AN ORATION, PRONOUNCED JULY 4, 1800, AT THE REQUEST OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF ROXBURY, IN COMMEMORATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.
Boston: [1800]. 19, [1 blank] pp. Stitched. With the half title in elegant typescript. Bound in contemporary pale blue wrappers [heavy ink writing has caused some wrapper tears, no printed text affected]. Mild foxing. Upper margins trimmed closely, removing page numbers but not affecting the text of the Oration. Good+.
"'Boston' in the imprint is a logogram" [ESTC].
Unlike most countries, we assemble "not to pay the servile homage of adulation for the birth of kings and despots." Our revolution was not the "demon of anarchy"-- as in France-- and there are "no provinces defolated, to mark the flaming path of Equality."
Evans 38402. ESTC W28799. Item #41860
Price: $150.00