(1st edition) ZERELLA Y YCOAGA, Manuel de.- "GENERAL AND MATHEMATICAL TREATISE ON WATCHMAKING, which includes how to make watches of all kinds, and how to know how to compose and fix them, however difficult they may be" M.: Imprenta Real, 1789 4th major, skin, curdled spine with nerves and tejuelo; loss of skin at the top of the spine and open hinges. Painted cuts. 2 p.m. + XIV + 408 pages + 22 folded plates (the last two with restoration on paper) Pagination error, but complete copy. Moisture stain on the inner margin, without affecting the text, and slightly on the port. Some slight mottling, but mostly very good clean paper. First edition, very rare. Not in BNE. Palau 380316: "Zerella was Ferdinand VI''s chamber watchmaker and having studied all the secrets of this noble art in Geneva, he came to Spain and published his work with the hope of creating a Watchmaking School and a Factory that would compete with those of France and England. He explains a device of his invention to mince music cylinders, a secret that was jealously guarded by the watchmakers of the time".
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