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186141884New York: J.H. Tingley 1861. Five postal covers each oblong 3-1/4" x 5-7/8." The recto of each is an engraving of a Round of the boxing match. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> From the U VA description: "Five envelopes in the Champion Prize Envelope set depict a boxing match between Lincoln and Davis in which the latter is easily defeated and Winfield Scott commands the Union armies. Smaller vignettes in the corners depict dogs guarding southern cotton and then fleeing; liberated slaves Union artillery advancing firing and marching home; Union and Confederate politicians commenting on the fight including John Minor Botts who is seen as keeping Virginia in the Union; European countries commenting on the fight; and the Union eagle and Liberty victorious with Lincoln the champion of all sections."<br /> 1st Round: Standing around a boxing ring Lincoln and Davis in the middle are a group of civilians Soldiers cannon. two dogs guarding a bale of cotton and a Confederate flag a group of slaves three men on a globe Capitol and American flag in the background. In the ring Davis cowers before Lincoln who says "I use no more force than necessary." Davis: "Let me alone!"<br /> 2nd Round: The same group encircles the ring. Lincoln: "Go back you dog to the junction I'll call on you there soon." Davis: "Beauregard Lets fall back on Richmond." From the crowd of civilians: "Secession is looking smaller" and "We shall soon strip it." Other comments are also uttered.<br /> 3d Round: Lincoln: "I will soon smother those pirates." From the same encirclement anti-Confederate comments such as "General That's secession's last kick" rebel soldiers saying "Let's go home boys." The cotton bale and Confederate flag are missing.<br /> 4th Round: Seward and Scott are in the ring. Seward: "General where is secession now" Scott : "Don't you see that greasespot" Comment: "Virginia and Kentucky may now be heard in behalf of the whole Union."<br /> 5th Round: Lincoln with "The Champion Belt": "You shall all have my impartial constitutional and humble protection." He is surrounded by the iconic Screaming Eagle; a triumphant West North East and South; and Lady Liberty who says "I still live." <br /> Not in Reilly or Weitenkampf. AAS and the University of Indiana own all five envelopes. OCLC 277634667 1- U VA 14953428 2- CT Mus. Hist. Culture U IL as of June 2026. J.H. Tingley unknown
186268870New York: The New York Herald 1862. Full Description:<br> <br> LINCOLN Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation."A Proclamation by the President of the United States. Operations of the Confiscation Act. All Slaves in States in Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free." New York. Published in: The New York Herald Tuesday September 23 1862. Whole No. 9506.<br> <br> The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in James Gordon Bennett's pro-Democratic New York Herald and one of if not the first official public announcements of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.<br> <br> Broadsheet folio one large leaf folded along top to make four pages two leaves printed on recto and verso. Six-column format. 22 x 15 1/2 inches; 560 x 395 mm. Light creases down the middle in both directions. Some nearly invisible repaird along top margin and edges. Some of the repairs just touching a few letters in the headline. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. We could only find 3 copies of this at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt mentions that his Third edition of the Emancipation has a publication date somewhere between September 24th and 26th therefore putting the current copy before this. Eberstadt's first and second edition are the official state department editions printed the day of the declaration September 22nd just the day before this New York Herald was printed.<br> <br> Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22 1862 stating that if the rebelling states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1 1863 the slaves in those states would be set free. The New York Herald issued this front-page top left corner early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next day appearing under the headline: "All Slaves in States of Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free."<br> <br> "Lincoln read the first draft of what came to be known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet on 22 July 1862. Given the criticism directed at Lincoln for moving too slowly on the issue of emancipation it is worth noting that this first reading took place just sixteen months after he had pledged not to 'interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' He continued to revise the document throughout the summer and following the Union victory at Antietam he issued the preliminary proclamation-which managed to balance daring with prudence-on 22 September. This first proclamation essentially gave the Rebel States one hundred days to return to the Union after which period any slaves within their borders would be "then thenceforward and forever free." Any rebellious states that returned to the Union in the interim would be able to adopt immediate or gradual-and compensated-abolition of slavery within their borders." Sotheby's.<br> <br> The front page of this newspaper also contains two maps and reports of the campaigns in Kentucky.<br> <br> HBS 68870.<br> <br> $3500. The New York Herald unknown
