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Item #38570 "BETTER EVEN TO DIE FREE, THAN TO LIVE SLAVES." ORIGINAL HAND COLORED PENCIL DRAWING...

[55th Massachusetts Volunteers]:

"BETTER EVEN TO DIE FREE, THAN TO LIVE SLAVES." ORIGINAL HAND COLORED PENCIL DRAWING DEPICTING A BLACK SOLDIER IN FULL MILITARY UNIFORM FROM THE 55TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS. HE IS SEATED AT A TABLE WITH A UNION FLAG BEHIND HIM. IN HIS HAND HE HOLDS A PAPER TITLED "CO. G 55." IN PENCIL AT THE TOP RIGHT IN SERIF-STYLED LETTERING: "BETTER EVEN TO DIE FREE, THAN TO LIVE SLAVES." BENEATH THE SOLDIER IS "55TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS." AT THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER IS "1863".

[Massachusetts? 1863?]. Broadside, 5-1/4" x 9." Original pencil drawing on heavy tan paper, finished with blue, red, yellow and flesh toned paints. The talented artist has rendered a well-proportioned likeness of this 55th Massachusetts Black Soldier in Union blue. The attention to the facial features makes it appear likely that..... More

Price: $7,500.00

Adams, Charles Francis:

1865-1900. THE CONFEDERACY AND THE TRANSVAAL: A PEOPLE'S OBLIGATION TO ROBERT E. LEE. A PAPER READ BEFORE THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1901.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901. 25, [1] pp. Stapled as issued. Wrappers absent, otherwise complete and Very Good. An appreciation of General Lee's decision to surrender, and to refrain from guerrilla warfare. More

Price: $45.00

Adams, E.E.:

THE PHILANTHROPIC ELEMENT IN LITERATURE. INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF THE REV. E.E. ADAMS, D.D., DODGE PROFESSOR OF SACRED RHETORIC IN LINCOLN UNIVERSITY.

Philadelphia: Printed by Alfred Martien, 1868. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 22 + 2 blanks pp. Light wrapper chipping and wear, Very Good. Chartered in 1854, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania was the first institution founded for the purpose of offering higher education to African American males. President Adams asserts that the..... More

Price: $250.00

[Adams, Francis Colburn]:

A SCRAP OF HISTORY.

np: n.d.: 1870s? 5" x 7". 8pp. Original printed wrappers with wrapper title [as issued], stitched. Short closed tear running through fore-edge [no loss]. Else Very Good. This Civil War narrative is a humorous and sarcastic portrayal of General John Pope's failures at the Second Battle of Manassas. Speaking of..... More

Price: $75.00

Item #37118 AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM F.S. LYON OF DEMOPOLIS, TO GOVERNOR A.B. MOORE, 4 MARCH...

[Alabama in the Confederacy]:

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, FROM F.S. LYON OF DEMOPOLIS, TO GOVERNOR A.B. MOORE, 4 MARCH 1861, RECOMMENDING THE APPOINTMENT OF DR. WILLIAM C. ASHE AS SURGEON TO THE REGIMENT WITH RANK OF MAJOR.

Folio sheet, folded to 7-1/2" x 9-3/4." Written in neat ink manuscript on first two pages. Third page blank, docketed on page [4]. Very Good. Francis Strother Lyon [1800-1882], an Alabama lawyer and Democratic politician, wrote this letter to Governor Moore. Lyon had been a Whig Congressman in the 1830s..... More

Price: $275.00

Item #36827 MANUSCRIPT PETITION TO GOVERNOR A. B. MOORE, URGING HIM "TO APPOINT OSMOND L....

[Alabama in the Confederacy]:

MANUSCRIPT PETITION TO GOVERNOR A. B. MOORE, URGING HIM "TO APPOINT OSMOND L. STRUDWICK OF MARENGO COUNTY 1ST, 2D, OR 3D LIEUTANANT [sic] IN SOME COMPANY OF THE REGIMENT NOW BEING ORGANIZED IN ALA-- AND IN THE EVENT YOU HAVE NOT NOW THE APPOINTING POWER REQUEST YOU TO USE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH THE SECRETARY OF WAR TO GET THE APPOINTMENT FOR HIM."

