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1930WAS31126Lincoln National Life Insurance Company Fort Wayne Indiana 1930 - 38. 11 x 8 1/2 inches Bulletin of the Lincoln National Life Foundation in blue binder lacks 156. A long run of early issues of this one-sheet publication which provided extensive detailed information about all aspects of Abraham Lincoln's life and times including geneological biographical and historical minuteae. Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana unknown books
1865228501865. No binding. Fine. Broadside. The Nation's Loss. A Poem on the Life and Death of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln. 1865. 1 p. 9 3/4 x 15 1/4 in. 1/2 inch loss at top not affecting text. Headed by an engraving of Lincoln Reverend Peter W. Brister's mourning poem occupies the first two columns and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is printed in full in the third column. Brister's poem addressed what Lincoln meant to the nation during the Civil War how he saved the Union and freed the slaves. Below the image of Lincoln it reads ""Late President of the United States Who departed this life in Washington D.C. April 15 1865."" unknown books
186520323<p><b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Currier & Ives. Lithograph New York 1865. In 24 x 29 in. hand-gilt frame. </p><p>From the hairs on Lincoln's head to the fabric of his suit this lithograph is a beautifully detailed rendering and remains even with a few areas of foxing a commanding showpiece.</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>The copyright date of <i>"1865"</i> along the bottom edge suggests that this oversized portrait was created to honor either Lincoln's second presidential term or his untimely death.</p><p>Lithographer <b>Nathaniel Currier</b> 1813-1888 and artist <b>James Merritt Ives</b>1824-1895 formed Currier & Ives in New York City in 1857 to publish art prints. The company closed in 1907 after the deaths of its founders when business had declined due to new printing technologies and changing artistic tastes.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>There are a few areas of light age toning. It is displayed in a vintage frame not contemporary to 1865 as we bought it so it is not guaranteed to be archival.</p> books
186625617.02<p>An engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie commemorates the moment Lincoln first presented the Emancipation Proclamation to his Cabinet.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Print. <i>The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet</i>. Engraved by Alexander Hay Ritchie after 1864 painting of Francis Bicknell Carpenter. New York: Alexander H. Ritchie 1866. 36 x 24 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Francis Bicknell Carpenter</b> 1830-1900 a New York artist was so impressed with Lincoln's bold act that he recruited Illinois Congressman and abolitionist Owen Lovejoy to arrange a White House sitting. Carpenter met Lincoln on February 6 1864 and was allowed to set up a studio in the State Dining Room. Carpenter set his painting in Lincoln's office which also served as the Cabinet Room. Lincoln reportedly told Carpenter where each person was seated on the day he read them the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The artist was delighted that their placement was "entirely consistent with my purpose." To the left of Lincoln were Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase the most radical members of his cabinet. A portrait of former Secretary of War Simon Cameron is also on the left of the painting. To the right of Lincoln around the table are Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith Secretary of State William H. Seward Postmaster General Montgomery Blair and Attorney General Edward Bates the more conservative members of Lincoln's advisers. Lincoln sat at the head of the table between the two groups "but the uniting point of both" according to Carpenter.</p><p>After a temporary exhibit in the White House and Capitol in 1864 the fifteen-foot wide painting toured the country. Carpenter offered the painting to Congress which refused to make an appropriation for it. In 1877 Elizabeth Thompson of New York purchased the painting for $25000 and offered it to the nation. Congress formally accepted the gift on the sixty-ninth anniversary of Lincoln's birth. It hangs in the U.S. Senate. In 1866 book Carpenter also published a book <i>Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln</i>.</p><p>This lithographic print by Scottish-born <b>Alexander H. Ritchie</b>1822-1895 captured and popularized Carpenter's painting before Carpenter made a series of alterations to the original most significantly in revising Lincoln's head and moving the quill pen from near Seward to in Lincoln's hand.</p><p>The National Portrait Gallery has a ledger page signed by Lincoln Stanton Chase Seward Wells and other members of Lincoln's administration ordering proof copies of Ritchie's print.