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186095830c. 1860. Rare original painting of the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. After a photograph by Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Scottish photographer Alexander Gardner immigrated to the United States in 1856 where he became best known for his photographs of the American Civil War President Abraham Lincoln and the execution of the conspirators to Lincoln's assassination. In near fine condition. In a period frame. The entire piece measures 20.75 by 16.75 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. unknown books
186095830c. 1860. Rare original painting of the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. After a photograph by Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Scottish photographer Alexander Gardner immigrated to the United States in 1856 where he became best known for his photographs of the American Civil War President Abraham Lincoln and the execution of the conspirators to Lincoln's assassination. In near fine condition. In a period frame. The entire piece measures 20.75 by 16.75 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. unknown
18642547081864. very good-. This historic and rare black printed broadside presents the platforms of both parties the Republicans having convened in Baltimore in June and nominated Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President and the Democrats having convened in Chicago in August and nominated George B. McClellan for President and George H. Pendleton for Vice President. This copy measures 29 x 23 cm is double columned and with the imprint "For sale by all News Agents. Price $1 per 100." Very light foxing at the bottom margin more visible on the verso. Fraying at the margins as usual. Sabin 63348 Exceedingly scarce.<br/><br/> unknown books
186141884New York: J.H. Tingley 1861. Five postal covers each oblong 3-1/4" x 5-7/8." The recto of each is an engraving of a Round of the boxing match. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> From the U VA description: "Five envelopes in the Champion Prize Envelope set depict a boxing match between Lincoln and Davis in which the latter is easily defeated and Winfield Scott commands the Union armies. Smaller vignettes in the corners depict dogs guarding southern cotton and then fleeing; liberated slaves Union artillery advancing firing and marching home; Union and Confederate politicians commenting on the fight including John Minor Botts who is seen as keeping Virginia in the Union; European countries commenting on the fight; and the Union eagle and Liberty victorious with Lincoln the champion of all sections."<br /> 1st Round: Standing around a boxing ring Lincoln and Davis in the middle are a group of civilians Soldiers cannon. two dogs guarding a bale of cotton and a Confederate flag a group of slaves three men on a globe Capitol and American flag in the background. In the ring Davis cowers before Lincoln who says "I use no more force than necessary." Davis: "Let me alone!"<br /> 2nd Round: The same group encircles the ring. Lincoln: "Go back you dog to the junction I'll call on you there soon." Davis: "Beauregard Lets fall back on Richmond." From the crowd of civilians: "Secession is looking smaller" and "We shall soon strip it." Other comments are also uttered.<br /> 3d Round: Lincoln: "I will soon smother those pirates." From the same encirclement anti-Confederate comments such as "General That's secession's last kick" rebel soldiers saying "Let's go home boys." The cotton bale and Confederate flag are missing.<br /> 4th Round: Seward and Scott are in the ring. Seward: "General where is secession now" Scott : "Don't you see that greasespot" Comment: "Virginia and Kentucky may now be heard in behalf of the whole Union."<br /> 5th Round: Lincoln with "The Champion Belt": "You shall all have my impartial constitutional and humble protection." He is surrounded by the iconic Screaming Eagle; a triumphant West North East and South; and Lady Liberty who says "I still live." <br /> Not in Reilly or Weitenkampf. AAS and the University of Indiana own all five envelopes. OCLC 277634667 1- U VA 14953428 2- CT Mus. Hist. Culture U IL as of June 2026. J.H. Tingley unknown
