Exercises of commencement
Providence: Jones & Wheeler, printer, September 7th, 1808. Broadside, approx. 17¼" x 10½", text within a medley of type ornamental border; the lower half rather stained, previous folds with neat, professional repair on verso. Program of day's events with names of participants and titles of orations, poems and disputes: Salutary Addresses in Latin, by Bradford Summer, Oration on the Patronage of American Literature by Jeremiah Mayhew, An Essay on Mathematics, by Abiel Bolles, An Oration on Bigoted Cruelty, the Product of Monkish Ignorance, lots of music, the conferring of degrees, and An Oration on Science, with the Valedictory Addresses, by John B. Wight. Not in American Imprints; AAS and Brown only in OCLC. Item #56607
Price: $150.00
