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Click here to subscribeSTOKER (Bram) Dracula, first edition, London, Archibald Constable & Co, 1897, 8vo, 8pp adverts at end without ‘Shoulder of Shasta’ (but mentioned overleaf of half title listing books by the same author), original yellow cloth lettered in red, library label remains to front cover which is very worn and damaged, internally with signs of handling, paper toned and chipped at some edges, offered as seen and not subject to return
POTTER (Beatrix) The Roly-Poly Pudding, first edition, first issue, with ‘[All rights reserved]’ at foot of title, Frederick Warne & Co 1908, small 4to, colour plates and title, text illustrations, original red cloth with colour illustration (some loss) to front cover, pencil inscription to first free end paper, few leaves taped into binding, one text leaf with large taped tear, one text leaf frayed at fore-edge, sewing weak, finger staining, red cloth with faded slightly chipped spine
POTTER (Beatrix) The Tale of Peter Rabbit, no date., [1902], first trade edition, Peter ‘wept big tears’ on p.51, grey leaf pattern end papers, half title present, brown boards (somewhat worn, sewing weak, some loose leaves, finger soiling, near detached boards, lacking backstrip, some tape repairs to inner folds or gutters)
~ H ~ STUKELEY (William) Stonehenge, 1740 [but 1838]; bound with Abury, 1743 [but 1838], folio, together 2 works in 1 volume; the first with engraved portrait frontispiece and 35 plates, the second work with 38 only (of 40) plates, some folding, some illustrations in text, lacking final text leaf and first leaf of the index, some foxing and staining (mainly to margins), half morocco; with - LOCKYER (Sir N) Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments, 2nd edition 1909, cloth. Sold not subject to return.
[COMBE (William)] The Tour of Dr Prosody in Search of the Antique and Picturesque, through Scotland, the Hebrides, the Orkney and Shetland Isles, first edition 1821, 8vo, 20 hand coloured aquatint plates as required, typical offsetting and finger soiling, full contemporary red morocco gilt, a.e.g.
~ H ~ GRAHAME (Kenneth) Collection of works, including: The Golden Age, 1915, 4to, plates by R.Moony, damaged wrapper, dusty; various non-first editions of Dream Days, The Golden Age, and The Wind in the Willows (with a 1913 first illustrated edition, though rather age worn); together 33 vols (condition varies, some rather stained and worn)
~ H ~ Childrens and illustrated, various including: POTTER (B) The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, first edition 1908, recased in original boards, replaced end papers, contents rather soiled; HEATH ROBINSON (W) Heath Robinson at War, 1942, paper wrapper; BEARDSLEY (A, illustrator) Under the Hill, Paris: Olympia Press 1959, no.1122 of 3000 copies; The Savoy No.1, 1896, original paper cover laid down, later bound; etc. (11)
THACKERAY (William. M.) The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, 3 vols, London: Smith, Elder and Company 1852, original green-brown cloth, spines faded, inner hinges cracking, armorial bookplate of Abercairny; GISSING (George) The Emancipated: A Novel, first edition, 3 vols, London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1890, original brown cloth, patterned boards, slight rubbing and traces of library label removal; MEREDITH (G) One of Our Conquerors, in 3 vols, 1891, cloth
~ H ~ WELLS (H G) Collection of works, including: The Invisible Man, first edition, London 1897, half-title, 2pp. advertisements at end, some marginal browning throughout, original pictorial red cloth gilt; another later copy published Collins in damaged dust jacket; The War of the Worlds, as first published in Pearson’s Magazine vols. 3 and 4; with 11 other later works
