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1863Best.-Nr. 68373Massachusetts 1863. LINCOLN Abraham. Massachusetts: 1863. Letterpress broadside 27 3/4 x 20 in.; 708 x 508 mm on paper incorporating several display and ornamental fonts as well as the seal of Massachusetts docketed on the verso "Post Office Hanover.' Some light offsetting. Nearly invisible professional repairs to the verso along the folds. A very nice example of this rare and important broadside This original broadside produced in Massachusetts is formatted in two halves with the top half being Governor John A. Andrew's announcement of Lincoln's Proclamation endorsing the observation of this day of Thanksgiving in his state dated July 27 1863 and the bottom half being Lincoln's actual proclamation dated July 15th 1863 and announcing that August 6th shall be set aside as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Though the exact printing date is unknown it can be assumed that it was printed within the week following July 27th. Thanksgiving was observed as a Holiday since colonial times and each state would set aside its own day for celebration. This proclamation was the first time that the Holiday would be celebrated on a set day nation wide making it the first observed Thanksgiving as a National Holiday. Though later the same year on October 3rd 1863 Lincoln made a second proclamation again announcing Thanksgiving as a Holiday but this time in November a date closer to the time most states had been celebrating it in the past. This earlier proclamation is actually the first time Thanksgiving was given national status but because the second proclamation was widely accepted the knowledge of this earlier one has been somewhat forgotten making this piece a rare and important document in the annals of American history. Though this broadside is for the State of Massachusetts no other broadsides from any other states that announce this date are known to exist and only three other copies of this rare document are located through OCLC. HBS 68373. $8500. Massachusetts unknown books
1659Best.-Nr. ABC_47611Amsterdam: J. Rieuwertz 1659. Contemporary overlapping vellum. Small 8vo. With a woodcut title-vignette showing a witch on a broomstick leaving a house through the chimney 4.3 x 5.2 cm 13 etched full-page illustrations on 8 plates by Salomon Savry. An exceptionally rare first edition of a book focusing on the subjects of witchcraft sorcery demonology and black magic. The author passionately expresses his dissatisfaction with the brutalities inflicted upon individuals accused of being witches using vivid and disturbing illustrations as evidence. Notably the book features a captivating woodcut title vignette depicting a witch's daring escape through a chimney. In the image her legs hang from the opening inside the house while she simultaneously rises on her broom outside the chimney creating a striking visual effect. Abraham Palingh is a somewhat elusive figure in Early Modern Dutch literature and his book provides a fascinating insight into the attitudes of an educated man toward witchcraft. He claims that his 't Afgerukt Mom-aansight Der Tooverye is based on firsthand accounts. Information regarding the occurrence of harmful sorcery and attitudes towards sorcery in Amsterdam and Haarlem has been documented from the initial witchcraft trials to the point where such crimes were no longer a concern for the judiciary. Between 1542 and 1566 trials for harmful sorcery took place in Amsterdam while Haarlem witnessed similar trials in 1549. Historical accounts of both cities as well as Jacobus Scheltema's History of Witch Trials published in Haarlem in 1828 make mention of sorcery trials in Amsterdam. However these references often provide only superficial details despite the potential for valuable insights found in the actual procedural documents. Conversely little information about witchcraft in Haarlem can be gleaned from existing literature. Abraham Palingh author of 't Afrukt Mom-aansight der Tooverye published in Haarlem in 1659 briefly mentions a few cases of sorcery accusations that he claims to have personally known yet his accounts remain vague.The fine and copperplate illustrations were made by Salomon Savry 1594-1683. He was a recognised engraver of his time highly involved with the Amsterdam book industry of the seventeenth century. Some wear to binding. Ex libris from the library of Leontine Buijnsters-Smets. Light browning and foxing. Otherwise in very good condition.l Bibl. Med. Neerl. I p.150; Muller 539 1725 edition; Scheepers I 552; STCN 841091951 12 copies; Waller 1315 1725 edition; WorldCat 56854247 3 copies. J. Rieuwertz, hardcover
1584Best.-Nr. 15208Antwerp: Plantin Press 1584 1595. 440 by 550mm. 17.25 by 21.75 inches. Hand-coloured engraved map with fine original colour. The earliest printed map to focus on China and the first to illustrate the Great Wall. It was the first western map of China drawn directly from the findings of the Portuguese mapmaker Luis Jorge de Barbuda or Ludovicus Georgius. Barbuda was a Jesuit and he made a manuscript map of China from information on the area gathered by the Jesuit mission. Arias Montanus passed this map on to Ortelius. He issued this first separately published map of China in 1584 which remained the standard map of China for over fifty years. The map is oriented to the west. Japan is shown on a curved projection borrowing from Portuguese sources. Wind wagons are shown in the north a Chinese invention that also became popular in the Low Countries. The text on the reverse of the map is in Latin and gives an insight into the climate national features inhabitants and economy of China at that time. Abraham Ortelius is one of the most famous of the early mapmakers and publishers. His 'Atlas of the Whole World' 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' was first published in 1570 the first uniformly sized systematic collection of maps and hence can be called the first 'Atlas'. These beautiful maps were elegantly engraved by Frans Hogenberg. Plantin Press], unknown
1864Best.-Nr. 6509-1An Abraham Lincoln Military Commission For A Soldier Wounded At Antietam; He Was Commissioned In The Veterans Reserve Corps ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1865. Lincoln was the Sixteenth President. DS. 1pg. August 1 1864. Washington. A vellum military commission signed "Abraham Lincoln" as President and co-signed "E.M. Stanton" as Secretary of War. The President appointed James Wylie Crawford a First Lieutenant in the Veterans Reserve Corps. Crawford 1832-1910 was from Maine; according to family lore he was badly wounded at Antietam I bought this directly from a descendant. This injury required his enlistment in the Veterans Reserve Corps. The Veterans Reserve Corps allowed wounded soldiers to remain active often performing small tasks and light duty; established in the middle of 1863 it was first known as the Invalid Corps until the official name was changed. The document recently underwent conservation with the vellum stretched and flattened; the top right corner of the vellum has shrunk and the document was once rolled. The Lincoln autograph is a tad light and gets lighter as the autograph gets towards the conclusion; the Stanton is also a bit faint but vellum does not hold ink that well especially compared to paper.
