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Property from Joseph Rubinfine, American Historical Autographs LINCOLN, ABRAHAM DOCUMENT SIGNED ("ABRAHAM LINCOLN") AS 16TH PRESIDENT, BEING A MILITARY COMMISSION FOR ALBERT HARTSUFF Engraved broadside on vellum (17 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.; 445 x 350 mm), accomplished in a clerical hand, Washington, 10 August 1861, appointing Albert Hartsuff an Assistant Surgeon, countersigned by the Secretary of War Simon Cameron ("Simon Cameron"), embossed blue paper seal, martial vignettes by J. V. N. and C. H. Throop at head and foot, recording docket; minor fading, including to Cameron's signature. With etched portrait of Lincoln. Matted, framed, and glazed together; not examined out of frame. Albert Hartstuff was born in Seneca Falls, New York, on 4 February 1837. He studied medicine at the State University at Castelton, Vermont. He became a hospital surgeon, and pursued his postgraduate work in New York, at the Marine Hospital. As the present document shows, he entered military service an Assistant Surgeon in 1861. Hartstuff was brevetted Captain and Major for meritorious service during the Civil Was, and continued to rise steadily through the ranks over the course of his military career. In 1900 he was made Colonel and Assistant Surgeon General, and in 1901 he retired as Brigadier General. During his years of service, he was stationed at West Point, New Orleans and on the Pacific Coast as well as Fort Wayne, and was attached to the Department of the East and to the Military Department of Missouri.

lincoln, abraham. a document signed as 16th president, being a military commission for albert hartsuff

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Lincoln, Abraham The Gettysburg Address in the New-York Daily Tribune, Vol. XXIII, No. 7601. New York: [Greeley & McElrath], Friday, November 20, 1863 Folio, 8 pages (520 x 395 mm) folded but entirely unopened and preserved on a single very large sheet of paper, woodcut vignette incorporated in title, text in six columns; a bit of minor marginal foxing, sheet creased and so printed in several spots affecting legibility of text but not affecting Lincoln's words at all. Half blue morocco slipcase, chemise. A rare first-day, front-page printing of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Gospel." This issue of the Daily Tribune is dated 20 November, the day after the Gettysburg Address, and includes, in addition to Lincoln's speech, the President's response to a serenade, Edward Everett's lengthy principal oration, and extensive reports of the ceremonies. The coverage begins on page one (much of which is given over to battle reports) with an account of the President's arrival at Gettysburg the afternoon of November 18 and a description of the dedication ceremony, including the military procession, the performance of a funeral dirge, and the benediction by Rev. Mr. Stockton. Lincoln's address is transcribed next (at the bottom of the fifth column, continued to the top of the sixth), followed by Everett's speech, which extends to almost the entirety of the second page. (The New-York Semi-Weekly Tribune of the same day printed the beginning of Everett's speech on the first page, but concluded it, followed by Lincoln's address on the last.) The text of Lincoln's address is the Associated Press version, prepared by Joseph L. Gilbert from his shorthand notes and from his earlier consultation of Lincoln's manuscript; the transcription was delivered to the Daily Tribune and other newspapers by telegraph from the battlefield ceremonies. There are some slight variations between different newspapers and typesetters in terms of punctuation and capitalization, but Gilbert's original transcription can be identified by his mistaken use of the phrase "to the refinished work" instead of the correct "to the unfinished work." According to Gilbert, Lincoln's brief speech was interrupted by applause five times and the conclusion of his remarks was met by "Long continued applause" and "Three cheers." Lincoln's response to a serenade is also transcribed on page one: "I appear before you, fellow-citizens, merely to thank you for the compliment. The inference is a very fair one that you would hear me for a little while at least, were I to commence to make a speech. I do not appear before you for the purpose of doing so, and for several substantial reasons. The most substantial of these is that I have no speech to make. [Laughter.] In my position it somewhat important that I should not say any foolish things. … I must beg of you to excuse me from addressing you further." This is the source for the inclusion of "Remarks to Citizens of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania," in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 7:16–17.

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Lincoln, Abraham A document signed ("Abraham Lincoln") as 16th President, being a military commission for Charles R. Woods Engraved broadside on vellum (to sight: 460 x 360 mm). Accomplished in a clerical hand, Washington, 22 March 1865, appointing Charles R. Woods to the position of Major General, countersigned by the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ("Edwin Stanton"), embossed blue paper seal, martial vignettes by J. V. N. and C. H. Throop at head and foot, recording docket; some fading, old folds and minor marginal creases. With etched portrait of Lincoln. Matted, framed, and glazed together; not examined out of frame. "...for long and continued services, and for special gallantry at Griswoldville, Georgia." Fought on 22 November 1864, the Battle of Griswoldville was the first military campaign of General Sherman's March to the Sea, during the American Civil War. A detachment of Confederate cavalry attacked the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on the Gordon Road, and in turn the 9th then charged the Confederates and drove them back nearly a mile across a creek. As the conflict escalated, Gen. Charles C. Walcutt's infantry brigade and artillery battery joined the cavalry. Walcutt staged a strong skirmish line, which drove the Confederates back through Griswoldville. After this, by orders of Union division commander Brig. Gen. Charles R. Woods, they fell back to the Duncan farm and took up a position on the edge of the woods. The Georgia Militia had been ordered from Macon to Augusta, thinking the latter was Sherman’s next objective, and only accidentally collided with Walcutt’s force. The Union was ultimately victorious, and the Confederate losses significant with 51 dead, 472 wounded, and about 600 captured. Charles R. Woods was a career United States Army officer, who served with distinction during the American Civil War, and is now perhaps best remembered for commanding the relief troops that first attempted to resupply Fort Sumter prior to the start of the conflict.

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lincoln, abraham | a military commission for charles r. woods, "...for long and continued services, and for special gallantry..."

