Our Retirement Sale continues this month with 25% off orders for books and journals. Many thanks to all our clients who responded to our retirement news with messages of support and best wishes. Thank you too for all the orders received.

We have reduced prices on some scarce books this month. Some are listed below, others are on our Special Offers page.

Scarce Books on Special Offer:

Tardy: French Clocks the World Over (4 volume set)
Tardy

O/P. Part 1: 5th edition, 1981. Volume title: From their beginnings to the Louis XV - Louis XVI Transition period.
Part 2: 5th edition, 1981. Volume title: From Louis XVI style to Louis XVIII - Charles X period.
Part 3: 5th edition, 1982. Volume title: From the Louis-Philippe style to the Modern clock and the French provinces.
Part 4: 5th edition, 1985. Volume title: Northern, Middle, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe; Japan.
This is a large and comprehensive work with a wealth of illustrations. Volume 3 also has chapters on clocks from the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Scotland, Ireland, the United States and Canada. An essential book for collectors of French clocks. This is a very good set, each volume is in its original hardback binding with no inscriptions or bookplates, binding still tight, minor wear to bottom edges, 2 bumped corners to Part 2.

The four volumes have 356, 392, 524 and 618 pages respectively.

£500.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

The Life and letters of Edward John Dent Chronometer Maker
and some account of his Successors
Vaudrey Mercer

O.P. This is the standard reference work on the life and work of Edward John Dent the famous chronometer maker, with details of his successors in the business right up to the time the book was written. This book is increasingly harder to find. A very good copy (some staining to edges of page block) with very good dust jacket, the supplement very good with card covers

829 pages, 154 plates, 1st edition 1977, complete with the supplement: pages 830 - 893, plates 155 - 176, 1983.

£375.00 less 25% Order Here * Three copies only *

Green (F.H.): Old English Clocks
O/P. £165.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Laycock (W.S.): The Lost Science of John "Longitude" Harrison
O/P. £195.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Ungerer (A.) & Ungerer (T.):
L'Horloge Astronomique de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg
O/P. £165.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Britten (F.J.): Old English Clocks - The Wetherfield Collection (1st edition, 1907)
O/P. £165.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Moore (D.):
British Clockmakers & Watchmakers Apprentice Records 1710 - 1810
O/P. £150.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Rees (A.): The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature (5 volumes) (1820)
O/P. £150.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Maitzner & Moreau: Comtoise Clocks - The Morbier, the Morez
O/P. £150.00 less 25% Order Here * one copy only *

Darken (J.) (editor): Horological Masterworks - English Seventeenth-Century Clocks from Private Collections
O/P. £120.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Good Books Still in Stock:

Carriage Clocks - Their History and Development
Charles Allix

O/P. The best book about the history and manufacture of carriage clocks from around the world. This book is essential for understanding carriage clocks and their development. A very good copy with good dust jacket.

484 pages, illustrated, 1st edition, signed by author, 1974.

£85.00 less 25% Order Here * Four copies only *

Appleby (K.): Clockmakers of Cheshire
O/P. £45.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Battison (E.A.) & Kane (P.E.): The American Clock 1725 - 1865
O/P. £25.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Bergmann (S.): Comtoise-Uhren
NEW. £60.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Bion (M.): The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments
O/P. £55.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Britten (F.J.): Britten’s Old Clocks & Watches and their Makers
(most recent & best edition)
O/P. £30.00 less 25% Order Here

Chapuis (A.) (Editor): L'Horlogerie une Tradition Helvétique
O/P. £15.00 less 25% Order Here

Daly (A.): Ormskirk Clockmakers & Watchmakers
O/P. £65.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Henry Williams Lancarvan - 'A Clock and Watchmaker and a Great Farmer'
Edward Cloutman & Bill Linnard

O/P. A detailed study of the life and work of Henry Williams (1727 - 1790) who made good quality longcase clocks in the Vale of Glamorgan. As with many provincial clockmakers, Williams was also a farmer hence the book's sub-title. A fine copy with very good dust jacket.

136 pages, b&w illustrations, 4 colour plates, 1st edition, only 300 copies printed, 2003.

£45.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Daniels (G.): The Art of Breguet
NEW. £95.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Gordon (G.):
La Danza Delle Ore / Twentieth Century Wristwatches - Timeless Elegance
O/P. £50.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Greenlaw (J.): Swansea Clocks - Watch and Clockmakers of Swansea and District (Llanelli, Llandeilo, Neath)
O/P. £35.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Horological Journal: Volumes 35, 36 and volumes 39 to 43 (bound)
(7 volumes 1893 - 1901)
O/P. £65.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Hughes (T. Cann): Notes on Some Westmorland Clockmakers - Part III - Winster (about Jonas Barber)
O/P. £20.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Cardiff Clocks
Bill Linnard

NEW. A Comprehensive Account of Watch and Clockmakers in Cardiff, the Valleys and the Vale of Glamorgan. The appendix is a facsimile of a catalogue and price list issued by Howell Morgan of Blaengarw, circa 1900. Card covers.

80 pages + 44 page appendix, figs., 1999.

£10.00 less 25% Order Here * Four copies only *

Jagger (C.): The Artistry of the English Watch
O/P. £15.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Jaquet (E.) & Chapuis (A.): Technique and History of the Swiss Watch
O/P. £35.00 less 25% Order Here * Two copies only *

Lloyd (H.A.):
Some Outstanding Clocks Over Seven Hundred Years 1250 - 1950
O/P. £20.00 less 25% Order Here * Three copies only *

Loomes (B.): Painted Dial Clocks 1770 - 1870
O/P. £75.00 less 25% Order Here * Three copies only *

Miles (R.H.A.): Synchronome - Masters of Electrical Timekeeping
NEW. £39.50 less 25% Order Here

Niehüser (E.):
French Bronze Clocks, 1700 - 1830 - A Study of Figural Images
NEW. £75.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Black Forest Clocks
Rick Ortenburger

NEW. An excellent book covering the development of clocks made in the Black Forest over 300 years, illustrated with over 600 different examples. With dust jacket.

268 pages, illustrated, 1991.

£65.00 less 25% Order Here

Parker (P.): Clockmaking in the Vale of Clwyd
O/P. £17.50 less 25% Order Here

Pearson (M.): Kent Clocks and Clockmakers
NEW. £34.99 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Penney (D.): Morton's Patent Watches
NEW. £15.00 less 25% Order Here * Three copies only *

Robey (J.): Gothic Clocks to Lantern Clocks - Short Duration Clocks & Rural Clocks 1480 - 1800
NEW. £75.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Saunier (C.): Treatise on Modern Horology in Theory & Practice
O/P. £70.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Severs (D.F.):
Northallerton's Clockmakers: Hugh Pannell and his Successors
O/P. £75.00 less 25% Order Here * One copy only *

Wise (S.J.): Electric Clocks
O/P. £20.00 less 25% Order Here * Four copies only *

Our retirement from the business leaves Britain without a dedicated specialist horological bookseller for the first time since Malcom Gardner started his business in the 1930's. If you know of anyone thinking of starting up selling horological books, and in need of an opening stock, please tell them to contact us.

With best wishes, Jeff & Ros Formby

Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558