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THE WORLD'S GREAT CLOCKS WATCHES
by Jagger, Cedric
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/VG+/Protected
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint.* Impression:1st. thus.* Date of Publication: 1980 (1977) * Publisher: W.H.Smith for the Hamlyn Publishing Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minimal shelf wear, no bumps or rubs, VG++.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £4.95, colour photo-illustrated jacket showing several different clocks and watches to front and a number of watches to rear, absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Spine slightly faded. VG+.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour photo-illustrated end-papers showing a clock repairers workshop. Clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, top edge age darkened. Minimal age to page margins. No other visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Numerous colour and black & white photographs throughout.* Pages: 253 pp. text. iv pp. Bibliography, index and blank pages at rear.* Product description:- For the last 700 years clocks and watches have been in the forefront of technological discovery and invention. The great iron clocks of the late thirteenth century may seem to be primitive in our eyes, but in fact they were, at the time far and away the most sophisticated pieces of machinery that had ever been made. The author gives us a run down of the history of time-keeping and then devotes a chapter each to the great periods of clock and watchmaking. The 370 illustrations of which 120 are in colour, include many photographs specially taken for this book and were taken to illustrate the progress of time-keeping. This is a NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with minimal cover wear reducing it to VG+.* Weight: 1.504 Kg.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8906
- Title
- THE WORLD'S GREAT CLOCKS WATCHES
- Author
- Jagger, Cedric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/VG+
- Jacket Condition
- Protected
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- W H Smith
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 257
- Date Published
- 1980-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
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- Tight
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