Document Details Zegary gdanskie - Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdanska:
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- Title: Zegary gdanskie - Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Gdanska
SubTitle: Uhren aus Danzig - Museum der Geschichte der Stadt Gdansk [Clocks and Watches from Gdansk - History Museum of the CIty of Gdansk] - Author: Zuzanna Proszynska, Wojciech Szymanski, Grzegorz Szychlinski
- Publisher: Muzeum Historyczne Mista Gdanska
Keywords: catalog clock watch
Other Keywords: Gdansk Danzig
Language: GER POL
Notes: Massive catalog of a major horological exhibit organized 2005 by the Historical Museum of the City of Gdansk (Poland), held at the Uphagenhouse and at the Clocktower of St. Catherines church, showing watches, clocks and related artefacts made in Gdansk over time. Includes six major thematic essays: 1. Time in the Culture of old Gdansk, 2. Holly days - Workdays, social time in Gdansk in the 16th to 18th century, 3. Gdansk Towerclocks, 4. The Gdansk horological trades in the 16th to 18th century, 5. Domestic clocks in Gdansk in the second half of the 18th Century, 6. Waches and clocks from the "Werder" region around Gdansk. This is followed by a comprehensive alphabetic biographic directory of all known clock and watchmakers in the Gdansk region (35 pages). Essays and directory are fully bilingal in Polish and German. The final catalog section of 260 pages lists, describes (only in Polish) and illustrates all exhibited objects (ca. 300 artefacts). Appendix with the last will and testament of four Gdansk clockmakers. Index of Names. Bibliography.
Edition: 2005, 1st edition, limited to 1500 cc -- Copyright: 2005
Kind: Book
Geographic area: CentEurope
Topic: History
Organization: Exhibition
Pages: 495 -- Height in cm: 33
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
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BHM No: 12078 - Publisher: Muzeum Historyczne Mista Gdanska
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