1884353213Boston: Roberts Brothers 1884. First edition second printing published the same year as the first with sixteen advertisements on seven pages rather than six on four pages except for the advertisements the contents and pagination of the 1884 1885 1886 and 1887 printings are identical. Illustrated. xiv ii 536 7 adspp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original publisher's green half cloth over marbled boards generally good unrestored condition with some wear to spine and edges of boards corners bumped. First edition second printing published the same year as the first with sixteen advertisements on seven pages rather than six on four pages except for the advertisements the contents and pagination of the 1884 1885 1886 and 1887 printings are identical. Illustrated. xiv ii 536 7 adspp. 1 vols. 8vo. Grolier American 86; Crahan 74; Wheaton p.152 #3707; Vicaire p.524 1887 edition; Bitting p. 288 citing 1896 edition Roberts Brothers unknown
1884140942960Boston: Roberts Brothers 1884. Second Printing. Very Good. First edition second printing published the same year as the first with sixteen advertisements on seven pages rather than six on four pages. Except for the advertisements the contents and pagination of the 1884 1885 1886 and 1887 printings are identical. The milestone cookbook from the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. Bound in contemporary black pebbled cloth with new black leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages soiled or foxed throughout chip to top corner of title page fore edges occasionally worn an amateur repair to one leaf pages 304/305. A scarce early printing of an important American cookbook. Roberts Brothers unknown
1900143581Adelaide: Government Printer 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer circa 1900. An oblong quarto photograph album approximately 250 × 320 mm containing 22 original vintage gelatin silver photographs each approximately 200 × 280 mm tipped in on the recto and verso of 11 card leaves captioned in ink on the mount. Cord-bound textured papered boards; minimal signs of age and handling; essentially in fine condition. 'South Australia' is written in ink on the front pastedown and the individual captions tend to be informative and site-specific: 'Aquaduct at the Gorge on the Torrens River'; 'View from Mount Barker'; 'Orchard & Vineyard Roseworthy College Farm'; 'Head of Gillen on the River Murray'; and 'Vineyard at Magill' are a few examples along with numerous identified bridges viaducts reservoirs and rivers. <p>This level of detail has enable us to locate thanks to Trove an article in an Adelaide newspaper 'The Express and Telegraph' Wednesday 3 October 1906 headed 'Advertising the State. South Australian Photographs in London'. The description of many of the photographs on display at the Bank of Adelaide branch in London 'The whole of these photographs were supplied by Mr. Vaughan the photo-lithographer' matches many of those in this album leading us to our attribution. <p>The article records that 'The Government recognise the value of photographs . and they have been putting the cameras in the Lands Department to good use lately for the purpose of advertising the State. A large number of pictures and slides for lantern use have been sent to the office of the Agent-General and every mail now takes a small addition to the stock. The photographs are used for advertising the State in various ways'. <p>It is perhaps unsurprising that the extraordinary portrait of the 'Port Lincoln natives - last of tribe' is not mentioned in the report. The State Library of South Australia has two examples of this print in its collection B 512 and B77443 - the latter in poor condition dated 'Approximately 1897' and '1897' respectively. Government Printer hardcover
1864D16155Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. First Edition. First and only edition extra-illustrated with approximately 65 inserted portraits. Full red pebbled morocco gilt dated 1882 on the spine rebacked with the original spine laid down the covers panelled in gilt the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with the initials "W.H.W." at the foot. 10 x 8 inches 25.5 x 21 cm; with lithographed title and approximately 65 mostly engraved or lithographed portraits inserted three are original drawings including one of Julia Ward Howe xi lithographed contents 200 pp. lithographed fascsimiles of the handwriting of the authors. Intermittent foxing the inserted portraits have offset to the text leaves opposite rebacked as noted and lightly rubbed. <br/><br/>This volume produced at the time of the 1864 Baltimore Sanitary Fair contains what is considered the first reproduction of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand. The facsimile was made from what is now known as the "Bliss Copy" of the address the fifth and final manuscript copy of the address that Lincoln executed at the request of the editors of this volume. Other authors represented here include Emerson Poe Melville Hawthorne and many other notables of the period. Cushings & Bailey unknown
