It's newsletter time again, and we have lots of books in stock to tempt you with.

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Some of the books currently in stock:

Viennese Timepieces
Frederick Kaltenböck

NEW. A comprehensive description of clock and watch production in Vienna from the 17th century up to the second half of the 19th century. The book, which has excellent photographs, has chapters on watches, zappler clocks, bracket clocks, wall clocks, longcase clocks, and a listing of Viennese clock and watch makers. For collectors of true Viennese regulators this is the best book on the subject. With dust jacket and slipcase.

263 pages, 527 illustrations, 1993.

£10.00 Order Here

The Knibb Family Clockmakers
Ronald A. Lee

O/P. This volume, now hard to find, is the standard reference book on the life and work of John, Joseph, Peter and Samuel Knibb. A very good clean copy, the end papers a little marked. The dust jacket is in good condition with light wear to edges and to top and bottom of spine.

187 pages, 5 colour and 190 b&w plates, 1st and only edition, number 711 of 1000 copies, 1964.

£650.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Mercer (A.):
Mercer Chronometers - Radical Tom Mercer and the House he Founded
O/P. £250.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Anon: The Story of the British Clock Tower in the Plaza Britanica, Retiro, Buenos Aires
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Vost (J.): Channel Islands Clockmakers 1680 - 1830
NEW. £14.50 Order Here * One copy only *

Roberts (D.): Amazing Clocks
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Jagger (C.): Paul Philip Barraud - a study of a fine Chronometer Maker, and of his Relatives, Associates and Successors in the Family Business 1750 - 1929 With Supplement
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Goodison (N.): Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton
O/P. £45.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Kahlert, Mühe & Brunner:
Armbanduhren: 100 Jahre Entwicklungsgeschichte
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * one copy only *

Benjamin Martin: Author, Instrument-maker, and 'Country Showman'
John R. Millburn

O/P. Martin was a teacher, author, lecturer - demonstrator and started a scientific instrument making business in London. Martin also wrote tracts on table clocks and dialling as well as designing and making at least two clocks. A fine copy with very good dust jacket (faded to spine). This book is now hard to find.

244 pages, frontis, 8 plates, 7 figs., 1976.

£125.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *

Turner (A.J.): New Light on George Margetts
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Ulric of England: German Military Timepieces of WWII
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Middleton (W.E. K.): The History of the Barometer
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Burton (S.H.): The Watch Collection of Stanley H. Burton
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Brodbeck (D.): Watches Made in France
O/P. £12.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Aked (C.K.): Complete List of English Horological Patents up to 1853
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * Three in stock *

Cunnington (B.H.):
Clock and Watch Makers of Wiltshire of the 17th and 18th Centuries
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Illustrated Catalogue of Cathedral, Church, Turret & Musical Clocks
[Henry Sainsbury]

NEW. A facsimile reprint of a trade catalogue from circa 1881 for the little known turret clock maker Henry Sainsbury founded in 1734. The range of products on offer, including clocks, carillons, bells and sundials, is extensive and suggests that the majority of the firms output was retailed and possibly signed by others. The catalogue includes detailed illustrations of the product range together with specifications and prices. Card covers.

38 pages, illus., 2005.

£5.00 Order Here

Watson (C.): (i) John Holmes - A View on his Life and Work & (ii) John Holmes (1727 - 97) Time for a Further Look
O/P. £5.00 Order Here

[Bonhams]: The Nicholas Radeloff Rolling Ball Clock
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Catalog of the Collection of Watches belonging to Mr J.J. Heinz of Pittsburgh
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

Peate (I.C.): Clock and Watch Makers in Wales (3rd edition)
O/P. £5.00 Order Here

Stevens (J.C.): The Clockmaker from Claypole: Charles Gretton 1648 - 1731
O/P. £5.00 Order Here

Ovens (R.) & Sleath (S.): Time in Rutland - a History and Gazeteer of the Bells, Scratch Dials, Sundials and Clocks of Rutland
O/P. £10.00 Order Here

Mrs Crowley's Sundial Sketchbooks of Devon & Cornwall
John Lester editor

O/P. An interesting historical record of the sundials in Devon & Cornwall sketched by Mrs Crowley in the 1950's and 1960's. A recent photograph of each dial is given alongside each dial sketch with information on its current state. A very good copy, front cover a little marked, card covers.

384 pages, illustrated, 2007.

£25.00 Order Here * Two copies only *

King (A.): From a Peal of Bells - John Harrison 1693 - 1776
O/P. £30.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Loomes (B.): Westmorland Clocks and Clockmakers
O/P. £5.00 Order Here

Bingham (T.) & Turner (A.): Metronomes and Musical Time
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Loomes (B.): Country Clocks and their London Origins
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * Three copies only *

Marrison ( W.A.): The Crystal Clock
The very first quartz clock
O/P. £5.00 Order Here

[Antiquorum]: The Art of Breguet
O/P. £30.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Bailey (C.H.): Seth Thomas Watches 1885 - 1915
O/P. £15.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Watchmaking in Llangollen by Robert Hughes - a Genuine late-Nineteenth Century Welsh Watch Manufacturer
D. H. Bacon

NEW. A detailed study of the business of Robert Hughes, based on original documents and record books, which manufactured and retailed watches in the second half of the 19th century. The book shows the difficulty faced by British manufacturers caused by large scale importation of low cost watches. With dust jacket.

111 pages, illustrated, 2000.

£12.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Kochmann (K.): United Freiburg Clock Factories Ltd 1899 - 1924
O/P. £20.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Cowham (M.): A Dial In Your Poke
O/P. £10.00 Order Here

Hepton (J.): The Hepton Clockmakers of Northallerton
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

We have lots of new Special Offers this month so please do see if there are any books of interest to you.

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