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186521167Washington: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1865. Very good. Single leaf 5 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches possibly originally issued with two leaves the second being blank. 1.5 pages of text signed in print by Lincoln William Seward and E.D. Townsend. Faint folding creases; near fine. Issued March 11 1865 this was the second of two general amnesties issued by the President during the Civil War. These proclamations were intended to bring deserters and draft evaders back into the fold and encourage loyalty to the Union. The first issued on March 10 1863 gave all deserters a full pardon with no consequences if they returned to their units by April 1. Those who did not would have their citizenship revoked and were subject to court-martial with penalties as severe as death. This second proclamation offered the same basic terms but allowed deserters 60 days to return to duty. War Department, Adjutant General's Office unknown books
18661009808vo one sheet printed on both sides. Even toning and aging small closed tear to the upper margin; otherwise very good. This is a rather scarce government document that informs the military that the "Thirteenth Amendment" has passed and slavery is officially abolished. Article XIII states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime whereby the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." This document is signed in type by William H. Seward 1801-1872 as the Secretary of State. Congress would follow with a Civil Rights Act of 1866 to give African Americans the same rights as all citizens but this small printed document presenting the essence of the "Thirteenth Amendment" is an important piece of history. ANB. books
1862WRCAM54585Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office 1862. Three volumes with over 300 individual imprints. 12mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary three- quarter roan and marbled boards gilt leather labels. Wear to leather and edges boards somewhat rubbed front hinges tender. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and binder's tickets on front endpapers of second and third volumes; later bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. Light toning in places otherwise internally clean. Very good. A uniformly-bound set of General Orders issued by the Adjutant General's Office of the War Department in Washington D.C. previously owned by Brig. Gen. John Pope Cook. The orders cover 1861 and 1862 and comprise a nearly complete run of orders for the Union Army during the first two years of the Civil War. Undoubtedly the most significant General Order in this collection is a preliminary printing of the Emancipation Proclamation. <br> <br> A handful of the orders are signed in ink by the various adjutant generals. The Emancipation Proclamation bound in the third volume is as follows: <br> <br> GENERAL ORDERS No. 139. THE FOLLOWING PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT IS PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE ARMY AND ALL CONCERNED: BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION caption title. Washington D.C.: War Department Adjutant General's Office ca. September 24 1862. 3pp. This work is one of the earliest printings of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued to regimental commanders in the field during the Civil War in the week after President Lincoln's official manuscript version was finished. Here the third paragraph rings out with Lincoln's timeless words: "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 area of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then thenceforward and forever free." <br> <br> Following the Seven Days Battle and Gen. 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 Maj. 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. <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> The first edition of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation Eberstadt #1 a small three-page circular intended for distribution within the government and to the local press was 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> Eberstadt #2 is a supposed second edition no copy of which Charles Eberstadt was able to locate whose existence he inferred 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 of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation is without a doubt the earliest obtainable printing. 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. This firm sold a copy several years ago. <br> <br> The present copy of GENERAL ORDERS No. 139 is Eberstadt's fourth printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation dated in print on September 24. Charles Eberstadt surmises that this field order printing could have been accomplished as late as September 29 or 30 and produced in as many as 15000 copies. It is however rather uncommon in the market and this is the first copy of this printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation offered by this firm. <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. "The proclamation has been called by responsible persons one of the three great documents of world history ranking with Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence" - Eberstadt. <br> <br> Besides including about 300 orders on all manner of Union military activity at the outset of the Civil War the present collection also contains the 1861 printing of REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM AND DRESS FOR THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. Set out in GENERAL ORDERS No. 6 this twenty-four-page printing of the Army dress regulations was the first to set out uniform requirements for the Union during the conflict. The first sentence of the first section requires officers to "wear a frock coat of dark blue cloth." Thus the Blue and the Gray begins. <br> <br> This set was collected and bound