184 pages. With 32 pages of color images of violins. Text in English and German. A fine hardcover copy; no jacket, as issued. In a very good paper slipcase.
Price: $75
First Edition. 16 plates and 19 figures, all black and white. 6 by 8-1/2 inches. Published in an edition of 500 copies. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket.
Price: $25
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. 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
First Edition. 398 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches. A monograph of tsuba, the guards on Japanese swords. The book includes 20 full-page color plate, each protected with a tissue guard, and 298 black-and-white photographs, most two to a page. The captions are in Japanese only. The remainder of the book, about.....
Price: $150
First Edition. 698 pages. 9-1/2 by 13 inches. A detailed catalog of 694 exceptional pieces made in China for the export to the West. "This book aims to provide the most detailed and penetrating analysis yet made of the porcelains produced for Western market." Illustrated with some 700 images, 100 of.....
Price: $300
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
First Edition. 320 pages. 11-1/2 by 8-1/4 inches. Index. 174 instruments described; most illustrated with black-and-white photographs. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (paperback).
Price: $30
310 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Fine, clean copy.
Price: $17
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. 152 pages plus 61 black-and-white plates, most depicting two objects. 9 by 11 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Errata slip laid in.
Price: $50
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
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
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.....
Price: $50
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. 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.....
Price: $50
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
First Edition. 189 pages. A general introduction to the workings of clocks and watches. The author was a British watchmaker. First edition (first printing). Early inscription vigorously removed from front pastedown; light staining to preliminaries, else generally very good in the publisher's green gilt cloth.
Price: $30
448, 551, 51 leaves of plates. Text volumes 7 by 10 inches. Plate volume 12-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches (oblong). This is a facsimile reprint of the 1860 second edition of one of the great watch reference books of the 19th century, written by one of the most innovative watchmakers of.....
Price: $250
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