186268870New York: The New York Herald 1862. Full Description:<br> <br> LINCOLN Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation."A Proclamation by the President of the United States. Operations of the Confiscation Act. All Slaves in States in Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free." New York. Published in: The New York Herald Tuesday September 23 1862. Whole No. 9506.<br> <br> The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in James Gordon Bennett's pro-Democratic New York Herald and one of if not the first official public announcements of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.<br> <br> Broadsheet folio one large leaf folded along top to make four pages two leaves printed on recto and verso. Six-column format. 22 x 15 1/2 inches; 560 x 395 mm. Light creases down the middle in both directions. Some nearly invisible repaird along top margin and edges. Some of the repairs just touching a few letters in the headline. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. We could only find 3 copies of this at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt mentions that his Third edition of the Emancipation has a publication date somewhere between September 24th and 26th therefore putting the current copy before this. Eberstadt's first and second edition are the official state department editions printed the day of the declaration September 22nd just the day before this New York Herald was printed.<br> <br> Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22 1862 stating that if the rebelling states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1 1863 the slaves in those states would be set free. The New York Herald issued this front-page top left corner early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next day appearing under the headline: "All Slaves in States of Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free."<br> <br> "Lincoln read the first draft of what came to be known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet on 22 July 1862. Given the criticism directed at Lincoln for moving too slowly on the issue of emancipation it is worth noting that this first reading took place just sixteen months after he had pledged not to 'interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' He continued to revise the document throughout the summer and following the Union victory at Antietam he issued the preliminary proclamation-which managed to balance daring with prudence-on 22 September. This first proclamation essentially gave the Rebel States one hundred days to return to the Union after which period any slaves within their borders would be "then thenceforward and forever free." Any rebellious states that returned to the Union in the interim would be able to adopt immediate or gradual-and compensated-abolition of slavery within their borders." Sotheby's.<br> <br> The front page of this newspaper also contains two maps and reports of the campaigns in Kentucky.<br> <br> HBS 68870.<br> <br> $3500. The New York Herald unknown
186136386Philadelphia: Published by F. Bouclet 1861. Rare beautifully colored 20" x 25-3/4" lithograph printed on wove paper titled "Presidents of the United States". Displays all the Presidents through a beardless Lincoln surrounding a vignette of Lady Liberty the American eagle a steamboat and the Capitol the dome complete as anticipated though still under construction. Published by F. Bouclet and lithographed by A. Feusier. In superb condition with just a hint of toning from previous framing. Fine.<br/><br/> "A large patriotic print probably issued around the time of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. Columbia stands before the U.S. Capitol holding a shield and a staff with a liberty cap. On her brow she wears a laurel wreath with a single star. Beside her is an eagle holding a streamer with the motto "E Pluribus Unum." A steamship is visible in the background left. The central scene is framed by oval portraits of the first sixteen presidents of the United States with George Washington at the top and a beardless Abraham Lincoln at the bottom" Reilly.<br/> The print "commemorates Lincoln's election and recognizes the challenges and opportunities facing the 16th president. In this image a portrait of Lincoln completes an unbroken ring of portraits depicting the 15 presidents who preceded him. The illustration calls to mind a quote from Lincoln's first inaugural 'Perpetuity is implied if not expressed in the fundamental law of all national governments'. By commemorating Lincoln's election and illustrating the troubled and complex scene he faced this chromolithograph encapsulates the spirit of Lincoln's presidency" Mast 'A Closer Look at Presidents of the United States 4 President Lincoln's Cottage page 2 2009. <br/>Reilly 1861-13. OCLC 41119329 2- Lib. Cong. MN Public School District as of November 2019. The print is also included in the Jay Last Collection at the Huntington. Published by F. Bouclet unknown books
18525677A bord de l'Uranie, Brest, Circa 1851-1852. 1852 1 vol. grand in-4° manuscrit à l'encre brune (325 x 225 mm) de: 313 pp. majoritairement numérotées; très nombreux schémas et tableaux en marge et dans le texte. Demi-veau dépoque raciné et teinté de mauve, plats recouverts de percaline violette, dos lisse orné et titré (reliure frottée).