by John Pope Cook who began the Civil War as a colonel in command of the 7th Illinois Volunteer Regiment. He was promoted to brigadier general after his troops played a key role in the Union victory at Fort Donelson early in 1862. After his promotion he was transferred to a command in the Department of Iowa and Dakota Territory where he remained until early 1863 conducting campaigns against the Sioux from his base in Sioux City Iowa. These orders must have been bound near the end of this period since contemporary labels note the binder one William F. Kiter as being from relatively close by Council Bluffs. <br> <br> A very early printing of one of the most important political acts in the Civil War and indeed in American history contained in a set of General Orders contemporaneously assembled by a significant Union Army commander. EBERSTADT LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 4. War Department, Adjutant General's Office hardcover books
1862WRCAM11943Washington 1862. Small broadside 5 x 7 1/2 inches. Very good. Lincoln appoints Henry Halleck as general-in- chief of all of the Union armies. unknown books
19474306New York New York: Knoedler 1947. Softbound. VG- Previous owner's name stamped at front cover. Some light sunning around edges of wraps. Brown wraps. 18 plates pp. 8 bw plates. Catalogue lists 42 works. Introductory essay by Lincoln Kirstein followed by reprinted statements regarding the artist by e.e. cummings A. Hyatt Mayor. Chronology list of collections. Knoedler unknown books
192150505bdNew York: A. L. Burt Company 1921. Octavo burgundy cloth hardcover 407 pp. Fine in a Very Good mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Being a story of Cape Cod the reader would naturally think that Galusha was a regular Cape Codder or else a woman. He is neither but instead is a member of the wealthy Cabot family of bankers of Boston. He is a meek little archaeologist who by his doctor’s orders has been ordred to the country for rest. On a stormy night Galusha arrives at the little village of Gould’s Bluffs on Cape Cod to find the hotel where he proposed staying closed for the season. Martha Phipps a kindly spinster in the forties takes him into her home as a boarder and he immediately becomes entangled in the concerns of the people around him. He rescues his hostess from financial difficulties; exposes the frauds of a village “medium†who is entangling the lighthouse keeper Captain Jethro Hallett in her spiritualistic web; smooths out the love affairs of the keeper’s daughter and outwitting the rascalities of the willy trickster Raish Pulsifer wins for himself the respect of all whom he comes in contact with including the hand of Miss Martha in marriage. A. L. Burt Company, (1921). hardcover books
2008126509Durham New Hampshire: Museum of Art University of New Hampshire 2008. Softbound. VG copy may have left gutter crease light edge wear. Color pictorial wraps French flaps x 62pp 20 color plates 13 color figures. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition featuring works by New York artist Gabriel Laderman 1929-2011. Catalog includes several essays annotations to the plates and a biography. Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire unknown books
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 books
37201DAIRY-TRADE CATALOGUE LINCOLN Mrs. D.A. FROZEN DAINTIES. Nashua: White Mountain Freezer Co. 1899. 12mo. Publisher's wrappers. 32 pag Recipe book for ice creams by the author of the Boston Cook Book published as trade publication by this superior freezer company. Fine. unknown books
1898CAT000575Nashua NH: White Mountain Freezer Co 1898. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 16pp directions and recipes for ice creams - Neapolitan Philadelphia pineapple etc. A few light stains. Size: 16mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000575. White Mountain Freezer Co unknown books
1870List1032Jefferson City: S. Winans Photographer 1870. Carte-de-visite photographs measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ¼ on slightly larger mounts versos with the decorative stamp of S. Winans photographer 126 High St. Jefferson City. Some fading to images else about fine quite well preserved near fine overall. Near Fine. The Lincoln Institute of Jefferson City Missouri had its roots in the educational programs set up for soldiers of the 62nd Colored Regiment during the Civil War most of whom were from Missouri. After the war with $6000 raised from donations a group led by the white abolitionist officer Richard Foster set up the Lincoln Institute in Jefferson City. The student body was entirely African-american with the faculty a mix of African-American and white. The state of Missouri provided additional funding. <br /> <br /> Collected here are four portraits of students of the institute likely taken in the founding decade before the carte-de-visite format was replaced by the cabinet card. The photographer S. Winans took the photographs likely in his Jefferson City gallery as they are all staged in a formal portrait gallery. Winans also took a well known portrait of David W. Wallace the father of Bess Wallace Truman. Quite uncommon - we find no other record of these images elsewhere. S. Winans, Photographer unknown books
193036066Lincoln University Pa. 1930. Paperback. Fine. 16p. Blue wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover fading along fold. Separately published pamphlet -- we have also had this as an issue of the Lincoln University Herald. <br/><br/> paperback books
193024703Lincoln University Pa. 1930. Paperback. Near Fine. 16p. Original wrapper. 22cm. Minor wear. INSCRIBED by William Allyn Hill. This is the Lincoln University Herald Vol. XXXIII No. 3 March 1930. <br/><br/> paperback books
194955312NY: Hastings House 1949. First Edition. Samuel Chamberlain. Large 8vo pp. 66 plus index. Illustrated with photographs by Samuel Chamberlain. Map on rear endpapers. Light blue cloth stamped in gilt. Endpapers somewhat stained edges of cover little rubbed o/w a VG tight copy in little chipped and soiled dj. Hastings House unknown books
