AFRICAN ART AND ARTEFACTS IN EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS 1400-1800

Author: Bassani, Ezio; McLeod, Malcolm [Editor]
Title: AFRICAN ART AND ARTEFACTS IN EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS 1400-1800
Publication: London: British Museum Press, 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: Quarto, 328 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue with yellow and white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Scuffing to dust jacket with scratching to front cover. Spine slightly cocked. Light bumping to corners of boards. Textblock clean. Shelved in Case 8 1/4.

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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.

Seller ID: 1378816

Subject: Dupont Circle, Visual Arts