Jean-André LEPAUTE. - Lot 77

Jean-André LEPAUTE. Traité d'Horlogerie containing all that is necessary to understand and regulate clocks and watches, a description of the most useful timepieces, repetitions, equations, one-wheel clocks, etc., the new escapement, a treatise on gears, with several tables and XVII intaglio plates. Paris, Chardon, 1755, in-4 bound in full posterior basane, ornate ribbed spine, double title-piece, red edges. Illustrated with 17 copper-engraved folding plates, the first of which is missing here. First edition of this important treatise, Lepaute (1709-1790) was considered in his day to be the most skilled clockmaker in Paris, to whom we owe many of the clocks that adorn the capital's public buildings.