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	Elisabeth Bennion, ANTIQUE DENTAL INSTRUMENTS Ref: 4601 Published by Philip Wilson. The standard work on extracting, excavating, filling and anasthaesia instruments, on artificial teeth and dental miscellany throughout history together with makers. 245 x 190 mm. 192 pp. 160 b &w and 21 colour photos. Hardback. Click image for further details. Price: £45.00


	Walter Bernt, ALTES WERKZEUG.revised edition. Ref: 3010 Published by Callwey. This book was originaly published in Germany in September 1939 and showed the most famous of early tools (18th century and earlier) which were then in various museums in Germany. This edition was republished in 1977 with the relocation of the tools after the Second World War. The text is in German and the photographs of these superb tools are excellent. 210 x 200 mm.194 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 82 plates with 211 b&w photographs. hb. Jacketed. Click image to enlarge. Price: £62.00


	Feron et Cie, A LA FORGE ROYALE CATALOGUE. Ref: 7309 Published by Feron et Cie, Reprint of 1930s catalogue of a famous French manufacturer (founded in 1849), Contains tools, all the planes are of wood and many with an 18th century look. A English translation of every entry by Seth Burchard. 272 x 188 mm. 110 pp. Line engravings throughout. pb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £15.00


	W L Goodman, THE HISTORY OF WOODWORKING TOOLS. Ref: 0403 Published by Bell. Published in 1964 this copy is of the eight reprint of 1978 and is still the standard work on its subject. After a short introduction the history of woodworking tools is dealt with by type and function with sections on: axes and adzes; planes; saws; boring tools; the rule, the carpenter's bench; chisels and gouges and miscellaneous tools (setting out tools, squares and plumbs, mallets and hammers, dividers, gauges, drawer knives and spokeshaves. An interesting comparison is made between the contents of a Roman woodworker's tool chest and that of a 19th Century one. An early reviewer said of this book: " It is a product of enthusiasm, scholarship and persistent and meticulous research". Jacket rubbed otherwise good. 245 x 190 mm. 209 pp. 200 b&w illustrations (photographs drawings and engravings) Hardback. Jacketed. Click image to enlarge Price: £45.00
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	John Harrison & Sons, 1902 CATALOGUE. Ref: 4705 Published by John Harrison & Co. Early Edwardian catalogue of an important Dronfield (Sheffield) Manufacture of: Light and Heavy Edge Tools; Trowels: Hoes, Garden & Field Tools; Scythes, Sickles & Reaping Hooks; Wood Tools, Turnery, Joiners & Other Tools; Chaff, Reaping & Mowing Machine Knives and Fittings for all Agricultural Machine Knives. All tools are illustrated. 275 x 215 mm. iv + 60 pp. 100s of b&w engravings. hb. Click image for further details. Price: £75.00


	J. Horner, TOOLS FOR ENGINEERS & WOODWORKERS. Ref: 1003 Published by Crosby Lockwood and Son. Brown cloth with gold lettering 205 x 150 mm. Preface and contents xii, introduction 5, main body and index 340, Crosby catalogue 46 + Weales series 16 pp. Includes four hundred and fifty six illustrations. Hardback. Click image to enlarge


	John E. Horsley, TOOLS OF THE MARITIME TRADES. Ref: 7334 Published by David & Charles.Ltd. First edition published by David and Charles in 1978. Practically every tool used in any of the maritime trades is described and illustrated. The trades involved are; shipwrights, sailmakers, ropemakers, riggers, blacksmiths, tinsmiths and coopers. The photographs in the book show the working atmosphere at the turn of the 19/20th century. One bookplate. Very good condition. 235 x 160 mm. 304 pp. Some 600 b&w drawings in 129 plates and 8 b&w photographs. hb. Jacketed.. Click image for further details. Price: £75.00


	Charles F. Hummel, WITH HAMMER IN HAND. Ref: 0205 Published by the University of Virginia Press. 1968 edition reprinted 1976. This is essentially a description of the Dominy Workshop, its tools and objects that were made there, and which are now housed in total at the Wintherthur Museum in Delaware. It is rare to find details and contents of one workshop and the artisans, preserved as these have been. The Dominy family worked during the 18th and 19th Centuries producing furniture and clocks. Details of how they worked and lived are given including an appendix showing their accounts. Part two of the book is devoted to the tools used by the family, many of which originated in Great Britain. Very detailed descriptions and photographs of each tool are given along with their provenance. "Pièce de résistance". New York Historical Society Quarterly. "This is the story of the Dominy family, clock and furniture makers in the 18th century and 19th century and of their tools, workshops, account books, and other surviving memorabilia. In addition to being a fascinating story, this book has great reference value. The wealth of illustrations and meticulous descriptions of early tools form a useful identification manual in a field that is at best only partially documented in current literature. This work by Mr Hummel, ma highly competent scholar, is for any library" The Library Journal.. Plastic cover on jacket. School stamp on one endpaper. 295 x 215 mm. xiv + 424 pp. More than 450 illustrations mainly b&w photographs. hb. Click image to enlarge Price: £65.00


