[CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua L.] Chamberlain's inscribed copy of Fables de La Fontaine, plus.
Sale 1345 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online
Lots Open
Jun 19, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$600 -
$800
Sold for $699
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua L.] Chamberlain's inscribed copy of Fables de La Fontaine, plus.
Paris: Lebigre Freres, Libraires, 1834. Tree calf leather with red leather gilt title label to spine (Wear and some splitting/loss to extremities). Marble endpapers. Nouvelle Edition. (Some spotting to most pages, some rubbing to page corners.) Provenance: Signed "J. L. Chamberlain / Bowd. Coll. 1852" on half title page. Affixed label for Bernard & Mondon, New York to interior front cover .
Catalogue of the Peucinian Society of Bowdoin College. 1858. 71pp., 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. String-bound original wrappers (toning, dampstaining, some creasing and small rips/losses). Included are lists of officers of the general society and college society, as well as initiated members of the general society from 1806-1858. Joshua Chamberlain is listed as one of the "Corresponding Secretaries," for the year 1856, a poet for the year 1851, and as an initiated member for the year 1852.
Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914) was a college professor from Maine who volunteered his services and became a Brevet Major General, a Medal of Honor recipient, a four-time Governor of Maine, and president of Bowdoin College. Here are offered two items closely tying Bowdoin and Chamberlain to the war both before and after.
Catalogue of the Peucinian Society of Bowdoin College. 1858. 71pp., 5 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. String-bound original wrappers (toning, dampstaining, some creasing and small rips/losses). Included are lists of officers of the general society and college society, as well as initiated members of the general society from 1806-1858. Joshua Chamberlain is listed as one of the "Corresponding Secretaries," for the year 1856, a poet for the year 1851, and as an initiated member for the year 1852.
Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914) was a college professor from Maine who volunteered his services and became a Brevet Major General, a Medal of Honor recipient, a four-time Governor of Maine, and president of Bowdoin College. Here are offered two items closely tying Bowdoin and Chamberlain to the war both before and after.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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