A CATALOGUE OF EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDIEVAL AND LATER ANTIQUITIES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

London: British Museum Publications, 1981. Hardcover. Quarto, 152 pages, LXI plates. In Good plus condition with Good dust jacket. Green spine with beige text. Dust jacket has tearing to spine edges, tearing to dust jacket coating at tail edge of both covers, slight tearing to rear joint, and moderate shelf wear. Boards have slight bowing to corners and slight soiling to both covers near bottom corner of both covers. Textblock has rust staining on front endpaper and pastedown. Shelved in Room G. 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. 1378724. Special Collections.