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“NEVER YET WAS A COUNTRY WORTH LIVING IN UNLESS ITS SONS AND DAUGHTERS WERE OF THAT STERN STUFF WHICH BADE THEM DIE FOR IT AT NEED”
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Autograph manuscript signed, “The Great Adventure.” No place, circa August 1918. Autograph manuscript draft of his essay “The Great Adventure,” signed by Theodore Roosevelt and with many additions and corrections in his hand that were incorporated into the final printed essay. Handsomely framed, and accompanied by a framed contemporary broadside edition of the essay. $60,000.
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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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WRITER THOMAS GADDIS’ BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ ARCHIVE
(STROUD, Robert) GADDIS, Thomas E. Birdman of Alcatraz archive. No city, circa 1953-1965. Archive of correspondence and legal briefs, with 23 handwritten letters and one handwritten legal brief by Robert “Birdman” Stroud, including research materials, clippings, and other information relating to the book and film versions of The Birdman of Alcatraz, formerly belonging to writer Thomas E. Gaddis. $48,000.
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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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“POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE… IS INTERESTING TO US IN A HIGH DEGREE”
(FOREIGN SERVICE ACT). Foreign Service Act. Act providing the Means of Intercourse between the United States. [New York], [1790]. First edition, association copy of the pivotal Foreign Service Act, an exceptional broadside printing of the first law to formally establish diplomatic offices overseas, passed during the Second Session of the First Congress, initiated by Secretary of State Jefferson and signed into law by Washington on July 1, 1790. From the library of Stephen Row Bradley, the influential U.S. senator from Vermont and “a strong supporter of both Jefferson and Madison.” $40,000.
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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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STRIKING ORIGINAL PAINTING, “WAR ORPHANS” BY ARTHUR SZYK
SZYK, Arthur. War Orphans. London, 1940. Extraordinary signed original watercolor and gouache painting of two young Jewish refugees, huddled together, by anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, whose wartime portrayals of brutality, heroism and suffering strongly influenced American attitudes toward the war effort. $35,000.
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EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE 1794 CARRIAGE ACT, RARE FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST AMERICAN LAW WHOSE CONSTITUTIONALITY WAS CHALLENGED AND THE FIRST TO INVOLVE “JUDICIAL REVIEW”
(UNITED STATES CONGRESS). Carriage Act. Act Laying Duties Upon Carriages for the Conveyance of Persons. [Philadelphia, 1794]. First edition of Hamilton’s 1794 Carriage Act, the very first law to involve “judicial review,” defended by Alexander Hamilton in his only appearance before the Court in a momentous decision that “represented the first time the Supreme Court ever ruled on the constitutionality of an act of Congress,” a rare association copy from the library of one of the first United States senators from Vermont, Stephen Row Bradley. $28,500.
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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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