Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern Music.
New York: Published by E. Bliss & E. White, and Collins & Hannay. H.C.Sleight, Printer, Jamaica, 1825.
Price: $250.00
About the item
Second American, from the Fourth English. 350 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half contemporary blue calf and marbled boards. Bookplate of Edward Tuckerman.
Item #40216
Edward Tuckerman was the son of a Boston mercahnt of the same name, went to Union College and Harvard Law School (1839), Harvard Divinity School. He later became a famous botanist. He was Professor of Botany at Amherst from 1858 until his death in 1886. Hi field was lichens. Although never very robust he was an intrepid explorer; Tuckerman's Ravine on Mount Washington was named in his honor.
