[New York: 1862]. 17, [1 blank] pp. