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Sale 2708 - Lot 196

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(GEORGE WASHINGTON.) Group of Washington eulogies, including the famed "First in War, First in Peace" by Henry Lee. 5 volumes, all 8vo, disbound. Various places, 1800
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Henry Lee ("Light-Horse Harry"). "A Funeral Oration in Honour of the Memory of George Washington." Stated second edition; moderate foxing, inked additional page numbers. Brooklyn, NY: Thomas Kirk, 1800. The famous oration in which Lee declared that Washington was "first in war--first in peace--and first in the hearts of his countrymen" (bottom of page 14).

Josiah Dunham. "A Funeral Oration on George Washington, Late General of the Armies." 20 pages including half-title. Boston, [1800].

John B. Johnson. "Eulogy on General George Washington." [2], 22 pages including half-title; moderate foxing. Albany, 1800.

Jonathan Mitchel Sewall. "Eulogy on the late George Washington." [3]-28 pages, lacking half-title; inked library stamp on title page. Portsmouth, NH, [1800].

"An Oration, in Memory of the Virtues of Gen. George Washington . . . Before a Literary Society . . . by a Member." 23 pages; moderate foxing. New York, 1800.

Evans 37799, 37334, 37709, 38489, 38162.

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