1867376997Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1867. Frontispiece portrait. 2XXX930pp. 4to. Original full brown turkey morocco elaborately stamped in gilt repair to front joint. Frontispiece portrait. 2XXX930pp. 4to. One of only 100 specially-bound copies of this official government printing reproducing in its totality the foreign correspondence and declarations of sympathy received from foreign governments and diplomats across the world in response to Lincoln's assassination. <br /> <br /> Congress' resolution for the publication of this work is printed within: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That in addition to the number of copies of papers relating to foreign affairs now authorized by law there shall be printed for distribution by the Department of State on fine paper with wide margin a sufficient number of copies of the Appendix to the Diplomatic Correspondence of 1865 to supply one copy to each senator and each representative of the Thirty-ninth Congress and to each foreign government and one copy to each corporation association or public body whose expressions of condolence or sympathy are published in said volume; one hundred of these copies to be bound in full Turkey morocco full gilt and the remaining copies to be bound in half Turkey morocco marble edged." <br /> <br /> The text organizes the messages of sympathy alphabetically by source country and contains an extensive and detailed index to the correspondents within. The frontispiece reproduces the famous Darby & Miller engraved portrait of Lincoln. Monaghan mentions that a small number of copies were bound with Carpenter's portrait as the frontispiece. Monaghan 881; Sabin 41174 Government Printing Office unknown
1886100151Boston:: Roberts Brothers. Very Good. 1886. Hardcover. An early printing. INSCRIBED by the author to no one in particular on the front free endpaper. Octavo half-bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black borders on the spine marbled boards. Moderate shelf wear and aging foxing to edges and endpapers soiling on a few interior pages else very good. Binding is sound. ; 536 pages; Signed by Author . Roberts Brothers, hardcover
1858376861Springfield IL 1858. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. Unbound. Minor toning. Housed in a cloth box. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. The only separate printing of this address given by Lincoln at Springfield Illinois. Lincoln's speech which preceded his debates with Douglas puts forth the great themes that marked his political philosophy during the last ten years of his life. More importantly it firmly placed Lincoln as against the expansion of slavery and Douglas on the opposite side of the issue. By targeting Douglas a strategy that resurrected Lincoln's political career he made his fellow Illinoisan out to be the embodiment of the wicked forces safeguarding slavery's expansion . This speech is Lincoln's opening salvo against Douglas for the 1858 senate campaign: 'Free men of Illinois - free men of everywhere - judge ye between him and me'" Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 67<br /> <br /> Urging that slavery be placed on course for "ultimate extinction" he repeats his "House Divided" warning first given at the State Republican Convention a month earlier. He insists that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was "the beginning of a conspiracy" to nationalize slavery. Attacking Douglas and defending himself against the charge that he would "invite a war of sections" he stands on "the principles of our Declaration of Independence." Though African Americans are not the equal of whites "in all respects" the Declaration "does mean to declare that all men are equal in some respects; they are equal in the right to 'life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'" Most significantly "In the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned he is the equal of every other man white or black."<br /> <br /> A scarce Lincoln speech. Monaghan 12; Byrd 2960 unknown
1863149486Washington: Government Printing Office January 2 1863. Rare first War Department and fifth overall printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Twelvemo General Orders No. 1 extracted from the larger volume of orders for 1863 4 pages disbound. President Lincoln had intended to issue the order earlier in 1862 but deliberately delayed its release until after the Union's strategic victory at Antietam at which point he announced the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. General Order No. 139 September 22 1862 which declared that all slaves held in rebelling states would be forever free from the first day of January 1863. The text of the final Emancipation Proclamation present in this order is noted for its direct and decisive language: "By the President of the United States of America . That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then thenceforward and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." The first printing for the War Department of General Orders No. 1 was distributed to various military outposts and bureaus throughout the United States. Based on the extensive research of Charles Eberstadt the copy for the War Department was the fifth time the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation appeared in print on January of 1863 following three hastily prepared issues for the State Department and another for Lincoln's hometown Illinois States Journal newspaper in Springfield Illinois. A copy of the War Department Printing was included in the Grolier Club's One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900. Eberstadt 12; Grolier Club One Hundred Influential American Books 71; Streeter 1751. