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Select Remains of the Rev. John Mason, Late Rector of Water-Stratford, in the County of Bucks, Author of the Songs of Praise to Almighty God. Recommended by the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D. With a Preface Giving some Account of the Author. Printed in Salem, Massachusetts by Joshua Cushing. 1799, 189 pp, 6.5 x 4.25 , 12mo, hardcover rebound half leather. Overall very good. Nicely rebound in half leather. Hinges remain tight and text block remains bound well. Inscribed by Peabody at front with a small message. Light ex-library markings, including around index page. Rebound by Starr Bookbinders, with small sticker on bottom of new front end page. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. An extremely scarce piece, inscribed by Lucy Manning Peabody (1805-1877), an American silversmith from Salem, Massachusetts. The book had been gifted to her in August of 1813 by Elisha Mack (1783-1859), who died a resident of Salem. Peabody worked with her husband, silversmith Julius Aboyneau Palmer (1803-1872), a partner in Palmer, Batchelder & Co. Jewelers, the treasurer of the American Tract Society, Whig politician, and Temperance candidate in the 1858 Boston Mayoral Election. They were parents of Harvard professor and translator of The Odyssey George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933) and Julius A. Palmer Jr. (1840-1899), an explorer who became the personal assistance of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. Palmer, considered by the Queen to be a man of unblemished honor and integrity was a royalist who opposed the American overthrow of the islands, and was the Queen s American assistant and point of contact for many social and political events, including the first inauguration of William McKinley. COLR1799FMOG-0224-aj1031. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers COLR1799FMOG-0224-aj1031
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