[Rarebooks] F/s Quincy's Boston Athenaeum

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration net to all and postpaid @$125.00 a near fine copy of this work with a nice provenance.

Josiah Quincy. The History of the Boston Athenaeum, With Biographical Notices Of Its Deceased Founders. Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, Printers To The University, 1851.
Octavo; pp; xii, 263, (1), 104; blue pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards with blind rules, yellow coated endpapers; Sabin #67215. A near fine copy, both the cloth and title lettering are bright, book block square and tight. Crown of spine lightly abraded at top sixteenth inch, otherwise an exceptional copy. History of the founding and biographical notices of the founders: John Sylvester. John Gardiner. William Emerson. Arthur Maynard Walter. William Smith Shaw. Peter Oxenbridge Thacher. Joseph Stevens Buckminster. William Tudor. John Thornton Kirkland. Memoir of John Bromfield. Armorial bookplate of Boston notable and philanthropist John Amory Lowell on the front paste-down. Lowell is also listed in the list of "Proprietors of the Athenaeum". Hon. John Amory Lowell (Nov 11,1798–Oct 31, 1881) was an American businessman and philanthropist from Boston. He became the sole trustee of the  Lowell Institute when his first cousin, John Lowell Jr. (1799–1836), the Institute's endower, died. (Lowell 1899, pp 117–118) In 1835 and 1838, John Amory became the first Treasurer for both, Merrimack Manufacturing Company and Boott Cotton Mill, textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts. And in 1857, he became Director of The Winnipiseogee Lake Cotton and Woolen Manufacturing Company. All positions his son, Augustus, would succeed to within the same companies. Lowell was a Fellow of Harvard College (1837–1877), a Fellow of the American Academy Of Arts And Sciences, and a member of the Linnean Society of London. Later, in 1851, Harvard would honor John Amory with an LLD.


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