THE vintage HOROLOGY COLLECTION ~~~~~~~~ A truly unique and wonderful
collection of over 200 rare, out-of-print books and documents compiled together
for the first time on 2 DVD data discs covering all aspects of HOROLOGY –
CLOCKS, WATCHES & ASSORTED TIME PIECES. From ancient sun dials and
church tower clocks to pocket watches and rare vintage time pieces, this
collection has it all. Read about the history
of time keeping, clock and watch making as well as time piece adjustment and
repair. Study the art of mechanical movements, horological methods and the
polishing, plating and engraving of metals. Also included are vintage
catalogues from various watchmakers as well as several rare volumes of “The
Watchmaker & Jeweler, Silversmith & Optician” and “American Horological
Journal – Devoted to Practical Horology” providing a fascinating insight of
time pieces during the late 19th century. Some of the works
contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a
valuable library of reference material. Overall, this is an absolute must for
anyone with an interest in clock and watch repair, the history of time-keeping,
collecting rare time-pieces, etc. The full list of titles included speaks for
itself…. This superb compilation of
well over 200 vintage books provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great
content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books
have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to
read on your laptop, computer, tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can
also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books are written in
English with several additional texts in French and German. This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here! The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows: The Horology Collection – Disc 1: 20th century
catalogue of supplies for watchmakers, jewelers and kindred trades by J. H.
Purdy & Co. (1899) A book of
sundial mottoes by A. H. Hyatt (1903) A catalogue
of books, manuscripts, specimens of clocks, watches and watchwork, paintings,
prints, &c., in the library and museum of the Worshipful company of
clockmakers (1875) A Contrivance
to Avoid the Irregularities in a Clock's Motion, Occasion'd by the Action of
Heat and Cold upon the Rod of the Pendulum by G. Graham (1753) A Description
of a Clepsydra or Water-Clock (1753) A Description
of Two Methods, by Which the Irregularity of the Motion of a Clock, Arising
from the Influence of Heat and Cold upon the Rod of the Pendulum, May be
Prevented by J. Ellicott (1753) A history of
Simon Willard, inventor and clockmaker - J. W. Willard (1911) A history of
watches and other timekeepers - J. F. Kendall (1892) A Letter of
Mr. Joseph Williamson Watchmaker, Wherein He Asserts His Right to the Curious
and Useful Invention of Making Clocks to Keep Time with the Suns Apparent
Motion - J. Williamson (1753) A new
chronometer - Waltham Watch Co. (unknown date) A New Method
of Constructing Sun-Dials, for Any Given Latitude, without the Assistance of
Dialing Scales or Logarithmic Calculations by J. Ferguson (1767) A new system
of electric clocks - its principles and advantages by L. H. Spellier (1886) A portion of
the papers relating to the great clock for the new palace at Westminster (1848) A practical
and theoretical treatise on the detached lever escapement for watches and time
pieces - M. Grossmann (1884) A practical
treatise on the balance spring - Excelsior pseud. (1876) A practical
treatise on the teeth of wheels. With the theory and the use of Robinson's
odontograph - S. W. Robinson (1888) A rudimentary
treatise on clock and watch making - E. B. Denison (1850) A Rudimentary
Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells (1903) A treatise on
modern horology in theory and practice (1887) A treatise on
the teeth of wheels demonstrating the best forms which can be given to them for
the purposes of machinery, such as mill-work and clock-work - M. Camus (1868) A treatise on
watch-work, past and present - H. L. Nelthropp (1873) Abbott's
American watchmaker and jeweler - an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler,
gold and silversmith by H. G. Abbott (1898) Account of
improvements in chronometers, made by Mr. John Sweetman Eiffe (1842) American
horological journal, devoted to practical horology (Volume 1) (1869) American
horological journal, devoted to practical horology (Volume 2) (1869) American
horological journal, devoted to practical horology (Volume 3) (1869) American
horological journal, devoted to practical horology (Volume 4) (1869) An Account
and Description of Three Pendulums Invented and Constructed by John Crosthwaite,
Watch and Clock Maker, Dublin
- J. Crossthwaite (1788) (article) An analysis
of the lever escapement - H. R. Playtner (1910) Ancient
Japanese Clocks - F. D. Skeel (1892) (article) Bangerter's
inventions - his marvelous time clock - E. L. King (1911) Book of old
sundials - W. Hogg (1922) Breguet
(1747-1823) by D. Salomons (1921) Catalog of
clocks and bronzes - John Wilson's Sons (1882) Catalogue of
Waltham watch material - Waltham Watch Co. (1911) Charter and
bye laws - Company of clockmakers (1825) Chats on old
clocks (1917) Church,
clock, hemispherical, and other description of bells (1919) Clock and
watch work - E. Beckett (1855) Clocks and
watches - G. L. Overton (1922) Clocks
manufactured by the E. Ingraham Company, Bristol, Conn., U. S. A. - Catalogue
No. 29 (1903) Clocks
manufactured by the E. Ingraham Company, Bristol, Conn., U. S. A. - Catalogue
No. 30 (1899 -1900) Clocks
manufactured by the E. Ingraham Company, Bristol, Conn., U. S. A. - Catalogue
No. 32 (1903-1904) Clocks
manufactured by the E. Ingraham Company, Bristol, Conn., U. S. A. - Catalogue
No. 33 (1901-1902) Clocks
manufactured by the E. Ingraham Company, Bristol, Conn., U. S. A. - Catalogue
No. 33 (1905-1906) Collection of
watches loaned to the Metropolitan museum of art of the city of New York (1907) Comparative
performance of watches with elinvar and with steel hairsprings - Bureau of
Standards Journal of Research, Vol. 12, No. 4 by R. E. Gould (1921) Computation
of time - S. Bonsall (1879) Der
Horologien, oder Sonnen Vhren, künstliche Beschreibung - S.
