [1]; [2], xvi, 447, [1] pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, modern calf with morocco lettering pieces; marginal foxing minimally affecting plates, restoration in blank upper outer corner of half-titles and titles, repaired wormhole in blank upper outer corner of plates 3-9 in Volume 1, worming in upper inner corners toward beginning of Volume 2 generally not impairing legibility. Paris: Imprimerie de la République, 1802
first edition of an authoritative history of timekeeping with clocks, by a leading clock- and chronometer-maker of the period. Houzeau & Lancaster 10217.
