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18638703<p>One partly-printed military commisssion on vellum signed by Lincoln as president and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War dated May 16th 1863. The document commissions Benjamin H. Geary as Second Lieutenant to the 13th Infantry Regiment on August 13th 1862. Accession note to top left.</p><p>The document measures 14.75 x 19.5 in</p>
18622923Washington D.C.: War Department 1862. Calf marbled boards. Very Good. FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING OF THE PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION setting a date for the freedom of more than three million enslaved in the United States and reframing the Civil War as a fight against slavery. Issued by the War Department to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in the week after the completion of President Lincoln’s official manuscript version. Contained is a set of three volumes of General Orders covering the full year 1862 July-Dec 1863 and the full year 1864. History of the Emancipation Proclamation:<br /> <br /> “The proclamation has been called by responsible persons one of the three great<br /> documents of world history ranking with Magna Carta and the Declaration of<br /> Independence†– Eberstadt<br /> <br /> “From the first days of the Civil War slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery’s final destruction the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom†– National Archives<br /> <br /> Following the Seven Days Battle and General McClellan’s retreat from the Peninsula at the end of June 1862 President Lincoln realized that there would be no early end to the war and found himself “as inconsolable as it was possible for a human to be and yet live.†Anxious for news from the army and needing to escape the constant interruptions at the White House he frequently visited the telegraph office in the War Department building to await dispatches. It was during one such visit early in July that he asked the chief of the telegraph staff Major Thomas Thompson Eckert for some paper to “write something special†and began the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation completing it in a few weeks. Lincoln had long hoped to resolve the slavery issue through a congressional act of emancipation compensating slave owners for their loss of “property†but that approach was roundly rejected by representatives from the border states leaving the President who had decided upon the necessity of emancipation with a presidential proclamation as the only option. The extraordinary document he conceived would announce the liberation on January 1 1863 of all slaves in those states still in rebellion against the Union and promised compensation to slave owners in those states that returned to the fold before that time if they adopted “immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery.†This proclamation would be followed by a final proclamation issued on the 1st of January identifying those states still in rebellion and confirming the liberation of all slaves therein.<br /> <br /> On Tuesday July 22 Lincoln presented his draft to the Cabinet telling them that he had resolved firmly upon the course of action it specified and asking them not for advice but suggestions. The only observation he had not anticipated came from Secretary of State Seward who proposed that it might be best to wait for a military victory before issuing the Proclamation as it could otherwise seem like “the last measure of an exhausted government.†Immediately recognizing the wisdom of the suggestion Lincoln held back. On September 17 after an anxious wait of nearly two months he received the victory he needed at the bloody Battle of Antietam. Completing his final draft Lincoln presented it to his cabinet for refinement on September 22. Following the meeting Seward took the amended draft with him to the State Department where a formal manuscript copy was made then signed by Lincoln and Seward. The formal official “Emancipation Proclamation†was of course issued on January 1 1863 the day it became the law of the land.<br /> <br /> Printing History:<br /> <br /> This printing in the War Department’s official “General Orders†is the fourth printing overall but realistically the first obtainable printing. It is preceded by:<br /> <br /> -The first printing Eberstadt #1 a small three-page circular intended for distribution within the government and to the local press likely printed on September 22. At the time that Charles Eberstadt published his study of the Proclamation 1950 he was able to locate only one copy which he himself owned and as nearly as we have been able to determine no other copies have come to light since then.<br /> <br /> -The second printing Eberstadt #2 may be a phantom printing. Charles Eberstadt was not able to locate a copy but he inferred its existence from the standard State Department practice of printing a folio edition consisting solely of the text of the proclamation followed by another printing consisting of the text of a letter of transmittal from the Secretary of State as well as the text of the proclamation. While there may be a copy of Eberstadt #2 in the National Archives as he speculated it is not recorded in their online catalogue nor have we been able to find a copy in any other online catalogue including OCLC the Library of Congress and the Abraham Lincoln Library.