BENJAMIN SILLIMAN

by Benjamin Silliman, Chandos Michael Brown

A$35 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

A life in the young Republic. Pp. ii +xvi+378 last blank , frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, notes index; med. 8vo; faint scratch mark to upper board; dust wrapper, edges slightly faded; Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989. *Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher - Benjamin Silliman 1779-1864 was one of the virtuosi of the early Republic, and a founder of the American scientific community. Item #053179

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