[Rarebooks] FS: Signed copy of THE SECOND ADVENT by Elias Boudinot, first counselor of the U.S. Supreme Court

[Charles Agvent]

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[BOUDINOT, Elias]. THE SECOND ADVENT, OR COMING OF THE MESSIAH  IN
GLORY,  SHOWN  TO  BE  A  SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE,  AND  TAUGHT  BY  DIVINE
REVELATION....  Trenton,  N.J.: D. Fenton & S. Hutchinson 1815.  First
Edition.  Bound in modern brown morocco stamped in gilt. SIGNED by the
author  on  the title page. Elias Boudinot, an American  revolutionary
statesman  serving  as commissary-general of prisoners and colonel  in
the  continental army (he was with George Washington at Valley Forge),
as  well as president (1782-1783) and secretary for foreign affairs of
the  Continental  Congress,  signed the treaties of peace  with  Great
Britain  and  of alliance with the French king. He also helped  ratify
the  United States Constitution in New Jersey and conducted Washington
into  New  York  for the first inauguration. He was a  member  of  the
House    of  Representatives,  second  director   of  the  U.S.   Mint
(1795-1805),  and  the  first counselor named by  the  United  States
Supreme  Court.  Boudinot  was  also   a  trustee  and  benefactor  of
Princeton  University  and  a  founder  and  first  president  of  the
American  Bible Society. Perhaps his two best known books are The  Age
of Revelation (1790), a reply to Thomas Paine, and A Star in the West,
or  a  Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes  of  Israel
(1816),  an attempt to prove that the American Indians may be the lost
tribes.  Pages evenly browned. Small institutional blindstamp to title
page  and  one text page. Tear to one page without loss of text.  Near
Fine and scarce.                                              $1500.00
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