[Rarebooks] FS: YALE Autograph Album Class of 1851

[Charles Agvent]

 From our Fall Catalog of 60 New Arrivals now posted on our website: 
http://www.charlesagvent.com. It contains a fine miscellany, most of 
this caliber, in a variety of fields including Literature, Presidential, 
Hand-colored Plates, Autograph Letters, Early Printing, Americana, etc.

[SILLIMAN, Benjamin; WOOLSEY, Theodore; et. al.]. [YALE CLASS OF 1851 
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM]. First Edition. Octavo (5-3/4" x 8") bound in full 
contemporary black morocco stamped in blind and gilt with "Autographs. 
Class of 1851." in gilt on the front cover and the student's name "E. 
Hungerford" stamped in gilt on the rear.  Several current faculty are 
depicted with engraved portraits as well as several deceased Yale 
faculty and a few engraved views of the campus. The book is SIGNED, 
often with added sentiments, by over 100 faculty and students including 
Yale President Theodore Woolsey, Jeremiah Day, Benjamin Silliman, 
Eleazor Fitch, Jonathan Knight, Nathaniel Taylor, James Kingsley, 
Denison Olmsted, Thomas Thacher, Noah Porter, Theodore Munger, Roger 
Welles, and a host of others. Tipped-in at the rear is a four-page 
pamphlet: SONGS AND CHORUSES FOR PRESENTATION DAY, JUNE 18, 1851, which 
has the bottom quarter cut off and lacking. Recently and neatly rebacked 
retaining the original spine. Very light, scattered foxing. Near Fine. 
$1,250.00	

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