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom half morocco case. A scarce work. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1 1863 represented a pivotal moment in the trajectory of the American Civil War and the broader struggle over the institution of slavery. Although it did not immediately free all enslaved individuals the proclamation declared that all persons held as slaves in states or parts of states still in rebellion against the United States were to be henceforth free. This executive order grounded in Lincoln's war powers as commander-in-chief was intended primarily as a military measure to weaken the Confederacy by undermining its labor force and discouraging foreign powers from recognizing or supporting the secessionist cause. The proclamation also signaled a significant shift in Union war aims reframing the conflict from a struggle solely to preserve the Union to one explicitly linked to the abolition of slavery. While its immediate legal impact was limited to areas outside Union control the Emancipation Proclamation laid the groundwork for the eventual passage of the Thirteenth Amendment which formally abolished slavery throughout the United States. Government Printing Office unknown
1861377680Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1861. Special Session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1. 10pp. 8vo. Disbound. Housed in a cloth box. Special Session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1. 10pp. 8vo. Lincoln began drafting his first inaugural in Springfield soon after his election hoping the speech would impart a spirit of reconciliation toward the seceded states. His speech balances his pledge to protect Federal property in the south while insisting that he would not use military force unless attacked first. In all he eloquently argues against secession presenting the United States as undissolvable. Lincoln ends his speech with the memorable lines: "We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearth-stone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature."<br /> <br /> "Lincoln became President on March 4 1861. Before being sworn in he gave his First Inaugural Address devoting it entirely to the secession crisis. It was the linguistic equivalent of an optical illusion: one could view it two ways. As historians have noted he seemed to placate the South; he would not 'interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' This language was the old Lincoln . The new Lincoln was a resolute executive who had no choice but to enforce the Constitution a contract that does not allow states to withdraw from it unilaterally. In his enforcement there would be no bloodshed 'unless it be forced upon the national authority" Mazy Boroujerdi editor Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 108.<br /> <br /> Lincoln had begun writing his inaugural the month prior before leaving Springfield and once in Washington asked William Seward to review the draft. It was Seward who suggested softening the tone so as not to appear too inflammatory suggesting "a nostalgic call for unity emphasizing the country's shared history. Lincoln embraced the idea but massaged it into near poetry. Seward's prosaic text ended up as Lincoln's oft quoted appeals to the 'mystic chords of memory' and 'the better angels of our nature.' The words did nothing to reverse disunion" Ibid. p. 97.<br /> <br /> This is the official government printing of Lincoln's first inaugural address issued as a document of a special session of the Senate printed by their order four days after its delivery being only the second printing overall of the memorable speech. Monaghan 102; Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 108 [Government Printing Office] unknown
1860367583New York: Office of the New York Tribune 1860. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. Lincoln's speech comprises pages 1-11 out of a total of 16 pages. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on rear wrapper. 8vo. Stitched self-wrappers minor toning minor chip to terminal leaf. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. Lincoln's speech comprises pages 1-11 out of a total of 16 pages. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on rear wrapper. 8vo. This address made at the Cooper Institute in New York on February 27 1860 catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. Indeed many historians have considered it the key to his success in the 1860 election and it is probably the most important speech Lincoln made after the Gettysburg Address and his inaugural addresses.