L'Art De Conduire Et De Régler Les Pendules Et Les Montres : À L'Usage De Ceux Qui N'Ont Aucune Connoissance D'Horlogerie

Paris, chez l'auteur et Michel Lambert, 1759; duodecimo (12mo) (150x94 mm), XVI, 79 pp, 4 plates. 19th-century brown half-leather binding with corners by Koehler, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. Complete with its four folding plates engraved by Choffard. A treatise on horology by Ferdinand Berthoud, Swiss master clockmaker and chronometer-maker (1727 - 1807), famous for his marine chronometers.