</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>On July 22 Lincoln read a draft of his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his entire cabinet. In contrast to the Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862 the Emancipation Proclamation addressed only property in slaves and liberated all slaves in areas in rebellion not only those of rebellious masters. At Seward's urging Lincoln agreed to withhold announcing it until the Union forces had achieved a victory so that it did not appear especially to European observers to be the desperate act of a losing war effort.</p><p>Two months later when Union troops stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's invasion of Maryland at Antietam Creek Lincoln finally had his opportunity. On September 22 1862 Lincoln issued his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation giving the South 100 days to end the rebellion or face losing their slaves. On both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line Lincoln's order was condemned as a usurpation of property rights and an effort to start racial warfare.</p><p>When the South failed to acquiesce Lincoln as promised issued the final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1 1863. With this Executive Order he took a decisive stand on the most contentious issue in American history redefined the Union's goals and strategy and sounded the death knell for slavery. The full text of his proclamation reveals the major issues of the Civil War: slave labor as a Confederate resource; slavery as a central war issue; the status of African Americans who escaped to Union lines; courting border states; Constitutional and popular constraints on emancipation; hopes of reunion; questions of Northern acceptance of black soldiers; and America's place in a world moving toward abolition. The President took the action "sincerely believed to be an act of justice" knowing that it might cost Republicans in the fall 1862 elections.</p><p>The final Proclamation showed Lincoln's own progression on the issue of slavery and eliminated earlier references to colonizing freed blacks and compensating slave owners for voluntary emancipation. It also added provisions for black military enlistment. Pausing before he signed the final Proclamation Lincoln reportedly said: "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper."</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Toned and slightly cropped.</p> books
19996881Pittsfield MA: Berkshire Museum/Stinehour Press 1999. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine in Wraps. Tight bright and unmarred. Printed pictorial wraps frontispiece. Square 8vo. 64pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed by the artist. <br/><br/>Signed by Russell on the title page. One of 1000 copies printed by Stinehour Press. Quite scarce signed. Berkshire Museum/Stinehour Press paperback books
193240280Carmel-by-the-Sea: The Carmelite 1932. First Edition. Tabloid 31.5cm x 24cm; 8pp. Mild edgewear and toning; Very Good. Well-preserved single issue of this uncommon California weekly devoted primarily to news and events in the small artists' community of Carmel-by-the-Sea on the Monterey peninsula. Lincoln Steffens moved to Carmel in 1926 with his wife Ella and quickly established himself as a controversial and divisive figure. The present article in which Steffens presents the proposition that the only choice in the 1932 Presidential election is between Republican Hoover and Communist William Z. Foster Roosevelt offering in his opinion no more than a watered-down but ideologically identical alternative to the Republican candidate shows why. The Carmelite unknown books
186122671<p><b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Book. <i>Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress. Volume 1</i> Washington: Government Printing Office 1861. 839 pp. 5¾ x 8¾ in. </p><b>Excerpt</b><p><i>"A disloyal portion of the American people have during the whole year been engaged in an attempt to divide and destroy the Union. A nation which endures factious domestic division is exposed to disrespect abroad and one party if not both is sure sooner or later to invoke foreign intervention. </i></p><p><i> Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. </i></p><p><i> The disloyal citizens of the United States who have offered the ruin of our country in return for the aid and comfort which they have invoked abroad have received less patronage and encouragement than they probably expected.</i></p><p><i> It continues to develop that the insurrection is largely if not exclusively a war upon the first principle of popular government--the rights of the people. Conclusive evidence of this is found in the most grave and maturely considered public documents as well as in the general tone of the insurgents. In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil. Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. </i></p><p><i> In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism."</i></p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>President Lincoln's first message to Congress in 1861 immediately follows the title page. In the first year of both his presidency and the Civil War Lincoln criticizes disloyal citizens who are trying to ruin the country. He acknowledges that the Confederates firing on Fort Sumter ended hope of a peaceful solution and expresses his confidence in General McClellan. Lincoln also expounds on the foreign affairs the relationship of labor to capital and reports on domestic commerce and other affairs. The remainder of the book is over 400 pages of papers relating to foreign affairs and correspondence with other nations and diplomats. The second half of the book is made up of the Reports of the Secretaries of the Interior War Navy and Postmaster General.</p><p><b>Condition </b></p><p>Good. Original cloth boards with U.S. seal and titled spine some slight chipping and wear to boards and spine binding a little loose and front endpaper almost detached hinges a bit weak but still firm some aging but generally clean internally.</p> hardcover books
19271327049Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo; Limited edition 369/440; G/no DJ; Hardcover w/out DJ; Spine yellow with black print on white label; Black slipcase has edgewear lacks rear panel tears to corners shelfwear; Boards quarter bound with yellow cloth to spine and blue paper to boards slight wear to spine caps soiling to spine and light smudging to boards; Text block has spotting to deckled edges names in ink on front flyleaf slight spotting to endpapers foxing to page 3 and facing plate else clean interior; 70 pages frontispiece illustrated b&w plates Laid in is an offprint from Century Magazine Feb. 1894 pp. 589-608 containing essay by John Coleman Adams and text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. 1327049. FP New Rockville Stock. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1946455701946. LINCOLN James F. LINCOLN'S INCENTIVE SYSTEM: COVERING THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE INCENTIVE SYSTEM IN MANUFACTURING. NY: McGraw-Hill 1946. 8vo. brick & royal-blue cloth. First Edition. Signed presentation by Lincoln on front endpaper: "To Ted Bransome Friend and support. J. F. Lincoln." Very Good. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19251342baIChicago IL: University of Chicago Press 1925. Book. Hardcover. Americana; politics; 22p; 29.7cm; 1/2 tan cloth paper covered boards soiled; frontis portrait of Lincoln U. S. president 1861-65; 2 illus.; facsimile of speech; introduction by Oliver R. Barrett b. 1873; p. 17-19 "Mr. Lincoln at home" column from Springfield Journal Nov. 1 1858; p. 21-22 printed letter from John H. Morgan. University of Chicago Press Hardcover books
184822094.01 -.02<p>Lincoln's spot resolution and speech condemns the pretexts for starting the war with Mexico. He requests proof from President Polk that American blood was shed on American soil and that the enemy provoked the Americans and he asks if those Americans present were ordered there by the United States Army.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Newspaper. <i>National Intelligencer</i> Thursday December 23 1847. Washington: Gales & Seaton . 4 pp. Offered with another issue of the <i>National Intelligencer</i> January 20 1848. 4 pp.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p><b>December 23 1847 issue</b></p><p>Page 2 bottom of first column to second column</p><p><i>Mr. LINCOLN moved the following preamble and resolutions which were read and laid over under the rule:</i></p><p><i> Whereas the President of the United States in his message of May 11 1846 has declared that "the Mexican Government not only refused to receive him the envoy of the United States or listen to his propositions but after a long-continued series of menaces have at last invaded </i>our territory<i> and shed the blood of our fellow citizens on</i> our own soil<i>."</i></p><p><i> And again in his message of December 8 1846 that "we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even we forbore to take redress into our own hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor by invading </i>our soil <i>in hostile array and shedding the blood of our citizens."</i></p><p><i> And yet again in his message of December 7 1847.</i></p><p> Resolved by the House of Representatives<i> that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House—</i></p><p><i> 1st. Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed as in his messages declared was or was not within the territory of Spain at least after the treaty of 1819 until the Mexican Revolution.</i></p><p><i> 2d. Whether that spot is or is not within the territory which was wrested from Spain by the revolutionary Government of Mexico. </i></p><p><i> 3d. