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Book. Octavo, 109 pages with 16 black and white plates. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in mottled white cloth with brown lettering. Boards have sunning to spine, light foxing to both covers, and bumping to corners. Textblock has small brown stains on front endpaper and pastedown. Shelved Room A. 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. 1378605. Special Collections.