With Preface by Benjamin Peirce

(MATHEMATICS.). (BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL.). Bowditch's Useful Tables. New-York: E. & G.W. Blunt, 1844. 1st ed. 8vo. Orig. leather backed marbled boards; split at spine. $175.00

R & B 44-916. Edited by J. Ingersoll Bowditch, "printed at the suggestion of my friend Professor Pierce [sic], whose remarks on the same are annexed." "Peirce's earliest mathematical work was in the solution of problems proposed in the Mathematical Diary (N.Y. 1825-32), and in revising and correcting Bowditch's translation, with commentary, of LaPlace..." --DAB. In fact, Bowditch enlisted Peirce's aid in proof-reading the translation of La Place while Peirce was a Harvard undergraduate and classmate of H.I. Bowditch.