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Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-94). Autograph verses from "The Chambered Nautilus," signed. 1 sheet. Boston, 9 December 1875. Lightly creased vertically. Framed with: Holmes. Engraved portrait by J. A. J. Wilcox (1835-1913), signed by Holmes in the plate. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1870]. And: Holmes. An example of his "Chambered Nautilus" bookplate. N.p., n.d. [after 1858]. Together 3 items, framed; frame measures 335 x 366 mm. Fine. A fine example of Holmes s autograph, giving the final seven verses of his famous 1858 poem, "The Chambered Nautilus": Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at last art free Leaving thine outgrown shell by life s unresting sea! Holmes was the first to definitely establish the contagious nature of puerperal fever in his celebrated paper of the same name (1842); see Garrison-Morton.com 6274, Printing and the Mind of Man 316a and the Grolier Club s 100 Books Famous in Medicine, no. 72b. . Seller Inventory # 51504
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Title: The chambered nautilus. Autograph manuscript...
Publisher: Boston
Publication Date: 1875
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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