Best.-Nr. 6509ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1865. Lincoln was the Sixteenth President.DS. 1pg. August 1 1864. Washington. A vellum military commission signed Abraham Lincoln as President and co-signed E.M. Stanton as Secretary of War. The President appointed James Wylie Crawford a First Lieutenant in the Veterans Reserve Corps. Crawford 1832-1910 was from Maine; according to family lore he was badly wounded at Antietam I bought this directly from a descendant. This injury required his enlistment in the Veterans Reserve Corps. The Veterans Reserve Corps allowed wounded soldiers to remain active often performing small tasks and light duty; established in the middle of 1863 it was first known as the Invalid Corps until the official name was changed. The document recently underwent conservation with the vellum stretched and flattened; the top right corner of the vellum has shrunk and the document was once rolled. The Lincoln autograph is a tad light and gets lighter as the autograph gets towards the conclusion; the Stanton is also a bit faint but vellum does not hold ink that well especially compared to paper. hardcover
1504Best.-Nr. 2913315/04/1865. The Assassination: Abraham Lincoln continues to stand as America’s most beloved President. Of our nation’s historical icons Lincoln is the quintessential embodiment of American possibility in his mythic-like rise from rail-splitter to Chief Executive and Emancipator of the oppressed. The admiration felt by Americans for Lincoln’s humble integrity his performance in office his noble statesmanship and his keen sense of justice is enduring. Lincoln is not given the highest marks just for character but for the transformation of the nation that he left behind which was both profound and long-lasting. Polls of historians generally show their belief that Lincoln faced the hardest job of any president. He had to define the issues inspire the people be steadfast in the face of losses win the Civil War free the slaves and lay the groundwork to reunite the nation. All that in the face of determined opposition. He accomplished all this in four years but was assassinated on April 14 1865 and his death left him unable to finish the job a job that quite likely he was the only one with a chance to get completed in a way that would truly bring the nation together. The end of the Civil War left the nation with two overwhelming questions: what to do with and do for the millions of freed slaves; and how to reintegrate the South into the Union. On the first point Lincoln was focused on African American access to land economic prosperity and legal rights and had just approved Gen. William T. Sherman’s order distributing parcels of former slave plantations to the slaves themselves. Lincoln wanted black Union veterans to have the right to vote which was a step to ultimately embracing full suffrage for African American males. In what proved to be his final speech three evenings before his death Lincoln had become the first president ever to support black voting. Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson was a Southerner uninterested in fair treatment of the liberated slaves. He opposed plans designed to guarantee the civil rights of black Americans and cancelled Sherman’s order granting land to slaves. Johnson accepted the draconian post-Civil War Black Codes which limited the rights and liberties of African-Americans something Lincoln would never have done. On the second point the readmission of the Southern states Johnson felt that once Southern states returned their loyalty to the national government they could manage their own affairs. This meant they could pass any Jim Crow laws they liked. He opposed the Republican plan for Reconstruction of the South including provisions designed to guarantee the civil rights of black Americans. The Republican Congress had no rapport with Johnson and the initial four years era of Reconstruction which was a disaster to the nation was essentially a bitter battle between a North and South that remained locked in contention presided over by a weak President Johnson and a Congress at loggerheads with him. Lincoln had enormous power and influence some of which extended into the South. He saw the end of the war as an opportunity to not simply celebrate victory but an opportunity to move the country forward. Johnson had no such feeling. Lincoln would have been much better placed to direct moderate and ease the contentions of Reconstruction. John Wilkes Booth was a member of a famous acting family and he enjoyed a phenomenally successful stage career during the Civil War: By 1864 he earned $20000 a year at a time when the average Northern family earned around $300 annually. A Marylander by birth Booth was an open Confederate sympathizer during the war. A supporter of slavery Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South. After Lincoln’s reelection in November 1864 Booth devised a plan to kidnap the president and spirit him to Richmond where he could be ransomed for some of the Confederate prisoners languishing in northern jails. That winter Booth and his conspirators plotted a pair of elaborate plans to kidnap the president; the first involved capturing Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theater and lowering the president to the stage with ropes. Booth ultimately gave up acting to focus on these schemes. Neither of the kidnapping plans bore fruit. On the evening of April 11 the President stood on the White House balcony and delivered a speech to a small group gathered on the lawn. Two days earlier Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House and after four long years of struggle it had become clear that the Union cause would shortly emerge from the war victorious. Lincoln’s speech that evening outlined some of his ideas about reconstructing the nation and bringing the defeated Confederate states back into the Union. Lincoln also indicated a wish to extend the franchise to some African-Americans—at the very least those who had fought in the Union ranks during the war - and expressed a desire that the southern states would extend the vote to literate blacks as well. Booth stood in the audience for the speech and this notion seems to have amplified his rage at Lincoln. “That means nigger citizenship” he told Lewis Powell one of his band of conspirators. “Now by God I’ll put him through. That is the last speech he will ever make.” Three days later Booth made good on his promise. Upon learning that Lincoln and his wife intended to see the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater Booth used his actor’s connections there to gain access to the President’s box. He shot Lincoln at about 10 pm on April 14 1865 and Lincoln died about after 7 am on the 15th. Dr. Charles Leale was in the audience. Leale leapt over theater seats got to the president’s box and announced that he was a doctor. As he entered the President was sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and head slumped. He already looked dead Leale recalled. He felt Lincoln’s right arm for a pulse but couldn’t find one. He and some others eased Lincoln to the floor and Leale began searching for the wound. “I quickly passed the separated fingers of both hands through his blood-matted hair…and I discovered his mortal wound” Leale recalled. “The president had been shot in the back part of the head behind the left ear.” Leale stuck the little finger of his left hand into the hole in Lincoln’s skull. “I then knew it was fatal and told the bystanders” he wrote later. Leale knew he had to get Lincoln out of the theater to treat him. But he believed a carriage ride back to the White House would kill him. He and several other men lifted the president and with Leale holding Lincoln’s head they began to maneuver him outside. Across the street from the theater was the house of William Peterson and Lincoln was taken there. Lincoln was carried to a small back room stripped of his clothes and covered with blankets. His 6-foot-4-inch frame had to be placed diagonally to fit on the bed. Leale ordered the window opened and the wait began. A parade of anguished government officials and family