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18666114no place given: William E. Marshall 1866. Very good . Lithograph measuring about 17." x 22.5" full margins; likely untrimmed. The image measures about 15.75" x 20.5". Matted and framed and has not been examined out of frame. Offsetting/age-toning affects the right half of the print although this is only visible at the margin not within the image. Important 1866 engraving of the recently deceased 16th president; Marshall sent copies to many of Lincoln's closest friends and colleagues and the response was one of unanimous praise. Highly detailed and dignified it presents the statesman as a figure of great worth; even of immortailty. This example handsomely presented in a double matte and deep brown wooden frame. William E. Marshall unknown
1891428<p><strong>12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 264 pages . Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt title and decoration Lincoln image on cover. Light fading to spine and a faint line of dulllness loss of sizing on back cover. Internally clean -- no names or other markings. Book discusses how Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln held seances at the White House. Also discusses Spiritualist mediums that were in contact with the President as well as seances he attended throughout Washington DC. Book includes several engravings and images of Lincoln the seances and more.</strong></p> Rufus C. Hartranft hardcover
1865106884<p>Newspaper 18 1/2" x 25 1/2" seven columns of text 4 pp. Folded at center another more subtle middle fold probably removed some chips tears and folds mostly at extremities some aging and browning a little uneven darkening ; otherwise about very good. Dated April 21 1865 this paper has several stories on the Lincoln assassination on the second and third pages of the newspaper. The articles include stories on the courage and determination of Secretary Stanton rewards posted for the capture of Booth and a nation in mourning. There is also a short report on the condition of Secretary Seward. Some interesting coverage of a national event in a local newspaper. </p>
1865biblio4<p> Newspaper 18 1/2" x 25 1/2" seven columns of text 4 pp. Folded at center another more subtle middle fold probably removed some chips tears and folds mostly at extremities some aging and browning a little uneven darkening ; otherwise about very good. Dated April 21 1865 this paper has several stories on the Lincoln assassination on the second and third pages of the newspaper. The articles include stories on the courage and determination of Secretary Stanton rewards posted for the capture of Booth and a nation in mourning. There is also a short report on the condition of Secretary Seward. Some interesting coverage of a national event in a local newspaper. </p>
1894H32806Boston: C. B. Webster 1894. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. Oblong quarto 12 x 9 inches publisher's gold-tan cloth good plus copy with heavy freckling to spine and front cover much lighter on rear cover light abrasions and offsetting to borders of endpapers text very good light foxing throughout especially to the plates light restoration to inner hinges a few of the photos show mild waterstain tidemarks at corners or margins not at all severe and very infrequently. 237 pp with 40 gravure photos printed in dark blue-green-tone. Rare in the trade. An extremely early photographic record of colonial New England residences. No auction records and the most recent rarebookhub "record" for this is a 2003 entry in a Charles Wood catalog. C. B. Webster hardcover
1894H36415Boston: C. B. Webster 1894. First Printing. Hardcover. Good. Oblong quarto 12 x 9 inches publisher's gold-tan cloth good minus copy with some wear and light stains to binding upper outer corner of the contents show tidemark from old waterstain throughout the book not intruding on the images themselves. Light restoration to front inner hinge. 237 pp with 40 gravure photos printed in dark blue-green-tone. Rare in the trade. An extremely early photographic record of colonial New England residences. No auction records and the most recent rarebookhub "record" for this is a 2003 entry in a Charles Wood catalog. C. B. Webster hardcover
1894206838Boston MA: C.B. Webster Publisher 1894. Hardcover. G-. Toning and spoting to boards and spine. Previous owners name penned to front end paper. Front joint cracked but board is still attached. Binding loose and some of the plates are shaken loose all still present. Text block is slightly toned. Oblong Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in brown cloth with black titles and gilt stamped illustration. v 237 pages 41 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm. C.B. Webster Publisher hardcover