<br /> <br /> -Eberstadt’s third printing is of legendary rarity. It consists of Secretary of State Seward’s one-page letter of transmittal addressed “To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States in foreign countries†and the text of the proclamation. Eberstadt located a total of only five copies in institutions at the Library of Congress the National Archives Yale the Clements Library and Brown. OCLC does not record any additional copies nor is it recorded in Monaghan. There has been one copy at auction $400000 in 2021 and that was described as the only copy in private hands. <br /> <br /> -The present copy General Orders No. 139 is Eberstadt’s fourth printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation dated in print on September 24. Eberstadt surmises that this field order printing could have been accomplished as late as September 29 or 30. Although it may have been printed in as many as 15000 copies it is very rare in commerce likely due to the ephemeral nature of the printing and distribution.<br /> <br /> Additional General Orders and Provenance:
<br /> <br /> The three volumes once belonged to John G. Haskell A.Q.M. Chief Quartermaster and contain the General Orders for the year 1862 July-December only for the year 1863 and for the full year 1864. John Gideon Haskell 1832-1907 was a resident of Kansas and joined the Union Army when the war broke out. He enlisted with the 14th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and later served as Assistant Quartermaster General of Kansas as quartermaster of the Third Kansas and the Tenth Kansas Volunteers as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster on the staff of General James G. Blunt and as Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Frontier. After the war Haskell was named official state architect and worked on the state house the capitol the State University and more.<br /> <br /> In addition to the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation the three volumes also contain the Acts of Congress on many other subjects including pay discharge recruitment handling of troops etc.<br /> <br /> Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General’s Office 1862-64. Three volumes. Small octavo contemporary three-quarter brown morocco two volumes with cloth boards one with marbled boards. Some rubbing and wear to bindings pencil notations on endpapers with collation and highlighting certain orders and some internal pages. Dampstaining to general title of 1862 volume; internal text and Emancipation Proclamation generally fine. RARE AND IMPORTANT.<br /> <br /> References:<br /> <br /> Charles Eberstadt. “Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.†New York: 1950. War Department unknown
1839373003Vandalia Illinois 1839. First edition. 3 1pp. 8vo. Disbound. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. First edition. 3 1pp. 8vo. Abraham Lincoln had yet to join the bar when he began his first stint in politics in the Illinois legislature in 1834 serving four consecutive terms in the Assembly through 1841. "This rare printing has the prestige of being the first occurrence of Lincoln's name as the sole author of a work. As a Whig lawmaker he was devoted to his party's program of public works through government financing. After the Panic of 18376 the spending he had advocated for had resulted in massive state debts. To relieve the budgetary burden Lincoln proposed that Illinois acquire land within its borders which the federal government still possessed and then sell the land at a fourfold profit to settlers and speculators resulting in both increased revenues and self-determined land ownership" Boroujerdi. Very rarethoma. Monaghan 1; Boroujerdi et. al. Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 29 unknown
1864175101864. Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Figures Album of pasted oval portraits with signatures underneath each image. 1861. Features most notably Abraham Lincoln with a pasted signature below his image. This mid-nineteenth-century photographic album assembles oval portraits of political and military figures during the Civil War era including a pasted signature beneath an engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the 15th page. Dated inscriptions from 1861 situate the compilation at the outset of national conflict. The inclusion of Lincoln Henry Clay and numerous uniformed figures reflects contemporary practices of collecting and memorializing political leadership through photographic reproduction and autograph acquisition.<br /> <br /> Photographic album measuring approximately 4.5 x 7 inches. Dark green morocco boards with gilt "Photographs" title. Contains 93 black-and-white and sepia portraits most approximately 2.5 x 2.25 inches mounted on pages. Lincoln portrait with separate pasted signature "A. Lincoln"; Henry Clay portrait with pasted signature; additional signatures written directly on album leaves. Spine chipped at head with separation; rubbing along margins; binding intact; photographs generally clear with minor age toning. Overall condition very good. he album reflects nineteenth-century commemorative culture preserving images and autographs of national figures during a transformative political moment. unknown
