[Rarebooks] FS: THE JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION, 1839, Inscribed by John Quincy Adams to a fellow Congressman

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ADAMS, John Quincy. THE JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION. A DISCOURSE 
DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, IN THE CITY 
OF NEW YORK, ON TUESDAY, THE 30TH OF APRIL 1839; BEING THE FIFTIETH 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT OF THE 
UNITED STATES, ON THURSDAY, THE 30TH OF APRIL, 1789. New York: Samuel 
Colman, 1839. First Edition. Bound in recent full forest green morocco 
leather without the original wraps and endpapers; 136 pages. Illustrated 
with a frontispiece depicting the Inauguration of Washington at the Old 
City Hall. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page in ink: "Hon. 
Richard Fletcher/from/John Quincy Adams." Books inscribed by Adams are 
scarce. Typically one sees Adams's Oration on Lafayette signed on a 
separate slip pasted into the book. 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 as Secretary of State of the Monroe Doctrine 
and his heroic, successful argument before the Supreme Court to free the 
Amistad slaves. Fine in a handsome binding.

Richard Fletcher was a fellow member of the 25th Congress from 
Massachusetts with Adams. In his diary Adams recounts how Fletcher came 
under fire for criticizing the Ways and Means Committee for being under 
the control of the White House. Fletcher was widely quoted about his 
disdain for the committee, and Adams defended his colleague's views, 
coming under fire himself. Fletcher's outspokenness would eventually 
lead him out of Congress, and he later became a Massachusetts Supreme 
Court Justice. (#016949) $20,000.00

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