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1878A151-1737Wien, Kaiserlich-K?nigliches Milit?r-Geographisches Institut, 1878. Heliogravure in Kupfer vervielf?ltigt durch Umdruck vom Steine., Blatt ca. 51x 45 cm, Kartenbild; ca. 48 x 42 zu 6 Segmenten auf Leinen aufgezogen; Zustand: sehr gut
1878A151-1415Wien, Kaiserlich und K?nigliches Milit?r-Geographisches Institut, 1878. Heliogravure in Kupfer vervielf?ltigt durch Umdruck vom Steine., Blatt ca. 51x 45 cm, Kartenbild; ca. 48 x 42 zu 6 Segmenten auf Leinen aufgezogen; Zustand: sehr gut
1878A151-2168Wien, Kaiserlich und K?nigliches Milit?r-Geographisches Institut, 1878. Heliogravure in Kupfer vervielf?ltigt durch Umdruck vom Steine., Blatt ca. 51x 45 cm, Kartenbild; ca. 48 x 42 zu 6 Segmenten auf Leinen aufgezogen; Zustand: sehr gut
18602306051860. fair. Addressed in ink to Miss Mary Carroll Fox Lake Dodge County Wisconsin; ink smudged. <br/><br/>Abraham Lincoln had operated the post office at New Salem Illinois. In his 1860 campaign for the Presidency envelopes known to philatelists as campaign covers became campaign promoters. This envelope shows in colors an American flag the U. S. Constitution a fasces and two hands clasping above the motto "Liberty and Union". Embossed words surround the image for slavery freedom national sectional liberty victory. Embossed into the rear flap are the words "Hon. Abraham Lincoln of ILL. / For President; / Hon. Hannibal Hamlin of ME / For V. Pres." Notably the three cent stamp featuring George Washington is one of the earliest U.S. stamps with perforations which were introduced in 1857. This stamp listed as US #26 a Type III stamp has perforations of 15 1/2. In the five years this series was produced an estimated 550000000 were produced. Note: in this heavily cancelled worn stamp has a value of about $5. unknown
1864BB_Lincoln_badge<p><strong>LINCOLN</strong> Abraham 1809–1865</p><p><em><strong>PHOTO BADGE</strong></em> in copper frame with silk <strong>Campaign Ribbon</strong> circa 1864</p><p>Framed Albumen Portrait measures 1 x ¾ inches; Ribbon imprinted Chicago: North Western Flag & Banner Co. L. 4 inches.</p><p>The portrait by Anthony <strong>BERGER</strong> of Matthew Brady's Gallery the image taken in Washington DC 9 February 1864</p><p>Reference: C Hamilton and L Ostendorf: <em>Lincoln in Photographs</em> 109</p> North Western Flag & Banner Co.
183099804<p>Boston MA: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth 1830. 1830. Very good. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover bound in printed self-wrappers. Once bound in with other similar pamphlets these three related items are unbound and removed with stab marks along the left edges. The pagination is a follows: pages 1-11 1 & 13-21 1-8; and 1-12. There is some scattered foxing throughout all three items. The cover page of the Senate No. 10 report dated December 15 1829 is darkened & stained with minor chipping to the bottom corners of that page and of the last page. Very good.</p><p>First edition Massachusetts Senate No. 21. The report is signed on page 11 by John W. Lincoln Chairman. The report is followed by the text of a bill entitled "An act to establish the Boston and Lowell Rail Road Corporation."</p><p>The Boston and Lowell Railroad was the first major railroad in the state of Massachusetts. The Boston and Lowell Railroad was preceded by the Middlesex Canal. Converting the canal to a railroad would eliminate the issue of transportation being unavailable during the winter when the canal froze. Patrick Tracy Jackson led the task of convincing the state legislature to fund the project. This proved difficult as the investors of the Middlesex Canal were against building a new form of transportation designed to replace their canal. The report at hand details the protest of the directors of the Middlesex Canal against granting the petition of John F. Loring and others to construct a railroad in its place. Loring and the other investors received their charter on June 5 1830 and the railroad began operations on June 24 1835.</p><p>The pamphlet is accompanied by an earlier February 12 1830 pamphlet titled:"To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled. : The president directors and company of the Middlesex Canal having seen the publication of the petition of John F. Loring and others for a rail road from Boston to Lowell and the order of notice thereon beg leave to present the following remonstrance to granting the prayer thereof." 12 pages. Signed page 12: Wm. Sullivan Josh. Coolidge Geo. Hallet committee of directors of Middlesex Canal to this purpose duly authorized. House No. 40 printed by Dutton and Wentworth 1830.</p><p>In addition an earlier pamphlet from 1829 is included: "Boston December 15 1829. To His Excellency Levi Lincoln Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : Sir On the behalf of the Commissioners of Internal Improvements I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of a survey made in conformity to a resolve of the legislature passed on the 12th day of June 1829 directing the Board to survey a route for a rail road from the town of Taunton to some point in the route previously surveyed between Boston and Providence : with great consideration and respect I am your humble and most obe't. serv't. Josiah J. Fiske chairman." 8 pages. Signed on page 8: Josiah J. Fiske Willard Phillips James Hayward Commissioners of the Board of Internal Improvements. Senate No. 10. Printed by Dutton and Wentworth.</p> [Boston, MA: Printed by Dutton and Wentworth], [1830]. paperback
