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Scarce iconic & fantastic Abraham Lincoln lithograph cartoon The Political Gymnasium

1860ref. 60001Scarce iconic & fantastic lithograph Abraham Lincoln cartoon The Political Gymnasium Abraham Lincoln Louis Mauer The Political Gymnasium. New York: Currier & Ives 1860. Lithograph broadside 18 x 13-1/2 inches. This scarce and iconic lithograph is a detailed humorous "parody on the field of presidential candidates and their supporters in the 1860 campaign." Bell and Everett for the Constitutional Union Party are there: Bell a muscle man holds Everett aloft on a barbell. Horace Greeley struggles to do a pull-up in his effort to gain the New York governorship while Lincoln is easily astride his own bar wooden rails offering helpful advice: "You must do as I did Greely get somebody to give you a boost. I'm sure I never could have got up here by my own efforts." The New York Courier's James Watson Webb does a backward somersault in the foreground. The broadside evidently issued after the parties' nominating Conventions because Seward is depicted as a cripple "on crutches and with bandaged feet." Breckinridge and Douglas "the two sectional Democratic candidates compete in a boxing match." Auction records for the last couple of years show a colored example with trimmed right margin selling for $8125 and a nice but sooty uncolored example for $5250. Both sold by Heritage. Measures 18 x 13-1/2 in. and is an ideal candidate for framing. Overall Near Fine. Professionally cleaned & mended. Closed tear crosses most of Seward's midsection. Currier & Ives books

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[Lincoln, Abraham]ABAA

FREEDOM TO THE SLAVES. PROCLAIMED JANUARY 1ST. 1863 BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. "PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF." LEV. XXV. 10

1865ref. 38499New York: Currier & Ives 1865. Color print 11-3/4" x 15-1/2" by sight. A black man newly freed from slavery kneels at Lincoln's feet his shackles broken. He kisses Lincoln's hand. His wife and babies stand behind him. Lincoln's right arm is raised and pointing heavenward. Light uniform toning but brightly colored. Two blank margin tears at lower right corner one blank margin tear at upper left corner. Framed in wood a few small dings to overall size 16" x 20." Very Good. "This commemorative print was issued soon after the assassination of President Lincoln to comfort his supporters. The semi-allegorized representation portrayed the former president as the emancipator of enslaved African Americans guided by divine principles" Description online at The Met. Entering Richmond in 1865 Lincoln was met by many former slaves who kneeled before him. Lincoln told them to stand and thank God not Lincoln for their freedom. A decade later the Colored People's Educational Monument Association headed by the African-American abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet. created a memorial to Lincoln. The result was a sculpture erected in 1876 in Lincoln Park near Capitol Hill depicting a supplicant slave and a towering Lincoln. Known as the Emancipation Memorial or the Freedmen's Memorial it generated some contemporary criticism for its depiction of the inferior position of the black man. Gale 2311. Not in LCP Reilly or Weitenkampf. OCLC 1292616124 1- OH Hist. Connection 870219805 1- IN Hist. Soc. as of May 2024. AAS also owns a copy. Currier & Ives unknown books

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[Lincoln, Abraham]ABAA

NATIONAL INAUGURATION BALL. MARCH 4TH 1865

1865ref. 40934Washington: Designed & Drawn by Bruff. Engraved by Dempsey & O'Toole 1865. Engraved broadside invitation 10-1/2" x 7-1/2" printed on heavy card stock engraved by Dempsey & O'Toole Designed & Drawn by Bruff to the Ball celebrating the second inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln and the inauguration of Vice President Andrew Johnson. The name of the invitee is not filled in. Light browning minor blank corner chip Good plus. We have seen several other examples of this broadside: they are in pristine condition and in our opinion are modern facsimiles. Govern yourselves accordingly! The invitation has engraved portraits of Lincoln and Johnson flanked by two iconic American Eagles perched atop Corinthian columns. The Eagle on the left holds a rattlesnake in its beak reminiscent of the "Dont Tread on Me" flag. The pillars rest on three steps labeled "1777-83" "1812-15" and "1860-65." Beneath the portraits a three-column list of Managers is printed including prominent political and military figures of the time such as outgoing Vice President Hamlin Generals Grant Sherman Thomas Sheridan Doubleday Winfield Scott Hancock and Admirals Farragut and Porter. "E Pluribus Unum" and "We Are One and Indissoluble" are inscribed on banners wrapped around the columns The 1865 Inaugural Ball was held on March 6 1865 not March 4 at the Patent Office in Washington D.C. now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. OCLC records about ten locations under several accession numbers. Designed & Drawn by Bruff. Engraved by Dempsey & O'Toole unknown books

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[Lincoln, Abraham]ABAA

PRESS & TRIBUNE DOCUMENTS FOR 1860. NO. 8. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION HELD AT CHICAGO MAY 16TH 17TH & 18TH 1860. FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ABRAHAM LINCOLN OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAMLIN OF MAINE. CHICAGO MAY 21 1860. PRESS & TRIBUNE OFFICE 51 CLARK STREET

1860ref. 41812Chicago: Press & Tribune Office 1860. Caption title as issued. 44pp. Stitched. Widely scattered light foxing. Several ink signatures on title page of an early owner named B. Greenwood with some bleedthrough. Otherwise Very Good. Printed in two columns per page. At head of title: "PRICE 5 Cents per Single Copy; $3.00 per Hundred; $25.00 Per Thousand." Housed in an attractive brown cloth box with gilt-lettered spine title. The "stenographic report" Monaghan of the country's most significant political convention with a record of all activities including speeches platform and the balloting for President and Vice President. Unlike modern conventions the winner of this one was far from clear. Several formidable candidates-- including Seward Chase Bates and Fremont--- stood in Lincoln's way. Although he had planned his strategy with great intelligence Lincoln was a true 'Dark Horse.' "Instead of attending in person Lincoln was represented by his friend and campaign manager Illinois judge David Davis whose initiative and deal-making skills despite his candidate's disapproval of such behind-the-scenes maneuvering is widely credited with his eventual nomination. Davis did however follow Lincoln's instruction in forming their general strategy as he maneuvered throughout the building nicknamed The Wigwam. "To make up for his meagre resume compared to Seward and Chase his team thought it prudent to not go on the attack against the frontrunners and instead become 'everybody's second choice.' through the convention's ranked voting system. His campaign also used the convention to start forging Lincoln's image as the Rail-Splitter a reference to his working-class background and a potential golden opportunity to appeal to the common laborers in the industrial Northern states who stood to benefit the most from the Republicans' Free Soil ideology. They also made direct appeals to delegates from the critical swing states of Pennsylvania and Indiana. When voting began on the 18th Davis and his allies felt confident in their chances to pull ahead. The first ballot placed Seward predictably with the highest vote total of 173.5 but not enough to win a majority while Lincoln followed with a total of 102. The second round bumped Lincoln's total number of votes to 181. The momentum on Lincoln's side continued to surge into the third round where Lincoln received a total of 231.5 votes still not enough to be nominated until David Cartter leader of the Ohio delegation announced his decision to switch support from Chase to Lincoln making him the 1860 Republican nominee for President" American Battlefield Trust 'Inside the Wigwam'. Ante-Fire Imprints 504. Monaghan 76. Sabin 65894. Press & Tribune Office unknown books