Demopolis: March 4, 1861. [4] pp, folded folio sheet. Ink manuscript written on the first two pages, docketed on last page. Old folds, Very Good. Each of the six petitioners-- James Taylor Jones, Jno. T. Liman, Nathan B. Whitfield, R.M. Campbell, O.H. Prince, and [--] Torbert-- signs in his own..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #37123 NINE LETTERS, ENTIRELY IN INK MANUSCRIPT, TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR ANDREW B. MOORE, DURING...

[Alabama in the Confederacy]:

NINE LETTERS, ENTIRELY IN INK MANUSCRIPT, TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR ANDREW B. MOORE, DURING JANUARY - APRIL 1861, SEEKING APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICES IN ALABAMA'S POST-SECESSION GOVERNMENT.

January - April 1861. Each letter 1-4 pp, in legible ink manuscript, and usually docketed. The supplicants write from Demopolis, Marion, Montgomery, Haynesville, the Exchange Hotel [Montgomery]. Very Good. Alabama seceded on January 11, 1861. Our first letter is dated January 28, from several Demopolis citizens [Nathan B. Whitefield, Howard..... More

Price: $850.00

Item #38792 ALABAMA IN CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION. Alabama

Alabama:

ALABAMA IN CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION.

A list, set forth below, of Alabama laws from 1859, through the Civil War and early Reconstruction, in various bindings and conditions. Overall Good+ to Very Good. ACTS OF THE SEVENTH BIENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ALABAMA, HELD IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, COMMENCING ON THE SECOND MONDAY..... More

Price: $5,000.00

Alabama:

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT, TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA, AT ITS SESSION IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY. BEGUN AND HELD ON THE 3D MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, [20TH.] 1865.

Montgomery, Ala. Gibson & Whitfield- State Printers, 1865. 30, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Some pages toned and foxed, Good+. The Comptroller, M.A. Chisholm, notes that, from May 1865, until "the date of the inauguration of the Provisional Government, July 20th, 1865, the operation of this office..... More

Price: $450.00

Alabama:

A LENGTHY RUN OF EARLY ALABAMA LAWS, 1823-1871: ACTS OF 1827, 1833, 1835, 1837, 1838, 1840-1843, 1845, 1849, 1851, 1852, 1855, 1857, DIGESTS.

Toulmin, Harry: A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA: CONTAINING THE STATUTES AND RESOLUTIONS IN FORCE AT THE END OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN JANUARY, 1823...COMPILED BY APPOINTMENT, AND UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BY HARRY TOULMIN, ESQ. Cahawba: 1823. Modern buckram. xxxiv, [7]-1066 pp..... More

Price: $7,500.00

[Altrop, Philander D.]:

CUMBERLAND'S CREW/ OH, SHIPMATES COME GATHER AND JOIN IN MY DITTY; IT'S OF A TERRIBLE BATTLE THAT HAPPENED OF LATE. LET'S EACH GOOD UNION TAR SHED A TEAR OF PITY, WHEN HE THINKS OF THE ONES GALLANT CUMBERLAND'S FATE...

San Francisco: Bell & Company, [1872]. Broadside, 4" x 9". The text is printed within a decorative border. Seven verses of 8 lines each. Trimmed closely to border at left edge. Very Good. The USS Cumberland was rammed by the CSS Virginia [Merrimac] and sank on March 8, 1862. This..... More

Price: $50.00

Item #24036 JOINT RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, RELATIVE TO THE...

Arkansas:

JOINT RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, RELATIVE TO THE DEATH OF HON. JOHN A. QUITMAN.

[Little Rock: 1858]. Broadside, @7" x 9". Caption title, followed by two-column text surrounded by ruled border. Printed on pale blue paper. Tanned portion, else Very Good. A rare Arkansas imprint, evidently unrecorded, eulogizing the Mississippian Quitman, a pro-slavery, State Rights Senator whose "clear and far sighted mind early saw..... More

Price: $600.00

[Banks, Nathaniel]:

QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED TO THE CANDIDATES FOR SPEAKER, AND THEIR RESPONSES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1856.