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people which settlement has existed ever since long before the Texas revolution and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army.</i></p><p> <i>4th. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east.</i></p><p><i> 5th. Whether the people of that settlement or a majority of them have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States by consent or by compulsion either by accepting office or voting at elections or paying tax or serving on juries or having process served upon them or in any other way.</i></p><p><i> 6th . Whether the people of that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army leaving unprotected their homes and their growing crops </i>before<i> the blood was shed as in the messages stated; and whether the first blood so shed was or was not shed within the enclosure of one of the people who had thus fled from it. </i></p><p><i> 7th. Whether our </i>citizens<i> whose blood was shed as in his messages declared were or were not at that time armed officers and soldiers sent into that settlement by the military order of the President through the Secretary of War.</i></p><p><i> 8th. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after Gen. Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Department that in his opinion no such movement was necessary to the defense or protection of Texas. </i></p><p><i> Several resolutions of inquiry were here offered my Messrs. GEORGE S. HOUSTON W.P. HALL PHELPS GREEN McCLELLAND and KAUFMAN which are omitted for want of room.</i></p><p><b>January 20 1848 issue: </b></p><p>Page 2 bottom of 3rd column thru 6th column. In this lengthy address Lincoln questions President Polk's judgment regarding the aims and prosecution of the war in Mexico putting it in the context of the American Revolution: <i>"Texas revolutionized against Mexico and became the owner of something…if she got it in any way she got it by revolution; one of the most sacred of rights—the right which he believed was yet to emancipate the world; the right of a people if they have a government they do not like to rise and shake it off…He talked like an insane man. He did not propose to give Mexico any credit at all for the country we had already conquered; he proposed to take more than he asked for last fall…"</i></p><p>Additional news: page 2 middle of 4th column prints a lively senatorial debate involving Jefferson Davis. Page 3 bottom of 2nd column <i>"Mr. LINCOLN from the same committee reported a bill for the relief of William Fuller and Orlando Saltmarsh. Read and committed." </i>Page 4 middle of 3rd column <i>"By Mr. LINCOLN: A bill to amend an act entitled 'An Act to raise for a limited time an additional military force and for other purposes' approved February 11 1847."</i> This act gave the president permission to raise one regiment of dragoons and nine regiments of infantry to be used in the war with Mexico. In addition the act dealt with the logistics of each regiment such as raising the pay for field surgeons or adding a quartermaster to each regiment.</p> books
186330001.20<p>Contains Lincoln's entire 1863 Message to Congress where he reaffirmed his commitment to emancipation as well as His Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction which laid out a plan to return the rebellious states to the Union fold. Commonly called the "Ten Percent Plan" it allowed for a state to hold new elections when 10% of its 1860 voters took a loyalty oath to the Union.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Newspaper. <i>New York Times</i> New York N.Y. Dec. 10 1863 with <i>"Supplement to The New York Times"</i> complete with its own masthead. 12 pp. 14¾ x 21 in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpt</b></p><p>"<i>To now abandon them would be not only to relinquish a lever of power but would also be a cruel and an astounding breach of faith. I may add at this point that while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation or by any of the acts of Congress.</i>"</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Throughout the fall of 1863 eventual Union victory became increasingly clear and on December 8 1863 Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. This lenient plan that offered citizens of the rebellious states full pardons voting and property rights except possession of slaves encouraged the states to begin addressing the issue of the freedmen and women without compromising their rights and allowed a former Confederate state to hold elections and form a pro-Union government once 10% of the number of voters in the 1860 election swore loyalty oaths. Commonly called the "Ten Percent Plan" it reflected both Lincoln's charitable view of Reconstruction as well as the reality that heavy penalties denial of voting and property rights to rebels and impoverishing the South was no way to rebuild a nation after a war fought at least initially to preserve the Union.</p> books