~ H ~ Detective and mystery stories. A collection largely of works by Sax ROHMER, including a signed inscribed first edition of Tales of Chinatown, 1922; with - President Fu Manchu, 2nd edition in dust jacket; several others without jackets; also works of Marcel ALLAIN, Edgar WALLACE, SAPPER, etc (c.65)
~ H ~ 19th century popular fiction - Romance- Gothic tales. The Terrific Register, 2 volumes 1825, 8vo, illustrations, rather stained, in worn damaged binding; Tales of all Nations, 1836, rebound; HAZLITT (W) The Romancist and Novelist’s Library, vols. I and III, 1841, rebound; Edith Heron, circa 1862, bound up from weekly numbers, folding plates, rebound; Edith the Captive, circa 1840; Reynolds (George) The Necro-Mancer, 1857, lacks title; Faust, 1847, very stained, both rebound; Huish (R) Fatherless Rosa, 1822, (incomplete), rebound; LEWIS (F G) The Monk, 2 vols, unabridged reprint of the first edition, half bound; etc (28)
~ H ~ STOKER (Bram) The Jewel of Seven Stars, first edition London: Heinemann 1903, browning to margins throughout, red cloth (faded spine); The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider & Son (no date), colour plates as required, occasional spotting; covers worn; The Watter’s Mou’, 1st American edition 1895, cloth slightly stained (3)
Literature, various. BRONTE (Emily and Anne) Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey, 1858 new edition, 8vo, adverts to pastedowns, faded worn cloth; BRONTE (Charlotte) Jane Eyre, 1860 reprint, similar worn binding; TROLLOPE (A) The Macdermots of Ballycloran, 1861 new edition, (the first one volume edition of this work), stained cloth; The Kellys and the O’Kellys, 4th edition 1861, stained cloth; SCRIBE (E) Piquillo Alliaga, London: G.Peirce 1846, 8vo, bound with Pascal Bruno by Dumas, faded cloth, sewing weak; etc. together 14 vols. (condition varies)
FLEMING (Ian) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 2nd impression 1963, ownership name, some wear to hinges and edges, similar worn dust jacket; with - The Spy Who Loved Me, 4th impression 1962, ownership name, otherwise good in lightly worn dust jacket; and - Octopussy and The Living Daylights, first edition 1966, clean; and - MARKHAM (R) Colonel Sun, first edition 1968, tear to lower part of dust jacket (4)
~ H ~ FLEMING (Ian) First edition James Bond novels: For Your Eyes Only, 1960, slight wear to dust jacket; From Russia with Love, 1957, ownership name to first leaf, contents slightly yellowed in sunned dust jacket (partial loss to spine strip); Goldfinger, 1959, dust jacket slightly shelf stained and frayed at edges (3) PLEASE NOTE: Dust jacket is a later issue on `For Your Eyes Only`
~ H ~ HERBERT (Frank) Dune, first edition 1965, but later issue, signed by the author to the title page, inscribed by Haining to first leaf ‘The best fantasy title I published at New English Library!’, red cloth binding with price clipped slightly creased and chipped dust jacket; with - Children of Dune, first edition London 1976, good in dust jacket (2)
~ H ~ Science and space fiction, fantastic adventure. Collection of works, mainly first half of the 20th century and including: EVANS (I O) The World of Tomorrow, 1933; ASHTON (Francis) Alas That Great City; The Breaking of the Seals, both first or early editions inscribed by the author, in dust jackets; ORWELL (G) Nineteen Eighty Four, first edition 1949, lacking jacket, covers poor; VOGEL (Sir J) Anno Domini 2000, Colonial edition 1889, cloth; others by George Griffiths (Olga Romanoff, and The Angel of the Revolution, both in good pictorial cloth), Roy Rockwood, Edgar Rice Burroughs (Martian stories), a box
~ H ~ BLOCH (Robert) 1917-1994. Collection of works, mainly first UK editions, and signed letters and greetings cards to Peter Haining, including: Out of My Head, 1986, inscribed to Peter Haining, no.268/800; The Opener of the Way, 1945, lacking jacket, with later sticker ‘Best to Peter Haining from his friend Robert Bloch’; Pleasant Dreams, US edition 1960; The Night of the Ripper, 1986, with author’s letter to Haining; Dragons and Nightmares; The King of Terrors; The Skull of the Marquis de Sade; American Gothic; Psycho II (tear to rear of jacket); Such Stuff as Screams are made of; Night-World; Cold Chills; with 8 greetings cards (6 signed); several letters to Peter Haining, signed, related newspaper cuttings and 21 other vols (19 of which are paperbacks)
