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1872WRCAM31184Washington 1872. 4pp. of manuscript on a single long ruled sheet of paper folded in half to produce two folio-size leaves. Light fold lines. Minor browning. Very good. A legal manuscript copy of a land patent issued by Abraham Lincoln to John Hicks granting him lands in Missouri set aside by the United States in 1842 for reservation land but unclaimed at the time of the original grant on May 3 1861. The lands in question were ceded back to the United States via a treaty with the Wyandot Nation of the Upper Sandusky in Ohio signed March 17 1872. Includes numerous references to other key treaties made between 1842 and 1872. Good evidence of land transfer issues as the wholesale cession of Indian lands to the United States began in earnest. EBERSTADT 165:363. unknown books
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 books
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 books
18653116807Very Good with no dust jacket. 1865. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Very good copy in maroon cloth with gilt titles and top edge without dust jacket as issued. Edges of cloth faintly foxed. Top edge lightly dulled. Previous owner's name inked on first blank with discreet blind-stamp. Short splits at top & bottom edge of front & rear hinges. 4pps of advertisements at rear of text. Published a month after Lincoln's assassination. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages . hardcover
184829488Cincinnati: Robinson & Jones 1848. Original printed wrappers light wear spine reinforced with archival tape three rubberstamps on blank portions with ornamental borders stitched. 49 3 blanks pp. Very Good. <br/><br/> This scarce pamphlet is the address of 'An Israelite to the Christian World' asserting "that Israelites view with as much concern and regret as devout Christians the lamentable attempts to instil disbelief in a Divine revelation." Lindo argues that God's Covenant with the Jews "has never been intermitted but has always been and still continues to be in operation." Through the revelation they received at Sinai "the world is indebted for the civilization it now enjoys and will continue to be indebted for the preservation of that civilization." Christianity he says was "originally a Jewish sect adhering strictly to the monotheism of the Old Testament" but it has "gradually become so perverted as to remove it from what it was originally." <br/>FIRST EDITION. Rosenbach 637. Singerman 1026. Not in Sabin Thomson Eberstadt Decker. Robinson & Jones unknown books
186865220Knoxville TN 1868. Broadside. 21 x 14cm. Six six-line stanzas. Some stains and two small holes one affecting two words. Short break at one fold. See BAL 17099 for two sheet music printings ca. 1866. A famous poem in perhaps the first or only separate non-music printing. OCLC lists only musical scores. <br/><br/> unknown books
1807539560London: Printed for J. Johnson … by T. Bensley 1807. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Abridged and edited by William Hazlitt. Octavo. xlvii 4 529pp. Bound in tree calf re-backed with the original gilt decorated spine and red leather titling label laid down marbled endpapers gilt and gauffered edges. Armorial bookplate of Belgian politician Sylvain van de Weyer on front pastedown. Intermittent toning and moderate scattered foxing very good. An attractive copy with a notable provenance. Van de Weyer 1802-74 served as Belgian ambassador to the United Kingdom and briefly as prime minister of Belgium under King Leopold I. Printed for J. Johnson … by T. Bensley hardcover
1872003726Privately printed. HAYWARD Abraham. Lady Palmerston. A Biographical Sketch. A signed presentation copy with autograph correspondence of Viscountess Palmerston and Lord Palmerston bound in. London reprinted by permission from The Times of September 15 1869; dated June 1872. Slim 8vo 21 pp. Contemporary full green morocco boards with dense gilt fillet borders and elaborate gilt corner and frame tooling upper cover lettered in gilt; spine gilt ruled. Rubbing to extremities minor wear at corners but a handsome and well-preserved presentation binding. Internally clean with manuscript material neatly bound in at the front. Very good. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Alfred Montgomery with the inscription leaf bound in at the front: "Alfred Montgomery Esq. with best regards A.H." Bound in with the pamphlet are five autograph letters addressed to Alfred Montgomery: four from Emily Temple Viscountess Palmerston and one from Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston dated 1856 and signed "Palmerston". The Palmerston letter was written during his first term as Prime Minister 1855-1858. The Lady Palmerston letters concern social arrangements and engagements. The pamphlet itself was privately issued marked "Not for Sale" and printed shortly after Lady Palmerston's death in 1869. Hayward's sketch is one of the earliest biographical appreciations of her role within Whig political and social life. Alfred Montgomery 1814-1896 was a senior Admiralty clerk private secretary to Lord Wellesley later Commissioner of Stamps and Taxes and of the Inland Revenue and a well-known Victorian society figure. According to contemporary accounts he was a well known dandy that had 'known domestic trouble and been rewarded by non-domestic success'. He was clearly closely associated with the Palmerstons and both wrote to him personally with the letters that have been bound in. A highly unusual Palmerston association volume most likely a commemorative memento put together by Montgomery. The result being a privately printed biographical text authorial presentation inscription and contemporary autograph correspondence of both Lady Palmerston and the Prime Minister himself preserved in a presentation binding. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1872. Privately printed hardcover
1860022564Columbus: Follett Foster. Original brown stamped cloth. First Edition Later Issue. Two leaves of Follett ads rule over publishers imprint on copyright page numeral 2 at bottom of page 13. Debates about whether slavery should be permitted in new states. The publicity from these debates made Lincoln a national figure. Previous owners names in pencil and ink foxing Good. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1860. Follett, Foster hardcover
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
189480033Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Sponsors Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23.5 x 16 cm. Complete twelve volume set. This is the Sponsors Edition printed from plates of the original new and enlarged edition of 1894 signed by the chancellor of the university and with the seal of of the university. There is supposed to be a limitation page opposite this in volume 1 but this is NOT present. Several versions of this edition were done. This set bound into brown boards with a gilt emblem of the Lincoln Memorial and TEG. Many unopened pages. Frontispiece in each volume and additional plates and facsimile letters throughout the work. Wear and sometimes chipping at the heads of spines. Nice internally. Heavy set. Substantial additional charges will be required for priority or orders outside the US. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
1867118<b>Large thick 4to. Pp 2 XXX 930 with a portrait of Lincoln as a frontis. Contemp. half black morocco raised bands black title label gilt lettered spine brown cloth bds. Marbled edges and eps text slightly toned. An excellent copy. A thick volume of tributes from around the world to the late Abraham Lincoln.</b> Government Printing Office hardcover
186423032AB1864. Washington Printed for the Union Congressional Committee 1864. 8°. 14 pages. Softcover / Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some foxing. Unopened. Extremely RARE ! "To vote for Lincoln is to vote for Union and for Liberty". This is how this pamphlet ends in which Laboulaye urges the americans to vote for Lincoln instead for McClellan. But Laboulaye was even more important to the american people in his overall favour of this country as a leading role for freedom and future. He suggested the present by France which was later erected as the "Statue of Liberty" "In the summer of 1865 a group of Frenchmen were gathered together one evening at the home of the well-known author Edouard Rene de Laboulaye in the village of Glavingny a suburb of Paris. Among those present were Oscar and Edmond de Lafayette grandsons of the Marquis d' Lafayette Masonic brother of George Washington; Henri Martin the noted historian and French Mason; and a young artist from Colmar in French later German Alsace by the name of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who at the time was engaged in making a bust of Laboulaye called by one biographer "America's most ardent admirer in France." Laboulaye told the group that it would be a splendid gesture on the part of all liberty-loving Frenchmen to acknowledge their friendship to America by presenting a fitting memorial. Some have speculated that he had a second motive in mind to call attention to the contrast between the American way of life with its freedoms and that of the French under the repressive Second Empire. The 31-year-old Bartholdi became imbued with the idea and also the challenge it presented to his artistic