A LECTURE ON TELEGRAPHIC LANGUAGE; DELIVERED BEFORE THE BOSTON MARINE SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 5, 1833

by John Pickering

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Boston, MA : Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1833. First edition. Disbound. 8vo. 32pp., plus 2 plates, one printed in blue. No means of conveying intelligence can ever be devised that shall exceed or even equal its rapidity. Obviously his mother did not tell him never say never. Item #66559

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