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1700 Artificial Clock Maker Watches Horology Derham
1700 Artificial Clock Maker Watches Horology Derham
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1700 Artificial Clock Maker Watches Horology Derham Hooke Mechanics PROVENANCE



William Derham was a 17th-century horologist best known for this treatise on clocks and watch making. The Artificial Clock-Maker is a survey on the history of timepieces including the inventions and contributions of Robert Hooke. Derham also includes notes on clock springs and gears including improvements to Tyco Brahes timepiece pendulum.



This work was gifted to one, Paymaster Captain F. Harrison Smith from Princess “Victoria Milford Haven” as described by the included note.



Item number: #17469

Price: $599



DERHAM, W.



The artificial clock-maker : a treatise of watch and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned



London : Printed for James Knapton ..., 1700.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[16], 119, [1]; [2], 28

Wanting folding engravings

Provenance: Letter (Handwritten) – Victoria Milford Haven

Princess Victoria Alberta Elizabeth Mathilde Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1863–1950), later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert.

The letter is addressed to Paymaster Captain F[rancis] Harrison Smith, a royal navy officer who was promoted to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath as a Knight Commander in 1919.

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~6.25in X 4in (16cm x 10cm)



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