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Le Cabinet Secret De L'histoire. 2e Série

[EVERETT, Edward] EMERSON, Ralph Waldo; STORY, Joseph; et alBiblio.com

A SAMMELBAND OF 32 PAMPHLETS all PHI BETA KAPPA Addresses including Emerson's AN ORATION DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY AT CAMBRIDGE AUGUST 31 1837 and Story's A DISCOURSE PRONOUNCED BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY INSCRIBED by Story

18220204521822 - 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or staining; "withdrawn" stamps on front and rear pastedowns where there are minor remnants of a pocket. Paper library labels on the spines rubbing to joints slight edgewear. Overall Near Fine. Two 5-1/4" x 8-1/2" volumes identically bound in half calf and marbled boards with matching gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. All the pamphlets are complete except for the original wrappers which were not bound in. Both volumes with Edward Everett's bookplate on the front pastedown along with a presentation bookplate of Frederick W. Putnam to Hamilton College both stamped "Withdrawn." In addition to Emerson and Story other contributors include James Kent Charles Sumner Alexander Everett Theopholis Parson James Percifal William J. Spooner Denison Olmstead Thomas S. Grimke Benjamin Toslin Theron Metcalf Asher Robbins Seth Hawley Virgil Maxcy and Asher Ware. Story's DISCOURSE SABIN 92300 is INSCRIBED "The Honorable/Edward Everett/from the Author" on the title and has a partial correction in the author's hand on page 26. In addition to Story's INSCRIPTION to Everett Maxcy and Ware have also INSCRIBED their addresses to Everett. Emerson's address is certainly the most important present in these volumes. Published in an edition of only 500 copies all of which were sold within a months time it was generally well received and was later described by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." When Emerson included this essay in his seminal collection in 1841 he renamed it "The American Scholar": "The clarion cry to think to create to become a productive scholar and above all to fulfil yourself as an individualist." BAL 5183; GROLIER AMERICAN 100: 43. Each volume also with the owner inscription of Frederick W. Putnam dated 22 November 1910 Binghamton NY. Putnam a student of Louis Agassiz was the first director of the Peabody Museum of Salem president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science president of the American Folklore Society and president of the American Anthropological Association among other honors. He is widely known as the "Father of American Archaeology." A remarkable collection with an exceptional provenance and association. Edward Everett--a Unitarian minister member of both the United States Congress and Senate and also a governor of Massachusetts--is perhaps best known for his oratory powers. It is he who gave the "other" address at Gettysburg on 19 November 1863. The next day he wrote Lincoln saying "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes." hardcover

Charles Agvent · États-Unis9 375,00 $US≈ 7 932,19 €

[John Neely Bryan] [Dallas] Story, Joseph; Sharswood, George - edBiblio.com

The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the United States of America. From 1789 to 1827 Inclusive. Vol. 2 1801-1815 with The Public and General Statutes Passed by the Congress of the United States of America. From 1828 to 1836 Inclusive. Vol. 4 1828-1836

18375083Boston; Philadelphia: Wells and Lilly; P. H. Nicklin and T. Johnson Law Booksellers 1837. Two quarto volumes 4 827-1532pp and 7 2104-2632pp. Tan buckram red and black morocco labels on spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Damp staining to lower page edges of the first third or so of each more pronounced in the earlier volume. Pages tanned and somewhat brittle in volume 4 foxing throughout in volume 2 unused card pockets in front of both. Several ownership markings including signatures from John Neely Bryan in each. Historic set of two statute books from the library of the founder of Dallas John Neely Bryan 1810-1877. Bryan left his home state of Tennessee at an early age with law degree in hand first to Arkansas and in 1839-1841 surveying and settling in the area that would later become Dallas. The natural features of the landscape the Trinity River being shallow and crossable at the site perhaps drew Bryan to the area but were also a source for disaster shortly after his settling. Stephen R. Butler in his biography John Neely Bryan: The Father of Dallas pg. 46: "In 1842. A Trinity River flood damaged the so-called 'Gilbert-Bryan cabin.' John Neely Bryan Jr. described this event: 'Shortly after this first cabin was completed my father went back to Colbert's Ferry for a supply of corn. he found that a rise of the river had occurred during his absence. damaging his books and destroying many of his papers. he had brought with him numerous valuable books and papers pertaining to his profession.'" These volumes were later rebound and owned by Maurice Eugene Locke who established a practice in the city in 1891 and built one of the great law libraries of the West. The stamp of a "John B. Seymour" is also present in each perhaps owning the books between Bryan and Locke. We find no record of John Neely Bryan's signature at auction. This wonderful piece of Dallas history also presents a rare case where water damage adds to rather than detracts from the appeal. . Wells and Lilly; P. H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers unknown

Peruse the Stacks · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

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