Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2502Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 01, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Recueil Des Outils et Machines and Manuel De L'Outillage, Wertheim, Franz Freiherr von (1814-1883),Vienna: Carl Gerold sohn, 1869,
unbound folio of approximately 43 plates illustrating Austrian woodworking tools shown at the Paris Exposition of 1867, many hand-colored, all in an archival storage box.
Note: For a discussion and numerous plates of another seemingly identical folio held at the Winterthur Museum and Library see Crom #3, pp. 169-178.
Estimate $1,000-1,500