<br /> <br /> The Cooper Union address was months in preparation; Lincoln was fully aware of its importance in moving himself from a regional favorite son to a viable national candidate. In the event some 1500 people including many prominent political figures attended on a snowy new York evening. The speech divides into three major parts. In the first Lincoln addressed the spread of slavery arguing that the framers of the constitution had been opposed to it and that the Federal government could regulate the question. In the second he argued that the Republicans were not a sectional Northern party and attacked the threats of southern Democrats to secede if the Republicans should win the election. Finally he addressed his fellow Republicans calling on them to act carefully and do "nothing through passion and ill temper.Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."<br /> <br /> The Cooper Union speech was a resounding success. Horace Greeley described it as "one of the happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City. No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience." Greeley quickly issued the speech in the form of this "Tribune Tract." It includes a final page of advertisements for other Tribune publications. The speech was later widely reprinted and made Lincoln nationally famous.<br /> This printing differs from other editions by its inclusion of a speech by James Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin and the message of Samuel Medary Democratic governor of the Kansas Territory vetoing the Kansas abolition bill.<br /> <br /> "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion" Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Monaghan 50 Office of the New York Tribune unknown
186425614<p>The second in a series of four racist political cartoons published in 1864 by Bromley & Company which was closely affiliated with the Copperhead New York <i>World</i> newspaper. These prints sought to undermine Abraham Lincoln's chances for reelection by branding him as a "miscegenationist" and playing on white fears of "race-mixing." The cartoon scene pictures several interracial couples enjoying a day at the park eating ice cream discussing wedding plans and a woman's upcoming lecture. Two African American families have white employees a carriage driver and footmen and a babysitter.</p><p>The only other example traced at auction brought $7800 in 2010.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. RACISM.</b>Print. "Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism." Political Cartoon. New York: Bromley & Co. 1864. 1 p. 20¾ x 13â… in.<p><br /></p><p>American politics had long played on fears of sexual relationships between races. A powerful new word for "race-mixing" was coined in an anonymous December 1863 pamphlet entitled <i>Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races Applied to the American White Man and Negro</i> published in New York. Purporting to advocate the virtues of the "blending of the white and black races on this continent" it was a literary forgery prepared by <i>The World</i> managing editor David Goodman Croly and reporter George Wakeman. The authors were unsuccessful in their attempt to trick President Lincoln into endorsing the work.</p><p>At the far left of the image Abraham Lincoln declares "<i>I shall be proud to number among my intimate friends any member of the Squash family especially the little Squashes.</i>" The African American woman to whom he is speaking replies "<i>I'se 'quainted wid Missus Linkum I is washed far her 'fore de hebenly Miscegenation times was cum. Dont do nuffin now but gallevant 'round wid de white gem'men! he-ah! he-ah! he-ah!</i>"</p><p>Senator Charles Sumner says "<i>Mr. President! Allow me the honor of introducing my very dear friend Miss Dinah Arabella Aramintha Squash.</i>" A white carriage driver complains in the background "<i>Gla-a-ang there 240t! White driver white footmen niggers inside my heys! I wanted a situation when I took this one</i>" while a black man in the carriage tells his companion "<i>Phillis de_ah dars Sumner. We must not cut him if he is walking.</i>" A black woman at a table tells a white man with her "<i>Ah! Horace its-its-its-bully 'specially de cream</i>" and he replies "<i>Ah! my dear Miss Snowball we have at last reached our political and social Paradise. Isn't it extatic</i>"</p><p>To the right are two couples embracing each a white woman and an African American man. The first white women tells her partner "<i>Oh! You dear creature. I am so agitated! Go and ask Pa</i>" to which he replies "<i>Lubly Julia Anna name de day when Brodder Beecher shall make us one!</i>" The second white woman says "<i>Adolphus now you'll be sure to come to my lecture to morrow night won't you</i>" to which he answers "<i>I'll be there Honey on de front seat sure!</i>" In the background are various immigrant minorities viewing the scene. One exclaims "<i>Most hextwadinary! Aw neva witnessed the like in all me life if I did dem me!</i>" and another adds "<i>Mine Got vat a guntry vat a beebles!</i>" An Irish girl complains "<i>And is it to drag nagur babies that I left old Ireland Bad luck to me.</i>"</p><p>Manton Marble the editor of <i>The World</i> collaborated with printmaker Bromley & Company to issue a series of four anti-Lincoln "Political Caricatures." The present example was the No. 2 in that series. No. 1 was "The Grave of the Union or Major Jack Downing's Dream"; No. 3 "The Abolition Catastrophe Or the November Smash-up"; and No. 4 "The Miscegenation Ball."</p><p>Republicans responded by trying to turn the "miscegenation" charge against the Democrats. A Republican print "The Political "Siamese" Twins: The Offspring of Chicago Miscegenation" pictures McClellan and Pendleton joined together despite their very different ideas on ending the war.