Replying To A Letter From Parker Cleaveland With A Promise To Send Some Mineralogical Specimens

by Nathan Read

$150 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Folio bifolium. 3-pages, verso of integral leaf with Read’s docketing “Copy / Parker Cleaveland / Bowdoin College / Sept. 15, 1817.” A detailed account of a half dozen specimens, with places of discovery, the people involved, etc., “some of the specimens are the best I have ever seen.” From his works, Cleaveland 1780-1858; American geologist and mineralogist, Bowdoin College professor, 1805-1858 , earned the title “Father of American Mineralogy.” Read closes this letter “Be

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