18902099Lincoln NE: Lincloln Real Estate Exchange 1890. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Good . 3 1/8 X 5 3/8 Inches. 12 PP. "The City of Lincoln - The Capital and Railroad Educational Political and Commercial Center of Nebraska"<br /> <br /> SCARCE original 1890 Lincoln Nebraska advertising brochure. Includes listing of population Railroads "Jobbing" and manufacturing centers Churches and Schools. The Real Estate market in Lincoln is addressed the last page contains the detailed list of businesses the city is in need of. These businesses include: Agricultural implements Beet sugar works Book and shoe factories Barbed wire factory Glue factory Carriage factories Stove foundries Glove and mitten factory Tannery and many more. Nice engravings of the Nebraska State Capital and the Lancaster County Court-House. The rear panel states "Compliments of The First National Bank." <br /> <br /> Original stapled wraps. A bit of toning to covers with a few smudges. Lower spine is quite worn rounded from maybe being stored in a pocket and/or wallet VERY SCARCE. OCLC LOCATES "0" COPIES. We could not locate one for sale on the open market and/or a listing of a sale at auction. Lincloln Real Estate Exchange unknown
186324813Washington DC: War Department 1863. Paperback. 16mo. Self-cover. 35pp. Very good. Mild age toning; minor binding traces. Lengthy Court Martial proceeding against the U.S. Army Quartermaster at St. Louis Justus McKinstry 1814-97 who is charged with "prostituting his office" in these 61 specifications -- in 26 of which is he found "Guilty" with the recommendation "To be dismissed the service." Lincoln who signs in type at the conclusion supports this finding. Also signed in type by Adjutant General L. Thomas who dissolves the General Court Martial. War Department paperback
186010625Columbus OH: Follett Foster & Co 1860. First Hardcover Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo 406pp. illustrated plus advertisements. With half-title and original endpapers. A very good copy complete and unrestored in the publisher's brown cloth. Spine ends with shallow wear one scrunch to the cloth on the front board abrasions to corners and mild internal foxing. Still a nice sound copy with strong inner hinges. All three illustrations present as called for including an uncommonly dashing portrait of the 16th president. Preceded by two issues in wrappers both of which are extremely rare in commerce. Considered to be the first widely read modern campaign biography. This must be quite an early copy as there is no errata slip at p. 74 issued in later copies the error on p. 46 no "i" in "importance" on the last line is present and we even note another typographical error not mentioned in any other catalog description that we found with the last word "triumph" omitted by the printer supplied here in pencil by a contemporary owner. There is a period and colon after the "O" at the imprint though these almost appear to have been added later . Howes H-735. Follett, Foster & Co hardcover
1865353589Springfield IL 1865. Broadside text in three columns mourning borders. Early manuscript note signed by Harriet Louise Greene in the upper margin "I was present at the funeral & saw the remains". 10-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Paper-backed at an early date with early newspaper clippings mounted on verso. Broadside text in three columns mourning borders. Early manuscript note signed by Harriet Louise Greene in the upper margin "I was present at the funeral & saw the remains". 10-3/4 x 7-3/4 inches. President Lincoln was assassinated on April 15 1865. His body lay in state in the White House on April 18 and a ceremonial funeral service took place in Washington D.C. around noon on April 19. Two days later President Lincoln's casket was loaded on a funeral train headed for Springfield Illinois stopping at Baltimore Harrisburg Philadelphia New York City Albany Buffalo Cleveland Columbus Indianapolis Michigan City and Chicago before arriving in Lincoln's adopted hometown early on the morning of May 3. <br /> <br /> Immediately upon arrival in Springfield Lincoln's coffin was transferred by hearse to Representatives' Hall inside the Illinois Old State Capitol. For the next twenty-four hours about 75000 mourners were allowed to pass by the open coffin of the slain president to pay last respects.