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Balmes, Abraham deABAA

Avram: Peculium Abrae. Grammatica Hebraea

1523ref. 53327Venice: Daniel Bamberg 1523. Daniel Bamberg unknown books

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Lapeyrere, Abraham; Brechard, Francois, AnnotatorABAA

Decisions Sommaires du Palais Interleaved and Heavily Annotated

1725ref. 787371725. Bordeaux: Chez Simon Boud‚ 1725. Folio. Bordeaux: Chez Simon Boud‚ 1725. Folio. Pre-Revolutionary Law in Action: An Interleaved 1725 Bordeaux Folio Heavily Annotated by Eminent Jurist Francois Brechard Lapeyrere Abraham. Brechard Francois 1770-1843 Annotator. Decisions Sommaires du Palais Par Ordre Alphabetique Illustrees de Notes & De Plusieurs Arrets de la Cour de Parlement de Bordeaux. Par feu Me Abraham Lapeyrere Ancien Avocat en Ladite Cour. Cinquieme Edition. Revue Corrigee & Augmentee d'un Grand Nombre de Decisions & d'Arrets Recueillis des Memoires de Plusieurs Illustres Senateurs de ce Parlement. Et a Laquelle on a Ajoute Plusieurs Nouveaux Arrets Notables. Bordeaux: Chez Simon Boude Rue Saint James Charles Labottiere Place du Palais & Raymond Labottiere Place du Palais Imprimeurs & Libraires 1725. xii 539 7 pp. Interleaved. Folio 14" x 9-1/2"; 35.6 x 24 cm. Contemporary sheep blind rules and cat's-paw decoration to boards gilt spine with raised bands and lettering piece edges rouged. Negligible light rubbing and a few minor scuffs to boards slightly heavier rubbing to extremities corners bumped and somewhat worn. Light toning to interior faint dampspotting and foxing in a few places side-notes affected by trimming in a few places some text leaves have underlining corrections and brief annotations 140 interleaves have annotations main text followed by 16-pp. double-column manuscript index all annotations in a neat contemporary hand signature of annotator Francois Brechard "avocat a Poitiers" to title page. $3500. This interleaved working legal text bridges the complex world of Pre-Revolutionary French customary law coutumes and the legal landscape of the early 19th century. Digested by topic this copy of Lapeyrere's landmark compilation records the decisions of the Parlement of Bordeaux-one of the absolute highest courts of justice under the Ancien Regime. Books like this are vital artifacts of early European legal history for several key reasons: - The Battle for Regional Autonomy Before the Napoleonic Code unified French law in 1804 France was divided into a patchwork of local customary laws. Parlements like the one in Bordeaux did not just try cases; they fiercely protected regional privileges against royal overreach by centralizing local precede. unknown books

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LINCOLN, AbrahamABAA

Emancipation Proclamation

1862ref. 68870New York: The New York Herald 1862. Full Description: LINCOLN Abraham. Emancipation Proclamation."A Proclamation by the President of the United States. Operations of the Confiscation Act. All Slaves in States in Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free." New York. Published in: The New York Herald Tuesday September 23 1862. Whole No. 9506. The publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in James Gordon Bennett's pro-Democratic New York Herald and one of if not the first official public announcements of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Broadsheet folio one large leaf folded along top to make four pages two leaves printed on recto and verso. Six-column format. 22 x 15 1/2 inches; 560 x 395 mm. Light creases down the middle in both directions. Some nearly invisible repaird along top margin and edges. Some of the repairs just touching a few letters in the headline. Still a very good copy of this important declaration. We could only find 3 copies of this at auction and it is not mentioned in Eberstadt. Eberstadt mentions that his Third edition of the Emancipation has a publication date somewhere between September 24th and 26th therefore putting the current copy before this. Eberstadt's first and second edition are the official state department editions printed the day of the declaration September 22nd just the day before this New York Herald was printed. Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22 1862 stating that if the rebelling states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by January 1 1863 the slaves in those states would be set free. The New York Herald issued this front-page top left corner early printing of Lincoln's Proclamation the very next day appearing under the headline: "All Slaves in States of Rebellion January 1 1863 to Be Free." "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." Sotheby's. The front page of this newspaper also contains two maps and reports of the campaigns in Kentucky. HBS 68870. $3500. The New York Herald unknown books

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Lincoln, Abraham; and Jefferson DavisABAA

COMPLETE SET OF FIVE ELABORATELY ENGRAVED POSTAL COVERS: "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS

1861ref. 41884New York: J.H. Tingley 1861. Five postal covers each oblong 3-1/4" x 5-7/8." The recto of each is an engraving of a Round of the boxing match. Near Fine. From the U VA description: "Five envelopes in the Champion Prize Envelope set depict a boxing match between Lincoln and Davis in which the latter is easily defeated and Winfield Scott commands the Union armies. Smaller vignettes in the corners depict dogs guarding southern cotton and then fleeing; liberated slaves Union artillery advancing firing and marching home; Union and Confederate politicians commenting on the fight including John Minor Botts who is seen as keeping Virginia in the Union; European countries commenting on the fight; and the Union eagle and Liberty victorious with Lincoln the champion of all sections." 1st Round: Standing around a boxing ring Lincoln and Davis in the middle are a group of civilians Soldiers cannon. two dogs guarding a bale of cotton and a Confederate flag a group of slaves three men on a globe Capitol and American flag in the background. In the ring Davis cowers before Lincoln who says "I use no more force than necessary." Davis: "Let me alone!" 2nd Round: The same group encircles the ring. Lincoln: "Go back you dog to the junction I'll call on you there soon." Davis: "Beauregard Lets fall back on Richmond." From the crowd of civilians: "Secession is looking smaller" and "We shall soon strip it." Other comments are also uttered. 3d Round: Lincoln: "I will soon smother those pirates." From the same encirclement anti-Confederate comments such as "General That's secession's last kick" rebel soldiers saying "Let's go home boys." The cotton bale and Confederate flag are missing. 4th Round: Seward and Scott are in the ring. Seward: "General where is secession now" Scott : "Don't you see that greasespot" Comment: "Virginia and Kentucky may now be heard in behalf of the whole Union." 5th Round: Lincoln with "The Champion Belt": "You shall all have my impartial constitutional and humble protection." He is surrounded by the iconic Screaming Eagle; a triumphant West North East and South; and Lady Liberty who says "I still live." Not in Reilly or Weitenkampf. AAS and the University of Indiana own all five envelopes. OCLC 277634667 1- U VA 14953428 2- CT Mus. Hist. Culture U IL as of June 2026. J.H. Tingley unknown books

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Manuscript; Freeman, Abraham ClarkABAA

