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WASHIGNTON, George. A collection of five eulogies, various places, 1800.

[Includes:] NILES, Samuel. The Vanity of Man Considered in a Sermon delivered February 22d, 1800, Commemorating the Death of George Washington, late President of the United States. Boston, John & Thomas Fleet, 1800. Evans 38117; Sabin 55335. Octavo (180 x 117mm). (Closely trimmed). Stitched blue paper wraps (frayed at margins, loss to rear wrap). * [BANNERMAN, Anne]. Epistle from the Marquis de La Fayette, to General Washington. Edinburgh: Mundell & Son, 1800. Sabin 101802. Octavo (202 x 125mm). With inked marginalia on p. 27, formerly bound in a larger volume (some pages separated at spine, front wrap chipped). – WILLARD, Joseph, An Address in Latin by Joseph Willard … and a Discourse in English, by David Tappan … Delivered before the University in Cambridge, Feb. 21, 1800. In Solemn Commemoration of General George Washington. [Charlestown:] Samuel Etheridge, 1800. Sabin 104054. Quarto (214 x 125mm). (Light scattered foxing, minor loss at bottom left of title). Formerly bound (portion of blue wrap still affixed to backstrip). * ALDEN Jr., Timothy. A Sermon, Delivered at the South Church in Portsmouth, on the V January, MDCCC. Occasioned by the sudden and universally lamented Death of George Washington, Commander of the American Armies, and late President of the United States. Portsmouth: Pritned at the United States Oracle Office, 1800. Evans 36791; Sabin 708. Quarto (200 x 128mm). (mild offsetting). With half-title (formerly bound). Provenance: Inscribed by the author to Rev. Mr. Gilbert Hallowell. * Public Expressions of Grief, for the Death of General George Washington at Dorchester. [Charleston: Samuel Ethridge, 1800]. First six pages only. (Disbound).
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