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DERHAM, William (1657-1735)]. The Artificial Clock-Maker. A Treatise of Watch & Clock-work ... The Second Edition Enlarged ... To which is added a Supplement, London: for James Knapton, 1700. 12° (153 x 90mm). Folding leaf of music, 2 folding plates and 4 folding tables, one-page publisher's advertisements at end (folding leaf of music, plates and tables torn and laid down, ink stain on title, staining and browning throughout, some fraying and cropping to leaves). Contemporary sheep (rubbed, upper joints split). Provenance : William & James Doughtie (early signatures) -- "1850 belonged to Isaac Low Donald & placed in his Museum ..." (inscription); George F. J. Skorupka (stamp) -- copious old annotation on endpapers. Baillie p.123; Catalogue of the Library of the Clockmakers' Company (2nd ed.) p.40; Wing D1100.