[Rarebooks] FS: John Quincy Adams's Eulogy on James Monroe Inscribed to Monroe's Secretary of the Navy

[Charles Agvent]

This item is from our new list of 39 Signed Presidential Books & 
Pamphlets to be posted on our web page tomorrow.

ADAMS, John Quincy AN EULOGY: ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF JAMES MONROE, 
FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ... ON THE 25TH OF AUGUST, 1831
J. H. Eastburn Boston 1831 First Edition Contemporary half burgundy 
morocco with marbled boards with the original front wrapper bound in; 
[ii], 100 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front wrapper in ink: "B. 
W. Crowninshield Esq/From his friend/J. Q. Adams." Books inscribed by 
Adams are quite uncommon. Typically when found one sees Adams's Oration 
on Lafayette signed on a separate presentation slip pasted into the 
book. The first child of a president to become a president, the first 
president to be a published poet, and the first president to be 
photographed, Adams was certainly our most intelligent president and one 
ofthe greatest humanitarians to hold that office. He is perhaps best 
known for two accomplishments outside his term: the authorship as 
Secretary of State of the Monroe Doctrine and his heroic, successful 
argument before the Supreme Court to free the Amistad slaves. Benjamin 
Williams Crowninshield served as the fifth Secretary of the Navy between 
1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison 
and James Monroe. The destroyer USS Crowninshield (DD-134) was named in 
his honor. Not only did Crowninshield serve with Adams in Monroe's 
cabinet (until 1947, the Secretary of the Navy was a Cabinet-level 
position), he also represented Massachusetts in Congress until 1831, the 
year Adams returned to Congress and the year Monroe died and this was 
published. A superb and scarce Association Copy. Light to moderate 
foxing. Near Fine and scarce, especially with such a fine association. 
   $12,500.00
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