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This is our final newsletter as we are retiring at the end of March as planned. Our retirement sale continues and for this final month the retirement sale discount is 50% off all orders for books and journals. Many thanks to all our clients for your support over the last 30 years and for your messages of support and best wishes for our retirement. Listed below are some of the more interesting books still in stock, as well as a Curta Calculator and two items of furniture which are also for sale.
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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, 1974.
£85.00 less 50% Order Here
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Baillie (G.H.): Clocks and Watches, an Historical Bibliography Volume 1
O/P. £5.00 less 50% Order Here
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Banfield (E.): Barometer Makers and Retailers 1660 - 1900
NEW. £9.95 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Barter (A.): The Watch - A Twentieth-Century Style History
NEW. £45.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Beeson (C.F.C.): Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400 - 1850
O/P. £40.00 less 50% Order Here * Three copies only *
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Bender (G.):
Die Uhrenmacher des hohen Schwarzwaldes und ihre Werke (2 volumes)
O/P. £100.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Berthoud (F.): Histoire de la mesure du temps par les horloges
O/P. £195.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Bird (C.) & Bird (Y.) (Editors): Norfolk & Norwich Clocks & Clockmakers
O/P. £45.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Ein neues Uhrenformat entsteht Die Evolution des Ulysse Nardin Kalibers 22/24
William Attree
NEW. A comprehensive new book on the legendary deck watch, caliber 22/24, produced by Ulysse Nardin between 1897 and 1972. These watches, mostly in large pocket watch style cases, were sold to governments and navies around the world so the book will be of great interest to military watch enthusiasts. The book opens with an account of the evolution of the watch and this is followed by a detailed, well illustrated account of 30 specific examples. [German language]
164 pages, illustrated, 2018.
£75.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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BHI: Principles and Explanations of Timekeepers by Harrison, Arnold and Earnshaw
O/P. £85.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Britten (F.J.): Britten’s Old Clocks & Watches and their Makers (9th edition)
O/P. £30.00 less 50% Order Here
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Britten (F.J.): Old English Clocks - The Wetherfield Collection (1st edition, 1907)
O/P. £165.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Cescinsky (H.) & Webster (M.R.): English Domestic Clocks ( 1st edition, 1913)
O/P. £95.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Chapuis (A.): Pendules Neuchâteloises Documents Nouveaux
O/P. £125.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Cowham (M.): A Dial In Your Poke
O/P. £10.00 less 50% Order Here * Three copies only *
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Craven (M.A.J.B.):
John Whitehurst of Derby: Clockmaker & Scientist 1713 - 88
O/P. £45.00 less 50% Order Here
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Darken (J.) (editor): Horological Masterworks - English Seventeenth-Century Clocks from Private Collections
O/P. £120.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Ormskirk Clockmakers & Watchmakers
Anthony Daly
O/P. An excellent book with a comprehensive horological history of the area and detailed information about its clock and watchmakers. The book includes the surrounding villages of Aughton, Bickerstaffe, Parbold, Skelmersdale and Scarisbrick and has a chapter on local clock case makers. A fine copy with good dust jacket.
142 pages, 176 illustrations mostly in colour, 2006.
£65.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Daniels (G.): The Art of Breguet
NEW. £95.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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David (Jacques): American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
NEW. £15.00 less 50% Order Here
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De Carle (D.): We have most of his books in stock
Take advantage of the 50% discount View Here
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Friedberg (F.J.):
The Illinois Watch: The Life and Times of a Great Watch Company
NEW. £66.50 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Green (F.H.): Old English Clocks
O/P. £165.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Suffolk Clocks and Clockmakers
Haggar (A.L.) & Miller (L.F.)
O.P. This is a very useful reference book and is the only book about this county. A very good copy with good dust jacket. Main work hardback with dust jacket, the Supplement with card covers. This book is now very hard to find.
Complete with the Supplement. In total: 203 pages, 93 figs., 1974, Supplement 1979.