~ H ~ PULLMAN (Philip) His Dark Materials, first combined edition and impression, 2001, good in dust-jacket, with postcard note from Pullman signed ‘Danger Man’ to Peter Haining, dated 2002, and a typed letter signed by Pullman dated 2001; PRATCHETT (Terry) Soul Music, first edition 1994, inscribed and signed by the author to title ‘Bald, bearded men tell the best stories!’, good in dust jacket; 5 others by Pratchett in dust jackets (7)
~ H ~ FLEMING (Ian) and John GARDNER. Collection of James Bond novels, including: Octopussy and the Living Daylights, first edition 1966, good in dust jacket; Moonraker, reprint 1964; Casino Royale, 1965 reprint; with - The Airline Pilots; The Censor (rather yellowed internally); The Liquidator, all first editions signed or inscribed to Peter Haining by the author, with a signed postcard, also Licence Renewed, first edition, and several other Bond works (reprints, later editions and paperbacks) (27)
~ H ~ BRADBURY (Ray) Dark Carnival, first edition of the author’s first book, Sauk City: Arkham House, 1947, 8vo, inscribed to Peter Haining from the author with drawing of a little ‘devil’ to front free endpaper, dated 4/4/88, gilt-lettered black cloth with slight shelf wear, unclipped dust jacket, some chipping and creasing at corners and spine ends, small loss to top of rear section
~ H ~ Punishment - fetishism etc. SCOTT (G Ryley) Collection of 11 works, including: Phallic Worship, 1941, signed no.287 of 775 copies, plates, faded cloth; Curious Customs of Sex and Marriage, 1953, no.339 of 975 copies, dust jacket; Into Whose Hands, first edition 1945, worn jacket; Ten Ladies of Joy, 1929; also - Flagellation in France, Paris: Charles Carrington 1898, later half morocco with reduced paper wrapper bound in; VILLENEUVE (Roland) Fetichisme et Amour, Editions Azur 1968, slip case (18)
CHANLER (William Astor) Through Jungle and Desert: Travels in Eastern Africa. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1896, first edition, 8vo, plates and illustrations, 2 folding coloured maps in pocket, original cloth gilt, minor shelf wear, internally good, corners slightly bumped Note: Chanler and his Hungarian companion, Ludwig von Hohnel, explored the region of East Africa between the rivers Tana and Juba.
Literature, various. HEMINGWAY (E) The Fifth Column and the first Forty-Nine Stories, first London edition 1939, worn jacket; DAVIES (Hunter) The Beatles, authorised biography, 1st edition 1968, worn; JOHNSON (B S) The Unfortunates, 1969, novel in 27 loose section, with wrapper, boxed; few others – children’s, art etc.
Regional clockmaking- eight publications relating to South Western English clocks and clockmakers: Ponsford, C.N. TIME IN EXETER Headwell Vale Books, Exeter 1978, first edition, dj; Tribe, Tom and Whatmoor, Philip Dorset Clocks and Clockmakers Tanat books, Oswestry 1981, dj; Snell, Michael Clocks & Clockmakers of Salisbury Hobnob Press, Salisbury 1986, dj; Ponsford, C.N. DEVON CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1985, dj; Brown, H. Miles CORNISH CLOCKS and CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1980, dj; Ponsford, C.N., Scott, J.G.M. and Authers, W.P. CLOCKS AND CLOCKMAKERS OF TIVERTON W.P. Authers, Tiverton 1982, signed by the publisher; Bellchambers, J.K. SOMERSET CLOCKMAKERS Antiquarian Horological Society, Ramsgate 1968; Beney, David R. Beaminster Clocks & THEIR MAKERS Good Hope Antiques, Beaminster 1996; with Baillie G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 1 N.A.G., London 1976, dj; and companion Volume 2 by Brian Loomes, N.A.G., London 1978, dj, (10).
