Creator
Antoine Thiout l’aîné.
Title
Traité de L’Horlogerie Méchanique et Pratique (Tome Premier).
Coverage
Paris:
Publisher
Charles Moette,
Date
1741
Description
From my horological book collection, I selected the first volume of this early and widely read eighteenth-century treatise on clockmaking. Many fold-out engraved plates describe movements, escapements, and the sophisticated tools needed to create them. The books are dedicated to “Le Duc D’Orleans, Premier Prince Du Sang.” Planche 29 shows components of an ingenious machine designed by Pierre Fardoil (d.1722), Parisian Huguenot horologist and machinist later in London.
Source
From the Collection of Bob Frishman