Register of Actions and Proceedings Sacramento County 1877-1880

1877ref. 726891877. A Distinguished California Jurist's Manuscript Register of Legal Proceedings During the Constitutional Reform Era 1877-1880 Manuscript. California. Freeman Abraham Clark 1843-1911. Register of Actions and Proceedings. Sacramento County California 1877-1880. Folio 13" x 7-3/4"; 33 x 19.7 cm. 244 pp. Manuscript in a single highly legible cursive hand. Contemporary three-quarter sheep over marbled boards gilt fillets to spine marbled edges. Contemporary manuscript title "Register of Actions and Proceedings" to front pastedown. Light rubbing and minor scuffs to boards dampstain to rear board heavier rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends and corners chip to foot of spine. Joints starting slightly at head hinges tender but holding. Slight offsetting to corners of first two leaves. Light toning to interior occasional light foxing and minor spots and stains. Several related contemporary documents tipped or laid in. Good to very good. $3500. An extensive manuscript register documenting the private legal practice of Abraham Clark Freeman one of California's most distinguished nineteenth-century lawyers legal authors and constitutional reformers during the years surrounding the state's Constitutional Convention of 1878-1879. Freeman arrived in California from Illinois in 1861 and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He achieved national prominence with his Treatise on the Law of Judgments 1873 described in an early history of Sacramento County as the first legal treatise of national scope written or published in California. Its exceptional reception helped establish California's reputation as a center of American legal scholarship. Freeman subsequently became an influential editor of American case-law reports assuming the editorship of American Decisions in 1879. The present register covers a particularly significant period in Freeman's career and California's constitutional development. Freeman served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1878-1879 which drafted the state's second constitution amid intense controversies over railroad monopolies corporate power taxation labor relations and political representation. Ratified in 1879 the new constitution substantially reorganized the state's legal and political institutions. Freeman also served on a commission charged. unknown books

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(AUCTION CATALOGUE: ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, Abraham Hyacinthe)ABAA

Catalogue des Livres de M. A.H. Anquetil-Duperron; Voyageur aux Grandes Indes Interprète de France pour les Langues Orientales.dont la vente se fera…le mardi 2 vendémiaire an 14 24 septembre 1805 et jours suivans

ref. 30892 p.l. viii 236 pp. 8vo attractive antique calf double gilt fillet round sides flat spine gilt uncut. Paris: veuve Tilliard et Fils 1805. The rare sale catalogue of the library rich in oriental books and manuscripts of Anquetil-Duperron 1731-1805 French orientalist and brother of the historian Pierre Anquetil. Abraham Hyacinthe had a fascinating early life: while unsuccessfully studying for the priesthood in Paris and Utrecht he developed a passion for Hebrew Arabic Persian and other languages of the East. He travelled to India as a private soldier in 1754 in order to search for the works of Zoroaster. Granted free passage he learned modern Persian in Pondicherry and Sanskrit at Chandernagore. When war broke out between France and England Anquetil-Duperron travelled widely throughout India on foot learning further languages and studying the antiquities and sacred laws of the Hindus. He returned to Europe in an English vessel ultimately arriving in Paris in 1762 with 180 oriental manuscripts. He devoted many of the following years to scholarship editing and publishing many important oriental texts. The French Revolution seems to have greatly affected him: during that period he abandoned society and lived in voluntary poverty on a few pence a day. A fine copy. 1600 lots and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. From the library of Jean Viardot. â§ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 408–“Ce catalogue est curieux surtout pour les livres en langues étrangeres.” Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions…1643-1830 458. Peignot p. 77. unknown books

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[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM] BLISS, ALEXANDER and KENNEDY, JOHN P (Editors).ABAA

Autograph Leaves of our Country's Authors.

1864ref. D16155Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey 1864. First Edition. First and only edition extra-illustrated with approximately 65 inserted portraits. Full red pebbled morocco gilt dated 1882 on the spine rebacked with the original spine laid down the covers panelled in gilt the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with the initials "W.H.W." at the foot. 10 x 8 inches 25.5 x 21 cm; with lithographed title and approximately 65 mostly engraved or lithographed portraits inserted three are original drawings including one of Julia Ward Howe xi lithographed contents 200 pp. lithographed fascsimiles of the handwriting of the authors. Intermittent foxing the inserted portraits have offset to the text leaves opposite rebacked as noted and lightly rubbed. This volume produced at the time of the 1864 Baltimore Sanitary Fair contains what is considered the first reproduction of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand. The facsimile was made from what is now known as the "Bliss Copy" of the address the fifth and final manuscript copy of the address that Lincoln executed at the request of the editors of this volume. Other authors represented here include Emerson Poe Melville Hawthorne and many other notables of the period. Cushings & Bailey unknown books

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Lincoln, AbrahamABAA

The President to General McClellan. Washington April 9 1862 .

1864ref. 376854Np 1864. Broadside 9-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Remnants of prior mounting on verso small separation at horizontal fold repaired with tape. Broadside 9-3/4x8-3/4 inches. Rare broadside or handbill printing of the famous telegram sent by Abraham Lincoln to General George B. McClellan early in the Civil War expressing his frustration at McClellan's unwillingness to engage the enemy during the Peninsular Campaign and urging him in no uncertain terms to attack the Confederates. Lincoln uses a combination of reason force assessment and strategic reasoning in an attempt to draw McClellan into the fight famously concluding "you must act." This small broadside was published either in an effort to galvanize the public into pressuring the always reluctant McClellan to engage Confederate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston or perhaps as a campaign piece for the Election of 1864 to remind voters of McClellan's failures as a leader. Six months following its stinging defeat at the Battle of Bull Run the Union Army was reorganized trained and reformed into the Army of the Potomac by Major General George B. McClellan. After four months of training and reorganization however McClellan had done little more with his troops than run drills and reviews. In December 1861 President Lincoln took matters into his own hands and proposed the Peninsular Campaign March 1862 - July 1862 against Johnston's Confederate forces in which the Army of the Potomac would use a flanking attack in the nearby Occoquan Valley to capture Johnston and his army. McClellan rejected Lincoln's plan in favor of his own which consisted of a flanking movement much further south without leaving enough troops behind to protect Washington. Although Lincoln eventually acceded to McClellan's plan he held back the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac under the command of General McDowell for the protection of Washington. McClellan's plans were thwarted by Johnston who had in the interim moved the Confederate forces further south causing McClellan to march his men all the way to Yorktown deep in the Virginia peninsula. Instead of mounting a direct attack against the 17000 Confederates near Yorktown with his massive contingent of 70000 Union soldiers McClellan always overestimating Confederate forces and always fearful of failure took the safer route and laid siege to Yorktown which allowed Johnston to move his whole army down to Yorktown in opposition. In an April 7th telegram to Lincoln McClellan firm in his belief that he was always outnumbered by the Confederate forces complained that Lincoln held back too many troops for the protection of Washington which hamstrung his efforts for a successful campaign. In the present telegram to McClellan composed on April 9 Lincoln patiently responds: "Your dispatches complaining that you are not properly sustained while they do not offend me pain me very much." Lincoln continues "After you left to begin the Peninsular Campaign I ascertained that less than 20000 unorganized men without a field battery were all you designed should be left for the defense of Washington.This presented or would present.a great temptation for the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington.My explicit directions that Washington sustained by the judgment of all the commanders of corps should be left secure had been entirely neglected. It was precisely this that drove me to detain McDowell." Lincoln refutes McClellan's belief that he did not have enough troops by using McClellan's own troop estimates obtained from the Secretary of War to argue McClellan into action stating that when "the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you.I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow." Lincoln patiently tries to convince McClellan of the consequences of his inaction: "the enemy will readily gain on you; that is he will gain faster by fortifications and re-enforecments than you can by re-enforcements alone" and forcefully concludes "And once more let me tell you it is indispensable to you that you strike a blow." Lincoln then shows his brilliance as a judge of character addressing McClellan's fear of failure by holding up the public consequences of his inaction: "The country will not fail to note - is now noting - that the present hesitation to move upon an intrenched sic enemy is but the story of Manassas repeated." Then knowing by experience of McClellan's personal defensiveness Lincoln concludes in the words of Lincoln biographers John G. Nicolay and John M. Hay "with as much consideration and kindness as a father would use towards a querulous and petulant child." He ends his telegram writing "I beg to assure you that I have never written you or spoken to you in greater kindness of feeling than now nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you so far as in my most anxious judgment I consistently can. But you must act." Ultimately the Peninsular Campaign failed and the Army of the Potomac withdrew from the Virginia Peninsula in July 1862. By November of 1862 Lincoln frustrated with McClellan's lack of initiative on the field finally removed him from command and replaced him with General Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln would later encounter McClellan as his Democratic adversary in the Presidential election of 1864 easily defeating him. OCLC lists just six copies located at New York Historical Society University of Delaware Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Boston Athenaeum Library Company of Philadelphia and the Huntington Library. A rare and important printing of one of Lincoln's most famous messages of the Civil War. Nicolay John G. and John Hay. Abraham Lincoln: A History New York: The Century Company 1890 Volume 5 p.362 unknown books

