A Memoir Of Zerah Colburn Written By Himself Containing An Account Of The First Discovery Of His

by Zerah Colburn

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. Frontispiece of Colburn as a young boy with a paddle and birdie in hand. 1 vols. 12mo. Original brown cloth, printed paper label, uncut. Some repair and wear to spine and extremities, some fraying and waterstaining of binding, minor marginal browning to text, else a very good copy. Item #30818 Colburn 1804-1839 , the “American lightning-calculating boy.” His extraordinary

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