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1819ref. WRCAM51854New York 1819. vi24311xlvii pp. plus frontispiece and four plates one folding. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt neatly rebacked with original spine laid down edges stained yellow. Boards rubbed. Later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers scattered notations on some leaves frontispiece with pencil embellishment. Light foxing. Very good. Noah was U.S. Consul in Tunis during the Barbary Wars and as such was responsible for freeing American seamen. The present account is based on his experiences while in that office in addition to his travels in Europe. Noah was notable as one of the first American Jews to hold an important diplomatic post and was ultimately removed from office for anti-Semitic reasons. This volume prints letters of support from Jefferson Madison and John Adams. The Jefferson letter is particularly famous for its support for fairness to Jewish citizens. SMITH N17. ROSENBACH 205. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 48941. hardcover books
1799ref. 162886Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. xii 9-348; iv 352pp. 8vo contemporary mottled calf with red leather spine labels bindings are rubbed and a little wormed; hinges on first volume are repaired but still solid and attractive; dampstains on front endpaper & blank flyleaf in first volume; pages toned as usual with some light foxing; small ink signatures on titles of both volumes; 2 pages in second volume have tears that were crudely taped and are now discolored. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First edition. Webster surveyed known data from epidemics since the time of Christ in order to prove his theory that these diseases were not contagious but were caused by environmental changes. Despite his incorrect conlculsions his work was widely read and quite influential. William Osler called this book "the most important medical work written in this country by a layman." - GM 1675.1; Austin 2023; Heirs of Hippocrates 1160. Hudson & Goodwin unknown books
ref. 3730409Philadelphia: Likely published by William Duane 1800. 8vo. 8pp. Caption title. Self-wrappers as issued; once sewn. Near fine housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Webster’s Federalist Riposte to Hamilton’s Political Betrayal Pseudonymously authored by Noah Webster as “Aristides” this pamphlet delivers a searing rebuke of Alexander Hamilton for his public denouncement of President John Adams and his behind-the-scenes intrigues within the Federalist Party. Issued in response to Hamilton’s Letter. Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams Webster defends Adams—particularly his support for naval defenses—and accuses Hamilton of undermining constitutional authority for personal ambition. A key moment in the bitter internal collapse of the Federalists the pamphlet reflects Webster’s political alignment with Adams but also his alarm at Hamilton’s ambitions. “Think not sir” writes Webster “that all the monstrous schemes of daring ambitious men to overawe and controul sic the constitutional powers of our government are either hidden or approved by federal men.” Hamilton’s letter issued late in the 1800 campaign proved a catastrophic miscalculation accelerating the Federalist defeat and Adams’s loss to Jefferson. Though unsigned Webster’s authorship was swiftly exposed. In November of 1800 the New York Gazette mocked the pamphlet: “A more puerile catch penny production never blotted paper” declaring the author “appears from his work about as well qualified for the task as a Billingsgate oyster is to contemplate the principles of Newtonian philosophy.” Sabin 29960; see also 102361. Skeel-Carpenter 729. Not in Ford but see 61–62. Evans 39045 incorrectly suggesting New York as place of publication. ESTC W41582. Sheidley 44. Skeel records six variant printings all from 1800; only one bears an imprint and no priority has been established. Ours is the only printing Skeel attributes to Philadelphia which in 1800 was giving way to the District of Columbia as the nation’s capital. Skeel pointedly refuted Wilberforce Eames’s claim that it was published in New York. unknown
1820ref. 55522New York: Printed by G.L. Birch & Co. 1820. Essays by Mordecai Noah An interesting work on saving and thrift by a consequential American diplomat. Most of the essays blame poverty and bankruptcy on moral faults such as reckless spending and devotion to fashion. Among the examples of moral failings Noah offers are rowdy teens at a late-night oyster house and Wall Street wives bidding recklessly at a silverware auction. Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was U.S. Consul in Tunis during the Barbary Wars and as such was responsible for freeing American seamen. Noah was notable as one of the first Jewish Americans to hold an important diplomatic post and was ultimately removed from office for anti-Semitic reasons. He was editor of the National Advocate in New York for over a decade beginning in 1817. 16mo. Modern paper-covered boards leather label. Leaves a bit tanned else very good. SHOEMAKER 2557. WOLF UNRECORDED JUDAICA 50. BAL 14997. hardcover
