4416 - Curiosities of Clocks & Watches from the Earliest Times

This is a reprint of a work first published in 1866, and is a veritable storehouse of knowledge about the bizarre in clock and watchwork. Here is the history of horology from the earliest times, and this historical narrative is supplemented by other chapters devoted to manufacturing methods, lists and details of items belonging to famous people, complicated clocks and watches, automata and numerous amusing anecdotes. Harcover and out of print.

443 Seiten

Verlag : 1973