[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $950 NET

[BOUDINOT, Elias]. THE SECOND ADVENT, OR COMING OF THE MESSIAH IN GLORY, 
SHOWN TO BE A SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE, AND TAUGHT BY DIVINE REVELATION... 
Trenton, N.J.: D. Fenton & S. Hutchinson, 1815. First Edition. Bound in 
modern brown morocco leather stamped in gilt. SIGNED by the author on 
the title page. Elias Boudinot, an American revolutionary statesman 
serving as commissary-general of prisoners and colonel in the 
continental army (he was with George Washington at Valley Forge), as 
well as president (1782-1783) and secretary for foreign affairs of the 
Continental Congress, signed the treaties of peace with Great Britain 
and of alliance with the French king. He also helped ratify the United 
States Constitution in New Jersey and conducted Washington into New York 
for the first inauguration. He was a member of the House of 
Representatives, second director of the U.S. Mint (1795-1805), and the 
first counsellor named by the United States Supreme Court. Boudinot was 
also a trustee and benefactor of Princeton University and a founder and 
first president of the American Bible Society. Perhaps his two best 
known books are THE AGE OF REVELATION (1790), a reply to Thomas Paine, 
and A STAR IN THE WEST, OR A HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER THE LONG LOST 
TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL(1816), an attempt to prove that the American 
Indians may be the lost tribes. Books signed by him are quite scarce. 
Pages evenly browned. Small institutional blindstamp to title page and 
one text page. Tear to one page without loss of text. Near Fine. 
(#013975)        $1,500.00

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