1561ref. 677551561. 2nd & last edition. 2nd & last edition. Fascinating Sixteenth-Century Digest of Land and Hunting Laws: 1 Copy of This Edition Located in North America Meurer Noe 1525-1583. Spangenberg Cyriacus 1528-1604. Von Forstlicher Oberherrligkeit und Gerechtigkeit Was die Recht Der Gebrauch Und die Billigkeit Desshalben Vermog. Item: Von dem Waren Oder Gerechten Rechten Der Teutschen Gerechtigkeit Aequitate Oder Billigkeit Wie und Wenn die von Einem Jeden Gerechten und Nit zu Strengen Richter Nach Gestalt und Gelegenheit Furfallender Ungleicher Fall und Sachen Zuhalten Und Darnach zu Urteilen Sey. Alles Beschriben durch den Hochgelehrten Noe Meurer. Auch vom Rechtmessigen Jagen und vom Missbrauch Desselbigen Bestendiger Bericht durch M. Cyriacum Spangenberg. Frankfurt am Main: Weigand Han and Georg Raben 1561. c xxxvii 1 lxxx 4 ff. Three parts in one volume. Folio 11" x 7"; 27.94 x 17.78 cm. Recent paper-covered boards retaining earlier paper spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light soiling front joint just starting at head recent owner bookplate of Hans Dedi to front pastedown. Title page printed in red and black large woodcut coat of arms to verso. Light browning to text faint dampstaining to fore-edge of text block two small library stamps to foot of title page. A nice copy of a handsomely printed volume. $2500. THIS DESCRIPTION IS TRUNCATED DUE TO CHARACTER LIMITS. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A COMPLETE VERSION Second and final edition. Early game forestry and land laws represent some of the western world's earliest statutory attempts at environmental regulation and resource management. Beyond their legal framework these early codes offer rich insights into early modern social history illuminating sixteenth-century class hierarchies seigneurial privileges property rights and regional foodways. First published in 1560 this compilation by jurist Noe Meurer and theologian Cyriacus Spangenberg provides a comprehensive survey of land-use timber fishing and hunting regulations as enforced across the various territories of the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-sixteenth century. This second edition is significantly expanded compared to the first edition of 1560 which contained only 100 leaves. It includes key treatises on: Forest Sovereignty & Customary Rights Forstliche Oberherrligkeit examining jurisdictiona. unknown
1832ref. 17509New Haven : Durrie & Peck 1832. 1st Ed. hardcover. Fair. 24mo printed paper covered boards with leather spine with gilt lettering cover is very rubbed soiled and worn edges and corners rubbed edges and endpapers soiled frontispiece and other engravings roughly painted with red watercolor paint interior pages foxed 324 pages Durrie & Peck hardcover
1799ref. 162886Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 2 volumes. xii 9-348; iv 352pp. 8vo contemporary mottled calf with red leather spine labels bindings are rubbed and a little wormed; hinges on first volume are repaired but still solid and attractive; dampstains on front endpaper & blank flyleaf in first volume; pages toned as usual with some light foxing; small ink signatures on titles of both volumes; 2 pages in second volume have tears that were crudely taped and are now discolored. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin 1799. First edition. Webster surveyed known data from epidemics since the time of Christ in order to prove his theory that these diseases were not contagious but were caused by environmental changes. Despite his incorrect conlculsions his work was widely read and quite influential. William Osler called this book "the most important medical work written in this country by a layman." - GM 1675.1; Austin 2023; Heirs of Hippocrates 1160. Hudson & Goodwin unknown
1969ref. Embry 157917Walker/Weatherhill New York: 1969. Number 119 of 150 copies of the deluxe edition. Light offsett to title page from frontis jacket lightly worn overall a fine copy in near fine minimally rubbed slipcase. Twenty-one woodblock illustrations by Haku Maki each printed signed and numbered in pencil by the artist. White goatskin backed linen boards in handmade-paper dust jacket and publisher's wooden slipcase. Signed and sealed by the artist in the colophon. Walker/Weatherhill, New York: 1969. Number 119 of 150 copies of the deluxe edition. hardcover books
1840ref. D17813New York: M. M. Noah & A. S. Gould 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. In his preface Noah discusses the rather mysterious origins of The Book of Jasher. Original cloth worn. In plain modern slipcase. M. M. Noah & A. S. Gould hardcover books
1925ref. 58668(Wien, Anton Schroll & Co.; Druck: Christoph Reisser?s Söhne), o. J. (1925). Qu.-Fol. 12 ganzs. farb. Orig.-Lithographien auf 6 festen Kartonblättern, als Leporello gebunden.
