Autograph letter signed.
Stockholm, 18. VIII. 1837.
Large 4to. 1 page. With one enclosure (s. b.).
€ 800,00
To an unnamed Monsieur (probably Rudolph Spécz von Ládháza) with thanks for a sent work on the basics of technical chemistry: "J'ai eu l'honneur de recevoir l'ouvrage intitulé: Grundriss der technischen Chemie, que vous avez eu la bonté de m'adresser, et je vous pries l'agréer l'empression de ma reconnaissance [...]".
In 1837 Berzelius was elected a member of the Swedish Academy; he became well known for his textbook of chemistry ("Lärboki Kemien", vol. 1, 1808). Berzelius is eponymous for a lunar crater and an asteroid as well as for the minerals berzelianite and berzeliite.
Together with a portrait print, apparently from a newspaper, mounted on brown paper.
