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1802ZB1325720Hartford: John Babcock printer 1802. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item first edition; 166 pp. lacks the rear free endpaper; original boards with later paper tape rebacking covers very worn masonic book plate to the front free endpaper text age-toned a few instances of foxing else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Hartford: John Babcock, printer hardcover
186022476Columbus OH 1860. Hardcover. Fine. Book. Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois. Columbus Ohio: Follett Foster and Co. 1860. 3rd edition with publisher's advertisements bound in. 268 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. Historical BackgroundLincoln's debates with incumbent Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas earned him national prominence. Slavery was the pressing national issue especially regarding its expansion into the western territories. Douglas authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 which effectively repealed the free-slave dividing line set by the Missouri Compromise 1820 at 36° 30' north latitude. Instead of banning slavery north of the line and banning south of it new states would instead decide on slavery's status within their borders by ""popular sovereignty."" On its surface Douglas's bill appeared to offer the nation a middle path on the contentious issue of slavery. Instead it would only muddy the waters on slavery.The Kansas-Nebraska Act was only one of a long list of compromises in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Despite these attempts the slavery debate only became more heated throughout the 1850s. Northerners seeing the hypocrisy of ""states rights"" advocates chafed when a new Fugitive Slave Act 1850 required the use of federal marshals to return escaped slaves. An unintended consequence of Douglas's bill resulted in fraudulent elections and violence in Kansas in 1855 and 1856. South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks bludgeoned Massachusetts anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor after an 1856 speech. In 1857 the Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision which decreed that African Americans could not be citizens and based on one's right to bring property across state lines effectively erased the division between free and slave states. Slavery unspoken but protected in the Constitution and mitigated by antebellum compromisers was a tinderbox about to roar to fire.Lincoln recognized the problems slavery presented for the nation and in his debates with Douglas focused his attention on the nationalization of slavery both West and North. After he was nominated as the Republican candidate for the Senate he spoke to the convention famously asserting that ""a house divided against itself cannot stand."" The House Divided speech delivered at Springfield Illinois on June 17 1858 is the opening piece of this book. Though he would lose the Senate race the rest of the book details Lincoln's intellectual combat with Douglas over slavery. This book is a third edition identified by the line over publisher's imprint on the back of the title page the numeral ""2"" at bottom of page 13 and publisher's advertisements bound in at head.Harrison Yerkes 1841-1899 enlisted as soon as the Civil War erupted but since he was under 21 years of age in 1861 his father removed him from service. As soon as he reached the age of majority he enlisted in the 31st Michigan Infantry Company and remained in the Army for the remained of the war. He returned to Michigan purchased two tracts of land which he farmed until retiring in 1891. He was a lifelong Republican though never held office.ConditionLight green boards faded blind stamped gilt lettering on spine ""Harrison Yerkes Northville Mich 1860"" erased from free front endpaper same present minus date on verso of ffep bep and back paste down. Very minor scattered foxing. Publishers advertisements bound into headmatter Minor shelf wear. Tight.SourcesPaul Leake History of Detroit Volume II Chicago: Lewis 1912 pp. 765.http://books.google.com/booksid=ZkUOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA765&lpg=PA765&dq=harrisonyerkes&source=bl&ots=B-C-cmyauC&sig=gYKZ0sLD9AIMK2XCYuUZOEFn6eA&hl=en&ei=Wq7oTpO-CsLx0gHdisX-Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&sqi=2&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=harrison%20yerkes&f=false hardcover books
183719688Ooroomiah Urmia West Azerbaijan Iran March 3rd 1837. 3.5 pages in autograph ink in English on an unlined foolscap folio 13.75 x 8.75 inches approx. 