MUSTON (Etienne). Watchmaking in the Jura mountains. Essai d - Lot 494

MUSTON (Etienne). Watchmaking in the Jura mountains. Essai de statistique industrielle [in: Compte-rendu de la situation et des travaux de la Société d'émulation de Montbéliard, read at the meeting of May 5, 1859, pp. 38-159], Montbéliard: Henri Barbier, 1859. In-8, pp. 38-159, 10 hors-texte plates. Red half-basane, long spine, gilt titles (period binding). A very good copy (plates loose, text in perfect condition). With 10 engraved plates. A work in praise of the Japy company in Beaucourt. "A work that retraces, among other things, the epic of the Beaucourt manufacturers, and which will be supplemented by several publications on the Montbéliard region" (cf. Mayaud, Jean-Luc. Horlogeries. Le Temps de L'histoire, 1995, p. 59). Étienne Muston, Ingénu Japy's son-in-law, joined the company in 1854, and is "as close as possible to oral sources concerning Beaucourto's industry". (Ibid.). Volume also containing: De la contagion, par le docteur Tuefferd fils (Montbéliard: impr. Henri Barbier, 1859) // Tuetey, Alexandre. Étude sur le droit municipal au XIIIe et au XIVe siècle en Franche-Comté et en particulier à Montbéliard (p. 109-429).