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Lincoln, Abraham Front-page printings of Lincoln's two Inaugural Addresses, the First in the New-York Semi-Weekly Tribune, Vol. XVI, No. 1646. New York: [Greeley & McElrath], Tuesday, 5 March 20, 1861; the Second in The New York Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 65 (Whole No. 10,415). New York: James Gordon Bennett, Sunday, March 5, 1865 2 full newspaper issues: Tribune, folio, 8 pages (545 x 415 mm), text in six columns; Herald, folio, 8 pages (560 x 391 mm), text in six columns. Both very lightly brown but quite fresh, some light dampstaining to lower left corner of Tribune, page 5 of Herald creased and so printed. Better angels and charity for all: prominent next-day printings of Lincoln's two Inaugural Addresses, two of greatest national documents. Lincoln's first address was delivered on 4 March 1861 and was directed principally at the southern states teetering on the brink of secession. In the Tribune printing, the address stretches across the central four columns of the first page. While strongly denouncing secession, Lincoln's speech was neverthess delivered in a spirt hopeful of reconciliation, as expressed in his conclusion: "I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Lincoln's second Inaugural Address was delivered exactly four years later, 4 March 1865. The President, the course and purpose of the Civil War, and the nation had all changed significantly. With a Union victory nearly completed, Lincoln offered a reflective all for unity. The text appears in full in the second column of the first page of the Herald: "On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. … With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

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lincoln, abraham | next-day front-page printings of lincoln's two inaugural addresses

Property from Joseph Rubinfine, American Historical Autographs LINCOLN, ABRAHAM CLIPPED MANUSCRIPT ENDORSEMENT SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN") AS 16TH PRESIDENT Oblong (3/4 x 3 in.; 18 x 77 mm), on a slip cut from a larger sheet of blue ruled paper; remnants of adhesive. With a color portrait of Lincoln. Matted, framed, and glazed together; not examined out of frame. "Sentences approved. | Nov. 7. 1863. A. Lincoln" — evidently clipped from a request for leniency in a military case.

lincoln, abraham. endorsement signed as 16th president, evidently clipped from a request for leniency in a military case

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM AN UNSIGNED LEGAL MANUSCRIPT, INSTRUCTING JURORS IN A PERJURY CASE 1 page (9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.; 240 x mm) on a sheet of blue-ruled paper, 1852; some toning. Matted and framed; not examined out of frame. "The court instruct the jury..." Lincoln's directions to a jury during a perjury trial On 16 April 1852, the case was tried in Metamora, Illinois, and presided over by Judge David Davis, who was a United States Senator, and a friend of attorney Abraham Lincoln. In the present document, Lincoln requests that the court instruct the jury: "That if they believe the affidavit of Johnson, was in fact false, still they cannot properly convict him, unless they also believe he made it, knowingly or believing it to be false, at the time he made it..." Johnson was ultimately acquitted. Later, Davis would serve as serve as Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention, ultimately helping to engineer his nomination. LITERATURE: The Lincoln Log (http://www.thelincolnlog.org/ accessed 14 December 2019)

lincoln, abraham. autograph legal manuscript, 1852

Lincoln, Abraham By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare … That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. … Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, ca. 22–25 September 1862] Printed circular (332 x 211 mm) on a bifolium of wove paper, the text of Lincoln's Proclamation printed on the recto and verso of the second leaf, Secretary of State William H. Seward's letter of transmittal printed on the recto of the initial conjugate leaf; some very light handling soiling, pencilled date ("Sept 22 1862") at head of first leaf. Blue morocco portfolio gilt. The official State Department printing of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and the earliest obtainable printing of the Emancipation Proclamation in any form. One of six recorded copies and the only one in private hands. Abraham Lincoln is now susceptible to the charge that he was not an "abolitionist," meaning one who called for the immediate cessation of slavery. He recognized constitutional and practical limits to the ability of the nation to curtail the institution. Thus, within the first few minutes of his First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1861, he stated, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Lincoln is equally susceptible to the charge that he was not free from the racial prejudices of his time. But Lincoln is not susceptible to the charge that he was not wholly and passionately opposed to slavery. In 1855, Lincoln confided to his good friend Joshua Speed that he was still tormented by the memory, from fourteen years earlier, of having seen a group of shackled slaves while he was travelling by steamship from Louisville to St. Louis. While Lincoln had been anti-slavery for decades, he only began to openly express those views when he ran for the United States Senate against Stephen Douglas in 1858. As candidate Lincoln said at a Chicago rally in July of that year, "I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any Abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the Nebraska Bill began." But despite his personal abhorrence of slavery, Lincoln was constrained not just by the Constitution, but also by political and military reality. Horace Greeley's letter-editorial, "The Prayer of Twenty Millions," published in the New York Tribune, perfectly expressed the frustrations of those who called for full and immediate emancipation. Greeley accused the President of being "strangely and disastrously remiss" by delaying emancipation; of being "unduly influenced by the counsels … of certain fossil politicians hailing from Border Slave States"; and of seeming to pursue a "preposterous and futile" strategy by attempting "to put down the Rebellion and at the same time uphold its inciting cause." Greeley printed Lincoln's response in the 25 August 1862 issue of the Tribune. The President's answer was unequivocal: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." But Lincoln ended his letter to Greeley with a noteworthy coda, "I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free." The President chose not to share with Greeley and the Tribune readers a more momentous statement: that he had, in fact, already drafted a proclamation of emancipation and was simply awaiting an auspicious time to promulgate it. Lincoln knew that if the Union could be saved "without freeing any slave," its salvation would be short-lived. Lincoln read the first draft of what came to be known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet on 22 July 1862. Given the criticism directed at Lincoln for moving too slowly on the issue of emancipation, it is worth noting that this first reading took place just sixteen months after he had pledged not to "interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists." He continued to revise the document throughout the summer and, following the Union victory at Antietam, he issued the preliminary proclamation—which managed to balance daring with prudence—on 22 September. This first proclamation essentially gave the Rebel States one hundred days to return to the Union, after which period any slaves within their borders would be "then, thenceforward, and forever free." Any rebellious states that returned to the Union in the interim would be able to adopt immediate or gradual—and compensated—abolition of slavery within their borders. This official State Department edition was printed with Lincoln's original manuscript serving as copy text, and is very rare: copies are located at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, Yale, Brown, and the Clements Library. According to Charles Eberstadt's exhaustive study, this printing was preceded only by a three-page circular, Notice of Issuance of Proclamation Emancipating Slaves in States in Rebellion on January 1, 1865, known only by a copy in Eberstadt's personal collection (Eberstadt 1); and, possibly, by an official State Department issue that did not include Seward's transmittal letter (Eberstadt 2). However, no copy of this second printing has ever been recorded, and Eberstadt simply inferred its existence "from the standing operating procedure applicable to documents of this nature." Secretary Seward's transmittal letter is directed "To the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States in foreign countries," and explains and summarizes Lincoln's Proclamation: "In the judgment of the President the time has come for setting forth the great fact distinctly for the serious consideration of the people in [the insurrectionary] States, and for giving them to understand that if they will persist in forcing upon the country a choice between the dissolution of this necessary and beneficent Government or a relinquishment of the protection of slavery, it is the Union, and not slavery, that must be maintained and preserved. With this view the President has issued a proclamation in which he gives notice that slavery will no longer be recognized in any State which shall be found in armed rebellion on the first of January next." A key document in United States history and a vital step towards the emancipation of enslaved Americans. REFERENCE Celebration of My Country 196; Eberstadt, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 3; Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 5:433–37; cf. Eric Foner, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery (New York, 2010); John Hope Franklin, The Emancipation Proclamation (New York, 1963); Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (New York, 2004); Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard, eds., Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Carbondale and Fort Wayne, 2007); Seth Kaller, "The Emancipation Proclamation: The Document that Saved America," in The Rail Splitter, Vol. 8, No. 3

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lincoln, abraham | the earliest obtainable printing of the emancipation proclamation in any form

Building America: The Wolf Family Collection

George Edwin Bissell 1839 - 1920 Abraham Lincoln Standing Figure inscribed Geo E Bissell and Copyright / 1898 (on the base); stamped GORHAM MFG. CO. FOUNDERS (along the base) bronze 16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high Conceived in 1898.