186369186Boston: Boston Daily Courier 1863. Full Description:<br> <br> LINCOLN Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation."President's Proclamation. Emancipation of Slaves in Rebellious States." Boston. Published in: Boston Daily Courier Volume LXXVIII no. 2. Friday Morning January 2 1863.<br> <br> The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in the Boston Daily Courier and one of if not the first official public announcements of the Final Emancipation Proclamation once it was signed and in effect as of January 1 1863. The Proclamation is featured at the top of the center column of page 3.<br> <br> We could find no other copies of this or any other January 2nd edition at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt's entry for the second edition of the "Final Proclamation" Eberstadt 9 states "Second edition. Apparently the only separate newspaper edition of the final proclamation and the earliest non-official edition. Printed on Friday evening January 2 1863 this Extra in point of chronological sequence was preceded only by the first official edition." Our present copy although not a separate newspaper edition was rushed to press and published in the Friday Morning edition of the Courier placing it's publication prior to Eberstadt 9.<br> <br> According to Eberstadt "A number of newspapers did not issue on January 2nd because of the previous day's holiday but most of those that did carried the final proclamation. Many of the others printed it on January 3rd." pg. 17.<br> <br> Broadsheet folio one large leaf folded along side to make four pages two leaves printed on recto and verso. Seven-column format. 26 x 19 inches; 655 x 490 mm. Light creases down the middle in both directions. A few minor closed tears. A large old ink signature along top margin of front page causing some bleed-through and foxing but not affecting text. Still a very good copy of this important declaration.<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. Once January 1st 1863 arrived President Lincoln signs and issues the final Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves in the Confederate states. The Boston Courier issued this early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next morning January 2 1863. "<br> <br> HBS 69186.<br> <br> $8500. Boston Daily Courier unknown
186368373Massachusetts 1863. LINCOLN Abraham. Massachusetts: 1863.<br> <br> Letterpress broadside 27 3/4 x 20 in.; 708 x 508 mm on paper incorporating several display and ornamental fonts as well as the seal of Massachusetts docketed on the verso "Post Office Hanover.' Some light offsetting. Nearly invisible professional repairs to the verso along the folds. A very nice example of this rare and important broadside<br> <br> This original broadside produced in Massachusetts is formatted in two halves with the top half being Governor John A. Andrew's announcement of Lincoln's Proclamation endorsing the observation of this day of Thanksgiving in his state dated July 27 1863 and the bottom half being Lincoln's actual proclamation dated July 15th 1863 and announcing that August 6th shall be set aside as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Though the exact printing date is unknown it can be assumed that it was printed within the week following July 27th.<br> <br> Thanksgiving was observed as a Holiday since colonial times and each state would set aside its own day for celebration. This proclamation was the first time that the Holiday would be celebrated on a set day nation wide making it the first observed Thanksgiving as a National Holiday.<br> <br> Though later the same year on October 3rd 1863 Lincoln made a second proclamation again announcing Thanksgiving as a Holiday but this time in November a date closer to the time most states had been celebrating it in the past. This earlier proclamation is actually the first time Thanksgiving was given national status but because the second proclamation was widely accepted the knowledge of this earlier one has been somewhat forgotten making this piece a rare and important document in the annals of American history.<br> <br> Though this broadside is for the State of Massachusetts no other broadsides from any other states that announce this date are known to exist and only three other copies of this rare document are located through OCLC.<br> <br> HBS 68373.<br> <br> $8500. Massachusetts unknown
1967237j0231Dallas Texas: Ragnarok Press. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1967. Second Edition. Hardcover. "George Lincoln Rockwell 1918-1967 Commander of the American Nazi Party graphically describes the present status of the White Race in a crumbling and degenerate world. Leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that the White Race is doomed if it does not soon recognize and destroy the source of the Black Power which is threatening its very existence. Commander Rockwell establishes the case for ACTION." - dust jacket. This second edition copy was printed in September 1967 a month after the first edition. In that brief interval Rockwell was assassinated by a former party member. 482 pp. Grainy black and white reproductions of photos and documentation. Truth Seeker rubber ink stamp to copyright page otherwise unmarked. White illustrated boards are moderately warped. Narrow openings run the full length of each side of the backstrip. Binding tender but intact. Heavy wear and soiling to fragile dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A worthy reference example of this scarce work. Singerman 1176 Weems p. 92.; 8vo . Ragnarok Press hardcover
