Octavo (23cm.); contemporary calf recently rebacked, new red morocco spine label, retaining original endpapers; [2],xxviii,[4],315,[1],52pp. Boards rather rubbed, small dampspot to upper cover, some browning to endpapers, a few tiny holes to rear free endpaper, else Good or better, internally sound. Provenance: Copy of seventeen-year-old Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871), future reformer, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate, with his ownership signature dated November 4, 1814, to title page, front pastedown, p. [1], together with his gift inscription to fellow Harvard student Warren Goddard to rear flyleaf verso with Goddard's lengthy ownership inscription as a student at Harvard on front free endpaper, a second ownership inscription of Goddard's on front flyleaf noting that the book was actually bought off of May. May graduated from Harvard in 1817 and went on to serve as a Unitarian clergyman, collaborating with his friend William Lloyd Garrison in co-founding the New England Anti-Slavery Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, and the pacifist New England Non-Resistance Society. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 32520. Second American Edition, With Improvements.

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Title

Elements of Geometry Containing the First Six Books of Euclid with Supplement on Properties of the Circle in Intersections of Planes and the Geometry of Solids [Samuel Joseph May's Copy]

Publisher

T.B. Wait and Sons, Boston

Publication Date

1814

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