[Washington, D.C. Republican Association; Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1856]. 8pp. Caption title [as issued], printed in double columns. Folded [split along spine fold], untrimmed [light edgewear], partly uncut. Light toning. Good+. The contest for Speaker of the House at the opening of the Thirty-Fourth Congress illustrated the deeply divisive issue..... More

Price: $250.00

Barnes, David M.:

THE DRAFT RIOTS IN NEW YORK. JULY, 1863. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE: THEIR HONORABLE RECORD.

New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863. 117, [blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. In a presentation, gilt-decorated and gilt-lettered cloth binding to Hon. Robert Waddle [upper portion of front cover sunned]. With elegant presentation slip in typescript laid in: "Presented, with their compliments, by the Metropolitan Police of the City of..... More

Price: $2,750.00

Barnwell, Wm. H.:

VIEWS UPON THE PRESENT CRISIS. A DISCOURSE, DELIVERED IN ST. PETER'S CHUCH, CHARLESTON, ON THE 6TH OF DECEMBER, 1850, THE DAY OF FASTING, HUMILIATION, AND PRAYER, APPOINTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. BY WM. H. BARNWELL, RECTOR OF SAID CHURCPUBLISHED BY REQUEST.

Charleston: Letter-Press of E.C. Councell, 119 East Bay, 1850. 16pp, disbound. Light foxing starting at edges, else clean. Very Good. Dedicating his Discourse to Governor Seabrook of South Carolina, Reverend Barnwell denounces the Compromise of 1850, champions South Carolina's secessionist cause, and gives free rein to his fire-eating Southern nationalism..... More

Price: $250.00

Barnwell, W[illiam] H.:

THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT. A SERMON, FOR THE DAY OF THANKSGIVING, HUMILIATION & PRAYER, APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, NOVEMBER 21, 1851, BY REV. W.H. BARNWELL, RECTOR OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH, CHARLESTON.

Charleston: Printed by Edward C. Councell, 119 East-Bay, 1851. 23, [1 blank] pp [lightly foxed]. Original printed wrappers [foxed with some wear, spine eroded], stitched. Manuscript presentation at head of front wrap: 'Wm. Barnwell Esq. with kind regards of Barnwell.' Good+. Barnwell dedicates his scarce sermon to Robert Barnwell Rhett..... More

Price: $250.00

Barrett, J.H.:

BARRETT'S AUTHENTIC EDITION. LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, (OF ILLINOIS.) WITH A CONDENSED VIEW OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT SPEECHES; ALSO A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF HANNIBAL HAMLIN (OF MAINE).

Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co. 25 West Fourth Street. 1860. Original cloth [rubbed at extremities, spine lettering dulled]. Port. frontis of a clean-shaven Lincoln, 'Middleton, Strobridge & Co.' in small lettering. Port. of Hamlin after page 194. 216 pp. Foxed, lacks endpapers, some doodling on blanks. Good+. "Barrett had..... More

Price: $350.00

Item #33625 THE ANNALS OF HARPER'S FERRY WITH SKETCHES OF ITS FOUNDER, AND MANY PROMINENT...

[Barry, Joseph]:

THE ANNALS OF HARPER'S FERRY WITH SKETCHES OF ITS FOUNDER, AND MANY PROMINENT CHARACTERS CONNECTED WITH ITS HISTORY, ANECDOTES, &C, BY JOSEPHUS, JUNIOR. SECOND EDITION.

Martinsburg, W. VA: Office of the "Berkeley Union" 1872. 126pp, two plates, stitched. Original printed and illustrated wrappers [chipped at extremities without affecting text or illustration]. Front wrapper illustrated with a portrait of John Brown [repeated after page 32], rear wrapper with a portrait of John W. Garrett [repeated after..... More

Price: $275.00

Bayard, James A.:

SPEECH OF THE HON. JAMES A. BAYARD, OF DELAWARE, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY 19TH, 1864, AGAINST THE VALIDITY OF THE TEST-OATH, PRESCRIBED BY THE "ACT" OF JULY 2, 1862, WITH THE SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE, AND HIS FINAL REMARKS BEFORE THE RESIGNATION OF HIS SEAT. ALSO, A LETTER ADDRESSED BY MR. BAYARD TO A CONSTITUENT, DECEMBER 22, 1860.

