[Item #46724] Don Quixots at College; or, a History of the Gallant Adventures Lately Achieved by the Combined Students of Harvard University; Interspersed with Some Facetious Reasonings. "A SENIOR", pseud. Joseph Tufts.

Don Quixots at College; or, a History of the Gallant Adventures Lately Achieved by the Combined Students of Harvard University; Interspersed with Some Facetious Reasonings

Boston: Etheridge and Bliss, 1807. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); removed; 20pp. Extremities a bit worn and dust-soiled, leaves held together by a couple threads, light foxing, else Good or better overall.

Satirical account of the Rotten Cabbage Rebellion at Harvard in 1807, an uprising/food fight galvanized by the presence of maggots in the cabbage and splinters in the sugar bowl. Among the expulsions were Dr. Walter Channing and Richard Henry Dana. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 13752.

Price: $75.00

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