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Lincoln, Abraham; Fell, Jesse, WABAA

The Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln

ref. 3389Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872. Broadside 24.5” x 19” plus margins; portrait and text in five columns. CONDITION: Torn through upper right the tear affecting the portrait restored backed with Japanese tissue. The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln and Fell became acquainted during a session of the Illinois State Legislature in the winter of 1834–35. Lincoln was serving as a representative and Fell as a lobbyist for MacLean County Illinois. The two became political friends and saw much of each other in subsequent years. In 1858 when Lincoln came to prominence as a result of his debates with Stephen Douglas Fell who had recently returned from a trip east where the public was hungry for information about Lincoln approached his friend as he came out of the Bloomington Illinois courthouse one afternoon and asked him for a biographical sketch. Lincoln initially resisted but the following year gave in composing a brief autobiography as well as a letter of explanation both of which he mailed to Fell on December 20th 1859. Delighted that Lincoln had finally complied and eager to promote his cause Fell forwarded Lincoln’s autobiography to his friend Joseph J. Lewis in Pennsylvania who used it for an article that was published in the Chester County Times PA on February 11th 1860. Lewis’s article was reprinted in many newspapers and “became the first widely read biographical sketch of Lincoln and served as a basis for the first three Lincoln campaign biographies in book form” Sage. In 1872 while preparing his biography of Lincoln for publication Ward H. Lamon wrote to Fell asking him to forward Lincoln’s sketch and its accompanying letter to his publisher James R. Osgood & Co. for consultation and facsimile publication. Placing no particular value on the original manuscripts when he first received them Fell had not requested their return but now retrieved them in response to Lamon’s request. He then forwarded the biographical sketch but not Lincoln’s letter of explanation substituting instead his own cover letter. Since Lincoln’s sketch was neither addressed to Fell nor signed Fell included with his letter clippings in Lincoln’s hand reading “Hon. J. W. Fell” and “Yours very truly/A. Lincoln” which were then pasted onto Lincoln’s sketch. Also added was an emblem and statement testifying to the authenticity of the manuscript signed by David Davis Lyman Trumbull and Charles Sumner dated at Washington D.C. March 20th 1872. The facsimile was included in Lamon’s biography and published separately in the form of the broadside offered here. Rare. OCLC records only four copies. REFERENCES: Not in Monaghan; Stern Collection 4792; Sage Harold K. Jesse W. Fell and the Lincoln Autobiography in The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association Vol. 3 Issue 1 1981 pp. 48–58. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872 unknown books

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Jacobi, AbrahamABAA

SIGNED BY 18 NOTABLES. Dinner in Honor of Doctor A. Jacobi on the Seventieth Anniversary of his birthday Saturday May the fifth nineteen hundred at Delmonico's original 3-leaf program/menu TOGETHER WITH Proceedings and Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner Tendered to Dr. A. Jacobi on the Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday May 5 Nineteen Hundred TOGETHER WITH "Festschrift" in Honor of Abraham Jacobi M.D. LL.D. to Commemorate the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birth May Sixth 1900

