HISTORY OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT

HISTORY OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT

(Portland, ME.: Brown Thurston, Printer, 1853).

BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, RARE THUS. Professor Packard enjoyed an over 40 year career Bowdoin College where he served as both educator and librarian and for a time Acting President. He was also a key figure in the Maine Historical Society from its founding in 1822 until his death in 1884.
Here, Packard gives us a concise history of the Monument at Bunker Hill. The Bunker Hill Memorial was one of the most imposing memorials of its age, especially so in America. It's design and the history of its construction and funding were highly influential on those same issues during planning for The Washington Monument in the nation's capital. Construction there had started only just at the time of this publication. Item #30459

First edition, printed for the Maine Historical Society. 8vo, sewn pamphlet style in its original pale blue paper wrapper, the upper cover printed in black, still retaining the stitched in advertising slip for the Maine Historical Society's upcoming volume. 33 pp. An especially well preserved example of this fragile little volume, the text very clean and fresh, the stitching intact and the wrappers whole and only very lightly age mellowed, an extremely rare find in this condition.

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