A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPAL MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN SURVEYING, LEVELLING, & ASTRONOMY

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Octavo, xvii, 134, [18], 12 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover. Heavy chipping to spine. Rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Bumping to corners. Sunning to spine and top edges of boards. Two bookplates on front pastedown. Staining to front free endpaper. Previous owner's stamp on half title and title pages. Pages 59-62 loosening. Age toning and foxing throughout textblock. Shelved in Room G. 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. 1378927. Special Collections.

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Titel

A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPAL MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN SURVEYING, LEVELLING, & ASTRONOMY

Verlag

Fielding Lucas, Jr., Baltimore

Erscheinungsjahr

1844

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

Second American Edition.

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• Sciences, Math, Medicine, & Natural History