members came and went. The President sank steadily his breathing labored and his pulse nearly undetectable. At 7:22 am on April 15 President Lincoln breathed his last. Leale smoothed the contracted muscles of Lincoln’s features placed two coins over his eyes and pulled a sheet up over his face. Famously Secretary of War Stanton saluted the fallen President and uttered “Now he belongs to the ages.” Stanton further eulogized Lincoln with the apt observation “There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen.” Original report on the assassination printed the very day he died The public was hungry for information and the newspapers equally hungry to report the momentous news. One of these was the Binghamton Daily Republican and this is its issue of April 15 1865 with black mourning columns. The front page as was routine at the time was taken up by ads. The news then began on page two. There at top left is the headline “The Assassination of President Lincoln! A Nation in Mourning!!!” It begins “We feel too unfitted by this awful event to allude to the calamity in terms becoming its solemnity and importance! LINCOLN IS DEAD! Struck down by the hands of a brutal assassin in the midst of the triumphs which were commemorating his salvation of the country. A great man indeed has fallen! The foremost man of his time is no more…We dare not contemplate what may follow this sad and inscrutable providence.” This was followed by a proclamation of the governor of New York. On page three were dispatches from 12:30 AM to noon to 3:00. An early dispatch reports that “the President was shot… and is not expected to live” and told of the events of the assassination then available in detail. It mentioned “The screams of Mrs. Lincoln first disclosed the fact to the audience that the President had been shot.” Later it reported of Lincoln “At midnight the Cabinet…a few personal friends with Surg. Gen. Barnes and his immediate assistants were beside his bedside…The parting of his family with the dying president is too sad for description.” At noon the newspaper had more news and reported “Later concerning the President. He died this morning at 7:20. Two villains engaged in the horrible crime. The murder planned before March 4th.” At the bottom of the column is a report on the progress of the army of General William T. Sherman saying that in response to Grant’s hope Sherman would pursue the remaining Confederates Sherman said “I think we’ll do it.” At 3:00 the paper printed the latest from Washington. It contained “Full particulars of the Death of Abraham Lincoln” plus “Inauguration of President Johnson” and Johnson’s statement on taking office. Original newspapers reporting Lincoln’s assassination have become very scarce this being our first in over a decade. This one is comprehensive and with its black borders and large headlines is evocative of the moment and would be perfect for display. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> hardcover
1864Best.-Nr. 6509-1An Abraham Lincoln Military Commission For A Soldier Wounded At Antietam; He Was Commissioned In The Veterans Reserve Corps ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1865. Lincoln was the Sixteenth President. DS. 1pg. August 1 1864. Washington. A vellum military commission signed "Abraham Lincoln" as President and co-signed "E.M. Stanton" as Secretary of War. The President appointed James Wylie Crawford a First Lieutenant in the Veterans Reserve Corps. Crawford 1832-1910 was from Maine; according to family lore he was badly wounded at Antietam I bought this directly from a descendant. This injury required his enlistment in the Veterans Reserve Corps. The Veterans Reserve Corps allowed wounded soldiers to remain active often performing small tasks and light duty; established in the middle of 1863 it was first known as the Invalid Corps until the official name was changed. The document recently underwent conservation with the vellum stretched and flattened; the top right corner of the vellum has shrunk and the document was once rolled. The Lincoln autograph is a tad light and gets lighter as the autograph gets towards the conclusion; the Stanton is also a bit faint but vellum does not hold ink that well especially compared to paper. books
Best.-Nr. 6509ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1809-1865. Lincoln was the Sixteenth President.DS. 1pg. August 1 1864. Washington. A vellum military commission signed Abraham Lincoln as President and co-signed E.M. Stanton as Secretary of War. The President appointed James Wylie Crawford a First Lieutenant in the Veterans Reserve Corps. Crawford 1832-1910 was from Maine; according to family lore he was badly wounded at Antietam I bought this directly from a descendant. This injury required his enlistment in the Veterans Reserve Corps. The Veterans Reserve Corps allowed wounded soldiers to remain active often performing small tasks and light duty; established in the middle of 1863 it was first known as the Invalid Corps until the official name was changed. The document recently underwent conservation with the vellum stretched and flattened; the top right corner of the vellum has shrunk and the document was once rolled. The Lincoln autograph is a tad light and gets lighter as the autograph gets towards the conclusion; the Stanton is also a bit faint but vellum does not hold ink that well especially compared to paper. hardcover books
1504Best.-Nr. 2913315/04/1865. The Assassination: Abraham Lincoln continues to stand as America’s most beloved President. Of our nation’s historical icons Lincoln is the quintessential embodiment of American possibility in his mythic-like rise from rail-splitter to Chief Executive and Emancipator of the oppressed. The admiration felt by Americans for Lincoln’s humble integrity his performance in office his noble statesmanship and his keen sense of justice is enduring. Lincoln is not given the highest marks just for character but for the transformation of the nation that he left behind which was both profound and long-lasting. Polls of historians generally show their belief that Lincoln faced the hardest job of any president. He had to define the issues inspire the people be steadfast in the face of losses win the Civil War free the slaves and lay the groundwork to reunite the nation. All that in the face of determined opposition. He accomplished all this in four years but was assassinated on April 14 1865 and his death left him unable to finish the job a job that quite likely he was the only one with a chance to get completed in a way that would truly bring the nation together. The end of the Civil War left the nation with two overwhelming questions: what to do with and do for the millions of freed slaves; and how to reintegrate the South into the Union. On the first point Lincoln was focused on African American access to land economic prosperity and legal rights and had just approved Gen. William T. Sherman’s order distributing parcels of former slave plantations to the slaves themselves. Lincoln wanted black Union veterans to have the right to vote which was a step to ultimately embracing full suffrage for African American males. In what proved to be his final speech three evenings before his death Lincoln had become the first president ever to support black voting. Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson was a Southerner uninterested in fair treatment of the liberated slaves. He opposed plans designed to guarantee the civil rights of black Americans and cancelled Sherman’s order granting land to slaves. Johnson accepted the draconian post-Civil War Black Codes which limited the rights and liberties of African-Americans something Lincoln would never have done. On the second point the readmission of the Southern states Johnson felt that once Southern states returned their loyalty to the national government they could manage their own affairs. This meant they could pass any Jim Crow laws they liked. He opposed the Republican plan for Reconstruction of the South including provisions designed to guarantee the civil rights of black Americans. The Republican Congress had no rapport with Johnson and the initial four years era of Reconstruction which was a disaster to the nation was essentially a bitter battle between a North and South that remained locked in contention presided over by a weak President Johnson and a Congress at loggerheads with him. Lincoln had enormous power and influence some of which extended into the South. He saw the end of the war as an opportunity to not simply celebrate victory but an opportunity to move the country forward. Johnson had no such feeling. Lincoln would have been much better placed to direct moderate and ease the contentions of Reconstruction. John Wilkes Booth was a member of a famous acting family and he enjoyed a phenomenally successful stage career during the Civil War: By 1864 he earned $20000 a year at a time when the average Northern family earned around $300 annually. A Marylander by birth Booth was an open Confederate sympathizer during the war. A supporter of slavery Booth believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution and to destroy his beloved South. After Lincoln’s reelection in November 1864 Booth devised a plan to kidnap the president and spirit him to Richmond where he could be ransomed for some of the Confederate prisoners languishing in northern jails. That winter Booth and his conspirators plotted a pair of elaborate plans to kidnap the president; the first involved capturing Lincoln in his box at Ford’s Theater and lowering the president to the stage with ropes. Booth ultimately gave up acting to focus on these schemes. Neither of the kidnapping plans bore fruit. On the evening of April 11 the President stood on the White House balcony and delivered a speech to a small group gathered on the lawn. Two days earlier Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House and after four long years of struggle it had become clear that the Union cause would shortly emerge from the war victorious. Lincoln’s speech that evening outlined some of his ideas about reconstructing the nation and bringing the defeated Confederate states back into the Union. Lincoln also indicated a wish to extend the franchise to some African-Americans—at the very least those who had fought in the Union ranks during the war - and expressed a desire that the southern states would extend the vote to literate blacks as well. Booth stood in the audience for the speech and this notion seems to have amplified his rage at Lincoln. “That means nigger citizenship” he told Lewis Powell one of his band of conspirators. “Now by God I’ll put him through. That is the last speech he will ever make.” Three days later Booth made good on his promise. Upon learning that Lincoln and his wife intended to see the play “Our American Cousin” at Ford’s Theater Booth used his actor’s connections there to gain access to the President’s box. He shot Lincoln at about 10 pm on April 14 1865 and Lincoln died about after 7 am on the 15th. Dr. Charles Leale was in the audience. Leale leapt over theater seats got to the president’s box and announced that he was a doctor. As he entered the President was sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and head slumped. He already looked dead Leale recalled. He felt Lincoln’s right arm for a pulse but couldn’t find one. He and some others eased Lincoln to the floor and Leale began searching for the wound. “I quickly passed the separated fingers of both hands through his blood-matted hair…and I discovered his mortal wound” Leale recalled. “The president had been shot in the back part of the head behind the left ear.” Leale stuck the little finger of his left hand into the hole in Lincoln’s skull. “I then knew it was fatal and told the bystanders” he wrote later. Leale knew he had to get Lincoln out of the theater to treat him. But he believed a carriage ride back to the White House would kill him. He and several other men lifted the president and with Leale holding Lincoln’s head they began to maneuver him outside. Across the street from the theater was the house of William Peterson and Lincoln was taken there. Lincoln was carried to a small back room stripped of his clothes and covered with blankets. His 6-foot-4-inch frame had to be placed diagonally to fit on the bed. Leale ordered the window opened and the wait began. A parade of anguished government officials and family members came and went. The President sank steadily his breathing labored and his pulse nearly undetectable. At 7:22 am on April 15 President Lincoln breathed his last. Leale smoothed the contracted muscles of Lincoln’s features placed two coins over his eyes and pulled a sheet up over his face. Famously Secretary of War Stanton saluted the fallen President and uttered “Now he belongs to the ages.” Stanton further eulogized Lincoln with the apt observation “There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen.” Original report on the assassination printed the very day he died The public was hungry for information and the newspapers equally hungry to report the momentous news. One of these was the Binghamton Daily Republican and this is its issue of April 15 1865 with black mourning columns. The front page as was routine at the time was taken up by ads. The news then began on page two. There at top left is the headline “The Assassination of President Lincoln! A Nation in Mourning!!!” It begins “We feel too unfitted by this awful event to allude to the calamity in terms becoming its solemnity and importance! LINCOLN IS DEAD! Struck down by the hands of a brutal assassin in the midst of the triumphs which were commemorating his salvation of the country. A great man indeed has fallen! The foremost man of his time is no more…We dare not contemplate what may follow this sad and inscrutable providence.” This was followed by a proclamation of the governor of New York. On page three were dispatches from 12:30 AM to noon to 3:00. An early dispatch reports that “the President was shot… and is not expected to live” and told of the events of the assassination then available in detail. It mentioned “The screams of Mrs. Lincoln first disclosed the fact to the audience that the President had been shot.” Later it reported of Lincoln “At midnight the Cabinet…a few personal friends with Surg. Gen. Barnes and his immediate assistants were beside his bedside…The parting of his family with the dying president is too sad for description.” At noon the newspaper had more news and reported “Later concerning the President. He died this morning at 7:20. Two villains engaged in the horrible crime. The murder planned before March 4th.” At the bottom of the column is a report on the progress of the army of General William T. Sherman saying that in response to Grant’s hope Sherman would pursue the remaining Confederates Sherman said “I think we’ll do it.” At 3:00 the paper printed the latest from Washington. It contained “Full particulars of the Death of Abraham Lincoln” plus “Inauguration of President Johnson” and Johnson’s statement on taking office. Original newspapers reporting Lincoln’s assassination have become very scarce this being our first in over a decade. This one is comprehensive and with its black borders and large headlines is evocative of the moment and would be perfect for display. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> hardcover books