850 words no cover. Docketed in autograph ink "Letter from Priest Abraham to Prof. Tyler March 2 1837. <br /><br />"Permit me to inform you that the year Mr. Perkins came to the county of Persia to the city of Tabreez; Mr. Perkins and Mr. Haas a German Preacher came to the country of Ooroomiah- first to Gavalan the village of Mar Yanna i.e Mar Yohanna who accompanied them to the city of Ooroomiah. They remained in the city a few days and then came to my village- viz. Geog Tapa which is four miles distant from the city and we accompanied them to Tabreez. There we read your language the English and Mr. Perkins read our language the Syriac about eight months. Then the Plague entered Tabreez and Mar Yohana and myself took leave of Mr. Perkins and returned to Ooroomiah. After about five months Mr. Perkins came again to Ooroomiah also Mrs. Perkins and Dr. Grant and Mrs. Grant." <br /><br />A lengthy letter in English from one of the earliest Nestorian Christians to assist the American mission to Persia launched in November 1835 by the arrival in Urmia of "the Apostle to the Persians" Justin Perkins 1805-1869 with his wife Charlotte Bass Perkins missionary physician Asahel Grant 1807-1844 and Grant's wife Judith Campbell Grant. <br /><br />Qasha Auraham this the Syriac rendering of Priest Abraham was a native of the village of Georgtapa just to the southeast of Urmia the nephew to village elder Muqdasi Mormezd who had suggested Auraham as the suitable local assistant for the missionary team; along with Mar Yohannon Auraham was instrumental in teaching the missionaries modern Syriac and in creating written vernacular Syriac. <br /><br />The goal of the American Board of Missions with the Perkins mission had been the revival of the Assyrian Church of the East rather than planting an independent Protestant church and Perkins worked with Auraham and other local scholars to create a written modern Syriac in order to translate Nestorian religious texts out of ancient Syriac into the vernacular. Linguistics in that period was something of a rugged pursuit in Azerbaijan and Auraham was instrumental in recruiting a noted scholar to the translation mission as later reported by Perkins in <i>Nestorian Biography</i>: <br /><br />"A few months after the missionaries arrived at Oroomiah Mr. Perkins sent priest Abraham of Geog Tapa and a Nestorian deacon to the mountains to obtain from thence an ecclesiastic to assist him in reducing the modern Syriac to writing and in the translation of the Scriptures. . . . There was real advantage in uniting the labors of a translator from the mountains with one on the Plain to harmonize so far as practicable the different dialects in the first reduction of the language to a written form. The messengers were charged to obtain 'the most learned' priest they could find. They boldly set off on foot—entered the formidable mountains and penetrated as far as Marbeshoo a large village in a secluded glen forty miles west of the Plain of Oroomiah. It was a fearful journey at that period. . . . At Marbeshoo they found priest Dunkha who had come down to that place from his more distant home on business. His fame as a very learned man was already known to the messengers and they at once engaged him to return with them to Oroomiah. A week after they left the missionary they introduced to his study priest Dunkha who though grotesquely clad in wild Koordish costume struck him as a very pleasant man." <br /><br />The collaboration with Dunkha is alluded to here by Auraham: <br /><br />"I would also inform you that we four viz. Mar Yohanna -- myself -- Joseph a brother of Mar Yohannan -- and little John the son of my uncle study your language. And Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins and Mr. Grant and Mrs. Grant study our language the Syriac. We learn your language by little and little but Mr. Perkins learns our language very well. And I would further inform you that Mr. Perkins and Priest M'dunka i.e. Qasha Dunkha and myself are translating the Old and New Testament from the Syriac language into our dialect. Of the Old Testament we have translated the first book which as you know gives an account of the creation and three chapters of the second book. And of the New Testament we have translated the first fifteen chapters. If God smile upon us we shall be and by finish complete this good work." <br /><br />Since the first mission press would not be operational in Urmia until the arrival of printer Edward Breath in 1840 this earliest translation of the New Testament from the Peshitta rather than the Greek would not be published until 1846. Professor William S. Tyler of Amherst seems the likeliest recipient of this missive given that he had both been a friend and fellow-student of Perkins at Andover Theological Seminary and had taught with Perkins at the Amherst Academy; presumably this firsthand account from Auraham was meant both as English practice and—with its mixture of exotic romance and good works to drum up for support for the mission among kindred scholars in America. <br /><br />Some short closed tears along old folds but no loss; some light toning a little old creasing; in very good condition quite legible. With a preliminary typescript.<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>References: </i><br /><br />American Sunday-School Union.<i> The Nestorians of Persia: a history of the origin and progress of that people and of missionary labours among them.</i> Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1848. <br /><br />Campbell William S. editor. <i>A Memoir of Mrs. Judith S. Grant Late Missionary to Persia.</i> New York: J. Winchester 1844. <br /><br />Murre-van den Berg H. L. "The Missionaries' Assistants: The Role of Assyrians in the Development of Written Urmia Aramaic." <i>Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society.</i> Volume X issue 2. October 1996. <br /><br />Perkins Justin and Fidelia Fiske. <i>Nestorian biography: being sketches of pious Nestorians who have died at Oroomiah Persia.</i> Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1857. <br /><br />Tyler Cornelius ed. <i>Autobiography of William Seymour Tyler D. D. LL. D.</i> n. p.: Privately Printed 1912. <br /><br />See also the <i>Missionary Herald</i> December 1840 <i>inter alia</i> for extracts from Perkins' journal in Urmia and his accounts of both Priest Abraham and of Priest Dunka. books
