(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1936).

FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKETS AND SLIPCASE. The best history of the founding of Harvard University, the first college in America and the beginnings of a tradition unrivaled for centuries. Samuel Eliot Morison was a member of the class of 1908 and is revered as one of the great historians of the twentieth century, the author of many, many books including the award winning work on Christopher Columbus, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" and the vast historical study issued in many volumes on the American Navy and its engagements during the Second World War. This is an important work on what is still considered to be a truly defining moment in American history. Item #28900

2 volumes. First edition Profusely illustrated with plates and maps, as well as arms and seals. Cartographic endpapers. 8vo, publisher s original crimson cloth, gilt lettered on the spines, t.e.g., in the very elusive printed dustjackets and slipcase. xi, 360; xv, 361-707 pp. A very fine, clean set, as pristine and near as mint with only the lightest evidence of age. Very unusual with the original slipcase and dustjackets preserved. The slipcase with some shelfwear, and the dustjackets with a bit of mellowing to the spine panels.