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Lot 119
Sale 6465 - Printed and Manuscript Americana
Jan 29, 2026
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$3,000 -
5,000
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$3,840
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[Presidential] Adams, John Quincy. An Oration, Pronounced July 4th, 1793, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence
Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes & Son, 1793. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Adams on half-title: "Rev. Doctor Howard / from his very humble Servant / J.Q. Adams". 21 pp. Disbound. ESTC W28802; Evans 25076; Sabin 296
A fine presentation copy of 25-year-old John Quincy Adams's Fourth of July oration in Boston in 1793. Inscribed to Rev. Dr. Simeon Howard (1733-1804), a Boston Unitarian Congregational minister and close friend of the Adams family.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.