<br /> <br /> According to the present broadside President Lincoln's funeral procession left the Old State Capitol "on Thursday the 4th Inst. at 10 o'clock a.m. precisely." The funeral party of over 10000 people then turned right on 7th Street to pass by the Lincoln family home and then right up Cook Street to proceed past the Governor's Mansion before heading north to Oak Ridge Cemetery.<br /> <br /> Surrounded by a heavy black band it lists all the persons and units involved their place in the procession and rules for the day. The entire procession was divided into eight divisions with Gen. Joseph Hooker acting as Marshal in Chief. The first three divisions were the military escort representing all the elements of the Army and Navy. After them came the attending clergy and Lincoln's attending physicians. Next was the casket itself the only wheeled vehicle in the procession with the pall bearers to each side followed by Lincoln's horse with reversed boots and then the immediate family. Next came government officials ambassadors and state officials followed by delegations from Springfield and other Illinois towns. Next were representatives of various organizations delegations from colleges lawyers doctors and the press. After this came Masons Odd Fellows and firemen. The final division was designated "Citizens at large. Colored Persons." Directions were given for the locations of each group forming up. Only marshals were allowed to be on horseback; all others walked. Bands were under the direction of the Committee on Music. Other particular directions complete the document.<br /> <br /> This broadside must have been widely distributed to assist the mourners but like all such ephemeral pieces few copies have survived. OCLC locates only six; at Indiana University the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Library the Boston Athenaeum the Chapin Library at Williams College the John Hay Library at Brown University and a copy formerly in the James S. Copley Library. There is also a copy at the Library of Congress. Two variants are recorded the other with a variant headline omitting "Order of" from title as well as a proof without the letters FUN of Funeral in the title. unknown
186524425New York: The New York Times 1865. Folio. 8pp. Black mourning borders. Very good. Slight age toning; inoffensive binding traces at left edge; small paper loss at bottom edge of last page. Lincoln had been dead one week when this issue Vol. XIV No. 4235 covering the search for the conspirators appeared. A handsome copy. The New York Times unknown
1868377927Jefferson City MO 1868. 2pp. printed recto and verso on a single quarto sheet. Old folds. 2pp. printed recto and verso on a single quarto sheet. Unrecorded handbill issued as a circular letter to the former Civil War officers of the 62nd U.S. Colored Infantry giving updates on each of their lives since the close of the war with some information on the founding of HBCU Lincoln University. Founded in 1866 the school had come about through the initiative of veterans of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantries many of whom having learned to read and write while in the army recognized the importance of creating educational opportunities for newly emancipated African Americans after the war. Founding secretary of the Lincoln Institute Richard Baxter Foster 1826-1901 who has signed this circular in print was a White abolitionist and former first lieutenant in the 62nd Infantry who would go on to serve as the Institute's first principal as well as its only instructor for the first two years. <br /> <br /> Foster notes under his own update that he was teaching at the Lincoln Institute: "The school still flourishes as well as possible with its present poor accomodations. I think we chall build a school house next season. We have invested a part of our funds in 365 acres of land mostly timbered three miles south from Jefferson City . Sergeant Major Jefferys is still attending my school. He taught three months in the summer. Many other soldiers of different regiments are in the school."<br /> Formerly enslaved John O. Jefferys d. 1922 was the highest ranking non-commissioned African American in the 62nd U.S.C.I.<br /> <br /> One of approximately 35 copies printed assuming that copies were printed for the 35 named officers in the circular and not many more. unknown
1871334508New York 1871. Unbound. Near Fine. Two printed tickets each with a mounted albumen photograph in cabinet card format 4.25 x 6.25 inches. The back side of each ticket has a faint printed design on white glazed paper. Both tickets are neatly trimmed along the right edge near fine with a few tiny perimeter tears and light toning. The first ticket from 1870 has a mounted albumen photograph of a painting by A.H. Ritchie of Lincoln with his cabinet reading the Emancipation Proclamation. The second ticket from 1871 has a mounted albumen photograph of a statue of Lincoln reading a newspaper with Grant and whom we believe is Gideon Wells. The Lincoln Union Social Club a pro-Republican party function held its first ball in New York City in 1870. These two ephemeral items tickets for the first and second balls are not to be confused with the invitations that preceded them. Of the two the tickets may be a rarer survival. We know of only one other copy of the 1870 ticket at the Library of Congress. unknown