	Nettlefold, ILLUSTRATED LIST OF ALL KINDS OF HORTICULTURAL: TOOLS & GARDEN REQUISITES.. Ref: 7412 Published by Nettlefold Ltd. The 1887 catalogue of all tools horticultural and agriculture plus brass foundry items and general ironmongery including carpenters' tools, engineers' bolts & nuts and lock furniture. 270 x 215 mm. 64 pp. n&w engravings throughout . One colour engraving. Limp clothbound. Click image for further details. Price: £25.00


	Harold L. Peterson, AMERICAN INDIAN TOMAHAWKS. Ref: 4108 Published by the Museum Of The American Indian Heye Foundation A comprehensive study of the American Indian Tomahawks, with an appendix by Milford G. Chandler "The Blacksmith Shop", illustrated with drawings of the construction of Tomahawks, a directory of Makers and Dealers of Tomahawks. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, a bibliography, and ninety seven pages of photographs of 314 Indian Tomahawks, with 58 pp. of detailed descriptive captions of of these photographs. 250 x 170 mm. vi + 240 pp. 2 colour plates (1 frontispiece) 11 b&w photographic plates in the text and 97 pp. of b&w full plates containing 314 tomahawks. 16 b&w drawings illustrating the appendix. hb. Click image to show further details. Price: £175.00


	Christopher Proudfoot & Philip Walker, WOODWORKING TOOLS Ref: 0713 Published by Phaidon Press The main emphasis in this book is on planes for the earliest to the very collectible 19th Century American ones made by a mechanised process. Muchof the book is given over to planes although braces and boring tools and others on the the woodworkers bench are discussed. The emphasis is on collecting and there is a large section on decorated tools particularly ones that were beautifully made. The object of the book is to introduce the novice or would-be collecter of tools to tbe subject . 160 pp. 160 pp. 152 illustrations mainly photographic with 21 in colour. hb. Jacketed. Price: £25.00


	Ken Roberts, SOME 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOODWORKING TOOLS. Ref: 0701 Published by the author. An introduction to Sheffield and its place in the manufacture of steel and edge and other tools. A vast amount of material on the individual manufacturers of joiners' tools and particularly makers of braces and boring tools. Many advertisements and patent documents. This from the 1980 numbered edition (number 748 of 750 copies) and signed by by the author with the patron's name added. 280 x 210 mm. xiv + 482 pp. 168 b&w photographic plates and 228 b&w line drawings. hb. Click image to enlarge. Price: £85.00


	Roberts, TOOLS FOR THE TRADES AND CRAFTS. Ref: 7320 Published by Kenneth D. Roberts. This is a reprtint of the Eighteenth Century Pattern Book for R. Timmmins ans Sons of Birmingham with extensive commentary and documentation by Ken Roberts. The Contents include: An introduction to English Pattern books; Industrial History of Birmingham, 1750 - 1850 with Footnotes, Bibliographical Comments and Recommended Reading; Reprint of the actual Pattern Book (176 pp.), Tools for the Trades and Crafts with an Index of Plates. Bookplate inside front cover. 280 x 210 pp. vi + 222 pp. 186 pp. of engravings. hb. Jacketed. Click image for further details. Price: £60.00


	Eric Sloane, A MUSEUM OF EARLY AMERICAN TOOLS Ref: 5205 Published by. Pen and ink sketches accurately illustrate early tools: carpenters, joiners, farriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, coachmakers, sawyers, loggers, tanners, curriers and many other farm and building tools along with kitchen equipment. A total complement of tools of the pre-industrial age 275 x 1955 mm. 108 pp. 104 line drawings.Hardback. Jacketed. Click image to enlarge Price: £50.00


	Wattenmaker, Firch & Joyaux, EUROPEAN TOOLS from the 17th to the 19th Century. Ref: 7311 Published by The Flint Institute. This is the catalogue for an exhibition of some 50 fine tools, part of the collection of Jan Firch which were exhibited at the Flint Institute of Art in 1981. These tools are illustrated with photographs and information is supplied by auhtoritative captions. There is an introductory essay by Jan Firch on "Tools as Art". 255 x 200 mm. 78 pp. 56 b&w photographs. pb. Click image for further information. Price: £20.00

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