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Title: Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams
Author: L.L.D. Josiah Quincy
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and Company, Boston
Published: 1858
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 429
Catalogs: Presidents, American History, Biography
: Ex-library. Original blind-embossed, pebbled brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Frontispiece is an engraving of John Quincy Adams by H. Wright Smith from a painting by A. B. Durand. Smith College Library bookplate, stamps, penciled catalog information, catalog number on spine, card pocket, checkout slip, and barcode on rear pastedown. Contents include chapters on Adams’s early life, his education in law, his residence in Boston, his election to the state senate, his travels and life in Europe, his appointment as Secretary of State for Monroe’s administration and subsequent wars and diplomatic efforts of that administration, his election to the presidency, Adams in retirement, speeches and reports. Hardcover, good condition. 429 pages, octavo.
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