first edition Hard Cover
1799 · Wilmington
by Jess, Zachariah
Wilmington: Bonsal and Niles, 1799. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 212 pages. Recently rebound in marbled boards, brown leather label on spine. Text uniformly browned. Mansfield Merriman's copy, with his ink signature and "Feb. 1881" at head of title page. Mansfield Merriman (1848-1925) was appointed County Surveyor in 1867, entered the Sheffield Scientific School in 1868 and graduated in 1871, with a degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He received his PhD at Yale in 1876 and went on to teach Civil Engineering and Astronomy there.
(Inventory #: 7318)