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1960561636Washington: The Library of Congress 1960. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Foreword by L. Quincy Mumford. Introduction by Arthur G. Burton. Quarto. xi 498pp. Gift inscription on front blank boards very slightly bowed with a tiny faint stain on the front cover and top corner of the textblock not affecting interior very near fine. The Library of Congress hardcover
1718ST16605bWashington D.C.: U. S. Government 17 July 1862. 445 x 565 mm. 17 3/4 x 22 1/2". 17 lines of engraved text in copperplate script with names and dates completed in a fine secretarial hand. <br/> Loose as issued in an archival mylar sleeve. ◆Neatly mended two-and-three-quarters-inch tear to one edge well away from text half inch slit to end of one fold three very short separations along two folds only one touching text otherwise A FINE FRESH SPECIMEN clean and bright the signature dark and clear the wax-and-white-paper seal intact.<br/> <br/> This is an excellent example of a presidential document with Lincoln's full signature and with that of his Secretary of State William Henry Seward 1801-72 remembered for negotiating the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The consul appointed in this document Jay Haziel Sherman of Vermont served in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island from 1861 to 1865. It is likely this appointee was Jahaziel Blossom Sherman 1801-65 son of pioneering steamship captain Jahaziel Sherman 1770-1844 and that his unusual Old Testament name was misspelled by the scribe who filled in the appointment form. The younger Sherman died in Nova Scotia in 1865. U. S. Government unknown
1865236784Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council 1865. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pebbled bevelled cloth. Fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes speeches by Mayor of Boston Lincoln Senator Charles Sumner the eulogy Charles G. Loring A.H. Rice and Richard Henry Dana Jr pp. 56-61. BAL 4465 Printed by Order of the City Council unknown
192314412London: Savoy 1923. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey paper over boards with gilt-edged paper label. 18pp 3pp. Tipped-in frontispiece. Near fine. First edition of this handsome production on fine paper. History of the famous Lincoln Room at the Savoy Hotel. G.D. Macdougald sculpted the magnificent Lincoln bust depicted on the frontispiece and unveiled when this room -- at which many historic events involving Herbert Hoover Winston Churchill and other notables took place -- was officially openedunveiled. MONAGHAN 2656. Savoy hardcover
1941320873New York: Newhouse Galleries 1941. Presentation manuscript accomplished by Paul Hessemer for Newhouse Galleries illustrated with a photographic portrait of the painting. With typed letters signed from E.J. Rousuck to Allan P. Kirby and a contemporary copy of a letter to John Hay Whitney offering the portrait. With the original label from an 1869 exhibition of the painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 4to. Bound in full blue morocco lettered in gilt silk endpapers. Presentation manuscript accomplished by Paul Hessemer for Newhouse Galleries illustrated with a photographic portrait of the painting. With typed letters signed from E.J. Rousuck to Allan P. Kirby and a contemporary copy of a letter to John Hay Whitney offering the portrait. With the original label from an 1869 exhibition of the painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. 4to. An elaborate brochure for the sale of this important portrait offered to Allan Kirby and John "Jock" Hay Whitney just days before Pearl Harbor. Newhouse Galleries unknown
186332820640<p>Mammoth albumen print 17 ½ x 22 in mounted oval gilt-rule mat. Retouched vignetted enlargement. A few spots some toning. Very good condition.</p><p>This famous "Gettysburg portrait" with Lincoln looking directly into the camera was made just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19 1863.</p><p>A giant of American photography Alexander Gardner is credited with introducing the large-format Imperial portrait to the United States while working as a staff photographer for Mathew Brady. Gardner left Brady's employ in early 1863 and his studio quickly rivaled Brady's for the quality and extent of its war and portrait photography. Gardner first photographed Lincoln as president-elect while working for Brady and he went on to take Lincoln's portrait more than any other photographer.</p><p>Lincoln sat for Gardner on several occasions usually visiting his studio on Sunday to avoid crowds. Lincoln sat for this splendid portrait on Sunday November 8 1863. His private secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay joined him. Hay noted in his diary that "We had a great many pictures taken … some of the Prest. the best I have seen." This print emphasizes Lincoln's head and shoulders enlarging them to a size rarely seen.</p><p>The gilt-ruled paper mat is characteristic of the 1860s and 1870s with this style of mat being popular during this period. Moses Rice subsequently had access to Gardner's negatives and routinely signed his prints with his name suggesting that Gardner himself made this enlargement. He died in 1882.</p><p>The photography session of November 8 1863 also produced the mammoth portrait we offer for $95000. That photograph and the present are among the only early mammoth Lincoln portraits we have ever encountered.</p><p>This is the only mammoth example of the famous Gettysburg portrait that we have seen.</p><p>Ostendorf O-77</p>
