Book. Octavo, 286 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket.

Book. Octavo, 286 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine red with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Light scuffing to front cover. Minor shelf wear to boards. Textblock clean. Shelved in Antiques. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378965. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.