The Green Vaults Dresden Gruner, Lewis Dupont Circle,Visual Arts

Folio, unpaginated. In Good minus condition. Bound in half green leather and green cloth boards with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing and wear to edges and corners of boards, hinges, and head and tail of spine. Scuffing to spine and boards. Staining to boards. Torn paper adhered to front board. Edges of textblock gilt, lightly worn. With marbled endpapers. Torn paper adhered to front pastedown. Front free endpapers and frontispiece detached but present. Penciling to verso of front free endpaper. Age toning and foxing with staining to bottom corners throughout textblock. Dirt scattered throughout textblock. Features 28 plates in color and black and white. 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. 1378823. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.