1880ref. 751751880. CHAM pseudonym of NOÉ Charles Amédée de. A la Guerre comme a la Guerre. BOUND WITH: Le Grand Magasin dImages bound first. Paris: Aubert circa 1880. Oblong quarto contemporary half green calf gilt marbled boards and endpapers. $2750.First edition of this suite of 30 full-page hand-colored lithographs of Cham caricatures documenting the French colonization of North Africa bound with an intriguing publication of 790 French magazine illustrations.Cham saw a career that would result in over 40000 drawings many of them caricatures and sketches of French and Algerian life. In 1843 he began to contribute to such newspapers as Le Charivari whose staff he eventually joined and remained for 30 years. These are Chams parodies of war scenes apparently from the French colonies in North Africa 30 hand-colored lithographs similar to those he produced for the Album du Siège Charivari 1870 in collaboration with Honoré Daumier. Cham embued stories in Le Charivari with the comic force of his caricatures These in the future will remain when the fleeting stories are forgotten: the day after the stew evaporates and salt escapes us. People who have seen Chams images will always remember the huge success of the cartoonist Henri Beraldi. Bound with this is an ingenious publication of 790 small in-text wood-engravings produced by various engravers and appearing at different times in French magazines around which is woven a clever story line about the travels and adventures of the Lacroix family written to match the diverse engravings. Minor spotting to margins of a few plates not affecting imageslight expert restoration to contemporary binding. Extremely good condition. hardcover
1999ref. 74469AKFA. New. 1999. Hardcover. 295140560X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French and English. Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonnee Complete Works AKFA hardcover
1789ref. 64400Boston: printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co 1789. First edition 8vo pp. 410 full orig. sheep neatly rebacked old spine laid down preserving the original red morocco label; extremities worn else a very good sound copy. A seminal work dedicated to Benjamin Franklin in which Webster puts forth for the first time the spirit of an American as opposed to a British English and particularly its orthography the reform of which grew out of his correspondence with Franklin. Evans 22259; Skeel 651. printed for the author by Isaiah Thomas & Co unknown
1823ref. 43475New Haven CT: Howe & Spalding 1823. Hardcover . Used - very good/No Jacket. 8vo. Pale blue paper covered boards spotted and stained with orange painted spine. White paper title on spine. Rebound as evidenced by spine and tasteful new pastedown and endpapers though boards probably original. Deckled edges. Lectures to a young man on right action virtue the importance of the study of words philology and their proper use as well as a history of the Republic. A very clean example albeit rebacked. Howe & Spalding hardcover
ref. 04131Paris: Martinet 1855. The Art of Success in the World! An Ironic Satiric Burlesque by Cham CHAM Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé. L'Art de Réussir dans le Monde. Procédé Simple et Facile pour se Faire Jeter a la Porte en Fort peu de Temps. Paris: Martinet 1855. Large quarto 13 1/4 x 10 in; 337 x 254 mm. Lithographed title with large hand-colored pictorial vignette twenty hand-colored lithographed plates by Fernique after Cham the plates containing three or more images a total of sixty-two each with droll captions. Publisher's red cloth covers decoratively stamped in blind front cover decoratively lettered in gilt. Expertly rebacked in matching red cloth. Small rectangular sheet of paper tipped-on to the front end-paper with a short description of this book. A fine and clean copy. A very rare volume with OCLC/KVK locating only two copies in institutions worldwide at the Victoria & Albert Library and Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire Strasbourg. The book was also issued without hand-coloring and OCLC locates two plain copies: The Morgan Library & Museum NY USA and Harvard University Houghton Library MA USA "It is to be regretted that space will not serve to represent the caricaturists and depictors of manners who followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédée de Noé known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah of whom it was said that he had ‘an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Paris: Martinet, 1855 unknown books
2003ref. 87050D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. New. 2003. Hardcover. 1891024663 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 272 pages; 223 illustrations most in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers hardcover
2015ref. 115007Hatje Cantz. New. 2015. Hardcover. 377573922X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in English and Chinese. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné uvre Oeuvre Complete Works Leben Und Werk Werkverzeichnis Oeuvre-Katalog Kritischem Oeuvrekatalog Raisonnee Hatje Cantz hardcover
