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The clocks have gone back to GMT, the nights are drawing in and it's time to stock up on your winter reading. There are some very good special offers this month, some are listed below and others are on the Special Offers page of the website. Also listed below are various interesting items which are currently in stock, and may be of interest.
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Rapport A La Société Intercantonale
Des Industries Du Jura Sur La Fabrication
De L'Horlogerie Aux Etats-Unis
Jacques David
O/P. A facsimile reprint of the manuscript report written by Jacques David following his visit to America in 1876. The report is written in beautiful copperplate handwriting and has finely drawn plates. The facsimile is published with a biography of David and a history of the manuscript. An as new copy with original and very good slipcase. [French language]
£65.00 Order Here * One copy only *
See also the English translation:
David (Jacques): American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
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Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker, and 'Country Showman'
John R.Millburn
O/P. Martin was a teacher, author, lecturer - demonstrator and started a scientific instrument making business in London. Martin also wrote tracts on table clocks and dialling as well as designing and making at least two clocks. A fine copy with very good dust jacket (faded to spine).
244 pages, frontis, 8 plates, 7 figs., 1976.
£125.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Some of the books on Special Offer:
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Baillie (G.H.), Lloyd (H.A.) & Ward (F.A.B.):
The Planetarium of Giovanni De Dondi
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Craven (M.A.J.B.:
John Whitehurst of Derby: Clockmaker & Scientist 1713 - 88
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Huygens (C): Horologium Oscillatorium
O/P. £50.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Penfold (J.B.): The Clockmakers of Cumberland
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Goodison (N.): English Barometers 1680 - 1860
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Pickford (C.): Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers 1352 - 1880
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Robinson (T.): The Longcase Clock
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Sellink (J.L.):
Dutch Antique Domestic Clocks, ca. 1670 - 1870 and some related examples
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Some of other books in stock:
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Stokesley's Clockmakers
Clockmaking in a North Yorkshire Market Town
David F. Severs
NEW. 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 *
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Gould (R.T.): Communications Old and New
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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[Japy]: 17 mars 1799 Brevet d'invention de cinq ans, Pour diverses machines d'horlogerie, Au sieur Frédéric Japy, de Beaucourt, Haut Rhin
O/P. £60.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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[Waltham]: Watch and Clock Material 1936 Edition
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Elliott (D.J.): Shropshire Clock and Watchmakers
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Ghidoni (C.) & Ribolini (G.): Pendolette Fantasia
O/P. £25.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Glennie (P.) & Thrift (N.): Shaping the Day A History of Timekeeping in England and Wales 1300-1800
O/P. £30.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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The Global Transformation of Time: 1870-1950
Vanessa Ogle
NEW. Improvements in communications and speed of travel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries meant that previously small discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. This book chronicles the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars and to establish international standards. With dust jacket.
260 pages, 2015.
£25.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Hoopes (P.R.): Shop Records of Daniel Burnap Clockmaker
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Hope-Jones (F.): Electrical Timekeeping (1st edition, 1940)
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Langman (H.R.) & Ball (A.): Electrical Horology
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Norgate (J.), Norgate (M.) & Hudson (F.):
Dunfermline Clockmakers up to 1900
O/P. £45.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Ponsford (C.N.): Time in Exeter
O/P. £25.00 Order Here * Three copies only *
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"Vienna Regulators"
of Lenzkirch and Lorenz Bob ca. 1870
Dana J. Blackwell
NEW. A reprint of the oldest known Lenzkirch catalogue illustrations together with those from a Lorenz Bob catalogue of similar date. This edition has an additional 24 pages showing many early Lenzkirch models not found in the 1870's catalogue. The book includes an introduction, historical essay and suggestions for the care of Vienna regulators, by the author. Soft covers.
144 pages, illustrated, 2nd edition, 1990.
£8.00 Order Here * Four copies only *
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Richard & Co., Ltd.: Clocks 1928/1929
O/P. £25.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Robertson (J. D.): The Evolution of Clockwork
O/P. £35.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Smith (J.): Old Scottish Clockmakers from 1453 to 1850
O/P. £60.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Crom (T.R.): Horological Wheel Cutting Engines 1700 to 1900
O/P. £65.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Miles (R.H.A.) & Ridout (M.): Brillié Electric Clocks
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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Shenton (A.): Pocket Watches of the 19th & 20th Century
O/P. £55.00 Order Here * Two copies only *
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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.
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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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