Specialist Reference Books - Second Hand or Out of Print
From time to time we acquire some very rare, collectable and even long out of print titles. Often these books are previously owned and in some cases, extremely old, while we endeavour to only retail books in a fully readable condition, it is not unusual to find discolouration, notations, missing or damaged dust jackets and other signs of general wear and tear one would expect from a well thumbed favourite.
As these books are often hard to find, we do not expect to have more than one copy. To ensure the title you require is still available, please purchase directly from our museum gift shop by phone, email or written order, visit our contacts page for details or click here.
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- NEW LISTING - Maitzner, Francis & Moreau, Jean; La Comtoise la Morbier la Morez. Son histoire sa technique ses particularites ses complications sa reparation. 5th edition. Extremely rare, out of print 5th edition published in 1985. Hardback, tan cloth covers with black impressed lettering, 435pps. 474 ills & 22 col. Exceptional condition, pristine inside and out. Unused copy - competatively priced at £295
- NEW LISTING - Lee, Ronald A; The Knibb Family - Clockmakers (1st and only edition) Manor House Press, Surrey, 1964. Hardback. Book Condition: Excellent, tight, bright and complete. Dust Jacket Condition: Shelf worn. 187 pages, 5 colour and 190 b&w plates, 1st and only edition, 1964. This extremely rare volume, now very hard to find, is the standard reference book on the life and work of John, Joseph, Peter and Samuel Knibb. Price £795
- NEW LISTING - Theelke, Anthony; Faces of Mystery - English Decorated Enamel Clock Dials of the 18th Century
Book Description: Published By Author, Bristol, UK, 1983. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 24 pages, 21 figures, 1983. Decorative enamel clock dials are rare, this book illustrates eleven examples from the 18th century. Price: £20 - NEW LISTING - Panicali, Roberto; Cadrans de la Révolution / Watch Dials of the French Revolution / Zifferblätter der Französischen Revolution 1789 – 1800 Book Description: Scriptar S. A., Lausanne, 1972. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). [40 pages], 6 folding plates, 1972. Descriptions and illustrations of 50 fine enamel watch dials which show symbols or slogans of the French Revolution. A very good copy, card covers now a little marked. Price: £25
- NEW LISTING - Tardy; Les Coqs de Montres. Book Description: Tardy, Paris. Soft cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 32 pages, 16 plates, no date. A book documenting the M. E. Coinon collection of 660 watch clocks from several European countries. Very good copy. Card covers show signs of slight discolouration around edges. Price: £20
- NEW LISTING - ASPREY; Exhibition of Marine Chronometers May 9th-May 23rd, 1979. Book Description: 1979., 1979. 32 examples are fully described, with good illustrations. Makers include, as you would expect - Arnold, Earnshaw, Harrision, Frodsham, Dent, Barraud, Kullberg, Roskell, Schoof, Sewill, Brockbank & Atkins, Ditisheim, and many others. Very good copy. Price: £20
- NEW LISTING - Clutton, C & Baillie, G.H.& C.A. Ilbert; Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers. Book Description: A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad Containing a List of Nearly Fourteen Thousand Makers. With a Frontispiece and Diagrams. Eyre Methuen Ltd, London 1973. 8th edition. 4to.xxii+532 pages+3 colurplates. Illustrated in b/w. Cloth in dust wrappers. Book Condition: Pristine, tight, bright, as new. Dust Jacket: Near perfect. For 2 centuries this has been the standard work on horology, in constantly updated and improved editions. Price: £ 45
- NEW LISTING - Christie's; The Dr. Eugene and Rose Antelis Collection of Important French Carriage Clocks. Book Description: Christie's, London, 1998. Red Patterned Board. Book Condition: Excellent, as new. Dust Jacket Condition: Very fine. 8 1/2" x 11". Catalogue of a Sale held in London in November 1998. Beautiful colour photographs with some close-ups of the inside workings and of the enamelled decorations. Book and jacket in pristine condition. Hardcover. Price: £ 30
- NEW LISTING - Mody (N. H. N.); Japanese Clocks. Book Description: Charles E. Tuttle & Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1977. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very good, minor spotting to edges, else tight, bright and complete. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good, slight fading to spine but no tears. Contained in original card slipcase. 46 pps. Of text in English. 26 pps. Of text in Japanese. 12 folding b/w. Plates. 135 full page b/w. Plates with 270 photographs and accompanying text in English and Japanese on reverse side. Price: £ 70
- Barker, David; The Arthur Negus Guide to English Clocks. [Illustrated] [Hardcover] Price: £2.99
- BEESON, C.F.C; English Church Clocks 1280-1850 Their History and Classification. Brant Wright Associates Ltd, Ashford,1977.Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Good copy of this excellent study of English Church Clocks. 172 pps, illustrated. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, blue ribbon marker. Collectible item.