1865236784Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council 1865. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pebbled bevelled cloth. Fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Includes speeches by Mayor of Boston Lincoln Senator Charles Sumner the eulogy Charles G. Loring A.H. Rice and Richard Henry Dana Jr pp. 56-61. BAL 4465 Printed by Order of the City Council unknown
186332820640<p>Mammoth albumen print 17 ½ x 22 in mounted oval gilt-rule mat. Retouched vignetted enlargement. A few spots some toning. Very good condition.</p><p>This famous "Gettysburg portrait" with Lincoln looking directly into the camera was made just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19 1863.</p><p>A giant of American photography Alexander Gardner is credited with introducing the large-format Imperial portrait to the United States while working as a staff photographer for Mathew Brady. Gardner left Brady's employ in early 1863 and his studio quickly rivaled Brady's for the quality and extent of its war and portrait photography. Gardner first photographed Lincoln as president-elect while working for Brady and he went on to take Lincoln's portrait more than any other photographer.</p><p>Lincoln sat for Gardner on several occasions usually visiting his studio on Sunday to avoid crowds. Lincoln sat for this splendid portrait on Sunday November 8 1863. His private secretaries John Hay and John Nicolay joined him. Hay noted in his diary that "We had a great many pictures taken … some of the Prest. the best I have seen." This print emphasizes Lincoln's head and shoulders enlarging them to a size rarely seen.</p><p>The gilt-ruled paper mat is characteristic of the 1860s and 1870s with this style of mat being popular during this period. Moses Rice subsequently had access to Gardner's negatives and routinely signed his prints with his name suggesting that Gardner himself made this enlargement. He died in 1882.</p><p>The photography session of November 8 1863 also produced the mammoth portrait we offer for $95000. That photograph and the present are among the only early mammoth Lincoln portraits we have ever encountered.</p><p>This is the only mammoth example of the famous Gettysburg portrait that we have seen.</p><p>Ostendorf O-77</p>
186442820809<p>Oval albumen print 8 x 6 in. original printed mount trimmed at bottom removing caption signed "BRADY & CO. PHOTOGRAPHERS." Browning and offsetting to mount light toning to image. Very good. Matted and framed.</p><p><strong>The classic Brady $5 bill photograph.</strong> This celebrated portrait the basis for the five-dollar bill engraving used for most of the 20th century is one of seven poses taken by Anthony Berger at Mathew Brady's Washington D. C. studio on February 9 1864. The most prolific photographer of Lincoln Brady himself did not actually operate his cameras during the war years instead training and employing men like Alexander Gardner and his successor Anthony Berger who took this picture to operate the camera.</p><p><strong>Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln declared this famous portrait to be "the most satisfactory likeness" of Abraham Lincoln.</strong></p> Mathew Brady Gallery
1865376410Montauk Montauk Navy Yard Wash D.C. 1865. 4 pp. 8vo. Slight soiling and minor tears along old folds otherwise in very good condition. 4 pp. 8vo. ".About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side." <br /> <br /> A remarkably clear and dramatic eyewitness account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln from a naval surgeon who was close to the President's box at Ford's theater on that fateful night of April 14 1865. In this letter to his brother written the night after the assassination while the details were still fresh in his memory Dr. George B. Todd surgeon aboard the U.S. "Montauk" at anchor in the Navy Yard that day recounts the terrible event with a clarity of observation one might expect of his profession-a rarity among confused eyewitness accounts. The text of Todd's letter one of only 7 eyewitness accounts written within 24 hours of the assassination reads: <br /> <br /> "The few hours that have intervened since that most terrible tragedy of last night have served to give me a little clearer brain and I believe I am now able to give you a clear account up to this hour. Yesterday about 3 P.M. the President and wife drove down to the navy yard and paid our ship a visit going all over her accompanied by us all. Both seemed very happy and so expressed themselves - glad that this war was over or so near its end and then drove back to the White House. In the evening nearly all of us went to the Ford's Theatre. I was very early and got a seat near the President's private box as we heard he was to be there. About half past nine he came in with his wife a Miss Harris and Major Rathburn and was cheered by every one. As soon as there was a