First Edition. An essential reference work dedicated to mechanical and electric clock companies; clock retail and part supplier firms; clock related foundry companies; clock label printers; and trademarks, trade names, and brand names. Volume One covers several hundred companies with biographical entries and histories, augmented with over 400 trademarks and.....

First Edition. A history and detailed analysis of the mechanism of the Farnese (or Parma) Planisferologio, one of the most complicated clocks ever constructed. It was built at the beginning of the eighteenth century by the Italian watchmaker Bernardo Facini of Parma, working on technical studies by the mathematician Geminiano.....

First Edition. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches vii, 262 pages. With several hundred photographs and line diagrams, some in color. First edition (first printing). Page block a bit wavy, thus very good in a like jacket.

92 pages. Folding plate. 4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. Small format facsimile of a book published in 1694. Very good, slight spine slant. Bookplate of horology expert Charles Aked and bookstore label inside. Clean hardcover copy; no jacket probably as issued.

viii, 387, [9] plus plates. A facsimile of the 1734 edition. Limited to 500 copies. A touch spine faded, else a near fine hardcover copy.

First Edition. 282 pages. 9 by 10-3/4 inches. Catalog of an exhibition heald at the Oxford University Museum of the History of Science. Extensively illustrated from color photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).

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.....

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.....

First Edition. 312 pages plus ads. An introduction to fine watches by a noted 19th century collector, with a translation into English of de Lalande's treatise on the pitching of wheels and pinions. Neltrhropp explains in his introduction that watchmakers tend to be tight-lipped about their work and that watch.....

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.....

89 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. A facsimile of a much sought-after clock book, illustrated with 50 black-and-white plates. Limited to 100 copies. 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......