[MATHEMATICS] BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll

Memoir of Nathaniel Bowditch. By His Son [Inscribed and Signed by Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch]

Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1884. Third Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt, grey glazed endpapers; [4],178pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 7 leaves of plates. Light shelf wear to extremiteis, textblock very slightly shaken, else Very Good or better. Mounted manuscript presentation bookplate to front free endpaper: "Alonzo Andrews Esq with the regards of J. Ingersoll Bowditch," Nathaniel Bowditch's second son and brother of the author.

Personal account of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), the American mathematician and author of "The New American Practical Navigator" (1802).

Price: $175.00

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