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Book 1,650 – Rees’s Clocks Watches and Chronometers 1819-20

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Rees’s Clocks Watches and Chronometers 1819-20
. This is the first extract to be published by Charles E. Tuttle Co. – a fascinating picture of the more intricate, technical side of timepieces. The extensive essays are thoroughly illustrated by 47 reproductions of the finely engraved plate pages. Collectors will find it of great value and interest and maritime historians too will be absorbed by the subnational article on chronometers, so important in the history of navigation. 295 pages. Hard cover with jacket. Copyright 1970. Excellent condition. – Book 1,650