WASHINGTONIANA. 680. The Eagle of Washington: a Story of the American Revolution. A Poem in three cantos. By Burkitt J. Newman. FIRST EDN. Crown 8vo, original cloth. 682. Portrait. Louisville, 1859 681. Life of Washington, written for Children. By E. Cecil. With several colored illusts. 16mo, cloth. Bost.1859 The Life of Washington. By Edward Everett. FIRST EDN. 12mo, original cloth. N. Y. 1860 683. The Life of George Washington. With curious Anecdotes. By M. L. Weems. Woodcut portrait and woodcuts of historical incidents. Crown 8vo, original cloth (little soiled). Phil. 1860 684. A Description of the Medals of Washington of National and Miscellaneous Medals, and of other Objects of Interest in the Museum of the Mint, etc. By James Ross Snowden. With a large number of beautiful facsimiles, also facsimiles of handwriting. FIRST EDN. Royal 8vo, original cloth. Phil. 1861 685. Facsimiles of the Memorial Stones of the Last English Ancestors of George Washington in the Parish Church of Brington, Northamptonshire, permanently placed in the State House of Mass. Royal 8vo, paper, pp 15. Bost. William White, 1862 686. Laid in is a wrapper addressed in the autograph of C. [harles] Sumner, and with his autograph. The bulk of the letter-press in the work is a lengthy letter about the stones from Sumner to Jared Sparks. The Life of Washington, and the History of the American Revolution. Portraits, woodcuts and illusts. 24mo, original wrappers. 687. parchment. Phil. 1865 Crown 8vo, half Torino, 1866 First edition of a Poem, in three stanzas, by Luca Savarese. Bound with two Italian Plays. 688. Washington and the Masonic Compeers. By Sidney Hayden. Portrait, facsimile of bookplate, etc. Post 8vo, cloth (some margins soiled). N. Y. 1867 Ed 689. An Illustrated History of Washington and his Times. Seven Years' War, Revolutionary War, etc. ited by Rev. Wm. Hutchinson. 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Portrait and engraved title. 694. 695. cloth. 696. 12mo, Phil. Am. Sunday-School Union, n. d. Dedication of the Washington National Monument, with the Orations by Hon. R. C. Winthrop and Hon. J. W. Daniel, Feb'y 21, 1885. Portrait. Imp. 8vo, cloth. With an Original Letter from J. G. Whittier. Wash. 1885 697. WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON. Lives of; with a Parallel. By Stephen Simpson. 2 portraits. 12mo, cloth (faded and damp-faded). Phil. 1833 698. WEBSTER (DANIEL). A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 8vo, unbound, pp. 62. Bost. 1826 699. 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