[Rarebooks] FS: Gallaudet College INAUGURATION

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[Gallaudet College]. [Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the 
Deaf and Dumb and the Blind]. INAUGURATION OF THE COLLEGE FOR THE 
DEAF & DUMB, AT WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, JUNE 28TH, 1864. 
Washington, D.C.: Gideon & Pearson, printers, 1864. 64 pp. 8vo. Paper 
wrappers. First edition.

Speeches by Amos Kendall, whose remarks on the origins of language in 
his speech are still often quoted, Edward M. Gallaudet, President and 
son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, James W. Patterson, John Carlin, 
Daniel R. Goodwin, and Thomas Gallaudet. Gallaudet College, 
originally named Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf 
and Dumb and the Blind, was authorized by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to 
grant college degrees. Known as the National College for the Deaf and 
Dumb, it was renamed Gallaudet College in 1893 after Thomas Gallaudet.

Quite scarce. OCLC shows only five copies besides those at Gallaudet 
and Columbia: NYPL, NY Acad. Med, Nat. Lib. Med., Amherst, and RIT. A 
very good copy wrappers lightly soiled, a few minor chips at the 
extremities, closed tear to last leaf and rear wrapper.	[33911] 
$300.00


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