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.....
Price: $50
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 issued.
Price: $40
First Edition. 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
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.
Price: $25
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
First Edition. 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 the 14th century British clockmaker.....
Price: $250
Second Edition. 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 the title page.
Price: $25
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 in libraries, all in Australia. Second printing.....
Price: $30
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.....
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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
First Edition. 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
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).
Price: $30
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.
Price: $30
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.....
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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
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.....
Price: $300
First Edition. 195 pages. A London watchmaker describes various kinds of clocks, watches, and timekeeping devices. First edition (first printing). One gathering coming loose; short tears to cloth at spine ends, else very good. Inscribed by the author on the verso (back) of the front free endpaper.
Price: $75
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.....
Price: $85
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First Edition. 252 pages. An anecdotal account of the development of clocks and watches, written for a popular audience. A very good copy in the publisher's decorated cloth binding. This copy has Eugene Field's bookplate on the front pastedown and his ownership signature, dated 1893, on the facing page. In the.....
Price: $75
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.....
Price: $40
First Edition. 134 pages. 9-7/8 by 12-1/4 inches. Text in French and German. Several dozen watches are illustrated with color photographs. Ditisheim was the best maker of chronometers in the early 20th century and made important advances to account for atmospheric pressure and magnetic fields on timekeeping. Fine in illustrated.....
Price: $125
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......
Price: $150