1860WRCAM37633New York: Currier & Ives 1860. Lithograph 13 1/2 x 18 inches. Moderate age-toning foxing and soiling. Moderate browning in margins. Small closed tears and chips in margins one moderate-size closed tear in left margin. A fair copy. A lithographic political cartoon published by Currier & Ives commenting upon the anti- slavery plank of the 1860 Republican platform. "The 'essential' anti-Lincoln cartoon of 1860" - Holzer et al. Abraham Lincoln is shown being carried uncomfortably in the middle of a split wooden rail an allusion to both the platform and to Lincoln's backwoods origins. Supporting the left end of the rail is a black man in simple working clothes who states "Dis N asterisks ours strong and willin' but its awful hard work to carry Old Massa Abe on nothing but dis ere rail!!" Holding the right end of the rail is well-dressed newspaper editor and strong Lincoln supporter Horace Greeley identified by a copy of his NEW YORK TRIBUNE in his coat pocket. Greeley tells Lincoln "We can prove that you have split rails & that will ensure your election to the Presidency." Lincoln replies "It is true I have split rails but I begin to feel as if this rail would split me it's the hardest stick I ever straddled." Lincoln is depicted - visually and thematically - as a straddler at best while the images of Greeley and the African American supporting the rail are derisive. <br> <br> A finely drawn and insightful political cartoon from the 1860 election. REILLY AMERICAN POLITICAL PRINTS 1860-31. WEITENKAMPF p.123. CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 5478. Harold Holzer Gabor Borritt & Mark Neely THE LINCOLN IMAGE p.38 figure 18. Currier & Ives hardcover books
1864109542Cincinnati: E.C. Middleton 1864. Rare oleographic 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 near fine condition. Matted and framed. The portrait measures 13.25 inches by 16.25 inches. The entire piece measures 20 inches by 23.25 inches. A rare striking portrait of Lincoln. 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
1842151189Hamilton: Printed at Ruthven's Book and Job Office 1842. First edition in Mohawk. Hardcover. Very good. viii 456 p. 22 cm. Full leather. Respined with gilt impressing 5 raised bands and gilt-lettered label. Hinges repaired internally. New England Corporation bookplate on front pastedown. Ink presentation inscription on front free endpaper: "Presented to James Powles by his friend & minister The Rev. A Nelles 19 June 1842." Signature spelled James Powlass above. Mohawk inscription and signature on next leaf. Occasional stains and thumbing. <br/><br/>Rev. Abraham or Abram Nelles 1805-1884 was a Church of England clergyman and missionary to the Six Nations. Nelles was principal of the Mohawk Institute a day-school operated by the New England Company for "Indian" students. Nelles first used his knowledge of the Mohawk language to publish in 1839 a hymnal entitled "A collection of psalms and hymns in the Mohawk language for the use of the Six Nations Indians." This translation project also published in Hamilton dates to a few years later. He is buried in the graveyard of the Mohawk Church. Interestingly two individuls named "Powless" are also buried there so James was probably one of his parishioners. Printed at Ruthven's Book and Job Office hardcover
18051602180078Philadelphia : Samuel F. Bradford Murray Fairman and Co. Peter A. Mesier New-York; Blake et Cunningham Boston; Cushing et Appleton Hezekiah Howe Charles Whipple John W. Adams Stephen Patten Fielding Lucas Baltimore; Daniel Rapine Washington; Joseph Milligan Georgetown; John A. Stewart Alexandria; D. Henderson Fredericksburg; Wm. H. Fitzwhylsonn Richmond; Richard Cottom John Hoff William Williams Savannah; Hobby et Bunce Cramer Spear Eichbaum James Palmer 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. 47 volumes. Includes the 6 plate and atlas volumes. 1st American edition published 1806-1822. A massive set. 4to 28 cm high. Over 1000 engraved plates some folding or double-page Atlas is collated; all 61 double-page maps present 28 x 43 cm. 4 of the maps are browned. Internally generally clean bright and unmarked. Scattered spotting. Printed in two columns. An unsophisticated set. Bound in contemporary 1/4 black leather over marbled boards. A majority of the boards are detached and the leather spines are chipped with loss. All volumes come in modern archival folding boxes. Early signature of G. K. Richardson 1840 on fep of one volume. Previously owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. <br><br> Abraham Rees 1743-1825 was a British clergyman best known for this his outstanding encyclopedic work The Cyclopaedia. Initially published 1802-1820 in parts in Great Britain. 