Exceptional Horological Sale Celebrat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 359

Lot of seven books, comprising: 1 . Alfred Chapuis and Edouard Gelis, 1928. Two volumes of "Le Monde des Automates", Paris, 1928. 2 . "Les savants du XVIIe siècle et la mesure du temps", by L. Defossez, Montreux (Switzerland), 1946, 341 pages 3. "Mesures du Temps et de l?espace", by Samuel Guye and Henri Michel, Fribourg 1970. 290 pages with many color and black and white illustrations. 4. "Le Pendule Française", by Tardy, 1962, 1st part ? De l?Horloge Gothique à la Pendule Louis XV. 104 pages with many white and black photographs. 5 . "Le Pendule Française", by Tardy, 1962, 2nd part ? Louis XVI. 272 pages. 6. "Le Pendule Française", by Tardy, 1962, 3rd part ? Provinces et Etranger. 498 pages with many black and white photographs. No one has written more comprehensively on French clocks than Tardy. 7 . "Le Grand Frédéric et ses horlogers", by Alfred Chapuis, Lausanne (Switzerland), 1938, 95 pages (Not illustrated)