194915300NY: Hastings House 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 66. Author's autograph on flyleaf. VG in little worn dj. The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House built in Hadley MA is rare in that it has seen no structural changes since 1799 and retains its fine old furniture. Many photographs accompany a description of the lives of the occupants through the 18th 19th and 20th centuries. Hastings House unknown books
35657Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY Hastings House 1949. 67 pages hardcover very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket. . Other hardcover books
194330696London: Hogarth Press 1943. First edition. Yellow cloth fine in very good dust jacket. 2000 copies were printed. According to Martin Duberman "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein" there was a second pre-publication printing not recorded by Woolmer but both printings stored in a warehouse were largely destroyed in a Nazi air raid. Woolmer 503. <br/><br/> Hogarth Press hardcover books
1968152359Los Angeles: Cinerama International Releasing Organization 1968. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Daniel Mann laughing with actors Abbey Lincoln and Joseph Attles on the set of the 1968 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. <br/><br/>In order to prevent their maid from leaving their employment to attend secretarial school the youngest son of a wealthy white Long Island family searches for a handsome executive to wine and dine her. <br/><br/>Set in Long Island and New York. <br/><br/>9.5 x 6.5 inches. Very Good plus lightly toned and soiled to the right edge with brief wear to the corners. Cinerama International Releasing Organization unknown books
1969030785New York: Arno Press 1969. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sculpters - Calder Flannagan Lachaise Nadelman Lipchitz. 94 p. B/w illus. Published for the Museum of Modern Art New York. Bibliography. Arno Press unknown books
15860Abraham Lincoln. "The Gettysburg Address" contained in "Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery Together with the Accompanying Documents as reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania March 31 1864." Harrisburg: Singerly & Myers State Printers 1864. Lincoln's famous speech was originally delivered at the Dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg; this early volume following shortly after that dedication records the events of the day details of the cemetery and the soldiers interred there and the original text of the Gettysburg Address. <br/><br/>The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg Pennsylvania on the afternoon of Thursday November 19 1863 four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. It is one of the best-known speeches in American history. This is the first Pennsylvania printing of the Address. It occupies the second unnumbered page of this volume on the recent consecration of the Soldier's National Cemetary near the end. Included also in the Report is material on the creation of the cemetery with statistical data names of the soldiers buried there and the program at the dedicatory ceremonies including the benedictions and the oration of the featured speaker Edward Everett. Wills's study of the Address discusses its textual variations and the surprising difficulty in determining precisely what Lincoln said. As printed here it tracks what Wills has identified as the likely text spoken by Lincoln; but differs in several respects from the 'final version' for example the omission of 'poor' in 'our poor power to add or detract.' In fair condition. Foxed frequent margin spotting. Original cloth worn at spine and extremities of boards with cardboard below cloth revealed. One full-page map of the battlefield and hospitals; one folding map of the cemetery grounds. unknown books
1927W0710DNew York: George H. Doran Company 1927. Original blue binding with gilt lettering. Cloth is rubbed and flecked with wear at spine ends and on corners. Paste action in gutters and some faint foxing througout. Rear hinge starting. Foreedges of last few pages etymologically challenged. An authoritatvie well illustrated account of a landmark adventure. . First Edition. Cloth. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. George H. Doran Company Hardcover books
193931419New York: Kamin Publications 1939. First edition. Paperback. Good. Bound printed wrappers. The first issue of this film quarterly edited by Kirstein and others. 112 pp. With contributions by James Agee Maxim Gorsky Sawyer Falk and others. Noticeable chipping to the edge of the front panel. A good copy overall of this uncommon debut issue. Kamin Publications paperback books
197436227NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1974. First edition. xi 340 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Over 800 illustrations many in color. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
186847772Roxbury: L. B. Weston Printer 1868. Paperback. Very Good. 15p. Wrapper. 24cm. The Society raised $1963.25 in the period ending Oct. 7th 1868 and contributed to the support of six teachers in Gordonsville Richmond and Culpepper Va. Charleston S.C. and Salem Md. <br/><br/> L. B. Weston, Printer paperback books
193547922New Rochelle NY: Peter Pauper Press 1935. One of an edition limited to 50 copies this being #14. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. New Rochelle NY: Peter Pauper Press 1935. Introduction by William H. Townsend. One of an edition limited to 50 copies this being #14. 103 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Red Leather. Gilt lettering to spine. Bumped and worn at head heel and corners; chipped at head and front board; interior tight clean and bright; a very nice copy. Very good/No jacket issued. Peter Pauper Press hardcover books
