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Antique Tools and Instruments : From the Nessi Collection
Description
This publication looks at craft-produced 'use objects' and utensils manufactured from the Renaissance to the middle of the 19th century. This book looks at the manufacture of a whole range of functional objects from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, before the production of such pieces became almost entirely industrialised. It includes tools and implements employed in sciences, crafts and trades, as well as in domestic and personal life, and explains the context that led craftsmen to fashion these pieces with such dexterity and attention to detail that the end-products can be considered true works of art. Exceptional scientific instruments from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are strongly represented, focusing especially on Germany. There are detailed reproductions of astrolabes, topographical instruments, sundials and balances, often commissioned by princes and aristocrats for inclusion in their personalStock Information
General Fields
- : 9788874391240
- : Antique Collectors' Club
- : Antique Collectors' Club
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hardback
- : Alessandro Cesati, Luigi Nessi, Peter Plassmayer
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