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ABBOTT – American Watchmaker and Jeweler

‘An encyclopaedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith…’

Item 105853 Categories: Books, Books, etc

£35.00

Boards, 378 pages, 317 figs, plus 14 pages of adverts. Hazlitt & Walker, Chicago, 12th edition, entirely revised and enlarged, no date, c.1910

The best edition of the American equivalent of Britten’s Handbook… by Henry G Abbott, and equally useful at times.

Binding tight but some staining to the covers, contents generally clean, and much nicer to use than the poor 1989 facsimile reprint.

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Boards, 378 pages, 317 figs, plus 14 pages of adverts. Hazlitt & Walker, Chicago, 12th edition, entirely revised and enlarged, no date, c.1910

The best edition of the American equivalent of Britten’s Handbook… by Henry G Abbott, and equally useful at times.

Binding tight but some staining to the covers, contents generally clean, and much nicer to use than the poor 1989 facsimile reprint.

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