Storia Del Cannocchiale [Inscribed] Ronchi, Vasco Collecting,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, 116 pages (727-843). In Good plus condition. Tan spine with Black text. Covers have bending to corners, light foxing to covers, creasing to spine, sunning to spine, and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has foxing to edges and to some pages. Text in Italian. Signed and Inscribed by author on front endpaper. Shelved Room A. 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. 1378686. Special Collections.