Rare Books (all collector items)
from Theodore Crom's personal library
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Please bid on only one book per email.
All bids will be acknowledged by email
with the highest present bid for that book.
There is no closing date on any book unless otherwise noted, but will be
sold when no other interest is apparent.
The highest bid to date and/or minimum acceptable bid can be obtained on individual books by emailing us. One email per book.
e-mail a bid or inquiry now to tedcrom@windstream.net
PAYMENT AND SHIPPING
Books will be shipped once payment is received.
Buyer pays insured shipping costs. Shipping method is the choice of the buyer.
All prices and payments to be in US dollars only:
Prefered methods of payment are Certified Check, Money Order, or Cashier's Check
Personal Checks will be accepted but shipment will delayed until it clears
We can also accept bank to bank transfers, in most situations.
Email is prefered, but if not possible:
Please place telephone calls between 9:00am and 9:00pm USA Eastern Standard Time.
NO COLLECT CALLS ACCEPTED: Call Gary Crom (at 1-352-475-1609) to arrange the details.
All SOLD books will be noted as such for a short time and then removed from this list.
We will occasionally add mores books for sale to the bottom of this list. Each series
of additions will be seperated by date to find additions easily.
Date Books Were Last Added To List - June 9, 2005
Date Book Photos Last Added to a listing - July 21, 2005
Date Page Text Last Updated/Deleted - August 26, 2005
For history and greater detail of these books see "G.H.Basillie Clocks and Watches - An Historical Bibliography"
Suggested search for antique books and their market price, go to www.abebooks.co.uk
Also check out the other book reference sites listed on the "Links" at the bottom of this page
AUCTION LIST OF ALL BOOKS UP FOR BIDS:
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(RB-001) ADAMS, GEORGE. ASTRONOMICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL
ESSAYS. 1789.
Including the use of Celestial and Terrestrial Globes,
at the back a 15 page catalogue of his instruments for sale and prices
thereof. Plus 21 nicely engraved copper plate prints showing among
other things his more elaborate instruments for sale. 665 pages,
numerous
pages uncut. 5 in. x 8 3/4 in. x 2 5/8 in. Stored in a new made-to-order case
box.
(RB-002) BEAU MONDE Monthly Journal of Fashion, Jan. 1 through
Dec. 1834,
88 hand colored plates, plus descriptions of fashions,
poetry, stories, and some history. See Crom Trade Catalogues.
Page 47 for a description of the journal Beau Monde.
(RB-003) BELL & TOMPKIN GENERAL TOOL CATALOGUE c1840.
56 engraved copper plates of wood working tools, shovels, files
nails, etc. 15 x 9.5 inches. Original covers. In new cased box.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-004) BERGERON, L. E. MANUEL DU TOURNEUR.
Set of unbound
plates in good condition, some browning and slight tattering at corners
and edges, but copper plate engravings very clear and bright. Tome I
missing plates IV, V, IX, X, XI, XX, and XXI. Last plate is XXXVIII.
Tome II
missing plates XI, XVI and XLVIII. Last plate is LIV. Obviously from
an Atlas unbound to sell by the individual plate.
NOTE: See book (RB-055) below. These are some of the same plates, but from a different copy of that set.
(RB-006) BERTHOUD, F. ESSAI SUR L'HORLOGERIE 1786, 2nd Ed. 2 Vols.
8 in. x 9 3/4 in. x 2 in.. Vols. I (477 pages, 19 plates of clocks, watches,
tools, etc.)
and (450 pages, 19 plates of clocks, watches, tools, etc). Original
Leather
bindings, both a bit tattered but text and plates in good condition.
(RB-007) BION, N, TRAITE DE LA CONSTRUCTION ET DES PRINCIPAUX
USAGES DES INSTRUMENS DE MATHEMATIQUE 1723
Text and
plates in good condition, Original leather cover tattered.1/2 in. x 9 3/4 in.
x 2 in.
389 pages, numerous plates of instruments, etc. (see Crom Horological
Shop Tools for a plate from Bion 1709 illustrating two wheel cutting
engines.)
(RB-008) J. BISSET. A POETIC SURVEY ROUND BIRMINGHAM. 1800
See Crom Trade Catalogues 1542 to 1842 for some plates from this book.
(RB-009) BOOK OF ENGLISH TRADES. 1824.
Tattered, needs rebinding.
444 pages, Seventy engravings of trades, Including the watchmaker at
his bench. 4 1/4 in. x 7 in. x 1 5/8 in.. See Crom, Horological Shop Tools
Figure 33.
(RB-010) BRASS HARDWARE CATALOGUE c1815-1820
11 x 7 inches.
83 engraved copper plates.
