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Traité de L'Horlogerie Méchanique et Practique. Tome Second. [Treatise on Mechanical and Practical Watchmaking. Volume Two].

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Thiout, l'aîné [Antoine]

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Publisher:	Paris.: Charles Moette; Pere Prault; Louis Guérin ; Pierre-Andrè de Bats; Louis Du Puis; Charles Antoine Jombert.
Edition:	First Edition; Published Date: 1741
Illustrations:	41 folding copper-engraved plates describing clock and watch mechanisms
Dimensions:	260 x 200 mm (10 x 8 inches) - 400pp; 41 plates.
Appearance:	Brown hardback half-leather cover on marbled boards
Condition:	G : in good condition without dust jacket. Modern rebind with new endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Pages browned (commensurate with age) and with edge-tears. Occasional marking (not impinging). Some plates with backing-tape repair. Some loss and minor wear to plate 41.

Volume II only. Antoine Thiout the elder (Paris, 1692–1767) was a French clockmaker. He wrote Traité de l'Horlogerie Mechanique et Pratique in 1741 as a treatise on clockmaking which was widely read in his time. His plates describe clock and watch mechanisms which were often used in 18th century timepieces: for example a verge escapement powered by a spring encased in a barrel, and a regulation based on a cone-shaped fusee.

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Traité de L'Horlogerie Méchanique et Practique. Tome Second. [Treatise on Mechanical and Practical Watchmaking. Volume Two].

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