1918251096London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd 1918. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Red boards paper spine label. Spine chipped with loss else VG. Bookplate of T. Fytton Armstrong John Gawsworth. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. This was the play that made Drinkwater famous and his success was followed by other historical plays such as Mary Stuart Robert E. Lee etc. Inscribed on title-page "With malice toward none with charity for all it is for us to resolve that this antion under God shall have a new birth of freedom.A.L. p. 71 written out for John Gawsworth John Drinkwater August 1932." John Gawsworth's Copy. <br/><br/> Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd hardcover
186442820809<p>Oval albumen print 8 x 6 in. original printed mount trimmed at bottom removing caption signed "BRADY & CO. PHOTOGRAPHERS." Browning and offsetting to mount light toning to image. Very good. Matted and framed.</p><p><strong>The classic Brady $5 bill photograph.</strong> This celebrated portrait the basis for the five-dollar bill engraving used for most of the 20th century is one of seven poses taken by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady's Washington D. C. studio on February 9 1864. The most prolific photographer of Lincoln Brady himself did not actually operate his cameras during the war years instead training and employing men like Alexander Gardner and his successor Anthony Berger who took this picture to operate the camera.</p><p><strong>Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln declared this famous portrait to be "the most satisfactory likeness" of Abraham Lincoln.</strong></p> Mathew Brady Gallery
1865376410Montauk Montauk Navy Yard Wash D.C. 1865. 4 pp. 8vo. Slight soiling and minor tears along old folds otherwise in very good condition. 4 pp. 8vo. ".About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side." <br /> <br /> A remarkably clear and dramatic eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln from a naval surgeon who was close to the President's box at Ford's theater on that fateful night of April 14 1865. In this letter to his brother written the night after the assassination while the details were still fresh in his memory Dr. George B. Todd surgeon aboard the U.S. "Montauk" at anchor in the Navy Yard that day recounts the terrible event with a clarity of observation one might expect of his profession-a rarity among confused eyewitness accounts. The text of Todd's letter one of only 7 eyewitness accounts written within 24 hours of the assassination reads: <br /> <br /> "The few hours that have intervened since that most terrible tragedy of last night have served to give me a little clearer brain and I believe I am now able to give you a clear account up to this hour. Yesterday about 3 P.M. the President and wife drove down to the navy yard and paid our ship a visit going all over her accompanied by us all. Both seemed very happy and so expressed themselves - glad that this war was over or so near its end and then drove back to the White House. In the evening nearly all of us went to the Ford's Theatre. I was very early and got a seat near the President's private box as we heard he was to be there. About half past nine he came in with his wife a Miss Harris and Major Rathburn and was cheered by every one. As soon as there was a silence the play went on and I could see that the "pres." seemed to enjoy it very much. About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side on which the 'pres.' box was and I heard a man say "there's Booth" and I turned my head to look at him. He was still walking very slow and was near the box door when he stopped took a card from his pocket wrote something on it and gave it to the usher who took it to the box. In a minute the door was opened and he walked in. No sooner had the door closed then I heard the report of a pistol and on the instant Booth jumped out of the box onto the stage holding in his hand a large knife and shouted so as to be heard all over the house - 'Sic Semper Tyrannis' "so always with tyrants" and fled behind the scenes-I attempted to get to the box but I could not and in an instant the cry was raised 'The President is Assassinated.' <br /> "Such a scene I never saw before. The cry spread to the street only to be met by another 'So is Mr. Seward.' Soldiers had gone. Some General handed me a note and bid me go to the nearest telegraph office and arouse the nation. I ran with all my speed and in ten minutes the sad news was all over the country. Today all the city is in mourning nearly every house being in black and I have not seen a smile. No business and many a strong man I have seen in tears. <br /> "Some reports say Booth is a prisoner others that he has made his escape but from orders received here I believe he is taken as a mob once raised now would know no end. I will not seal this until morning and I may have some more news. <br /> <br /> "April 24th. <br /> "I have had no time to write until now as I have been a detective. We have now 7 that are implicated.