ID 967362
Lot 168 | A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College
Estimate value
$ 3 000 – 5 000
Scarce first edition of an early American poem and piece of Yaleiana. Meigs, the son of a Revolutionary War general, graduated from Yale in 1785 and went on to have a colorful political career mostly in Ohio. This work is sometimes mistakenly attributed to the elder Meigs. RBH last records a copy at auction in 1922. Stoddard 337; Sabin 47398.
Quarto (194 x 156mm). 16pp. Stab sewn as issued (oversewn with new holes at later date). Provenance: a few early inscriptions on final leaf.
| Artist: | Return Jonathan Meigs II (1764 - 1825) |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
| Artist: | Return Jonathan Meigs II (1764 - 1825) |
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| Auction house category: | Printed books |
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