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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 21, 1995

LOT 72

HATTON, Thomas. An Introduction to the Mechanical part of Clock and Watch Work in tzuo parts.., a Work very useful for the zuorking mechanic or gentlemen mechanically inclined, London, 1773.

CHF 1,000 - 1,200

80, contemp. sheep worn, corners bumped, head & ft of sp chipped, jts cracked, pp. xvi + 400 with 18 eng flg pis.


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Note: Scarce and valuable work, one of the few books in any language to have been written by a working clockmaker about his craft. Apart from offering an invaluable picture of 18th Century techniques, Hatton's text supplies mach important ancillary historical information.