SAGES & HEROES of AMERICAN REVOLUTION by L.CARROLL JUDSON/PICS/ RARE 1852, $150+

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SAGES & HEROES of AMERICAN REVOLUTION by L.CARROLL JUDSON/PICS/ RARE 1852, $150+ THE SAGES AND HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IN TWO PARTS. INCLUDING THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE OF THE SAGES AND HEROES ARE PRESENTED IN DUE FORM. AND MANY OTHERS ARE NAMES INCIDENTALLY. BY L. CARROLL JUDSON. REVISED. STEREOTYPE EDITION. Philadelphia: The Author, 1852. Rare.A solid and attractive rare book, with many illustrations. Published more than 160 years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find and it can sell for more than $150.From the Preface: "This volume contain the condensed substance of more expensive works that have been published relative to the en and times of the American Revolution. The character and acts of the most prominent Sages and Heroes of the eventful era are delineated. A sufficient amount of documentary matter is inserted to enable the reader to fully understand the causes, progress and triumphant termination of that sanguinary struggle that resulted in freedom to the new world and prepared an asylum for the oppressed. The French and Indian wars are prominently noticed. More Revolutionary names are rescued from oblivion in this book than in any other extant. I have introduced many practical remarks intended to rouse the reflective powers of the immortal mind and increase a patriotic love for our expanding Republic and glorious institutions. These remarks are designed to be living epistles animated with "thoughts that breathe and words that burn." There many festering wounds on our body politic that need probing to the bottom-cancers that require the best treatment of the boldest operators in moral, religious and political surgery. The text is concise and not dressed in the dogmatical garb of arbitrary punctuation. In preparing the historical part I have consulted numerous documents and the most approved works in our libraries. Once for all I award a general credit. The relation of events is usually in my own plain laconic language. I believe this volume as free from errors as any of its illustrious predecessors. It has long been a cherished desideration in my mind to place this multum in parvo within the reach of every working man in our land. I have exerted my best efforts to make ti interesting and instructive by blending a perspective chart of human nature with the thrilling history of the times that tried the souls of the patriots of '76. IT is my ardent desire that it may prove beneficial to readers and publisher. L. Carroll Judson, of the Philadelphia Bar. Philadelphia, March 4, 1851"Contents include: Quincy Josiah; Read George; Rodney CAesar; Ross George; Rush Benjamin; Rutledge Edward; Sherman Roger; Smith JAmes; Stark John; Stockton Richard; Stone Thomas; Taylor George; Thornton Matthew; Varnum Joseph B; Walton George; Warren Joseph; Washington George; Wayne Anthony; Brown Moses; Brown Robert; Bryan George; Burd Benjamin; Blount Thomas; Adams John; Adams Samuel; Arnold Benedict; Barney Joshua; Hewes Joseph; Paine Thomas; Parsons Samuel H; Paulding John; Peters Nathan; Wyllis Samuel; CChampe John; Lee Arthur; Gibson George; Hayne Isaac --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thick Octavo - sized hardcover book; 480 pages of text with many illustrated plates, with original protective tissue guards & a large fold out facsimile. Fair condition: tearing to fold out facsimile, repaired with tape; lacking rear blank pages; pgs. 455-458 nearly detached or detached and laid in; no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; brown spotting & foxing to paper; uneven brown staining to some pages; gilt decorated page edges; few penciled notes & label on front free endpaper "F A Grafly Jr Doylestown PA". Original hardcover binding, with wear, tearing along lower front spine edge, fraying to spine tips and corners. Protected by a clear plastic brodart sleeve. A solid and attractive copy of this book. Please look through ... read more

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