Orations and Addresses. A Sammelband of 17 pamphlets including Emerson's "American Scholar" and "Divinity School" addresses.
All pamphlets printed in the USA (predominately Boston). Various, 1827-1852. First editions. Leather and paper over boards. Hardcover quarter leather and paper (marbled) over boards. 8vo. 26+34+31+72+100+24+35+28+8+12+19+40+40+15+91+40+71 [686] pp. Illustrated with a single b/w engraved portrait of John Quincy Adams (on the occasion of his death). A sammelband book consisting of 17 pamphlets published between 1827 to 1852. All pamphlets are first editions unless noted. Dimensions of text block: 21 cm x 13.5 cm unless noted. Binding condition: boards are worn, frayed, and bumped. Leather on the spine and hinges is flaking. Dark brown leather label with gilt stamped title. No cracks in the hinges or gutters, and the leaves are bound securely. Text block condition: decorated with red speckled edges. All pamphlets have browning and foxing to various degrees, but none overwhelmingly so. Some inscriptions, including a hand written table of contents. Pamphlets have been trimmed to size (with two exceptions) but there has been no loss of text. Contents:
1) Ralph Waldo Emerson. An Oration, Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. 26 pp. James Munroe and Company, Boston. 1837. First edition (BAL 5183).
2) Ralph Waldo Emerson. An Address Delivered in the Court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies. 34 pp. James Munroe and Company, Boston. 1844. First edition (BAL 5199).
3) Ralph Waldo Emerson. An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838. 31 pp. James Munroe and Company, Boston. 1838. First edition (BAL 5184).
4) Charles Sumner. The Scholar, the Jurist, the Artist, the Philanthropist. An Address Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, at their Anniversary, August 27, 1846. 72 pp. William D. Ticknor and Company, Boston. 1846. First edition.
5) Rufus Choate. A Discourse Delivered Before the Faculty, Students, and Alumni of Dartmouth College, on the Day Preceding Commencement, July 27, 1853, Commemorative of Daniel Webster. 100 pp. James Munroe and Company, Boston. 1853. First edition.
6) Daniel Webster. Mr. Webster's Speech at Marshfield, Mass. Delivered September 1, 1848, and His Speech on the Oregon Bill, Delivered in the United States Senate, August 12, 1848. 24 pp. Press of T. R. Marvin, 24 Congress Street, Boston. 1848. First edition.
7) Metcalf and Company. A Description of Mr. Healy's Picture of the Great Constitutional Debate in the Senate of the United States, January 26, 1830; with Biographical Sketches of Mr. Webster and General Hayne. 35 pp. Metcalf and Company, printer's to the university, Cambridge. 1851. First edition.
8) William Ware and William Cullen Bryant. Notices of the Life and Character of Roger Gerard Van Polanen. From the Christian Register of October 12, 1833. 28 pp. William Ware (printed but not published according to preface). 1847. First edition. Inscription on first blank page reads: " To the Rev. C. A. Dall with the best respects of B. A. van Polanen van Doorninck. Haverhill Augt. 11th 1848. Residing in Bridgepor[t] Cam[bridge]" (sections in brackets have been trimmed away).
9) Wendell Phillips. Sketch of the Life of Mrs. Eliza Garnut. 8 pp. Unknown publisher. No date (c. 1850). No edition marks: "This sketch was first published in the Christian Register, and afterwards published, with some alternations by the Author, in the Liberty Bell of 1850."
10) Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." 12 pp. John P. Jewett & Co. 1852. First edition. Dimensions: 9 x 11.5 cm approx.
11) William I. Bowditch. The Anti-Slavery Reform, Its Principle and Method. 19 pp. Robert F. Wallcut, Boston. 1850. First edition.
12) Charles C. Shackford. A Citizen's Appeal in Regard to the War with Mexico. A Lecture at Lyceum Hall, Lynn, January 16, 1848. 40 pp. Andrews & Prentiss, Boston. 1848. First edition.
13) United States Congress. Tokens of a Nation's Sorrow. Addresses in the Congress of the United States, and Funeral Solemnities on the Death of John Quincy Adams, who Died in the Capitol at Washington, on Wednesday Evening, February 23, 1848. 40 pp. J. and G.S. Gideon, Washington. 1848. First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait of John Quincy Adams by N. Dearborn, Boston.
14) United States Congress. Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Presentation of the Sword of Washington and the Staff of Franklin, February 7, 1843. 15 pp. Gales and Seaton, Washington. 1843. First edition.
15) John G. Palfrey. Papers on the Slave Power, First published in the "Boston Whig.". 91 pp. Merrill, Cobb & Co., Boston. No date (c. 1846). First edition.
16) Sylvester Judd. A Discourse Touching the Causes and Remedies of Intemperance. Preached February 2, 1845. 40 pp. Wm. T. Johnson, Augusta. 1845. First edition.
17) William Cranch. Memoir if the Life, Character, and Writings of John Adams: Read, March 16, 1827, in the Capitol, in the City of Washington, at the Request of the Columbian Institute, and Published by their Order. 71 pp. S. A. Elliot, City of Washington. 1827. First edition. Dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm. . As described. Item #67085
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