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 452-453. Some of the notable contributors to this work were Charles Bruney on music; Charles Koenig Robert Bakewell and John Farey on geology; John Dalton and Humphry Davy on chemistry; David Mushet on metallurgy; William Pearson on astronomy; James Edward Smith William Wood William Fitt Drake and William Woodville on botany. "Rees Cyclopaedia is one of the first works to interpret correctly William Smith's ideas on strata identification on the basis of fossil organisms." Ibid. The Cyclopaedia included other notable recent scientific breakthroughs such as Robert Fulton's Cast Iron Aqueduct described in his 1796 book which would become his notable steam engine. See also Ferguson E. "Cast-iron Aqueduct in Rees's "cyclopaedia". Technology and Culture 9.4 1968: 597-600. Refs: BMC. vol 21 p. 2871. Sabin 68634. Rink E. Technical Americana 121. Shaw et Shoemaker 19907. Shaw et Shoemaker 9234. <br> International buyers please note that this is an extremely large heavy set. Shipping will be very expensive outside of the United States. Philadelphia : Samuel F. Bradford, Murray, Fairman and Co. Peter A. Mesier, New-York; Blake et Cunningham, Boston; Cushing et Ap hardcover
184822094.01 -.02<p>Lincoln's spot resolution and speech condemns the pretexts for starting the war with Mexico. He requests proof from President Polk that American blood was shed on American soil and that the enemy provoked the Americans and he asks if those Americans present were ordered there by the United States Army.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Newspaper. <i>National Intelligencer</i> Thursday December 23 1847. Washington: Gales & Seaton . 4 pp. Offered with another issue of the <i>National Intelligencer</i> January 20 1848. 4 pp.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p><b>December 23 1847 issue</b></p><p>Page 2 bottom of first column to second column</p><p><i>Mr. LINCOLN moved the following preamble and resolutions which were read and laid over under the rule:</i></p><p><i> Whereas the President of the United States in his message of May 11 1846 has declared that "the Mexican Government not only refused to receive him the envoy of the United States or listen to his propositions but after a long-continued series of menaces have at last invaded </i>our territory<i> and shed the blood of our fellow citizens on</i> our own soil<i>."</i></p><p><i> And again in his message of December 8 1846 that "we had ample cause of war against Mexico long before the breaking out of hostilities; but even we forbore to take redress into our own hands until Mexico herself became the aggressor by invading </i>our soil <i>in hostile array and shedding the blood of our citizens."</i></p><p><i> And yet again in his message of December 7 1847.</i></p><p> Resolved by the House of Representatives<i> that the President of the United States be respectfully requested to inform this House—</i></p><p><i> 1st. Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed as in his messages declared was or was not within the territory of Spain at least after the treaty of 1819 until the Mexican Revolution.</i></p><p><i> 2d. Whether that spot is or is not within the territory which was wrested from Spain by the revolutionary Government of Mexico. </i></p><p><i> 3d. Whether that spot is or is not within a settlement of people which settlement has existed ever since long before the Texas revolution and until its inhabitants fled before the approach of the United States army.</i></p><p> <i>4th. Whether that settlement is or is not isolated from any and all other settlements by the Gulf and the Rio Grande on the south and west and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east.</i></p><p><i> 5th. Whether the people of that settlement or a majority of them have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States by consent or by compulsion either by accepting office or voting at elections or paying tax or serving on juries or having process served upon them or in any other way.</i></p><p><i> 6th . Whether the people of that settlement did or did not flee from the approach of the United States army leaving unprotected their homes and their growing crops </i>before<i> the blood was shed as in the messages stated; and whether the first blood so shed was or was not shed within the enclosure of one of the people who had thus fled from it. </i></p><p><i> 7th. Whether our </i>citizens<i> whose blood was shed as in his messages declared were or were not at that time armed officers and soldiers sent into that settlement by the military order of the President through the Secretary of War.</i></p><p><i> 8th. Whether the military force of the United States was or was not so sent into that settlement after Gen. Taylor had more than once intimated to the War Department that in his opinion no such movement was necessary to the defense or protection of Texas. </i></p><p><i> Several resolutions of inquiry were here offered my Messrs. GEORGE S. HOUSTON W.P. HALL PHELPS GREEN McCLELLAND and KAUFMAN which are omitted for want of room.