1826ref. 664Paris: S.n. 1826. First edition. Published unbound. Untrimmed. In fine condition. First edition. Published unbound. 11 5 p. Comte de Noé’s 1777–1858 speech concerning the “Haiti Indemnity” at the Chamber of Peers on April 19 1826. After the successful slave rebellion of Saint-Domingue which culminated in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Republic of Haiti it took more than twenty years until the French ruler King Charles X of France recognised the independence of the island in return of 150 million gold franc indemnity in April 1825. The sum was later reduced to 90 million in 1838. The issue of the indemnity appeared again in 2003 when the President of Haiti demanded France to pay back over 21 billion U.S. dollars the equivalent in today’s money of the 90 million gold francs however in 2004 the prime minister rescinded the reparations demand. Not in Sabin. . (S.n.) unknown
Acquaforte mm. 203x400. Si tratta di uno dei soggetti preferiti da Castiglione, l'entrata degli animali nell'Arca, la tecnica acquafortista raggiunge qui il massimo della raffinatezza. In questa composizione sviluppa il tema accennato nell'incisione : "Noè che fa entrare gli animali nell'Arca" (1630 ca.). Il tema biblico è accennato nella parte sinistra del rame in primo piano gli animali. Le opere attribuibili al primo periodo di attività genovese (L'entrata degli animali nell'arca, Genova, Accademia Ligustica; Noè fa entrare gli animali nell'arca, Firenze, Gall. degli Uffizi, inv. 1336; per le molte versioni, vedi Meloni) mostrano il C. attento soprattutto alla tradizione di pittura animalistica - rappresentata a Genova da parecchie opere dei Bassano e dall'attivo gruppo fiammingo facente capo ai fratelli de Wael e a Jan Roos - ed estremamente vicino, nell'impianto delle scene e nel taglio compositivo, alla pittura dello Scorza (di quest'ultimo vedere soprattutto Noè che accoglie gli animali nell'arca, firmato e datato 1630, Genova, Gall. di palazzo Spinola). Bell'esemplare con margini sottili e piccolo timbro di collezione visibile in basso a destra.. Bartsch vol. 46 n. 1..
2005ref. 91578Gallery; Et Al. New. 2005. Hardcover. 2951405618 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French and English. 221 pages; 250 illustrations the majority in color. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie Et L'uvre Life and Work Oeuvre Raisonnee Gallery; Et Al hardcover
1819ref. 1266971819. First Edition. NOAH Mordecai M. Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States in the Years 1813-14 and 15. New-York; London: C. Kirk and Mercein; John Miller 1819. Octavo contemporary marbled boards rebacked in period style speckled calf-gilt red morocco spine label uncut. $3400.First edition of this fascinating travelogue by Mordecai Manuel Noah the most prominent Jew in America at the timeU.S. Consul to Tunis the first American Jew to receive an overseas diplomatic assignmentillustrated with engraved frontispiece portrait and four engraved plates one folding. An excellent uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards.One of the early American republic's most influential Jews Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was a journalist editor of New York newspaper The National Advocate publisher of the New York Enquirer and a community activist. He held the position of United States Consul to Tunis in 1816 was the sheriff of New York in 1821 the Surveyor of the Port from 1829-33 and a judge of the Court of General Sessions in 1841. He is perhaps most remembered as the originator of the ambitious though never-realized Ararat Project on Grand Island near Niagara Falls in 1825a proposed utopian city of refuge for persecuted European Jews. ""In 1813 Noah became U.S. Consul to Tunis. The government hoped that he would be able to forge special ties with influential Jews in North Africa and entrusted him with an additional secret mission: to devise a 'means for the liberation' of 11 captive American seamen in Algiers. Noah's efforts to free American captives were mostly unsuccessful. Only two seamen were released the ransom paid was excessive and the secret agent Noah appointed Richard R. Keene turned out to have an unsavory past. Although Noah carried out his other consular duties successfully and also established ties with local Tunis Jews Secretary of State James Monroe recalled him in 1815 In the wake of the recall Noah published Correspondence and Documents 1816 in his own defense followed by Travels in England France Spain and the Barbary States 1819 his most important book. It describes his experiences abroad and contains valuable information on early 19th-century Tunisian Jewry"" ANB. The appendix includes letters from Thomas Jefferson John Adams James Madison and John Quincy Adams addressed to Noah. Rosenbach American Jewish Bibliography 205. Frontispiece and one plate ""Merchant Slave & Arab"" with expertly repaired margins not affecting image or text. Light foxing to text. A nicely refurbished uncut copy in contemporary marbled boards. hardcover
