[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED by the inventor of the telegraph to his new young bride, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $2500 NET

[MORSE, Samuel F. B.] TUPPER, Martin Farquhar. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY: A 
BOOK OF THOUGHTS AND ARGUMENTS Signed by Samuel Morse to his cousin a 
week before he married her. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1847. First 
Edition. Two parts bound in one small octavo volume (5" x 7-3/8") in 
full black morocco leather; all edges gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the 
front flyleaf: "Miss Sarah Elizabeth Griswold/from her affectionate 
Cousin/Sam. F. B. Morse/August 1st 1848." Morse married his first wife, 
Lucretia Walker, on 29 September 1819 in New Hampshire; she died in 1825 
after the birth of their third child. Morse married his second cousin, 
the deaf Sarah Elizabeth Griswold, twenty-six years his junior, on 10 
August 1848, or just nine days after inscribing this book. In addition 
to being an accomplished artist, Morse conceived of the telegraph in 
1832 and developed a working model by 1837, though interest was not 
great in it. In May 1844, Morse sent his famous "What hath God wrought?" 
message from Washington to Baltimore. In addition Morse published the 
first American description of the daguerreotype in 1839 and became one 
of the first Americans to make daguerreotypes in the United States. 
Light, scattered foxing; extremities rubbed. Very Good or better. 
(#014370)        $3,500.00

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