Munster (1579) Description
de l'horlage monumentale de la cathédrale de Beauvais - A. L. Verite (1868) (French text) Description
of a Horizontal Sundial - M. Donovan (1857) (article) Description
of an Escapement for an Astronomical Clock, Invented by the Late Captain Henry
Kater by E. Kater (1840) Description
of the galvanic chronographic apparatus of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (1857) Description
of the universal time dial regulator - F. Niehaus (1874) Die
Englischen Pendeluhren - C. Schmidt (1856) (German text) Die
Grundlehren der Uhrmacherkunst - J. Meyer (1864) (German text) Die Hemmungen
der Uhren, ihre Entwicklung, Konstruktion, Reparatur und Behandlung vor der
Reglage (1905) Die
mittelalterlichen horen und die modernen stunden - G. Bilfinger (1892) Die
Uhrmacherkunst und die Behandlung der Präcisionsuhren - E.
Gelchic (1892) Directions
for using Bottum's patent improved universal lathe chucks and improved lathes,
for turning and finishing every description of watch pivots, pinions, staffs -
J. M. Bottum (1852) Elegant and
Curious Clocks - N. S. Stowell (1887) (article) Elements of
mechanical philosophy - J. Robison (1804) Essai sur
l'horlogerie Vol. 1 par F. Bertoud (1763) Essai sur
l'horlogerie Vol. 2 par F. Bertoud (1763) Explanations
of time-keepers, constructed by Mr. Thomas Earnshaw and the late Mr. John
Arnold (1806) Five hundred
and seven mechanical movements by H. T. Brown (1908) Former clock
and watchmakers and their work (1894) Friction,
lubrication and the lubricants in horology (1896) Hall clocks,
regulators, bank & balcony clocks, Willard banjo clocks, office, depot
& school clocks - Waltham Clock Co. (1910) Histoire de
la mesure du temps par les horloges Vol. 1 - F. Berthoud (1802) (French text) Histoire de
la mesure du temps par les horloges Vol. 2 - F. Berthoud (1802) (French text) History of
the American clock business for the past sixty years - C. Jerome (1860) History of
the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham,
Mass. - H. G. Abbott (1904) Horlogerie - contenant
soixante-quatre planches par R. Bernard (1765) Horologi
elementari diuisi in quattro parti - alcuni muti, & alcuni col suono tutti facili, e molto commodi - D. Martinelli
(1669) Horological
Department by Bradley Polytechnic Institute (1918) Horological
Department by Bradley Polytechnic Institute (1920) Horologium
oscillatorium - C. Huygens (1673) (Latin text) Horology - E.
J. Haswell (1921) Horology - W.
Thomson (1867) How to find
the time at sea in less than a minute; being new and accurate methods (1918) How to keep
the clock right by observations of the fixed stars with a small telescope
(1869) Illustrated
catalogue - Franklin Jewelry Company (1875) Illustrated
catalogue and price list of clocks manufactured by the E. Ingraham & Co., Bristol, Conn.
