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“THE LADY-BEARER OF THIS—A QUAKERESS—WISHES TO DO SOME ACTS OF HUMANITY FOR SECESSION PRISONERS…”
(LINCOLN, Abraham). Autograph album. Washington, circa 1844. Stirring and very unusual autograph note signed by Lincoln from 1863 authorizing the bearer, a “Quakeress,” to tend to Confederate prisoners of war, whom he here describes as “secession prisoners.” The recipient tipped this note into her original mid-19th-century autograph album that contains more than 250 original historic signatures, including those of Presidents Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and John Quincy Adams, as well as many other figures important in politics leading up to and during the Civil War, both in the Union and in the Confederacy, most signed during the years 1843-1845. Also with a warm letter from the owner’s cousin, Dolley Madison, tipped in. $55,000.
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“ONE OF THE SUPREME UTTERANCES OF THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM”
EVERETT, Edward. Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg. New York, 1863. Rare first book-form appearance of Lincoln’s magnificent Gettysburg Address, corresponding almost exactly to the spoken version transcribed by Associated Press reporter Joseph L. Gilbert, in original wrappers. $42,000.
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“WORDS HAD TO COMPLETE THE WORK OF GUNS”
(LINCOLN, Abraham). Programme for the Inauguration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. Washington, [1863]. Exceedingly rare original Programme of the inaugural ceremonies at Gettysburg, dated the day of Lincoln’s magnificent Gettysburg Address, listing his legendary words only as “Dedicatory Remarks,” a virtually unobtainable document that begins with words that “on the 19th of November, 1863,” and notes that “The military will form in Gettysburg at 9’o’clock a.m.” $40,000.
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“THEY ARE VERY RARE”
BACHMANN, John. Panorama of the Seat of War. New York, 1861. Very rare complete first edition of this collection of six dramatic double-page large folio chromolithographic ‘Birds Eye Views’ of Confederate States’ Civil War campaign theatres. Among the fine full color 1861 views is the very rare and famous Bird’s Eye View of Texas and Part of Mexico. $36,000.
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THE CIVIL WAR “HEROIC PORTRAIT IN A BOLD NEW FORM”
(BRADY, Mathew). Photograph Album. Civil War. Philadelphia, circa 1865. Original Civil War Photograph Album, circa 1865, featuring 61 mounted albumen cartes de visite portraits, many by Mathew Brady, of President Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, Sheridan, McClellan and Burnside, along with many others. From the major photography collection of musician Graham Nash with his signed bookplate. $27,500.
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“RESTORATION OF ALL RIGHTS OF PROPERTY, EXCEPT AS TO SLAVES”
LINCOLN, Abraham. Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. Washington, 1863. First public notice of the December 8, 1863 Presidential proclamation offering amnesty to citizens of the Confederacy, providing they take an oath that they “will abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves” (i.e. the Emancipation Proclamation). $26,000.
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VERY RARE UNENGROSSED SHIP’S PAPERS SIGNED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM SEWARD—ONE OF VERY FEW UNENGROSSED EXAMPLES KNOWN
LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed (ship's papers). Washington, DC, circa 1861-65. A remarkable ship’s passport signed by President Lincoln and his Secretary of State William Seward, very rarely found in this “unengrossed” (i.e., uncompleted) state—the very existence of which, during the Civil War, would have constituted a breach of National Security. A fine signed document dating from the Civil War, handsomely framed. $25,000.
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SIGNED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT
LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. Washington, 1861. Splendid Lincoln Civil War document appointing Samuel Breck as First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Artillery during the third Seminole War (aka Florida War, 1855-58), countersigned by Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, with fragile paper seal present. $16,500.
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LINCOLN WRITES TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR
LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph note signed. No place, March 23, 1863. Autograph directive signed by President Abraham Lincoln, “Sec. Of War, please see the bearer & appoint him a Quarter-Master, if another is needed. A. Lincoln. March 23, 1863.” $16,000.
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ARMY MEMORIES, 1887, WITH 12 STUNNING LARGE FOLIO CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS, EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
HARLOW, Louis Kinney. Army Memories. New York, 1887. Limited “Edition de Luxe,” number 19 of an unknown (but clearly small) number of copies, with 12 stunning large folio chromolithographs, each signed by the artist. $16,000.
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