MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL BOWDITCH
Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son.
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1840.
Price: $350.00
About the item
Second Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch and a portrait of Mary Bowditch. 172 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Original cloth with original paper label on front boards. Some fading to spine and front boards. Some foxing to plates. Very minor foxing to text. Otherwise Fine.
Item #3926
Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer and mathematician, and author of "The New American Practical Navigator" was the most important author to American sea captains
Inscription on ffep: "James R Stanwood from Miss E.S. Quincy. Quincy, Massachusetts: 18th October, 1880." Pasted to f.f.e.p. is an obituary of Miss Quincy who was the daughter of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard College.
