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186511541New York: Athenaeum Club 1865. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece portrait. Original printed purple wrappers housed in a quarter-calf portfolio rear joint splitting; chipping and soiling to wrappers with some splitting at the folds still a very good copy of this large fragile item. First edition number 46 of 50 large paper copies. Monaghan 379. [Athenaeum Club] unknown
188212416Norwich Conn.: Henry Bill Publishing Co. 1882. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated with steel engravings. Publisher's full black roan with gilt embossed vignette on front cover and title in gilt on front cover and spine extremities rubbed rear joint starting spine frayed; front fly leaf torn three inches at gutter. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. Overall a very good copy of this scarce and fragile book. First edition of each work extremely rare in the original issue together. Each is a fine biography of the respective president. Monaghan 991. Henry Bill Publishing Co. unknown
1865136231865. Lincoln Abraham. Late Civil War portrait of Abraham Lincoln derived from a February 1865 photograph taken during the final months of the American Civil War. The image records Lincoln near the conclusion of the conflict that preserved the Union and ended legal slavery in the United States. Created shortly before his assassination in April 1865 the portrait captures a visibly worn president whose appearance reflected the physical and political strain of leading the nation through four years of war. The photograph was long attributed to Mathew Brady but was actually taken by government photographer Lewis Emory Walker and issued commercially through the New York photographic publishers E. & H. T. Anthony. The portrait belongs to a group of late images that document Lincoln's appearance in the closing weeks of the war.<br /> <br /> Stereoview photograph published by Keystone View Company reproducing the 1865 Walker portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Keystone stereograph number 92. The mount bears the Keystone biographical text about Lincoln on the verso together with the company's copyright notice. A handwritten pencil notation on the reverse references the earlier attribution of the photograph to Mathew Brady. The portrait shows Lincoln with closely cut hair a style that contemporary accounts suggested was recommended by his barber in preparation for the creation of a life mask by sculptor Clark Mills.<br /> <br /> Photographic portraits of Lincoln produced during the final months of the Civil War became some of the most widely circulated visual representations of the president after his assassination in April 1865. Images such as this stereographic reproduction contributed to the creation of Lincoln's public memory in the late nineteenth century when photographic publishers issued stereographs and other prints that allowed Americans to view notable figures through emerging visual media. Stereographs played an important role in popular visual culture during this period offering audiences three dimensional photographic views through stereoscopic viewers and distributing portraits of political leaders to a wide national audience. Light wear consistent with age and handling. Overall condition good to very good. unknown
1863182911863. Maine Farmer. January 8 1863 prints the full text of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation within one week of its issuance providing contemporaneous evidence of how federal emancipation policy was circulated to the Northern public during the Civil War. Published just days after January 1 1863 the issue situates emancipation alongside ongoing war reporting integrating the declaration of freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states into the broader military and political narrative of the Union war effort. Introduced under the subheading "The following is the text of the President emancipating the slaves in the rebellious states" the proclamation asserts federal authority through wartime powers declaring that "all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free" and further authorizes the enlistment of Black men into the armed forces. The proximity of this text to battlefield reports and personal correspondence underscores the immediacy with which emancipation entered public discourse as both military strategy and social transformation.<br /> <br /> Maine Farmer. Vol. not stated. Maine January 8 1863. 4 pages. Newspaper format. The Emancipation Proclamation appears in full on the second page accompanied by additional Civil War coverage including reports of troop movements battle outcomes and casualties. On the same page a letter from a Union soldier of the 16th Maine Regiment written at the Battle of Fredericksburg reads in part: "Dear Father I write you while lying on the battlefield wounded perhaps fatally. Tell mother I think of her while lying here and wish I had her to be with me in my last parting moments." An editorial note explains that the letter was written in pencil on the battlefield the paper "tinged with blood" and that the soldier died the following day linking the proclamation directly to the lived experience of wartime sacrifice.