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ELIAS BOUDINOT'S COPY OF BARLOW'S COLUMBIAN EPIC. BARLOW, JOEL. 1754-1812. The Vision of Columb...
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ELIAS BOUDINOT'S COPY OF BARLOW'S COLUMBIAN EPIC. BARLOW, JOEL. 1754-1812. The Vision of Columbus: a Poem in Nine Books. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 8vo (190 x 112 mm). 10 pp of Subscriber Names at rear. Marbled sheep, rebacked in calf, red morocco spine label. Light rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Mild foxing and soiling to endpapers. Provenance: Elias Boudinot (bookplate, his autograph to title page); Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Barlow's epic paean to Columbus, SUBSCRIBER'S COPY, SIGNED BY FOUNDING FATHER ELIAS BOUDINOT. Boudinot served as the President of the Continental Congress during the last days of the revolution in 1782-1783, and George Washington appointed him director of the U.S. Mint in 1795. In January 1793, Boudinot submitted to the House a bill to replace the image of Liberty on the newly designed American coinage, with the head of Columbus, and supported his idea with notes on Columbus's character. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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ELIAS BOUDINOT'S COPY OF BARLOW'S COLUMBIAN EPIC. BARLOW, JOEL. 1754-1812. The Vision of Columbus: a Poem in Nine Books. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1787. 8vo (190 x 112 mm). 10 pp of Subscriber Names at rear. Marbled sheep, rebacked in calf, red morocco spine label. Light rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Mild foxing and soiling to endpapers. Provenance: Elias Boudinot (bookplate, his autograph to title page); Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Barlow's epic paean to Columbus, SUBSCRIBER'S COPY, SIGNED BY FOUNDING FATHER ELIAS BOUDINOT. Boudinot served as the President of the Continental Congress during the last days of the revolution in 1782-1783, and George Washington appointed him director of the U.S. Mint in 1795. In January 1793, Boudinot submitted to the House a bill to replace the image of Liberty on the newly designed American coinage, with the head of Columbus, and supported his idea with notes on Columbus's character. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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