1900ref. 1680New York: Tiffany & Co. program/menu The Knickerbocker Press Festschrift 1900. First editions. RARE PROGRAM/MENU FOR DINNER IN HONOR OF ABRAHAM JACOBI'S 70TH BIRTHDAY--SIGNED BY JACOBI AND 17 NOTABLE ATTENDEES TOGETHER WITH BOUND PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS AND FESTSCHRIFT VOLUME PRESENTED TO HONOREE. 1 Program of "Dinner in Honor of Doctor Abraham Jacobi on the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday Saturday May the Fifth Nineteen Hundred at Delmonico's." Three leaves 15.8x22.3 cm printed on fine card stock by Tiffany & Co. each with 2 small holes at top for binding by ribbon. Menu program cover with engraved portrait of Jacobi with his pencil signature below and program with pencil signature of 17 attendies. Framed in 41.5x66.5 cm dark wooden frame with ribbon tie in pouch attached to back of frame. Browning to page edges otherwise very good. SIGNERS OF THE PROGRAM: John Shaw Billings 1838 - 1913 was an American librarian building designer and surgeon who modernized the Library of the Surgeon General's Office in the United States Army. His work with Andrew Carnegie led to the development and his service as the first director of the New York Public Library. Billings oversaw the building of the Surgeon General's Library which was the nation's first comprehensive library for medicine. Joseph Decatur Bryant 1845 - 1914 was a surgeon New York City Health Commissioner Surgeon-General of the National Guard Surgeons and physician to Grover Cleveland and John D. Rockefeller. He also held a series of academic positions at Bellevue Hospital Medical College culminating with the title of professor of the principles and practice of surgery and professor of operative and clinical surgery at New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Arpad Geyza Charles Gerster 1848-1923 A surgeon who practiced at Mt. Sinai in New York City in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Hungarian by birth he was also a sportsman linguist and an artist. Gerster's vivid often humorous observations of nature and people his delight in the outdoors and his drawings and etchings offer a larger portrait of the Adirondack region in the age of William West Durant Great Camps railroads and the beginning of the conservation movement. Abraham Jacobi 1830 - 1919 was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics. He was a key figure in the movement to improve child healthcare and welfare in the United States and opened the first children's clinic in the country. To date he is the only foreign-born president of the American Medical Association. He is regarded as the Father of American Pediatrics. Edward Gamaliel Janeway 1841 - 1911 was an American physician who served as Health Commissioner of New York and as president of the New York Medical Journal Association in the late nineteenth century. He was considered "one of America's premier internists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries". John W. Keller 1856 -1919 was a New York newspaper man member of Tammany Hall and in 1900 was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention and his name was presented by the New York delegation for the Vice Presidency. From 1898 to 1902 he was Commissioner of Public Charities in New York city. John Stewart Kennedy 1830 - 1909 was a Scottish-born American businessman financier and philanthropist. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club also known as The Millionaires' Club on Jekyll Island Georgia along with J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller among others. Daniel Scott Lamont 1851 - 1905 was the United States Secretary of War during Grover Cleveland's second term. After his service as Secretary of War Lamont was vice president of the Northern Pacific Railway Company from 1898 to 1904. In August 1904 he was supported by the New York Times as a candidate for Governor of New York. Joseph Larocque 1831 - 1908 was a New York City lawyer and president of the New York City Bar Association. Larocque was a director of several companies including the American Cotton Oil Company the Commonwealth Insurance Company of New York Niagara Falls Power Company and Plaza Bank. He also served on the boards of a number of New York City institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Century Club and Columbia University. Seth Low 1850 - 1916 was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn from 1881 to 1885 the president of Columbia University from 1890 to 1901 a diplomatic representative of the United States and the mayor of New York City from 1902 to 1903. William Osler 1849 - 1919 was a Canadian physician and one of the founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1889 he became the first Physician-in-Chief of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. In 1893 Osler was instrumental in creating the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and became one of the school's first professors of medicine. Thomas Morgan Rotch 1849 - 1914 graduated from Harvard College in 1870 and from Harvard Medical School in 1874. He was the president of the American Pediatric Society for 1890”"91 and America's first full professor of pediatrics. Carl Schurz 1829 - 1906 was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman journalist and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848”"1849 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party. In 1868 he was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri becoming the first German American in that body. He supported William Jennings Bryan's anti-imperialist campaign in the 1900 presidential election. Schurz lived in a summer cottage in Northwest Bay on Lake George New York which was built by his good friend Abraham Jacobi. Isaac Townsend Smith 1813 - 1906 was one of the incorporators of the Metropolitan Savings Bank of New York and was for many years its president. He was also Commissioner of Immigration for the state of New York and a presidential elector in 1864 when Abraham Lincoln was reelected. For the following 50 years Smith was in intimate touch with the Siamese government as its financial agent Consul and Consul General. William Hanna Thomson 1833 - 1918 was assistant physician at Quarantine Hospital in New York and physician to the Charity Hospital consulting physician to Roosevelt Hospital and Bellevue Hospital Professor of Medicine at New York University Medical College a member of the New York Neurological Society and President of the New York Academy of Medicine during 1899”"1900. Robert Fulton Weir 1837 - 1927 professor of surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1873 to 1903 and President of The New York Academy of Medicine from 1900 to 1903. His wide experience was gained chiefly in the Civil War in which he served as surgeon in charge of the hospital of Frederick Maryland one of the largest Government hospitals from 1862 to 1865. William Henry Welch 1850 - 934 was an American physician pathologist bacteriologist and medical school administrator. He was one of the founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was also the founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health the first school of public health in the country. Horace White 1865 - 943 was a member of the New York State Senate from 1896 to 1908 and Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1909 to 1910. White who was the nephew of Cornell's first President Andrew Dickson White left three-quarters of his estate to the university and that fund had grown to $1.5 million by 1973. 2 Proceedings and Addresses at the Complimentary Dinner Tendered to Dr. A. Jacobi on the Occasion of the Seventieth Anniversary of His Birthday May 5 Nineteen Hundred. 18.5x25.5 cm hardcover black cloth binding gilt title to cover covers with beveled edges top edge gilt floral endpapers engraved frontispiece including portrait of Jacobi reproducing first leaf of dinner program 74 pp including the following: i Introductory Note by the committee of physicians and laymen convened to celebrate Jacobi's 70th birthday "a fit occasion for a hearty manifestation of the esteem in which Dr. Jacobi is held and for a recognition of the services he has rendered in various relations--during the course of almost fifty years”"as a physician educator and civic worker. It was felt also that such an occasion would afford an appropriate setting for the unusual honor to be paid Dr. Jacobi in the presentation of a 'Festschrift' comprising original contributions to medical literature dedicated to him by fifty physicians and scientists including many of the most prominent in all parts of the world." ii Address of Dr. Joseph D. Bryant Chairman; iii Poem of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell: 'Abraham Jacobi Medicus Magister Amicus'; iv Address of Dr. William H. Thomson: 'Jacobi the Physician'; v Address of Dr. William Osler: 'The Scientist'; vi Address of the Honorable Seth Low: 'In Relation to Medical Education'; vii Address of the Honorable Carl Schurz: 'The Citizen'; viii Address of Dr. Arpad G. Gerster: Presentation of the 'Jacobi Festschrift "Mr. Chairman I hold in my hand a volume containing the scientific contributions of fifty-three medical men of note men representing two continents and eleven nations"; ix Remarks of Dr. Francis Foerster presenting the address of the German Hospital; x Remarks of Dr. Emil Gruening presenting the resolutions for Mount Sinai Hospital; 10 Address of Dr. Jacobi: The Guest of the Evening; xi Letters and Telegrams Received; xii Subscribers to the Dinner. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. 3 "Festschrift" in honor of Abraham Jacobi. To Commemorate the seventieth Anniversary of his Birth May Sixth 1900. 16.5x16 cm hardcover green cloth binding with printed gray paper covers paper title label to spine top edge gilt institutional library bookplate to front paste-down engraved frontispiece portrait of Jacobi with tissue guard i-xiii 496 pp 12 plates 2 folding charts. 55 contributions by 57 authors including George Adami Theodor Escherich Eduard Henoch Luther Emmett Holt Henry Koplik William Osler Thomas Morgan Rotch and William Henry Welch. Topics include infectious diease cancer neurology seizures metabolic disease congenital heart disease urology/nephrology and toxicology. Most papers in English several in German or French language. Covers worn library numbers bottom of spine front hinge split offsetting of frontispiece to title page browning to page edges. Binding tight pages unmarked good in custom archival mylar cover. Tiffany & Co. (program/menu), The Knickerbocker Press (Festschrift) books

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Lincoln, AbrahamABAA

Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln Delivered in Springfield Saturday Evening July 17 1858 caption title

1858ref. 376861Springfield IL 1858. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. Unbound. Minor toning. Housed in a cloth box. 8pp. printed in double columns. 8vo. The only separate printing of this address given by Lincoln at Springfield Illinois. Lincoln's speech which preceded his debates with Douglas puts forth the great themes that marked his political philosophy during the last ten years of his life. More importantly it firmly placed Lincoln as against the expansion of slavery and Douglas on the opposite side of the issue. By targeting Douglas a strategy that resurrected Lincoln's political career he made his fellow Illinoisan out to be the embodiment of the wicked forces safeguarding slavery's expansion . This speech is Lincoln's opening salvo against Douglas for the 1858 senate campaign: 'Free men of Illinois - free men of everywhere - judge ye between him and me'" Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 67 Urging that slavery be placed on course for "ultimate extinction" he repeats his "House Divided" warning first given at the State Republican Convention a month earlier. He insists that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was "the beginning of a conspiracy" to nationalize slavery. Attacking Douglas and defending himself against the charge that he would "invite a war of sections" he stands on "the principles of our Declaration of Independence." Though African Americans are not the equal of whites "in all respects" the Declaration "does mean to declare that all men are equal in some respects; they are equal in the right to 'life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'" Most significantly "In the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned he is the equal of every other man white or black." A scarce Lincoln speech. Monaghan 12; Byrd 2960 unknown books