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM PRINTED CHECK SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN"), PAYABLE TO R. H. BEACH Printed check, drawn on the Springfield Marine & Fire Insurance Company, Springfield, 28 February 1859, accomplished by Lincoln in favor of R. H. Beach for $12, printed in blue ink on paper (2 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.; 70 x 192 mm) by Richards & Smith, railroad vignette at left border; neat cancellation slits and hole-punch, mounting remnants on verso. Richard H. Beach was a merchant in Springfield and an early settler there. Henry E. Pratt's The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln, confirms, page 157, that Lincoln's account paid a $12.00 check on this date.

lincoln, abraham. printed check signed, 28 february 1859

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Lincoln, Abraham Engraved document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”) as sixteenth President, one page (255 x 202 mm) on a bifolium of blue wove paper, Washington, 5 March 1864, accomplished in a secretarial hand, being an order to the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to the Treaty for the Extinguishment of the Scheldt Dues; browned at margins, mounting remnants on verso of integral blank, as well as a blotted signature of Secretary Seward. Lincoln directs Secretary of State William H. Seward “to affix the Seal of the United States to the ratification of the original of the Treaty between the United States & His Majesty the King of the Belgians, concluded May 20th 1863.” The Scheldt is an important commercial waterway, flowing through northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea. After Belgium had claimed its independence from the Netherlands in 1830, the treaty of the Scheldt determined that the river should remain accessible to ships heading for Belgian ports. Nevertheless, the Dutch government continued to collect a toll from passing vessels until 16 July 1863. The Treaty for the Extinguishment of the Scheldt Dues was a set of agreements in 1863 that ended the Dutch tolls on shipping in the Scheldt River estuary. The primary treaty was signed between Belgium and the Netherlands, but the United States and other nations also signed separate but related conventions, with the U.S. paying its share to secure the free navigation of the river. This order officially sealed the ancillary treaty between the United States and King Leopold I of Belgium.

View 1 of Lot 1030: Lincoln, Abraham | The President orders the Seal of the United States to be affixed to the Treaty for the Extinguishment of the Scheldt Dues, 1864

lincoln, abraham | the president orders the seal of the united states to be affixed to the treaty for the extinguishment of the scheldt dues, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, & Edward Everett An Oration delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863,) at the Consecration of the Cemetery … by Edward Everett. To which is added Interesting Reports of the Dedicatory Ceremonies; Descriptions of the Battlefield; Incidents and Details of the Battles, &c. New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers and Publishers, 1863 8vo (216 x 140 mm). Woodcut plan of the cemetery; some light browning and offsetting, a few scattered stains, original sewing holes at inner margin. Handsomely bound to style in black polished calf; a little scuffed. First edition of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" in book form, preceded only by newspaper reports (see preceding lot) and by a 16-page pamphlet—known in just three copies— printed largely from standing type of reports of the ceremonies published in the Washington Chronicle. Here, Lincoln's address appears on page 40, following the 29-page oration of Everett. Lincoln's brief text is given as one of the "Interesting Reports of the Dedicatory Ceremonies" provided by the correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune; parenthetical notes added to the President's remarks indicate that they were met with "applause" and "long-continued applause." "Everett's speech, every word of which is now forgotten, lasted two hours. Lincoln's address [which] took only a few minutes to deliver … is immortal, one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom" (PMM). REFERENCE Celebration of My Country 198; Grolier, American 72 (note); Howes E233; Monaghan 193; Printing and the Mind of Man 351; Sabin 23263; Streeter 3:1747

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lincoln, abraham, & edward everett | "one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom"

Fine Books and Manuscripts including Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as sixteenth President, forwarding a request for a position in the New York Custom House One column, about 42 words, on a leaf of paper (4 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.; 190 x 123 mm), formerly the integral blank to the applicant's letter to Lincoln (not present); lightly foxed. Matted, framed, and glazed. One John Dolan wrote to Lincoln seeking employment in the New York Custom House. The President forwarded his somewhat tepid recommendation to Hiram Barney, the Collector of the Port of New York and a staunch supporter of Lincoln: "I do not personally know Mr. Dolan; but as his home is in New-York, if he is known there to be worthy of it I shall be glad if Mr. Barney can give him suitable employment." PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, 29 June 1982, lot 375

lincoln, abraham | autograph endorsement signed ("a. lincoln") as sixteenth president, forwarding a request for a position in the new york custom house

Lincoln, Abraham Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln"), to Joseph Jackson Grimshaw, suggesting a resolution to a pending legal case One page (202 x 127 mm) on a leaf of blue-ruled paper, Springfield, 27 March 1858; very short separations at head and foot of central vertical crease. Matted, framed, and glazed. Less than three months before his nomination as a candidate for the United States Senate by the Illinois Republican Convention, Lincoln seeks a settlement in a pending legal matter. "Herewith I send you a sketch [not present] for an agreement in the case we spoke of—You see I ask you to admit more points for me, than I admit for you; but if you have any more merely labor-saving points (as mine are) admitted, add them, sign the paper & send it to me and I also sign it. "I forget the names of the parties to the suits; but you and I will have dispute about that. "The copy of the Will I have duly authenticated from Barton, but being a copy, it has not note of its record in Adams County, though my man says it is recorded there. The death of an Executor can also be proved. … Answer soon." Jackson Grimshaw was a prominent Illinois attorney, in practice first with his brother, William, in Pittsfield, but moving to Quincy in 1857. He was closely associated with Lincoln, sometimes acting as co-counsel and sometimes, as here, standing in an adversarial position. Grimshaw, like Lincoln, deserted the Whigs for the nascent Republican party, and he strongly supported Lincoln's senatorial and presidential campaigns. Lincoln inscribed one of his author's copies of Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois to Grimshaw. This letter is not included The Collected Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, but its existence was assumed from a reference in Grimshaw's reply, 3 April 1858. PROVENANCE The Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 June 1979, lot 752)

