Société des Lunetiers. Rue Pastourelle, 6. Paris. Tarif illustré de faces à mains, thermomètres & baromètres sculptés, machines à vapeur, bateaux à vapeur, pèse-lettres.

Société des Lunetiers. Rue Pastourelle, 6. Paris. Tarif illustré de faces à mains, thermomètres & baromètres sculptés, machines à vapeur, bateaux à vapeur, pèse-lettres.
Paris, rue Pastourelle, 6, 1898.
(25 x 32.5 cm). Oblong. 42 illustrated plates, [20] pp. pricelist for the object presented in the illustrations. Publisher’s original green cloth, covers decorated with a frame of vine scrolls in black and gilt title on the front cover. Head and tail worn, spine slightly loose, but the plates are in fine condition.

An early and rare trade catalogue from the Société des Lunetiers, a successor to the firm Coyen-Carmouche, offering products that include silver lorgnettes, magnifying glasses, thermometers, barometers, weather clocks, postal scales, steam engines, and small-scale train engines and boats powered by steam.

Founded in 1849, the Société des Lunetiers united numerous instrument makers whose overlapping skills were combined to make the firm a leader in manufacturing optical and other instruments. The firm exists to this day, now known as Essilor, a manufacturer known of eyeglass lenses.