Dizionario Degli Orologiai Italiani (1300-1880) Morpurgo, Enrico Books On Books & Reference,Collecting

Octavo, 239 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards have bumping to top corners and mild edge and shelf wear. Textblock has bookplates of Silvio Bedini on both endpapers, light age toning to pages, and writing in pencil on title page and on rear 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. 1378601. Special Collections.