BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 36 “The Mystic Chords Of Memory, Stretching From Every Battlefield, And Patriot Grave, To Every Living Heart And Hearthstone” 45LINCOLN, Abraham. Inaugural Address of the President of the United States on the Fourth of March, 1861. Washington, March 8, 1861. Slim octavo, disbound, custom chemise and clamshell box. $8800 Rare second printing of Lincoln’s important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery. Abraham Lincoln was escorted with little fanfare to his inauguration. On the platform erected at the Capitol’s east portico, Lincoln “began reading his inaugural address in a clear, high-pitched voice that carried well out to the crowd of 25,000. The address was a document of inspired statesmanship. He reminded the South of his pledge not to interfere with slavery, but he firmly rejected secession—the Union was ‘unbroken.’ Finally he issued a grave warning: ‘In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war… Abraham Lincoln was resolved to be President of the whole Union” (Bruce Catton). Wear along spine where disbound; text clear and fine. “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand” 46LINCOLN, Abraham. Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Columbus, 1860. Octavo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, custom clamshell box. $20,000 First edition, first issue, of the most famous debates in American history, the event that transformed Lincoln into a national presidential candidate—a lovely copy in unrestored original cloth. Running as a little-known candidate for the Illinois senatorship in 1858, Lincoln challenged incumbent and Democratic leader Stephen Douglas to a series of debates. The result was a memorable chain of lively arguments in front of cheering crowds. First issue, with no advertisements, no rule above the publisher’s imprint on the copyright page, and with numeral 2 at the bottom of page 17. Interior remarkably clean, with almost none of the foxing common to this work, confined to first few leaves only; cloth beautiful, with only most minor wear, gilt bright, cloth crisp and unfaded. An extraordinary copy, very rarely seen in such beautiful condition.
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