189421136571894. Boston: C.B. Webster Publisher. 1894. Oblong large 4to. Original green cloth with bevelled edges illustrated and lettered in gilt all eges gilt; pp. vi 237 41 fine photogravure plates with tissue guards; cloth a little marked otherwise very good.Very uncommon and beautiful first edition. 'Even at this early date Jones expressed concern at the rapid disappearance of our early houses. The primary value of his book lies in the absolutely superb photographs' Charles Wood. The first good photographic study of New England's historic houses was Alvin Lincoln Jones' Under Colonial Roofs which appeared in 1894. The pictures which are of a high quality show us many buildings that have since disappeared. The picture of the Paul Revere House when compared to a modern view gives us some idea of how drastic the 1907 restoration must have been. Jones' picture leads me to conclude that it is very easy to over-restore a building. I wonder what he/she thought of the coincidental restoration of the House of the Seven Gables! The 1894 version of the Paul Revere house is in fact very revealing as is that of the Wells-Adams House also in the North End which would come down in the very same year that Under Colonial Roofs was published' Donna Seger. hardcover
18940077805New York: L. J. B. Lincoln 1894. Paperback. Very Good. December 1894 issue of this monthly the first one published. String bound wraps. 12 pp. plus laid-in advertisement from Lincoln. Very Good copy. Sound binding. Light soil to the front wraps inside of the front wrap and first page of text; bright clean contents. Scarce. According to the intro "Uncut Leaves . consists of monthly readings at which prominent American and foreign authors read from their manuscripts. It is now proposed to issue a monthly letter of advance criticism and literary information. This letter will be for the exclusive use of subscribers . beginning with December 1894." This issue features Lincoln's thoughts on Putnam's Scribner's Poe George William Curtis Max Nordau Buddhism Percival Lowell Sarah Jewett and Eugene Field among others. L. J. B. Lincoln paperback
1865851301865. PHOTOGRAPHY 19TH CENTURY - LINCOLN Abraham. UNCOMMON CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CA. 1865. Providence RI: Salisbury Bro. & Co. n.d. ca. 1865 "Manufacturers of Gold and Plated Jewelry Also Carte de Visites of all Noted Persons." Pale embossed paper mount is 4 x 2 1/2 inches with 1 3/8 x 1 1/8 inch oval photograph a bust of a bearded Lincoln. Very good light soil to the mount with the photo contour partially cut through from being pressed into the paper mount. The embossed design features an eagle laurel leaves flags shield and cannons. The photo is in excellent condition the President's gaze clear and sharp. Free of the toning often seen on this cdv. 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
18849587Norwich CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company 1884. First edition. 2 volumes 10.5x7.5" 626 and 724pp. Each signed on the title page by Blaine. Frontis portraits plates large fold-out map of the U.S. territories at rear of Vol 1. Presentation bindings of two different shades of brown morocco elaborately tooled in blind and lettered in gilt gilt-tooled turn ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boards with some rubbing to edges and a few scuffs vol 1 spine a bit faded. Ownership signature of Marie E. Mulford at front of each else clean internally. <br /> <br /> Beautiful signed presentation set of James G. Blaine's historical and political memoir covering roughly the period from Lincoln's election in 1860 through the end of Reconstruction. Blaine was one of the most powerful Republican politicians of the time serving in the House of Representatives from 1863-76 and as senator from '76-81. He was Secretary of State under Garfield Arthur and Harrison. He narrowly lost the presidential election to Cleveland in 1884. This memoir serves as one of the earliest substantial insider histories of Reconstruction-era Congress. The Henry Bill Publishing Company unknown