silence the play went on and I could see that the "pres." seemed to enjoy it very much. About 10:25 P.M. a man came in and walked slowly along the side on which the 'pres.' box was and I heard a man say "there's Booth" and I turned my head to look at him. He was still walking very slow and was near the box door when he stopped took a card from his pocket wrote something on it and gave it to the usher who took it to the box. In a minute the door was opened and he walked in. No sooner had the door closed then I heard the report of a pistol and on the instant Booth jumped out of the box onto the stage holding in his hand a large knife and shouted so as to be heard all over the house - 'Sic Semper Tyrannis' "so always with tyrants" and fled behind the scenes-I attempted to get to the box but I could not and in an instant the cry was raised 'The President is Assassinated.' <br /> "Such a scene I never saw before. The cry spread to the street only to be met by another 'So is Mr. Seward.' Soldiers had gone. Some General handed me a note and bid me go to the nearest telegraph office and arouse the nation. I ran with all my speed and in ten minutes the sad news was all over the country. Today all the city is in mourning nearly every house being in black and I have not seen a smile. No business and many a strong man I have seen in tears. <br /> "Some reports say Booth is a prisoner others that he has made his escape but from orders received here I believe he is taken as a mob once raised now would know no end. I will not seal this until morning and I may have some more news. <br /> <br /> "April 24th. <br /> "I have had no time to write until now as I have been a detective. We have now 7 that are implicated.<br /> Why don't you write Love to all George" <br /> <br /> Several important facts regarding the movements of both the President and John Wilkes Booth are recorded here: <br /> 1 This appears to be the only eyewitness account of the President's inspection of the "Montauk" earlier that afternoon. <br /> 2 Todd's account of Booth's interaction with the "usher" sitting outside the President's box "took a card from his pocket wrote something on it and gave it to the usher" is especially intriguing and reveals not only something of Todd's powers of observations but also his proximity to the assassin immediately before the shooting. Todd alone among eyewitnesses notes that the "usher" first took the card from Booth then went into the box and that a short time later the door opened and Booth went in. In fact Good finds only 7 other eye-witness accounts of the Lincoln assassination as early as April 15-most of these witnesses record little or nothing regarding the events before hearing the shot itself and none of them noticed Booth's interchange with the usher who was in fact Lincoln's valet Charles Forbes. There are three other accounts by eyewitnesses which partially corroborate Todd's observation of the Forbes and Booth interchange-but they were written much later than Todd's. <br /> 3 Todd's observation of the time he spotted Booth moving toward the box "about 10:25" corresponds to Good's own conclusion that Booth fired the fatal shot close to 10:30 PM. According to James Swanson MANHUNT p. 419 "the exact time of Booth's shot cannot be fixed . Booth may have shot Lincoln as early as 10:13 or as late as 10:30" Todd's account - again one of the freshest and most reliable weighs heavily in favor of Good. <br /> 4 Todd by his own account played a role in alerting the nation by telegraph. <br /> 5 Although he doesn't mention it as a surgeon of the ironclad Montauk Todd was also probably present at the autopsy of John Wilkes Booth on Thursday April 27 in the gun room of his ship. Indeed in an article in the February issue of the Baltimore and Ohio Magazine 1926 where the letter was first published and reproduced Todd is reported to have been "one of the surgeons who performed the autopsy." That as well as the fact that the other prisoners were being held on board the ironclad "Montauk" and "Saugus" may explain his cryptic remark near the end ". I have been a detective .". Todd actually mailed the letter on April 30 3 days after the autopsy and may very have participated in the actual investigation of the captives aboard the "Montauk." <br /> <br /> AN EXTRAORDINARY AND UNIQUE RECORD OF ONE THE NATION'S GREAT TRAGEDIES. Published from a copy in the State Historical Library of Wisconsin in Timothy S. Good WE SAW LINCOLN SHOT U. of Miss. 1995; with the mistaken date of April 30 1865 unknown
1896458433New York: McLure's 1896. Unbound. Good. 15" x 22". Illustration of Lincoln by Corwin Knapp Linson. Remnants of tape from old matting with a few small chips at the margins a good only example. also advertises stories by Robert Louis Stevenson Anthony Hope and others. McLure's unknown
