Das Sanduhr Buch Junger, Ernst Collecting

Octavo, 261 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Sunned brown spine with blue text. Dust jacket has large open tear to head edge of front cover and spine, tape on inside of dust jacket, sunning to spine, chipping to corners, and mild edge and shelf wear. Boards have mild shelf wear. Textblock has bookplates of Silvio Bedini on front pastedown. 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. 1378763. Special Collections.