For Sale:
Hamlin, Cyrus. MY LIFE AND TIMES. Fifth Edition. Boston, Pilgrim Press,
(1893). Illustrated with a tissue-protected frontis and other photographs.
Brown cloth, decorated and printed in black and gilt on cover and spine.
(vi), 538 pp. Moderate wear. The front hinge is cracked at the title page,
resulting in a slightly shaken cover. Mild foxing here and there. Very
good. $175.00 U.S.
The author was an American educator and missionary, born in Maine in 1811.
He spent many years in Turkey, and led the establishment of Robert College,
which he headed from 1863 to 1877, in Constantinople. He returned to Maine
as professor of dogmatic theology at Bangor Theological Seminary, then went
to be president of Middlebury College in Vermont from 1881 to 1887. He died
in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1900. He also published AMONG THE TURKS, in
1878.
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