6509ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1865. Lincoln was the Sixteenth President.DS. 1pg. August 1 1864. Washington. A vellum military commission signed Abraham Lincoln as President and co-signed E.M. Stanton as Secretary of War. The President appointed James Wylie Crawford a First Lieutenant in the Veterans Reserve Corps. Crawford 1832-1910 was from Maine; according to family lore he was badly wounded at Antietam I bought this directly from a descendant. This injury required his enlistment in the Veterans Reserve Corps. The Veterans Reserve Corps allowed wounded soldiers to remain active often performing small tasks and light duty; established in the middle of 1863 it was first known as the Invalid Corps until the official name was changed. The document recently underwent conservation with the vellum stretched and flattened; the top right corner of the vellum has shrunk and the document was once rolled. The Lincoln autograph is a tad light and gets lighter as the autograph gets towards the conclusion; the Stanton is also a bit faint but vellum does not hold ink that well especially compared to paper. hardcover
15042913315/04/1865. <blockquote><p>The Assassination:<strong><br /></strong></p></blockquote><p>Abraham Lincoln continues to stand as America’s most beloved President. Of our nation’s historical icons Lincoln is the quintessential embodiment of American possibility in his mythic-like rise from rail-splitter to Chief Executive and Emancipator of the oppressed. The admiration felt by Americans for Lincoln’s humble integrity his performance in office his noble statesmanship and his keen sense of justice is enduring. Lincoln is not given the highest marks just for character but for the transformation of the nation that he left behind which was both profound and long-lasting.</p><p>Polls of historians generally show their belief that Lincoln faced the hardest job of any president. He had to define the issues inspire the people be steadfast in the face of losses win the Civil War free the slaves and lay the groundwork to reunite the nation. All that in the face of determined opposition. He accomplished all this in four years but was assassinated on April 14 1865 and his death left him unable to finish the job a job that quite likely he was the only one with a chance to get completed in a way that would truly bring the nation together.</p><p>The end of the Civil War left the nation with two overwhelming questions: what to do with and do for the millions of freed slaves; and how to reintegrate the South into the Union. On the first point Lincoln was focused on African American access to land economic prosperity and legal rights and had just approved Gen. William T. Sherman’s order distributing parcels of former slave plantations to the slaves themselves. Lincoln wanted black Union veterans to have the right to vote which was a step to ultimately embracing full suffrage for African American males. In what proved to be his final speech three evenings before his death Lincoln had become the first president ever to support black voting. Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson was a Southerner uninterested in fair treatment of the liberated slaves. He opposed plans designed to guarantee the civil rights of black Americans and cancelled Sherman’s order granting land to slaves. Johnson accepted the draconian post-Civil War Black Codes which limited the rights and liberties of African-Americans something Lincoln would never have done.</p><p>On the second point the readmission of the Southern states Johnson felt that once Southern states returned their loyalty to the national government they could manage their own affairs. This meant they could pass any Jim Crow laws they liked. He opposed the Republican plan for Reconstruction of the South including provisions designed to guarantee the civil rights of black Americans. The Republican Congress had no rapport with Johnson and the initial four years era of Reconstruction which was a disaster to the nation was essentially a bitter battle between a North and South that remained locked in contention presided over by a weak President Johnson and a Congress at loggerheads with him. Lincoln had enormous power and influence some of which extended into the South. He saw the end of the war as an opportunity to not simply celebrate victory but an opportunity to move the country forward. Johnson had no such feeling. Lincoln would have been much better placed to direct moderate and ease the contentions of Reconstruction.