1619Best.-Nr. 1516Hantvverpen Antwerp: Hieronymus Verdussen 1619. First Edition in book form. Near Fine. Bloemart Abraham. 4to 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches 251 x 171 mm. ix pp 51 sheets on cream laid paper text in Dutch gothic letters. 50 numbered full page copperplate engravings of Christian hermit saints 25 male 25 female printed recto with text pages on verso. Full-page frontispiece for the work and with an additional full-page frontispiece for each of the two sections. Full contemporary vellum untitled with some handling discoloration but the vellum remains supple and the binding is tight. Pages clean and bright with a couple of foxing spots and a small brown stain on the 2nd frontis titled "Sacra Eremus ascetarum"; toned page edges. Previous owner's name and date in ink on front flyleaf and small pencil and ink notations inside back cover; bookplate of Buijnsters Smets pasted inside front cover. De Backer/ Sommervogel VII 194-5; Hollstein 355-403; Roethlisberger 163 ill. 262-317 Full title: 't Bosch der Eremyten ende eremilinnen van Aegypten ende Palestinen met figuren van Abraham Blommaert door Ghristophorus a Sichem. Met kort verhael van een yders leven getrocken uyt het Vadersboeck door H. Jan van Gorcum Priesler ende H. R. Societatus sic Jesu. The Forest of the Hermits of Egypt and Palestine with illustrations by Abraham Blommaert engraved by Ghristophorus a Sichem. With brief stories of their lives taken from the book of the Fathers by H. Jan van Gorcum priest of the Society of Jesus. A fine series of engravings of the early Christian male and female hermits living in the Egyptian and Palestinian desert engraved in copper by Boetius A Balswert on drawings by Abraham Bloemart 1566 - 1651 the Dutch painter and engraver know mostly for his historical subjects and for being a central figure and teacher among the Utrecht Caravaggisti. Provenance: the library of the book- and art-historians Piet Buijnsters and Leontine Smets. Hieronymus Verdussen unknown
1964Best.-Nr. 140948656Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press 1964. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Abraham H. Maslow on the front free end paper and inscribed to sociologist Alfred McClung Lee and his wife Elizabeth Briant Lee "For Al & Betty Lee With warm regards from Abe." xx 123 pp. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth stamped in blind on the front board with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with trivial sunning and wear to spine ends light foxing to text-block edges and underlining and marginalia in ink on pp. 42-43. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine rubbing and light chipping to ends with rubbing and finger soiling to covers. An early work that examines the human need for spiritual expression and articulation by the famed psychologist most famous for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In a series of essays Maslow describes transcendental experiences focusing more on human condition rather than scientific rigidity. Inscribed to American sociologists Alfred McClung Lee and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Lee who co-wrote The Fine Art of Propaganda 1939 which remained in print for the better part of the 20th century. Alfred was named the executive director of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis during WWII and would pen numerous academic texts including his best known works The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument 1937 and Principals of Sociology 1946 that endured for two decades as a staple text book for college students; quite uncommon signed. Ohio State University Press unknown
1964Best.-Nr. 140948656Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press 1964. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Abraham H. Maslow on the front free end paper and inscribed to sociologist Alfred McClung Lee and his wife Elizabeth Briant Lee "For Al & Betty Lee With warm regards from Abe." xx 123 pp. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth stamped in blind on the front board with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with trivial sunning and wear to spine ends light foxing to text-block edges and underlining and marginalia in ink on pp. 42-43. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine rubbing and light chipping to ends with rubbing and finger soiling to covers. An early work that examines the human need for spiritual expression and articulation by the famed psychologist most famous for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. In a series of essays Maslow describes transcendental experiences focusing more on human condition rather than scientific rigidity. Inscribed to American sociologists Alfred McClung Lee and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Lee who co-wrote The Fine Art of Propaganda 1939 which remained in print for the better part of the 20th century. Alfred was named the executive director of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis during WWII and would pen numerous academic texts including his best known works The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument 1937 and Principals of Sociology 1946 that endured for two decades as a staple text book for college students; quite uncommon signed. Ohio State University Press unknown books
1720Best.-Nr. 19012Amsterdam 1720. 4to. Joannes Oosterwyk Contemporary half sheepskin marbled paper sides. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by J. Folkema after F. Ottens 6 folding engraved maps and 7 engraved plates including 1 folding showing ships at sea by A. Salm after Van der Hem. Further with the title page printed in red and black a small woodcut vignette on the title page some woodcut decorated initials and some large woodcut floral tailpieces. 38 330 14 pp. First edition of the most important early account of whaling in the northern seas. The author a ship's commander in the Dutch Greenland fleet describes the history of the Dutch whaling in the northern seas. Dutch whaling dominating in Europe for most of the 17th and 18th century was not confined to the Greenland waters only but ranged widely across the northern fisheries from the Davis Straits to the Siberian Sea. The work also includes short histories of the northern explorations in Greenland Iceland Spitsbergen Nova Zembla Jan Mayen Island and Strait Davis all accompanied by the newest maps and preceded by a map of the North Pole. The plates show the different whales and ships of the whalers. To Zorgdrager's work detailed lists are added of captains ships equipment and provisions for the ships caught whales the cost of equipment and crew etc. Also the practical and technical aspects of whaling are fully described. The book was used as one of the sources for Melville's Moby Dick.With a printed ex libris bookplate of N. Du Jardin-Van der Avoort mounted on the front pastedown. The spine and boards are somewhat scuffed the corners of the boards are slightly bumped a tear in one leaf some occasional foxing and water staining the edges are slightly frayed. Otherwise a good copy of a rare and interesting work.l Cat. NHSM p. 899; Chavanne 2110; Leclerc 678; Sabin 106374; STCN 201968800 14 copies incl. 1 incomplete; Tiele Bibl. 1241 note; V. Gestel - Van het Schip Maps in books on Russia and Poland 299. ABE CAT Alaska Canada & Greenland hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 18085GREAT ASSOCIATION COPY THE MOON POOL Liveright Inc. 1919 some fading to the spine else a vg copy. Inscribed by the author to fellow writer "Doc" Smith thusly "For Doc Smith You Skylarks have so often taken me on the most interesting flights thought that maybe you'd like to go to the subterranean again and in the Moonpool with Jon Hetzdorf turned Russian. May your power never lesson and the hand of God and never his fist be over you. Your Sincere Admirer A. Merritt". Adorned with original drawings by the author. Liveright Inc. unknown
1919Best.-Nr. 18085GREAT ASSOCIATION COPY THE MOON POOL Liveright Inc. 1919 some fading to the spine else a vg copy. Inscribed by the author to fellow writer "Doc" Smith thusly "For Doc Smith You Skylarks have so often taken me on the most interesting flights thought that maybe you'd like to go to the subterranean again and in the Moonpool with Jon Hetzdorf turned Russian. May your power never lesson and the hand of God and never his fist be over you. Your Sincere Admirer A. Merritt". Adorned with original drawings by the author. Liveright Inc. unknown books
1834Best.-Nr. 5037Half brown morocco; ruled raised bands marbled boards. Mouradgea d'Ohsson was a Swedish historian and diplomat of Armenian descent. This important work is a large expansion of his 1824 publication which was the first serious study of Genghis Khan. Kenneth Meyer Setton A History of the Crusades notes "among the general histories of the Mongols d'Ohsson remains unequaled. Avowedly or tacitly most later works rely on it." Two folding genealogical charts; large 1824 folding map of Asia in the thirteenth century to rear of volume four. Previous owner's bookplates removed from front pastedowns. A nice wide-margined set many pages yet uncut in a sound period binding.; lxviii452; 651; 6241; 774.; 8vo 22 x 15 cm; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Freres van Cleff hardcover