(RB-011) CHEZ AUDIN. ART DE L'HORLOGERIE. Paris 1827
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-012) CESCINSKY, H. THE OLD ENGLISH CLOCKMAKERS AND
THEIR CLOCKS -1670 -1820. 1938.
Prime condition. 7 1/2 in. x 10 in.
x 3/4 in.. Hardback.
(RB-013) CUMMING, ALEXANDER. THE ELEMENTS OF CLOCK AND
WATCH WORK 1766.
Good condition, restored original covers.
8 3/8 in. x 10 3/4 in. x 1 1/4 in. Essays on clocks,watches, pendulums, etc.
192 pages plus index, 16 Copper Plate engravings, including one
showing the double virgule escapement and method of laying it out.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated June 06, 2005)
(RB-014) DERHAM, WM. THE ARTIFICIAL CLOCKMAKER. 3rd ed. 1714.
Nicely rebound, excellent condition. 140 pages plus plates.
3 3/4 in. x 6 1/2 in. x 1/2 in.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-015) DERHAM, WM. THE ARTIFICIAL CLOCKMAKER. 4th ed.1759
Tattered, but not badly.160 pages, 2 plates. 4 1/2 in. x 6 1/2 in. x 3/4 in.
(RB-016) DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT. HORLOGERIE. 1770.
Extract (not a
reprint) from the Grande Encyclopedia, containing 64 plates, French
text.
Good condition. 9 3/4 in. x 15 1/2 in. x 3/4 in.. The plates show the latest
clock
designs, watches, their parts and movements, and tools of the mid
eighteenth century, preceded by 25 pages of text explaining the
plates.
(RB-017) DUMONTIER, N. L'ART DE TRAVAILLER LES PIERRES
PRECIEUSES A L'USAGE DE L'HOROLOGIE ET DE
L'OPTIQUE. 1843.
French text. One plate showing swiss jeweling/wax lathe
and a few accessories.
(RB-018) EMERSON, WM.. THE PRINCIPLES OF MECHANICS. 2nd Ed.
1758
(RB-019) FERGUSON, JAMES. MECHANICAL EXERCISES
Showing how
to construct different CLOCKS, ORRERIES, AND SUN-DIALS. Has
misc. articles, tables, etc. 1773. Fairly good condition 5 1/2 in. x
8 1/2 in.
x 1 1/8 in. 272 pages.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-020) GENERAL SHOP BOOK OR THE TRADESMAN'S
UNIVERSAL DIRECTORY 1753
(RB-022) HALLE, JOHANN SAMUEL. DER UHRMACHER 1762. German
text .
Part of a larger work, pages 240 to 306. one plate, Plate VI,
showing a verge-fusee watch and the striking mechanism of a clock
and train layout. 7 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 3/8 in.
(RB-023) HARCOURT QUINCEY. PATTERN BOOK OF SAWS,
MECHANICAL TOOLS, AND MACHINERY. 1855-6. London.
12 1/2 in. x 10 in. x 3/8 in. Nicely rebound in 1983, with all pages encased in
rice paper for preservation. Some of 28 leaves have items with yellow
highlight. Full index of contents. All items with prices. Includes
printing, hay,
cotton, general screw presses, various lifting cranes, jacks, wagons,
blacksmith equipment, smith's and engineer's strong iron lathes, large
planing, grooving, sloting, punching and shearing machines, fold out
plate
of many types of large, small, and circular saws, rules and gages,
plate of
portable beam and steam engines (4 horse power and up), two plates of
large wood working machinery, saw mills, etc., brass turner's lathe,
"Amatuer's Lathe", bench mounted, with eight drawers, all kinds of wood
working hand tools, large, small, and Gentlemen's tool chests, plate of
measuring rules and tapes, iron square, plate of horticultural tools,
plate of
hoes, picks, matchets, gold washing machine, Sugar house lamp, plate of
nails, rivets, discs, plate listing "Railway Tools, Implements, and
Machinery"
(Not illustrated), plate of wood screws, plate of Forged bolt rings in
iron or
copper, plate listing "Engravings Preparing for Publication" which for
one
lists "Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths of all descriptions," A wonderful
catalogue! It is reprinted, reduced size, in Crom Horological and Other
Shop Tools.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-024) HARDWARE CATALOGUE. Anonymous, Circa 1775.
Tattered but in good condition. 11 1/4 in. x 7 in. x 3/4 in. The rebound
cover erroneously gives the date 1817. This is actually the number for
that specific individual catalogue. (See Crom's; An Eighteenth Century
English Brass Hardware Catalogue, page 10, 2nd column under "3" for an
explaination of the number. See also Crom's Trade Catalogues pages 159 to
164 for a more extensive discussion of catalogue book numbers.) 83
copper engraved plates of all manner of 18th century brass hardware.
