The Letters Of Hugh Whitney Biography & Autobiography

Octavo, 315 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards have light edge and shelf wear and small black mark on front cover. Textblock has light to mild foxing throughout. Includes two letters inside to Silvio Bedini from Rodeny Armstrong and Walter Muir Whitehill, both of whom were directors of the Boston Athenaeum. 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. 1378693. Special Collections.