[Rarebooks] FS: Martin Van Buren's SIGNED copy of Carlyle's OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 fine items from our new Spring Catalog recently posted on our 
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

[VAN BUREN, Martin] CARLYLE, Thomas. OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND
SPEECHES:  WITH  ELUCIDATIONS. Martin Van Buren's Copy Signed by  Him.
New  York: Wiley and Putnam 1845. Two duodecimo (12mo) volumes (5-1/4"
x  7-1/2")  in  original  red cloth recently  rebacked  retaining  the
original  spines.  Published as part of Wiley and Putnam's Library  of
Choice  Reading.  The first volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by  Martin
Van  Buren  on  the verso of the front blank:  "M.  Van  Buren/to/Miss
Alida  Van  Buren/June  25th, 1852." Serving as the  eighth  president
from  1837 to 1841, he was the first true politician, as opposed  to a
founding  father  or war hero, to serve in that office as well as  the
first  born under the United States flag. Other than Jefferson, he  is
the  only person to serve as president, vice-president, and  secretary
of  state.  Born of Dutch parents, he is, W notwithstanding, the  only
president  to  speak  English  as a second language, and  due  to  his
wife's  early  death, he and his four bachelor sons occupied the  only
womanless  White  House.  Alida Van Buren was a niece  of  Martin  Van
Buren's.  Carol E. Kohan notes in her book HISTORIC FURNISHINGS REPORT
FOR  "LINDENWALD" (the name of Van Buren's estate in Kinderhook)  that
Alida  visited  with her father Nicholas in 1852 and was  given  these
two  books by the former president. There are light pencil  outlinings
on  five  or so pages, possibly in Van Buren's hand. Accompanying  the
books  is  a cabinet card photograph of Alida in old age with  an  ink
notation  on  the rear that it was taken in Weedsport, NY, about  1900
when  she visited Sara Van Buren. Books signed by the eighth president
are  quite  scarce.  Scattered foxing including to signed  page.  Very
Good                                                          $5000.00

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