Collection ArchÉOlogique Du Prince Pierre Soltykoff: Horlogerie Dubois, Pierre Dupont Circle,European History,Visual Arts

Quarto, 214 pages. In Fair condition. Bound in tan printed self wraps with black lettering to spine. Rubbing, tearing, and chipping to edges and corners of wraps. Chipping to wraps at head and tail of spine with tearing along spine. Age toning to wraps. Two vertical separations in the spine splitting the textblock into three segments: front cover through page 80, plate at page 80 through page 120, and page 121 through rear cover. Front cover stuck to front free endpaper. Some gatherings uncut at top edge. Age toning and foxing throughout. Features 20 black and white plates in middle of textblock. Shelved in Case 8 1/4. 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. 1378820. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.