</p><p>Although Abraham Lincoln won New York states' electoral votes in 1860 Stephen Douglas had carried New York City and its environs. Financial elites fearing that civil war would ruin business and recent immigrants fearing competition with free black labor supported Douglas. Lincoln's unpopularity in New York City during the Civil War was a factor in the deadly 1863 Draft Riots.</p><p>In 1864 Lincoln again won the states' electoral votes while New York City favored his Democratic opponent McClellan. In fact Lincoln's majority dropped from 50136 votes in 1860 to only 7373 votes in 1864 with approximately 50000 more total votes cast than in 1860.</p><p>Bromley and Company continued to sell the caricatures after the election as this January 1865 advertisement from an Ohio newspaper makes clear. Another advertisement assured purchasers that the set of four prints available for $1 were "sent on wooden rollers to insure safe carriage."</p><p><b><i>The World</i></b> 1860-1931 a daily independent newspaper was published in New York City. Alexander Cummings founded it as a religious Republican outlet in 1860. August Belmont and others purchased it in 1862 changing the editorial focus. With editor Manton Marble 1834-1917 <i>The World</i> soon became the country's leading Democratic newspaper. In 1864 Union authorities shut down <i>The World</i>and another paper for three days after they published forged documents purportedly written by Lincoln that were really part of a hoax to manipulate the price of gold. The paper actively supported George B. McClellan against Lincoln in 1864.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Fine for exhibit despite flaws. Cropped with loss of "Political Caricature No. 2" from top edge and part of printed pricing information from bottom edge publisher's name rubbed out from the copyright statement lacking ½" from lower left corners a few short tape repairs by the edges a 2" closed tear through the second dialogue bubble along the top edge and a 3" closed tear parallel to the right edge. Mount remnants on verso.</p>
1860601691Salem Massachusetts 1860. Unbound. Very Good. A collection of autobiographical writings retained by two prominent seamen father and son from Salem Massachusetts. The archive was compiled by the son Isaac Bullock 1800-70: a self-taught scholar and artist who first went to sea aboard fishing vessels and later as chief mate aboard ships owned by the famous Salem merchant Joseph Peabody. As he recounts in a manuscript note on his father's 1799 Seaman's Protection Certificate: his father "died of yellow fever July 1800 in his 25th year on a voyage to Havana - when I was about 3 months old." The Certificate issued to protect American sailors from the British practice of impressment is signed by Benjamin Lincoln: a famous Major General during the Revolutionary War as George Washington's second in command he formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown and the first United States Secretary of War.<br /> <br /> Also included is the elder Isaac Bullock's shipboard account of a meteor shower written in manuscript on a quarto sheet titled: "Some particular remarks of the appearance of the sky on the 12 November 1799 at sea - in Latt. of 49:20 North & Longt. of 22:00 West." This was the first recorded meteor shower in North America by American astronomer Andrew Ellicot who had witnessed it from a ship off the Florida Keys. Bullock witnessed it "on the Brig Helen Andrew Haraden Master - from Boston bound to London": "At 4 am being my watch on deck . I saw with astonishment the stars shooting or otherwise falling repeatedly from the sky down to the horizon as if they were compelled to leave their native abodes and dwell in the lore lower world. Some leaving after them a stream of fire which continued in the sky for the space of a minute . These continued shooting or otherwise falling till day light . we could see their blaze shooting in every direction till almost sun rise. What it is foreboding we cannot tell . ." Tipped onto the 1799 quarto manuscript sheet are several smaller sheets of appended manuscript notes and comments by Bullock's son dating from the early 1850s including a pencil sketch portrait of the great German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt who had observed the meteor shower from Central America.<br /> <br /> The rest of the archive consists of five gatherings of miscellaneous autobiographical writings and musings compiled by the son Isaac Bullock in which he relates various notable voyages including being pursued by an armed pirate ship "off the double headed shot Keys Cay Sal Bank" and barely surviving a shipwreck in the English Channel. <br /> <br /> Also included are accounts of two trips to California he twice spent time prospecting and mining on the South Fork of the American River first in 1850 at Salmon Falls and then in 1852 at Mormon Island: ". in 1849 the gold Crusade to California enticed me to try if Fortune would smile on me as a Miner. I shipped as 2d mate of ship Nestor of Salem for San Francisco and started from Boston in the autumn of '49 with a large number of passengers bound to See the Elephant! - I saw him! and have survived the sight! . A year of privation and excessive labour broke me down in a long fever and in partial recovery I started for home - Returned through the Nicaraguan route and escaping its perils and privations I once more reached home .". Soon thereafter he decides to try his luck in the mines again: "hoping for better success . I landed in Aspinwall traveled on foot through the dense tropic forest to Panama losing all my baggage by robbers . At last I reached San Francisco again . ."