Regional clockmaking- four publications relating to East Anglian clocks and clockmakers: Mason, Bernard CLOCK AND WATCHMAKING IN COLCHESTER, ENGLAND Country Life, London 1969, first edition, dj and with original slip cover; Bird, Clifford and Yvonne (editors) Norfolk and Norwich Clocks and Clockmakers Phillimore & Co. Ltd, Chichester 1996, dj; Hagger, Arthur L. and Miller, Leonard F. SUFFOLK CLOCKS & CLOCKMAKERS published by the authors, Ramsgate 1974, first edition, dj complete with supplement; Osborne, Clive and Heaps, James (editor) ESSEX CLOCKS & WATCHMAKERS published and signed by the author, Loughton 1979, (4).
Regional clockmaking- nine volumes relating to regional English clocks and clockmaking: Ponsford, C.N. TIME IN EXETER Headwell Vale Books, Exeter 1978, first edition, dj; Snell, Michael Clocks & Clockmakers of Salisbury Hobnob Press, Salisbury 1986, dj; Brown, H. Miles CORNISH CLOCKS and CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1980, dj; Bellchambers, J.K. SOMERSET CLOCKMAKERS Antiquarian Horological Society, Ramsgate 1968; Loomes, Brian WESTMORLAND CLOCKS and CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1974, dj; Mather, Howard H. CLOCK AND WATCH MAKERS OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Friends of Nottingham Museums, Nottingham 1979; Smith, John Old Scottish Clockmakers FROM 1453 to 1850 EP Publishing Limited, Wakefield 1975, dj; Linnard, William WALES Clocks & Clockmakers, Mayfield Books, Ashbourne 2003, dj; Chenakal, Valentin L. WATCHMAKERS AND CLOCKMAKERS IN RUSSIA 1400-1850 Antiquarian Horological Society, Ramsgate, 1976; with Britten, F.J. Old Clocks & Watches AND THEIR MAKERS S.R. Publishers Ltd, Wakefield 1971, dj; Baillie G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 1 N.A.G., London 1947, dj; and companion Volume 2 by Brian Loomes, N.A.G., London 1992, and two other sundry publications, (14).
Regional clockmaking- six publications relating to Welsh clocks and clockmakers: Linnard, William WALES Clocks & Clockmakers Mayfield Books, Ashbourne 2003, dj; Peate, Iorwerth C. CLOCK AND WATCH MAKERS IN WALES National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1960, second edition dj; Pryce, W.T.R. and Davies, Alun T. SAMUEL ROBERTS Clock Maker National Museum of Wales 1985, first edition, dj; Waters, Ivor, CHEPSTOW CLOCK AND WATCH MAKERS The Chepstow Society, Chepstow 1972; Barker, Paul Clockmaking In The Vale of Clwyd published by the author, Clwyd 1993; Greenlaw, Joanna, Swansea Clocks published by the Author, Swansea 1997, first edition numbered 705/1000 signed by the author, (6).
Regional clockmaking- eleven publications relating to Northern English clocks and clockmakers: Bates, Keith CLOCKMAKERS of NORTHUMBERLAND and DURHAM Pendulum Publications, Rothbury 1980, Limited edition 634/1000 signed by the author, dj; Penfold, John B. The Clockmakers of Cumberland Brant Wright Associates Ltd Ashford 1977, first edition numbered 376 and signed by the author; Appleby, Keith Clockmakers of Cheshire Farmhouse Antiques, Boughton 1999, first edition with dedication and signed by the author dated 2008, dj; Elliott, Douglas J. SHROPSHIRE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKERS Phillimore & Co. Ltd, London and Chichester 1979, dj; Loomes, Brian Yorkshire Clockmakers George Kelsall, Littleborough 1985, dj; Walker, J.E.S. HULL AND EAST RIDING CLOCKS (exhibition catalogue with directory of makers) Hornsea Museum 1982; Loomes, Brian WESTMORLAND CLOCKS and CLOCKMAKERS David and Charles, Newton Abbot 1974, first edition, dj; and four sundry publications relating to clockmaking in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Chester, (11).