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lincoln, abraham | lincoln as lawyer

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, AND STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS POLITICAL DEBATES BETWEEN HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HON. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, IN THE CELEBRATED CAMPAIGN OF 1858, IN ILLINOIS. COLUMBUS: FOLLETT, FOSTER AND COMPANY, 1860 8vo (9 1/8 x 6 in.; 232 x mm). "Correspondence" leaf including Lincoln's letter to the Republican State Central Committee of Ohio acceding to the publication of his speeches, fourth leaf blank and genuine; some toning, one or two pencil annotations. Publisher's blind-panelled brown cloth, spine gilt-lettered, plain endpapers and edges; some rubbing, primarily to corners and spine ends, front free endleaves torn at gutter. First edition, first issue, with the signature mark "2" at the bottom of page 17 The first published version of the famed Illinois senate debates that launched Lincoln into national prominence. Stephen Douglas complained of the publication that "Mr. Lincoln's speeches have been refined, corrected, and improved...while mine have been mutilated and in some instances the meaning changed" (Douglas to Follett, Foster & Co., 9 June 1860, Lincoln Papers, LOC). When published as a presidential campaign tool in April 1860, the collected speeches became a best-seller, and by the time of Lincoln’s official nomination, some 30,000 copies were in circulation. LITERATURE: Howes L388; Sabin 41156

lincoln, abraham, and stephen a. douglas. political debates... columbus: follett, foster and company, 1860

(Lincoln, Abraham) War Department, Washington, April 20, 1865, | $100,000 Reward! | The Murderer | of our late beloved President, Abraham Lincoln, | Is Still At Large. | $50,000 REWARD | will be paid by this Department for his apprehension, in addition to any reward offered by | any Municipal Authorities or State Executives. | $25,000 REWARD | will be paid for the apprehension of John H. Surratt, one of Booth's Accomplices. | $25,000 REWARD | will be paid for the apprehension of David C. Harold [sic], another of Booth's accomplices. … | Let the stain of innocent blood be removed from the land by the arrest and punishment of the murderers. | All good citizens are exhorted to aid public justice on this occasion. Every man should consider his own conscience charged with this solemn duty, and rest neither night nor day until it be accomplished. | [signed in type:] Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. [Washington, D.C.: War Department, 1865] Broadside reward poster (593 x 315 mm, sight). Gallows frames filled with early twentieth-century gelatin silver prints of Booth, Surratt, and Herold probably printed by Frederick Hill Meserve; lightly soiled, creased, fold separations and tears, some repaired and one costing portions of about six letters. The hunt for Lincoln's assassins. "Six days after the assassination, John Wilkes Booth and his alleged accomplices, John H. Surratt and David Herold, were still on the loose, To speed their arrests, on April 20, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton offered a reward of $100,000 for their apprehension—and threatened with death anyone who gave them aid. Several different types of broadsides were printed in Washington, D.C., to publicize the reward" (Swanson & Weinberg). In the present version, the public is warned that Booth may have shaved off his "heavy black moustache." Although Booth was shot at Garrett's farm on 26 April 1865 and Herold, who was captured in the same action, was hanged on 7 July of the same year, no rewards were paid until late 1866, when, after various competing claims were settled, more than thirty soldiers and detectives divided the bounties on Booth and Herold. Surratt fled to Canada and so evaded immediate capture. He was apprehended in Europe and returned to the United States to stand trial in December 1866, but the jury could not reach a verdict, and in 1868 he was released from prison on bail and the indictment against him was not pursued further. REFERENCE Swanson & Weinberg, Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, p. 50, fig. 38

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(lincoln, abraham) | john wilkes booth is still at large

Lincoln, Abraham By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom." …Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, … Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. … Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three. [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, ca. 3 January 1863] Printed circular (330 x 210 mm) on a bifolium of wove paper, the text of Lincoln's Proclamation printed on the recto the first leaf, the other three pages blank; soiled and slightly frayed at margins, pencilled date ("Jan 1 / 63") at head of first leaf. Blue morocco portfolio gilt. The official State Department printing—and the earliest obtainable printing—of the Final Emancipation Proclamation, the presidential decree of which Lincoln said, "If my name goes down in history, it will be for this act." Frederick Douglass, speaking at New York's Cooper Institute just a month after the document was issued, called the Emancipation Proclamation "the greatest event of our nation's history." From the same stage where Abraham Lincoln had introduced himself to Eastern voters only three years earlier, Douglass thundered, "I hail it as the doom of Slavery in all the States. We are all liberated by this proclamation. Everybody is liberated. The white man is liberated, the black man is liberated, the brave men now fighting the battles of their country against rebels and traitors are now liberated." But while Frederick Douglass—a frequent critic of the President—and many of his contemporaries welcomed the Emancipation Proclamation as a signal achievement in American history, today the act seems just as well known, as Allen Guelzo commented, "for what it did not do" as for what it did accomplish. Two principal failings have been ascribed to the Proclamation. First, that it is not as eloquent as Lincoln's other most famous writings, principally the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural Address. Second, that it freed slaves only in territories of active rebellion against the United States—the very territories, presumably, where the federal government had the least ability to enforce its provisions. And although immediate reaction to Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was favorable (see previous lot), criticism soon followed. Some Federal Army officers resigned their commissions rather than command troops in what was likely to become a war of abolition. At the same time, the anti-slavery faction in the North attacked Lincoln for allowing slavery to remain in effect in Unionist Border States and former Confederate territories now under Union control. The Preliminary Proclamation did help solidify European support of the Federal cause, but otherwise the one hundred days were discouraging for Lincoln: the Federal Army suffered a humiliating defeat at Fredericksburg on 13 December, and a crisis in his Cabinet nearly resulted in the resignations of secretaries Seward and Chase. Still, Lincoln continued resolute and on Christmas Eve he confided to the Senate's most ardent abolitionist, Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, that the Emancipation Proclamation would be issued. The following week, Lincoln listened to suggestions and amendments from his Cabinet and then retired to draft the final version of the historic document. To ensure that the Emancipation Proclamation could withstand court challenges to its constitutionality, Lincoln's prose is legalistic. Because of his allegiance to due process—and his pragmatic balancing of necessity and possibility—he withheld emancipation from the Border States, from Union-controlled parishes in Louisiana, and from the forty-eight Virginia counties that were in the process of reconstituting themselves as West Virginia, it is because of his allegiance to due process. He would make this clear yet again in an April 1864 letter to A. G. Hodges of Frankfort, Kentucky: "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling. It was in the oath I took that I would, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath." Even while acknowledging the restraints placed on him by the Constitution, Lincoln did more than anyone before or since to bring freedom to enslaved people in the United States, and he rightly earned the title of the Great Emancipator. When on 1 January 1863 he left the annual White House New Year's Day reception to sign into law the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln observed, "I never in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper." With his signature he declared nearly four million enslaved persons to be free—the first time that the federal government had set slaves free; in practical terms, as many as 50,000 men, women, and children were immediately freed. The Emancipation Proclamation provided, also for the first time, that former slaves "will be received into the armed service of the United States," and by the conclusion of the Civil War, more than 180,000 African Americans—most of whom were emancipated slaves—had worn the blue uniform of the Federal Army. The Emancipation Proclamation also eliminated the references in the preliminary proclamation to compensated emancipation and colonization of former slaves, thus indicating, albeit subtly, that the newly freed persons would make their future lives within the United States. Decades of political and moral compromise in the name of "Union" were ended: the war to restore the Union became a war of liberation, and the way was made clear for the Thirteenth Amendment, which Lincoln would see sent to the states but would not live to see ratified. If the language of the Emancipation Proclamation was not eloquent, its intention and result were. And any lack of eloquence was compensated for by the conclusion of Lincoln's annual message to Congress, delivered on 1 December 1862, exactly a month before he signed the Proclamation. In this State of the Union speech, Lincoln could write of his desire—and the country's need—for emancipation without the worry of legal challenges: "Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. … The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We—even we here—hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth." This official State Department printing was preceded only by a small-format government broadsheet (Eberstadt 8) and a newspaper "extra" broadside (Eberstadt 9), both of which survive in a single copy. Seven other copies of the present edition are recorded at four institutions: the Huntington Library, the Library of Congress, Brown, and the Clements Library. REFERENCE Eberstadt, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation 10; Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 6:28–31; for further references, please see preceding lot

