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
Tokyo: Shibata bijutsu tokenten toshobu, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $150
London and New York: Sotheby Park Bernet, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.....
Price: $300
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
[Edinburgh?]: National Museums of Scotland, 1989. First Edition. Trade paperback. 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
Mendham, NJ: Astragal Press, 1999. Trade paperback. 310 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Fine, clean copy.
Price: $17
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
London: British Museum Publications, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 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
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
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
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
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