<br /> Why don't you write Love to all George" <br /> <br /> Several important facts regarding the movements of both the President and John Wilkes Booth are recorded here: <br /> 1 This appears to be the only eyewitness account of the President's inspection of the "Montauk" earlier that afternoon. <br /> 2 Todd's account of Booth's interaction with the "usher" sitting outside the President's box "took a card from his pocket wrote something on it and gave it to the usher" is especially intriguing and reveals not only something of Todd's powers of observations but also his proximity to the assassin immediately before the shooting. Todd alone among eyewitnesses notes that the "usher" first took the card from Booth then went into the box and that a short time later the door opened and Booth went in. In fact Good finds only 7 other eye-witness accounts of the Lincoln assassination as early as April 15-most of these witnesses record little or nothing regarding the events before hearing the shot itself and none of them noticed Booth's interchange with the usher who was in fact Lincoln's valet Charles Forbes. There are three other accounts by eyewitnesses which partially corroborate Todd's observation of the Forbes and Booth interchange-but they were written much later than Todd's. <br /> 3 Todd's observation of the time he spotted Booth moving toward the box "about 10:25" corresponds to Good's own conclusion that Booth fired the fatal shot close to 10:30 PM. According to James Swanson MANHUNT p. 419 "the exact time of Booth's shot cannot be fixed . Booth may have shot Lincoln as early as 10:13 or as late as 10:30" Todd's account - again one of the freshest and most reliable weighs heavily in favor of Good. <br /> 4 Todd by his own account played a role in alerting the nation by telegraph. <br /> 5 Although he doesn't mention it as a surgeon of the ironclad Montauk Todd was also probably present at the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth on Thursday April 27 in the gun room of his ship. Indeed in an article in the February issue of the Baltimore and Ohio Magazine 1926 where the letter was first published and reproduced Todd is reported to have been "one of the surgeons who performed the autopsy." That as well as the fact that the other prisoners were being held on board the ironclad "Montauk" and "Saugus" may explain his cryptic remark near the end ". I have been a detective .". Todd actually mailed the letter on April 30 3 days after the autopsy and may very have participated in the actual investigation of the captives aboard the "Montauk." <br /> <br /> AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNIQUE RECORD OF ONE THE NATION'S GREAT TRAGEDIES. Published from a copy in the State Historical Library of Wisconsin in Timothy S. Good WE SAW LINCOLN SHOT U. of Miss. 1995; with the mistaken date of April 30 1865 unknown
1896458433New York: McLure's 1896. Unbound. Good. 15" x 22". Illustration of Lincoln by Corwin Knapp Linson. Remnants of tape from old matting with a few small chips at the margins a good only example. also advertises stories by Robert Louis Stevenson Anthony Hope and others. McLure's unknown
1895517161New York: McClure's 1895. Unbound. Very Good. Publisher's promotional broadside. Illustrated from a portrait of Lincoln by Corwin Knapp Linson. Measuring 12½" x 19½". Several small chips and edge tears one longer closed tear at the top edge affecting the title but stopping short of the image bright and very good. A handsome publisher's broadside announcing the publication of "A New and Richly Illustrated Life of Abraham Lincoln" in McClure's magazine. The serial will publish 300 pictures the only and previously unpublished early portrait of Lincoln and "much new and valuable material from people now living about Lincoln's youth and public career. McClure's unknown
553031 vols. 9 x 6 inches framed to 17 x 14-1/2. Two chips lightly scratched. Glued in wood frame. 1 vols. 9 x 6 inches framed to 17 x 14-1/2. unknown
1866375831Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 5 x 9 1/2 in.; mounted to 11 x 14 in. Faint toning to mount; fine. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 5 x 9 1/2 in.; mounted to 11 x 14 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. <br /> Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Charles Leale and Mrs. Lincoln.<br /> "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown
1866238120Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. Soiling to image vertical crease large chips to bottom of mount not affecting image or legend; good. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Chalres Leale and Mrs. Lincoln. "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. Provenance: Harper Family John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown
1866238011Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; mounted to 13 x 17 in. Faint toning to mount; fine. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; mounted to 13 x 17 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. <br /> Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Charles Leale and Mrs. Lincoln.<br /> "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown
1863292206No place: no publisher 1863. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stitched self-wrappers. 16pp. Slight age-toning very near fine. Anti-Lincoln campaign material issued by pro-Fremont Republicans including a long statement by Ben Wade and Henry Winter Davis. no publisher] unknown
