Turning and milling in horology
Le Locle, Switzerland: Bergeon, 1985. Hardcover. Color Illustrated cloth boards. 53 pages : illustrations. More
Le Locle, Switzerland: Bergeon, 1985. Hardcover. Color Illustrated cloth boards. 53 pages : illustrations. More
New York: Sterling Publishing Co, 1985. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. 224 pp. 116 bw ills. Repairing American, Canadian, English, French and German clocks and timepieces. Includes section on restoring dials and cases. More
Gainesville: Theodore Crom, 1970. Softcover. Brown ill. wraps. ix, 150 pp. 142 bw ills. Study of French, American, Spanish, German, Swiss, and English engines. Includes many illustrations. More
Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Co., 2004. Hardcover. Black cloth over boards; Green pictorial dj.; 288 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw and color. Contains extensive information and illustrations of clocks made in France (Lepaute Family, Robert Robin, Abraham Louis Breguet, Louis Leroy et Cie, and others), Germany (Riefler, Strasser and Rohde..... More
Winterthur, DE: Newport Historical Society, 2018. Hardcover. Black boards with color illustrated dust jacket, black spine with white lettering, 268 pages, color illustrations, color maps. In the 18th century, Newport, Rhode Island, was home to some of the most skillful craftsmen in colonial North America. Among them were the clockmakers..... More
Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Co., 1990. Hardcover. Blue boards with bw-illustration and black lettering. vi, 246 pp. BW illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246). More
New York, New York: Hohmann Holdings LLC, 2009. Hardcover. Gold cloth boards, navy dust jacket with color illustration. 376 pp. over 500 full color illustrations. This beautifully illustrated volume demonstrates why clocks were so important to colonial Americans. It catalogues approximately one hundred of the very finest American clocks dating..... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: American Watchmakers Institute Press, 1981. Softbound. Brown printed wraps. 224 pp. Illustrated. Chapters, with clearly written questions and answers are also illustrated for "what is wrong and how to correct it". Various chapters include basic types of clocks; the wood movement; the pendulum; escapements-recoil, dead-beat, floating; clock trains;..... More
London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1883. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt cover design and gilt lettering on spine. xiii, 400 pages, illustrations. Other Titles: A Rudimentary Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking: with a chapter on church clocks; and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster clock. With..... More
University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1994. Hardcover. Burgundy boards with silver stamped spine lettering. Burgundy and brown dust jacket with illustration. 312 pp. Illustrations. "A history of timepieces made in Pennsylvania from William Penn's time to the present, this book is more than a compendium of clock and watchmakers..... More
Fox River Grove, IL: North American Watch Tool & Supply Co, 1972. Hardbound. Green cloth. 264 pp. Well illustrated with diagrams. More
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, 1917. Hardbound. Cloth spine with light green paper31 pp. followed by 33 pages of bw illustrations covered boards. A wide array of watches are featured in this collection, beginning with a portable sun dial. 100 watches are included. More
Philadelphia: The Franklin Institute Library, 1968. Softcover. Blue wraps. 109 pp. No ills. Compilation includes 1400 titles. More
New York: Columbia Communications, 1974. Second edition. Softbound. Yellow printed wraps. iv, 260 pp. More
West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 1947. First; No. 247 of 1000 copies printed. Hardcover. Reddish buckram with gilt lettering (likely a library binding). 205 pp. with 55 bw illustrations and a fold-out map in back. Includes lyrics to the song, Grandfather's Clock, an introductory essay, and the parts..... More
Bronxville: The Horolovar Company, 1965. Hardcover. Orange cloth. 184 pp. Numerous bw ills. A thorough repair guide to the popular 'anniversary clock'. More
1996. Softbound. BW illustrated wraps. 77 pp., 106 bw photographic illustrations. More
Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1996. Hardbound. Silver, bw-illustrated paper covered boards. iv, 248 pp., 281 bw plates and illustrations. An essential reference, with superb illustration and documentation. This book is divided into two sections: a 104-page biographical list of Clockmakers and Allied Craftsmen, and 135 pages of clocks including..... More
1984. Softcover. Blue ill. stapled wraps. 33 pp. 65 bw ills. More
New Haven: Yale University, 1974. Softcover. Brown wraps. Unpaginated. No ills. Catalog based on thesis exhibit about clock forgeries and restoration. More
Hartford, CT: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1930. Hardcover. Interestingly textured tan cloth. 179 pp. Numerous bw plates. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977. Hardbound. Black cloth with yellow, bw-illustrated dustjacket. 224 pp., profusely illustrated in bw. A thoughtful and in-depth study. A hard book to find in this, the first edition. More
Bristol: Ken Roberts Publishing Co, 1972. Softcover. Yellow stapled ill. wraps. 36 pp. Numerous bw ills. Reproduced from the original. The company won five 1st place awards at the New Orleans exposition. Includes history and account of the company, along with trade advertisements. More
Hartford, Connecticut: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1987. Hardbound. Brown cloth. xiii, 165 pp. Illustrated in bw. More
AMI Press, 1983. Softbound. Brown printed wraps. 51 pp. Some illustrations, few pencil lines in margins. More