</i></p><p><b>January 20 1848 issue: </b></p><p>Page 2 bottom of 3rd column thru 6th column. In this lengthy address Lincoln questions President Polk's judgment regarding the aims and prosecution of the war in Mexico putting it in the context of the American Revolution: <i>"Texas revolutionized against Mexico and became the owner of something…if she got it in any way she got it by revolution; one of the most sacred of rights—the right which he believed was yet to emancipate the world; the right of a people if they have a government they do not like to rise and shake it off…He talked like an insane man. He did not propose to give Mexico any credit at all for the country we had already conquered; he proposed to take more than he asked for last fall…"</i></p><p>Additional news: page 2 middle of 4th column prints a lively senatorial debate involving Jefferson Davis. Page 3 bottom of 2nd column <i>"Mr. LINCOLN from the same committee reported a bill for the relief of William Fuller and Orlando Saltmarsh. Read and committed." </i>Page 4 middle of 3rd column <i>"By Mr. LINCOLN: A bill to amend an act entitled 'An Act to raise for a limited time an additional military force and for other purposes' approved February 11 1847."</i> This act gave the president permission to raise one regiment of dragoons and nine regiments of infantry to be used in the war with Mexico. In addition the act dealt with the logistics of each regiment such as raising the pay for field surgeons or adding a quartermaster to each regiment.</p> books
185711291857. Mixed method engraving. <p>A pair of mixed method engravings published by Gambart and Co. in 1857 in a declared edition of 225 pairs. The original paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854. In the first picture the scene is the interior of a second class railway carriage with hard unpadded wooden benches. A young mother plainly dressed in a black coat bonnet and shawl clutches the hand of her young son who is evidently on his way to Portsmouth to join the service of the East India Company a recruiting poster is pasted to the wall above his head. His tearful sister sits on the bench opposite next to her brother's baggage a sailor is traveling with his wife in the background numerous posters advertising ship passages to Australia and India and other advertisements are stuck to the walls and ships in the harbour are visible through the carriage window. In the second picture the young man now considerably older has returned to England evidently having made his fortune. He sits in backview in a comfortably upholstered first class carriage wearing smart military uniform chatting to an elderly well dressed fellow passenger while exchanging glances with the old man's pretty fashionably dressed young daughter who sits demurely crocheting in a corner of the carriage. Abraham Solomon was a popular London artist and Simmons was a notable mezzotint engraver. The Departure has some faint spotting lower right corner in margin faint indentation in title area and repaired tear in margin outside the platemark on right hand side. The Return has a repaired tear on left hand side which enters the image about 4cm. It also has a repaired tear in top margin outside image area but within platemark. <br /> <br /> </p> <br /> <p></p> unknown
182784953London: by the author and sold by all booksellers 1827. Shakespeare's portraits First edition published three years after James Boaden's work on the same subject. Wivell had risen from impoverished beginnings and an apprenticeship to a wigmaker and hairdresser before reaching public notice as an artist with portraits of the Cato Street conspirators awaiting trial. This led to a commission to draw portraits of the participants in the "trial" of Queen Caroline in the House of Lords thence to abundant portrait commissions from the royal family the aristocracy and leading theatrical figures. This publication however brought his prosperity to a sudden end as its sales failed to cover the expense of producing the plates reducing Wivell "from affluence to comparative poverty" Art Journal 206. He was rescued by an uncle's legacy and his own ingenuity subsequently inventing a rope fire escape that was credited with saving hundreds of lives. Jaggard notes that the edition size was 500 copies of which 50 had plates on India paper and 25 were printed on large paper. Octavo 207 x 135 mm in 2 parts the supplement with separate title. Engraved frontispiece of the Stratford monument 20 engraved plates. Mid 19th-century red half calf contrasting green labels low raised bands attractively gilt marbled sides blue-green endpapers red sprinkled edges. A little stripping to one corner one plate the Gilliland portrait torn across and repaired else a very good copy. Jaggard p. 695. hardcover
