Autograph note, signed, from Little, Brown & Co. to Prof. B. S. Hendrick in New York, about Hedrick's order for a copy of C. F. Gauss's Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium, with an additional billhead invoice Hedrick for $4.
Boston, January 13, 1858. A.n.s., approx 7 x 5 inches on an unlined bifolium, [1] page. With the original stamped cover. Billhead approx. 5.25 x 8. An evocative and interesting clue to the spread of learning (and to the effects of sectional politics on scholarship) in antebellum America. Benjamin Sherwood..... More