Historical Aspects Of Microscopy Bradbury, S. [Editor]; Turner, G. L'e. [Editor] Collecting,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, 227 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Yellow spine with brown and black text. Dust jacket has tearing to head edge of spine, wrinkling to corners, and mild shelf wear. Boards have bumping to corners, bumping to tail edge of front cover, and creasing to spine. Textblock clean. 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. 1378729. Special Collections.