180427999London 1804. Hand-coloured and colour-printed aquatint with stipple and line engraving by Elmes. Paper watermarked 1804. The most strikingly beautiful flower plates ever to be printed in England.<br/> <br/>"The Persian Cyclamen Cyclamen persicum Miller parent of the florist's cyclamen. is a native of the countries and islands at the eastern end of the Mediterranean but not of Persia itself. It is the largest flowered of an attractive genus of small plants much grown in modern times by connoisseurs. The Persian Cyclamen was not the first of its kind to become known in western Europe. Cyclamen europeaum the `Bleeding Nun' as it was called was thought to be dangerous to pregnant women: any unfortunate lady in this condition who stepped over it might immediately miscarry. John Gerrard the Elizabethan herbalist believed this implicitly and describes how he fenced his plants around with sticks with others laid across them `lest any woman should by lamentable experiment find my words to be true by stepping over the same.' When the baby was nearing full term and delivery was to be encouraged wearing of the disc-like tuber `hanged about' the expectant mothers had a salutary effect and Gerrard told his wife to use it when attending confinements. Its use by midwifes dates back to the days of the Greeks." Ronald King. The Temple of Flora by Robert Thornton. 1981 p. 52. Thornton's Temple of Flora is the greatest English colour-plate flower book. ".Thornton inherited a competent fortune and trained as a doctor. He appears to have had considerable success in practice and was appointed both physician to the Marylebone Dispensary and lecturer in medical botany at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals. But quite early in his career he embarked on his. great work. What Redouté produced under the patronage of L'Héritier Marie Antoinette the Empress Josephine Charles X and the Duchesse de Berry Thornton set out to do alone. Numerous important artists were engaged. twenty-eight paintings of flowers commissioned from Abraham Pether known as `Moonlight Pether' Philip Reinagle . Sydenham Edwards and Peter Henderson. The result. involved Thornton in desperate financial straits. In an attempt to extricate himself he organized the Royal Botanic Lottery under the patronage of the Prince Regent. it is easy to raise one's eyebrows at Thornton's unworldly and injudicious approach to publishing. But he produced. one of the loveliest books in the world" Alan Thomas Great Books and Book Collecting pp.142-144. Third state of three of this plate from the Temple of Flora. `In the first state the top the castle is indistinct and has no pinnacles on the towers and this is the first feature to inspect. The hillside is pure aquatint; the shading behind the cyclamen flowers is lightly cross-hatched while the tree trunk to the right has only a few lines on it. In the second state the castle is more prominent and five distinct sharp pinnacles have been added while many extra etched lines are to be seen - notably behind the cyclamen flowers; on the tree trunk; and under the cyclamen leaves on the left which themselves stand out more sharply. The principal change in the third state is the addition of the aquatint to the sky on the left so that only a streak of light remains above the mountains while in the earlier states the light reached the top corner. The leaves of the cyclamen now have. light and dark patches the coarse-grained aquatint has been added to the middle distance. Much additional aquatinting has been applied to other parts of the plate. The most easily-noticed difference however are the changes in the castle between states one and two and in the sky between states two three." Handasyde Buchanan. Thornton's Temple of Flora 1951 p.15. Third state of three of this plate from the Temple of Flora. unknown books
186125965<p><b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Chromolithograph. <i>Presidents of the United States</i> Philadelphia: Published by F. Bouclet lithographed by A. Feusier. Sheet size: 21 in. x 27 in. Image size: 24½ in. x 18¾ in. </p><br />A large patriotic chromolithograph issued around the time of Abraham Lincoln's first inauguration. The central image is the goddess Columbia wearing a draped American flag flanked by bald eagle and Union shield. Behind her is a steam ship and the artist's rendition of what the then-uncompleted Capitol building was expected to look like. Surrounding Columbia is an ornate frame made up of portraits of the presidents of the United States from 1789-1861—including a beardless Abraham Lincoln: George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren William H. Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln.<p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>Erin Mast curator of "My Abraham Lincoln" a 2009 exhibition at President Lincoln's Cottage Museum noted that the print "both commemorates Lincoln's election and recognizes the challenges and opportunities facing the 16th president. The 16 presidential portraits encircle symbols of the republic at a time when a divided nation faced secession and civil war. In the center Columbia holds a shield and liberty cap the latter being a symbol both of revolution and of freed slaves. A bald eagle grasps arrows and an olive branch and carries a ribbon with the motto 'E Pluribus Unum.' The Capitol dome shown completed at a time when it was still unfinished symbolizes the founding of the democratic republic while a steamship symbolizes development and progress. The allegorical images relate to concepts that Lincoln expressed in his first inaugural address; that seceding and breaking the Constitution would be a step backward not forward and violates the very principles of the Union a Union which is 'older than the Constitution.' By commemorating Lincoln's election and illustrating the troubled and complex scene he faced this chromolithograph encapsulates the spirit of Lincoln's presidency."</p><p><b>Provenance</b></p><p>From the Estate of Malcolm S. Forbes.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Damp stains at top two corners light mat burn but generally a very fine example.</p> books
