Technique and History of the Swiss Watch Jaquet Eugene Chapuis Alfred (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 5.25.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Boards worn with some dampstain at rear board. Dampstain affects right margin of pages & in a few cases reaches into images or text. New York Univ. gift bookplate at front endpaper, small university stamp at base of copyright page and at end of index, & dewey decimal number at spine but no other library markings. No pocket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First of this edition. Jacket slightly chipped.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Boards moderately edgeworn. Stain to front board. New York Univ. gift bookplate at front endpaper, small university stamp at base of copyright page and at end of index, & dewey decimal number at spine but no other library markings. No pocket. Text in English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. the jacket is a bit chipped. mild foxing and usage marks. all pages are clear, intact and presentable. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Revised Edition Hardcover vg in good jacket, in fresh mylar cover; a few large chips and tears to jacket edges else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; revised 1970 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition. Original cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. In origiinal cardboard slipcase. A absolutely beautiful copy same for same foxing along the edges. A large and heavy book requires extra postage.

Condition: Fair. Olten: Urs Graf-Verlag, 1953. 4to. 278pp. Illus. Fair book. No dust jacket. No slipcase. Ex-library. Spine tail frayed. Joints torn on lower 2/3 of spine. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, corners frayed. Tape residue on boards; bar code on back board. Shelfmark on spine tail; library name stamped on endpages, copyright page, and page edges; card pocket on back endpage. Hinges cracked. Textblock bumped at spine tail. Binding loose overall. Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition in English of Histoire et technique de la montre suisse de ses origines à nos jours. (1945). 278 pp; 190 plates; 30 figs. Original cloth, large 4to. Very Good, in very good dust jacket (slightly edgeworn).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. Technique and history of the Swiss watch. From its beginnings to the present days. Published under the auspices of the Swiss Society of Chronometry and the Swiss Watch Chamber. English translation by D. S. Torrens and C. Jenkins. 1953 First edition Hardcover with Dust JAcket. Large Format. Illustrated, Book very good condition with tanned edge paper, dust jacket good with a small tears to the front cover and creases to the spine unclipped, Includes hand mate slipcase to protected it. U5A36.

Quarto. Plates, text illustrations. Cloth. Former owner's name in ink, a little spotting to fore-edge. Good to very good in like dust jacket. Jackethas several tears and tape repairs, but is bright and clean. Reprint of 1953 edition, with additional material.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tall Quarto. 278pp illustrated. A very good copy in like dj in publisher's slipcase. non authorial inscription on front fly leaf.

VG+, spine faded, dark purple streak (slightly darker than color of cloth) front cover, top edge of front/rear covers somewhat discolored, but pages bright and unmarked. Overall a tight solid sound beautiful copy of this book. ; Large 4to, red cloth with gilt lettering and medallion from cover, gilt lettering spine, 278pp. , index. Includes numerous b&w and color photo illustrations. Translated into English by D. S. Torrens and C. Jenkins.

Rilegato. Condition: ottimo. Dust Jacket Condition: buono. Il testo è in inglese. Numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero fuori testo. Lievi strappi alla sovraccoperta.

Slipcased. Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition with tight binding and clean text. There is foxing in the foredge. The jacket has slight edge wear and slight chippinhg. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

First edition. First edition. Illustrated with over 250 plates including 190 full-page photographs in full colour and in black and white. 278 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Purple cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket and slipcase Illustrated with over 250 plates including 190 full-page photographs in full colour and in black and white. 278 pp. 1 vols. 4to.

Spring Books.London.1970.Publishers decorated cloth. Size: 31 x 24 cm. 272 pages. Illustrated. Nice copy in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First edition. Swiss work on the history of watch making and watches, renowned for their precision and pedigree, and synonymous with luxury. A history of the highest quality watches in the world, profusely illustrated. Large thick 4to, 270pp, ads [2]pp, 40 color plates, 94 double sided b&w plates, diagrams. Burgundy gilt cloth with gold lettering and medallion on front cover and spine. OCLC: 6833517.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the Swiss watch. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-two colour plates, one hundred and ninety monochromatic plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed history of the Swiss watch, with chapters on the beginnings of watch-making in Switzerland, the watch industry, the eighteenth century, decoration, commerce, nineteenth century, chronometry, later evolution and the modern watch. Written by Eugene Jaquet and Alfred Chapuis, Swiss historians and writers. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning and the odd mark to the endpapers. Near Fine. book.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Olten, Urs Graf 1953(?). Quarto publisher's cloth and dustwrapper; 278pp, numerous plates (42 colour), illustrations & diagrams through the text. A nice copy. First edition in English.

Color, Black & White Plates (illustrator). Olten, Switzerland: Urs Graf-Verlag. Good plus condition: corners bumped, jacket frayed, stained/No Dustjacket. (1953). 4to., 278pp. . Good plus condition: corners bumped, jacket frayed, stained/No Dustjacket.

1970, London, Spring Books, reprint, folio, pp272, colour and black and white illustrations, red cloth in dustwrapper. This is a heavy book and will incur extra postage. Top of spine of dustwrapper pulled, corner bumped, otherwise very good.