Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Volume n.s. v.10 1868 1783 by American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 2020

American Academy of Rome, 1924. folio, 180 (text) pp., 64 plates; original printed boards (hardcover), covers worn, library markings, else text clean & binding tight. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, in Court-Street, 1785. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare complete copy with the six folding plates. Later 3/4 leather and marbled boards; boards loose. The Academy's members included George Washington, John Adams, John Hancock, and Benjamin Franklin.

Cambridge [Mass.] : Charles Folsom, Metcalf & Co, 1833 - 1846. Hardcover. Good. Two quarto volumes. New series, 1833-1846. Rebound in modern green cloth. Perforated library stamp on titles. Scattered foxing. Hand colored map of Nova Scotia and colored lithographs to rear of volume I. Foldout charts in Volume II are facsimiles on modern paper. Volume I contains Father Sebastian Rasles' Dictionary of the Abnaki Language. Rale had been a French missionary who had encourage native resistance to Yankee settlement. Abenaki is a now endangered Algonquian language which the Eastern dialects is spoken by the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Indians of Maine, New England and Quebec. Pilling 3196. <br> Contents of Vol. 1:A Discourse in Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; Remarks on Longevity and the Expectation of Life in the United States, Relating More Particularly to the State of New Hampshire, with Some Comparative Views in Relation to Foreign Countries; A Table of… Read More

1785. [American Academy of Arts and Sciences]. MEMOIRS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: TO THE END OF THE YEAR MDCCLXXXIII. Vol. 1: Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1785. [i-iii] - xxxii, 568pp. + [1] f.errata. 4to 10 1/2" x 8 1/2". Six folding plates. Contemporary calf binding. Front and rear hinges cracked but attached. Vol. 2: pt.1 Isaiah Thomas & Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1793. [i-v]- 200. pt.2 Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge , 1804. [i-iii] - 24. [1]- -168. Bound as one in contemporary calf. Contains 3 plates including one folding plate of a reproduction of James Winthrop's sketch of the Deighton Rock petroglyphs.Front board detached; rear hinge cracked. Ex-library copy previously owned by noted Boston physician Buckminster Brown. Text is mostly clean with some mild foxing and ink staining . First two volumes of the series published by one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in the country. Created during the Revolution it included John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock… Read More