<br /> <br /> Issued at a turning point in the Civil War the publication captures the intersection of emancipation policy military necessity and public communication in the Union states. The inclusion of both the proclamation and firsthand testimony from the battlefield demonstrates how questions of slavery citizenship and national survival were experienced simultaneously at the level of policy and individual life. Newspapers such as this served as primary vehicles through which federal decisions reached civilian audiences shaping understanding of the war's aims and consequences. Small edge tears and light foxing present not affecting text. Overall very good. unknown
186424898<p>"<i>As a MAN OF THE PEOPLE understanding them and trusted by them he has proved himself the man for the time.</i>"</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HENRY CHARLES LEA.</b>Printed Pamphlet. <i>No. 17: Abraham Lincoln</i> March 1864. 12 pp. 5¾ x 8¾ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>What will be the place assigned by history to Abraham Lincoln</i>" p3</p><p>"<i>Few of us can forget the feelings of doubt and distrust with which we regarded his advent to the Presidential chair. That his native energy had elevated him from a youth of poverty and labor was reassuring and yet the narrow sphere in which his life had mostly been passed seemed to deprive him of the opportunities of familiarity with the great principles and details of statesmanship requisite for the perilous contingencies of the future.</i>" p3-4</p><p>"<i>Thus with doubt confusion and demoralization around him with no landmarks in the past to serve as a guide for the present or as a precedent for the future did Mr. Lincoln undertake the awful responsibilities of his high position. Thus relying on himself and on the people he boldly set to work to restore the Republic.</i>" p5</p><p>"<i>The country was saved so soon as the people recognized in their President a man who believed that he could save it and who honestly intended to do so. Had Abraham Lincoln done no more than this he would have merited a place between Washington and Jackson. It is a great thing to lift a nation to the highest level of its duties and responsibilities and few men to whom in the world's history the opportunity has been vouchsafed have accomplished the task so thoroughly.</i>" p6</p><p>"<i>And now the momentous question arises before the American people—to whose hands shall be confided the delicate trust of restoring the Union of our fathers</i>" p7</p><p>"<i>The great duty to which Mr. Lincoln has dedicated himself with rare singleness of purpose is the one thought which engrosses every true American heart—the re-establishment of the Union on a permanent basis.</i>" p7</p><p>"<i>The results of the war during the last twelve-month have not shown that the Proclamation was a mistake in military policy.</i>" p9</p><p>"<i>When Mr. Lincoln recommended the plan of compensated emancipation which was adopted by Congress he showed that he recognized fully how great an element of future strife lay in the institution of slavery and how beneficial to the whole country its abolition would be. Moderate in all his opinions he wanted a gradual not a violent change and long after his Emancipation Proclamation was issued he provoked the wrath of the radical emancipationists in Missouri by lending what aid he constitutionally could to the 'conservatives' in that State who desired that the extinction of slavery should be brought about gradually. Possibly in this Mr. Lincoln was mistaken yet if so the error arose from the desire which he has constantly manifested to harmonize the conflicting interests of the country even at the expense of temporary popularity.</i>" p9-10</p><p>"<i>The wisest statesman does not disdain to profit by experience nor can the head of a popular government adopt measures of fundamental change before the people are ripe for them. It is probable that Mr. Lincoln learned much as the war wore on; at all events the people did.</i>" p10</p><p>"<i>There are many who have richly earned the gratitude of the people for eminent services rendered to the Republic in the hour of her trials. There is no one who has so signally centered upon himself the confidence of all. There have been mistakes of detail in military naval and financial matters—mistakes inseparable from the sudden transition from profound and prolonged peace to civil war upon the largest scale. Yet in the general policy of the administration in its principles of statesmanship there have been few errors save those arising from a too generous disbelief in the sincerity of Southern madness.