183435602Rochester Boston MA 1834. A collection of six letters ranging in size from 8-1/2" x 11" to 8-1/2" x 12-3/4" five complete and one partial letter. All in ink manuscript on unlined paper. Old folds light toning occasional light foxing two on untrimmed paper. Most are addressed on final blank page and have wax seal remnants with the usual tear where wax was torn open occasional loss to a few letters. Overall Very Good. <br/><br/> Abraham Holmes was a Massachusetts legislator and attorney. Opposing ratification of the Constitution he was allied with the Anti-Federalist Otis family of Barnstable and Freeman family of Sandwich. He was an Anti-Federalist delegate from Rochester MA to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention of 1788. He served as Sergeant in Capt. Barnabas Doty's company Col. Ebenezer Sproat's regiment during the Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the Plymouth County Bar in April 1800 at the age of forty-six. Though he had no formal legal education his admission to the Bar was permitted in consideration of his respectable official character learning and abilities and on the condition that he study three months in an attorney's office. He served as president of the Court of Sessions prior to his bar admission practiced law in Rochester until the early 1830s was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820 and a member of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. Davis William T.: BENCH AND BAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II. Boston: 1895. Page 235; Daughters of the American Revolution: LINEAGE BOOK VOLUME 12 1900 Page 15. <br/> William Baylies 1776-1865 and Francis Baylies 1783-1852 were brothers and partners in a Massachusetts law firm. William served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in 1809 1813-1817 and 1833-1835; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1808-1809 1812-1813 and 1820-1821; and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1825-1826 and 1830-1831. Francis was a Congressman from 1821-1827; a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827-1832 and in 1835; and the United States Charge d'Affaires Argentina in 1832. <br/> Holmes's Letters are as follows:<br/> 1 Letter to Francis Baylies Member of Congress dated at Boston January 19 1822. Holmes then member of the Massachusetts Executive Council awaits reports of the State legislative committees the incorporation of Boston "which will serve to procrastinate the session" the "suspense of the acceptance of office of the Judge of the Municipal Court" and issues such as criminal trials and the death sentence. "We pass our time here in Boston. the frequent application for appointments of both proper and improper candidates is rather an uncomfortable circumstance; but not so distressing as in affixing the time when convicts shall live no longer. to determine whether a convict shall die or not. It is probable we shall have the trial of both soon as there has been three capital convictions since I was here; one for murder and two for highway robbery. Those trials I attended; a Mr. Simmons formerly of Taunton as I am told managed the Defence; I can not record him as possessing great oratorical abilities but for integrity of arrangement and strength and argument perhaps no man of his years stands higher." Boston was incorporated March 4 1822 and the same year the Boston Police Court for criminal cases and Justice's Court for the County of Suffolk for civil claims were established. <br/> 2 Holmes's Letter to Francis Baylies dated at Boston March 28 1822. Holmes notes that the State legislative session is coming to a close. He anticipates orations which would "cause Tully to wish that he hadn't ever learned to speak; and all this for the good of the Nation."<br/> 3 Letter to William Baylies Counsellor at Law dated at Rochester MA October 24 1828 docketed October 25. An interesting three pages for lawyers anyway written in small yet legible hand on legal size paper. Holmes discusses with "great anxiety" and detail strategies and implications of the case entitled Rounseville Spooner versus Davis et ux. presentation of which had just concluded in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Holmes and Baylies had represented Rounseville. Judge Wilde issued his decision on the following day October 25th. <br/> The case involved land in Fairhaven conveyed by Alden Spooner to Walter Spooner which later descended to Humphrey Davis's wife; but Alden Spooner later conveyed it again to Rounseville Spooner. What will be done in the case Holmes says "God only knows." Judge Wilde's Opinion reported at page 147 of Pickering's Reports Boston: 1830 gives the victory to Holmes and Baylies. <br/> 4 Letter to William Baylies Nov. 21 1828. Holmes discusses his excitement over a favorable verdict. "I rode into the yard. Mr. Bassett's son met me and informed me that the verdict of the jury was in favour of our client. Do you think I was sorry My heart jumped to my throat and with some difficulty I prevented my immortal spirit from bursting thro' the clay tenement. I am glad now that we did not use Joshua Vincent's Deposition for they would have objected and the point next word illegible for the Whole Court./ The next enquiry is Compensation. But I must stop with my hearty congratulations." Docketed on final page in part "Thomas v. D. & wife Nov. 21 1828."