European Horology -seven volumes: Sellink, Dr. J.L. DUTCH ANTIQUE DOMESTIC CLOCKS ca. 1670-1870 Clock Trade Enterprises, Bronxville N.Y. 1973, first limited edition numbered 608/1,000, dj; Heuer, Peter, and Maurice, Dr. Klaus European Pendulum Clocks Schiffer Publishing Ltd, West Chester PA. 1988, dj; Willsberger, Johann CLOCKS & WATCHES 600 Years of the Worlds Most Beautiful Timepieces The Dial Press, New York 1975, dj; Pippa, Luigi MASTERPIECES OF WATCHMAKING, Vol 1 Sperling and Kupfer Editori S.P.A., Milan 1966, dj and with card slipcase; Lloyd, H. Alan SOME OUTSTANDING CLOCKS OVER SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS 1250-1950 Leonard Hill Books Limited, London 1958, dj; Basserman-Jordan, Ernst Von and Bertele, Hans Von THE BOOK OF OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES (translated from German by H. Alan Lloyd) George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London 1964, dj; Chapius, Alfred H. LÕHORLOGIE UNE TRADITION HELVETIQUE Les Editions De La Bourgade, Neuchatel 1948, dj and later card slipcase, (7).
Cescinsky, Herbert and Webster, Malcolm R. ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS George Routledge and Sons Limited, London 1913, first edition, black half morocco, spine gilt; with a copy of Hurcomb, W.E. THE WETHERFIELD COLLECTION OF CLOCKS published by the author, London 1929, red cloth with gilt title; and Cescinsky, Herbert THE OLD ENGLISH MASTER CLOCKMAKERS AND THEIR CLOCKS 1670-1820 John Bale, Sons and Curnow Limited, London 1938, first edition, dj, (3).
Horological monographs -two volumes: Symonds, R.W. THOMAS TOMPION HIS LIIFE & WORK B.T. Batsford Ltd., London 1951, first edition, dj; Neale, J.A. Joseph and Thomas Windmills Clock and Watchmakers 1671-1737 The Antiquarian Horological Society, Ticehurst 1999, signed and dated by the author, dj; with a copy of Cescinsky, Herbert THE OLD ENGLISH MASTER CLOCKMAKERS AND THEIR CLOCKS 1670-1820 George Routledge and Sons Ltd., London 1938, first edition, dj; and Dawson, Percy G, Drover, C.B. and Parkes, D.W. Early English Clocks Antique CollectorsÕ Club, Woodbridge 2003, dj, (4).
Smith, John HOROLOGICAL DIALOGUES in Three Parts and Horological Disquisitions Concerning the NATURE of TIME Two one-off facsimile volumes circa 1975; the first from the edition printed for Jonathan Edwin at the Three Roses, Ludgate Street, London 1675; the second from an edition printed for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in St. Pauls Churchyard, London 1694, both gilt tooled full morocco with gilt title to spine, (2).
Marine chronometers -seven volumes: Randall, Anthony G. and Good, Richard CATALOGUE OF WATCHES IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, VI Pocket Chronometers, Marine Chronometers and Other Portable Precision Timekeepers British Museum Publications, London 1990, first edition, dj; Mercer, Vaudrey JOHN ARNOLD & SON CHRONOMETER MAKERS The Antiquarian Horological Society, London 1975, dj; Mercer, Tony Mercer CHRONOMETERS Brant Wright Associates Ltd, Ashford 1978, first edition signed by the author and numbered 319, dj; Bertele, Hans von MARINE & POCKET CHRONOMETERS, History and Development Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Pennsylvania 1991, dj; Good, R. and Amis, P. PIONEERS OF PRECISION TIMEKEEPING The Antiquarian Horological Society, Ramsgate (undated); Mercer, Tony Chronometer Makers of the World N.A.G. Press, London 2004, dj; and Mudge, Thomas (junior) A DESCRIPTION WITH PLATES OF THE TIMEKEEPER INVENTED BY THE LATE MR. THOMAS MUDGE facsimile of the 1799 edition published by Turner & Devereux, London 1977, (7).
