Books about clocks and watchmaking – 15 vols.

Provenance: Åke Falk urhandel, Stockholm. Most books carry the blue ownership stamp of B & Å Falk, 6 x 4,5 cms, with a falcon vignette. Many books are or have been loosely covered with protective plastic, sometimes resulting in sellotape offsetting on endleaves. This is indicated below with a lowercase or uppercase ”x” / ”X” depending on visibilty of the staining.

E. Beckett: Clock and watch work. From the 8th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica (Edinburgh 1855)

F. Berhoud: L’art de conduire et de régler les pendules et les montres (Bruxelles 1836, with alphabetical appendix + 5 plates, rebacked with printed wrappers pasted to covers, front hinge cracked)

L. A. Borsendorff: De l'instruction du pauvre. Tablettes d'un horloger (Paris 1884, wrappers bound in, X)

N. Dumontier: L’art de travailler les pierres précieuses à l’usage de l’horlogerie et de l’optique, enseigné en dix leçons (Paris 1843, with folding plate and appendix, signed by author, lightly rubbed, x)

P. Foucher: Manuel d'horlogerie (Paris 1867, with 4 folding plates, wrappers preserved, x)

The Horological Journal. Special Organ of the British horological institute. Vols. 10, 11, 12 (London 1868-70, with a few plates), bound together in contemporary full cloth, fine, bookplate of Stefan Anderson, x).

Ludwig & Fries: Handbuch für Uhrmacher. Uhrfourniturenhandlung (Frankfurt am Main, 1890/91).

Relazione storico-critica della Torre dell'Orologio di S. Marco in Venezia (Venezia 1860, with plates)

Saunier & Grossmann: Lehrbuch der Uhrmacherei in Theorie und Praxis. 1-3 (1878-9, X)

C. Saunier & J. Tripplin: Treatise on modern horology in theory and practice (London 1878, with 21 coloured folding plates. Worn, some foxing)

C. Saunier: Zur Geschichte der Zeitmesskunst von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart, 1-3 in 2 vols (Bautzen 1903, very fine)

C. H. Schmidt: Die Englischen Pendeluhren, und zwar Thurmuhren, Hausuhren, Controluhren und astronomische Regulatoren, sowie Taschenuhren und Chronometer (Weimar 1856, with 5 folding plates)

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