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Holmes,Oliver Wendell POEMS BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; New and Enlarged Edition
Boston Ticknor & Fields 1856 Hard Cover Very Good Signed by Author
full brown, blind-stamped morocco, gilt spine, 5 raised bands, a.e.g.,marbled endpapers, pp., x, (1), 286; illustrated, port. frontis.,(with tissue guard) a signed presentation copy with 4 line ink inscription on front free endpaper, "Joseph Roby With the love of Oliver Wendell Holmes Dec. 25th 1856." mounted beneath the inscription is a 4 3/4 x 4 inch etching (see scan) of a man with a goat, at the top center of the etching the words "For Mother OWH Jr No 4" appear and it is signed in the lower right corner "Berghem Dec 2 36" also, on the verso of the frontis. there is a penciled inscription.."Dr. James Palmer-In Memorium. Mr? C.R. Trinity Sunday 1860" Joseph Roby, 1807-1860, was a close personal friend of Holmes and had been a fellow-teacher in the Medical School of Dartmouth College, 1841-1849, Roby also held the professorship of anatomy and surgery at Bowdoin College, 1838-42; and of anatomy and physiology at the Univ. of Maryalnd, 1849-59. I believe the Dr. James Palmer of the penciled inscription might be James Croxall Palmer. naval surgeon, (1811-1883) who at the close of a distinguised naval career in 1873 was surgeon-general of the navy. He was an accomplished poet, novelist and war correspondent. The binding is scuffed at edges and corners, some foxing to the prelims, a tight,clean copy
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