First Edition. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. 288 pages. 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book.
Price: $50
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.....
Price: $60
First Edition. An English translation of a French watch exhibition catalog. 211 pages. Extensively illustrated from color photographs. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $30
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
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
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
