902.      $20

Two Hundred Years of American Clocks & Watches, Chris Bailey, 1975.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 254 pages, B&W and color photos w/ text.  Good condition.   

903.              $108

Clockmakers & Watchmakers of America By Name & By Place, Spittlers & Bailey, 2011.  Hardcover, 600 pages, text only.  Lists all known clock and watchmakers with short histories and location; the latter part of the book lists clockmakers and watchmakers by state and city.  Indispensable to a guy like me.  Brand new and unopened.

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904.     $25

Cadrans Solaires / Sundials, D & E De Lalande, 2014.  Softcover, 431 pages with many color photos showing an exposition on sundials held in Paris, France in 2013-2014.  In French and English.  Excellent condition. 

905.     $37

The Iden Clock Collection, PG Dawson, 1987.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 283 pages with many B&W photos describing Walter Iden’s collection of 17th and 18th century clocks.  Iden was a highly regarded collector in England of longcase, bracket, and lantern clocks.

906.     $50

Treatise on Modern Horology, C Saunier (translated from French by J Tripplin and E Rigg), 1976. Hardcover, 844 pages on how to make a clock, first published in 1861.

907.     $45

The Watch Repairer’s Manual, HB Fried, 1986 (first published in 1949).  Hardcover with dust jacket, 453 pages with illustrations.  Some fading to dust jacket on spine.  Covers the repair of all types of mechanical watches and assumes no prior experience. 

908.     $31

It’s About Time, PM Chamberlain, 1978.  Hardcover with plastic dust jacket, 490 pages plus supplement, B&W illustrations and photos on escapements, unusual timepieces, and famous watchmakers. 

909.     $12

Horological Hints and Helps, FW Britten, Fourth Edition, 1977 (first published in 1929).  Hardcover with dust jacket and plastic cover, 375 pages, B&W illustrations on the lathe and clock and watch repair.

910.      $7

Simon Willard and his Clocks, JW Willard, 1968.  Softcover, 133 pages with some color photos, formerly titled “A History of Simon Willard, Inventor and Clockmaker” originally authored by EO Cockayne in 1911.  I have read this interesting history of the inventor of banjo clocks. 

911.       $25

Ingenious Yankees, The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector, DR Hoke, 1990.  Softcover, 336 pages.  A history of the interaction of technology and the marketplace in 19th century America, from Eli Terry to the Waltham Watch Co.

912.      $10

The Watchmaker’s and Model Engineer’s Lathe, A User’s Manual, D DeCarle, 1998, reprinted 2007 (first published 1952).  Hardcover with dust jacket, 220 pages on the use of a lathe in clock and watchmaking. 

901.      $20

American Clockmakers & Watchmakers, Sonya L. & Thomas J. Spittler, and Chris H. Bailey, 2000.  Hardcover, 336 pages.  Essential for collectors of early American clocks; lists all known clockmakers and their manufacturing dates and location.  Like new. 

913.      $25

Repairing Old Clocks & Watches, AJ Whiten, 1979, reprinted 2004.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 280 pages with many B&W illustrations on clock and watch repair.

914.      $27

The Watch and Clockmakers Handbook, FJ Britten, 1938.   Hardcover with dust jacket and plastic cover, 547 pages, yellowed, with B&W photos and illustrations.   A classic.

915.      $15

Watch & Clock Encyclopedia, D de Carle, 1977.  Hardcover with dust jacket and plastic cover, 307 pages with supplement.  Pages yellowed, B&W illustrations. 

916.      $25

Watches, Clutton & Daniels, 1979 (first published 1965).  Oversize hardcover with dust jacket, 305 pages with color plates.  Some yellowing to pages.  History of the mechanical watch, decorations, and technical aspects.  Belongs on your coffee table. 

917.      $25

Technique and History of the Swiss Watch, E Jaquet and A Chapuis, 1970, first published 1953. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket, 268 pages, B&W illustrations and photos, some color photos.  A history of the Swiss watch. 

918.      $10

The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches, TP Camerer Cuss, 1976, first published 1967. Oversize hardcover with dust jacket, 326 pages, B&W photos with some color.  History of the watch, from 1500 to present.

919.      $20

The World’s Great Clocks & Watches, C Jagger, 1977.  Oversize hardcover with dust jacket, 255 pages with many color photos covering the history of clocks and watches. 

920.     $125

English Lantern Clocks, G White, 1989.  Oversize hardcover with dust jacket, 532 pages with 8 color photographs and 850 B&W photos and illustrations.  Everything you could want to know, plus casting marks.

921.      $37

Old English Clocks, The Wetherfield Collection, FJ Britten, 1980, first published in 1907. Hardcover with velvet finish, 114 pages with B&W photos, $93 at Abe Books.

922.     $5

The Clockmakers of London, G White, 1998.  Softcover, 48 pages with color photos.  Associated with The Clock Room, Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London. 

923.     $25

Paul Philip Barraud, C Jagger, 1968.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 165 pages, B&W photos. “A study of a fine Chronometer Maker, and of his Relatives, Associate and Successors in the family business.”  

924.     $25

Thomas Cole & Victorian Clockmaking, JB Hawkins, 1975.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 233 pages with B&W and color photos; $41 at Abe Books. 

925.     $40

Skeleton Clocks, FB Royer-Collard, 1969.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 152 pages with B&W photos; $100 at Abe Books. 

926.     $9

The Collector’s Dictionary of Clocks, HA Lloyd, 1964.  Hardcover with dust jacket, 214 pages with many B&W photos. 

927.     $18

Pennsylvania Clocks and Clockmakers, GH Eckhardt, 1955.  Hardcover with dust cover, 229 pages.