1834Best.-Nr. 5037Half brown morocco; ruled raised bands marbled boards. Mouradgea d'Ohsson was a Swedish historian and diplomat of Armenian descent. This important work is a large expansion of his 1824 publication which was the first serious study of Genghis Khan. Kenneth Meyer Setton A History of the Crusades notes "among the general histories of the Mongols d'Ohsson remains unequaled. Avowedly or tacitly most later works rely on it." Two folding genealogical charts; large 1824 folding map of Asia in the thirteenth century to rear of volume four. Previous owner's bookplates removed from front pastedowns. A nice wide-margined set many pages yet uncut in a sound period binding.; lxviii452; 651; 6241; 774.; 8vo 22 x 15 cm; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Freres van Cleff hardcover books
2024Best.-Nr. Adhya-9780323903868ELSEVIER 2024. HB. New. ELSEVIER hardcover
2024Best.-Nr. Adhya-9780323903868ELSEVIER 2024. HB. New. ELSEVIER hardcover
1768Best.-Nr. 150964London: Printed by T. Jones & W. Oliver 1768 & 1777. The complete set of an influential philosophical work First edition a complete set of Tucker's magnum opus which outlined a vast and idiosyncratic philosophical system and which had a noted influence on his philosophical contemporaries. The set pairs the five volumes he published in 1768 with the four-volume continuation posthumously published in 1777 uniformly bound in contemporary calf and very scarce thus. "Although an occasionally eccentric and digressive text The Light of Nature Pursued enjoyed a high reputation from its first appearance. In the introduction to his Moral and Political Philosophy 1785 William Paley emphasized his deep indebtedness to Tucker in expounding his ethical theory. Paley considered Tucker to be a very original thinker. His work was also highly praised by Sir James MacIntosh who had used his ideas in his lectures on ethics. Mildmay had looked to MacIntosh to provide an introduction to his edition of the work but MacIntosh had been too busy to oblige. Hazlitt produced an abridged edition in 1807. Tucker's speculations also had some influence on Malthus whose family were resident in Surrey. Tucker's style is direct conversational and full of deliberately familiar metaphors and analogies. He was very much an amateur metaphysician and The Light of Nature Pursued is noticeably unsystematic and occasionally rambling in tone. His theory of consciousness and knowledge owes a great deal to John Locke though his speculations about the nervous system and the brain are closer to those of David Hartley whom he nevertheless disliked and whose theories he criticized" ODNB. The first five volumes were published under Tucker's pseudonym of "Edward Search" but his daughter Judith discarded this pseudonym when arranging the posthumous publication of the latter four volumes. Together 9 vols octavo 212 x 130 mm. Contemporary calf red morocco labels red speckled edges. Book label of bookseller and bibliographer John Stephens 1948-2006. Some slight wear around extremities occasional light foxing or worming but contents otherwise fresh; a nice set. ESTC T109651 & T153498. unknown
1819Best.-Nr. 805K1London: A. J. Valpy 1819-1830. Hardback. Good. 10" by 7". None. A scarce 136 volume set of the Regent's Edition 'Delphin Classics' based off of a published series used to educate le Grand Dauphin Louis with works by notable thinkers such as Virgil Horace and Cicero. An extensive run of the scarce 'Delphin Classics' very scarce to see a large run of the work like this.This set contains volumes I-CVIII CXIII-CXLI published between 1819 and 1830 a total of 136 volumes.The Regent's Edition of this work.In Latin.'The Delphin Classics' was an extensive series of the Latin classics which reached to 182 volumes this set containing 136 of the volumes.The series printed the prominent works of writers such as Virgil Sallust Pliny the Elder Ovid Horace Cicero and Caesar often printing their complete works in the original Latin.Edited by George Dyer the series was based off a monumental publication of the Latin classics that had been published for the education of le Grand Dauphin Louis the heir to Louis XIV to assist in his education. In fact the title 'Delphin' translates to 'Dauphin'. Le Grand Dauphin was the eldest son of Louis XIV but predeceased him and thus never became the king his grandson succeeding to the throne as Louis XV after the death of Louis XIV.Working off those original Dauphin editions Dyer and the publisher Abraham John Valpy supplemented the texts with the best variorum editions and literary notes from important late eighteenth century editions. These include the Variorum Classics and the Zweibrucken editions.This Georgian edition reached around six hundred subscribers and saw great success. Publisher's adverts to the front of volumes XII XXV XXVII XL and CXXVIII.Subscriber's lists bound in to volumes I and XXXII.With remarks on 'The Review Relative to Stephens' Greek Thesaurus in the Quarterly review No. 48 bound in with vol. XXXI. The Classical Journal No. XLIII bound into the front of no. XX. With 'Delphin Classics with the Variorum Notes' sheet bound in with no. X XXI and LXIV. In the original publisher's paper covered boards. Externally generally sound with shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities minor chipping to the extremities of the boards and rubbing to the occasional volume a touch of edge wear; general light soiling to the boards and age toning to the spine. Tears and losses to back strips of XLIV LXXXI XLVII LXXIII and XCIII with back strips of volumes CXLI and LIVII absent. Faint handling mark to the front board of nos. I IV XI XXXIV XXIX XXXII LVI LVII LXIII and LXIV. Minor staining mark to the front board of no. XXXIV. Small library stamps to the front board of the majority of volumes. A little loss to the paper of the front board of volume XLVII LIV and LXXV. Joints to nos. VII XI XXII XXX XXXIII XCIV LXXI and CXXXI starting. Front joint of Volume XI is starting with boards held by cords only. Front joint of volumes CXXXV CXXXIII CXXXVI XLIX starting with boards holding firm. Rear joint is strained to CXIX. Rear joint is starting to Volumes III VI XVIII XXIV XL CXIII and CXV. Rear joint to no. LXXXV strained held by cords only. Rear joint of no. XIX has failed with board held by the front joint. Front joint no. IX XL XXX XXXIX LXXXIV LXXV and CXIX are starting. Front joint of no. LXXXVI cracked binding held by endpapers. Front joints to CXVII CXIII CXX and CXVI have failed front boards are detached but present. CI with cracked joints front and rear board loose but present light soiling to the rear of the text block. Back strip and front board of volume XLVII detached but present both boards and back strip of volumes XCIX LXXXII and LII detached but present. Boards of volumes LIVII and CXXXIX detached. Boards of volumes CXLI and CXXXII loosely held. Minor chipping to the spine of no. II V XIX XI XVII XXXVII XXIX XXXVI LXV LXXXIV LXXXV CI CVI and CVII. Loss to the head and tail of the spine of no. XIX XXI and XXIX. Loss to head of the spine on no. I II IV XIX CXVII CXVIII and CXX and paper to spine is lifting exposing interior of the spine. Tearing to the spines on no. XXV and XL. A few ink marks to the spine of IV and VII. Spine is lifting to XI CXIII CXXI and CXIX. General bumping particularly noticeable to the extremities of XVI XCV CXXX. Volume CXXIV has the odd mark to the front board. Volume CXXIII has some slight loss to the paper of the front board front joint is starting a little to the tail. Volumes LXIX LXVII have slight loss to the paper of the front board. Tidemarks and loss to the front board of volume XCV. Loss to the head of the spine of volumes XIII CXXX XXVII LXXXVI and LXVIII. Small perforation to the tail of the spine of LXXIV. Loss to the tail of the spine of XIV. Loss to the paper of the rear board to volumes LXXXVII and