THE PEARL: ITS STORY, ITS CHARM, AND ITS VALUE
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907. Octavo, 376 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in blue-gray cloth with white lettering on spine. Minor shelf wear. Sunning to spine and edges of boards. Bumping to corners. Fraying to cloth on spine. Age-toning to interior pages. Bookplate on front paste-down. Features illustrations throughout. Shelved in Collectibles & Antiques.
1379201
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $80
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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.