Morzer Bruyns, W.F.J.

THE CROSS-STAFF: HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT [Inscribed]

Amsterdam: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Historisch Scheepvaart Museum, 1994. Octavo, 127 pages. In Good plus condition. White spine with blue and black text. Covers have light creasing to covers near spine, slight bending to corners, and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has light scratching to fore and tail edges and light foxing to edges. Inscribed by author to Silvio Bedini on front endpaper.

1378737

Special Collections

Price: $100

NOTES

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.