MAPPING THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAINS: ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Quarto, 239 pages. In Good plus condition with Good dust jacket. Yellow spine with black text. Dust jacket has chipping to top corners, slight tearing to head edges of front cover and tail edge of rear cover, foxing to rear cover and to flaps, and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has foxing to edges.
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Special Collections
Price: $100
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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.