Signed by Clement C. Moore

A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. By Fray Antonio Agapida. Vol. I.

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829.

Price: $750.00


About the item

First edition, small paper issue. 319 pp. Bound without ads. Volume I [of 2] only. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed by Clement C. Moore. Contemporary calf. Spine worn, front joint worn, boards crazed. Ownership signature of Clement C. Moore on title page. BAL 10125. Provenance by descent to grandson Benjamin Burges Moore and thence to us via sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski.

Item #317728

From the library of Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), signed by him on the front endpaper.

A Hebrew scholar and writer of verse, Moore is best remembered as the author of THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. He was born at the family's estate "Chelsea" in New York. He was the only son of the Rev. Benjamin Moore (1748-1816), President of Columbia College. "Chelsea," where he was born, was inherited from his mother's father, British Officer Major Thomas Clarke, and in 1819 Moore donated the land on which the General Theological Seminary was established.