Beschreibung:

(J[ohn], clockmaker) Horological Dialogues. In Three Parts shewing the Nature, Use, and right Managing of Clocks and Watches; with an Appendix containing Mr. Oughtred's Method for Calculating of Numbers..., first edition, lacking A1 as usual (?blank), some light soiling and staining, title and a few other leaves with slight marginal defects (repaired), small old ink stamp on verso of title, washed, modern calf with double gilt rule border, red calf label on spine, preserved in marbled board slip-case, [Baillie p.103; Bromley 788-790; Tardy p.233; Wing S4105], 8vo, for Jonathan Edwin, 1675. *** The first book on clocks and watches published in England. The Appendix describes Oughtred's method of calculating wheel-trains.