Origin And Development Of The Microscope, As Illustrated By Catalogues Of The Instruments And Accessories, In The Collections Of The Royal Microscopal Society, Together With Biliographies Of Original Authorities, 30 Plates And 36 TEXT-FIGURES Disney, Alfred N. [Editor]; Hill, Cyril F. [Editor]; Watson, Wilfred E. [Editor] Collecting,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, 303 pages with 30 plates. In Good plus condition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on sunned brown spine. Boards have sunning to spine, discoloration to rear cover, and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has light age toning and bookplate on front pastedown. 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. 1378603. Special Collections.