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First edition, first printing. Together with a photograph of Watson in his laboratory, signed by him in black felt tip. A near fine copy, square and unread. In a near fine dust jacket, price clipped, with minor soiling to the rear panel, and the tiniest tear at the head of the spine. The photograph is in fine condition.

Princeton: February 14th, 1769
Single page ADS by the hand of the Signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Witherspoon. Measuring 7.5 x 4.5. Reading: "On sight of this please pay to the order of Jonathan Baldwin Steward of the College of New Jersey the sum of forty six Pounds ten Shillings…money of New Jersey & place to my Account with the said College ——- Jno Witherspoon." Addressed "To Mr Jonathan / Sergeant Treasurer of the / College of New Jersey," and "Recd. of the Treasurer / Jon Baldwin." A rare surviving record of Witherspoon's formative work as president and head professor of Princeton University, then the College of New Jersey. He transformed the school from a small college that trained clergymen, into a more secular, academically rigorous institution designed to shape the leaders of a country. The very year this letter was signed, Aaron Burr entered Princeton under Witherspoon's tutelage, as did the young James Madison, who would become the "Father of the Constitution."… Read More