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The latest volume (No. 3) in David Penney's Profiles series, on English enamel watch dials, is now available and listed below. Also on this months newsletter are books I purchased recently from a serious book collector. The publication date for the new book A General History of Horology has been pushed back to late April, I will have more news of it then.
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Enamel Watch Dials: A Celebration of English Work
David Penney
NEW. Profile No 3 in a series of booklets by David Penney. The manufacture and use of vitreous enamel dials on English pocket watches started in the late 17th century and became the norm in the 18th century. This book describes the production methods and the changing designs from 1725 to 1930 and mentions the makers - the Willis family, Mathews, Weston, Marnham and Clarke. Card covers.
23 pages, illustrated, 2022.
£15.00 Order Here
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Lincolnshire Clock, Watch and Barometer Makers
A.S.H. Wilbourn & R. Ellis
NEW. This book contains a lot of research hence it has a very good list of Lincolnshire makers listed alphabetically and by place. There are interesting sections on Lincolnshire clock case makers, regional stylistic features of longcases and clockmakers' wills. A very useful addition to the regional literature as nothing else exists for the county. A new copy (old stock) of the soft covers edition, still in publishers shrink wrap.
196 pages, 45 plates, 2001.
£65.00 Order Here
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Daniels (G.): The Art of Breguet
NEW. £95.00 Order Here
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Dunn (R.): The Telescope - A Short History
NEW. £12.99 Order Here
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Kaltenböck (F.): Viennese Timepieces
NEW. £19.50 Order Here
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Marshall (T.): Buckinghamshire Clock & Watchmakers
NEW. £48.00 Order Here
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Harrison Decoded
Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock
Rory McEvoy & Jonathan Betts (editors)
NEW. A thorough study of Harrison's pendulum clockmaking from a practical perspective and the story of around forty years of collaborative research into John Harrison's complex and surprising pendulum clock theory. An unofficial test of Martin Burgess's 'Clock B' at the Royal Observatory, made from modern materials and following the perceived format laid out in Harrison's convoluted text 'Concerning such mechanism ...', showed exceptional timekeeping and proved that Harrisons ideas were sound. With dust jacket.
183 pages, 82 illustrations, 2020.
£53.00 Order Here
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Osterhausen (F. von): Paul Ditisheim Chronometrier
NEW. £55.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Plomp (R.): Spring-driven Dutch Pendulum Clocks 1637 - 1710
NEW. £50.00 Order Here
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Radage (D.), Meinen (W.) & Radage (L.): Charles Gretton - Clock & Watchmaking - Through the Golden Age
NEW. £75.00 Order Here
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Ridgway (M.H.) & Priestley (P.T.): The Compendium of Chester Gold and Silver Marks, 1570 to 1962 from the Chester Assay Office Registers
NEW. £65.00 Order Here
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The Quest for Longitude
W.J.H. Andrewes (Editor)
O/P. This is a valuable, learned volume, being a record of the contributions to the Longitude Symposium held at Harvard University in 1993. The symposium was held to commemorate John Harrison's birth 300 years before. A very good copy with dust jacket.
437 pages, illustrated, 1st edition, 1996
£40.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Breguet (E.) & Sabrier (J.-C.): Breguet in the Hermitage (catalogue)
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Chamberlain (P.M.): It's About Time (1st edition, 1941)
O/P. £110.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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Cleempoel (K. van): Astrolabes at Greenwich - A Catalogue of the Astrolabes in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
O/P. £95.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Edgcumbe (R.): The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth Century London
O/P. £175.00 less 10% Order Here * Three copies only *
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John Joseph Merlin, The Ingenious Mechanick
Anne French
O/P. An interesting exhibition catalogue about Merlin and the mechanical items he designed and made (mechanical and musical instruments, automata, clocks and watches). Merlin worked for James Cox for a short period and the book also contains useful information about Cox and Cox's Museum, as well as its successor, Merlin's Mechanical Museum. A fine copy, card covers.
146 pages, illustrated, 1985.
£20.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Green (F.H.): Old English Clocks (1st edition, 1931)
O/P. £550.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Glennie (P.) & Thrift (N.): Shaping the Day A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800
O/P. £45.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Grimwood (P.): Moon Mechanisms A Restorer's Guide
O/P. £55.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Higton (H.): Sundials at Greenwich (hardback edition)
O/P. £220.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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The Warning Carriers - How messengers of the Goldsmiths' Company warned the luxury trades of criminal activities in eighteenth-century London
Judy Jowett
O/P. An interesting account, based on a handwritten notebook dated 1744, of how details of lost and stolen bills of exchange, gold & silver plate, watches and jewellery were quickly circulated to gold & silversmiths, watchmakers and pawnbrokers. Several watchmakers are included on the circulation lists including George Graham, Benjamin Sidey, Edward Pinchbeck and Charles Clay. A very good copy (a few pencil annotations in text), card covers.
142 pages, 63 illustrations, 2005.
£20.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Lepaute (J.A.): Traité D'Horlogerie (facsimile edition, 1975)
O/P. £80.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Mondani (F.) & Mondani (G.): 100 Years of Rolex 1908 - 2008
O/P. £150.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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Moore (A.J.): The Clockmakers of Bristol 1650 - 1900
O/P. £350.00 less 10% Order Here
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Ord-Hume (A.W.J.G.): Musical Box - a History and Collector's Guide
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Schoppig (R.): L'Horloge Française A Poids 1ere partie - Sa période artisanale du XVIe siècle au début du XiX siècle
O/P. £235.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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Severs (D.F.): Northallerton's Clockmakers: Hugh Pannell and his Successors
O/P. £110.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Stalker (J.) & Parker (G.): A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Turner (A.): Early Scientific Instruments Europe 1400 -1800
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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That's all for this month, But if you have books to buy or books to sell please let us know.
As always, if there are any books you are looking for please let us know by email and we will do our best to find them for you.
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With best wishes,
Jeff & Ros Formby
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Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558
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