Presentation copy to Professor Silliman
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, [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 friend of Webster's. Like Webster he was an editor, a compiler of textbooks, and a prominent Connecticut citizen and Yale alumnus. Skeel 574. Item #50059
Price: $3,200.00