</p><p>John Wilkes Booth was a member of a famous acting family and he enjoyed a phenomenally successful stage career during the Civil War: By 1864 he earned $20000 a year at a time when the average Northern family earned around $300 annually. A Marylander by birth Booth was an open Confederate sympathizer during the war. A supporter of slavery Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South. After Lincoln’s reelection in November 1864 Booth devised a plan to kidnap the president and spirit him to Richmond where he could be ransomed for some of the Confederate prisoners languishing in northern jails. That winter Booth and his conspirators plotted a pair of elaborate plans to kidnap the president; the first involved capturing Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theater and lowering the president to the stage with ropes. Booth ultimately gave up acting to focus on these schemes. Neither of the kidnapping plans bore fruit. On the evening of April 11 the President stood on the White House balcony and delivered a speech to a small group gathered on the lawn. Two days earlier Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House and after four long years of struggle it had become clear that the Union cause would shortly emerge from the war victorious. Lincoln’s speech that evening outlined some of his ideas about reconstructing the nation and bringing the defeated Confederate states back into the Union. Lincoln also indicated a wish to extend the franchise to some African-Americans—at the very least those who had fought in the Union ranks during the war - and expressed a desire that the southern states would extend the vote to literate blacks as well. Booth stood in the audience for the speech and this notion seems to have amplified his rage at Lincoln. “That means nigger citizenship†he told Lewis Powell one of his band of conspirators. “Now by God I’ll put him through. That is the last speech he will ever make.â€</p><p>Three days later Booth made good on his promise. Upon learning that Lincoln and his wife intended to see the play “Our American Cousin†at Ford’s Theater Booth used his actor’s connections there to gain access to the President’s box. He shot Lincoln at about 10 pm on April 14 1865 and Lincoln died about after 7 am on the 15th.</p><p>Dr. Charles Leale was in the audience. Leale leapt over theater seats got to the president’s box and announced that he was a doctor. As he entered the President was sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and head slumped. He already looked dead Leale recalled. He felt Lincoln’s right arm for a pulse but couldn’t find one. He and some others eased Lincoln to the floor and Leale began searching for the wound. “I quickly passed the separated fingers of both hands through his blood-matted hair…and I discovered his mortal wound†Leale recalled. “The president had been shot in the back part of the head behind the left ear.†Leale stuck the little finger of his left hand into the hole in Lincoln’s skull. “I then knew it was fatal and told the bystanders†he wrote later. Leale knew he had to get Lincoln out of the theater to treat him. But he believed a carriage ride back to the White House would kill him. He and several other men lifted the president and with Leale holding Lincoln’s head they began to maneuver him outside. Across the street from the theater was the house of William Peterson and Lincoln was taken there. Lincoln was carried to a small back room stripped of his clothes and covered with blankets. His 6-foot-4-inch frame had to be placed diagonally to fit on the bed. Leale ordered the window opened and the wait began. A parade of anguished government officials and family members came and went. The President sank steadily his breathing labored and his pulse nearly undetectable. At 7:22 am on April 15 President Lincoln breathed his last. Leale smoothed the contracted muscles of Lincoln’s features placed two coins over his eyes and pulled a sheet up over his face. Famously Secretary of War Stanton saluted the fallen President and uttered “Now he belongs to the ages.†Stanton further eulogized Lincoln with the apt observation “There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen.â€</p><p><strong>Original report</strong> on the assassination printed the very day he died</p><p>The public was hungry for information and the newspapers equally hungry to report the momentous news. One of these was the Binghamton Daily Republican and this is its issue of April 15 1865 with black mourning columns.</p><p>The front page as was routine at the time was taken up by ads. The news then began on page two. There at top left is the headline <em>“The Assassination of President Lincoln! A Nation in Mourning!!!â€</em> It begins <em>“We feel too unfitted by this awful event to allude to the calamity in terms becoming its solemnity and importance! LINCOLN IS DEAD! Struck down by the hands of a brutal assassin in the midst of the triumphs which were commemorating his salvation of the country. A great man indeed has fallen! The foremost man of his time is no more…We dare not contemplate what may follow this sad and inscrutable providence.