VERZEICHNIS DER ASTRONOMISCHEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES DEUTSCHEN KULTURGEBIETES

München: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1925. Softcover. Quarto, 544. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in brown paper wraps with black lettering on spine. Mild shelf wear. Chipping and water damage along edges of covers. Creasing to spine. Foxing to edges of textblock. Top edge of textblock uncut. Text in German. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 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. 1378919. Special Collections.