Price: £ 75.00
- Jagger, Cedric; The World's Greatest Clocks and Watches. Hamlyn Publishing Group, London Date published: 1977. 253 pps. Condition: Dust jacket is slightly worn, else ery good. Price: £ 15.00
- Cescinsky, Herbert & Webster, Malcolm; English Domestic Clocks. Published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited. [First Edition 1913]. London 1969. Hard back binding in publisher's original chalk white cloth covers, green title and author lettering to the spine. 353 PPS of text with monochrome photographs and diagrams throughout. Dust jacket worn else very good condition. Price: £ 50.00
- Tyler, E.J; European Clocks. Out of print. 258 pps, 132 plates, 1968. Good copy with dust jacket. Price £ 15.00
- Loomes, Brian; The White Dial Clock. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1974. Hard cover. Condition fine. Good dust jacket. Ex Library Book. Price £15.00
- De Carle, Donald; Practical Clock Repairing. NAG Press, London, 1968. Hardcover. Good condition. 244 pps. 405 figures. 2nd edition. Blue cloth hardcover, gilt titling. No dust jacket. Price: £12.00
- De Carle, Donald; Practical Watch Repairing. Illustrations by E. A. Ayres. London N.A.G. Press Ltd, 1947. Second impression in book form, originally published as a serial in the Horological Journal plus 44 pages of trade advertisements. Hardback. blue cloth. Backstrip & front lettered in gilt. No dust jacket otherwise good condition. Price: £8.00
- De Carle, Donald; Watch and Clock Encyclopedia. 1965 reprint of 1959 edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good copy. blue cloth hardcover, gilt titling. Price: £15.00
- Baillie, G. H; Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World. N.A.G. Press, 1969. Hardcover. All pages and the cover intact. Very light shelf wear. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Dust Jacket rubbed, else good Price: £10.00
- Mortensen, Otto; Jens Olsen's Clock - A Technical Description. Technological Institute, Copenhagen, 1957. Pictorial Boards. Condition Very Good. Dust jacket complete but has a small tear along upper edge and is spotted. Price: £10.00
- Wilding, John; How to Make A Congreve Clock. 3rd edition. 76 pps. Paper back. Used, slightly worn spine, else good. Price: £20.00
- Howse, Derek & Hutchinson, Beresford; The Clocks and Watches of Captain James Cook 1769-1969. Paper back. 299 pps. Very little shelf wear. Spotted discolouration to cover.Interior is very clean and bright. Price: £10.00
- BORER, E; Modern Watch Repairing And Adjusting. N A G Press Ltd. 1943, 3rd Edition. Hard Back.221 pps. Well illustrated with pages of adverts at front. Good condition. No Jacket. Internal inscription. Price:£9.50
- Saunier, Claudius; Saunier's Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory and Practice. Translated by Julien Tripplin and Edward Rigg. 1952. 844 pps. No dust jacket. Green covers with gilt lettering and border to spine. Shows some signs of shelf wear and fading on spine otherwise excellent. Internally clean, bright and tightly bound Price: £99.00
- Britten, F. J; Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers. 7th Edition with new impressions and corrections 1969. 518 pps. Very good interior, clean, complete, tight. No inscriptions. Tatty dust jacket. Large hard back. Price: £15.00
- Bruton, Eric; Clocks & Watches. Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, 1968. Hardcover. 140 pps. Illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover. Tightly bound. clean and bright interior. Good dust jacket, no tears, slight fading, clipped. Price: £2.00