â€</em> This was followed by a proclamation of the governor of New York. On page three were dispatches from 12:30 AM to noon to 3:00. An early dispatch reports that<em> “the President was shot… and is not expected to liveâ€</em> and told of the events of the assassination then available in detail. It mentioned <em>“The screams of Mrs. Lincoln first disclosed the fact to the audience that the President had been shot.â€</em> Later it reported of Lincoln <em>“At midnight the Cabinet…a few personal friends with Surg. Gen. Barnes and his immediate assistants were beside his bedside…The parting of his family with the dying president is too sad for description.â€</em></p><p>At noon the newspaper had more news and reported <em>“Later concerning the President. He died this morning at 7:20. Two villains engaged in the horrible crime. The murder planned before March 4th.â€</em> At the bottom of the column is a report on the progress of the army of General William T. Sherman saying that in response to Grant’s hope Sherman would pursue the remaining Confederates Sherman said <em>“I think we’ll do it.â€</em> At 3:00 the paper printed the latest from Washington. It contained <em>“Full particulars of the Death of Abraham Lincolnâ€</em> plus <em>“Inauguration of President Johnsonâ€</em> and Johnson’s statement on taking office.</p><p>Original newspapers reporting Lincoln’s assassination have become very scarce this being our first in over a decade. This one is comprehensive and with its black borders and large headlines is evocative of the moment and would be perfect for display.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> hardcover
1921140947792East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1921. Near Fine. 7 volumes. Bound in publisher's side-stapled light green wraps printed in black; lacking the scarce original cardboard box. Near Fine with light fading and slight toning to covers and contents. Cover of volume I is creased with a small closed tear at the edge; volume VII has light markings to front cover. Included is a slightly toned tri-fold personality chart that lists associated assets and traits; initials written in pencil at the verso. <p>A scarce self-help guide intended to determine the assets and attributes of a individual's personality through physical traits. A precursor to constitutional psychology somatotypes developed in the 1940's and borrowing from 19th-century phrenology these booklets evaluate a person's temperament through eye shapes mouth curves nose slopes hand appearance hair color torso sizes and face shapes. The Benedicts offer to teach the reader how to recognize these physical types and understand their innate differences. For example a person with Thoracic personality type has a "flushed complexion" a "quick temper" and is "charming" according to the Benedict's Law of Combinations. Someone who is determined to be Cerebral or someone with a "larger than average forehead" is "self-sacrificing" "has none" when it comes to business assets and should "avoid speculation." <p> The suffragette turned motivational speaker was a pioneer in New Thought texts laying the foundation for Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie. Affectionately coined "The Wonder Woman" and advertised as the world's best known lecturer Elsie Lincoln Benedict spoke to over three million people in her lifetime. She was a millionaire by age 30 and drew a larger crowd than sitting President Wilson during the 1920 Human Analysis lecture series in Seattle a testament to her universal appeal. The Roycrofters 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
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>
1926140948152East Aurora NY: The Roycrofters 1926. First Edition. Near Fine/Fair. First edition. Signed by Elsie Lincoln Benedict on the front free endpaper and inscribed to the former owner in purple ink "To Mrs. Beatrice Turner with best regards from one of the authors "E"." Bound in publisher's quarter purple suede over illustrated paper boards with morocco spine label stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. Near Fine with uneven fading to spine and edges light wear; silk ribbon book marker creased light fraying at ends. In tattered remnants of the dust jacket. <p>The power couple's travelogue diary of their travels around the world funded by the money made from Elsie's speaking events and book royalties. The suffragette turned motivational speaker was a pioneer in New Thought texts laying the foundation for Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie. Affectionately coined "The Wonder Woman" and advertised as the world's best known lecturer Elsie Lincoln Benedict spoke to over three million people in her lifetime. She was a millionaire by age 30 and drew a larger crowd than sitting President Wilson during the 1920 Human Analysis lecture series in Seattle a testament to her universal appeal. Inscribed to Newport artist and recluse Beatrice Turner d. 1948. Turner who died in obscurity produced thousands of self-portraits in oil throughout her lifetime at the family's nouveau riche ocean side mansion Cliffside; scarce signed. The Roycrofters unknown
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
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
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
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
