The Scientific Papers Of Sir Charles Wheatstone, D.C.L., F.R.S. [John Joseph Eastick's Copy] Wheatstone, Charles Dupont Circle,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, xv, 380, xxi pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in quarter red-brown leather and brown cloth with gilt lettering on paneled spine. Minor shelf wear. Scuffing to cloth boards. Small cracking to leather on head of spine. Soiling to edges of textblock. Bookplate on front pastedown. Age-toning to interior pages with light foxing around edges. Archival reinforcement applied to gutter from front endpaper to page xiii. Signed by John Joseph Eastrick on title page. Features 21 plates in rear. Shelved in Case 8 1/4. John Joseph Eastick was a British chemist, most well-known for his work with Abram Lyle and Sons sugar refinery. There, alongside his brothers Charles and Samuel, he helped to formulate the special methods of making products such as golden syrup. (Wikipedia) 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. 1378620. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.