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Lot 44
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
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Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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$200 -
300
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$130
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Lot Description
[Americana] Silliman, Benjamin. An Oration, Delivered at Hartford on the 6th of July, | A. D. 1802. Before the Society of the Cincinnati...
Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1802. 8vo (210 x 133 mm). Original pamphlet with modern archival wrap and typed titles on cover, spotting throughout. Sabin 81039.
The present address was delivered on 6 July 1802 to celebrate the twenty-six anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Benjamin Silliman was one of the first American professors of science, and in 1804 became the first to deliver a science lecture at Yale University. In 1818 he founded the American Journal of Science, which is the longest continuously-running scientific publication in the United States.
Scarce. We trace only one other copy sold at auction in the last one hundred years.
This lot is located in Chicago.