talent. But the proposal lay dormant during the autocratic rule of Napoleon III and throughout the destructive years of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1871 Laboulaye the Brother Lafayette with their cousin the Marquis de Noailles and the Marquis de Rochambeau along with Henri Martin revived the plan for the as yet unnamed memorial. They suggested that Bartholdi visit America and make arrangements for the presentation of the monument on July 4 1876 the Centenary of the Declaration of Independence. Armed with letters of introduction and full of high hopes Bartholdi sailed for America although it is said that he did not have even a rough drawing of the proposed monument. Two weeks later while standing on the deck of the ship Pereire steaming up Lower New York Bay he caught a vision of a magnificent goddess holding aloft a torch in one hand and welcoming all visitors to the land of freedom and opportunity. Quickly obtaining paper and brush Bartholdi sketched in water-color the idea of the Statue of Liberty substantially as it appears today. It was his thought to have this symbolic structure tower over the steeple of Trinity Church then the tallest building on the New York skyline. He wrote to Laboulaye "these outlines may well aim beyond the mere monument at a work of great moral value." MasonicWorld - By R. W. Robert C. Singer Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye French pronunciation: edwa ne lfv d labul 18 January 1811 25 May 1883 was a French jurist poet author and anti-slavery activist. In 1865 he originated the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He got the idea thinking that this would help strengthen their relationship with the United States. Laboulaye was received at the bar in 1842 and was chosen professor of comparative law at the Collège de France in 1849. Following the Paris Commune of 1870 he was elected to the national assembly representing the departement of the Seine. As secretary of the committee of thirty on the constitution he was effective in combatting the Monarchists in establishing the Third Republic. In 1875 he was elected a life senator and in 1876 he was appointed administrator of the Collège de France resuming his lectures on comparative legislation in 1877. Laboulaye was also chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society. Laboulaye was president of the Société d'économie politique. Always a careful observer of the politics of the United States and an admirer of its constitution he wrote a three-volume work on the political history of the United States and published it in Paris during the height of the politically repressed Second Empire. During the American Civil War he was a zealous advocate of the Union cause and the abolition of slavery publishing histories of the cultural connections of the two nations. At the war's conclusion in 1865 he became president of the French Emancipation Committee that aided newly freed slaves in the U.S. The same year he had the idea of presenting a statue representing liberty as a gift to the United States a symbol for ideas suppressed by Napoleon III. The sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi one of Laboulaye's friends turned the idea into reality. Wikipedia paperback
1817NF3108THE YOUNG MAN OF HONOUR'S VADE-MECUM BEING A SALUTARY TREATISE ON DUELLING TOGETHER WITH THE ANNALS OF CHIVALRY THE ORDEAL TRIAL AND JUDICIAL COMBAT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES C. Chapple N.d. but 1817 first edition previous owners name on verso of f.e.p. and title page some wear to the fore edge corner tips and a bit of wear also to the cover edges some wear to the spine else a good to very good copy in what appears to be the publishers original binding of plain brown boards and blotched red cloth spine. Rare with only one copy showing up at the major auction venues after 1974. C. Chapple hardcover
18577398Imprimerie de J. Attinger 15 x 22 Neuchâtel 1857 In-8, reliure demi-vélin à la bradel fin XIXe, dos lisse, pièce de titre de cuir rouge encadrée de filets dorés, lettre "H" et chiffre "365" en queue, XXII-[2]-322-[2] pp. Portrait de l'auteur (Lith. Durheim) en frontispice de la première partie. Souvenirs publiés par Rudolph von Steiger à partir du manuscrit de l'auteur. Descendant d'une famille originaire du canton de Berne (Douanne) et de tradition militaire, Abraham Rösselet (1770-1850) s'engagea comme cadet volontaire à 13 ans dans le régiment Schönau (puis Reinach) à Phalsbourg (Lorraine) en 1783. Il est blessé à Paris (1789), puis se met au service de la Hollande. Sergent chez les chasseurs bernois (1796), adjudant-instructeur (1799) dans la 5e, puis la 3e demi-brigade helvétique, Rösselet participa à la première bataille de Zurich. Il servit en Corse dès 1801 dans le 1er régiment suisse (1805), puis fut commandant de place en Calabre (1806-1811). De retour de la campagne de Russie (1813), il fut lieutenant-colonel et chef de bataillon de la garde royale à Paris (1816-1831).