<br/> 5 Letter to William Baylies dated Rochester MA April 11 1834. A lengthy poignant letter discussing his advanced age and retirement. He no longer views political issues with the same interest; despite his overall good health he is troubled with lameness and currently lives with his son and his son's wife. "Some of my old customers are not willing to apply to anyone else."<br/> 6 Partial Letter to Francis Baylies December 1821. ". I dread the power of some of your colleagues. Mr. Saltonstall whose abilities are competent to make white and black synonymous terms I understand -which God forbid is strongly intrenched in a. Battery of Bankruptcy. unknown books
183435602Rochester Boston MA 1834. A collection of six letters ranging in size from 8-1/2" x 11" to 8-1/2" x 12-3/4" five complete and one partial letter. All in ink manuscript on unlined paper. Old folds light toning occasional light foxing two on untrimmed paper. Most are addressed on final blank page and have wax seal remnants with the usual tear where wax was torn open occasional loss to a few letters. Overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> Abraham Holmes was a Massachusetts legislator and attorney. Opposing ratification of the Constitution he was allied with the Anti-Federalist Otis family of Barnstable and Freeman family of Sandwich. He was an Anti-Federalist delegate from Rochester MA to the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention of 1788. He served as Sergeant in Capt. Barnabas Doty's company Col. Ebenezer Sproat's regiment during the Revolutionary War. He was admitted to the Plymouth County Bar in April 1800 at the age of forty-six. Though he had no formal legal education his admission to the Bar was permitted in consideration of his respectable official character learning and abilities and on the condition that he study three months in an attorney's office. He served as president of the Court of Sessions prior to his bar admission practiced law in Rochester until the early 1830s was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1820 and a member of the Executive Council from 1821 to 1823. Davis William T.: BENCH AND BAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME II. Boston: 1895. Page 235; Daughters of the American Revolution: LINEAGE BOOK VOLUME 12 1900 Page 15. <br /> William Baylies 1776-1865 and Francis Baylies 1783-1852 were brothers and partners in a Massachusetts law firm. William served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in 1809 1813-1817 and 1833-1835; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1808-1809 1812-1813 and 1820-1821; and a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1825-1826 and 1830-1831. Francis was a Congressman from 1821-1827; a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827-1832 and in 1835; and the United States Charge d'Affaires Argentina in 1832. <br /> Holmes's Letters are as follows:<br /> 1 Letter to Francis Baylies Member of Congress dated at Boston January 19 1822. Holmes then member of the Massachusetts Executive Council awaits reports of the State legislative committees the incorporation of Boston "which will serve to procrastinate the session" the "suspense of the acceptance of office of the Judge of the Municipal Court" and issues such as criminal trials and the death sentence. "We pass our time here in Boston. the frequent application for appointments of both proper and improper candidates is rather an uncomfortable circumstance; but not so distressing as in affixing the time when convicts shall live no longer. to determine whether a convict shall die or not. It is probable we shall have the trial of both soon as there has been three capital convictions since I was here; one for murder and two for highway robbery. Those trials I attended; a Mr. Simmons formerly of Taunton as I am told managed the Defence; I can not record him as possessing great oratorical abilities but for integrity of arrangement and strength and argument perhaps no man of his years stands higher." Boston was incorporated March 4 1822 and the same year the Boston Police Court for criminal cases and Justice's Court for the County of Suffolk for civil claims were established. <br /> 2 Holmes's Letter to Francis Baylies dated at Boston March 28 1822. Holmes notes that the State legislative session is coming to a close. He anticipates orations which would "cause Tully to wish that he hadn't ever learned to speak; and all this for the good of the Nation."