Category: Clocks/Watches

Clockmakers and Craftsmen of the Avery Family in Connecticut

By: Avery, Amos G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hartford, The Connecticut Historical Society : 1987

Seller ID: 11617

ISBN-13: 9780940748941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

not issued with a dust jacket; previous owner's blindstamp at bottom of half-title page.
Illustrated with 2 maps, a frontispiece, a genealogical chart, and 76 plates, all in black and white.
165pp 1.67lb 10.8x7.5x0.8in
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New England Clocks at Old Sturbridge Village: The J. Cheney Wells Collection

By: Avery, Amos G.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sturbridge, MA, Old Sturbridge Village : 1966

Seller ID: 10377

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

four pages with circled number in margin, paper clip impressions on 3 pages.
Illustrated with 39 full page black and white plates.
44pp 0.20lb 8.5x5.5x0.1in
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Die Uhrenmacher des hohen Schwarzwaldes und ihre Werke, 2 volume set

By: Bender, Gert

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Villingen/Schwarzwald, Verlag Muller : 1975

Seller ID: 15405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

in cardboard slipcases, volume 2 published 1979. Dust jacket in clear protector.
Illustrated in black and white with some color. Text in German.
1225pp 7.62lb 9.9x6.7x3.3in
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The Clockmakers' Library: The Catalogue of the Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

By: Bromley, John (compiler)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Sotheby Parke Bernet : 1977

Seller ID: 10751

ISBN-13: 9780856670336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

dust jacket slightly faded on spine, rubbed at folds, small tears at top and bottom of front fold. Dust jacket in clear protector.
The collection is organized into four sections: Printed Books with 901 described and indexed; Manuscripts with 176 described and indexed; Portraits with 39 described; and Prints, Drawings, Paintings and Photographs with 35 described. Illustrated with 52 black and white plates.
136pp 2.33lb 11.3x8.7x0.8in
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The Longcase Clock

By: Bruton, Eric

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Praeger : 1968

Seller ID: 10807

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing 1969; light foxing to top edge of text block, dust jacket price-clipped with foxing to exposed area of flaps. Dust jacket in clear protector.
With illustration on 22 black and white plates. 26 figures accompany the text.
146pp 0.94lb 8.8x5.7x0.7in
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The Watch: From its origins to the XIXth century

By: Cardinal, Catherine

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Secacus, NJ, Wellfleet Press : 1989

Seller ID: 11410

ISBN-13: 9781555214760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

reprint edition.
This work sets forth the history of the watch, not only from the technical standpoint but also from the artistic perspective. It examines how watch decoration has kept pace with fluctuations in decorative style. The influence of new techniques, such as over-enamel painting, is also taken into account. It draws on classical works and personal research of unpublished documents. 106 illustrations in full color, 74 in black and white.
237pp 3.44lb 11.3x9.9x1.1in
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The Watch: From its origins to the XIXth century

By: Cardinal, Catherine

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Tabard Press : 1989

Seller ID: 11082

ISBN-13: 9780914427292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

owner's blindstamp on half-title page. Dust jacket in clear protector.
This work sets forth the history of the watch, not only from the technical standpoint but also from the artistic perspective. It examines how watch decoration has kept pace with fluctuations in decorative style. The influence of new techniques, such as over-enamel painting, is also taken into account. It draws on classical works and personal research of unpublished documents. 106 illustrations in full color, 74 in black and white.
237pp 3.43lb 11.3x9.8x1.1in
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A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks

By: Fanelli, Joseph and Charles Terwilliger

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Bronxville, NY, Clock Trade Enterprises : 1987

Seller ID: 27311

ISBN-13: 9780916316044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

dust jacket with small tear at top of spine. Dust jacket in clear protector.
This impressive volume features one hundred examples of the most sought-after carriage clocks in this country that are still in private collections, each beautifully photographed in color. Often several views of a clock are given to show parts of the case, the engraving, enameling or other features in greater detail.
224pp 2.82lb 11.2x8.8x0.7in
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The Lure of the Clock: An Account of the James Arthur Collection of Clocks and Watches at New York University

By: Hering, D. W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The New York University Press : 1932

Seller ID: 10491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

presentation from author to Richard T. Cox, physics professor at NYU and later Johns Hopkins; slight fading to spine, lacking glassine dust jacket.
Illustrated with 89 figures, 8 in color.
121pp 1.82lb 9.2x6.3x1.0in
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Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth Century

By: Hoopes, Penrose R.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1930

Seller ID: 10570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The book is organized into two parts. Part One, Clockmaking in Eighteenth Century Connecticut discusses the pioneers, early clocks, brass clockmaking, wood clockmaking, and public clocks. Part Two, Clockmakers in Eighteenth Century Connecticut has biographies of seventy-nine clockmakers, illustrations (8 of clock works, 24 of clock faces, and 24 of clock cases), bibliography, index of names, and index of plates.
178pp 1.80lb 10.3x7.6x0.8in
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A Study of Simon Willard's Clocks