196011152Boston: Boston University. Fine with no dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This is the manuscript submitted by Lincoln for his Phd. Signed by the Dean of Theology & Associate Professor of Social Ehtics but NOT by Lincoln unfortunately. Bound carbon copy printed on one side of each page. Obvious precursor to "Black Muslims in America. " ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 390 pages . Boston University hardcover
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
3389Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872. Broadside 24.5†x 19†plus margins; portrait and text in five columns. CONDITION: Torn through upper right the tear affecting the portrait restored backed with Japanese tissue. <p>The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches.</p> <p>Lincoln and Fell became acquainted during a session of the Illinois State Legislature in the winter of 1834–35. Lincoln was serving as a representative and Fell as a lobbyist for MacLean County Illinois. The two became political friends and saw much of each other in subsequent years. In 1858 when Lincoln came to prominence as a result of his debates with Stephen Douglas Fell who had recently returned from a trip east where the public was hungry for information about Lincoln approached his friend as he came out of the Bloomington Illinois courthouse one afternoon and asked him for a biographical sketch. Lincoln initially resisted but the following year gave in composing a brief autobiography as well as a letter of explanation both of which he mailed to Fell on December 20th 1859.</p> <p>Delighted that Lincoln had finally complied and eager to promote his cause Fell forwarded Lincoln’s autobiography to his friend Joseph J. Lewis in Pennsylvania who used it for an article that was published in the Chester County Times PA on February 11th 1860. Lewis’s article was reprinted in many newspapers and “became the first widely read biographical sketch of Lincoln and served as a basis for the first three Lincoln campaign biographies in book form†Sage. In 1872 while preparing his biography of Lincoln for publication Ward H. Lamon wrote to Fell asking him to forward Lincoln’s sketch and its accompanying letter to his publisher James R. Osgood & Co. for consultation and facsimile publication. Placing no particular value on the original manuscripts when he first received them Fell had not requested their return but now retrieved them in response to Lamon’s request. He then forwarded the biographical sketch but not Lincoln’s letter of explanation substituting instead his own cover letter. Since Lincoln’s sketch was neither addressed to Fell nor signed Fell included with his letter clippings in Lincoln’s hand reading “Hon. J. W. Fell†and “Yours very truly/A. Lincoln†which were then pasted onto Lincoln’s sketch. Also added was an emblem and statement testifying to the authenticity of the manuscript signed by David Davis Lyman Trumbull and Charles Sumner dated at Washington D.C. March 20th 1872. The facsimile was included in Lamon’s biography and published separately in the form of the broadside offered here.</p> <p>Rare. OCLC records only four copies.</p> <p>REFERENCES: Not in Monaghan; Stern Collection 4792; Sage Harold K. Jesse W. Fell and the Lincoln Autobiography in The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association Vol. 3 Issue 1 1981 pp. 48–58. </p> Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872 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
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
1681H0011a2-a6b-b7c-c7d-2315 pages. Small square octavo 7 ¾" x 6 ¼" bound in full leather. Second edition. Thomas Barlow 1607-1691 was an English academic and clergyman who became Provost of The Queen's College Oxford and Bishop of Lincoln. He was considered in his own times and by Edmund Venables writing in the Dictionary of National Biography to have been a trimmer a reputation mixed in with his academic and other writings on casuistry. His views were in fact Calvinist and strongly anti-Catholic and he was one of the last English bishops to identify the Pope as the Antichrist He worked in the 1660s for the 'comprehension' of nonconformists but supported the crackdown of the mid-1680s; and declared loyalty to James II of England on his accession having strongly supported the Exclusion Bill which would have denied the Catholic James the succession. Pope Pius V's response to Queen Elizabeth I of England assuming governance of the Church of England included support of the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots and her supporters in their attempts to take over England "ex turpissima muliebris libidinis servitute". A brief English Catholic uprising the Rising of the North had just failed. Pius then issued a bull Regnans in Excelsis dated April 27 1570 that declared Elizabeth I a heretic and released her subjects from their allegiance to her. In response Elizabeth who had thus far tolerated Catholic worship in private now actively started persecuting them. Condition: Original bards with new period spine and red label with gilt lettering to spine corners rubbed and bumped else a good to very good copy. Printed by S Roycroft for Robert Clavel at the Peacock hardcover
