Seeking booksellers for a fourth edition of his popular Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man, in an autograph letter, signed 19 October 1816, from Philadelphia, to the New Haven, Connecticut, bookselling firm Beers & Howe; addressed by Dufief on the verso of an integral leaf.
Philadelphia: 1816. 4to. One- page, approximately 85 words, in full: "Gentlemen I enclose you a proposal for the publication of the 4th edition of nature Displayed with improvements, the 3rd edition being entirely out of print. The discount to booksellers will be 1/3 – Should you be disposed to take..... More