1936453899New York: Good Housekeeping 1936. Unbound. Fine. Double-sided illustrated broadside on thin cardstock. Approximately 8½" x 13". Fine. One side with the text as above and an illustration of a lighthouse. The verso has an illustration by Vernon Thomas of a small boy packing his toys in a suitcase and advertises the Lincoln novel plus stories by Achmed Abdullah Violette Kimball Dunn Sarah Comstock and Mildred Seydell. A handsome example. Good Housekeeping unknown
1937453916New York: Cosmopolitan 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Double-sided illustrated broadside on thin cardstock. Approximately 8.5" x 13". Fine. One side with text as above with an illustration of a pretty woman by Bradshaw Crandell. The verso has an illustration of a couple embracing and advertises the Lincoln novel plus stories by several others. A handsome example. Cosmopolitan hardcover
1865235590Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co 1865. First edition front wrapper without portrait of Lincoln appearing in later issues. Engraved title and piano score; 5 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Loose as issued; split along spine with some chipping to extremities. First edition front wrapper without portrait of Lincoln appearing in later issues. Engraved title and piano score; 5 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Donizetti died 17 years before Lincoln having gone mad from syphilis. His Funeral March gained a measure of recognition in America after it was performed during Lincoln's funeral ceremonies. It is a heavy solemn piece in a minor with droning octaves in the bass a haunting chromatic figure in the middle register and a lyrical upper voice. see Barret Sale Lot 693; Stern Collection of Lincolniana Oliver Ditson & Co unknown
51614San Francisco: Wallace Kibbee & Son n.y. Paperback. 4to. Heavy stock printed tan folder. Near fine. First and likely sole printing of this finely printed folder printed in commemoration of the 127th anniversary of Lincoln's birth which thus dates this undated item to circa 1936 with the famed text on front wrapper and inner leaf containing an introduction at the bottom of which Kibbee signs large and bold in brown ink. Colophon at rear notes this edition limited to 380 copies -- though he rarely signed the inner leaf. Unusual and seldom seen. Kibbee 1888-1972 was a noted California printer and type designer. Wallace Kibbee & Son paperback
1905327084Chicago: Illinois Central Railroad Company 1905. 200 copies this is one of Fourteen Copies Printer's Edition By Permission #6. illustrated throughout with photogravures of Lincoln documents in the ICRC collection. 4to. Full pebbled limp pebbled black morocco with gilt stamping on upper cover "Compliments of the Illinois Central Railroad Company." Laid into full orange cloth dropbox with gilt stamp "Collection of Foreman M. Lebold. 200 copies this is one of Fourteen Copies Printer's Edition By Permission #6. illustrated throughout with photogravures of Lincoln documents in the ICRC collection. 4to. Provenance: Lou F. English this copy presented by Walter J. Gunthorp to Lou F. English.; Foreman M. Lebold lettering to clamshell box Illinois Central Railroad Company unknown
1949327086Chicago: Chicago Illinois Midland Railway Company 1949. Folio. Framed and glazed total dimensions 795 x 718 mm. Folio. Chicago Illinois Midland Railway Company unknown
1864377694Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co 1864. 16pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers with a portrait of Lincoln on the front and advertisements for political emblems badges pins etc. on the verso. Minor staining. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. 16pp. 16mo. A pocket songster printed to support Lincoln's reelection campaign in 1864 featuring a rather youthful portrait of the president on the front wrapper and twelve spirited pro-Union songs. The titles largely military in theme include such works as "Give us Noble Leaders" "The Veteran Volunteer" "Cast Your Votes for Abraham" "For Lincoln or McClellan you'll be called on to decide/ The one to save the union the other to divide" and "We are Coming Father Abraham 600000 More." <br /> <br /> The advertisements on the rear wrapper encourage readers to purchase a wide variety of Lincoln campaign badges emblems pins and photographs from the publishers. Despite Lincoln's overwhelming electoral victory in 1864 the race was rather close in Pennsylvania where this was printed - Lincoln took Philadelphia County by a scant few percent and actually failed to secure a majority in neighboring Montgomery and Bucks counties. Monaghan 323; Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 199 Published by Mason & Co unknown
1941244867New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1941. First edition Number 5 of a special edition signed by the author on the half-title. Illustrated throughout. 160 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter brown pebbled morocco and cloth. Fine copy in open-faced slipcase some wear to slipcase. First edition Number 5 of a special edition signed by the author on the half-title. Illustrated throughout. 160 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Duell, Sloan and Pearce unknown
1864369148New York 1864. 8pp. Oblong folio. Central fold with small fading else fine. 8pp. Oblong folio. Reads on left column in part: VICTORY! Glorious rsult Yesterday. Election of Lincoln and Johnson. Terrible Defeat of McClellan." Haedlines show a little editorializing even then. unknown