CXXVI. Minor loss to the tail of the spine of no. XXXII minor chipping to the joints holding firm. Backstrip no. LIX laid down. Backstrip is lifting to the tail of volume XCII CXXIV. Backstrip is loose to volumes XXVIII XC. Head of the backstrip of volume XVII is detached but present with the remainder of the backstrip held at the rear board. Backstrips of volumes LXX LXXI LXXXIX are loose. Backstrip lifting to the head of volume LXVII. Front and rear hinges starting to volumes XCIV CXXXVII with boards holding firm. Rear hinge to no. XXV is strained. Rear hinge to II III V VI XXIV starting. Hinges to no. XXX and CXXI have failed and boards are hanging by cords only. Front hinges to no. VIII and XXXIII are starting. Front hinges to no. VII and X are tender. Front hinge of No III XI are weak. Rear hinge to no. III LI and CXV is attached by cords only and may detach with further handling. Hinges to no. XXXIX and CXIV have failed; boards and spine are detached but present. Front hinge to CXVIII has failed front board is detached but present. Rear hinge is held by cords only. Front and rear hinge of volume XCI strained with boards tenderly held. Front hinge strained to volume LXXXVIII and held by two cords only. Front hinge has failed to volumes XC XCIII LXXXIX CXXVII; front boards are loose but present. Textblock is held to the rear board of XC by a cord only. Front board is held by cords only to volume XV XXVIII. Rear hinge starting to LXXXVIII . Rear hinge has failed to XIV XVI XVII with rear boards held by a cord only. Front and rear hinges failed to volumes LXXXIX XCII with rear board held by two cords only paper in the case of XCII. Rear joint starting to CXXVI and LXXXVI. Rear joint starting at the tail of LXVI. Front joint starting to volume LXX and LXVII. Front joint starting at the tail of volume CXII and LXXIII. Front endpaper detached to XCIII. Front free-endpaper of no. CXIV is torn. Tidemark to the head of the front pastedown in no. XL and to rear pastedown of no. XI. Small bookseller sticker to the front pastedown of volumes XVI XVII XIX XX XXII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXX XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXVI XXXVIII XXXIX LXIII CVIII CXXVIIII and CXXIX. Internally generally firmly bound though some volumes are tender. Binding tender to p. 497 no. LVI holding firm; p. 769 no. LXXXV held by three cords only; p. 3049 of no. CII holding firm; and to p. 5640 no. CVI held by two cords only; p. 5001 no. CV; binding of volume CXLI tender. Binding is tender to LXXXVI noticeably at pages 928 and 929 XCV CXII and LXXII. Binding is tender to Volumes XV XXVIII XIV XVI XVII. Some light spotting or handling marks to the odd leaf particularly to the first and last few otherwise the pages are generally bright and clean throughout. Some leaves unopened. Large mark to top corner of page 1729 of no. XIX. Half title and title page bound in to the rear of no. XXXVII. Half title and title page to vol. I II III IV and V 'Quinti Curtii Rufi' bound in to no. LXXIX. Half title and title page for vols. II - IV of 'P. Papinii Santi' as well as for vol. III 'L. Annaei Flori' and vol. II 'Boethi' vol. III 'Justini' bound in to no. LXIV. Title page to vol. I 'Pub. Terentii Afri' and half titles and title pages for vol. II-IV of 'Pub. Terentii Afri' bound in to no. LXI. Half title and title page for vol. I-III 'D. Magni Ausonii' to no. LVII. With remarks on 'The Review Relative to Stephens' Greek Thesaurus in the Quarterly review No. 48 bound in with vol. XXXI. Subscribers leaflet bound in with no. XXXII. Insert of fifteen pages of the front of No. I with list of 'Subscribers' Names Already Received to the New and Corrected Edition of the Delphin Classics; with the Variorum Notes'. The Classical Journal No. XLIII bound into the front of no. XX. With 'Delphin Classics with the Variorum Notes' sheet bound in with no. X XXI and LXIV. Publisher's advert bound into the front of no. XXV and XL. Publisher's adverts to the front of volumes XII XXVII and CXXVIIII. Good A. J. Valpy hardcover
Best.-Nr. 51-6927Paris: Chez P. Aubouin P. Emery et C. Clousier Paris 1688. Folio. 26.5 x 38cm. Contemporary calf covers with new goatskin spine and endpapers by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. Part I: 44 leaves title page ttrmmed at bottom; Part II: 11 leaves; Part III: 23 leaves.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:861558893 microfiche; Fowler Architectural collection pp. 46-53; Brunet I 1127; BAL/RIBA 341 337 340; Berlin Kat. 2378 2379 and 3858; Cicognara 444-446; .3 parties en un vol. in-folio veau du temps dos à nerfs orné. Frontispice titre gravé XLIV ff. de planches et de texte ; titre-frontispice de la 2e partie ff. A à G compris puis ff. S T V soit 10 ff. de texte et planches ; titre de la 3e partie avec encadrement 2 ff. de texte 20 ff. de planches. petites mouillures taches et rousseurs à certains ff. Première et troisième partie complètes. Deuxième partie incomplète : manque la planche sur double page et 10 ff. gravés. Rare nouvelle édition des trois principaux ouvrages théoriques d'architecture d'Abraham Bosse entièrement dessinés et gravés en taille-douce par lui-même. .3 parts in one vol. in-folio contemporary calf decorated ribbed spine. Frontispiece engraved title XLIV ff. of plates and text; title-frontispiece of the 2nd part ff. A to G inclusive then ff. S T V i.e. 10 ff. of text and plates; title of the 3rd part with frame 2 ff. of text 20 ff. of plates. Small water stains stains and foxing on some ff. First and third parts complete. Second part incomplete: missing the double-page plate and 10 engraved ff. Rare new edition of the three main theoretical works on architecture by Abraham Bosse entirely drawn and engraved in intaglio by himself. Paris: Chez P. Aubouin, P. Emery et C. Clousier, Paris, 1688 unknown
1866Best.-Nr. 1296961866. Signed. SARTAIN William engraver. Mezzotint: Lincoln and His Family. Philadelphia: Bradley & Co. 1866. Oversized folio. Image measures 25 by 18 inches sheet measures 33 by 25 inches matted and framed entire piece measures 34 by 28 inches. $7500.Artist's proof copy of a remarkable mezzotint depicting President Lincoln with his wife and children ""perhaps the best print of all the 'Lincoln and his family' groups"" signed in pencil in the lower left corner by acclaimed engraver painter and art instructor William Sartain.""Perhaps the best print of all the 'Lincoln and his family' groups and there must be at least a dozen different studies is the engraving by William Sartain from the painting by S.B. Waugh"" Lincoln Lore: Bulletin of the Lincoln National Life Foundation. A publisher's advertising circular for the print proclaimed that ""Soon after the death of Abraham Lincoln Waugh our celebrated American Artist executed a National Painting of Lincoln and his Family. The Artist painted Mrs. Lincoln Robert and Thaddeus better known as 'Tad' from life. The work is considered by all who have seen it a great triumph of art. It represents the family in a private parlor in the White House a short time before the assassinationÉ For a number of months Mr. Wm. Sartain with an able corps of assistants was actively engaged in copying and engraving from this superb Painting. His engraving is now completed andÉ in accuracy of portraiture and artistic excellence of execution is acknowledged to be unsurpassed by any Engraving ever executed in America."" Printed by Irwin & Sartain without title. Mounted on wove paper. Print in beautiful fresh condition; paper backing with minor dust-soiling to edges and a few short edge tears. A very attractive signed example of this striking image. Beautifully framed. unknown
