Catalogue Of The Science Collections For Teaching And Research In The South Kensington Museum: Part V, Physiography; [Bound With] Catalogue Of The Science Collections For Teaching And Research In The Victoria And Albert Museum, South Kensington: Physiography, Part Ii; [Bound With] Catalogue Of The Collections In The Science Museum, South Kensington: Meteorology; [Bound With] Catalogue Of The Collections In The Science Museum, South Kensington: Geodesy And Surveying; [Bound With] Catalogue Of The Collections In The Science Museum, South Kensington: Mathematics, I. Calculating Machines And Instruments; [Bound With] Handbook Of The King George Iii Collection Of Scientific Instruments Dupont Circle,Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History

Octavo, 6 parts. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, hinges, and corners of boards. Discoloration to bottom edges of spine and boards. Spine slightly cocked. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's sticker on rear pastedown. Age toning throughout 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. 1378831. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.