"THE MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY": LINCOLN’S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 1861
LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address. Washington, March 8, 1861.
Rare second printing of Lincoln's important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery. $8800.
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FAULKNER'S 1735 EDITION OF SWIFT'S WORKS, THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND
[SWIFT, Jonathan]. Works. Dublin, 1735. Four volumes.
First collected edition, containing the definitive edition of Gulliver's Travels, with four frontispiece portraits and five engraved maps and plates, very handsomely bound. $8500.
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"THE LEADING CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR FOR GARRISON AND THE RADICAL ABOLITIONISTS"
BOWDITCH, William I. Slavery and the Constitution. Boston, 1849.
First edition of abolitionist attorney Bowditch's incendiary 1849 work declaring the Constitution a proslavery document, defiantly announcing—"we are a nation of slaveholders"—a crucial work in the highly public dispute that split apart Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. $2100.
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