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President Grover Cleveland Promotes Art Collecting in His Last Days in Office

President Grover Cleveland Promotes Art Collecting in His Last Days in Office by Grover Cleveland

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Seller: The Raab Collection
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President Grover Cleveland Promotes Art Collecting in His Last Days in Office
Author
Grover Cleveland
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The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
20/02/1897. In late February 1897 Cleveland was preparing to leave the presidency for the final time, and on February 20 had but 12 days of his two terms left to serve.Edward Bacon was a Buffalo, New York, attorney who formed a friendship with Grover Cleveland before either rose to fame and fortune. Cleveland became governor of New York and then President of the United States, while Bacon went on to become a railroad tycoon who partnered in American business deals with J. Pierpont Morgan. Bacon was also a noted collector of European art, and lived with his brother and sister-in-law Virginia Bacon, one of the first important women art dealers in America. The website devoted to “Prominent American Art Collectors” states of Bacon: “He traveled often to Europe, which is where he purchased many of the works that made up his extensive art collection.” His collection included works by notable artists like Rubens, Tintoretto, Canaletto, Joshua Reynolds, Franz Hals, and Jan Steen.Autograph letter signed, as President, on Executive Mansion letterhead, two pages, February 20, 1897, addressed “to the Diplomatic and Consular Representatives of the United States”, asking them to assist Bacon wherever he may be. This would surely have been for one of Bacon’s art purchasing trips to Europe, as any key connections Bacon could make with local artists or dealers would have been valuable to him. “This will introduce Mr. E.R. Bacon, a prominent business man of New York City, a gentleman of excellent social position and one of my oldest and best friends. Mr. Bacon contemplates an extended trip through foreign lands and I think to commend him…to the good offices and confidence of his countrymen everywhere.” The original Executive Mansion envelop is still present, and on it Cleveland has written “From the President”, and addressed it “To the Diplomatic and Consular Representatives of the United States, introducing Mr. E.R. Bacon of New York”.So one of Cleveland’s last acts in office to to help an old friend, and thereby to encourage American art collecting.
Cosmologia Generalis, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata, qua ad Solidam, Inprimus dei atque Naturae..

Cosmologia Generalis, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata, qua ad Solidam, Inprimus dei atque Naturae.. by Wolf, Christian

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Cosmologia Generalis, Methodo Scientifica Pertractata, qua ad Solidam, Inprimus dei atque Naturae..
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Wolf, Christian
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Francofurti et Lipsiae 1737 Second edition, revised. Contemporary stiff vellum with title in manuscript on spine. . Quarto. Engraved plate of geometrical figures at rear. Title-page in black and red. New endpapers. A little soiling to text, but overall a very good, clean copy. Wolff (1679-1754) was a German rationalist philosopher, who lectured in physics, mathematics, and natural philosophy in Halle during the first two decades of the eighteenth century, but fell out of favor for holding impious views. He was removed from his chair in 1723, and did not return until 1740, at the accession of Frederick the Great. In the years between he taught at Marburg. Wolff's philosophy was a variation of Leibnitz's ideas, retaining the idea that philosophy was the science of the possible, divided into the theoretical and the practical. This viewpoint held until the ideas of Kant displaced them.

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