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Townsend (G.E.): Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About American Watches and Didn't Know Who to Ask
O/P. 86 pages, illustrated, 1971. A very useful guide to the collecting and identification of American watch movements made before 1900. The book has line drawings of many movements and information about most of the American companies with model numbers, serial numbers, etc. A very good copy (owners name and stamp on ffep), card covers. (Ref: K1365 - BX1) in stock.
Price: £20.00 |
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Towson Watch Company: Mechanical Treasures
O/P. A publicity brochure, circa 2008, for the wristwatches manufactures in America by the Towson Watch Company using Swiss parts. With price list in US dollars. Fine copy, card covers. (Ref: K5113 - J1) in stock.
Price: £5.00 |
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 | Treffry (T.) & Treffry (A.) (editors): BHI 150
NEW. 248 pages, well illustrated, 2010. This excellent book is a record of the 3-day seminar held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British Horological Institute in 2008. The first day's papers were about the work of John 'longitude' Harrison, the second about modern watchmaking and the third about perfecting the pendulum. New copy just found in stock room. Soft covers. (Ref: N2421) in stock.
Price: £50.00 |
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Treffry (T.) & Treffry (A.) (editors): BHI 150
S/H. 248 pages, well illustrated, 2010. This excellent book is a record of the 3-day seminar held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the British Horological Institute in 2008. The first day's papers were about the work of John 'longitude' Harrison, the second about modern watchmaking and the third about perfecting the pendulum. Fine copy, soft covers. (Ref: K5163 - H7) in stock.
Price: £35.00 |
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Tremayne (A.): Everybody's Clocks
O/P. 64 pages, illus., published circa 1941. A small booklet with the subtitle: how your clock is made, how it works and how to take care of it. A good copy, now nicely bound in brown Rexine with gilt lettering to front and spine, original card covers bound in. (Ref: K1221 - L1) in stock.
Price: £12.00 |
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Tremayne (A.): Everybody's Clocks
O/P. 64 pages, illus., published circa 1941. A small booklet with the subtitle: how your clock is made, how it works and how to take care of it. Very good copy with paper covers. (Ref: K405 - BX2) in stock.
Price: £5.00 |
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Tremayne (A.): Everybody's Watches
O/P. 63 pages, figs, no date but early 1940's. The sub-title tells us all - How Your Watch is Made, How it Works and How to Take Care of it. Paper covers. (Ref: K2583 - BX4) in stock.
Price: £5.00 |
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Tremayne (A.): You and Your Watch
O/P. 16 pages, illustrated, no date. A small booklet, dating from the 1950's, designed for wristwatch retailers to give away to their clients, the text explains how the watch works and promotes servicing by a professional watchmaker. This booklet was given out by W.S. & A.M. Scott of 167 High Street, Lincoln. A very good copy, paper covers. (Ref: K4467 - BX15) in stock.
Price: £5.00 |
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Tremayne (A.) editor: The Watch & Clock Maker - November 1932
O/P. 36 pages, illustrated, 1932. A single issue of this monthly magazine similar in style to the Horological Journal. This issue has two articles of interest - London's New Horological School at the Northampton Polytechnic and The "Crusader" Watch. The latter was a pocket watch built so that when repair was needed the old movement was simply exchanged for a replacement in a matter of minutes. A good copy, paper covers now loose. (Ref: K4449 - BX12) in stock.
Price: £4.00 |
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Turner (A.J.): Greco-Egyptian Zodiacs from a Gallo-Romano Site
O/P. [16 pages], 4 plates, 1987. A paper (an off print from a scholarly journal) about two zodiacs, engraved on brown ivory, recovered from the Gallo-Romano site Grand, near Epinal, Vosges, France. Very good copy, card covers. (Ref: K3541 - BX12) in stock.
