Longitude.- Harrison (John) Principes de la Montre de Mr. Harrison, avec les Planches relatives, first French edition, text in French and English with facing titles also in both languages, 7 folding engraved plates at end, Avignon & Paris, 1767; bound with Extrait de la Reponse de Mr. Jean Harrison aux Remarques et Objections de Monsieur Maskelyne, Avignon & Paris, 1768; bound with Grenier (Le Sieur) Balancier de Pendule a Secondes, d'une Nouvelle Construction, folding engraved plate misbound in the previous work, ?Rouen, 1780, together 3 works in 1, some staining and soiling, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, spine ends chipped, 4to ⁂ Three rare horological works. The first mentioned was published only three months after the English edition and includes the English text and some further information on Harrison's work and his great sea clock no.4 (H4). The first two works were both translated by Esprit Pezenas. The last work is rare: Baillie records the work as being in Rozier's Observations sur la Physique, vol.16, pp.139-148, and calls for 1 plate as here, but our copy is paginated 1-20 and would therefore appear to be an offprint; Tardy cites the work, dating it to 1781 but calls for 9 plates; there is no work by Grenier in the Clockmakers' Library catalogue. Provenance: "P.J. D'Agousau? horloger a Malines" [ie Mechelen, Belgium] ink inscription to verso of English title.
Longitude.- Harrison (John) Principes de la Montre de Mr. Harrison, avec les Planches relatives, first French edition, text in French and English with facing titles also in both languages, 7 folding engraved plates at end, Avignon & Paris, 1767; bound with Extrait de la Reponse de Mr. Jean Harrison aux Remarques et Objections de Monsieur Maskelyne, Avignon & Paris, 1768; bound with Grenier (Le Sieur) Balancier de Pendule a Secondes, d'une Nouvelle Construction, folding engraved plate misbound in the previous work, ?Rouen, 1780, together 3 works in 1, some staining and soiling, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed, spine ends chipped, 4to ⁂ Three rare horological works. The first mentioned was published only three months after the English edition and includes the English text and some further information on Harrison's work and his great sea clock no.4 (H4). The first two works were both translated by Esprit Pezenas. The last work is rare: Baillie records the work as being in Rozier's Observations sur la Physique, vol.16, pp.139-148, and calls for 1 plate as here, but our copy is paginated 1-20 and would therefore appear to be an offprint; Tardy cites the work, dating it to 1781 but calls for 9 plates; there is no work by Grenier in the Clockmakers' Library catalogue. Provenance: "P.J. D'Agousau? horloger a Malines" [ie Mechelen, Belgium] ink inscription to verso of English title.
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