1860377692New York: Horace Greeley & Co 1860. 32pp. 8vo. Disbound. 32pp. 8vo. An early campaign biography of future president Abraham Lincoln written by John Locke Scripps of the New York Tribune. Scripps reports on the life of Abraham Lincoln in eight chapters touching on the major events of his life and career beginning with his early life and his move to Illinois through his transition from merchant to lawyer and legislator and covering his time in Congress with accounts of Lincoln's opposition to the Mexican-American War his support of the Wilmot Proviso and his involvement with the organization of the Republican Party. <br /> <br /> Wessen states that this edition was printed by Horace Greeley "from plates cast from the same type forms" as the 1860 Chicago edition which is considered the first published biography of Lincoln. An advertisement for the Tribune and the Tribune Almanac fills the bottom two thirds of the last page. <br /> <br /> "Most authentic of Lincoln campaign biographies" - Howes. Howes S247a "aa"; Managhan 79 note; Wessen Campaign Lifes of Abraham Lincoln 12 ref; Miles 418a; Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 85 Horace Greeley & Co 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
1865005102<p>Philadelphia: Barclay & Co. 1864 1865 1865. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" original pictorial wrappers illustrated pagination irregular but complete original stitching completely unsophisticated without repairs internally clean and bright mild general handling but surely one of the nicest copies you're going to encounter VERY GOOD. McDade 623 According to RBH only 2 copies have ever appeared at auction. The last one in 2008. Variant issue mentioned by Howes with the illustration of the execution moved to p 96; also with misprint of copyright date as "1864". Featuring engraved portrait of Mary Surratt on cover. The assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 14 1865 need no retelling. Time however which has its own way with our judgments has raised some doubts about some of these. The unfairness of the military tribunal is now manifest and the guilt of Mrs. Surratt is certainly doubtful. This was amply demonstrated by the fact that only two years after the crime the government could not obtain the conviction of her son John Surratt in the civil courts in Washington.</p> Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1864 [1865]
186340887New York: Office of the Metropolitan Record 1863. Original printed wrappers. Stitched. 29 1 blank 1- advertisement for 'The Washington Despotism Dissected' 1 blank pp. Light wear and fox. About Very Good.<br /> <br /> The Metropolitan Record whose Prospectus is printed on the rear wrapper calls itself "an unswerving opponent of fanaticism in every form and an advocate of constitutional liberty and the rights of the citizens against despotic usurpation." <br /> This pamphlet is "A mock trial wherein Lincoln was charged with treasonable intent purposes and designs and of having committed among other unconstitutional acts the following: 'Declared War against Sovereign States under pretence of repossessing himself of certain forts and other property; arresting citizens without process of law; suppressed liberty of speech; stopped publication of certain newspapers; placed the military power above the civil power; overthrown State Sovereignty; forced unconstitutional acts through Congress.' At the conclusion of the trial the Court addressed the 'Criminal' as follows: 'You have been tried and found wanting. You have been given the opportunity of saving a nation but you have stabbed it to the heart. You have converted your country into a despotism'." Eberstadt.<br /> "Quotations from Lincoln and others selected to discredit his administration" Monaghan. A second edition was printed in 1867. Sabin Monaghan and LCP do not collate the advertisement at page 31.<br /> FIRST EDITION. 111 Eberstadt 332. Monaghan 252. Sabin 41234. LCP 10399. Office of the Metropolitan Record unknown
1880mon0000067714William Wood & Co. 1880-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Dark green cloth decoratively satmped in black and gilt. Some general scuffing and edge wear top corner is cut out of blank page in the front matter of two volumes former owner's name and stamp on endpapers of all three else an attractive set. William Wood & Co. hardcover
188010843New York: William Wood & Co 1880. Ninth Edition - Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. Ninth Edition - Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Chapters dedicated to: Reconstituents Astringents Alteratives Irritants Antiphlogistic Treatment Evacuants Musculo-motor Excitants Narcotics Anaesthetics Antispasmodics Neurosthenic Tonics Excitants Sedatives & Controstimulants and Anthelmintics. Part of Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors Series. We do offer a discount on the purchase of multiple volumes from the Wood's Series. Light shelf/edge wear minor rubbing at boards of V3 minor foxing at preliminaries very light/shallow tide marks at top of V1 else tight bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards gilt lettering and decorative elements black ink lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 302; 299; 379pp. Illus. b/w plates. Index. William Wood & Co hardcover
