[Rarebooks] FS: Fine SIGNED Quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Charles Agvent]

One of many 19th century literary first editions, signed books, letters, 
manuscripts, and photographs in stock:

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED. Boston, 7 March 
1878. On a small piece of paper (6-7/8" x 3-1/8") the author has written 
the following four lines from one of his poems: "From my north window in 
the wintry weather,/My airy oriel on the river shore,--/I watch the sea 
fowl as they flock together/Where late the boatman flashed his dipping 
oar." Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Boston March 7th 
1878." Slight vertical crease at center. A Fine example from this noted 
author and doctor.

Physician and writer, Holmes earned fame early on when in 1830 at the 
age of 21 his poem "Old Ironsides" galvanized national sentiment to save 
the USS Constitution from destruction. In the 1850s, THE ATLANTIC 
MONTHLY, which Holmes had founded with James Russell Lowell, began to 
publish his essays and poems which were later collected in his popular 
book THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE (1858). Among his medical 
accomplishments were several important publications, the invention of an 
early stethoscope, and promoting the term "anesthesia" for the state 
induced by the new gases. (#015371)        $600.00

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