L'horloge du laboureur, ou, Méthode très-facile de connoître l'heure de la nuit à l'aspect des étoiles
Print Book, French, MDCCXCI [1791]
De l'Imprimerie de Pellier, rue des Prouvaires, no. 61, A Paris, MDCCXCI [1791]
Hand-colored illustrations
14, [2] p., [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
1050143667
Published anonymously but attributed to Taillardat by Houzeau, Jean-Charles and Albert Benoît Marie Lancaster in Bibliographie générale de l'astronomie jusqu'en 1880
Type ornament
"Dédiée a M. Gerard, laboureur, député a l'assemblée nationaie [i.e. nationale]."
Another ed. with 13 p., also containing a frontispiece and 2 folded plates, was published in the same year by Journault le jeune
The first folded plate (36 x 52 cm folded to 26 x 18 cm) is entitled "L'horloge du laboureur," and has an attached volvelle tied on with string, and a straight pin mounted on the upper left side of the sheet; the second folded plate (36 x 52 cm folded to 23 x 19 cm) is entitled "Carte celeste sans divisions zodiaque ou midi," and has an unattached volvelle laid inside the fold
Signatures: A-B⁴