Missing Plates are B-7-25-32-34-35, Winterthur has plate A.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-025) HEAD, SIR GEORGE. MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF
ENGLAND 1835, Published 1836.
Good condition. 4 3/4 in. x 3i/2 in. x 1 in.
348 pages. Describes life and times of the period, including much
information about commerce, in narrative style. Quite interesting to a
student of the times in England.
(RB-026) HULOT. L'ART DU TOURNEUR MECANICIEN. 1775 French Text,
390 pages, 34 copper plate engravings of geometry, many tools, details
of building lathes and their accessories. 11 1/4 in. x 17 in. x 2 1/4 in.
(RB-027) LEEDS POTTERY CATALOGUE, c1835.
9 in. x 11 in. x 5/8 in.,
71 engraved copper plates, all in good condition, of many different
items
produced by Leeds Pottery. Original binding. Tattered.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-028) LE NORMAND, L. SEB. NEUVEAU MANUEL DE L'HORLOGER
1837. French text.
Describes clock and watch making. Dictionary of
horologidal terms.Nine plates. 3 3/4 in. x 5 5/8 x1 in. 320 pages.
(RB-030) MANDEY, VENTERUS, PHILOMAT. MECHANIC POWERS.
Third edition of 1709. The first edition of 1696 was by Mandy and
Moxon.
(RB-031) MARTIN, THOMAS . THE CIRCLE OF MECHANICAL ARTS.
1813.
in new made-to-order cased box. Severa;l plates from this book
shown in Crom Horologicial Shop Tools. Tattered, cover needs attention.
616 pages. 38 plates of architecture, engineering, proportions, layout,
building and bridge wood framing, joinery, masonry, mining. coach
making,
wood joints, carpentry, clock-watch work and horological tools, cotton
machinery
and manufacturing, paper mills, turning which includes ellipse making
means,
8 3/4 in. x 11 5/8 in. x 2 in.
(RB-032) MOINET, M. L. NOUVEAU TRAITE GENERAL D'HORLOGERIE.
French text.
Vols. I and II (7 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. x 1 1/8 in.) plus book of
plates
(12 in. x 9 1/2 in. x 5/8 in.). Nicely rebound but slightly tattered.
(RB-033) O'REILLY, R. ANNALES DES ARTS ET MANUFACTURERS; an XII (1804) Tome XV.
Memoires Technologiques sur les Decouvertes
modernes concenant les Arts, les Manufactures, l'Agriculture et le
Commerce. French text. Describes various machines, including how to
file or
shape clock wheel teeth by hand and by using a tool. Has 11 plates of
machines, none horological. 5 1/4 in. x 8 in. x 1 1/4 in. 336 pages.
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-035) PARTINGTON. THE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKER'S COMPLETE
GUIDE. 1825.
Rebound. 5 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 1/2 in. Not really a complete
guide. Description of clocks and watches, some engravings, tables, etc
Click here to view photos of this book (Updated July 21, 2005)
(RB-036) PENRED, JOHN. THE EARLIEST DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK
TRADE. 1784, Reprint 1955
7 in. x 9 in. x 1/4 in. 90 pages
(RB-037) PRINCE, WM. R. PRINCE'S ABRIDGED ANNUAL CATALOGUE
1841 & 1842 or Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Plants.
Unbound
catalogue listing more than 500 items, cultivated and for sale at the
Linnoean
Botanic Garden and Nurseries, Flushing near New York.
4 1/2 in. X 7 1/4 in. X 1/8 in.
(RB-038) RATCLIFFE BRASS CATALOGUE c1835-1840.
13 x 8.5 inches.
Index at front, ink inscription "Ratcliff & Son, May 1834." 225 finely
engraved copper plates. Rebound and in cased box.
(RB-039) REID, THOMAS. TREATISE ON CLOCK AND WATCH MAKING
1826
(RB-040) SALOMONS. D.L. BREGEUT. 1921
The famous book concerning
A. L. Breguet and his watchs. A second copy, Cover tattered, but text
pages in good condition.
(RB-041) SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. Catalogue No.118. 1908
Tattered and scruffy.
Shows hundreds of items with prices, including jewelry, clocks, watch
movements,
many watch cases of solid and gold filled, tools, kitchen equipment, a
horse
buggy, etc. Shows and lists their fadtories and distributors. 112
pages.
(RB-042) WOOD,E.J. CURIOSITIES OF CLOCKS AND WATCHES. 1866.
Tattered covers but text in quite good condition. Contins a great deal
of
general horological information not found elsewhere. 443 pages
including
extensive index. 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in. x 1 5/8 in.
(RB-043) REES, ABRAHAM (LONGMAN, HURST, REES
& ORME) CYCLOPAEDIA BOOK OF PLATES 1809 - 1819. XLVII
Plates concerning horology. 8 1/2 in. x 10 3/4 in. x1/2 in.