<br /> 3 Letter to William Baylies Counsellor at Law dated at Rochester MA October 24 1828 docketed October 25. An interesting three pages for lawyers anyway written in small yet legible hand on legal size paper. Holmes discusses with "great anxiety" and detail strategies and implications of the case entitled Rounseville Spooner versus Davis et ux. presentation of which had just concluded in the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Holmes and Baylies had represented Rounseville. Judge Wilde issued his decision on the following day October 25th. <br /> The case involved land in Fairhaven conveyed by Alden Spooner to Walter Spooner which later descended to Humphrey Davis's wife; but Alden Spooner later conveyed it again to Rounseville Spooner. What will be done in the case Holmes says "God only knows." Judge Wilde's Opinion reported at page 147 of Pickering's Reports Boston: 1830 gives the victory to Holmes and Baylies. <br /> 4 Letter to William Baylies Nov. 21 1828. Holmes discusses his excitement over a favorable verdict. "I rode into the yard. Mr. Bassett's son met me and informed me that the verdict of the jury was in favour of our client. Do you think I was sorry My heart jumped to my throat and with some difficulty I prevented my immortal spirit from bursting thro' the clay tenement. I am glad now that we did not use Joshua Vincent's Deposition for they would have objected and the point next word illegible for the Whole Court./ The next enquiry is Compensation. But I must stop with my hearty congratulations." Docketed on final page in part "Thomas v. D. & wife Nov. 21 1828."<br /> 5 Letter to William Baylies dated Rochester MA April 11 1834. A lengthy poignant letter discussing his advanced age and retirement. He no longer views political issues with the same interest; despite his overall good health he is troubled with lameness and currently lives with his son and his son's wife. "Some of my old customers are not willing to apply to anyone else."<br /> 6 Partial Letter to Francis Baylies December 1821. ". I dread the power of some of your colleagues. Mr. Saltonstall whose abilities are competent to make white and black synonymous terms I understand -which God forbid is strongly intrenched in a. Battery of Bankruptcy. unknown
186037152New York: Currier & Ives 1860. Lithograph broadside 13-1/2" x 18." Several closed tears two of them repaired with old tape on verso tear line affecting Seward's midsection. Good.<br/><br/> This scarce lithograph is a detailed humorous "parody on the field of presidential candidates and their supporters in the 1860 campaign." Bell and Everett for the Constitutional Union Party are there: Bell a muscle man holds Everett aloft on a barbell. Horace Greeley's "political ambitions are mocked by the artist who shows him vainly attempting to climb up a horizontal bar." Lincoln is at the center: he has "successfully mounted a balance beam constructed of wooden rails." The New York Courier's James Watson Webb's does a backward somersault in the foreground. <br/> The broadside evidently issued after the parties' nominating Conventions because Seward is depicted as a cripple "on crutches and with bandaged feet." Breckinridge and Douglas "the two sectional Democratic candidates compete in a boxing match."<br/>Reilly 1860-34 quotations are from Reilly. Weitenkampf 123. OCLC records copies at AAS Clements and Lincoln Pres. Lib. under three accession numbers as of October 2020. Currier & Ives unknown books
1864WB163441864. Hardcover. Very Good. Rare broadside tipped into a copy of The Early Life of Abraham Lincoln: Containing many unpublished documents and unpublished reminiscences of Lincoln's early friends. TARBELL Ida M. Assisted by James McCann Davis. Published by McClure New York 1896. The broadside printed in two columns presents the platforms of the Republicans who in June in Baltimore nominated Lincoln and the Democrats who in August in Chicago nominated McClellan. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18602741Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with some rubbing to spine and extremities. First issue with all points as called for by Monaghan no line over the publisher's slug on title verso and the number 2 at the foot of page 17. Collates viii 268 pages: lacking front endpaper else complete. Some light scattered foxing as is common in American imprints of this era but in all a tight pleasing copy of this book documenting an important moment in American politics.<br/><br/>Documenting Lincoln and Douglas' rivalry for the 1858 U.S. Senate race this title captures an important moment of flux for American politics. Just beginning his political career the young Lincoln earned the Republican nomination right as the party was forming; and he already had proven himself "a leading figure because of his adroit and earnest dealing with the problem of slavery" Oxford Companion. One of his great strenghts was his eloquence -- something Lincoln put on full display in these debates against Douglas including the utterance of one of his most memorable lines that "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Though Lincoln lost the Senate in 1858 he had managed to develop a national reputation and in 1860 the year of this book's release would win the Presidency.<br/><br/>Monaghan 69. Follett, Foster and Company unknown books
186041018np 1860. 8pp caption title as issued. Untrimmed and uncut. A single folio leaf folded. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> Lincoln's great Cooper Union Address argues that the Framers and early Congresses contemplated a narrow and ever-diminishing role for slavery. Examining Constitutional and early Congressional debates he demonstrates that contemporary statesmen viewed slavery "as an evil not to be extended but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity." <br /> Lincoln's argument fusing the interests of all anti-slavery men whether abolitionists or not ranks among his greatest contributions to American political thought. It received wide press coverage catapulting him into presidential contention for it transported the new Republican Party into the center of American constitutional and legal thinking. He thus made it easy for moderate Northern Democrats Whigs and Know-Nothings to vote Republican in 1860.<br /> Monaghan 55. LCP 5944. unknown
