Geneve: chez Pellet, 1778. 4to, pp. [4], 2, 35, [1], 87, [1], 31, [1], 14; 136 engraved plates, many double-page, 4 folding; recent full maroon morocco, gilt lettering on spine; the binding is a bit amateurish, but it's sound and the plates are clean. Eye candy. This is the first..... More
Milano: [Tipolito Macchi, 1971]. Facsimile edition limited to 150 copies (this no. 14); folio, pp. [2], 25, [3]; 64 facsimile plates of horological mechanisms and tools; original half black calf over marbled boards, all edges stained red; fine. This facsimile edition includes the text of the first Horology section of..... More
Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, [1969]. Edition limited to 260 copies, 8vo, pp. 55, [1]; original brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine but lacking the original glassine. From the library of Kim Merker. This is Johnson's first book. Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 33: "When..... More
New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 350, 24; 80 text illustrations; original blue cloth, soiled and faded but sound. With an presentation inscription on front free endpaper from Williams. More
New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1973. First edition, 4to, pp. ix, [1], 203; illustrated throughout; fine in original blue cloth gilt. More
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1973. 8vo, pp. viii, 458; folding map; full red cloth, gilt title on spine, pictorial dust jacket; dust jacket price clipped, old owner's signature on endpaper blacked out, light foxing to covers and edges, some marginal notes on about 4 pages, very good..... More