Price: £6.00 |
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 | Turner (A.): John Carte on Horology and Cosmology
NEW. 93 pages, 21 illustrations, 2014. A transcription, with introduction and notes, of a manuscript written by Carte and now in the Bodleian Library. The book includes a biography of Carte and also of Samuel Watson to whom he was apprenticed with a list of all their known works (many of them illustrated). Card covers. (Ref: N3667) in stock.
Price: £25.00 |
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Turner (A.J.): New Light on George Margetts
O/P. 16 pages, 8 figs., 1971. A biography of clock, watch and chronometer maker George Margetts, a serious attempt to distinguish between fact and supposition. Reprinted from Antiquarian Horology. Very good copy, card covers. (Ref: K4758 - BX10) in stock.
Price: £15.00 |
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 | Turner (A.J.): The Time Museum: Time Measuring Instruments: Astrolabes, Astrolabe Related Instruments
O/P. 268 pages, 189 illus., 1985. This excellent work commences with the origins, development, description and use of astrolabes then describes and illustrates 34 examples in the collection. A fine copy.
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(Ref: K572 - H2) in stock.
Price: £110.00 |
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 | Turner (A.J.): The Time Museum: The Time Museum: Time Measuring Instruments: Water-Clocks, Sand-Glasses, Fire-Clocks
O/P. 183 pages, illustrated, 1984. An excellent work detailing several types of clock ignored by most authors. The various types of water clock are described as well as sandglasses, candle clocks, lamp clocks and incense clocks. 36 items in the collection are described in detail and well illustrated. A very good copy (spine very faded).
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(Ref: K573 - R2) in stock.
Price: £110.00 |
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Turner (A.J.): Time
O/P. 248 pages, illustrated, 1990. The catalogue of the exhibition 'Images of Time' held in Amsterdam in 1990. This was a large exhibition with 810 exhibits to illustrate and explore every aspect of time and time measurement from ancient history up to the modern era. Good copy, card covers. (Ref: K2014 - M3) in stock.
Price: £10.00 |
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Turner (G.L'E.): Antique Scientific Instruments
O/P. 168 pages, 69 plates, 1980. A useful introduction to the collecting of scientific instruments, with lots of information about the wide range of instruments available. Very good copy, with good dust jacket, the hardback edition. (Ref: K590 - F5) in stock.
Price: £9.00 |
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Turner (G.L'E.): Collecting Microscopes
O/P. 120 pages, illustrated, 1981. This is a very useful and good introduction to a fascinating subject, covering British and European microscopes from the early 17th century to the late 19th century. A good copy with good dust jacket. (Ref: K416 - Z2) in stock.
Price: £25.00 |
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Turner (G. L'E.): Collecting Microscopes
O/P. 120 pages, illustrated, 1981. This is a very useful and good introduction to a fascinating subject, covering British and European microscopes from the early 17th century to the late 19th century. A good copy (coffee stain to outside rear cover) with poor dust jacket. (Ref: K4638 - P2) in stock.
Price: £14.00 |
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 | Turner (G.L'E.): Elizabethan Instrument Makers
NEW. 305 pages, well illustrated, 2000. The book covers the origins of the London trade in precision instrument making from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, and describes over 100 surviving Elizabethan instruments including those by Humfrey Cole and Elias Allen. Such instruments were crucial to the professions of navigation, surveying, fortification and gunnery and established London as the centre of precision instrument making for two centuries. With dust jacket. (Ref: N1305) in stock.
Price: £95.00 |
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Turner (G.L'E.): Elizabethan Instrument Makers
S/H. 305 pages, well illustrated, 2000. The book covers the origins of the London trade in precision instrument making from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, and describes over 100 surviving Elizabethan instruments including those by Humfrey Cole and Elias Allen. Such instruments were crucial to the professions of navigation, surveying, fortification and gunnery and established London as the centre of precision instrument making for two centuries. A very good copy, the dust jacket fairly good but with one small tear and wear to top edge. (Ref: K302 - G5) in stock.
Price: £60.00 |
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