WATCHMAKERS SINCE 1794

Rome: Hausmann & C., n.d.. Softcover. Octavo, unpaginated. In Good plus condition. Tan paper covers with no text on spine. Covers have gray stain on front cover, foxing on rear cover, and mild shelf wear. Textblock has tearing to fore edge of front endpaper. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera. 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. 1380016. Special Collections.