(RB-044) PRINCE, WM. R. PRINCE'S ABRIDGED ANNUAL CATALOGUE
1841 & 1842 or Fruit and Ornamental Trees and Plants. Unbound
catalogue listing more than 500 items, cultivated and for sale at the
Linnoean
Botanic Garden and Nurseries, FlushIng near New York.
4 1/2 in. X 7 1/4 in. X 1/8 in.
(RB-045) PARTINGTON. THE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKER'S COMPLETE
GUIDE. 1825.
Rebound. 5 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 1/2 in. Not really a complete
guide. Description of clocks and watches, some engravings, tables, etc
(RB-049) LE NORMAND, L. SEB. NEUVEAU MANUEL DE L'HORLOGER
1837. French text.
Describes clock and watch making. Dictionary of
horologidal terms.Nine plates. 3 3/4 in. x 5 5/8 x1 in. 320 pages
(RB-051) HEAD, SIR GEORGE. MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF
ENGLAND 1835, Published 1836.
Good condition. 4 3/4 in. x 3/2 in. x 1 in.
348 pages. Describes life and times of the period, including much
information about commerce, in narrative style. Quite interesting to a
student of the times in England.
(RB-053) BION, N, TRAITE DE LA CONSTRUCTION ET DES PRINCIPAUX
USAGES DES INSTRUMENS DE MATHEMATIQUE 1723
Text and
plates in good condition, Original leather cover tattered.1/2 in. x 9 3/4 in.
x 2 in.
389 pages, numerous plates of instruments, etc. (see Crom Horological
Shop Tools for a plate from Bion 1709 illustrating two wheel cutting
engines.)
(RB-054) BERTHOUD, F. LES PENDULES ET MONTRES 1759
Beautifully rebound, excellent condition. 66 pages. 14 plates.
3 1/4 in. x 5 5/8 in. x 1/2 in.
NEW BOOKS ADDED: Added June 9, 2005
(RB-055) BERGERON, L.E. MANUEL du TOURNEUR. French. 1816. Four books.
Atles du Manuel du Tourneur, Manuel du Tourneur Tom.1 and Tom.2,
Good shape 2nd Edition. 96 Plates. Nice binding. And A Bond Catalogue produced to
accompany the 2 edition. Catalogue Des Machines, Instrumens, Outils,
Ivoires, Bois Etrangers, et Autres Objets Relatifs Aux Arts, 1817.
Good shape. It was for amateurs to enable them to obtain the tools required.
Each section refers to a plate and fig. with descriptive text and prices for each item.
NOTE: See (RB-004) above. (RB-004 contains some of these plates from a different set of these books.)
BASIC RULES/CONVENTIONS TO FOLLOW WHEN BIDDING:
This page will act as an informal internet/mail/phone auction. Please bid on one book per email.
All bids falling within our appraised values will be acknowledged by email
with information on the highest present bid for that book.
These books have been appraised, so please no unreasonably low offers.
Unreasonable low bids may not receive acknowledgement. Records are hard enough without those problems.
There is no closing date on any book unless otherwise noted, but will be
sold when a fair bid has been made and no other interest is apparent.
The highest bid to date and/or minimum acceptable bid can be obtained on individual books by emailing us. One email per book.
e-mail a bid or inquiry now to tedcrom@windstream.net
.
We prefer to sell to collectors and not resellers, but all fair bids will be accepted.
PAYMENT AND SHIPPING
Books will be shipped once payment is received.
Buyer pays insured shipping costs. Shipping method is the choice of the buyer.
All prices and payments to be in US dollars only:
Prefered methods of payment are Certified Check, Money Order, or Cashier's Check
Personal Checks will be accepted but shipment will delayed until it clears
Also we can accept bank to bank transfers, in most situations
Please place telephone calls between 9:00am and 9:00pm USA Eastern Standard
Time. Email is prefered, it makes record keeping simplier.
Otherwise Ted will be sleeping and he needs his rest since he is not too well.
NO COLLECT CALLS ACCEPTED
All SOLD books will be noted as such for a short time and then removed from this list.
We will occasionally add books to the bottom of this list. Each series
of additions will be seperated by date to find additions easily.
1). Horological Wheel Cutting Engines 1700 to 1900 page
2). Horological Shop Tools 1700 to 1900. page
3). Horological & Other Shop Tools 1700 to 1900 page
4). Trade Catalogues 1542 to 1842 page
5). An Eighteenth Century English Brass Hardware Catalogue page
6). Early Lancashire Horological Tools & Their Makers page
7). A list of other publications with articles by Theodore R. Crom page
8.) Ordering Information page
9.) Photo Gallery page
10.) About the Author: Theodore R. Crom page
11.) Other Horological and Related Internet Links
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