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Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0810905345ISBN 13: 9780810905344
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Limited Edition #783/1,000. Large Octavos, Three Volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's quarter leather and gilt-stamped brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Housed in publisher's Very Good brown slip case with gilt decoration. Minor general shelf wear, primarily light rubbing to heads of spines. With marbled endpapers. Signed flat by Clark on limitation page in front of Volume I. Shelved in Alcove 1. 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. 1378901. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.