1866Best.-Nr. 1296961866. Signed. SARTAIN William engraver. Mezzotint: Lincoln and His Family. Philadelphia: Bradley & Co. 1866. Oversized folio. Image measures 25 by 18 inches sheet measures 33 by 25 inches matted and framed entire piece measures 34 by 28 inches. $7500.Artist's proof copy of a remarkable mezzotint depicting President Lincoln with his wife and children ""perhaps the best print of all the 'Lincoln and his family' groups"" signed in pencil in the lower left corner by acclaimed engraver painter and art instructor William Sartain.""Perhaps the best print of all the 'Lincoln and his family' groups and there must be at least a dozen different studies is the engraving by William Sartain from the painting by S.B. Waugh"" Lincoln Lore: Bulletin of the Lincoln National Life Foundation. A publisher's advertising circular for the print proclaimed that ""Soon after the death of Abraham Lincoln Waugh our celebrated American Artist executed a National Painting of Lincoln and his Family. The Artist painted Mrs. Lincoln Robert and Thaddeus better known as 'Tad' from life. The work is considered by all who have seen it a great triumph of art. It represents the family in a private parlor in the White House a short time before the assassinationÉ For a number of months Mr. Wm. Sartain with an able corps of assistants was actively engaged in copying and engraving from this superb Painting. His engraving is now completed andÉ in accuracy of portraiture and artistic excellence of execution is acknowledged to be unsurpassed by any Engraving ever executed in America."" Printed by Irwin & Sartain without title. Mounted on wove paper. Print in beautiful fresh condition; paper backing with minor dust-soiling to edges and a few short edge tears. A very attractive signed example of this striking image. Beautifully framed. unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 69520Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. CIVIL WAR. War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. Full Description: LINCOLN Abraham. CIVIL WAR. Emancipation Proclamation War Department General Orders 1863. Washington D.C.: War Department 1863. The first War Department printing General Orders #1 Jan 2 1863 and fifth overall printing of the final Emancipation Proclamation. The 4 page pamphlet bound together with a nearly complete run of War Department general orders for the year 1863. Two octavo volumes 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 174 x 119 mm. Volume I comprising General Orders of the War Department Adjutant General's Office Numbers 1-221 2 January 1863 to 16 July 1863 and Volume II comprising Numbers 222-400 16 July 1863 to 28 December 1863. Nearly complete only lacking numbers 55 63 116-119 148 in volume I and 274 352 and 381 in volume II. With 5 copies of number 149 and and 3 copies of number 240. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine lettered in gilt. All edges speckled brown. Hinges repaired. Some rubbing to board edges. Previous owner's contemporary ink signature Bvt. Col. E.J. Wells on front paste down of each volume. Numerous annotations in the same old ink throughout generally noting when the order was received and dated 1863. Some glue marks to the General Order #1 not affecting text. A small tear to last leaf of text in volume I with no loss. Overall a very good copy. In addition to the very important first War department printing of the Emancipation Proclamation these volumes contain several other very important and interesting General Orders from the War Department as well as President Abraham Lincoln in relation to the military during this year in the Civil War. Notably: No. 100 April 24 "Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field." "commonly known as the 'Lieber Code' after its main author Francis Franz Lieber. The Lieber Code set out rules of conduct during hostilities for Union soldiers throughout the U.S. Civil War. Even today it remains the basis of most regulations of the laws of war for the United States. The Lieber Code consists of 157 provisions that deal with a wide range of legal issues that must be considered in armed conflict. It contains general principles but also very detailed rules. Among the issues addressed are whether armed force is justified by military necessity the principle of humanity the distinction between combatants and civilians POW status retaliation and permissible methods and means of warfare." LOC" No. 143 May 22 the establishment of the United States Colored Troops. This authorized the establishment of a bureau regulating the recruitment training and organization of the U.S. Army's first regiments composed entirely of African-American soldiers. Numerous court cases are documented including #17- The sentenced hanging death of a "colored man" for "attempted rape". #346- The trial of George Woolfolk for "Being secretly within lines of the US forces as the same time belonging to the so-called Confederate Army." He was sentenced to be shot to death. And #396- The trial brought by Colonel John Gault against Dr. Aaron James for "Being the captain of a band of guerillas or marauders and shooting at US soldiers." He was sentenced to death but the President disapproved the sentence and directed him to be released. A number of orders of Military discharges both honorable and dishonorable as well as military promotions. #337 announces "Major General U.S. Grant U.S. Army is placed in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi Headquarters in the field." #349 announces "Major General William T. Sherman is appointed to the command of the Department and Army of the Tennessee Headquarters in the field." #194 is the appointment of Major General George Meade as commander of the Army of the Potomac who would defeat General Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg only days later. And #398 honors Ulysses S. Grant for his Mississippi River campaign and presents him a gold medal. Numerous obituaries including #71 which announces the death of Major General E.V. Sumner who fell ill and died on his way to take command of the Department of the Missouri and directs the ways that Department should give him military honors. Important presidential proclamations including #58- Calling to all soldiers who were "absent without leave" urging them to return to their regiments and would not face punishment beside loss of wages for time missed. #252- Orders regarding the treatment of prisoners of war stating that 'if the enemy shall sell or enslave anyone because of his color the offence shall be punished by retaliation upon the enemy's prisoners in our possession'. "President Abraham Lincoln issued an 'eye-for-eye' order warning the Confederacy that Union soldiers would shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot. It also would condemn a rebel prisoner to a life of hard labor for every Black prisoner sold into slavery. AA Registry. #315- Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus." "The doctrine of habeas corpus is the right of any person under arrest to appear in person before the court to ensure that they have not been falsely accused. Lincoln's suspension of the "writ of habeas corpus" was one of the most controversial acts of his administrations. Lincoln defended himself against charges that his administration had subverted the Constitution however arguing that acts that might be illegal in peacetime might be necessary "in cases of rebellion" when the nation's survival was at stake." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. #340- Proclamation by the President calling for three hundred thousand volunteers. "Whereas the term of service of a part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year; and Whereas in addition to the men raised by the present draft it is deemed expedient to call out 300000 volunteers to serve for three years or the war not however. exceeding three years." And numerous other General Orders pertaining to soldiers and the war effort including #35- A list of items that could be sold to soliders by sutlers. #40- The establishment of a Volunteer force for Kentucky. #163- "A resolution to encourage the enlistments in the Regular Army and Volunteer forces." #323- which authorized each enlisted cook "two under-cooks of African descent who shall receive for their full compensation ten dollars per month and one ration per day." #351- This discusses the governance of "The Employment of women nurses in the U.S. General Hospitals." and #364 which discusses the cos of clothing and camp for the U.S. Army and includes a folding chart. Eberstadt 12. Grolier 100 American 71. Streeter 1751. HBS 69520. $7500. War Department unknown