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Lincoln, AbrahamABAA

Tribune Tracts. - No. 4. . Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Delivered at the Cooper Institute Monday Feb. 27 1860

1860ref. 376855New York: Office of the New York Tribune 1860. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. Stitched self-wrappers toning. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on verso of the terminal leaf. 8vo. This address made at the Cooper Institute in New York on February 27 1860 catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. Indeed many historians have considered it the key to his success in the 1860 election and it is probably the most important speech Lincoln made after the Gettysburg Address and his inaugural addresses. The Cooper Union address was months in preparation; Lincoln was fully aware of its importance in moving himself from a regional favorite son to a viable national candidate. In the event some 1500 people including many prominent political figures attended on a snowy new York evening. The speech divides into three major parts. In the first Lincoln addressed the spread of slavery arguing that the framers of the constitution had been opposed to it and that the Federal government could regulate the question. In the second he argued that the Republicans were not a sectional Northern party and attacked the threats of southern Democrats to secede if the Republicans should win the election. Finally he addressed his fellow Republicans calling on them to act carefully and do "nothing through passion and ill temper.Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it." The Cooper Union speech was a resounding success. Horace Greeley described it as "one of the happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City. No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience." Greeley quickly issued the speech in the form of this "Tribune Tract." It includes a final page of advertisements for other Tribune publications. The speech was later widely reprinted and made Lincoln nationally famous. This printing differs from other editions by its inclusion of a speech by James Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin and the message of Samuel Medary Democratic governor of the Kansas Territory vetoing the Kansas abolition bill. "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion" Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Monaghan 50 Office of the New York Tribune unknown books

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Search, Edward (pseud); [Tucker, Abraham]ABAA

The Light of Nature Pursued: Human Nature Theology Lights of Nature and Gospel Blended 9 Volumes

1767ref. JC14337London: Printed by T. Jones. and Sold by T. Payne. / Printed by W. Oliver. and Sold by T. Payne and Son. et al 1767-8. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary specked calf ornate gilt-stamped border on boards gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands; complete set of 9 volumes published and bound as Volume I Parts i-ii Volume II Parts i-iii Volume III Parts i-iv 8vo; pp. xlvi 384; 384; 315; 335; 540 3 blank errata; 403; 432; 462; 505 1 errata. Volumes I-II bound as the first 5 volumes of this set printed by T. Jones 1768 and with the armorial bookplate of Reverend John St. John of Farley; Volume III the last 4 volumes of this set printed by W. Oliver 1767. Several boards detached. Nevertheless a nice set of the rare first edition difficult to find in a straight run. Images available upon request. Printed by T. Jones... and Sold by T. Payne... / Printed by W. Oliver... and Sold by T. Payne and Son... [et al] hardcover books

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Pindar; Abraham Moore (translator)ABAA

The Olympic and Pythian Odes of Pindar

1903ref. 5344Beautiful full morocco with gilt detailing and rule; 5 raised bands. Elaborately designed doublures with gilt dentelles. Silk fly sheets. "The Delphic Edition of The Breviary Treasures consists of 475 copies printed on French hand-made paper of which this copy is Number 94." xii 214 pp. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Nathan Haskell Dole hardcover books

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(Liturgy: Jewish). Usque, Abraham ben Salomon (ed & translation by); Solomon ibn GabirolABAA

Orden de Ros Asanah y Kypur: Traduzido en Espanõl y de Nuevo Emmendado y Añadido el Keter Malchut y Otras Cosas

ref. 43935Amsterdam: En Casa de Joris Trigg/ D. Efraim Bueno y Jona Abravanel 5412. Hardcover. g- to vg-. Duoecimo. 7x4.5". 478pp. Original dark brown leather with blind-stamped ruling and tooling on the covers and spine. Raised bands on the spine. Metal clasps. Red-speckled edges of the book block. An early Spanish-language edition of the complete Jewish High Holiday prayer book Machzor based on the original translation by Abraham Usque originally printed in Ferarra Italy in 1553. This edition contains some added material not previously present including most prominently Solomon ibn Gabirol's famed philosophical poem "Keter Malkhut" Royal Crown which over the years has come to be read as part of the Yom Kippur service in some Jewish traditions. Published by Dr. Efraim Bueno and Jona Abravanel to serve members of the then sizable Sephardic Jewish community in Amsterdam. A significant portion of the community were former Conversos Jews who had outwardly converted to Catholicism during the inquisition in Spain who then emmigrated and were able to reestablish their Jewish identity and thus were unable to read Hebrew hence the text's publication in Spanish. As stated in the foreword this edition includes some additions to the text not included in previous versions and omits some material deemed to have been unnecessary. The prayer book starts with the penitential prayers Selichot p.3-47 which includes decorative head and endpeices. This section is followed by the Rosh Hashanah service p.48-195 and then the Yom Kippur service including the "Keter Malkhut" p.254-289. Title page is has a decorative vignette printed in woodblock and is printed with the Hebrew date "5412". Pages 305-352 are misprinted as "321-368" with their correct numbers handwritten above in ink. All text in Spanish. Binding with some rubbing and scratches to extremities and to the covers. Front hinge starting to split slightly at the head and tail of the spine. Missing one of the metal clasps on the back cover. Starting at interior covers. Some minor to light sporadic damp staining and foxing throughout the text. Period signature of the previous owner "Silva" in ink on on the title page and p.200. Name of another previous owner in ink on the interior back cover. Book block tight overall. Binding in good- interior in very good- condition overall. Quite scarce. Dr. Efraim Ephraim Bueno aka Martin Alvarez 1599-1665 was a Portuguese-born Jewish physician in Amsterdam of the famed Iberian-Jewish Bueno medical dynasty and prominent member of the city's Sephardic community. He served for many years as the personal physician to famed artist Rembrandt van Rijn who in fact depicted Bueno in two of his works one an etching and the other a painted portrait. He received his medical education and degree in Bordeaux and was known to have practiced medicine in Amsterdam until the time of his death. In addition to his medical practice Bueno was an accomplished biblical scholar who along with Jona Abravanel published numerous Jewish works the on the bible and Jewish Law. Jona Abravanel 1593-1667 was a Sephardic Jewish poet in Amsterdam from the prominent Abravanel family. He was the nephew of Famed Portueguse-Dutch Rabbi and printer Menasseh ben Israel. Together with his uncle and Dr. Efraim Bueno he was responsible for publishing numerous works of Judiaca in the 17th century. In this edition the title page was mistaken printed with the word "Kuyper" which was then correct via a scrap of paper pasted on top. References: KAYSERLING 1890 p. 7 31 61 under Abravanel Bueno and Liturgy PALAU 1923 under 202415 with an incorrect dat of 1662 PEETERS 1933 1037. This publication follows an edition with same title also from Amsterdam in 1630 but printed by David Pardo and Salom ben Yosseph Menasseh ben Israel with different pagination. En Casa de Joris Trigg/ D. Efraim Bueno y Jona Abravanel hardcover books

