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Published by Technological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1957
Seller: Peter Rhodes, Southampton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Hardback Edition. 300 x 215mm. pp. 156. English text. First hardback edition of 'Jens Olsen's Clock: A Technical Description' by Otto Mortensen. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations and diagrams. Bound in original patterned blue boards with cream spine. More of a working copy, with moderate foxing, creasing to a few page corners and some marking and rubbing to boards. binding strong. No ownership inscription or underlining. See images.
Published by Technological Institute, Copenhagen, 1957
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Quarto, 156 pages. In Good plus condition with Good dust jacket. Brown spine with black text. Dust jacket has sunning to spine, foxing to inside and outside of dust jacket, tearing to head edges of both covers and both flaps, blue staining to inside of dust jacket, and mild edge and shelf wear. Boards have mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has mild foxing to endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate of Silvio Bedini on front pastedown, and foxing to edges. Shelved Room A. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378755. Special Collections.
Published by Technological Institute, Copenhagen, 1957
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, no additional pri. NOT an ex library book. Prior owner name stamp on front endpaper. 156 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears, price is not clipped.
Published by Technological Institute, Copenhagen
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, no additional pri. NOT an ex library book. 156 pages. Dust jacket has 1/4" chip, 1/2" tears.
4to. 156[4]pp, 1 coloured full page text ill, 82 further text ills, tables. Original paper backed boards, printed on 'art' paper.
Publication Date: 1957
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
First Edition
Technological Institute, Copenhagen. 1957. First edition. Hardback with DW. 4to. Illustrated. The boards are a little faded o/w a very good clean and sound copy in lightly soiled wrapper that is a little worn at extremities and has a gift inscription to front flap.
Published by Copenhagen: Technological Institute, 1957
Seller: Unsworth's Antiquarian Booksellers, ILAB, ABA, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First English edition. Folio, pp. 157. Numerous illustrations. Hardback: white cloth-backed blue patterned cloth boards, blue-lettered to spine, two corners slightly bumped, other than a hint of dust to edges book and contents unblemished, very good. White dust-jacket, now somewhat grubby with closed tear to one corner, a little fraying to the others and creasing to edges, still good overall. Translated from and published simultaneously in Danish. A detailed description of a complex astronomical clock, now situated in Copenhagen Town Hall, completed posthumously between 1944 and 1955 (Jens Olsen died in 1945).
Published by Copenhagen Technological Institute 1957., 1957
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Very good in lightly foxed dust jacket. Illustrated by Text illustrations. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth/boards.
Published by TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 1957
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Bound in blue decorated cloth, with white textile backstrip and clear blue titles to spine, this dated 1957 hardcover First Edition is VG in VG Jacket (unclipped).156pp with Foreword, Preface, 18 Chapters, 82 close up photos of mechanism. Edited by L. Leidersdorff and printed on art paper Bianco Luno.Odd very minor marks to jacket, otherwise all VG/VG.