Description and condition:

Black cloth hardback, 12mo, 294 pp., index, fold-out plates.

Good copy, head and tail of spine show wear with loss, bent corners, top corners water damaged, this does not affect the inner pages. One gathering has started to come lose, plates are foxed, else good clean pages.

Contents:

Comprising descriptions of the various gearings, escapements, and compensations now in use in French, Swiss, and English clocks and watches, patents, tools, etc. With directions for cleaning and repairing. With numerous engravings, compiled from the French. With an appendix containing a history of clock and watchmaking in America. - scarce