[Rarebooks] FS: John Quincy Adams on Lafayette, Inscribed

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ADAMS, John Quincy. ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF GILBERT MOTIER 
DE LAFAYETTE... Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. First Edition. 
Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco nicely and professionally 
rebacked. Original blue wrappers bound in. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the 
front blue wrapper: "The Lawrenceville Lyceum/from/John Quincy Adams." 
Books inscribed by Adams are quite uncommon. This title is most often 
found signed on a presentation slip pasted in rather than in the actual 
book as it is here. 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 one of our most 
intelligent presidents and one of the greatest humanitarians to hold 
that office. He is perhaps best known for two accomplishments outside 
his term: the authorship of the Monroe Doctrine as secretary of state 
and his heroic, successful argument before the Supreme Court to free the 
Amistad slaves. On the first blank is an ink Lyceum Library notation 
dated 1836, and there is a faint "withdrawn" stamp on the front endpaper 
well below Adams's writing. Also below it are a number of pencil names. 
At the rear are two pencil notations regarding Adams's presention of the 
book to the Lyceum on 19 March 1836. Near Fine and scarce. 		$12,500.00

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