(1881) The Horology Collection – Disc 2: Ingraham
watches and clocks - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 39 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 40 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 41 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 42 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 43 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 43 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 43 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 44 - E. Ingraham Co. Ingraham
watches and clocks Catalog No. 50 - E. Ingraham Co. Isochronism
of balance springs - C. Frodsham (1862) Jeweled
bearings for watches - C. T. Higginbotham (1911) Katechismus
der uhrmacherkunst - Anleitung zur kenntniss berechnung, construction und
behandlung der uhrwerke jeder art - F. Herrmann (1874) (German Text) Kemlo's watch
repairers handbook (1882) Lancaster 's Part in
the World's Watchmaking Industry by J. J. Bowman (1921) L'art de
connaitre des pendules et les montres - H. Robert (1841) Lectures on
church-building with some practical remarks on bells and clocks - E. B.
Grimthorpe (1846) Lessons in
Horology Vol. 1 - J. Grossmann (1905) Mainsprings -
Waltham Watch Co. (1905) Mechanical
philosophy, horology, and astronomy - W. B. Carpenter (1857) Mechanick
dialling, or, The new art of shadows, freed from the many obscurities,
superfluities and errors of former writers upon this subject - C. Leadbetter
(1769) Modern
electro plating (1897) Modern letter
engraving in theory and practice; a manual for the use of watchmakers, jewelers
and other metal engravers (1898) Modern
methods in horology - G. Hood (1904) New and
complete clock and watchmakers' manual - M. L. Booth (1860) Observations
for proving the going of Mr Ellicotts's Clock (1761) Old clocks
and watches & their makers - F. J. Britten (1904) Old clocks
and watches & their makers (5th Edition - much enlarged) - F. J. Britten
(1922) Old Scottish
clockmakers from 1453 to 1850 (1921) On a New
Astronomical Clock, and a Pendulum Governor for Uniform Motion - article by A.
W. Thompson (1868) On the
construction and theory of the dead escapement for clocks - B. L. Vulliamy
(1846) On the
springing and adjusting of watches (1898) P.W. Ellis
& Co. Limited, the jewellery headquarters of Canada - 1915-1916 illustrated
catalogue importing and manufacturing,
gold and silversmiths, makers of Ellis watch cases (1915) Pendulum
Clocks and Their Errors - article by H. Mallock (1911) Perpetual
motion; comprising a history of the efforts to attain self-motive mechanism -
H. Dircks (1916) Practical
course in adjusting, comprising a review of the laws governing the motion of
the balance and balance spring in watches and chronometers - T. Gribi (1901) Practical
lessons on the lever escapement, its tests, errors, their detection and
correction - T. J. Wilkinson (1916) Primitive sun
dials or scratch dials; containing a list of those in Somerset by D. E. Horne (1917) Prize Essay
on the Construction of a Simple and Mechanically Perfect Watch - M. Grossmann
(1891) Rules and
practice for adjusting watches - W. J. Kleinlein (1920) Secrets of
the trade. For watchmakers and jewelers by Collins & Clifton (1892) Select
mechanical exercises - shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and
sun-dials, on plain and easy principles - J. Ferguson (1773) Some account
of the Worshipful company of clockmakers of the city of London (1881) Some
considerations on the subject of public clocks, particularly church clocks by
B. L. Vulliamy (1828) The American
watchmaker and jeweler - J. P. Stelle (1868) The American
watchmaker and jeweler; an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and
silversmith - H. G. Abbott (1891) The
Artificial Clock-Maker (1734) The book of
A. Lincoln watches - Illinois Watch Company (1921) The book of
old sundials by T. N. Foulis (1922) The clock
jobber's handybook - a practical manual on cleaning, repairing and adjusting;
embracing information on the tools, materials, appliances and processes
employed in clockwork (1889) The Clock
maker's Guide to Practical Clock Work (1813) The
clockmaker, or, The sayings and doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville - T. C.
Haliburton (1865) The Clocks of
the Greenwich
and U. S. Naval Observatories - T. Lewis (1907) (article) The evolution
of automatic machinery as applied to the manufacture of watches at Waltham, Mass.
- E. A. Marsh (1896) The home of
the Waltham
watch - Waltham Watch Co. (1903) The
Horological Journal - The Special Organ of the British Horological Institute
Vol. 2 (1860) The
Horological Journal - The Special Organ of the British Horological Institute
Vol. 16 (1874) The machines
that never stop - J. Hopkins (1907) The
manufacture of lubricants, shoe polishes and leather dressings ... oils for
lubricating sewing machines and other working machinery, mineral lubricating
oils, clockmakers' oils - R. Brunner (1906) The modern clock;
a study of time keeping mechanism; its construction, regulation, and repair -
W. L. Goodrich (1905) The old clock
book - N. H. Moore (1912) The perfected
American watch - Waltham Watch Co. (1910) The polishing
and plating of metals (1904) The principles
of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper; with plates of the same - J. Harrison (1767) The story of
Edward Howard and the first American watch - G. L. Dyer (1910) The timepiece
of shadows - a history of the sun dial by H. S. Spackman (1895) The tower
clock and how to make it (1903) The Tower
Clock Designed and Made for the University
of Chicago - E. B. Ferson
(1903) The universal
clock adjuster (1887) The Waltham ad book - Waltham
Watch Co. (1910) The watch.