</i>" p11</p><p>"<i>Had Mr. Lincoln moved faster than he has done he would have left the people behind him and lost the support without which no popular government can conduct an exhausting war.</i>" p11</p><p>"<i>As a MAN OF THE PEOPLE understanding them and trusted by them he has proved himself the man for the time.</i>" p12</p><p>"<i>no one can be named who unites like Abraham Lincoln the kindliness and firmness the skill and experience the native sagacity and honesty to bring about an harmonious settlement and to extort from repentant rebels the implicit confidence which those high qualities have won from all loyal men.</i>" p12</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>The Union League Club of Philadelphia formed in 1862 as a patriotic society to support the Union and the policies of the Lincoln administration. The members of this private club represented the Philadelphia region's elite in business education and religion.</p><p>On April 15 1864 Lea met with Lincoln in Washington and three days later he wrote to Lincoln including two pamphlets he had recently written for the Union League Club including this one. He informed Lincoln "To prevent misconstruction perhaps I should add that I am a man of independent position with nothing to ask at your hands except the preservation of our institutions."<br /></p><p><b>Henry Charles Lea</b> 1825-1909 was born in Philadelphia and received a classical education from a private tutor. He showed particular promise in natural history. He joined his father in the publishing business in 1843 but had a nervous breakdown in 1847. While recuperating he read medieval French history and decided to become a historian rather than a scientist. Over the next fifty years Lea produced ten books and numerous articles on medieval institutional legal and ecclesiastical history. During the Civil War Lea was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia and led its Board of Publication. In that role he wrote many of the League's published pamphlets including this one. From 1863 to 1865 he served as a Bounty Commissioner and aided the provost marshal in recruiting soldiers including African Americans.</p> books
1964206474New York/Tokyo: New Directions/John Weatherhill 1964. First Edition. Just about fine in a lightly used dust jacket. Square 8vo 179pp; cloth-backed boards. Inscribed and signed by Kirstein on the first blank dated 1965 and with a brief typed letter signed by Kirstein also inserted. New Directions/John Weatherhill 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 books
1872WRCAM31184Washington 1872. 4pp. of manuscript on a single long ruled sheet of paper folded in half to produce two folio-size leaves. Light fold lines. Minor browning. Very good. A legal manuscript copy of a land patent issued by Abraham Lincoln to John Hicks granting him lands in Missouri set aside by the United States in 1842 for reservation land but unclaimed at the time of the original grant on May 3 1861. The lands in question were ceded back to the United States via a treaty with the Wyandot Nation of the Upper Sandusky in Ohio signed March 17 1872. Includes numerous references to other key treaties made between 1842 and 1872. Good evidence of land transfer issues as the wholesale cession of Indian lands to the United States began in earnest. EBERSTADT 165:363. unknown books
11502Photograph cabinet size albumen print 4" x 6 3 /4 " laid down to larger board of Lincoln's Springfield IL home dated 1889 with imprint of O.H. Oldroyd state custodian on verso. This is a photograph of the only house the Lincoln's ever owned. The house was built in 1839 it was only a story and a half when they purchased it in May of 1844. Between 1844 and 1861 the years the Lincolns lived there the home underwent several additions the last in 1856 when the second story was added. A note on the verso indicates that the original owner of this photograph visited the Lincoln homestead in May of 1889. Some spotting to image mount toned notations in various hands on recto and verso of mount. Provenance from Ostendorf's collection. unknown books
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 books
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 books
2015274N.P.: by the artist 2015. Original. Framed and matted. Fine. Lucas Richardson. Framed in black wood and matted in charcoal gray: overall size 18 1/2" x 15 1/2" / image displayed: 7 7/8" x 4 7/8". Lucas Richardson graduated valedictorian from DuCret School of Art in 2002. He has a double major in graphic design and fine art illustration. He continued to study with Peter Caras who had been instructed by Frank Reilley James Bama and Norman Rockwell. As a portrait artist Richardson has undertaken commissions in oil & charcoal mediums. He is also actively engaged in digital design. A STRIKING Portrait! by the artist unknown books
