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Sammelband of 10 Eulogies Published: 1795-1829 8vo. Brown leather spine with gilt lines and black title label with gilt lettering. Front cover has brown marbled paste down sheets, leather corners and joints. An interesting Sammelband of 10 Eulogies (see list below). Pages are age toned with some light damp-stains to edges of pages. Light to moderate foxing. Right front blank end sheet removed. The two next end sheets are cream colored. Period handwritten contents of the Eulogies is written on the verso side of the first blank end sheet. Some scuffing to leather corners, joints and spine. Overall binding is in good condition. 5 of these are extremely Charleston South Carolina Antebellum Imprints -- many of which do not show any copies anywhere (for sale or in archive/library collections)! 1. An Eulogy Pronounced at the Funeral of Dead. Benjamin Chaplin, Late of Mansfield in Connecticut, March 27th, 1795 by Moses C Welch. Norwich: Printed by Thomas Hubbard. 10 pages. Name of Deborah Clarke written at bottom of title page. 2. Two Sermons on the Hope of Righteous; Preached at Manfield, March 29th, 1795. The Sabbath Next After Interment of Dea Benjamin Chaplin by David Avery. Norwich. Printed by Thomas Hubbard 1796. 64 pages. Name of Deborah Clarke written at bottom of title page and top of three other pages. Page 39, 40 has a closed tear. 3. Eulogy of Gen CHS. Cotesworth Pinckney, President General of the Society of the Cincinnati, Delivered, By Appointment of the Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina on Tuesday, The 1st of November, 1825 by Alexander Garden. Charleston. Printed by A E Miller 1825. 48 pages. 4. A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Delivered in Faneuil Hall, Boston August 2, 1826 by Daniel Webster. Boston, Printed by Cummings, Hillard and Company 1826. 62 pages. 5. Eulogy of Thomas Jefferson, Delivered August 3rd, 1826, in The First Presbyterian Church by the Hon. William Johnson. Charleston. Printed by C C Sebring 1826. 38 pages. 6. Eulogy of John Adams, Delivered, September 14th, 1826 in St Michaels Church by Timothy Ford. Charleston. Printed by Ellis & Neufville 1826. 39 pages. 7. Eulogy on the Hon Wm. Crafts, Delivered Before the Palmetto Society in the Second Independent Church by E S Courtenay. Charleston. Printed by Ellis & Neufville 1826. 15 pages. 8. A Sketch of the Character of the Late Hon. Samuel Howe, Delivered Third Day March 1828 by John Williams. Worcestor. Aegis Press 1828. 9. A Sketch of the Life and Services of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America. New York. Printed by Sickels Printer 1828. 16 pages. 10. An Eulogium of the Late Hon. Theodore Gaillard, One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and formerly a Chancellor of South Carolina, Delivered, Agreeably to Appointment, in St. Michael's Church, May 19, 1829 by William Lance. Printed by W. Riley, 110 Church Street, Charleston (SC), 1829. 27 pages. Seller Inventory # 100227
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