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Dubois (Pierre)
LATRIBUNE CHRONOMÉTRIQUE, SCIENTIFIQUE ET BIOGRAPHIQUE, FIRST
EDITION, 5 plates, 2 folding, wood-engraved illustrations, a little
browned, some foxing, a few pencil annotations, contemporary
roan-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, rubbed, [Bromley 283;
Tardy p.81], 4to, Paris, 1852.
£100-150
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Dubois (Pierre)
COLLECTION ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DU PRINCE PIERRE SOLTYKOFF,
HORLOGERIE..., SIGNED AND INSCRIBED “E.JAMES ESQR. FROM HIS
RESPECTFUL SERVANT PERCY WEBSTER DEC. 1898” on half-title, 20
engraved plates, some foxing, light water-staining towards end,
cloth, original printed wrappers bound in (soiled and slightly
frayed at edges), Paris, 1858 § Galerie Fischer. Uhren-Sammlung
Ernst Sarasin-Vonder M¸hll, Basel, sale catalogue, plates, price
list tipped in at beginning, cloth, roan label on spine (rubbed),
original wrappers bound in, Lucerne, 1948; and 11 others, sale
catalogues of notable horological collections including Maurice
M.Sternberger, Bloch-Pimentel, Henry P.Strause, Palace
Collections of Egypt, Antoine-Feill etc., 4to & 8vo (13)
£150-200
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Earnshaw (Thomas).- Commissioners of Longitude.
EXPLANATIONS OFTIME-KEEPERS, CONSTRUCTED BY MR.THOMAS
EARNSHAW AND THE LATE MR.JOHN ARNOLD, FIRST EDITION, 6
engraved plates, 2 folding (others creased where previously
folded), foxed and stained, some tears mostly to old folds
(repaired), DANIEL BUCKNEY’S COPY presented to him by
G.J.Jenkins with accompanying A.L.s. dated 1898 loosely
inserted, later half calf, rubbed, [Bromley 203; Tardy p.64], 4to,
T.Bensley for Payne and Mackinlay, 1806.
£1,000-1,500
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Earnshaw (Thomas)
LONGITUDE. AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC: stating Mr.Thomas
Earnshaw’s Claim to the Original Invention of the Improvements
in his Timekeepers...and his consequent Right to National
Reward, [2 copies], numbers 47 & 194 of 350 facsimile reprints,
illustrations, original rexine-backed boards, transparent wrapper,
BHI, 1986; and a bound photocopy of the first edition, 8vo &
oblong 4to (3)
£80-120
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Ellicott (John).- Dunkarton (Robert, engraver)
JOHN ELLICOTT F.R.S. ETAT 67 CLOCKMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY,
mezzotint portrait, a late impression, c.370 x 270mm., light
spotting and water-staining, framed and glazed, [c.1785, but
later].
£150-200
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