YALE COLLEGE - Autograph album ("Class Book") of a Colombian - Lot 91

YALE COLLEGE - Autograph album ("Class Book") of a Colombian student at Yale in 1853-55, bound in full olive percaline, spine ribbed, decorated and gilt, boards with gilt fillet frame, first board stamped in gold "Autographs", inside boards with gilt roulette frame, gilt edges, 220 p (12.5 x 19.5 cm) : this is the album of Rafael ESPINOSA Y ESCALLON (Bogota 1829-1917) a student at Yale in 1854-56, who made a career as an architect and engineer - Of the 220 p, 37 p bear dedications - In the frontispiece, engraving "Yale College Library" - Engraved portraits of Yale leaders and professors have been inserted: Reverend Jeremiah Day (President of Yale College, 1773-1867, portrait by Samuel Morse), James Luce Kingsley (Professor of Latin and Literature, 1776-1852, portrait by Nathaniel Jocelyn), Benjamin Silliman (Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, 1779-1864, portrait by H. Williard), Denison Olmsted (Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 1791-1859, portrait by Nathaniel Jocelyn) - Numerous dedications are from Rafael's Yale classmates (it's easy to trace each one's background in Yale yearbooks), including: W. A. Norton, New Haven 1853; Lizzie E. Norton, New Haven, 1853; Henri Stewart, New Haven, 1853; Theodore Bacon, New Haven, 1853 (1834-1900); John Addison Porter, New Haven 1853 (Professor of Chemistry, 1822-1866); Edward A. Walker, New Haven, 1853; Virgil M. Dow, New Haven, 1853 (1833-1932, physician); Albert Bomman Rogers, New Haven 1854 (American civil engineer, 1829-1889, discoverer of Rogers Pass in British Columbia, which enabled construction of the first Canadian trancontinental railroad); Stephen Lyford Crosby, 1854 (civil engineer, 1833-1875) ; John Antoine Duvillard, Yale, 1854 (of Swiss origin, his father immigrated to America following Joseph Bonaparte, Antoine enlisted in the Army of the Potomac during the War of Succession, and died at Fort Hamilton at the age of 31); Stephen G. Hubbard, New Haven, 1854 (Professor of Obstetrics); M.V.B. Fowler, New Haven, 1854 (insurance career); James H. Andrews, 1854; Henry R. Bradley, Yale Law school, 1854; Amalia Herran, NewYork 1855 (daughter of Colombian President Pedro Alcantara Herran); A.J. Iriniani; Anibal de Mosquera, New York 1855 and J. de Mosquera; J. Campbell, Paris, 1855; Virginia C. Keese, New Yrok; F.A. Silva, Paris, 1855 (poem "La ausencia es la muerte"); Onofre Vengoechea, Paris, 1855 (1836-1905, Colombian businessman); W.H. Starbuck, New York, 1855; M. Starbuck, New York, 1855; Mary E. Woodruff, New Haven, 1855; Lewis Ledyard Weld, Yale College, 1855 (1833-1865, Governor of Colorado, later a member of James's Army in the American Civil War, in which he was killed); John S. Thrasher, Cartagena (Colombia), 1856 (1817-1879, journalist and translator of Humboldt), etc. (poem "La ausencia es muerte").