Forty Years of Oratory Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Lectures, Addresses and Speeches in Two Volumes

  • Hardcover
  • Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898
By Voorhees, Daniel Woolsey; Compiled and Edited by His Three Sons and Daughter Harriet Cecilia Voorhees
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations, both volumes are Near Fine, cloth lightly rubbed, front hinge on volume II cracked. Daniel Woolsey Voorhees was a United States Senator from Indiana, a leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the Civil War. A close friend of Abraham Lincoln, due to his stature he gained the nickname "the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash". A quite SCARCE and handsome 2 volume set..

Details

Title

Forty Years of Oratory Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Lectures, Addresses and Speeches in Two Volumes

Author

Voorhees, Daniel Woolsey; Compiled and Edited by His Three Sons and Daughter Harriet Cecilia Voorhees

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Near Fine

Publisher

The Bowen-Merrill Co.: Indianapolis, IN

Date

1898

Edition

First Edition

Size

8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f


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