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2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School and Yale University. Gordon Auchincloss.

GROTON SCHOOL

2 Photograph Albums of Gordon Auchincloss including images from his years at the Groton School and Yale University.

1917- 1936. GROTON SCHOOL. A photographic chronicle of the first two decades in the life of Gordon Auchincloss from infancy to college. Highlights include the Groton School 50th Anniversary, June, 1934 with Fraklin D. Roosevelt pictured seated in the center of the porch, the Groton Football team of which Gordon... Read More

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Two Autograph letters, signed (“Felix” & “FF”), and one Typed Letter, signed (“FF”), to various recipients. [With:] Autograph Letter, signed (“Tom”) from Thomas G. Corcoran to his father, forwarding these three Frankfurter letters. Felix Frankfurter.

“… if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes”

Two Autograph letters, signed (“Felix” & “FF”), and one Typed Letter, signed (“FF”), to various recipients. [With:] Autograph Letter, signed...

Cambridge, Mass: v.d., ca. April, 1936. “… if ever there was an organic being, it was Holmes”. Collection of letters praising an address delivered by Thomas G. Corcoran in April 1936 before the Harvard Law School Association on the topic of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Corcoran was a former student... Read More

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Goethe's Sammtliche Werke. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

A Distinguished American Provenance, Benjamin Pierce

Goethe's Sammtliche Werke.

Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag, 1854. A Distinguished American Provenance, Benjamin Pierce. Inscribed on the flyleaf, “Charles Henry Davis with the love of his Friend and Brother Benjamin Pierce Junction Grove 19 Nov '58.” Benjamin Pierce was an American mathematician who taught at Harvard University for approximately 50 years. He... Read More

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Ho Hum, the Fisherman. William Hale Harkness.

Ho Hum, the Fisherman.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 42 of 100 copies. An engaging account of a marlin-fishing expedition out of Bimini and Cat Cay, privately printed for the author, and not for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale ... a hard book to find." (Frazier). The author was a.... Read More

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Harvard Register No. 1. Harvard College.

Harvard Register No. 1.

Cambridge: Published by Hilliard and Brown. Printed by Hilliard, Metcalf, & Co, March, 1827. An interesting article starting on p. 13 "Miseries of the Spectacle family" details the problems of near-sighted students with girl and hunting, p. 90 has the Obit. of O. W. Precott. The Register ran for one year only. Read More

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Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook. Harvard University, George Kendall Warren, photographer.

Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook.

[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1866]. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard. The Class of 1866 graduated George A. Glass and Frank Wright, founders of the... Read More

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Harvard Class of 1870 Photographic Yearbook. Harvard University, George Kendall Warren, photographer.

Harvard's First Black Graduate, One of the “Talented Tenth”

Harvard Class of 1870 Photographic Yearbook.

[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1870]. Harvard's First Black Graduate, One of the “Talented Tenth”. Of particular interest is the portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, Harvard College's first black graduate and the first black graduate of a top-tier university (Slater, "The Blacks who First Entered the World of White Higher Education" p.... Read More

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Memoirs of Thomas Hollis Esq. F.R. and A.S.S. Thomas Hollis.

Miss Currer's Copy

Memoirs of Thomas Hollis Esq. F.R. and A.S.S.

London: 1780. First edition. Miss Currer's Copy. RARE, PRIVATELY PRINTED MEMOIR OF "REPUBLICAN" HOLLIS, a noted book collector and Harvard College and Library benefactor. The plates include portraits of Locke, Milton and Newton, whose works he collected, also Britannia, Hollis himself. "It is probable that copies were to be purchased... Read More

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