A Treatise On The Astrolabe Chaucer, Geoffrey; Skeat, Walter W. [Editor] Dupont Circle,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, lxix, [14], 119 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in gray paper wraps with black lettering on spine. Mild shelf wear. Sunning to covers and spine. Chipping along edges. Worming present between page 93 to rear cover. Textblock uncut at top edge. Age-toning to interior pages. Shelved in Case 8 1/4. 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. 1378972. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.