Chronometer makers- three horological monographs; Mercer, Vaudrey THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF EDWARD JOHN DENT AND HIS SUCCESSORS The Antiquarian Horological Society, London 1977, first edition, dj; Mercer, Vaudrey THE FRODSHAMS THE STORY OF A FAMILY OF Chronometer Makers The Antiquarian Horological Society, London 1981, first edition, dj; and Mercer, Vaudrey JOHN ARNOLD & SON CHRONOMETER MAKERS The Antiquarian Horological Society, London 1972, first edition, dj, (3).
[John Harrison] W. Hall after Tassaert JOHN HARRISON an engraved portrait Published by William Mackenzie, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and New York circa 1860, image 13.2 x 10.4 cm, leaf size 27.5 x 17.8cm; with a small group of publications relating to Harrison, Longitude and The Royal Observatory to include; Sobel, Dava Longitude Fourth Estate, London 1995, first edition; dj; Sobel, Dava and Andrewes, William, J. The Illustrated Longitude Fourth Estate, London 1998; Quill, Col. H., Good, R., Miles R.H.A., Amis, P. and Camerer Cuss, T.P. (and others) PIONEERS OF PRECISION TIMEKEEPING The Antiquarian Horological Society, Ramsgate undated; Howse, Derek GREENWICH TIME AND THE LONGITUDE Philip Wilson, London 1997, dj, (12)
Horology general theory and practice -seventeen volumes: Odmark, Albert (compiled) PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS ABRIDGEMENTS OF SPECIFICATIONS CLASS 139 WATCHES, CLOCKS AND OTHER TIMEPIECES, VOLUME ONE 1855-1900 and VOLUME TWO 1901-1930 Odmark, Seattle 1979; Rees, Abraham ReesÕs Clocks, Watches and Chronometers (1819-20) David and Charles, Newton Abbott 1970 reprint of the 1819-20 edition, dj; Rees, Abraham ReesÕs Manufacturing Industry (1819-20), Volume Two David and Charles, Newton Abbott 1972 reprint of extracts from 1819-20 edition, dj; Rawlings, A.L. The SCIENCE of CLOCKS and WATCHES Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York 1944; Haswell, J. Eric HOROLOGY The Science of Time Measurement and the Construction of Clocks, Watches and Chronometers Chapman and Hall Limited, London 1951, dj; Spencer-Jones, Sir Harold and others HOROLOGY British Horological Institute Preliminary Course, undated; Ward, F.A.B. TIME MEASUREMENT Catalogue of the collection Science Museum, Her MajestyÕs Stationary Office, London 1966; Lord Grimthorpe, Edmund Beckett A RUDIMENTARY TREATISE ON CLOCKS, WATCHES & BELLS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES EP Publishing Limited, London 1974 reprint of the 1903 edition; De Carle, Donald de De CarleÕs Watch & Clock Encyclopaedia N.A.G. Press, London 1978, dj; Britten, F.J. THE WATCH & CLOCK MAKERSÕ HANDBOOK, DICTIONARY AND GUIDE E. and F.N. Spon Limited, London 1915; Blackwell, Richard J. (trans.) CHRISTIAN HUYGENSÕ The Pendulum Clock or Geometrical Demonstration Concerning the Motion of Pendula as Applied to Clocks The Iowa State University Press 1986, first edition, dj; Crom, Theodore R. HOROLOGICAL WHEEL CUTTING ENGINES 1700-1900 published by the author, Gainsville FL. 1970; Ashton, T.S. AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INDUSTRIALIST PETER STUBS OF WARRINGTON 1756-1806 Manchester University Press, Manchester 1939; Cunynghame, H.H. TIME AND CLOCKS A DESCRIPTION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN METHODS OF MEASURING TIME Archibald, Constable and Co. Ltd., London 1906; Reeve, Claude B. The Musical Clock Argus Books Limited, Kings Langley 1975, dj; Gordon, C.F.C. CLOCKMAKING PAST & PRESENT The Technical Press Limited, London 1946, dj; and three sundry publications (20).