<br /> <br /> Most if not all of Bullock's reminiscences and musings were written and compiled upon his return from California: one manuscript is dated 1853 and another 1862. He was well read in classical literature and ancient history and comments on Alexander von Humboldt and Hester Thrale in the manuscripts. When not abroad he lived in Salem where some his other papers are held at the Peabody Essex Museum.<br /> <br /> An entertaining and historically important collection of writings documenting the lives of two prominent seamen who sailed out of Salem when it was among the most significant seaports in America. A detailed list of the manuscripts with selected excerpts is available. unknown
188468544Boston: Roberts Brothers 1884. Full Description:<br> <br> LINCOLN Mary Johnson. Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and What Not to do in Cooking. By Mrs. D.A. Lincoln of the Boston Cooking School. Roberts Brothers Boston: 1884.<br> <br> First edition first issue with six advertisements on four pages at end. Octavo 7 3/8 x 5 inches; 189 x 127 mm. xiv 2 536 4 ads. Bound with twelve blank leaves at the end. With numerous small black-and-white illustrations in the text.<br> <br> Publisher's original half brown cloth over marbled boards. Spine is ruled in black and lettered in gilt. Some rubbing to boards. Corners a bit bumped and head and tail of the spine with some wear. Page 265 with a small tear to outer blank fore-edge margin not touching text. Otherwise internally extremely clean for a cookbook. Overall a very good copy. Chemised and housed in a half morocco-look brown cloth slipcase.<br> <br> Together with<br> <br> LINCOLN Mary Johnson subject. Cabinet Card Photograph. Milwaukee Wisconsin: Stein Photographer n.d.c.a. 1900.<br> <br> Black-and white cabinet card photograph of Mary Johnson Lincoln. photo: 5 3/8 x 4 inches; 146 x 103 mm; card: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 166 x 107 mm. Inscribed on the verso by Lincoln "With the Compliments of Mary J. Lincoln" and in an anonymous hand "Author of the Boston Cook Book. Head of Boston Cooking School." Recto is a three-quarter profile of Lincoln affixed to the card with Stein's imprint along bottom margin.<br> <br> "Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln know professionally as Mrs. D.A. Lincoln was a Boston housewife forced to go to work by her husband's health and business setbacks. She was invited to teach at the new Boston Cooking School which aimed to teach women who wanted to make a living as cooks or women who wanted to tell their servants how to do it. She changed her mind and took the job that launched her career as one of America's most influential cookbook authors ever. She became a celebrity cook who endorsed products wrote a syndicated column lectured and founded a baking powder company. Her cookbook Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book: What To Do and What Not To Do in Cooking paved the way for Fannie Merritt Farmer's famous cookbook. In 1946 the prestigious Grolier Club put together an exhibition of the 100 most influential books published before 1900. One cookbook was chosen the one written by Mary J. Lincoln." New England Historical Society.<br> <br> Grolier American 86; Crahan 74; ; Wheaton p.152 #3707; Vicaire p.524 1887 edition; Bitting p. 288 citing 1896 edition<br> <br> HBS 68544.<br> <br> $6500. Roberts Brothers unknown
186369520Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. CIVIL WAR. War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> LINCOLN Abraham. CIVIL WAR. Emancipation Proclamation War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863.<br> <br> The first War Department printing General Orders #1 Jan 2 1863 and fifth overall printing of the final Emancipation Proclamation. The 4 page pamphlet bound together with a nearly complete run of War Department general orders for the year 1863. Two octavo volumes 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 174 x 119 mm. Volume I comprising General Orders of the War Department Adjutant General's Office Numbers 1-221 2 January 1863 to 16 July 1863 and Volume II comprising Numbers 222-400 16 July 1863 to 28 December 1863. Nearly complete only lacking numbers 55 63 116-119 148 in volume I and 274 352 and 381 in volume II. With 5 copies of number 149 and and 3 copies of number 240.<br> <br> Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges speckled brown. Hinges repaired. Some rubbing to board edges. Previous owner's contemporary ink signature Bvt. Col. E.J. Wells on front paste down of each volume. Numerous annotations in the same old ink throughout generally noting when the order was received and dated 1863. Some glue marks to the General Order #1 not affecting text. A small tear to last leaf of text in volume I with no loss. Overall a very good copy.