View 1 of Lot 303: Lincoln, Abraham | The official State Department printing of the Final Emancipation Proclamation

lincoln, abraham | the official state department printing of the final emancipation proclamation

Lincoln, Abraham Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as sixteenth President, [Washington], 22 April 1862, on the verso of the integral blank of a letter to Colonel Larned, Paymaster General, from John McCalla, 2 pages (244 x 197 mm), Washington, 21 April 1862; splits and complete separations at horizontal folds, panel with endorsement separated from the letter leaf, some soiling; letter leaf hinged to a larger sheet. McCalla's letter seemingly continues an earlier appeal he had made to Paymaster General Larned seeking the appointment of Colonel Ezra Webb to one of three paymaster positions. The letter made its way to Lincoln, and the president endorsed the verso of the integral blank: "If Fayette Brown of Ohio, was a paymaster of volunteers, & has resigned, let Col. Ezra Webb, of Cincinnati be appointed to fill the vacancy. …" A secretarial docket below Lincoln's endorsement records that Webb was nominated for the position on 14 June 1862. Ezra Webb's appointment as Additional Paymaster, dated 2 July 1862, was sold at Profiles in History, 15 November 2012, lot 136.

View 1 of Lot 1028: Lincoln,  Abraham | Autograph endorsement concerning the appointment of a paymaster, 1862

lincoln, abraham | autograph endorsement concerning the appointment of a paymaster, 1862

Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection

Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection LINCOLN, ABRAHAM The Gettysburg Address in the New-York Semi-Weekly Tribune, Vol. XIX, No. 1929. New York: [Greeley & McElrath], Friday, November 20, 1863 Folio, 8 pages (20 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.; 520 x 395 mm), woodcut vignette incorporated in title, text in six columns; some light dampstaining, minor marginal chipping, a couple of printed creases, disbound. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. A rare first-day printing of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Gospel." This issue of the Semi-Weekly Tribune is dated 20 November, the day after the Gettysburg Address, and includes, in addition to Lincoln's speech, the lengthy principal oration by Edward Everett and extensive reports of the ceremonies. The coverage begins on page one with an account of the President's arrival at Gettysburg the afternoon of November 18. The ceremony is then described in chronological order, with most of the first page being given to Everett's address, which is continued on the last page. Lincoln's speech is transcribed next (near the top of the third column), followed by reports of the dirge, benediction, and the President's departure. The text of Lincoln's address is the Associated Press version, prepared by Joseph L. Gilbert from his shorthand notes and from his earlier consultation of Lincoln's manuscript; the transcription was delivered to the Semi-Weekly Tribune and other newspapers by telegraph from the battlefield ceremonies. There are some slight variations between different newspapers and typesetters in terms of punctuation and capitalization, but Gilbert's original transcription can be identified by his mistaken use of the phrase "to the refinished work" instead of the correct "to the unfinished work." According to Gilbert, Lincoln's brief speech was interrupted by applause five times and the conclusion of his remarks was met by "Long continued applause" and "Three cheers." "Lincoln's address … is immortal, one of the supremest utterances of the principles of democratic freedom" (Printing and the Mind of Man 351).

lincoln, abraham | the gettysburg address in the new-york semi-weekly tribune, vol. xix, no. 1929. new york: [greeley & mcelrath], friday, november 20, 1863

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED AS PRESIDENT ("A. LINCOLN"), TO ADJUTANT GENERAL LORENZO THOMAS, SEEKING THE REINSTATEMENT OF AN ARMY OFFICER One page (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 128 mm) on blue-ruled machine-laid paper, Washington (headed in Lincoln's hand, "Executive Mansion"), 10 May 1861; browned from earlier framing, mounting remnant on verso, vertical crease with short separations at top and bottom margins. Accompanied by a photographic portrait of Lincoln. Venerando Pulizzi Jr. was born in Washington, D.C.; his father was in the United States Marine Band, serving at various times as director and drum major. Pulizzi Senior was one of a group of musicians from southern Italy recruited for this duty at the suggestion of President Thomas Jefferson. The younger Pulizzi was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army in June 1855, but resigned less than three months later. Pulizzi claimed that while travelling through Charleston, South Carolina, on the way to his duty station in Florida, some local citizens objected to his friendly manner with his black servant and attacked him. The Charlestonians, for their part, maintained that Pulizzi instigated the altercation. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ordered that charges be brought against the officer, and Pulizzi, rather than face an array of hostile witnesses, resigned his commission. Little less than six years after this incident, Pulizzi sought to regain his commission, and his appeal came somehow to Lincoln's attention, who sent the present letter to the Adjutant General: "Mr. V. Pullizzi [sic], as I understand, was once in the regular Army, and resigned under some charges, of which you probably know more than I do. He now wishes to re-enter the Army; and if it violates no rule of law or propriety I shall be glad for him to be obliged in that respect." Perhaps Pulizzi was motivated to rejoin the Army by the memory (as he claimed) of being called an abolitionist by his Charleston attackers. But his second stint in the military was no more successful than the first. Pulizzi was reinstated with the rank of first lieutenant on 14 May 1861, but resigned again while stationed in Boston on 9 September of that year. His widow's application for a pension was rejected in 1906 because of the brevity of his Civil War service. LITERATURE: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 4:366 (text from a copy in the Huntington Library, with the recipient's copy unlocated)