18801053William Wood & Company New York 1880. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. New York: William Wood & Company 1880. iv302; vi299; & iv379 pages. 9 x 6" black & gold stamped green cloth. Reconstituents astringents alteratives irritants antiphlogistic treatment evacuants musculo-motor excitants narcotics anaesthetics antispasmodics neurosthenic tonics excitants sedatives & controstimulants anthelmintics. VG. William Wood & Company, New York hardcover
1876BOOKS9315Hingham MA: Self Published . P/NO DUSTJACKET. 1876. . Cloth. 8vo. 455 pp. Reading copy: hinges cracked spine frayed and split and faded . * Self Published * hardcover
185413966New York: D. Appleton & Co. As New. 1854. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer-- . D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
18562209140064Boston: Nathaniel Noyes 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Disaster in the White Mountains 12mo. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. 72 pages. Early signature of "N.R. Preston Boston 1857" on front end page. <br> "Dr. Ball a Harvard graduate went for a hike on a rainy autumn afternoon up the unfinished Mount Washington carriage road. Though aware of both the late hour and the lateness of the season and having knowledge of the death of Lizzie Bourne from exposure on the mountain the month before Ball did not turn back when rain turned to sleet and then snow. He endured three days and two nights in a blizzard protected solely by his umbrella. This was a survival so unparalleled in the past and so unlikely to be repeated in the future as to be worthy of putting into print. Ironically Ball survived the cold of Mount Washington only to die of the heat in Panama at age 39." - Sotheby's Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana 2020. Refs: Bent p. 2; Hammond p. 20; Sabin 2933. Nathaniel Noyes hardcover
1868019219Chicago: Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 1868. First Edition. Document. Recently backed with thin paper with several professional repairs of chips and tears. Very Good . Large folio 16-1/4" x 21-3/4" finely engraved and printed on good quality paper with elaborate decorative borders with a "US" monogram to upper corners a bold calligraphic heading with "ABOLISHING SLAVERY" in prominent decorated letters; at top center is a small vignette of the pyramid and all-seeing eye above an oval vignette of a slave family with child mourning over a cameo portrait of Lincoln. This is followed by the engraved signatures of President Lincoln Vice President Hamlin Schuyler Colfax and J. W. Forney Speaker and Secretary of the Senate and 164 Senators and Congressmen. An exceedingly rare and beautiful printing of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . Shall exist within the United States." This elaborately engraved Reconstruction-era broadside is based on the special "souvenir" copies on parchment signed by Lincoln and the others of which only a handful are known to have been made. The Thirteenth Amendment represents the first substantive change to how America interpreted those liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights since its ratification in 1791. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the openly rebellious states. The Amendment effectively put an end to slavery once and for all upon its passage on 1 February 1865. <br/><br/> Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. unknown
182613908Worcester MA: Rogers & Griffin printers 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Large octavo 384pp. 390pp. illustrated. Untrimmed. In fair condition in the original boards with printed spine labels. Ex-library with the usual markings. Boards and first few leaves detached in both volumes but appears complete. One leaf detached in volume I laid in in place with wear to extremities. Page block fully split at pp. 200-201 in volume II. WIth all faults still rather clean internally with minimal foxing. In volume I the text is complete but simply reads continuously with no magazine mastheads; presumably the text was reset from the original when the printers decided to bound up the whole volume. In volume II they did not bother to do this and simply bound up the magazines without wrappers. <br /> <br /> Illustrated with a few portrait plates of important Worcester figures. Uncommon in the trade. Rogers & Griffin (printers) hardcover
186412394Philadelphia: Union League of Philadelphia 1864. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers disbound; light soiling and toning. First edition of this scarce pamphlet published during the 1864 elections in support of re-electing Lincoln as President. Monaghan 359. [Union League of Philadelphia] unknown