Hand work versus machinery, their merits and defects explained and compared.
History of watch making by both systems (1877) The Watch
& Clock Makers' Handbook, Dictionary and Guide - F. J. Britten (1896) The watch
adjuster's manual - C. E. Fritts (1904) The watch and
the clock - A. Taylor (1883) The watch
balance and its jeweling - C. T. Higginbotham (1912) The watch
factories of America,
past and present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, from 1809 to 1888 - H. G.
Abbott (1888) The watch
jobber's handybook A practical manual on
cleaning, repairing & adjusting
embracing information on the tools, materials, appliances and processes
employed in watchwork (1889) The watch;
its construction, its merits and defects, how to choose it, and how to use it -
H. F. Piaget (1860) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 1 - 2 June 1875 -
June 1877) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 3 - 4 July 1877 -
May 1879) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 5 - 6 July 1879 -
June 1881) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 7 - 8 July 1881 -
June 1883) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 9 - 10 July 1883
- June 1885) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 12 July 1886 -
June 1887) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 13 July 1887 -
June 1888) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 14 July 1888 -
June 1889) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 15 July 1889 -
June 1890) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 16 July 1890 -
June 1891) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 17 July 1891 -
June 1892) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 18 July 1892 -
June 1893) The
Watchmaker & jeweller, silversmith & optician (Volume 19 July 1893 -
June 1894) The
watchmaker's and jeweler's hand-book - C. Hopkins (1866) The
watchmakers' and machinists' hand book - W. B. Learned (1897) The
Watchmaker's Hand-book (1881) The
watchmakers' lathe, its use and abuse; a story of the lathe in its various
forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses (1903) The Wenzel
pneumatic clock (1883) Three hundred
& fourteen gold & platinum watches - Anderson Galleries inc. (1921) Time &
Timekeepers (1842) Time and
clocks, a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time - H. H.
Cunynghame (1920) Time and its
measurement - J. Arthur (1909) Time and
time-tellers - J. W. Benson (1875) Time telling
through the ages (1919) Tower Clocks
- Seth Thomas Clock Co. (1911) Traité de
l'horlogerie, méchanique et pratique
approuvé par l'Academie royale des sciences (Volume 1) (1741) Traité de
l'horlogerie, méchanique et pratique
approuvé par l'Academie royale des sciences (Volume 2) (1741) Treatise on
clock and watch making, theoretical and practical (Plates) - T. Reid (1852) Treatise on
clock and watch making, theoretical and practical - T. Reid (1847) Turning and
mechanical manipulation intended as a work of general reference and practical
instruction on the lathe Vols. 1 - 4 - C. Holtzapffel (1850) U.S. patents
covering time keeping mechanisms (1892) U.S. patents
covering time keeping mechanisms (1923) Uhren, ein
handbuch für sammler und liebhaber - E. von Bassermann-Jordan (1922) Uhrmacher-Lexikon,
oder, Zusammenstellung und Charakteristik aller bis jetzt bekannten Uhren - F.
Schade (1855) Vollständiges
Handbuch der Uhrmacherkunst - E. Schreiber (1865) Waltham and
the European made watch - Waltham Watch Co. (1919) Waltham eight-day
timepieces, an innovation in American watch making - Waltham Watch Co. (1910) Waltham
watches - some of their qualities, styles, trade-marks and prices for careful
buyers to consider - Waltham Watch Co. (1911) Watch and
clock escapements (1904) Watch and
clock making - D. Glasgow
(1885) Watch makers
tables; a collection of useful information concerning the teeth of wheels and
pinions; the trains of watches and clocks; lengths of pendulums; etc; (1914) Watches - the
Paul M. Chamberlain collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (1921) Watches at
wholesale prices by McFarlane & Co. (1890) Watchmaker's
and jeweler's practical hand book. A reliable compendium of valuable receipts
and suggestions G. Hazlitt (1892) Watchmakers'
and jewelers' practical receipt book. A workshop companion (1892) Wholesale
pocket price list of the largest watch house in America (1882) Ye sundial
booke - T. Henslow (1914) An absolute must
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