279
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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.)
Invitation to dine with the President and
First Lady.
Partly printed invitation, accomplished in a secretarial hand, inviting “Mrs. &
Miss Greene’s & Mrs. Nightingale” to dinner. One page, 2
1
/
2
x 4
1
/
4
inches to sight; moderate
soiling, corners trimmed; addresses written on verso. Not examined outside of decorative
double-sided frame.
[Philadelphia], 25 January 1796
[1,500/2,500]
Washington’s guests were likely Elizabeth (Corliss) Nightingale (1750-1837) and her daughter
Mary Rhodes (Nightingale) Greene (1772-1835), from a prominent Rhode Island family.
Mary’s father-in-law William Greene had served as the war governor of Rhode Island.
280
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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Lee, Henry (“Light-Horse Harry”).
A Funeral
Oration in Honour of the Memory of George Washington.
8vo, disbound; moder-
ate foxing, inked additional page numbers.
Brooklyn, NY, 1800
[300/400]
First Brooklyn edition, after the Philadelphia edition of the same year. This was the oration
which dubbed Washington “First in war—first in peace—and first in the hearts of his country-
men.” Evans 37799.
281
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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Marshall, John.
The Life of George
Washington.
11 (of 12) folding maps, 3 plates, engraved tailpiece at end of Volume III. 5
volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, front boards of Volume IV and V detached; moderate
foxing, a few tears to maps, lacking map of Boston.
London, 1804-07
[600/900]
First octavo edition. Howes M317; Sabin 44788.
279
282
282
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(WASHINGTON, GEORGE—
PRINTS.) A. Hoen & Co., engravers; after
Stuart.
Silk portrait of Washington.
Engraving on silk, 13 x 11
1
/
2
inches; damp-
staining in lower margin, minor wear.
Baltimore, circa 1860-1900
[300/400]
Hoen used Stuart’s classic 1796 Athenaeum por-
trait, but gave Washington a military coat. This
engraving does not appear in WorldCat or Hart’s
catalogue of Washington portraits, and no other
copies are known at auction.
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