(Source DHS). Ces "Souvenirs" constituent une intéressante et vivante contribution à l'histoire des régiments suisses aux services étrangers. Rösselet est resté plus ou moins au service de la France depuis Louis XVI jusqu'à Louis-Philippe, servant les Bourbons en 1789, puis lors de la première Restauration, mais aussi la France révolutionnaire et l'Empire par l'intermédiaire des régiments helvétiques. Provenance: bibliothèque des frères Raoul et Jean Brunon, avec leur ex-libris gravé par Benigni sur le premier contre plat et le tampon "Archives et collections, Raoul et Jean Brunon, 174, rue Consolat, Marseille (4e)", ainsi que l'ex-libris manuscrit de Jean Brunon (1890-1985) qui fut un des grands collectionneurs de la période impériale. Tampon humide "Bibliothèque populaire". Rare.(B49) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
18577398Imprimerie de J. Attinger 15 x 22 Neuchâtel 1857 In-8, reliure demi-vélin à la bradel fin XIXe, dos lisse, pièce de titre de cuir rouge encadrée de filets dorés, lettre "H" et chiffre "365" en queue, XXII-[2]-322-[2] pp. Portrait de l'auteur (Lith. Durheim) en frontispice de la première partie. Souvenirs publiés par Rudolph von Steiger à partir du manuscrit de l'auteur. Descendant d'une famille originaire du canton de Berne (Douanne) et de tradition militaire, Abraham Rösselet (1770-1850) s'engagea comme cadet volontaire à 13 ans dans le régiment Schönau (puis Reinach) à Phalsbourg (Lorraine) en 1783. Il est blessé à Paris (1789), puis se met au service de la Hollande. Sergent chez les chasseurs bernois (1796), adjudant-instructeur (1799) dans la 5e, puis la 3e demi-brigade helvétique, Rösselet participa à la première bataille de Zurich. Il servit en Corse dès 1801 dans le 1er régiment suisse (1805), puis fut commandant de place en Calabre (1806-1811). De retour de la campagne de Russie (1813), il fut lieutenant-colonel et chef de bataillon de la garde royale à Paris (1816-1831).(Source DHS). Ces "Souvenirs" constituent une intéressante et vivante contribution à l'histoire des régiments suisses aux services étrangers. Rösselet est resté plus ou moins au service de la France depuis Louis XVI jusqu'à Louis-Philippe, servant les Bourbons en 1789, puis lors de la première Restauration, mais aussi la France révolutionnaire et l'Empire par l'intermédiaire des régiments helvétiques. Provenance: bibliothèque des frères Raoul et Jean Brunon, avec leur ex-libris gravé par Benigni sur le premier contre plat et le tampon "Archives et collections, Raoul et Jean Brunon, 174, rue Consolat, Marseille (4e)", ainsi que l'ex-libris manuscrit de Jean Brunon (1890-1985) qui fut un des grands collectionneurs de la période impériale. Tampon humide "Bibliothèque populaire". Rare.(B49) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
1873124442c.1873-78. An early family photographic portrait in the tintype medium showing the publisher Abraham Judah Lev with his wife and children. Lev 1834-1901 was born in Russian Poland and came to England at age 19. Raised Jewish he converted to Christianity in 1854 and in 1863 set up as a printer and publisher in Whitechapel. His publications most notably the periodical The Everlasting Nation sought to convert other Jews to Christianity. Included is a document by the great-great-great-grandson of Lev noting the family history and biographical details of Lev. Tintypes are a direct positive photograph printed on a thin sheet of metal and coated with lacquer. They were invented in the 1850s and during the 1860s and 1870s were among the most popular mediums for private portraiture. They were favoured for their sturdiness unlike other mediums they did not need mounting and were relatively cheap and easy to produce. Tintype 82 x 70 mm. Faded and tarnished one face obscured but image still distinct. In good condition. unknown
