Antique Tools and Instruments
Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
Published: October 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9788874391240
Subjects: Antiques & collectables: scientific & musical instruments; Design - General; Artifact Typology; Social Science; Art & Art Instruction; Sociology; Industrial Design - Product; Technology / Industrial Design / Product; Archaeology
First sentence: The comments that follow are the fruit of decades of experience acquired collecting "utilitarian objects" throughout Europe and compiling a library of old and modern documents and publications that, for all their differences with regard to the issues raised by the development of material civilisation, have as their focus the question of utensils and tools.