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The Nation Mourns
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 6, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Engravings include: Lincoln and son Tad at home. Scene at the death bed of President Lincoln. Funeral service at the White House. Ford’s Theatre. Attempted assassination of Secretary Seward. Citizens viewing the body at City Hall, New York.
Item #H-5-6-1865, $750
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Lincoln’s Assassination
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, April 29, 1865. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-4-29-1865, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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President Lincoln Commissions General Grant
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, March 26, 1864. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Death of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren. Ulysses S. Grant receiving his commission as lieutenant general from President Lincoln. Centerfold: General Custer’s late movement across the Rapidan. Mobile, Alabama.
Item #H-3-26-1864, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 2, 1863. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Collecting confiscated rebel cotton. Ironclad Keokuk sinking after the battle at Charleston. Pres. Lincoln, General Hooker, and their staff at a review of the Army of the Potomac. Bombardment of Fort Sumter.
Item #H-5-2-1863, $100
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The Inauguration of President Lincoln (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, March 16, 1861. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
“touched...by the better angels of our nature...”
Item #H-3-16-1861, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Lincoln Raises the Flag
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, March 9, 1861. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
President Lincoln hoisting the 34-star American flag on Independence Hall, Philadelphia, with his speech. United States arsenal at Little Rock, Arkansas surrendered to the state troops. Interior of the new dome of the capitol at Washington. Front view of Fort Pickens, Pensacola. Inauguration of Pres. Jefferson Davis at Montgomery, Alabama.
Item #H-3-9-1861, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Broadsheet of Lincoln’s 1862 State of the Union Message
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Broadsheet, “Sentinel Extra” [place unknown[1]], ca. December 2, 1862, 9⅛ x 24 in. 2 pp.
“We cannot escape history… In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth...”
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, the president proposes colonization and his plan for compensated emancipation, discusses foreign affairs, reports on progress of the Pacific Railroad, the war and finance. This rare “Sentinel Extra” broadsheet (apparently unrecorded in OCLC) has other news of the day on the verso, including a fantastic article quoting General Meagher’s reaction to the resignation of several officers after McClellan was removed.
Item #22179, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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The Lincoln Nomination Chair (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Chair, bentwood hickory; painted black. [Springfield, Illinois?, ca. 1860].
Item #22294, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Currier and Ives Mourn Lincoln After His Assassination
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Print. Abraham Lincoln. The Nations Martyr. Assassinated April 14th. 1865. Currier & Ives, New York, N.Y., 1865. 1 p., 13½ x 18 in. Light toning.
Item #22935, $1,800
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Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address, Appealing to the “Better Angels of Our Nature” (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. New York Semi-Weekly Tribune, New York, N.Y., March 5, 1861. Lincoln’s inaugural address, given the day before, is printed on the front page. With other substantial content about the inaugural ceremonies and the swearing in, including Roger Taney’s disposition right after he swore in Abraham Lincoln: “The Chief Justice seemed very much agitated...” . 8 pp., 16 x 21½ in.
“One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.... I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
Item #22864, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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A Confederate Newspaper Prints Lincoln’s Response
to Horace Greeley’s
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Richmond Whig, Richmond, Va., August 30, 1862. 2 pp., 17 x 24 in.
On the front page under “News from the North” is the text of Abraham Lincoln’s reply to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley. Greeley’s letter urging Lincoln to emancipate all slaves in Union-held territory was known as “The Prayer of Twenty Millions.” It was first published on August 20, 1862. Lincoln responded on August 22, declaring that his paramount goal is to save the Union, regardless of its effect on slavery, as well as his personal views that all men should be free.
Item #30007.01, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes,
the Emancipation Proclamation
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION,
Newspaper. New York Journal of Commerce. New York, N.Y., January 3, 1863. 4 pp., 24 x 32½ in.
An early report of the Emancipation Proclamation, where the editors describe Lincoln’s bold move as “a farce coming in after a long tragedy....Most of the people regard it as a very foolish piece of business.”
Item #22448.01, $1,450
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1865 General Orders,
Including Many Regarding Lincoln’s Assassination
[CIVIL WAR - WAR DEPARTMENT],
Book. Bound collection of separately printed General Orders from the Adjutant General’s office for 1865. Containing 168 of 175 consecutive orders, and a 94-page index at front. Bound for Major General William Scott Ketchum, with his name in gilt on the spine and his markings or wartime notes on numerous pages. 4¾ x 7 in.
Item #22265, $4,800
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‘Rally round the Flag, Boys!’ President Lincoln Centerfold
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, October 1, 1864. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
This October, 1864 issue of Harper’s Weekly has a magnificent centerfold engraving of President Lincoln—perfect for framing—with a patriotic poem below.
Item #H 10-1-1864, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
and Pivotal Battle of Antietam (SOLD)
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, October 4, 1862. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Contains a Thomas Nast illustration: “McClellan Entering Frederick, Maryland” on the front page. Inside: The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862. View of Harpers Ferry and Maryland Heights. War map of Kentucky. Capitol grounds at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania turned into a camp. Centerfold: Battle of Antietam. Grand depot for General Grant’s army at Columbus, Kentucky.
Item #22505, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Reporting the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
and the Union Victory That Precipitated It (SOLD)
[EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION],
Newspaper. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York, N.Y., October 11, 1862. 16 pp., 11 x 16 in.
Reporting the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history, and the occasion for Lincoln to issue his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation warning the South to return to the Union or face losing their slaves.
Item #22501.41, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Congressional Copy of The 13th Amendment
Signed by Abraham Lincoln (SOLD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Document Signed (“Abraham Lincoln”) as President, [Washington, D.C., ca. February 1, 1865]. Co-signed by Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, Schuyler Colfax as Speaker of the House, 37 of the 38 senators and 114 of the 119 Congressmen who voted for it. One of six or seven known “Congressional” copies of the Thirteenth Amendment signed by Lincoln and members of the Senate and House who voted in favor of the resolution [and one of thirteen or fourteen known copies signed by Lincoln]. 1 page, 20 5/8 x 15 3/8”, engrossed on lined vellum.
“Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States…”
Item #21902, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Unrecorded Broadside of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (SOLD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Broadside, “Inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4th, 1865.” [ca. March 4, 1865]. 10 7/8 x 13½ in.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all”
Item #22093, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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Abraham Lincoln’s Dividers – Used to Trace Distances
on Civil War Maps (SOLD)
[ABRAMHAM LINCOLN]; ROBERT TODD LINCOLN,
Folding Metal Dividers (Calipers). Approximately 5” long. With:
A crucial tool used to follow and plan troop movements and Civil War strategies.
Lincoln’s family was besieged with requests for souvenirs after his death. Here Robert Todd Lincoln sends a very meaningful relic to one of his father’s closest wartime associates.
Exhibit History
“The Tsar and the President,” Moscow and St. Petersburg, Feb. – July, 2011; “Lincoln, Life-Size,” Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Ct., Feb. – June, 2010.
Item #21925, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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The Gettysburg Address, with Full Centerfold Illustrations of the Battlefield and Lincoln’s Dedication Ceremony (SOLD)
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS,
Newspaper. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, New York, December 5, 1863. 16 pp., complete.
“and that Government of the people, for the people, and for all people, shall not perish from earth.”
Item #22629.01, SOLD — please inquire about other items
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