lincoln, abraham. autograph letter signed, to adjutant general lorenzo thomas, 10 may 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, and Edward Everett An Oration delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg, (November 19, 1863,) at the Consecration of the Cemetery … by Edward Everett. To which is added Interesting Reports of the Dedicatory Ceremonies; Descriptions of the Battlefield; Incidents and Details of the Battles, &c. New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers and Publishers, 1863 8vo (229 x 143 mm). 48pp. Publisher's lettered wrappers, publisher's ad on rear wrapper; the wrappers beautifully preserved and unrestored, with only a minute (1 mm) spot of loss to fragile spine at tail; faintest, almost undetectable spotting to cover, spotting to title page and some scattered spotting in text. Old cloth folding case with a 1945 Swann Galleries catalog housed in as well. "Four score and seven years ago..." — the earliest publication of the Gettysburg Address in book form, preceded only by the exceptionally rare pamphlet, The Gettysburg Solemnities, known in only three copies. Lincoln made his speech at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield some four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln's speech was preceded by an address from Edward Everett, the most famous orator of his day. Everett's speech took some ninety minutes to deliver, and is largely forgotten. Lincoln's speech, delivered in only a few minutes, is immortal. It is a supreme distillation of American values, and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom. "The Washington Chronicle of 18-21 November reported extensively on this ceremony and included a verbatim text of 'Edward Everett's Great Oration.' On the fourth day it noted in passing that the President had also made a speech, but gave no details. When it came to the separate publication on 22 November, Everett's 'Oration' was reprinted from the standing type, but Lincoln's speech had to be set up. It was tucked away as a final paragraph on page 16 of the pamphlet [The Gettysburg Solemnities]. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leaflet was replaced by a 48-page booklet published by Baker and Godwin of New York in the same year" (PMM). Lincoln's address appears on page 40, and parenthetical notes are added indicating "applause" and "long-continued applause." A diagram on page 32 gives the details of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg. REFERENCE: Grolier, American 100 72 (note); Howes E232, "b"; Monaghan 193; Sabin 23263; Streeter 1747; PMM 351; Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg 191-204 PROVENANCE: A Superb Library of Lincolniana, auction at Swann Galleries, 7 June 1945, lot 245, $180 ("No finer copy could be imagined")

View 1 of Lot 92: Lincoln, Abraham, and Edward Everett | The earliest publication of the Gettysburg Address in book form

lincoln, abraham, and edward everett | the earliest publication of the gettysburg address in book form

Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) The Rail Mauler. No. 12. Brownsville, Pennsylvania: Published at the office of the "Clipper," Friday, September 21, 1860 Folio, 4 pages (13 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.; 338 x 257 mm), title in "log letters" and incorporating a fine woodcut vignette of Lincoln wielding a maul, text in four columns; lightly dampstained, disbound with the two leaves separated. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. A lively and very rare Lincoln campaign newspaper, much less common than the Rail Splitter. Edited by Seth T. Hurd, The Rail Mauler supported the candidacies of Lincoln, Hannibal Hamlin, and Andrew Curtin, the latter a successful gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania. The Mauler mixed straight reports on Lincoln's campaign, reprinting many of his speeches and other commentary, with broader coverage of the activities of Democrats Stephen Douglas and John Breckinridge. The paper also featured unrelenting jibes leveled at the Democrats, providing an unvarnished look at the exuberant politicking of that century. Much of this issue is devoted to twitting Douglas over his claim that a campaign tour of New England and upstate New York was really just a personal visit to his elderly mother. The Rail Mauler is not recorded in either Gregory's Bibliography of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers or in Monaghan's Lincoln Bibliography. In 1994, Sotheby's sold bound set of issues 2–11 (now in the Gilder Lehrman Institute), but issue 12 has evidently never before appeared at auction

(lincoln, abraham) | the rail mauler. no. 12. brownsville, pennsylvania: published at the office of the "clipper," friday, september 21, 1860

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A. LINCOLN"), TO JOSHUA REED GIDDINGS, ABOUT HIS HOPE FOR DIVINE ASSISTANCE AS HE BEGINS HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESIDENCY One page (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.; 248 x 197 mm) on blue-ruled machine-laid paper, Springfield, 21 May 1860, docketed on verso; lightly soiled and stained, some fold separations and tiny marginal chips. Lincoln seeks divine assistance as the Republican candidate for the presidency: "May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands." Three days before writing this letter, Abraham Lincoln learned by telegraph that he had been nominated for President by the Republican Party Convention in Chicago. Joshua R. Giddings, an ardent abolitionist who had just retired from the House of Representatives after serving as a congressman from Ohio for more than two decades, wrote a letter of congratulations to Lincoln stating that the latter had secured the nomination because of his honesty and freedom from corrupt men and advising that the candidate should place himself under obligation to no one. Giddings entrusted the letter to Amos Tuck, a former U.S. Representative from Exeter, New Hampshire, who was delivering a speech at Springfield on May 21. Lincoln here warmly acknowledges Giddings's letter, while expressing some apprehension at the daunting task he faced. "My good friend. Your very kind and acceptable letter of the 19th. was duly handed me by Mr. Tuck. It is indeed, most grateful to my feelings, that the responsible position assigned me, comes without conditions, save only such honorable ones as are fairly implied. I am not wanting in the purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom from bad influences. Your letter comes to my aid in this point, most opportunely. May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands." Lincoln closes on a personal note: "Mrs. L. joins me in sincere wishes for your health, happiness, and long life." The uncertainty evident in Lincoln's wish that he be equal to the task was predicated on the issues that would bring on the dissolution of the Union and Civil War. His election, though, was never really in doubt: with the fractured Democrat Party essentially running three rival candidates (Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democratic Party; John C. Breckenridge, Southern Democratic Party; and John Bell, Constitutional Union Party) their vote was hopelessly split, and Lincoln swept to an overwhelming Electoral College victory despite polling less than forty percent of the popular vote. The letters of both Giddings and Lincoln demonstrate that they were unaware of the backroom machinations of Lincoln's campaign managers at the Chicago convention, which included promises of cabinet positions for some of the other contenders for the nomination. Giddings himself benefited from Lincoln's election; the President appointed him as U.S. consul general in Canada, a position he filled until his death at Montreal in May 1864. LITERATURE: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 4:51–52 (text from the retained draft in the Lincoln Papers, with the recipient's copy unlocated)