By: Husher, Richard W. and Walter W. Welch

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Nahant, MA, Husher and Welch : 1980

Seller ID: 26406

ISBN-13: 9780960394401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

dust jacket with light foxing to front and back panels. Dust jacket in clear protector. The book is organized into ten chapters and is illustrated in black and white: 1. The thirty hour Grafton wall clock (26 illustrations); 2. Willard shelf clocks (26 illustrations); 3. The improved timepiece or banjo clock (35 illustrations); 4. The regulator banjo clock (14 illustrations); 5. Gallery clocks (33 illustrations); 6. The patented alarm or lighthouse clock (25 illustrations); 7. Tall case clocks (26 illustrations); 8. Tower clocks (10 illustrations); 9. Clockwork roasting jack (5 illustrations);...
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A Study of Simon Willard's Clocks

By: Husher, Richard W. and Walter W. Welch

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Nahant, MA, Husher and Welch : 1980

Seller ID: 30664

ISBN-13: 9780960394401

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

signed by authors; light foxing to edges of text block, dust jacket with light foxing to front and back panels, small tear at bottom of front panel, small tear at top of back panel. Dust jacket in clear protector. The book is organized into ten chapters and is illustrated in black and white: 1. The thirty hour Grafton wall clock (26 illustrations); 2. Willard shelf clocks (26 illustrations); 3. The improved timepiece or banjo clock (35 illustrations); 4. The regulator banjo clock (14 illustrations); 5. Gallery clocks (33 illustrations); 6. The patented alarm or lighthouse clock (25 illustratio...
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Encyclopedie de La Pendule Française du Moyen Age at Xxe Siècle

By: Kjellberg, Pierre

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Editions de l'Amateur : 1997

Seller ID: 29059

ISBN-13: 9782859174125

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

reprinted 2005. Dust jacket in clear protector.
A chronological encyclopedia of French Clocks covering the periods: Middle Ages, Renaissance, century of Louis XIV, Regency and Reign of Louis XV, Neo-Classical, end of the 18th century, Empire and Restauration, Romantic, Second Empire, and 20th Century. Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. Text in French.
526pp 7.11lb 11.1x9.7x1.9in
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The Collector's Dictionary of Clocks

By: Lloyd, H. Alan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, A. S. Barnes and Co : 1964

Seller ID: 10811

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

shelf wear to bottom of boards, toning at head and foot of spine cloth, toning to pastedowns and endpapers, dust jacket with numerous repaired tears at head of spine and top edge of front and back panels, creasing to front and back flaps. Dust jacket in clear protector.
A dictionary of clock types, clock components, and clockmakers, illustrated with 509 photographs and diagrams.
214pp 2.88lb 12.4x9.5x0.7in
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Cartier Watchmaking Collection 2014

By: Maison Cartier

Price: $15.00

Publisher: np, Cartier : 2014

Seller ID: 26976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

not issued with a dust jacket.
Beautifully illustrated in color.
120pp 1.13lb 9.4x6.5x0.5in
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The Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata 1550-1650

By: Maurice, Klaus and Otto Mayr (editors)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Neale Watson Academic Publications : 1980

Seller ID: 11023

ISBN-13: 9780882021881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust jacket in clear protector.
This book is the catalogue of the exhibition The Clockwork Universe shown in Munich at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum from April 15 to September 30, 1980, and in Washington, D.C. at the National Museum of Science and Technology from November 7, 1980 to February 15, 1981. 128 clocks are described and illustrated, several in color. 84 figures accompany the text.
321pp 3.50lb 11.4x8.8x1.2in
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Relojes Antiguos (1500-1850)

By: Monreal y Tejada, Luis

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Barcelona, Coleccion F. Perez de Olaguer-Feliu : 1955

Seller ID: 15404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

in slipcase; in slipcase with light edge wear to opening.
238 objects are described and illustrated in black and white. Text in Spanish.
238pp 2.59lb 10.0x7.0x1.2in
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French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830: A Study of the Figural Images

By: Niehüser, Elke

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing : 1999

Seller ID: 29343

ISBN-13: 9780764309434

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust jacket in clear protector.
302 clocks are described and illustrated, about half in color.
267pp 4.33lb 12.2x9.3x1.2in
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The Watch

By: Stone, Gene

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Abrams : 2006

Seller ID: 30488

ISBN-13: 9780810930933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

inscribed by author. Dust jacket in clear protector.
Illustrated with more than 680 photographs of men's watches, including details of dials and movements.
256pp 2.56lb 9.3x9.3x0.9in
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Maryland Clockmakers

By: Whisker, James Biser, Daniel David Hartzler, and Steven P. Petrucelli

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cranbury, NJ, Adams Brown Company : 1996

Seller ID: 23606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

glossy pictorial boards, not issued with a dust jacket.
This book provides a checklist of Maryland clockmakers and is illustrated with 281 black and white plates.
248pp 3.04lb 11.3x8.8x0.9in
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Category: Clocks/Watches