Horology -nineteen reference works: Cescinsky, Herbert THE OLD ENGLISH CLOCKMAKERS George Routledge and Sons Ltd., London 1938 (first edition) no dj; Jagger, Cedric Royal Clocks Robert Hale, London 1983, dj; Bromley, John The ClockmakersÕ Library Sotheby Parke Bernet, London 1977, dj; Dawson, Percy G., Drover, C.B. and Parkes, D.W. Early English Clocks, Antique CollectorsÕ Club, Woodbridge 1982, dj; Baillie, G.H., Clutton, F.S.A. and Ilbert, C.A. BRITTENÕS OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS Bonanza books reprint of the seventh edition, New York undated, dj; Lloyd, H. Alan SOME OUTSTANDING CLOCKS OVER SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS 1250-1950 Antique CollectorsÕ Club, Woodbidge 1981, limited edition numbered 323/1000; Lloyd, Alan H. CHATS ON OLD CLOCKS Ernest Benn Ltd., London 1951, dj; Fox, C.A.O. (editor) AN ANTHOLOGY OF CLOCKS AND WATCHES published by the editor, Swansea 1947; Baillie, G.H. CLOCKS & WATCHES An Historical Bibliography N.A.G. Press, London 1951, dj; Ullyett, Kenneth In Quest of Clocks Spring Books, London 1968, dj; Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain N.A.G. Press, London 1981, dj; Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World N.A.G. Press, Colchester 1993; Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 N.A.G. Press, Colchester 1992; Bruton, Eric The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks N.A.G. Press Ltd, London 1981, dj; Cescinsky, Herbert and Webster, Malcolm R. ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS Spring Books, London 1969, dj; with four further volumes, a copy of Symonds, R.W. ENGLISH FURNITURE FROM CHARLES II TO GEORGE II Antique CollectorsÕ Club, Woodbridge 1980, limited edition numbered 311/1,500; and three sundry publications, (23).
A rare American nickel plated brass carousel carriage timepiece with duplex escapement Waterbury Clock Company, circa 1880 The movement with monometallic balance and three-wheel train set within a circular rotating carriage with pierced plates which revolves once an hour via a ÔwalkingÕ eight leaf pinion around a fixed centre wheel, the drive provided by a large standing barrel containing long mainspring mounted on the backplate with winding turn to the rear, the movement frontplate pierced to reveal the rotating carriage within applied paper Roman numeral chapter ring and with monogram trademark incorporating inscription PAT. MAY 21 1878 to lower margin, the case with ring-turned handle to the cushion moulded top above bevel-glazed front door and side panels, on cavetto moulded base with rounded angles, 11cm (4.25ins) high excluding handle; with a copy of Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS Their history and development Antique CollectorsÕ Club, Woodbridge 1974, first edition, dj, (2). The ingenious rotating carousel design for the movement of the current lot was devised from a patent submitted by D.A. Buck of Worcester, Massachusetts in 1878 with the intention to produce a reliable timekeeper from the least possible parts. The mechanism was first employed by Waterbury in their Ôlong wind watchÕ before being used in carriage timepieces (with a much larger spring barrel to increase the duration to eight-days) from the early 1880Õs. The design and layout of the this type of carriage timepiece (including train counts) is described (in great detail) in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS Their history and development pages 360-6.
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