Beschrijving
With 4 folding engraved plates after the text. The preliminaries consist of two gatherings of 6 leafs made to one gathering. Original printed wrappers, binding weak. Slight wear at the edges, but a good copy. This is the Dutch translation of wellknown Paris watchmaker Berthoud’s L’Art de Conduire et de Regler les Pendules et les Montres: A l’usage de ceux qui n’ont aucune connoissance d’Horologerie , which was first printed in Paris in 1759 and reprinted in The Hague in 1761. The translation was made by the civil servant J.D. Pasteur (1753-1804) at ’s-Gravendeel, who dedicated the book to J.H. van Swinden. A pocket manual on watches like this did not exist in the Dutch language at that time. The four plates by J.C. Bendorp depict details of watches. 12°: 3 (1-2 blank) *6 3 A-H6 I4 (I4 blank?), pag.: i-xvi [2] 1-102. B0008_x000B_