lincoln, abraham. autograph letter signed, to joshua reed giddings, 21 may 1860

Lincoln, Abraham Engraved broadside document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”) as sixteenth President, on vellum (498 x 400 mm), accomplished in a clerical hand, Washington, 1 March 1864, appointing Francis Fuller to the position of Assistant Quartermaster of Volunteers with the rank of Captain, countersigned by the Secretary of War (“Edwin Stanton”), embossed green paper seal, martial vignettes by J. V. N. and C. H. Throop at head and foot, recording docket signed by Assistant Adjutant General E. D. Townsend at upper left; very light fold creases, withal an unusually fresh and clean example.

View 1 of Lot 1029: Lincoln, Abraham | A signed military commission for Francis Fuller, well preserved

lincoln, abraham | a signed military commission for francis fuller, well preserved

Lincoln, Abraham Engraved broadside document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”) as sixteenth President, on paper (to sight: 430 x 226 mm), unaccomplished, [Washington, ca. March–April 1865], countersigned by the Secretary of State (William H. Seward”), embossed white paper seal of the United States, marine vignettes at head, with scalloped head uncut and intact; some stray spots of foxing. Matted, framed, and glazed. This undated, unaccomplished ship's passport, which, when completed, would have granted a vessel leave “To Pass with her Company Passengers Goods and Merchandize without any hindrance seizure or molestation the said [vessel] appearing by good testimony to belong to one or more of the Citizens of the United States and to him or them only," is signed by President Lincoln and Secretary Seward. However, it was evidently withdrawn following Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater on 14 April 1865, either never sent to a particular port, or taken out of circulation by the port collector to whom it was sent. ﻿A fine example.

View 1 of Lot 1031: Lincoln, Abraham | A ship’s passport signed by Abraham Lincoln: unaccomplished, unissued, and withdrawn after his assassination

lincoln, abraham | a ship’s passport signed by abraham lincoln: unaccomplished, unissued, and withdrawn after his assassination

American Art 

Property from a Private New York Collection

Property from a Private New York Collection AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS 1848 - 1907 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: THE MAN (STANDING LINCOLN) inscribed AVGVSTVS-SAINT-GAVDENS-SCVLPTOR-M-DCCC-LXXXVII, COPYRIGHT 1912-A-H- SAINT-GAUDENS and stamped GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS QAWM (along the base) bronze with brown patina height: 40 inches (101.6 cm) Cast in 1917. We are grateful to Dr. Henry Duffy for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

augustus saint-gaudens | abraham lincoln: the man (standing lincoln)

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Lincoln, Abraham Next-day, front-page printing of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address in the New York Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 65 (Whole No. 10,415). New York: James Gordon Bennett, Sunday, March 5, 1865 Full newspaper issues, folio, 8 pages (560 x 391 mm), text in six columns; very lightly browned but quite fresh, page 5 creased and so printed. "With malice toward none, with charity for all." A prominent next-day printing of Lincoln's sublime Second Inaugural Address, one of Lincoln's most memorable speeches and one of our nation's greatest documents. This issue of the New York Herald includes, in addition to Lincoln's speech, extensive coverage of the inaugural ceremonies and the White House reception, as well as addresses by both the newly inaugurated Vice President, Andrew Johnson, and the displaced former Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin. Elsewhere the paper reports on the latest Civil War victories of generals Grant and Sherman. Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was delivered exactly four years after his First, 4 March 1865. The President, the course and purpose of the Civil War, and the nation had all changed significantly. With a Union victory nearly completed, Lincoln offered a reflective call for unity. The text appears in full in the second column of the first page of the Herald: "On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avoid it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. … With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphans; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." "Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address took only six or seven minutes to deliver, yet contains many of the most memorable phrases in American political oratory. The speech contained neither gloating nor rejoicing. Rather, it offered Lincoln’s most profound reflections on the causes and meaning of the war. The 'scourge of war,' he explained, was best understood as divine punishment for the sin of slavery, a sin in which all Americans, North as well as South, were complicit. It describes a national moral debt that had been created by the 'bondsmen’s 250 years of unrequited toil,' and ends with a call for compassion and reconciliation" (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History).

View 1 of Lot 1145: Lincoln, Abraham | "and the war came. …"

lincoln, abraham | "and the war came. …"

Flag: A 31-star American national flag said to have been used in the 1860 campaign of Abraham Lincoln, 1850–1858

Flag: A 31-star American national flag said to have been used in the 1860 campaign of Abraham Lincoln, 1850–1858 1850–1858 The hand-sewn double-appliqued cotton muslin stars configured in a "double oval wreath" or "double oval medallion" on a two-piece wool bunting canton; the stripes are machine-sewn wool bunting, the canvas sleeve with brass grommets, stenciled E.P. Foster, Maker, 37 South 3rd St., Philada. Approximately 5 ft. 3 in. by 12 ft. 8 ½ in.

View 1 of Lot 556: Flag: A 31-star American national flag said to have been used in the 1860 campaign of Abraham Lincoln, 1850–1858 1850–1858

flag: a 31-star american national flag said to have been used in the 1860 campaign of abraham lincoln, 1850–1858 1850–1858

Lincoln, Abraham Second Inaugural Address in The New York Herald, Whole No. 10,415 (Vol. XXX, No. 65). New York: (James Gordon Bennett), Sunday, March 5, 1865 Folio, 8 pages (583 x 409 mm). Folded but entirely unopened and preserved on a single very large sheet of paper, text in six columns; some soiling at margins and top octadic of front page, some edge wear and marginal chips, sheet creased and so printed in a few spots not affecting coverage of the Inauguration at all or legibility of text in any instance. Half blue morocco slipcase gilt, chemise. A rare first-day, front-page printing of Lincoln's sublime Second Inaugural Address. This issue of The New York Herald is dated 5 March, the day after the inauguration, and includes, in addition to Lincoln's speech, extensive coverage of the inaugural ceremonies and the White House reception, as well as addresses by both the newly inaugurated Vice President, Andrew Johnson, and the displaced former Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin. Elsewhere the paper reports on the latest Civil War victories of generals Grant and Sherman. "Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address took only six or seven minutes to deliver, yet contains many of the most memorable phrases in American political oratory. The speech contained neither gloating nor rejoicing. Rather, it offered Lincoln’s most profound reflections on the causes and meaning of the war. The 'scourge of war,' he explained, was best understood as divine punishment for the sin of slavery, a sin in which all Americans, North as well as South, were complicit. It describes a national moral debt that had been created by the 'bondsmen’s 250 years of unrequited toil,' and ends with a call for compassion and reconciliation" (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History). PROVENANCE Eric C. Caren (Christie's New York, 15 June 2017, lot 292)