186131279Philadelphia: F. Bouclet 1861. Very Good. Philadelphia: F. Bouclet 1861. Original color lithograph 68x54cm. Mounted to matte backing; marginal tears and soiling; rubbing and a few scrapes around title; colors remain bright; a Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> This large vibrant lithograph was issued to commemorate Lincoln's first inauguration depicting the first sixteen Presidents with George Washington at top a beardless Abraham Lincoln at the bottom. The female personification of Columbia stands in the center before the Capitol holding a shield and staff with a liberty cap. The Capitol Dome sits in the background and is depicted as the artist anticipated it would look--the structure was not completed until late 1863. A handsome and uncommon print scarce in retail and auction records with only two holdings found in OCLC at the Library of Congress and the Mankato Area Public School District in Minnesota. . F. Bouclet unknown
186358199Camp near Brooks Station Saturday April 11 1863. Fine original condition. 15-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches. ".Yesterday I witnessed one of the grandest sights that I ever beheld. Our whole corps was reviewed by the President Generals Hooker McLain Howard Steinway Secretary Seward and an innumerable host of Brigadier Generals and it was a sight that has paid me for coming to war." The spectacle is described in great detail. Private Penfield was soon to be captured at Chancellorsville spending 12 days as a prisoner of war before being exchanged. He survived the war to carry on his father's carriage making business in Monroe Connecticut and later founded a small private academy. unknown
186085724Chicago: Charles Leib 1860. Very Good. Four-page newspaper. A couple of small holes various brown spots and other bits of minor wear A campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Campaign of 1860. We note a half-column story on the front page of this issue that accuses Senator Douglas of being a Roman Catholic -- a charge based partly on the fact that Mrs. Douglas was a Catholic as were their children -- probably an effective charge in largely Protestant mid-19th century America. Our brief research suggests that Douglas was neither a Catholic nor a formal member of any other organized religious group. The purpose of another half-column story on the front page was to make it clear that Lincoln had publicly condemned the actions of John Brown and did not object to Brown's execution. Charles Leib the editor was a political operative with an unclear background who had previously edited a Democratic campaign newspaper on behalf of the Buchanan campaign in 1856. Leib served briefly as an Assistant Quartermaster in the Union Army before heading to New Mexico probably in 1863 and died there in 1865 at the age of 38. Charles Leib unknown
183723104.01<p>Lincoln and John Todd Stuart cousin of Lincoln's future wife Mary Todd had served together in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1834-1836. They formed Stuart & Lincoln on April 12 1837.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Newspaper. <i>Sangamo Journal</i> Springfield Ill. December 23 1837. 4 pp. 18 x 24¾ in. Double matted and framed with glass on both sides to display pages one and four. Slightly chipped 26 x 33 in. frame.<p>In the upper portion of the first column of the first page appears this five line advertisement: <i>"STUART & LINCOLN / ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at Law will practice / conjointly in the Courts of this Judicial Circuit. – / Office No. 4 Hoffman's Row up stairs. / Springfield april 12 1837."</i> Two ads directly above: <i>"NINIAN W. EDWARDS / ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW / Springfield – Illinois."</i></p><p>Lincoln had moved from New Salem Illinois to Springfield in 1836. He had first met fellow attorney Ninian W. Edwards when both were members of the Illinois State House of Representatives. Edwards married Elizabeth Todd in 1832 and Lincoln met Elizabeth's sister Mary Todd at the Edwards home where Mary had moved in 1839. On November 4 1842 Lincoln and Mary Todd were married in the Edwards mansion.</p><p>The <i>Sangamo Journal </i>started publishing in 1831 shortly after a young Lincoln settled in New Salem. The newspaper faithfully supported Abraham Lincoln and the Whig Party throughout many name changes: the <i>Illinois Journal</i> 1847 shortly after Lincoln left for Congress then the <i>Illinois State Journal</i>1855. As the Whig party broke up the newspaper supported the newly-formed Republican Party and Abraham Lincoln's rising political star.</p><p><b> Condition</b></p><p>Very fine with no visible tears.</p> books
