[Rarebooks] FS: Derham's "The Artificial Clock-Maker" London: 1714

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(CLOCKMAKING) Derham, William. THE ARTIFICIAL CLOCK-MAKER. A Treatise of 
Watch and Clock-Work, Shewing... the Art of Calculating Numbers to All Sorts 
of Movements; the Way to... Make Chimes, and Set Them to Musical Notes; and 
to Calculate and Correct the Motion of Pendulums. Also... with the Antient 
and Modern History of Clock-Work; and Many Instruments, Tables, and Other 
Matters, Never Before Published in Any Other Book. The Third Edition with Large 
Emendations and Additions. London: Printed for James Knapton. 1714. 12mo. 
(16),140pp. Illustrated with 3 copper engraved folding plates (one of music), 
4 folding tables [i.e. 7 folding plates total], and several text woodcuts. 
Cont. speckled calf, gilt decorated edges, nicely rebacked, green morocco 
spine label. Armorial bookplate of North Library on front pastedown and with 
the same armorial device blind stamped at the top of the first 3 leaves.     
$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very nice copy, but it may be lacking one folding plate. The 1st edition 
of 1696 had 1 folding plate. The 2nd edition of 1700 had 7 folding plates, 
and the 4th edition of 1734 had 7 folding plates, but the OCLC record for the 
1714 3rd edition states "8 folding plates." There are 4 auction records for 
the 1714 edition, only two of which give a plate count: "2 folding plates" 
and "5 folding plates." To further complicate things, Bromley's THE 
CLOCKMAKER'S LIBRARY #259 (the 1714 ed.) states "3 folding plates. 2 folding tables" 
(i.e. 5 folding plates).   All editions are scarce.

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