£95.00 less 50% Order Here
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Hoke (D.R.):
The Time Museum Historical Catalogue of American Pocket Watches
O/P. £75.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Hughes (R.G.) & Craven (M.): Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Derbyshire
O/P. £50.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Huygens (C): Horologium Oscillatorium
O/P. £95.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Kaltenböck (F.): Viennese Timepieces
NEW. £15.00 less 50% Order Here
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Kreuzer (A.): Omega Designs
NEW. £55.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Leopold (J.H.): Astronomen Sterne Geräte - Landgraf Wilhelm IV und seine sich selbst bewegenden Globen
O/P. £135.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Moore (D.):
British Clockmakers & Watchmakers Apprentice Records 1710 - 1810
O/P. £150.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Mason (B.): Clock and Watchmaking in Colchester
O/P. £85.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Mercer (V.): The Life and letters of Edward John Dent Chronometer Maker and some account of his Successors
O/P. £375.00 less 50% Order Here
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Miles (R.H.A.): Synchronome - Masters of Electrical Timekeeping
NEW. £39.50 less 50% Order Here * Three copies only *
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Black Forest Clocks
Rick Ortenburger
NEW. 268 pages, illustrated, 1991. 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 50% Order Here
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Penfold (J.B.): The Clockmakers of Cumberland
O/P. £175.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Ponsford (C.N.): Devon Clocks and Clockmakers
O/P. £35.00 less 50% Order Here * Three copies only *
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Reid (T.): Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Theoretical and Practical
(2nd edition, 1843)
O/P. £185.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Ridgway (M.H.) & Priestley (P.T.): The Compendium of Chester Gold and Silver Marks, 1570 to 1962 from the Chester Assay Office Registers
NEW. £50.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Robinson (T.): The Longcase Clock (enlarged edition)
O/P. £65.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Dutch Antique Domestic Clocks, ca. 1670 - 1870 and some related examples
J L Sellink
O/P. A useful, well illustrated, reference book on 200 years of Dutch clockmaking illustrated with important examples from the Oegstgeest Museum. The book includes fine Amsterdam longcase clocks as well as Hague Clocks, staartkloks and stoelkloks. This book is now hard to find. A very good copy with good dust jacket.
367 pages, illus., copy 389 of 1000 copies, 1973.
£125.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Severs (D.F.): Northallerton's Clockmakers: Hugh Pannell and his Successors
O/P. £75.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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Shenton (A.): Pocket Watches of the 19th & 20th Century
O/P. £55.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Tebbutt (L.): Stamford Clocks & Watches
O/P. £75.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Veldhoven (L. van):
Mayet Morbier Comtoise - Birth and Life of a Legendary Clock
O/P. £65.00 less 50% Order Here * One copy only *
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White (I.): Watch and Clock Makers in the City of Bath
O/P. £95.00 less 50% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Curta Calculator Type II c1968
A type II Curta calculator in good working order.
The underside of the Curta is marked Type II No 548108 Made in Liechtenstein (Customs Union with Switzerland) by Contina Ltd Mauren System Curt Herzstark.
The calculator is sold with a modern reprint of the two Curta instruction manuals.
£695.00 Full details here
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Regency Sewing Table c1810
A Regency sewing table of well figured mahogany with rectangular top and ebony stringing to the sides.
The table has a deep oak lined drawer at each end under which is a fixed pleated silked sewing box. Width: 23½ inches
Depth: 17 inches
Height: 30½ inches
£895.00 Full details here
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Regency Sideboard c1830
A Regency period, mahogany veneered, twin pedestal sideboard. The 'D' shaped top with ledge back has 3 frieze drawers with sunk panel fronts between inversely tapered pedestals.
Each pedestal has a drawer with panelled cupboard under, located between sunk panelled pilasters, all standing on large bun feet. The left-hand cupboard has a cellaret drawer within.
The sideboard measures 85¼“ wide, 24½“ deep and 40¼” high
£895.00 Full details here
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This, our final newsletter has been compiled on a beautiful sunny day - it looks as if spring has finally arrived. Projects for retirement are trips out in an early 1960's sports car (an MGA), working in the greenhouse & garden, and overhauling a Eureka clock that I bought recently. We have enjoyed dealing in clocks and horological books over the last 30 years because of the many interesting people we have met - some in person, some online and some on the telephone. Our best wishes to you all.
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With best wishes,
Jeff & Ros Formby
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Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558
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