Add this copy of Vulgar and Mechanick: the Scientific Instrument Trade to cart. $75.00, very good condition, Sold by Second Story Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rockville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by National Museumes of Scotland; Royal Dublin Society.
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Book. Quarto, 166 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine white with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in a mylar covering. Rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Light age toning to dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to boards. Mild age toning to textblock. Shelved in Science. 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. 1378964. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
