WATCHES & CLOCKS IN THE SIR DAVID SALOMONS COLLECTION

Author: Daniels, George; Markarian, Ohannes
Title: WATCHES & CLOCKS IN THE SIR DAVID SALOMONS COLLECTION
Publication: London and New York: Sotheby Publications, 1980

Description: Octavo, 318 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Light scuffing to dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to boards. With pictorial endpapers. Mild age toning throughout textblock. Shelved in Antiques.

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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: 1378977

Subject: Collecting, Dupont Circle, Visual Arts