182718472Stockholm: Johan Horberg 1827. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards plus hand-colored vignette title and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom poet and historian wrote the text and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of Plates and errata. Costumes from Dalarna Helsingland Lappland Sodermanland Westergothland Smaland Blekinge and Skane. Lovely copy plates and text clean fresh and bright; bookplate raised bands spine panels richly guilt in floral motifs marbled endpapers maroon morocco spine label printed in gilt. Johan Horberg unknown
1860147733Columbus: Follett Foster and Company 1860. First edition early issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate. Octavo original cloth stamped in blind with rule above the publisher's imprint on the copyright page. In good condition darkening to the edges toning throughout some damp staining inscription to the rear pastedown. Running as a little-known candidate for the Illinois senatorship in 1858 Lincoln challenged incumbent and Democratic leader Stephen Douglas to a series of debates. The result was a memorable chain of lively arguments in front of cheering crowds. Though Lincoln lost the senatorial race “he began collecting a scrapbook of his best speeches particularly those from the just-concluded campaign against Douglas for possible inclusion in a book. Assiduously pasting newspaper accounts of the debates into the scrapbook Lincoln cast about for a publisher. Initial efforts failed mainly because Lincoln wanted the book printed in Springfield which had no local publishing or printing facilities. Eventually however the Columbus Ohio firm of Follett Foster & Company showed interest and he began preparing the first edition… Somewhat surprisingly for an attorney Lincoln did not seek Douglas’ permission to publish a book of their combined speeches although Douglas was later given the last-minute opportunity—he declined—to make corrections to his own remarks†Morris 121. Follett, Foster and Company hardcover
18013776<p><i>First Portuguese Translation of Bosse's Engraving Manual</i></p><p>BOSSE Abraham. Tratado da Gravura a agua forte e a buril e em maneira negra com o modo de construir as prensas modernas e de imprimir em talho doce. Nova ediçao traduzida do francez. por José Joaquim Viegas Menezes. Lisbon Arco do Cego 1801.</p><p>Tall 8vo 208 x 152 mm engraved title pp. x ix 1 189 1 errata with 21 engraved plates; plates printed on slightly darker stock; a wide-margined clean copy in recent full calf gilt.</p><p>First Portuguese translation of Bosse's classic introduction to copperplate etching and engraving Traité des manières de graver en taille douce. This Portuguese translation by José Joaquim Viegas Menezes is clearly taken from the Jombert edition and reproduces the same plates though newly engraved with subtle adaptations; an extensive introduction precedes the text.</p><p>Bosse's treatise the first manual of copperplate etching and engraving and the printing of intaglio plates was first published in French in 1645. It was aimed both at the professional engraver and at the amateur and is extensively illustrated with detailed engravings based on Bosse's own designs. A second edition of 1701 had contained revisions by LeClerc the third of 1745 those of the engraver Cochin. The Jombert edition added two new plates by Louis-Marin Bonnet the inventor of the Crayon manner of colour printing and a separate chapter on this method of colour printing. In addition to a wealth of technical information the work includes views of the engraving studio and the copperplate press.</p><p>As adaptations were made to all subsequent editions the work has remained an important introduction to print-making which is of practical use to the printmaker even today.</p><p>Innocencio IV 415; Moraes p. 11; see Bigmore & Wyman I 72 and Cicognara 255 for French edition; OCLC: Harvard Getty John Carter Brown Library British Library and V & A.</p> Menezes
1863017619Coblenz: Karl Baedeker 1863. Book. Near Very Good. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. Illustrated softcover with all 13 plates and with the folded map present uncut pages. Spot foxing marginal wear. bookplate of Charles W. Nettleton later owners signature thus near very good. Dj has browning due to age missing 30% of spine split along the seam very fragile. Scarce in dj. Karl Baedeker Hardcover
