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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions (3 Volumes), INSCRIBED by the author Edward Everett
by Edward Everett
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions (3 Volumes), INSCRIBED by the author Edward Everett.
Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions (3 Volumes), by Edward Everett. Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Volume I and II are 6th edition in 1860, Volume III is 1st edition in 1859. Total 2190 pages (Vol. I 670 pages; Vol. II 673 pages; Vol. III 847 pages).
Comments: Three volume set INSCRIBED by the author, Edward Everett, on a note tipped in on front free end`paper. Light rubbing along edges with a small stain to one corner of volume 1. Pages clean and bindings secure. Half leather covers with marbled boards, end papers, and page edges. Spine is gilt embossed calf with raised bands. Everett is the former secretary of state, governor of Massachusetts, and president of Harvard. He was also a Whig party candidate for President in 1860. (In L3 box121.)
Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions (3 Volumes), by Edward Everett. Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Volume I and II are 6th edition in 1860, Volume III is 1st edition in 1859. Total 2190 pages (Vol. I 670 pages; Vol. II 673 pages; Vol. III 847 pages).
Comments: Three volume set INSCRIBED by the author, Edward Everett, on a note tipped in on front free end`paper. Light rubbing along edges with a small stain to one corner of volume 1. Pages clean and bindings secure. Half leather covers with marbled boards, end papers, and page edges. Spine is gilt embossed calf with raised bands. Everett is the former secretary of state, governor of Massachusetts, and president of Harvard. He was also a Whig party candidate for President in 1860. (In L3 box121.)
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- Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions (3 Volumes), INSCRIBED by the author Edward Everett
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- Edward Everett
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- Half Leather Bound
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- 1859 - 1860
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