1895517161New York: McClure's 1895. Unbound. Very Good. Publisher's promotional broadside. Illustrated from a portrait of Lincoln by Corwin Knapp Linson. Measuring 12½" x 19½". Several small chips and edge tears one longer closed tear at the top edge affecting the title but stopping short of the image bright and very good. A handsome publisher's broadside announcing the publication of "A New and Richly Illustrated Life of Abraham Lincoln" in McClure's magazine. The serial will publish 300 pictures the only and previously unpublished early portrait of Lincoln and "much new and valuable material from people now living about Lincoln's youth and public career. McClure's unknown
1866375831Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 5 x 9 1/2 in.; mounted to 11 x 14 in. Faint toning to mount; fine. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 5 x 9 1/2 in.; mounted to 11 x 14 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. <br /> Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Charles Leale and Mrs. Lincoln.<br /> "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown
1866238120Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. Soiling to image vertical crease large chips to bottom of mount not affecting image or legend; good. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. 1 vols. Image 11 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.; mounted to 19 x 24 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Chalres Leale and Mrs. Lincoln. "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. Provenance: Harper Family John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown
1866238011Washington D.C.: John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry Printer 1866. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; mounted to 13 x 17 in. Faint toning to mount; fine. Photograph by John Goldin of Littlefield's painting on printed mount. Image 8 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; mounted to 13 x 17 in. A published photograph of Littlefield's hyper-realistic Lincoln death-bed painting each figure meticulously rendered from photographs. <br /> Littlefield studied law under Lincoln in 1858 stumped for him in his Presidential bid and was rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department. After Lincoln's death Littlefield invented this tableau of twenty-five people ranged around the death-bed including Vice-President Johnson Surgeon Charles Leale and Mrs. Lincoln.<br /> "The artist used photographs as models for the twenty-five people gathered in the death room but his profile of the dying Lincoln shows a first-hand acquaintance" Ostendorf LINCOLN'S PHOTOGRAPHS p. 279. John H. Littlefield; Wm. Terry, Printer unknown
1863292206No place: no publisher 1863. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stitched self-wrappers. 16pp. Slight age-toning very near fine. Anti-Lincoln campaign material issued by pro-Fremont Republicans including a long statement by Ben Wade and Henry Winter Davis. no publisher] unknown
1865235590Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co 1865. First edition front wrapper without portrait of Lincoln appearing in later issues. Engraved title and piano score; 5 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Loose as issued; split along spine with some chipping to extremities. First edition front wrapper without portrait of Lincoln appearing in later issues. Engraved title and piano score; 5 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Donizetti died 17 years before Lincoln having gone mad from syphilis. His Funeral March gained a measure of recognition in America after it was performed during Lincoln's funeral ceremonies. It is a heavy solemn piece in a minor with droning octaves in the bass a haunting chromatic figure in the middle register and a lyrical upper voice. see Barret Sale Lot 693; Stern Collection of Lincolniana Oliver Ditson & Co unknown
1864377694Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co 1864. 16pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers with a portrait of Lincoln on the front and advertisements for political emblems badges pins etc. on the verso. Minor staining. Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. 16pp. 16mo. A pocket songster printed to support Lincoln's reelection campaign in 1864 featuring a rather youthful portrait of the president on the front wrapper and twelve spirited pro-Union songs. The titles largely military in theme include such works as "Give us Noble Leaders" "The Veteran Volunteer" "Cast Your Votes for Abraham" "For Lincoln or McClellan you'll be called on to decide/ The one to save the union the other to divide" and "We are Coming Father Abraham 600000 More." <br /> <br /> The advertisements on the rear wrapper encourage readers to purchase a wide variety of Lincoln campaign badges emblems pins and photographs from the publishers. Despite Lincoln's overwhelming electoral victory in 1864 the race was rather close in Pennsylvania where this was printed - Lincoln took Philadelphia County by a scant few percent and actually failed to secure a majority in neighboring Montgomery and Bucks counties. Monaghan 323; Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 199 Published by Mason & Co unknown