Philadelphia: 1864. 38pp. Disbound. Text lightly toned but quite clean. Very Good. The 1862 Test Oath required elected or appointed federal officials to swear or affirm that they had not engaged in disloyal conduct. Bayard, "the only member of the Senate present at this session who has not taken the..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #36958 IN MEMORIAM. GEN'L G.T. BEAUREGARD. CHARLESTON'S GALLANT DEFENDER. Pierre Gustave...

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant:

IN MEMORIAM. GEN'L G.T. BEAUREGARD. CHARLESTON'S GALLANT DEFENDER.

[Charleston? 1893]. Memorial silk ribbon, 8-3/4" x 3," depicting a bust portrait of General P.G.T. Beauregard beneath crossed South Carolina and Confederate flags [in color] and bold block text reading, "In Memoriam." Below, blue script and block text reads, "Gen'l G.T. Beauregard, / Charleston's / Gallant Defender." Dusted, some fraying..... More

Price: $350.00

Bemis, George:

HASTY RECOGNITION OF REBEL BELLIGERENCY, AND OUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN OF IT.

Boston: 1865. viii, 57pp. Disbound roughly, original printed front wrapper [chipped, loose]. Else Good+. Bemis denounces Britain's diplomatic support for the Confederacy, defending the right of the North to impose its naval blockade and calling the South's secession an illegal rebellion. I Harv. Law Cat. 150. Bartlett 393... More

Price: $75.00

Item #27769 SPEECH OF HON. J.P. BENJAMIN, OF LOUISIANA, ON THE RIGHT OF SECESSION. DELIVERED IN...

Benjamin, J[udah] P.:

SPEECH OF HON. J.P. BENJAMIN, OF LOUISIANA, ON THE RIGHT OF SECESSION. DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, DEC. 31, 1860.

[Washington: Towers, 1861]. 16pp. Caption title [as issued], bound in 19th century stiff plain wrappers. Light scattered foxing. Very Good. After David Yulee of Florida, Benjamin was the second Jew to serve in the United States Senate. He "was one of the earliest of the Southern senators to advise secession..... More

Price: $1,000.00

Bissell, William H.:

THE SLAVE QUESTION. SPEECH OF...OF ILLINOIS, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1850, IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE ON THE STATE OF THE UNION, ON THE RESOLUTIONS REFERRING THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL MESSAGE TO THE APPROPRIATE STANDING COMMITTEES.

[Washington: Buell & Blanchard, 1850]. 8pp. Caption title [as issued]. Printed in double columns. Folded, untrimmed, and uncut. Very Good. Sabin 5637. Dumond 28. More

Price: $25.00

Blair, Montgomery:

COMMENTS ON THE POLICY INAUGURATED BY THE PRESIDENT, IN A LETTER AND TWO SPEECHES, BY MONTGOMERY BLAIR, POSTMASTER-GENERAL.

New York: Hall, Clayton & Medole, Printers, 1863. 20pp, disbound with a bit of loosening. Foxed, hole in lower blank forecorner of title page. Good to Good+. Blair rejects the 'State Suicide' notion-- advocated by the Rebels as well as Radical Republicans-- that the seceded States have lost their character..... More

Price: $100.00

Blair, Montgomery:

SPEECH OF THE HON. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, (POSTMASTER GENERAL,) ON THE REVOLUTIONARY SCHEMES OF THE ULTRA ABOLITIONISTS, AND IN DEFENCE OF THE POLICY OF THE PRESIDENT. DELIVERED AT THE UNCONDITIONAL UNION MEETING, HELD AT ROCKVILLE, MONTGOMERY CO., MARYLAND, ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1863.

1863. [n.p., 1863]. 20pp, disbound without wrappers, light margin foxing. Very Good. Blair warns of "ultra-Abolitionists", who "seek to make a caste of another color by amalgamating the black element with the free white labor of our land, and so to expand far beyond the present confines of slavery the..... More

Price: $250.00

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