| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | The lure of the clock: an account of the James Arthur collection of clocks and watches at New York University
| | | | Creator: | Hering, Daniel Webster, 1850-1938 | | | | | Arthur, James, 1842-1930 | | | | | New York University | | | | Publication: | Crown Publishers, New York,[1963] | | | | Call #: | TS542 H546 | | | | Extent: | 121 p. illus. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Clocks and watches
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Elmer Ellsworth Dungan and the Dickory dickory dock clock
| | | | Creator: | Terwilliger, Charles. | | | | | National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors | | | | | Dungan & Klump | | | | Publication: | National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Columbia, Pa,1966] | | | | Notes: | Caption title. Published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Summer 1966. Also known as mouse clocks, these novelty clocks were invented by E.E. Dungan and manufactured by the firm Dungan & Klump of Philadelphia. | | | | Call #: | NK11 N278B Suppl. no. 4 | | | | Extent: | 28 p. illus., ports., plans, facsims. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Dungan, Elmer Ellsworth | Clocks and watches
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | The priceless possession of a few: a brief history of the Gruen Watch Company, their 50th anniversary watch and contemporary prestige watches
| | | | Creator: | Fuller, Eugene T. | | | | | National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors | | | | Publication: | National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, inc, Pennsylvania],1974. | | | | Notes: | "A supplement to the Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, inc. No. 10 of a series." "Notes and references": p. 61-63. | | | | Call #: | NK11 N278B Suppl. no. 10 | | | | Extent: | 63 p. : ill. (1 col.) ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Gruen Watch Company | Clocks and watches
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | The clock book
| | | | Creator: | Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 | | | | Publication: | Pub. in coèoperation with Old America Company by the Garden City Pub. Co., inc, Garden City, N.Y,[c1935] | | | | Notes: | Plates printed on both sides. "List of American clockmakers": p. 201-239. "List of foreign clockmakers": p. 240-307. | | | | Call #: | NK7486 N8 | | | | Extent: | 312 p. incl. illus., plates, port., facsims. 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Clocks and watches | Clock and watch makers
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Furniture treasury (mostly of American origin): All periods of American furniture with some foreign examples in America, also American hardware and household utensils
| | | | Creator: | Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941 | | | | Publication: | Old America, Framingham, Mass,[1928-33] | | | | Notes: | Vol. III has sub-title: Being a record of designers, details of designs and structure, with lists of clock makers in America, and a glossary of furniture terms, richly illustrated ... drawings by Ernest John Donnelly. | | | | Call #: | NK2406 N73 | | | | Extent: | 3 v. illus. (incl. facsims.) 28 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Furniture -- United States | Hardware -- United States | Implements, utensils, etc | Clock and watch makers -- United States | Clocks and watches
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | A voyage to California to observe the transit of Venus
| | | | Creator: | Chappe d'Auterocheabbâe, 1728-1769 | | | | | Cassini, Jean-Dominique, 1748-1845 | | | | | Alzate y Ramâirez, Josâe Antonio de, 1737-1799 | | | | Publication: | Printed for E. & C. Dilly, London,1778. | | | | Notes: | Last page incorrectly numbered 315. "Extract of a letter from Mexico addressed to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, by Don Joseph Anthony de Alzate y Ramyrez ... relative to the natural history of the country adjacent to the city of Mexico": p. 77-105. Apparently a translation of the two works published by Cassini: "Voyage en Californie pour l'observation du passage de Vâenus sur le disque du soleil, le 3 juin 1769 ... par feu m. Chappe d'Auteroche. Redigâe et publiâe par m. de Cassini fils. Paris, 1772", and "Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1768 et 1769 pour âeprouver les montres marines inventâees par m. Le Roy. Paris, 1770." | | | | Call #: | HF486 R332 | | | | Extent: | 215 p. front. (fold. plan) 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Leroy, Julien, -- 1686-1759 | Natural history -- Mexico | Cod-fisheries | Clocks and watches | Mexico -- Description and travel | Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) -- Description and travel | Venus (Planet) -- Transit -- 1769 | Saint Pierre (Island)
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