Brass Dial Clocks.
by LOOMES, BRIAN:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Antique Collectors’ Club. 1998 1st edition.. 11.0 x 8.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Small marks to top edge. Else a very clean and tight copy. 448 pp. With b/w and colour photographs. This lavishly illustrated book deals in great detail with antique British clocks with brass dials as well as American examples. The author gives clear directions to identification, style, age, quality and region.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94847
- Title
- Brass Dial Clocks.
- Author
- LOOMES, BRIAN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Antique Collectors’ Club. 1998 1st edition.
- Keywords
- COLLECTING::Clocks BRIAN LOOMES, Brass Dial Clocks, antique, British, identification, style, age, quality, region, dustwrapper first edition Collecting Horology photographs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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