185013208Washington DC: Office of Printers to the House of Reps 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . Octavo 626pp. illustrated plus six plates. A good or better copy in contemporary 3/4 black leather and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and small private library label to front paste-down else unmarked. Mild foxing to first and last few leaves. Extremities rubbed and scuffed and the joints tender but sound. An important volume in the pantheon of presidential books which chronicles on pp. 57 and 262 the award of a patent to then-Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln. Having twice been aboard a riverboat which got stuck on shallow shoals he developed a concept for a bellows fixed under the hull of a riverboat which could be inflated to lift the boat over the obstruction and then retract. Lincoln had been a patent lawyer in the mid-1840s and was closely familiar with the laborious patent application process. <br /> <br /> To this day Lincoln is the only president to have been awarded a patent a fact which contributes to his enduring legacy as an uncommon genius and polymath. As such this tract while unrelated to politics is an essential volume in any substantial Lincoln collection. Uncommon in the trade. Not listed in Monaghan. Office of Printers to the House of Reps hardcover
186564322Davenport Iowa: Designed by W.H. Pratt and lithographed by A. Hageboeck 1865. Broadside. 38 x 31 cm. Several small tape repairs on verso several untaped tears on edges. A calligraphic portrait memorial of Lincoln using shading to form his likeness with the text of his Emancipation Proclamation. "Designed and written by W. H. Pratt and printed in Iowa the state that sent the most soldiers per capita to the front in the Civil War"- EBERSTADT 40. <br/><br/> Designed by W.H. Pratt and lithographed by A. Hageboeck unknown books
1865WRCAM56487Providence: Salisbury Bro. & Co. 1865. Illustrated broadside 12 1/2 x 8 inches. Old folds. Remnants of a label on verso a few small chips to edges uneven tanning light foxing. Very good. Rare broadside advertising gold jewelry and "Patent Embossed Carte de Visites.of all noted personages." from Salisbury Bro. & Co. of Providence Rhode Island. The text describes a large stock of photographs offered at wholesale prices to retailers across the country. The broadside has a vignette of the Salisbury factory in the top quarter of the sheet with a dense cascade of text in a variety of different fonts below. The lower third of the sheet is devoted to descriptions of images of Lincoln and the Civil War advertising three different Lincoln images and the promise "Our Picture of Lincoln is the best ever taken. All others as good as ever sold by any one." They also offer images of other prominent Civil War personages as well as "Booth the Assassin Robert E. Lee Jeff Davis and other prominent Rebels all at the same price. Also we have the ASSASSIN'S VISION and the ASSASSIN'S DOOM on full Cards." <br> <br> This broadside is primarily directed towards retailers as opposed to private customers and provides costs for bulk orders of up to 1000 cartes de visite. They claim their prices are "500 per cent. less than any dealers ever have." with prices starting at $7 for 100 and up to $100 for 1000 depending on the image. Although Salisbury Bros. & Co.'s cartes de visite and other photographic products are easily accessible in many libraries we could find no record of this broadside. An interesting record of the mass-marketing of photographic images in the post-Civil War era. Salisbury, Bro. & Co. unknown books
1871135435Portland ME: George Stinson and Co. Publishers 1871. Large format lithograph of the Lincoln family by American engraver George Stinson. Framed. The entire piece measures 27.5 inches by 20.5 inches. Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the United States through its Civil War and in doing so preserved the Union of the United States of America abolished slavery and strengthened the federal government. Lincoln began constructing his cabinet on election night and sought to create a cabinet that would unite the Republican party. His eventual cabinet would include his primary rivals for the Republican nomination and although his appointees held differing views on economic issues all were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories of the United States. The most senior cabinet post of Secretary of State was appointed to William Seward who had recently failed to win the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and Lincoln's choice for Secretary of the Treasury was Ohio Senator Salmon P. Chase Seward's primary political rival and the leader of a radical faction of the Republican party that sought the immediate abolition of slavery. George Stinson and Co., Publishers unknown
1804M5103Boston 1804. Very Good lower right margin has been extended. Notes: A facinating map of the Old North West. Connecticut's extravagant claims to territory in the west are reflected in the portion of northern Ohio called New Connecticut. Size : 235x400 mm 9.25x15.75 Inches Coloring: Original Hand Coloring Category: ; Maps North America Great Lakes; Maps United States East; Maps United States Mid-West unknown
