Ancient Planetary Observations and the Validity of Ephemeris Time
First Edition. 749 pages. Reproduced from typescript. First edition (first printing). Near find hardcover.
Item No: #35395
Price: $25
Horology
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Der kunstreiche Uhrmacher: Kostbarkeiten aus der Bibliothek des Deutschen Uhrenmuseums
189 pages. 8 by 11-1/4 inches. Furtwanger Beiträge zur Uhrengeschichte, neue Folge, Band 3. Exhibition catalog of rare German clock books. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of title pages and representative plates. With bibliographic information and one or two paragraphs of description. Text in German. Uncommon. First edition (first printing). Near.....
Item No: #35250
Price: $50
Watchmakers' & Clockmakers' Encylopaedic Dictionary
First Edition. xxxii, 252, [4] pages. with 3,000 definitions and 1,100 illustrations by E. A. Ayres. A useful reference, with more than thirty pages of ads for 1950s watch and clock makers and dealers. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Item No: #14770
Price: $30
Horlogerie et chronométrie
582 pages. A very technical book on watchmaking, in French. Part of the Encyclopèdie de Mecanique Appliquée. Andrade published several related books in the early 20th century; this appears to be a combination of several earlier titles into one text. Pages tanned; very good in a later green pebbled cloth.....
Item No: #14666
Price: $50
One of a handful of copies in dust jackets
Old English Clocks: Being a Collector's Observations on Some Seventeenth Century Clocks
First Edition. 9 by 11-1/2 inches. "With over fifty plates taken from photographs of the finest specimens." Privately printed in an edition of 300 copies on handmade paper, with most of the illustrations printed separately and tipped in. A classic English clockbook, printed by Hilary Pepler at Ditchling, an intentional.....
Item No: #14619
Price: $300
Die Kaisermonument-Uhr: Monographie einer historisch bedeutungsvollen Figurenuhr aus der Spätzeit Kaiser Karls V. (1500-1558)
87 pages. 8-1/4 by 12 inches. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white and two color photographs. A detailed monograph on a single clock on a very decorative base. Limited to 300 copies. A fine copy in red cloth, no dust jacket. While the limitation is stated as 300 copies, this example has.....
Item No: #14589
Price: $40
Old English Clocks: Being a Collector's Observations on Some Seventeenth Century Clocks [Facsimile]
A facsimile of a much sought-after clock book, illustrated with 50 black-and-white plates. Limited to 100 copies. 89 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. Fine binding, in blue leatherette. Preliminaries foxed. This is copy 3 of 100. It is inscribed, "To my very good friend Paul who introduced me to A.H.S......
Item No: #14575
Price: $150
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