Autograph Letter signed, to Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch

by Benjamin Silliman

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2pp. on recto and verso of the first leaf, with conjugate leaf addressed on verso. 1 vols. 4to. Soiled and stained, a few cellotape repairs, small piece torn away from conjugate address leaf. Item #221329 Silliman 1779-1864 , the pioneering American scientist and founder of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND THE ARTS, writes I did not expect to trouble you to acknowledge my small pamphlet but I am gratified that it is approved by you.

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