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Jens Olsen's Clock: A Technical Description.

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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.
Dealer Notes
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).
Author Mortensen, Otto:
Date 1957.
Publisher Copenhagen: Technological Institute,

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