![[Item #44516] An Oration on the Progressive State of the Present Age. Delivered at New Haven, Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, September 11, 1827 [Cover title: Professor Olmsted's Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa] [Inscribed]. PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Denison OLMSTED, ASTRONOMY.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/44516.jpg?auto=webp&v=1559340801)
An Oration on the Progressive State of the Present Age. Delivered at New Haven, Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, September 11, 1827 [Cover title: Professor Olmsted's Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa] [Inscribed]
New Haven: Hezekiah Howe, 1827. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's peach wrappers printed within double rule; 24pp. Previously removed from larger volume, coin-sized loss at bottom spine edge of upper cover not approaching text, upper wrapper fore-edge rather chipped, some soil and foxing, later ink shelf number to upper cover and title page, else Good to Very Good overall. Inscribed at head of front cover: "Revd. Mr. Duttow, with the respect of the author."
Address by the American physicist who would pioneer the study of meteor science in 1833 following the Leonid Meteor Shower over North America, becoming the first American to observe Halley's Comet in 1835. SHOEMAKER 30115 (misspelling author name "Olmstead").
Price: $150.00
