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Christmas Presents
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, December 30, 1865.
Item #H-12-30-1865, $250
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New England Factory Life
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, July 25, 1868.
Item #H-7-25-1868, $350
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A Christmas Classic by Thomas Nast
[CHRISTMAS],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, New York, N.Y., December 24, 1881. 16 pp., 11¼ x 16 in.
CAUGHT! Thomas Nast’s classic image of Santa Claus being hugged by a little girl graces the front cover of this issue of Harper’s Weekly.
The double-page centerfold is another nice Thomas Nast Christmas print, “Christmas Fancies – ‘Don’t You Wish You Wore Stockings?’,” showing children and their dog in front of a fireplace. Will Carleton’s poem, The Christmas Tree, is illustrated with art by Howard Pyle which fills nearly an entire page. Other prints include the “Electric Railway at Berlin, Prussia,” “The Ring Theatre, Vienna, Recently Destroyed by Fire,” “Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State,” “The Late John W. Forney,” “Short and Sweet – ‘It’s Too Too Too Funny!’,” and “The Interrupted Journey.” Thomas Nast is credited with creating the modern version of Santa Claus.
Item #H 12-24-1881, $375
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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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A Pair of Cougars by John James Audubon
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON,
Print. Felis Concolor, The Cougar, Plate XCVII from The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Elephant folio, 32.5 h x 38.5 w framed [1845].
While best known for his seminal Birds of America, Audubon, working with his two sons, also spent considerable time documenting other animals. He left on what would prove be his last field expedition in 1843.
Item #22962, $3,950
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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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