<br> <br> In addition to the very important first War department printing of the Emancipation Proclamation these volumes contain several other very important and interesting General Orders from the War Department as well as President Abraham Lincoln in relation to the military during this year in the Civil War.<br> <br> Notably:<br> <br> No. 100 April 24 "Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field." "commonly known as the 'Lieber Code' after its main author Francis Franz Lieber. The Lieber Code set out rules of conduct during hostilities for Union soldiers throughout the U.S. Civil War. Even today it remains the basis of most regulations of the laws of war for the United States. The Lieber Code consists of 157 provisions that deal with a wide range of legal issues that must be considered in armed conflict. It contains general principles but also very detailed rules. Among the issues addressed are whether armed force is justified by military necessity the principle of humanity the distinction between combatants and civilians POW status retaliation and permissible methods and means of warfare." LOC"<br> <br> No. 143 May 22 the establishment of the United States Colored Troops. This authorized the establishment of a bureau regulating the recruitment training and organization of the U.S. Army's first regiments composed entirely of African-American soldiers.<br> <br> Numerous court cases are documented including #17- The sentenced hanging death of a "colored man" for "attempted rape". #346- The trial of George Woolfolk for "Being secretly within lines of the US forces as the same time belonging to the so-called Confederate Army." He was sentenced to be shot to death. And #396- The trial brought by Colonel John Gault against Dr. Aaron James for "Being the captain of a band of guerillas or marauders and shooting at US soldiers." He was sentenced to death but the President disapproved the sentence and directed him to be released.<br> <br> A number of orders of Military discharges both honorable and dishonorable as well as military promotions. #337 announces "Major General U.S. Grant U.S. Army is placed in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi Headquarters in the field." #349 announces "Major General William T. Sherman is appointed to the command of the Department and Army of the Tennessee Headquarters in the field." #194 is the appointment of Major General George Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac who would defeat General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg only days later. And #398 honors Ulysses S. Grant for his Mississippi River campaign and presents him a gold medal.<br> <br> Numerous obituaries including #71 which announces the death of Major General E.V. Sumner who fell ill and died on his way to take command of the Department of the Missouri and directs the ways that Department should give him military honors.<br> <br> Important presidential proclamations including #58- Calling to all soldiers who were "absent without leave" urging them to return to their regiments and would not face punishment beside loss of wages for time missed. #252- Orders regarding the treatment of prisoners of war stating that 'if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession'. "President Abraham Lincoln issued an 'eye-for-eye' order warning the Confederacy that Union soldiers would shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot. It also would condemn a rebel prisoner to a life of hard labor for every Black prisoner sold into slavery. AA Registry. #315- Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus." "The doctrine of habeas corpus is the right of any person under arrest to appear in person before the court to ensure that they have not been falsely accused. Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus" was one of the most controversial acts of his administrations. Lincoln defended himself against charges that his administration had subverted the Constitution however arguing that acts that might be illegal in peacetime might be necessary "in cases of rebellion" when the nation's survival was at stake." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. #340- Proclamation by the President calling for three hundred thousand volunteers. "Whereas the term of service of a part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year; and Whereas in addition to the men raised by the present draft it is deemed expedient to call out 300000 volunteers to serve for three years or the war not however. exceeding three years."<br> <br> And numerous other General Orders pertaining to soldiers and the war effort including #35- A list of items that could be sold to soliders by sutlers. #40- The establishment of a Volunteer force for Kentucky. #163- "A resolution to encourage the enlistments in the Regular Army and Volunteer forces." #323- which authorized each enlisted cook "two under-cooks of African descent who shall receive for their full compensation ten dollars per month and one ration per day." #351- This discusses the governance of "The Employment of women nurses in the U.S. General Hospitals." and #364 which discusses the cos of clothing and camp for the U.S. Army and includes a folding chart.<br> <br> Eberstadt 12. Grolier 100 American 71. Streeter 1751.<br> <br> HBS 69520.<br> <br> $7500. War Department unknown