1860158491860. Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln and Douglas Debates 1860 printed record of the seven public debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign a pivotal series of political confrontations over slavery and the future of the United States. The debates addressed the expansion of slavery into western territories and the constitutional implications of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision. Lincoln used the campaign to articulate a moral and political critique of slavery's expansion including the position he expressed in his earlier convention speech that "a house divided against itself cannot stand." Although Lincoln lost the Senate race to Douglas the debates established him as a leading national figure within the Republican Party and played a major role in shaping the political arguments that led to his presidential election in 1860.<br /> <br /> Lincoln Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition third issue identified by the numeral "2" on page 13 and the presence of the publisher's advertisement. Octavo volume containing 268 pages. Bound in publisher's original olive green textured cloth with blind stamped borders and spine lettered in gilt.<br /> <br /> The Lincoln Douglas debates represented one of the most influential series of political exchanges in nineteenth century American history addressing the central constitutional and moral questions surrounding slavery in the years immediately preceding the Civil War. Douglas defended the doctrine of popular sovereignty arguing that territories should decide the legality of slavery for themselves while Lincoln challenged the compatibility of that doctrine with the Dred Scott decision and emphasized the moral consequences of the institution. Although Douglas retained his Senate seat Lincoln's articulate presentation of the issues drew national attention and positioned him as a major political figure within the emerging Republican Party. Slight chipping to the head of the spine fading to boards and gilt minor damp staining with light foxing and toning consistent with age. Overall good condition. unknown
1863175681863. Lincoln Abraham. African Troops Scarce U.S. Senate executive document transmitting a message from Abraham Lincoln and accompanying State Department correspondence concerning the French deployment of Black troops to Mexico during the American Civil War. Issued by the 37th Congress 3rd Session in February 1863 the report reflects the convergence of emancipation-era policy racialized military labor and international imperial strategy.<br /> <br /> U.S. Senate Executive Document No. 40 37th Congress 3rd Session; February 1863. Original printed pamphlet in standard folio format.Prepared under the direction of William H. Seward the document compiles diplomatic intelligence indicating that France transported African troops from Egypt-specifically from regions identified as "Dalfour" and Nubia-to reinforce forces stationed at Veracruz during the French Intervention in Mexico. The stated rationale as recorded in the report was that "the black race is not subject to the yellow fever" revealing the period's racialized medical assumptions and their direct application in imperial military logistics.<br /> <br /> Produced in the immediate aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation this document is especially significant for situating Black military labor within a global context. While the Union was actively recruiting African American soldiers U.S. officials were simultaneously monitoring European powers deploying African troops across colonial networks. The report thus provides rare contemporary evidence of how race disease theory and military necessity intersected in both American and European wartime policy. This document holds strong research value across multiple fields: African American military history Civil War diplomacy transnational slavery and emancipation colonial medicine and 19th-century imperial warfare. It is particularly notable for documenting the perceived biological resilience of Black soldiers as a strategic asset-an idea central to both colonial and military history. AS per OCLC Scarce in institutional holdings with only a small number of recorded copies including Wyoming North Texas Michigan and Faulkner University. OCLC data should be understood as approximate and subject to revision. Condition: Light dampstaining to the lower right blank corner; otherwise in very good condition and clean legible text. unknown
187467422Exemplaire sur hollande non numéroté, "épreuve d'auteur" signée L.B., 1 vol. in-folio en feuillet sous chemise éditeur cartonnée demi-percaline rouge, Librairie de Charles Marion, Besançon, 1874, texte et 25 eaux-fortes sous serpentes
