Antique Tools and Instruments from the Nessi Collection

A lovely first edition of this history of antique tools and instruments from the Nessi Collection, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this richly illustrated history and catalogue of antique tools and instruments from the Nessi collection, spanning the Renaissance to the mid-19th century. Luigi Nessi is an architect whose collections have been displayed at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. 175 colour plates and 133 illustrations. Collated complete. Six historians have contributed to this book. Claudine Cartier is Head Curator at the Inspection générale des musées, with particular responsibility for industrial and craft museums. Alessandro Cesati has been active in research and study of the applied arts for many years, with a special interest in metal objects. Marie-Veronique Clin is the curator of the Musée d"Histoire de la Médecine in Paris. Peter Plassmayer is the curator and director of the Clock and Watch Collection at the Dresden Institute of Mathematics and Physics. Richard J. Wattenmaker is the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth and dust wrapper are both in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. There is a handling mark to page 116, but otherwise pages are very bright and clean. Fine.