Author: Tardy [= Henry Gustave Lengellé].
Title: La pendule française des origines à nos jours. 1re partie, 2ème partie & 3ème partie. [Set of the first three volumes].
Description: Paris, Tardy, [1961 - 1964]. 3 vols. 498 pp. (pages 1 - 104, 105 - 272, 273 - 498). Many b./w. ills. Bound together in one modern hardcover binding (green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, front cover of part 1 mounted on the cover). Large 4to.Set of three volumes: 1re Partie: [De l'Horloge Gothique à la Pendule Louis XV]. Documents recueillie après de nos penduliers [2nd edition, 1961 = 1st edition of part 1]; 2me Partrie: Du Louis XVI à nos jours. Documents recueillie après de nos penduliers [1st edition, 1962]; 3me Partie: Les Provinces françaises. Horloges et Pendules étrangères. Documents recueillie après de nos penduliers et amateurs français et étrangers [1st edition, 1964]. - - 'All' first editions of the titles that are published as separate volumes. Volume one is a abriged and modified 'second' edition of the first edition from 1949, which was not yet published as part of a set at the time. - - An important hard-to-find set of books for collectors of French decorative clocks. The volumes contain an extensive history of French clocks and clockmaking. - Text in French.

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