"THE AMERICAN CONTINENTS…ARE HENCEFORTH NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AS SUBJECTS FOR FUTURE COLONIZATION BY ANY EUROPEAN POWERS" SPLENDIDLY BOUND SET OF THE WRITINGS OF JAMES MONROE

MONROE, James. The Writings of James Monroe. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898-1903. Seven volumes. Later full blue morocco gilt, raised bands, watered silk endpapers and morocco doublures, top edges gilt, uncut and partly unopened. $6000.

First edition, number 406 of 750 printed, of the writings of James Monroe, including for the first time his private papers and correspondence as well as his public writings.

The fifth American president, Monroe is considered the last of the Founding Fathers to occupy that role. For John Quincy Adams, Monroe's presidency was "hereafter to be looked back to as the golden age of this republic." Volume VI contains Monroe's first public declaration of the "Monroe Doctrine" in his address to Congress in 1823, as well as a study of its genesis and contemporary correspondence regarding this doctrine.

A beautifully bound copy in fine condition.