American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with ExamplesAllen, Charles Dexter
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American Book-Plates: A Guide to Their Study with Examples
Allen, Charles Dexter
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Armorial. Chippendale. Motto, _Non vi sed
voluntate_. A Loyalist clergyman in Virginia, whose
estates were confiscated, after which he returned
to England whence he had come in 1754.
Published a tract on the causes and consequences
of the Revolution, and compiled a glossary of
Provincial and Archæological Words, which was
purchased of his family in 1831, for the proprietors
of Webster’s Dictionary.
96. BOUDINOT. _Boudinot._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Soli Deo
gloria et honor_. Elias Boudinot, born in 1740,
in Philadelphia, of Huguenot extraction. Sided
strongly with the colonies in the Revolution, and
was President of Congress in 1782. A signer of the
Treaty of Peace. Died, 1821. This plate is not
signed, but it is the work of Maverick. Illustrated
in “Curio,” page 111.
97. BOWDOIN. _Honble. James Bowdoin. Esqr._
Plain armorial. Motto, _Ut aquila versus coelum_.
The same plate as the Bowdoin College, whose
benefactor he was.
98. BOWDOIN. _Bowdoin College._
Plain armorial. The arms of the Hon. James
Bowdoin are given with his motto, _Ut aquila versus
coelum_. The sun in splendor shines above the
crest, and the name of the college is engraved over
it. This college was chartered in 1794, and then
presented with eleven hundred pounds and one
thousand acres of land, by Hon. James Bowdoin,
son of the governor of the colony. By his will a
further gift was made to the college.
99. BOYLSTON. _Boylston Medical Library._
Plain armorial. The arms of the Boylston family
are given without ornamentation or motto. Signed,
_Annin & Smith_. Ward Nicholas Boylston, a patron
of medical science, gave to the medical school of
Harvard College a valuable collection of anatomical
and medical books and engravings, in the year 1800.
100. BOYLSTON. _Property of the Boylston Medical Library
Cambridge._
Armorial. The arms of the Boylston family are
given. Signed, _Callender Sc._
101. BOZMAN. _John Leeds Bozman. Esqr of the Middle
Temple._
Armorial. Ribbon and Wreath. Motto, _Sine
virtute vani sunt honores_. Lawyer, poet, and
historian; born in Maryland in 1757, died in 1823.
University of Penn., 1783. Completed his studies
in London. His chief work is the “History of
Maryland to the Restoration in 1660.” An “Historical
and Philosophical Sketch of the Prime Causes
of the Revolutionary War” was suppressed; in this
Washington was praised and Franklin depreciated.
This same copper has been used more recently
with the following words added: on either side of
the crest, “John Leeds Kerr of Talbot Co. Md.
15th Jan. 1780, 21st Feb. 1844;” at the bottom,
under the name of Bozman, “The Maryland Historian,
25th Aug. 1757, 20th April, 1823.”
102. BRASHER. _Philip Brasher._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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