186423084New York: Sold at 13 Park Row and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices 1864. 8pp caption title disbound a bit of blank margin wear Good. At head of title: 'Document No. 12.' <br/><br/> This Democratic Party campaign pamphlet portrays President Lincoln as an incompetent military strategist who perpetually "interfered with General McClellan both when he was general-in-chief and afterward when he commanded the brave Army of the Potomac." Worse Lincoln has "The Taint of Disunion." He not McClellan the Democratic presidential candidate supported the Jeffersonian right of revolution in a speech during his single term in Congress. He and other "ultra abolitionists" are the "original secessionists and disunion men." <br/> George McClellan wants the rebel States to return to the Union but Lincoln's policies render that impossible. Lincoln "regards the States as dead and gone. He magnifies and strengthens the position of the Richmond dynasty" by seeking to negotiate "only with Jefferson Davis." <br/>Monaghan 326. Not in LCP. Sold at 13 Park Row, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices unknown books
201220410ELos Angeles: Dreamworks / Twentieth Century-Fox 2012. First Edition. Small format paperbound 5 1/4†x 8 1/4†126 pages. This is first appearance in book form of this screenplay specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Screenplay. Shooting script for the film Lincoln screenplay by Tony Kushner. Based on the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Fine in printed wrappers. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln David Strathairn Joseph Gordon-Levitt Hal Holbrook Tommy Lee Jones Jared Harris John Hawkes and Jackie Earle Haley. The film centers on the history toward the conclusion of the American Civil War and President Lincoln’s efforts to pass the Emancipation Proclamation thus bringing a constitutional end to slavery in the United State. Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for Best Performance of an Actor in a Leading Role and the film won another for Best Achievement in Production Design. It was also nominated for ten more including Best Picture Best Director Best Supporting Actress and Actor Field and Jones and Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay. Dreamworks / Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
194312572LA LFSC 1943 1943. SIGNED BY LINDSTROM & RISDON FWD FIRST EDITION FINE. Signed by Authors. F. LA, LFSC, 1943 unknown books
198923399New York: Library of America. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 2 volume set books are fine in near fine dust jackets. Publisher's slipcase is near fine.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 898 & 787 pp . Library of America hardcover books
197055247Norwalk:: Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1970. Hardcover. Selected with an introduction by Carl Van Doren. "Sandglass" laid in. A reprint edition. Fine in a near fine a bit faded along the edges slipcase. . Heritage Press, hardcover books
186534970New York: Currier & Ives 152 Nassau St. 1865. Folio broadside 12" x 16". Black and white bust portrait of a well-groomed bearded Abraham Lincoln. He wears a dark jacket and vest with a white button-down collared shirt and dark bow tie. In very small print below the caption appears to be the number 205 or possibly 105. Moderately tanned small white scattered spots. Several closed tears at edges and corners several archival tape repairs on verso. Good. Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. unknown books
198951828Seattle:: Mountaineers. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0898862221 . Color photographs by Jonathan Chester throughout. First edition. Near fine in a very good foxing on verso dust jacket. . Mountaineers, hardcover books
196386775Washington:: Library of Congress. Near Fine. 1963. Paperback. B000P1K2CA . First edition paperback. Laid in is another facsimile reproduced on antiquated parchment 1977 - folded and in original envelope. Near fine in oversize illustrated stapled wraps. . Library of Congress, paperback books
1935498221935. KIRSTEIN Lincoln. LOW CEILING. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1935. First edition inscribed presentation copy. Kirstein also wrote the recipient's name on the dust jacket. 8vo. red cloth. Near fine; in the dust jacket that is sunned to the spine with overall soil and some spotting to the front cover. unknown books
197292331972. Softcover. VG small lib. writing on cover slight soiling. Gold wraps. 48 pp. 29 bw plates. Includes a foreword by Charles Childs about the requisite cow in 19th century landscape paintings the catalogue of 76 paintings 27 drawings and prints and 7 sculpture and other objects and a bibliography. Nice full-page plates throughout. unknown books
187216229Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872. First edition. Green cloth with gilt titles. A good copy with wear to head and heel of spine book plate on front pastedown chip to rear free endpaper and scattered foxing. 4 1 356 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. Sm. 8vo. James R. Osgood & Co. hardcover books
