[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Elias Boudinot THE AGE OF REVELATION, 1801

[Charles Agvent]

BOUDINOT, Elias. THE AGE OF REVELATION. OR THE AGE OF REASON SHEWN TO BE 
AN AGE OF INFIDELITY. Philadelphia: Asbury Dickins, 1801. First Edition. 
Contemporary sheep leather (5-1/8" x 8-1/2"); [ii], 232, [2] pages. 
Complete with half-title and errata. INSCRIBED by the author on the 
front endpaper: "Presented to the Library of Harvard College by the 
Author." An answer to Thomas Paine by a distinguished New Jersey 
statesman who at the time was the second director of the U.S. Mint 
(1795-1805). 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 
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. This is one 
of his two best known books, the other being 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. A note in a 1924 description for the 
sale of this title by Anderson Galleries states: "Very rare. Not in 
Sabin and apparently no record of sale at Auction." Remnants of 
Boudinot's bookplate on the front pastedown with small paper label above 
it. Text quite clean, early 20th century ink inscription below 
Boudinot's inscription; rubbing to spine and joints, "Harvard College" 
in gilt at base of spine, covers tight. Very Good. (#021508)        $1,000

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