1919100988Chromolithograph broadside 16" x 20".Creases where folded slight abrasion at the conjunction of one of the folds some slight chipping to the lower right corner and the left margin which extend a little into image; still a colorful and unusual piece. A scarce early 20th century broadside version of the Emancipation Proclamation in the form of a WWI "uplift" poster. At the center is Abraham Lincoln holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. He is flanked with smaller images of Paul L. Dunbar Frederick Douglas Lt. Col. Franklin A. Dennison and Lt. Col. Otis B. Duncan. Other images include soldiers farmers children at school and a bald eagle perched on top of American Flags. We are reminded in the captions of some of the accomplishments of African American and the promise of the future. A very attractive Broadside even with a few imperfections. Renesch, books
18653116807Very Good with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Very good copy in maroon cloth with gilt titles and top edge without dust jacket as issued. Edges of cloth faintly foxed. Top edge lightly dulled. Previous owner's name inked on first blank with discreet blind-stamp. Short splits at top & bottom edge of front & rear hinges. 4pps of advertisements at rear of text. Published a month after Lincoln's assassination. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages . hardcover
193532789London: Cresset Press. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Blue boards with gold printing bright with light wear top and bottom edges pages slightly browned in very good price clipped generally sunned dust jacket with one inch tear and fold on rear panel and chips on spine one removing the word "to" from the title. There is also a price tag 1 1/2" x 1 3/4" on the spine; "offered at 7'6". Still a very scarce dust jacket and looks better than it sounds. This was Lincoln's approved PhD thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London. The introduction is by CG Seligman. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 358 pp . Cresset Press hardcover
4725ROBERT TODD LINCOLN 1843-1926. Lincoln was the eldest son and only surviving child of Abraham Lincoln. He was Secretary of War under President Garfield and Minister to England under President Harrison. Upon George Pullman’s death in 1897 Lincoln became acting executive and then president of The Pullman Company resigning the position in 1911. ALS. 3pg. 4 ½†x 7â€. January 1 1891. An autograph letter signed “Robert T. Lincolnâ€: “I am not so happy as I have Mrs. Lincoln with me – She & our girls will come…later reaching London at the start of February. It is with great regret that I find myself engaged both for lunch & dinner for any day until I go away at midnight Saturday. My friends including yourself have overwhelmed me with kindness here & I am very sorry that I cannot stay longer to enjoy their hospitality. Hoping to find you at home tomorrow. Most sincerely yours Robert T. Lincolnâ€. The recipient appears to be Lily Macalester Berghmans Laughton the second Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. It is written on black-bordered mourning stationery and comes with a matching envelope in Lincoln’s handwriting. It is in fine condition. unknown books
196514844Richmond: Rockwell for Governor Campaign 1965. In March 1965 American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell announced that he would run for Governor of Virginia in November of that year. If elected governor Rockwell promised to throw Martin Luther King Jr. in jail institute a "fire-your-nigger" plan fight for "nonextradition of white criminals who flee from 'nigger loving' states; establish a race research laboratory through which anthropologists could publish honest statistics on Negro inferiority; and file tax suits against the federal government for using Virginia tax money to support 'lazy criminal niggers and foreign niggers in Africa'" Schmaltz p. 280. The party which was based in Arlington rented a small storefront in Richmond at 22 N. Seventh St. as campaign headquarters for the White Majority Party. Despite many party rallies and the distribution of thousands of pieces of campaign literature for which the party could hardly afford Rockwell only garnered 1% of the overall vote. <br /> <br /> This heavily illustrated publication was one of a number of campaign items published by Rockwell and unfolds to a poster that features an illustration of white Democrats and Republicans coming together as the United White Vote for Rockwell. Underneath the image is an article on how Rockwell plans to "smash Federal and Negro tyranny in Virginia!" The other side includes four panels showing through cartoons and other illustrations how current governor J. Lindsey Almond has failed to stop integration how race-mixing has developed in Virginia and Rockwell's program. <br /> <br /> The poster side is printed in black and orange and measures 22" x 17"; the other side is printed in black only. Small smudge to back panel else a fine copy of an extremely scarce ANP/Rockwell item. Only two copies in WorldCat at Michigan State and Brown; noticeably absent from Virginia institutions. Rockwell for Governor Campaign unknown