187724759<p>"<i>she bore her accumulated miseries with a serene resignation an intrepid fortitude a true heroism of soul of which the history of the world does not afford a brighter example.</i>"</p> <b>MARY LINCOLN.</b>Signed Book. "<i>Mary Lincoln. / 1878</i>" in her copy of Charles Duke Yonge <i>The Life of Marie Antoinette Queen of France</i> 2d rev. ed. London: Hurst and Blackett 1877 xvi 432 pp. 8vo. bound in tooled purple cloth boards with titled spine. A carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Lincoln has been affixed to the front free endpaper.<br /><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Mary Lincoln likely identified with the guillotined French queen's plight. Their words whether truly said or not and their intentions were frequent targets of abuse in the press. The press of their respective days viewed both as spendthrifts and harshly questioned their motives attacking Marie Antoinette's commitment to the welfare of the French people "let them eat cake" and Mary Lincoln's loyalty to the Union in light of her southern familial ties.</p><p>Perhaps Mary Lincoln drew comfort and inspiration from Yonge's closing tribute to his royal subject quoted above. An incredible association copy acquired and inscribed by Mary Lincoln while she was living in France.</p><p><b>Mary Lincoln</b> 1818-1882 was born into the prominent Todd family in Lexington Kentucky. Educated at female academies and boarding schools she learned to speak French fluently and also studied literature dance drama and music. She was very well-educated for her time place and gender. In November 1842 she married Abraham Lincoln in Springfield Illinois and they had four sons. She supported her husband's political ambitions becoming First Lady in 1861. Because she was from a border state with several of her relatives supporting the Confederacy Mary Lincoln was the object of suspicion in the press. Although she was responsible for hosting many social functions her extensive spending to renovate the White House also drew complaints from a nation at war and from her husband. However she also visited wounded soldiers in Washington hospitals taking them fruit and flowers and writing letters home for them. Prone to severe headaches and depression she suffered the loss of three of her four sons and was present when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre.</p><p>After leaving the White House she lived in Chicago where her son briefly had her committed to a sanitarium in 1875. After being declared competent to manage her own affairs in 1876 she spent the next four years traveling in Europe and living in Pau France. She later returned to Springfield where she died in her sister's home.</p><p><b>Marie Antoinette</b> 1755-1793 was born in Vienna Austria the daughter of Francis I Holy Roman Emperor. She married the future French king Louis XVI 1754-1793 in 1770 when she was just fifteen years old. They had four children between 1778 and 1786. When her husband ascended to the throne in 1774 she became the Queen of France. The young royals came to symbolize all of the excesses of the reviled French monarchy and she became the target of a great deal of vicious gossip. After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 the government placed the royal family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace. After the abolition of the monarchy in September 1792 the Convention found the former king guilty of undermining the French Republic and executed him in January 1793. The Revolutionary Tribunal tried Marie Antoinette in October and found her guilty of depleting the treasury conspiracy against the Republic and treason. She was sent to the guillotine on October 16 1793.</p><p><b>Charles Duke Yonge</b> 1812-1891 was born in Eton and attended Eton College Cambridge University Oxford University and Keble College. From 1866 to his death he held a chair of English Literature at Queen's College Belfast. He authored a dozen books of history and biography. He translated six works by Cicero and prepared an English-Latin dictionary and an English-Greek lexicon.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Spine cracked with some minor losses and some rubbing at top and bottom some wear to boards pages overall clean with a few bearing some marginal loss that has been repaired else very good.</p> Hurst and Blackett hardcover books
20191325529New Young: Crown Books for Young Readers 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; Hardcover; Purple spine with gold text; Boards have minor marks to the front and rear exteriors and slight bumping to corners and edges and tips; Fore edge of the book has minor scratches otherwise text block is clean; 279p. 1325529. FP New Rockville Stock. Crown Books for Young Readers hardcover books
