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Belva Lockwood Signed Card
BELVA LOCKWOOD,
Autograph Endorsement Signed. Archivally framed with an image and brass plaque.
Item #23083, $900
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Frederick Douglass Signed Deed
FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
Document Signed as recorder of deeds, Washington, D.C., 1881-1886. Approx. 3½ x 8½” folded. Sample Frame pictured.
While Douglass’s letters are scarce, documents signed during his tenure as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia can be had very reasonably.
Item #20409, $895
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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, $225
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General Schofield’s Personal Gettysburg Official Records
[GETTYSBURG; GEN. JOHN M. SCHOFIELD],
Books, 3 Volumes – The War of the Rebellion: Gettysburg Official Records, devoted to the Battle of Gettysburg. Owned by Union General John M. Schofield (with his stamp in first volume).
Item #23060, $750
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An Oversized Photo of General Grant
Taken after Lincoln’s Assassination
ULYSSES S. GRANT,
Photograph. By Frederick Gutekunst. Philadelphia, Pa., [May 1865] 15½ x 18 in., mounted on 20 x 24 in. board. Likely dated “October 1865” [perhaps the date of production] in light pencil on Gutekunst’s label on verso. Blind stamp of Chicago Historical Society, and “Chicago Historical Society dupl” in pencil on verso.
Item #22942, $7,500
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Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, May 26, 1866.
Item #H-5-26-1866, $250
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Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, September 12, 1874.
Item #H-9-12-1874, $295
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Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, July 16, 1864.
Item #H-7-16-1864, $350
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Last Formal Photograph of Lincoln, with Son “Tad”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
Photograph [taken by Alexander Gardner, February 5, 1865], Albumen print by Bouve, Boston, Mass. Captioned, “President Lincoln and his Son Thaddeus/ The Last Photograph the President Sat For/ Published by G.F Bouve & Co, 41 Brattle St, Boston.” Image 6¼ x 8½ in., mounted on original board, 8 x 10 in.
In this albumen print, Lincoln’s youngest son Thomas is erroneously called “Thaddeus,” because of nickname “Tad.” An unfinished Washington Monument (construction began in 1848, but was not completed until 1884) rises in the background perhaps referencing the funerary motif of a broken column symbolic of a life cut short. This image, showing father and son posing for what would be Lincoln’s last sitting.
Item #22350, $3,750
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1607 Cornelis van Wytfliet’s Norvmbega et Virginia
CORNELIS VAN WYTFLIET,
Norvmbega et Virginia. 1607, Second state. 9 x 11 ½”.
Taken from the first atlas devoted entirely to America, this is only the second map to use ‘Virginia’ in its title, after the White-De Bry of 1590 [AL 09], on which this is partly derived. Despite major inaccuracies – such as the labeling of the Chesapeake’s latitude near present-day Maine, and the depiction of the mythical city of Norumbega – this map was the most accurate map of the east coast until de Laet (1630).
Item #21001.99, $4,800
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Lincoln Portrait by Currier & Ives
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Currier & Ives. Lithograph, New York, 1865. In 24 x 29 in. hand-gilt frame.
Item #20323, $3,500
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An Invitation to Join the Temperance Union
WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION,
Printed Postcard Invitation. Unused.
Item #21678.07, $100
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PaineWebber Founder Signed
Lake Copper Company Stock Certificate
WILLIAM PAINE,
Partially Printed Document Signed as company president. 100,000 shares of Lake Copper Company, Certificate #28509, March 10, 1922.
Item #23086, $1,250
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Theodore Roosevelt Commissions a Captain
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Document Signed as President. Commission for John J.A. Clark as Captain in the Philippine Scouts. Washington, D.C., September 19, 1908. 1 p., 21 x 16 in.
Item #22949, $1,500
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Louis Bleriot and the First Airplane
to Cross the English Channel
LOUIS BLERIOT,
Hand-Colored Lithograph Signed (“L. Bleriot”). Entitled “Louis Bleriot passes the White Cliffs of Dover in May, 1909.” Lithograph published by the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1928. Showing the Bleriot XI craft in flight, with a fountain pen inscription “To Mr. Guy W. Vaughan, L. Bleriot.” The month of May is crossed out and corrected to July in Bleriot’s hand. 15” x 17 ½”.
Item #20389, $975
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A Map of the Isthmus of Panama
J. RAPKIN,
Map. New York: J. & F. Tallis, from The Illustrated Atlas. ca. 1850-51. With Illustrations by H Warren & Engraved By J. Wrightson.Sheet measures 14.5 x 10.75"; image 13 x 9.75".
Delineating proposed railway and canal communications, as well as illustrating gold seekers trekking over the Cordilleras and the fort at Chagres.
Item #20903, $250
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An Unusual Presentation Copy of
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. [MARK TWAIN],
Signed Book. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles Webster, 1886. Second American edition. 8 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. With several prints, clippings, and other ephemera tipped in. Rebound at the Roycroft bindery.
“Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it”
Item #23193, $25,000
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Francis Scott Key, Author of the National Anthem,
The Star Spangled Banner
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY,
Document Signed, “FS Key.” October 21, 1817. 7½ x 3¼ in., 1 p. Archivally framed.
Item #23082, $995
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Alice Stone Blackwell Signed
Suffragette Periodical Stock Certificate
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL,
Partially Printed Document Signed. Five shares of the Woman’s Journal, Certificate #117, November 18, 1910. Framed with a photograph and engraved brass exhibit card.
Item #23076, $1,750
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The 1858 Debates that Propelled Lincoln to National Attention
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Book. Political Debates Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, in the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Columbus, Ohio: Follett, Foster, and Co., 1860. 3rd edition, with publisher’s advertisements bound in. 268 pp., 6½ x 9½ in.
Item #22476, $1,500
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