1851193281London: Henry Colburn 1851. Navy life so full of incident as to suggest Marryat Forester or O'Brian First edition scarce this attractive copy in its smart original navy-blue cloth binding is apparently the only one currently on the market. Although "the opening pages are touched by the verbosity of the early Victorians read on. Quickly the veneer is torn away by the vigour of his memories springing from the past like boarders with cutlass pistol and boarding-pike" Pocock p. vii. Born in Lismore County Waterford Crawford 1785-1869 entered the navy in 1800 as a first class volunteer on board HMS Diamond "in which he assisted in the capture of many of the enemy's ships armed and otherwise" O'Byrne. He transferred to the Immortalité and Clyde frigates under Admiral Owen as a midshipman "and appears to have been almost daily in action from June 1802 until Aug. 1806 with detachments of the Boulogne flotilla". With Duckworth on the Royal George at the forcing of the Dardanelles in 1807 Crawford was present at the destruction of a Turkish squadron off Point Pesquies. Promoted lieutenant in the Sultan he was involved in frequent cutting out operations in the Gulf of Genoa taking part in the pursuit of the French ships of the line Robuste and Lion in 1809. In 1810-11 he served under Admiral Carew in the blockade of Toulon and support of the Catalonian insurgents on the coast being present at the siege of Tarragona. Promoted commander in 1815 he was given command of the Grasshopper on the West India Station where he served until invalided home in 1829. Tom Pocock praises the quality of Crawford's descriptions of naval actions the sea and his portraits of fellow officers as in the postprandial face of one lieutenant assuming "the hue of an unripe mulberry". Crawford also talks of Congreve rockets Fulton's torpedoes and the transformation of the quarterdeck of a frigate into a dancefloor for an onboard ball. 2 vols octavo. Tissue-guarded lithographic portrait frontispieces of admirals Sir Edward Owen and Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew by R. J. Hamerton printed by Metchin; publisher's 24-page catalogue at end of vol. II. Original navy-blue cloth gilt-lettered spines with decoration in blind covers with blind decorative panels pale yellow coated endpapers bearing publisher's advertisements. Spines cocked a few marks to covers internally cracked at gutter in one or two places but firm pale brown stain across vol. II pp. 28-9: very good. William O'Byrne A Naval Biographical Dictionary 1990; Tom Pocock intro to the Chatham Publishing edition of 1999. hardcover
18641922921864. Peace through strength A rare ribbon from Lincoln's 1864 campaign to retain the Presidency during the Civil War where he faced down the Democrats who were campaigning to sue for peace - the ribbon satirically names the military generals Grant Sherman and Sheridan as Lincoln's own "Peace Commissioners" underneath a profile of a beardless Lincoln. Silk ribbon printed in black 142 x 96 mm. Trimmed at head losing the "Union forever" notice at the head found on other examples splits and wear nonetheless a sound example of a very fragile survival. unknown
184016009Florence, Cabinet scientifique-littéraire de J. P. Vieusseux, 1840. Grand in-8 de VI-358 pages, demi-basane verte, dos lisse orné de filets dorés.
185028839AB1850. London / Cambridge etc. Chatto & Windus / Routledge & Sons / etc. c. 1850-1879. Octavo. Ballads and Songs of Brittany 1865 edition: Frontispice XXII 239 pages / Ballads and Songs of Brittany Later Routledge edition: XVI 176 pages / Tom Taylor's Historical Dramas: VIII 466 32 pages. / Manuscript Letter: 2 1/2 pages. Original Hardcover / The manuscript letter in a Folder it includes an A4 manuscript leaf from a 19th century autograph-collector describing the letter by Taylor. / The two vintage cabinet photographs of Taylor included in the Folder with the autograph. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tom Taylor 19 October 1817 12 July 1880 was an English dramatist critic biographer public servant and editor of Punch magazine. Taylor had a brief academic career holding the professorship of English literature and language at University College London in the 1840s after which he practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist most prominently as a contributor to and eventually editor of Punch. In addition to these vocations Taylor began a theatre career and became best known as a playwright with up to 100 plays staged during his career. Many were adaptations of French plays but these and his original works cover a range from farce to melodrama. Most fell into neglect after his death but Our American Cousin 1858 which achieved great success in the 19th century remains famous as the piece that was being performed in the presence of US President Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865. hardcover
186421371<p><i>Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldier's National Cemetery Together with the Accompanying Documents as Reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania March 31 1864.</i></p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Book. Includes a foldout map of the planned cemetery and a copy of Lincoln's dedication. Published in Harrisburg 1864. Fair condition. <br /> hardcover books
182718472Stockholm: Johan Horberg 1827. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary half polished russet calf and marbled boards. All edges yellow. Fine. 137 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Forty-seven hand-colored engraved plates with tissue guards plus hand-colored vignette title and two engraved plates of music. Grafstrom poet and historian wrote the text and Forssell made the engravings. Index. List of Plates and errata. Costumes from Dalarna Helsingland Lappland Sodermanland Westergothland Smaland Blekinge and Skane. Lovely copy plates and text clean fresh and bright; bookplate raised bands spine panels richly guilt in floral motifs marbled endpapers maroon morocco spine label printed in gilt. Johan Horberg unknown books
