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Martin (Benjamin)
A NEW AND COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTIONS,
Agreeable to the Present State of the Newtonian Mathesis, 2
vol., second edition, 22 folding engraved plates, full-page woodcut
illustration, tables and diagrams, advertisement leaf at end of
vol.2, ROBERT GARDNER’S COPY with his signature dated 1894 on
front free endpapers, ink annotation concerning Smeaton and a
pyrometer at foot of p.433 of vol.2 in chapter XV (on heat and cold
and pendulums), lightly browned, modern half calf, spines
slightly faded, [Baillie p.264; cf. Tardy p.171, 1764 edition], 8vo,
W.Owen and the Author, 1759.
*** Vol.2 includes Institutiones Horologicae, or, a Physico-
Mathematical Theory of Clock-work. “Deals exhaustively with
the theory of pendulums of various kinds and balance springs.
Explains the construction of a clock with Planetarium, Tellurian
and Lunarium.” Baillie.
£300-400
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Mason (Bernard)
CLOCK AND WATCHMAKING IN COLCHESTER ENGLAND: A history of
provincial clockmaking from the fifteenth to the nineteenth
centuries..., FIRST EDITION, illustrations, original cloth, t.e.g., dustjacket,
spine slightly faded, board slip-case, 4to, 1969.
£200-300
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Maurice (Klaus)
DIE DEUTSCHE RÄDERUHR: Zur Kunst und Technik des
mechanischen Zeitmessers im deutschen Sprachraum, 2 vol.,
illustrations, some colour, original cloth, dust-jackets, vol.2 with
short tear and crease to lower edge of rear panel, 4to, Munich, 1976.
£100-150
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