View 1 of Lot 307: Lincoln, Abraham | "With malice toward none, with charity for all"

lincoln, abraham | "with malice toward none, with charity for all"

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 1

Lincoln, Abraham Manuscript document signed on vellum (424 x 390 mm), the vellum sheet lightly ruled horizontally within a border of a double-rule in blue, headed in red "Duplicate" at top, text neatly engrossed in ink in a clerical hand, attesting signatures of John W. Forney, Secretary of the Senate, and Edward McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives; signatures, in five columns, of the 37 Senators, headed in red "In the Senate, April 8, 1864," followed by signatures, in five columns, of the 114 Representatives, headed in red "In the House of Representatives, January 31, 1865" [Washington, D.C., first week of February 1865 (Lincoln signs next to the clerical dateline, "Approved, February 1, 1865.")] All text clear and legible, Lincoln's signature particularly dark and bold; some minor, mostly marginal soiling and natural discoloration of the the vellum. String-matted, framed, and glazed to museum standards to to 768 x 649 mm.

View 1 of Lot 27: Lincoln, Abraham | The abolition of slavery: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the United States"

lincoln, abraham | the abolition of slavery: "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the united states"

Lincoln, Abraham Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Delivered in Springfield, Saturday Evening, July 17, 1858. [Springfield, 1858] 8vo (235 x 148 mm, unopened). Caption title. Dampstained at lower margins with repair to inside lower corners, central fold reinforced. Half red morocco slipcase gilt, chemise. A scarce separate printing of this speech from Lincoln's senatorial campaign against Stephen Douglas, signed at the head of the first page by Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Lincoln's great-grandson and last living descendant (he died in 1985). In this prelude to his debates with Douglas, Lincoln urges that slavery be put on course for "ultimate extinction," repeats his warning that "A house divided against itself can not stand" (p. 5), and asserts his allegiance to the Declaration of Independence. REFERENCE Monaghan 12

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lincoln, abraham | foreshadowing the lincoln-douglas debates

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED AS PRESIDENT ("A. LINCOLN"), TO MAJOR GENERALS WILLIAM B. FRANKLIN AND WILLIAM F. SMITH, DISCUSSING THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC'S PLANNED ADVANCE TO RICHMOND One page (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.; 250 x 198 mm) on a bifolium of blue-ruled Executive Mansion letterhead, body of the letter in the hand of John G. Nicolay, Lincoln's principal secretary, Washington, 22 December 1862. Accompanied by related papers, comprising William B. Franklin's autograph letter draft signed with initials to Lincoln, one page, Head Quarters Left Grand Division, 26 December 1862; Franklin's autograph transcription or draft of a letter sent by him and William F. Smith to Lincoln, 5 pages, [Virginia,] (21 [but 20] December 1862); and an "official Business" envelope of Head Quarters Left Grand Division annotated by Franklin, "Correspondence with the President of the United States, December, 1862"; fold separations and one spot of ink corrosion to Franklin's draft of 26 December. "if you go to James River, a large part of the army must remain on or near the Fredericksburg line, to protect Washington": an important exchange of letters between President Lincoln and Union military leaders during a crucial period in the Civil War. Lincoln's letter is dated just ten days after the disastrous rout of the Union Army at Fredericksburg (for which General Franklin shouldered much of the blame), on the heels of a cabinet upheaval the President barely averted, and just days before his Emancipation Proclamation took effect. Franklin and Smith's joint letter to Lincoln questioned army leadership and promoted their own plan for approaching the Confederate capital at Richmond. The two found numerous faults with an overland advance and recommended the use of steamships to transport as many as a quarter million troops to march up both sides of the James River. The troops could be provisioned from vessels on the river and would eventually "proceed to the investment or attack upon Richmond according to circumstances. Whether the investment of Richmond leads to the destruction or capture of the enemy's army, it will certainly lead to the capture of the rebel capital, and the war will be on a better footing than it is now." (Franklin and Smith's letter as sent is printed in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume XXI:868–70.) Lincoln's detailed reply demonstrates both his keen understanding of the military situation and his desire to learn more. "Yours of the 20th suggesting a plan of operations for the Army of the Potomac, is received. I have hastily read the plan, and shall yet try to give it more deliberate consideration, with the aid of military men. Meanwhile let me say it seems to me to present the old questions of preference between the line of the Peninsula, and the line you are now upon. The difficulties you point out pertaining to the Fredericksburg line are obvious and palpable. But, now, as heretofore, if you go to James River, a large part of the army must remain on or near the Fredericksburg line, to protect Washington. It is the old difficulty." A difficulty, Lincoln points out, that he had discussed with his correspondents before: "When I saw Gen. Franklin at Harrison's Landing on James River last July, I can not be mistaken in saying that he distinctly advised the bringing of the Army away from there." In his reply to the President, Franklin attempts to explain the seeming inconsistency in his position. The sent letter is not in the Lincoln Papers, although a copy is preserved in the Benjamin F. Butler Papers, so the present autograph draft is probably the most accurate record of his text. The Union Army was demoralized and in disarray after Fredericksburg, and on 23 January 1863, the commanding officer of the Army of the Potomac, Ambrose Burnside, charged that Franklin and Smith "can be of no further service to this army" and ordered them to be relieved of their commands. Lincoln, however, prevented this order from taking effect and instead removed Burnside, replacing him with Joseph Hooker. LITERATURE: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 6:15–16 (text from the retained draft in the Lincoln Papers, with the recipient's copy unlocated) PROVENANCE: Purchased by Joseph Rubinfine from a descendant of General William B. Franklin

lincoln, abraham. manuscript letter signed, to major generals william b. franklin and william f. smith, 22 december 1862

William Edgar Marshall 1837 - 1906 Abraham Lincoln Etching, circa 1866, signed in pencil and inscribed artist’s proof, on chine appliqué, framed image approx.: 530 by 407 mm 20⅞ by 16 in framed: 860 by 720 mm 33⅞ by 28¼ in

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