Books about clocks and watchmaking – 23 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.

H. G. Abbott: The American watchmaker and jeweler. An encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith (New York 1890)

E. v. Bassermann-Jordan: Uhren. Ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber. […] Mit 120 Abbildingen (Berlin 1920, neatly rebound)

A. Beillard: Recherches sur l'horlogerie. Ses inventions et ses célébrités. Notice historique et biographique. Ouvrage orné de nombreuses illustrations dans le texte (Paris [1895], X).

C. F. C. Beeson: English Church Clocks 1280-1850. Their History and Classification (Ashford 1977, copy no 180)

Berichtsbuch des VI. Internationalen Kongresses für Chronometrie. 19.-23. Juni 1959 in München. 2 vols. (München 1959)

F. J. Britten: Former clock & watchmakers and their work including […] a directory of over five thousand names (London 1894, x)

Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers. 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 tousend makers (London 1956, X, dustjacket defective)

Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers. 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 tousend makers (London 1956)

H. Cescinsky & M. R. Webster: English Domestic Clocks (London [1913])

A. Chapuis & E. Jaquet: Histoire et technique de la montre suisse de ses origines à nos jours (Bale et Olten 1945, x)

A. Chapuis & E. Jaquet: Technique and History of the Swiss Watch, from its beginnings to the present day (Boston 1953)

A. Chapuis & E. Jaquet: The History of the Self-Winding Watch 1770-1931 (Neuchatel 1956, X)

Les Coqs de Montres. De la collection de M. E. Coinon et modèles de Daniel Marot (Paris 1982, x)

A. Demmin: Studien über die stofflich-bildenden Künste und Kunsthandwerke. […] Uhrmacherkunst. […] Die Gartenkunst (Leipzig 1888, x)

E. Gelcich: Die Uhrmacherkunst und die Behandlung der Präcisionsuhren (Wien 1892, pp. 593-608 are photocopies neatly bound in)

H. Havard: Les arts de l'ameublement. L'horlogerie (Paris no date, restored, x)

G. H. Horstmann: Taschenuhren früherer Jahrhundert aus der Sammlung Marfels (Berlin 1897)

J. F. Kendal: A history of watches and other timekeepers (London 1892)

La Chaux-de-Fonds horlogère. L’exposition universelle de Paris en 1900 (La Chaux-de-Fonds 1900, with plates, x)

A. Leiter & A. H. Dörner: Email-Uhren. Kostbarkeiten unter den Taschenuhren. Zur Technik und Geschichte der Email.-Malerei (Kornwestheim 1977)

C. Saunier: Almanach […] des horlogers, orfèvres, bijoutiers, opticiens (Paris 1859)

J. Tripplin: Watch and clock making in 1889 (London 1890, X)

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