A SEVENTEENTH MICROSCOPE [Inscribed]
London: British Medical Association, 1967. Octavo, 75-80. In Very Good minus condition. Saddle-stitched paperback. Covers have light staining on both covers. Textblock has light uneven age toning to page. Inscribed by J. G. Bearn on front cover. Horology Binder, Room A Ephemera.
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Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $50
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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.