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Sale 2687 - Lot 175

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(MASSACHUSETTS.) Harvard University. Illustrissimo ac Sublimi Virtute, Optimaque Eruditione . . . in Collegio-Harvardino Defendere. Broadside, 21½ x 17 inches; repaired separations at folds, other moderate wear. [Boston: Richard and Samuel Draper], 1766
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Graduation broadside for the Class of 1766, with description of theses. This was the year of Harvard's "Butter Rebellion," the first documented organized student protest in American history. In the early era of revolutionary ferment over the Stamp Act, Massachusetts' widely despised royal governor and lieutenant governor Francis Bernard and Thomas Hutchinson are named as presiding over the ceremonies. Evans 10329; Ford Broadsides 1375.

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