1854008887Philadelphia: George W. Taylor 1854. Half leather. Very good. Philadelphia: George W. Taylor 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75" x 10.25". Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title page. Light dampstain to the first six leaves. Some edgewear to cover; two-inch loss of spine covering at head and tail. This ardent abolitionist journal includes coverage of the debate regarding the expansion of slavery news of anti-slavery events some early writings of Frederick Douglass discussion of Quaker events American slavery laws Uncle Tom's Cabin temperance issues including the "Maine Law" and much more. The journal was the organ of the Free Produce Society of Philadelphia and its publisher George Taylor managed the city's Free Produce Store. 'Free Produce' included all manners of goods traditionally made with slave labor that were produced without any taint of slavery. Such items were much more expensive than slave-produced items but the most principled Quakers and abolitionists paid the price to keep their consciences clear. Although the Society disbanded in 1856 Taylor kept the store open until after the Civil War when customers no longer saw a reason to patronize him. See The Atlantic Monthly October 1868 and Cison's "Quality Came Second" in Main Line Today March 2007. Scarce. While digital and microform reprints are available at the time of listing OCLC shows only a few institutions holding intermittent original issues. Two auction records are on file at the Rare Book Hub. George W. Taylor unknown books
1865863261865. BROADSIDE - Lithograph LINCOLN Abraham. EMANCIPATIONS PROKLAMATION. Davenport Iowa: W.H. Pratt 1865. August Hageboeck lithographer. This is the second German-language version of the Emancipation Proclamation. It is printed in cursive within an oval border. The weight of the individual letters is varied so that when viewed from a distance a portrait of Lincoln emerges from the text. Originally printed on a rectangular sheet but here trimmed to an oval that surrounds the image the sheet is 37 x 29.5 cm. The image is 32 x 23 cm. The paper is browned and dampstained at the bottom center at the copyright information. It is matted and housed in a custom archival portfolio. A rare print. unknown books
18641403210Wright & Potter 1864. 5th or later Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Boston. 1864. 88110pp. plus folding map. Original printed paper wrappers. Internally clean back cover not attached anymore water stain at top of spine and around it. 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 November 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 LINCOLN BIBLIOGRAPHY I:48. This historically significant and very early book publication of the Gettysburg Address which may be the most important and certainly best known speech in US history is extremely uncommon and almost only found rebound or with the covers missing. This version intact and in its original condition is a coveted artifact of Americana. Comes in a custom-made slipcase. Wright & Potter unknown books
186085724Chicago: Charles Leib 1860. Very Good. Four-page newspaper. A couple of small holes various brown spots and other bits of minor wear A campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln in the Presidential Campaign of 1860. We note a half-column story on the front page of this issue that accuses Senator Douglas of being a Roman Catholic -- a charge based partly on the fact that Mrs. Douglas was a Catholic as were their children -- probably an effective charge in largely Protestant mid-19th century America. Our brief research suggests that Douglas was not a Catholic or a formal member of any other organized religious group. The purpose of another half-column story on the front page was to make it clear that Lincoln had publicly condemned the actions of John Brown and did not object to Brown's execution. Charles Leib the editor was a political operative with a murky background who had previously edited a Democratic campaign newspaper on behalf of the Buchanan campaign in 1856. Leib served briefly as an Assistant Quartermaster in the Union Army before heading to new Mexico probably in 1863 and died there in 1865 at the age of 38. <br/><br/> Charles Leib unknown books
1865863261865. BROADSIDE - Lithograph LINCOLN Abraham. EMANCIPATIONS PROKLAMATION. Davenport Iowa: W.H. Pratt 1865. August Hageboeck lithographer. This is the second German-language version of the Emancipation Proclamation. It is printed in cursive within an oval border. The weight of the individual letters is varied so that when viewed from a distance a portrait of Lincoln emerges from the text. Originally printed on a rectangular sheet but here trimmed to an oval that surrounds the image the sheet is 37 x 29.5 cm. The image is 32 x 23 cm. The paper is browned and dampstained at the bottom center at the copyright information. It is matted and housed in a custom archival portfolio. A rare print. unknown