1864109547Cincinnati: E.C. Middleton 1864. Rare oloegraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln by E.C. Middleton. With Middleton's Warranted Oil Colors imprint to the verso of the frame dated 1864. Between 1861 and 1873 E.C. Middleton of Cincinnati published a series oval oleographic portraits intended to have the appearance of oil paintings including thirteen "Portraits of American Statesmen and Heroes." Middleton invented the method of oleography which used the process of chromolithographic printing with oil based inks mounted on canvas. The portraits were exclusively sold in frames directly through agents by subscription. In fine condition. Framed. The portrait measures 17 inches by 14 inches. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 19 inches. Rare and desirable. 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. E.C. Middleton unknown books
1860662048<p><b>Campaign Biography-1860 THE WIGWAM EDITION. THE LIFE SPEECHES AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN. New York: Rudd & Carleton 1860. 1st ed. 117p. frontis. port. illus. front wrap. Monaghan 92; Wesson 1.</b> <b>Bookplate: copy of Joseph B. Oakleaf Lincoln collector and bibliographer. </b></p><p>The publishers were one of a number who announced on May 19 the day after the Lincoln's nomination for the presidency that they had a life of him "in press." The unknown author of "The Wigwam Edition" relied upon newspaper articles and chose the wrong first name. But this was by far <i>the</i> most popular "life" issued during the campaign and it rightfully remains <i>the keystone</i> to any collection of Lincolniana. </p><p>Bound in ½-leather and marble boards scuffed. Front illustrated wrapper only which is chipped at edge; otherwise very good and clean. <br /></p> Rudd & Carleton paperback books
1864WRCAM45849Boston 1864. 88110pp. plus folding map. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. 19th-century ink stamp on titlepage contemporary inscription on second leaf. Internally clean. Very good. Devoted almost entirely to the Massachusetts war effort published early in January 1864. The folding map shows the Soldier's National Cemetery at Gettysburg dedicated Nov. 19 1863 with the long speech of Edward Everett of Massachusetts and the short "Dedicatory Speech by President Lincoln" better known as the Gettysburg Address. Also printed is the "Programme of Arrangements" of that day a list of Massachusetts soldiers killed at Gettysburg and buried there and details of the cemetery. Monaghan notes this as an early printing of the Gettysburg Address. MONAGHAN 48. hardcover books
18942311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red half-leather gilt titles and decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover
18192007240053London : Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1819. Hardcover. Good. Rees' Cyclopedia 37 volume set. Missing volumes 7 and 8. Bound in contemporary navy Russia Leather-backed marbled boards. Good bindings with minor shelf wear/rubbing. All edges marbled. Lacks the plate volumes. Armorial bookplate of John Proctor Anderdon. Anderdon 1760-1846 was a London merchant and noted collector. <br> Abraham Rees 1743-1825 was a British clergyman best known for this his outstanding encyclopedic work The Cyclopaedia. Initially published 1802-1820. Rees' work not only featured theological and humanistic issues but also extensive articles on mathematics and natural sciences. The Cyclopaedia "is the richest work for technology of the period with detailed text and handsome carefully prepared plates." Ferguson Eugene. "Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology part II". Technology and Culture 3.2 1962: 169 p. "Rees was convinced that the important progress made during the last decades of the eighteenth century especially in the fields of history geography geology natural history and the physical sciences senu lato required a new type of encyclopedia with the accent on these fields as well as the still relatively undeveloped domains of biography and the history of sciences. The Cyclopaedia thus became one of the first works of its kind to be compiled with the help of 'persons eminently distinguished in these branches of science to which they had devoted their talents.'" Taxon Vol. 35 No. 2 1986 This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Encyclopedia London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown hardcover
1834ABC_45429Noordwijk 1834. Folio 23 x 38.5 cm & 26 x 44 cm. 2 autograph letters each written on a single leaf and folded for posting with the address and remnants of a seal. 2 ll. Both letters were written by Abraham Hendrik Verster van Wulverhorst 1797-1882 living in Noordwijk Binnen near Leiden as a forester in the Dutch province of Zuid-Holland he was Inspecteur der Opperhoutvesterij. The present letters contain detailed observations on the Salamander punctata probably the European spotted salamandar now designated Salamandra salamandra. The letters further offer laudatory words regarding Heinrich Boie 1794-1827 who had also worked at the Rijksmuseum but had left for the Dutch East Indies to study the Southeast Asian fauna and sadly had died there in 1827. Also interesting remarks by Verster as a bird watcher on the bird migration: he had observed that the gallingo snipe and the rusticola woodcock were very early that year.The edges of the second letter are frayed. Otherwise in good condition. unknown