194726385New York: H. Bittner and Company 1947. First edition. Cloth. Good. Clothbound quarto. Artist monograph on this surrealist painter focused on his drawings. Edited and with text by Lincoln Kirstein. Includes 48 black and white plates. Covers soiled a bit about the edges of the cloth covers and with a bit of fraying at spine tips. Lacking the uncommon dustwrapper as often seen. This copy has been SIGNED by Tchelitchew on the front endpaper. A most uncommon signature. Also laid in to this copy are several pieces of Tchelitchew-related ephemera from other exhibitions of his works over the years. H. Bittner and Company unknown books
1987211766Chadds Ford PA and Boston MA: Brandywine River Museum New York Graphic Society and Little Brown and Company 1987. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 209 pp<br /> Published in conjunction a traveling exhibition. Features essays by James H. Duff Andrew Wyeth Thomas Hoving and Lincoln Kirstein. Includes 130 color and 54 black and white illustrations bibliography checklist and an index. A very good plus copy in brown cloth boards with some slight foxing and in a very good plus dust jacket with some foxing to the verso and some laid in related ephemera. Signed and inscribed by both Andrew and James Wyeth. A very nice copy as the recipient was involved in the production of the book as reference in both inscriptions. Brandywine River Museum, New York Graphic Society, and Little, Brown and Company unknown
2008x-0813926068Univ of Virginia Pr 2008. Hardcover. New. annotated edition edition. 2328 pages. 6.75x9.50x6.00 inches. Univ of Virginia Pr hardcover
1931017170Harcourt Brace and Company. First Printing. Complete in One Volume. Illustrated. Clipped DJ in archival cover edge wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1931. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
19577665PABEL ERICH 1957. 1. softcover. Deutscher Erstdruck! Maloftege! PABEL, ERICH paperback
19931London: Frederick Farrah. 1865. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Publisher's original printed paper wrappers. 48pp. A very good copy the binding firm with some toning to the spine. The contents with a few occasional dots of foxing and the odd minor mark to the margins are otherwise clean throughout and remain free from any previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. A scarce British publication celebrating the wit and wisdom of President Abraham Lincoln published shortly after his assassination on 14th April 1865. Beginning with a brief overview of his life the work comprises a wide ranging collection of humorous anecdotes and stories attributable to Lincoln including several relating to the Civil War and emancipation. Quite a number appear specific and plausible others less so: "'How old is that tree Abe' said a friend of the now President when the latter was engaged in the occupation of rail-splitting. 'Well I am not sure; but I am just about to axe him'". Seldom seen in commerce with no copies appearing in auction/catalogue records since 1966. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: Frederick Farrah. 1865 unknown
CA15AA-00090University of Pennsylvania Press. Collectible - Acceptable. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1939. 2 Volume set. Sm 4to Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 1038pp. Fair set no dust jackets. Ex-library. Some edgwear and scuffing to covers. Corners bumped. Catalog number on spine and front cover. Stamped on title page pencil marking on copyright page. With Smith Ely Jelliffe's bookplate on the front pastedowns. With his signature in blue ink on the front free endpaper of Volume 1. Minor soiling to edges. In polypropylene bag. From the collection of John Gach 1946-2009 a bibliophile and a nationally known bookseller who specialized in rare books devoted to the human sciences. witchcraft history Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
188655411Boston: Roberts Brothers 1886. Second edn. 8vo pp. 536 plus advertisements. Index. Marbled paper 3/4 brown calf little rubbed a very good copy. Inscribed on the end paper: "Maud C. Eastman Granby Mass Compliments of The Author Mary J Lincoln" See Bitting page 288 for the 1896 edition. Grolier Club One Hundred Influential American Books Printed in Before 1900 page 116-117; Cagle 478 the first edition. According to the preface the work was "undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston Cooking School who have desired that the receipts and lessons given during the last four years in that institution should be arranged in a permanent form. Roberts Brothers unknown books