- Lloyd, H.A; The Collector's Dictionary of Clocks. Internally very good, clean, bright, tightly bound, hardback, green boards, notated inside front cover, dust jacket very worn, 214 pages pps, second impression 1969. This is the Country Life edition which is vastly superior to the edition published in the USA. The quality of the photographs make this book worth every penny. Price: £20.00
- DOWLER, G; Gloucestershire Clock and Watchmakers. Phillimore, 1984. Price clipped dust jacket with very slight creasing to top spine , else good. As new internally, clean, bright, tightly bound. 230pps. Well illustrated. Long out of print and very hard to find. Price: £60.00
Mechanical Singing-Bird Tabatieres: From 1785-1996[Hardcover] Robert Hale & Company; illustrated edition 2000. 192 pps. As new, bright, clean, tightly bound, hard back, extremely minimal shelf wear to dust jacket. Price: £125.00- SOLD
- ROSE, R.E; English Dial Clocks. First edition, 1978. 198 pps. Very clean and bright internally, some spotting to page edges else good. Binding in good, tight, order. Dust jacket discoloured, no tearing. Price: £45.00
- BAILLIE, G.H, CLUTTON, C & ILBERT, C.A; Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers. This 1956 Hardcover 7th edition is in excellent condition internally, clean, bright, tightly bound, all inserts present and undamaged, spotting and discolouration to book edges, dust jacket badly worn with tearing at both ends of spine. 518pps. Price: £36.00
- DANIELS, GEORGE & MARKARIAN, OHANNES; Watches and Clocks in the Sir David Salomons Collection. L. A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, 1980 First Edition. Very Good internally, clean, bright, tightly bound. Cloth, hard back. 318 pps. Lavishly illustrated in b/w and colour. Light shelf wear, else very good, dust jacket as new. Price: £65.00
- BELLCHAMBERS .J.K; Somerset Clockmakers. S.A.Kellow, Bridgwater, 1986 Reprint. Soft Cover. Book Condition: still wrapped, as new. No wear, discolouration or tearing. Reprint. No inscriptions. 79 pps including fold-out map. Price: £15.00
- AKED, CHARLES K; COMPLETE LIST OF ENGLISH HOROLOGICAL PATENTS UP TO 1853. 1st Edition, 1975. very good condition, unused, still in original delivery packaging. Green boards. 33 pps. Price: £18.00
- CHAPUIS, ALFRED & EDMOND DROZ; Les Automates: Figures Artificielles d'Hommes et d'Animaux (In French). 425 pps, 18 color plates and 488 b/w/ photos, drawings. Includes work of Faberge. Text is in French, with occasional English captions for illustrations. printed on heavy stock. Hardcover, red fabric, gilt decoration, unused, original box which is slightly damaged, else as new. Price: £200.00
- BRITTEN, F.J; Old English Clocks. The Wetherfield Collection. Antique Collectors Club, 1980. Simulated Suede. Number 796 of limited edition of 1000. Simulated suede covered boards, gilt decortation. Original transparent film wrapper as issued which has a little chipping and a small piece missing from top of spine area. Book shows almost no signs of use. Reprint of the 1907 original. 113 pps. Price: £60.00
- CLUTTON, C. & DANIELS, G; Clocks and Watches in the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1980. 123pps. Reprint in red cloth gilt. Contents clean, tight and bright with no inscriptions. Dust jacket shows signs of minimal shelf wear. Price: £20.00
