[Rarebooks] FS: 1865 Washingtoniana -1/ 291 sets

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Hough, Franklin B. WASHINGTONIANA: or, Memorials of the Death of George 
Washington, Giving an Account of the Funeral Honors Paid to His Memory, 
with a list of tracts and volumes printed upon the occasion, and a 
catalogue of medals commemorating the event.

Roxbury, Mass.; W. Elliot Woodward: 1865.
Limited to 291 sets.

A reprinting of a large number of period texts of funeral orations and 
other commemorations of Washington's life which were published at the time 
of his death. Hough explains in his Preface that the impetus for gathering 
this material originated during the Civil War (in which he served as a 
surgeon with the 97th Regiment, New York Volunteers).

"It was during the darkest period of this melancholy epoch" he writes, that 
he conceived the idea of "turning back the pages of our national history to 
a time when our people were united in heart and interest as one... There 
appeared no incident in our annals more deeply expressive of unanimity, 
more free from partisan feeling, or more eloquent with sentiments of 
patriotism, than the funeral honors paid upon the death of General 
Washington, as found scattered in the official records and transient press 
of their day. A plan was formed for gathering these precious memorials, and 
of embodying them in a form worthy of the subject. The volumes here offered 
are the result of this effort. They exhibit the spectacle of a nation in 
mourning, to which the world's history presents no former parallel".

Franklin B. Hough was a multi-talented man. In addition to being a surgeon, 
he is also considered to be the "Father of American Forestry" for important 
and far-sighted work he did in recognizing the importance of replanting and 
managing woodlands, work which resulted in the establishment of the 
Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture. He wrote a catalog 
of the native plants in Lewis County, New York and wrote four or five other 
New York county histories as well. He is said to have kept two or three 
different manuscripts, on different subjects, going in different rooms of 
his house simultaneously. He also discovered the mineral "houghite". There 
was perhaps no man in his time better suited to put together such a 
collection of memorials to George Washington.

Hardcover. 2 vols. 7.5"x11", 272 + 304 pages; 2 steel-engraved portraits, 
folding plan of Mount Vernon. Bound in ca.1900 half-calf with raised bands, 
leather spine labels in red and black and marbled boards. Covers with some 
scuffing and wear, half-title toned, but overall a nice set. [08573] $1250.00

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