Reading, England: Thames Facsimile Company, 1962. Hardcover. Small format facsimile of a book published in 1675, the first book in English on clockmaking. 120 pages. 4-1/2 by 6-1/4 inches. Very good, slight spine slant. Bookplate of horology expert Charles Aked and bookstore label inside. Clean hardcover copy; no jacket probably as.....
Price: $40
Elizabeth, NJ: Engineering Publishers, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. ix, 291 pages. Illustrated with more than 100 black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket. Some spotting to cloth. The author affixed a sticker over the publisher's imprint on the title page.
Price: $25
Ticehurst, Wadhurst, East Sussex, England: Antiquarian Horological Society, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback. 159 pages. 8 by 11-1/2 inches. Dozens of black-and-white illustrations. First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback) (Also issued in hardcover).
Price: $50
Columbia, PA: National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc., 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
Price: $25
Reading, England: Thames Facsimile Company, 1962. Hardcover. 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.
Price: $40
Castletown, Isle of Man: Fromanteel, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 301 pages. "An exhibition coordinated by the Dutch section of the Antiquarian Horological Society." 11 by 12-1/2 inches. Illustrated in color. A large, heavy book. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100
Oxford: Clarenden Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, xxii, 563, 387, 318 pages plus 24 black-and-white plates. Vol. I: Texts and translations; Vol. II: The Life of Richard of Wallingford, introductions and commentaries to the texts; Vol. III: Illustrations, tables, appendixes, glossaries, bibliography, and indexes. The definitive collection of.....
Price: $250
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. x, 463 pages. 9-3/4 by 12-1/2 inches. 413 objects are photographs and described. A large, heavy book. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Minor wear to the publisher's slipcase.
Price: $250
Neuchatel, Switzerland: Editions du Griffon, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. 120 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. Black-and-white illustrations. A brief history of the great French watchmaker during the French Revolution. Text in French. Published in an edition of 1000 numbered copies. First edition (first printing). Edges a bit faded, else very.....
Price: $100
New York: Christie's, 2005. Trade paperback. 234 pages. 343 items in the sale. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Price: $20
Fitzwilliam, NH: Ken Roberts Publishing, 1988. Second Edition. Hardcover. iv, 388 pages. With more than 200 black-and-white illustrations. This revised edition adds about 50 additional pages to the 1970 first edition. Second edition. Spine a bit faded, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Roberts on.....
Price: $25
Kingston, Tasmania: Richard Watkins, 2007. Trade paperback. 158 pages. 8-1/4 by 11-1/2 inches. An English translation of the relevant portions of two works describing how to make a verge watch from rough brass and steel: Berthoud's Essai sur l'Horlogerie (1763) and Auch's Handbuch fur Landuhrmacher (1827). Worldcat locates four copies.....
Price: $30
Columbia, PA: National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, 2011. Hardcover. iv, 600 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. Second edition (previously published as American Clockmakers and Watchmakers). A dictionary of makers, with one line to one paragraph of biographical details. Fine hardcover; no jacket, perhaps as issued.
Price: $50
London: British Museum Publications, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 88 pages plus 48 pages of black-and-white illustrations. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $20
Furtwangen: Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, 2010. Trade paperback. 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.....
Price: $50
Paris: Chez Leonce Laget, 1978. Hardcover. 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.
Price: $50
Wien: A. Hartlebens, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 640 pages. With more than 250 illustrations and diagrams in the text. A watch repair and servicing handbook. Text in German. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a contemporary cloth and marbled paper binding. Spine somewhat faded.
Price: $125
Enfield, Middlesex, England: E. L. Lee, [1962?]. Hardcover. 34 pages, including 22 pages of black-and-white plates. A short biography of the founder of the Breguet watch firm; translated from the French by W. A. H. Brown. Near fine hardcover.
Price: $25
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London and New York: W. Kent & Co. and E. & F. N. Spon, 1886. Hardcover. Sixth edition. 384 pages. The classic guide. A very good copy. Some old pencilled noted on the front free endpaper. Binding a bit shaken, but intact.
Price: $20
Ticehurst, Wadhurst, Sussex, England: Antiquarian Horological Society, 2006. First Edition. Trade paperback. 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).
Price: $30
London: N.A.G. Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $30
Paris: Librairie J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1924. Hardcover. 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;.....
Price: $50
London: Research Publishing Co., 1967. Hardcover. 190 pages. Short biographies of members of the Barraud family, including Paul Philip Barraud who was a noted watchmaker. Hand-drawn family trees reproduced in the appendices. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $40
Ticehurst, Wadhurst, Sussex, England: Antiquarian Horological Society, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 165 pages. Translated from the Spanish. An edition of 1000 copies. First English language edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $30
London: Country Life, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 436 pages. With several hundred black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $30