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ORTELIUS, AbrahamABAA

Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descripto

1570ref. 3381021570. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 14 3/4" x 19 3/4" Archival frame measures 22 1/2" x 28" This stunning first state first Latin edition map by Abraham Ortelius depicts an early understanding of North and South America. At the time it was issued the coastal areas of the New World had been fairly well explored and Europeans were just beginning settlement and colonization. It is notable for depicting Spanish and Portuguese colonies in high detail for these powers were notoriously protective of their geographical surveys. As the first depiction of the Americas in an atlas this map is of fundamental importance. Abraham Ortelius 1527--1598 a Flemish cartographer and geographer is widely regarded as one of the important and influential cartographers in history. He is known for his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" which was the first modern atlas. van den Broecke 91 unknown books

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Lincoln, AbrahamABAA

Inaugural Address of the President of the United States

1861ref. 377680Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1861. Special Session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1. 10pp. 8vo. Disbound. Housed in a cloth box. Special Session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1. 10pp. 8vo. Lincoln began drafting his first inaugural in Springfield soon after his election hoping the speech would impart a spirit of reconciliation toward the seceded states. His speech balances his pledge to protect Federal property in the south while insisting that he would not use military force unless attacked first. In all he eloquently argues against secession presenting the United States as undissolvable. Lincoln ends his speech with the memorable lines: "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 hearth-stone 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 became President on March 4 1861. Before being sworn in he gave his First Inaugural Address devoting it entirely to the secession crisis. It was the linguistic equivalent of an optical illusion: one could view it two ways. As historians have noted he seemed to placate the South; he would not 'interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.' This language was the old Lincoln . The new Lincoln was a resolute executive who had no choice but to enforce the Constitution a contract that does not allow states to withdraw from it unilaterally. In his enforcement there would be no bloodshed 'unless it be forced upon the national authority" Mazy Boroujerdi editor Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 108. Lincoln had begun writing his inaugural the month prior before leaving Springfield and once in Washington asked William Seward to review the draft. It was Seward who suggested softening the tone so as not to appear too inflammatory suggesting "a nostalgic call for unity emphasizing the country's shared history. Lincoln embraced the idea but massaged it into near poetry. Seward's prosaic text ended up as Lincoln's oft quoted appeals to the 'mystic chords of memory' and 'the better angels of our nature.' The words did nothing to reverse disunion" Ibid. p. 97. This is the official government printing of Lincoln's first inaugural address issued as a document of a special session of the Senate printed by their order four days after its delivery being only the second printing overall of the memorable speech. Monaghan 102; Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print p. 108 [Government Printing Office] unknown books

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Lincoln, AbrahamABAA

Tribune Tracts. - No. 4. . Speech of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Delivered at the Cooper Institute Monday Feb. 27 1860

1860ref. 367583New York: Office of the New York Tribune 1860. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. Lincoln's speech comprises pages 1-11 out of a total of 16 pages. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on rear wrapper. 8vo. Stitched self-wrappers minor toning minor chip to terminal leaf. First edition Monaghan's first issue. 1 2-15 1pp. Lincoln's speech comprises pages 1-11 out of a total of 16 pages. With New York Tribune ads and subscription terms on rear wrapper. 8vo. This address made at the Cooper Institute in New York on February 27 1860 catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. Indeed many historians have considered it the key to his success in the 1860 election and it is probably the most important speech Lincoln made after the Gettysburg Address and his inaugural addresses. The Cooper Union address was months in preparation; Lincoln was fully aware of its importance in moving himself from a regional favorite son to a viable national candidate. In the event some 1500 people including many prominent political figures attended on a snowy new York evening. The speech divides into three major parts. In the first Lincoln addressed the spread of slavery arguing that the framers of the constitution had been opposed to it and that the Federal government could regulate the question. In the second he argued that the Republicans were not a sectional Northern party and attacked the threats of southern Democrats to secede if the Republicans should win the election. Finally he addressed his fellow Republicans calling on them to act carefully and do "nothing through passion and ill temper.Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it." The Cooper Union speech was a resounding success. Horace Greeley described it as "one of the happiest and most convincing political arguments ever made in this City. No man ever made such an impression on his first appeal to a New York audience." Greeley quickly issued the speech in the form of this "Tribune Tract." It includes a final page of advertisements for other Tribune publications. The speech was later widely reprinted and made Lincoln nationally famous. This printing differs from other editions by its inclusion of a speech by James Doolittle Senator from Wisconsin and the message of Samuel Medary Democratic governor of the Kansas Territory vetoing the Kansas abolition bill. "The Cooper Union address tested whether Lincoln's appeal could extend from the podium to the page and from the rollicking campaigns of the rural West to the urban East. Cooper Union held the promise of transforming Lincoln from a regional phenomenon to a national figure. Lincoln knew it and rose to the occasion" Harold Holzer Lincoln at the Copper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President. Monaghan 50 Office of the New York Tribune unknown books

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[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. [RACISM]ABAA

Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism - Stirring Fear of Interracial Marriage Before 1864 Presidential Election

1864ref. 25614The second in a series of four racist political cartoons published in 1864 by Bromley & Company which was closely affiliated with the Copperhead New York World newspaper. These prints sought to undermine Abraham Lincoln's chances for reelection by branding him as a "miscegenationist" and playing on white fears of "race-mixing." The cartoon scene pictures several interracial couples enjoying a day at the park eating ice cream discussing wedding plans and a woman's upcoming lecture. Two African American families have white employees a carriage driver and footmen and a babysitter. The only other example traced at auction brought $7800 in 2010. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. RACISM.Print. "Miscegenation or the Millennium of Abolitionism." Political Cartoon. New York: Bromley & Co. 1864. 1 p. 20¾ x 13â… in. American politics had long played on fears of sexual relationships between races. A powerful new word for "race-mixing" was coined in an anonymous December 1863 pamphlet entitled Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races Applied to the American White Man and Negro published in New York. Purporting to advocate the virtues of the "blending of the white and black races on this continent" it was a literary forgery prepared by The World managing editor David Goodman Croly and reporter George Wakeman. The authors were unsuccessful in their attempt to trick President Lincoln into endorsing the work. At the far left of the image Abraham Lincoln declares "I shall be proud to number among my intimate friends any member of the Squash family especially the little Squashes." The African American woman to whom he is speaking replies "I'se 'quainted wid Missus Linkum I is washed far her 'fore de hebenly Miscegenation times was cum. Dont do nuffin now but gallevant 'round wid de white gem'men! he-ah! he-ah! he-ah!" Senator Charles Sumner says "Mr. President! Allow me the honor of introducing my very dear friend Miss Dinah Arabella Aramintha Squash." A white carriage driver complains in the background "Gla-a-ang there 240t! White driver white footmen niggers inside my heys! I wanted a situation when I took this one" while a black man in the carriage tells his companion "Phillis de_ah dars Sumner. We must not cut him if he is walking." A black woman at a table tells a white man with her "Ah! Horace its-its-its-bully 'specially de cream" and he replies "Ah! my dear Miss Snowball we have at last reached our political and social Paradise. Isn't it extatic" To the right are two couples embracing each a white woman and an African American man. The first white women tells her partner "Oh! You dear creature. I am so agitated! Go and ask Pa" to which he replies "Lubly Julia Anna name de day when Brodder Beecher shall make us one!" The second white woman says "Adolphus now you'll be sure to come to my lecture to morrow night won't you" to which he answers "I'll be there Honey on de front seat sure!" In the background are various immigrant minorities viewing the scene. One exclaims "Most hextwadinary! Aw neva witnessed the like in all me life if I did dem me!" and another adds "Mine Got vat a guntry vat a beebles!" An Irish girl complains "And is it to drag nagur babies that I left old Ireland Bad luck to me." Manton Marble the editor of The World collaborated with printmaker Bromley & Company to issue a series of four anti-Lincoln "Political Caricatures." The present example was the No. 2 in that series. No. 1 was "The Grave of the Union or Major Jack Downing's Dream"; No. 3 "The Abolition Catastrophe Or the November Smash-up"; and No. 4 "The Miscegenation Ball." Republicans responded by trying to turn the "miscegenation" charge against the Democrats. A Republican print "The Political "Siamese" Twins: The Offspring of Chicago Miscegenation" pictures McClellan and Pendleton joined together despite their very different ideas on ending the war. Although Abraham Lincoln won New York states' electoral votes in 1860 Stephen Douglas had carried New York City and its environs. Financial elites fearing that civil war would ruin business and recent immigrants fearing competition with free black labor supported Douglas. Lincoln's unpopularity in New York City during the Civil War was a factor in the deadly 1863 Draft Riots. In 1864 Lincoln again won the states' electoral votes while New York City favored his Democratic opponent McClellan. In fact Lincoln's majority dropped from 50136 votes in 1860 to only 7373 votes in 1864 with approximately 50000 more total votes cast than in 1860. Bromley and Company continued to sell the caricatures after the election as this January 1865 advertisement from an Ohio newspaper makes clear. Another advertisement assured purchasers that the set of four prints available for $1 were "sent on wooden rollers to insure safe carriage." The World 1860-1931 a daily independent newspaper was published in New York City. Alexander Cummings founded it as a religious Republican outlet in 1860. August Belmont and others purchased it in 1862 changing the editorial focus. With editor Manton Marble 1834-1917 The World soon became the country's leading Democratic newspaper. In 1864 Union authorities shut down The Worldand another paper for three days after they published forged documents purportedly written by Lincoln that were really part of a hoax to manipulate the price of gold. The paper actively supported George B. McClellan against Lincoln in 1864. Condition Fine for exhibit despite flaws. Cropped with loss of "Political Caricature No. 2" from top edge and part of printed pricing information from bottom edge publisher's name rubbed out from the copyright statement lacking ½" from lower left corners a few short tape repairs by the edges a 2" closed tear through the second dialogue bubble along the top edge and a 3" closed tear parallel to the right edge. Mount remnants on verso. books

