A manual of useful studies: for the instruction of young persons of both sexes, in families and schools

New Havens: S. Babcock, 1839. First edition, small 8vo, pp. viii, -248; full contemporary sheep reba...
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1839 · New Havens

by Webster, Noah
New Havens: S. Babcock, 1839. First edition, small 8vo, pp. viii, [9]-248; full contemporary sheep rebacked; good, sound copy, with an important presentation, "To Professor Silliman with the author's regards." A tear through the presentation has been skillfully mended and as the inscription is written in red pencil it is a bit faint. With Silliman's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the subsequent bookplate of Henry McIntosh. In a quarter brown morocco clamshell box. Silliman was perhaps the best-known scientific man in America in the first half of the 19th century, a highly respected professor of chemistry and natural history at Yale and a long-time (truncated)
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