GEOMAGNETIC INSTRUMENTS BEFORE i900

Author: McConnell, Anita
Title: GEOMAGNETIC INSTRUMENTS BEFORE i900
Publication: London: Harriet Wynter, 1980
Edition: Limited Edition of 500 copies

Description: Octavo, 75 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Orange and white spine with white and black text. Dust jacket has sunning to spine, chipping to spine edges, wrinkling to spine edges, light toning along edges, and mild edge and shelf wear. Boards have light bumping to spine edges. Textblock has light foxing to edges. Shelved Room A.

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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: 1378761

Subject: Collecting, Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History