RARE SHIP’S PAPERS SIGNED BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE WILLIAM SEWARD
LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed (ship's papers). Washington, DC, September 26, 1864.
A remarkable ship’s passport signed by President Lincoln and his Secretary of State William Seward during the Civil War, authorizing passage for the ship Illinois, "lying at present in the port of New Bedford bound for Pacific Ocean, and laden with provisions, stores, and utensils for a whaling voyage." $38,000.
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SIGNED BY 46 NEGRO LEAGUE PLAYERS
(BASEBALL) RETORT, Robert D. Pictorial Negro League Legends. New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1993.
First edition of this illustrated compendium of Negro League players and teams, signed by the author and 46 players, including Henry Kimbro, Lorenzo “Piper” Davis, Lyman Bostock Sr., Monte Irvin, Sam Hairston, Bill Gleason, Doc Dennis, Frank Bradley, Nat Peeples, Jehosie Heard and Otha Bailey. $5500.
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“GENUINE RURAL SPIRIT”
(THOMSON, Hugh) MITFORD, Mary Russell. Our Village. London, 1893.
Later illustrated edition of Mitford’s tales of everyday village life, considered a “new style of graphic description,” with 100 detailed line illustrations by Hugh Thomson, who “takes first place among the genteel book illustrators” (Harthan, 238), handsomely bound by Roger de Coverly. $250.
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