The newsletter has a wide variety of books this month, something for everybody perhaps.

We also have a new selection of books on special offer this month which you can see here.

Some of the books currently in stock:

Going Dutch The Invention of the Pendulum Clock
Pier van Leeuwen (editor):

NEW. The proceedings of a symposium, organised by the Dutch Clock and Watch Museum, held at Teylers Museum, Haarlem in 2011. The seven lectures are all in the English language, two additional papers about the history of the Museum are in Dutch. An interesting work on Christiaan Huygens and the invention of the pendulum clock. Card covers.

75 pages, illustrated, 2013.

£14.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Rare and Unusual Black Forest Clocks
Justin J. Miller

NEW. A well illustrated new book about the rarer and more unusual Black Forest clocks - small or musical or with automata or with other complications. The appendices of the book are a reprint of various important original catalogues produced by Black Forest casemakers (including carvers) and clockmakers, including Johann Baptist Beha. With dust jacket.

304 pages, 721 colour illustrations, 2012.

£85.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Antiquarian Horological Society: Tercentenary Exhibition of the Pendulum Clock of Christian Huygens
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * Three only *

Henwood (G.): Abbot Richard of Wallingford - Fourteenth Century Scholar and Instrument Maker
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Steffen (Werner & Fils): Watch Jewels
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Loomes (B.): Grandfather Clocks and their Cases
O/P. £70.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Gould (R.T.): Communications Old and New
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Berthoud (F.): Essai sur L'Horlogerie (facsimile reprint)
O/P. £195.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Kreuzer (A.): Omega Designs
NEW. £55.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Stow on the Wold
Barnaby Smith

NEW. A well researched new book, by Barnaby Smith, who has collected information about the Stow (Gloucestershire) clockmakers (especially the Archer family) for well over 30 years. Walter Archer was working in Stow by 1699 and his descendants continued in Stow until 1824. Other Stow makers worked from 1719 up to about 1939, the practitioners from the mid 19th century onwards being retailers/repairers not 'makers'.

184 pages, 95 illustrations, 2024.

£25.00 Order Here

Ord-Hume (A.W.J.G.): Clockwork Music
O/P. £10.00 Order Here

Capriglia (Guiseppe Da):
Misura del Tempo, cioè, Trattato d'Horologij (facsimile reprint)
O/P. £9.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Folsom (M.B.) & Lubar (S.D.) editors: The Philosophy of Manufactures - Early Debates over Industrialisation in the United States
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Priestley (P.T.): Early Watch Case Makers of England 1631 - 1720
NEW. £50.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Philpott (S.F.): Modern Electric Clocks (1st edition)
O/P. £25.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Asprey: Exhibition of Marine Chronometers August 1972
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

García-Diego (J.A.):
Juanelo Turriano Charles V's Clockmaker - the Man and his Legend
O/P. £25.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Stokesley's Clockmakers
Clockmaking in a North Yorkshire Market Town
David F. Severs

O.P. A well researched book with a detailed account of the 29 clockmakers, and their clocks, who worked in Stokesley between 1740 and 1900. Card covers.

139 pages, 36 plates, a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, 2008.

£20.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Attali (J.): Mémoire de Sabliers - Collections, mode d'emploi (Sand Glasses)
O/P. £45.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Atkins (S.E.) & Overall (W.H.): Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London
O/P. £95.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Bird (C.) & Bird (Y.) (Editors): Norfolk & Norwich Clocks & Clockmakers
O/P. £45.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Robinson (T.): Thomas Walder, Clockmaker of Arundel 1766 - 1861
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Haggar (A.L.) & Miller (L.F.): Suffolk Clocks and Clockmakers
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Gschwind (E.):
Montres de Genève / Geneva Watches / Genfer Uhren 1630 - 1720
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

A Guide to Watch Holders
James J. Niehaus

NEW. The only book on the subject, showing a wide range of antique and modern watch stands. Card covers.

40 pages, 57 illus., 1978.

£10.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

[Clockmakers' Company]:
Catalogue of the Nelthropp Collection in the Guildhall Library
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Collins (P.R.): Bizarre Barometers and Other Unusual Weather Forecasters
NEW. £7.95 Order Here

Ohlson (O.):
Helpful information for Watchmakers (published by Waltham Watch Company)
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Howse (D.): Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude
O/P. £9.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Hughes (T. Cann): Notes on Some Westmorland Clockmakers - Part III - Winster (about Jonas Barber of Winster)
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * One copy only *

David (Jacques): American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
NEW. £15.00 Order Here

Britten (F.W.): Horological Hints and Helps (1st edition)
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Robert Hooke and the English Renaissance
Paul Kent & Allan Chapman, Editors

O/P. An interesting book about the life and work of Robert Hooke, whose genius is becoming more and more appreciated. Scientist, architect, town planner, microscopist, astronomer and inventor, Hooke was a true polymath.

191 pages, illustrated, 2005.

£10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Stevens (J.C.): The Clockmaker from Claypole: Charles Gretton 1648 - 1731
O/P. £4.00 Order Here

Fried (H.B.): The Electric Watch Repair Manual
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

The weekend is almost here as I write this, so lets hope for sunshine, so we can enjoy the summer while it lasts! That's all for this month but, as always, if there are any specific books you are looking for please send us an email - jeff@formby-clocks.co.uk - and we will do our best to find them for you.

With best wishes, Jeff & Ros Formby

Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558