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ben Jacob, Abraham (illus); Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (commentary by)ABAA

Seder Haggadah Shel Pesah ke-Minhag Ashkenaz u-Sefarad Passover Haggadah According to the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Traditions THE AMSTERDAM HAGGADAH

1695ref. 55262Amsterdam: Be-veit ha-meshutafim Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer/ Moses Wiesel 1695. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Small folio 29 by 18.5 cm. Collation: aleph-vav4 zayin2 = 26 numbered leaves. Additional engraved title page engraved folding map at rear; main title with woodcut vignette; 14 half-page engraved illustrations in the text. Contemporary quarter calf over dark brown pastepaper boards skilfully rebacked. Images of Moses and Aaron at engraved title excised the seven small engraved vignettes along with letterpress text of engraved title and imprint mounted on old paper. Old marginal repairs at main title resulting in slight loss of initial letters along right margin and several leaves; slight strictly marginal worming and occasional tears. Stained throughout sometimes heavily though not impairing legibility. Map mounted to reinforce tears with virtually no loss of text or engraved imagery apart from printed border at right side. A fair copy at best; despite all defects the half-page engraved illustrations have survived intact with minimal staining. Housed in new maroon buckram slipcase. First edition of this gorgeously illustrated work now referred to simply as the Amsterdam Haggadah. The first such work to be illustrated with copperplate engravings it ranks among the most imitated of the Jewish manuals for the Passover seder. The popularity of these illustrations can be attested by the huge number of reprint editions over the centuries. Fourteen finely printed half-page engravings appear throughout the text. Some of these images illustrate the traditional content of the Passover seder or the Exodus story while others reference other biblical tales. Images include: the Rabbis of Bene Brak discussing the Passover story the four sons Abraham smashing the idols of his father Abraham welcoming the three angels Moses slaying the Egyptian overseer the rescuing Moses from the river Moses and Aaron coming to Pharaoh w/ staves turning to snakes the ten plagues the Egyptian army drowning in the Red Sea the Exodus the receiving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai the eating of the Pascal Lamb King David composing his psalms and finally an exterior view of the Jewish Temple with the cityscape of Jerusalem in the background. All images are captioned with relevant passages in Hebrew. The engravings were all created by Abraham ben Jacob a German convert to Judaism who had moved to Amsterdam although some sources over the years misattributed them to financier Moses Wiesel 6 of which were adaptations and/or modifications of previous images by Swiss artist Matthäus Merian 1593-1650 from his original work "Icones Biblicae" 1625-30. In addition to the in text engravings there is famously fold-out engraved biblical map of the Holy Land in a notable format. Measuring a total of 19.5 by 11.5" the map shows the land of Israel the Wilderness of Sinai and Egypt in landscape orientation looking eastward towards the top of the map. It traces the journey of the Israelites starting with the Exodus from Egypt through the Sinai and into the Land of Israel. The map is detailed showing the areas of the twelve tribes important locations and cities as well as geographic features including the Red Sea Mount Sinai the Dead Sea the Sea of Galilee and many others. Additional illustrations appear near the bottom along with a legend. This beautiful work also by Abraham ben Jacob is considered among the earliest if not the first map of its kind to be printed within a Hebrew publication. It is now known to have been heavily based on the previously printed 1620 map in Hebrew by Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq and Abraham Goos 1590 - ca. 1643 which itself was based on the map of 1590 by Christian Kruik van Adrichom Adrichem printed in Latin. Text throughout is printed in Hebrew with smaller text in Rashi script underneath containing famous commentary on the Passover Haggadah by acclaimed Portuguese Rabbi and scholar Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel 1437-1508. The verso of the title page contains the order of the Passover seder with brief instructions in both Ladino Judeo-Spanish and Yiddish Judeo-German a nod to the subtitle which references both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Provenance and annotations: Full page of text appx. 1500 words in neat Hebrew cursive at front endleaf which discusses aspects of the Haggadah text; inscription in German at front endleaf by Isidor Adler who mentions his friend Hermann Mechlenburg dated March 1906; old annotations throughout in at least two hands. In one notable instance the Hebrew phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah be-hamburg next year in Hamburg! has been added in fine block characters above the traditional phrase l'shana ha-ba'ah bi-yerushalayim next year in Jerusalem. Hebrew title: סדר הגדה של פסח כמנהג ××©×›× ×– וספרד Alternate transliterations: Seder Hagadah shel Pesah Seder Hagadah sel Pesah References: Friedberg 278 Fuks HTN II 521; Yudlov Haggadah 93; Vinograd Amsterdam 627; Ya'ari no. 59; Laor 876 Map; Nebenzahl pp.138-1389 Map; Yerushalmi plate 59-62; Rosenau "Vision of the Temple" p.135 146-7. Be-veit ha-meshutafim [Asher Anshil ben Eliezer ve-Yisakhar Ber ben Avraham Eliezer]/ Moses Wiesel hardcover books

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