1819ref. 27297New York: Kirk and Mercein; London: John Miller 1819. First edition 8vo pp. vi 2 431 1 xlvii; engraved frontis portrait and 4 engraved plates 3 with contemporary hand-coloring and 1 folding; contemporary full sheep red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; spine scuffed and with a small chip out at the top minor foxing; all else good and sound with the full compliment of plates in an unusual colored state. Early ownership signature of "Richard L. Schieffelin New York 1819." Noah 1785-1851 was a lawyer playwright and journalist. He was born in Philadelphia of Portuguese-Jewish ancestry. "In 1813 he was appointed consul to Tunis with a special mission to Algers. He was instructed to negotiate for the release of some Americans held as prisoners by the Algerine pirates. On May 23 1813 he sailed from Charleston but his vessel being captured by the British he was taken to England and detained two months. In October he arrived in Cadiz where he contracted with Richard R. Keene an American who had become a Spanish subject to affect the release of the twelve Americans . After being detained in France and Spain for more than a year Noah finally arrived in Tunis. On July 30 1815 he received a letter from James Monroe secretary of state revoking his commission and hinting at irregularities in his accounts. Monroe's treatment of Noah was never satisfactorily explained though his association with Keene who had been accused of treason was doubtless detrimental.In January 1817 however Noah received a letter from the Department of State which vindicated his conduct and returned several thousand dollars due him in the enterprise which resulted in the release of the American captives" DAB. Rosenbach 205; American Travellers Abroad N17. Kirk and Mercein; London: John Miller unknown books
ref. 04212Paris: Arnauld De Vresse 1850. Exceedingly Scarce Highly Amusing Hand-Colored Caricatures Showing "The Crazy's of the Day" CHAM illustrator pseud. of Charles Amédée de Noé. Les Toqués Du Jour. Paris: Arnauld De Vresse n.d. ca. 1847. First edition. Large folio 13 3/4 x 10 5/16 inches; 349 x 261 mm. Hand-colored lithographed title and thirty-six comical scenes on eighteen fine hand-colored lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic. Each scene with printed caption below. Publisher's brown ribbed cloth bordered in blind front cover lettered in gilt. Expertly rebacked to style at an early date. Inner hinges cracked but sound corners very slightly rubbed. A near fine copy of this exceedingly scarce album. A highly amusing collection of lithographs by Cham 1819-1879 satirizing the varieties of Les Toqués Du Jour The Crazy's of the Day. Of Charles Amédée de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had ‘an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book pp. 155-156. Exceedingly scarce. No copies found in WorldCat or KVK and apparently no copies have appeared at auction certainly during the past thirty-five years. Paris: Arnauld De Vresse, 1850 unknown books
ref. 03321Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1846. The Pleasures of Youth. Young Parisian Gentlemen At Play CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Nos Gentils Hommes a Gout. Tournure Elégance Moeurs et Plaisirs de la Jeunesse Dorée. Par Cham Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. n.d. 1846. First only edition complete. Folio 13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 250 mm. Hand-colored lithographed title page and twenty hand-colored lithographed plates. Pictorial lithographed advertisement and Aubert et Cie. catalogue 16 pp. at rear. Original pictorial lithographed green boards. Later dark green pebbled cloth spine and endpapers. Board edges and corners a little rubbed some light mainly marginal foxing. Small repaired tear to outer margin of lithographed advertisement leaf. An excellent example. With the bookplate of Joel Spitz on front paste-down. Provenance: purchased in Paris 1947. Rare with OCLC recording only six copies in institutional holdings worldwide and no auction records since 1923. We have only seen one other copy of this title. A satire of the bustle behavior customs and pleasures of young Parisian gentlemen - golden youth. Of Amédée de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had ‘an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray pp. 155-156. The Plates: 1. Ne vous effrayez pas! 2. Un objet de prix pour ne rien prendre 3. Fol de carrossier. 4. Un maitre dans une peau de domestique. 5. Des gages fabuleux. 6. Ton vicomte est un cuistre! 7. Pauvre créancier! 8. L'ami de coeur. 9. Tiens! C'est le m'sieu du château! 10. Palsambleu quél bon petit chic!! 11. L'etat d'heritier a bien ses charges! 12. Monsieur le baron après souper. 13. Prenez y garde John! 14. Un ci-devant. 15. Tachez donc de faire aller mes cheveux! 16 Le tir des pigeons. 17. Oh he! Ce cavalier! Ohe! 18. Bravo Marquis! Tu arrives le premier. 19. Dieu! La belle chasse. 20. Au diable les préjugés! Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie.,, [1846] unknown books
1839ref. 50059New Haven: 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. S. Babcock unknown
