WATCHES

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The New English Watchmaker or complete instruction to correctly calculate and assemble all walking, striking and repeating watches, together with the description of a universal sundial. Folded at 4. Copper sheets.
Frankfurt am Main, J. G. Garbe, 1781. 8°. 8 (1 w.)] p. 170, [3] p. Half leather currently with back label and linear back gilding (lid covers with slight scraping marks
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VD18 11824026 - Second edition, first published in 1768 - The catalogue of the Staatsbibliothek Berlin names Johann Christian Molitor and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner as presumed authors. - Intentions to make sth. slimy. - INCLUDED: Reimarus, J.A.H. Regulations for the installation of a Bliz drain on all buildings: designed according to reliable findings. Hamburg, Bohn, 1778. 24 p. - VD18 11286644 - Poggendorf II, 596 - Ronalds 422 - not at Wheeler. - First edition. - Reimarus was a doctor and from 1796 professor of physics and natural history in Hamburg. After Hamburg's Nikolaikirche was struck by lightning in 1767, he worked intensively on the subject and was one of the pioneers in this field in Germany. - Good specimen.
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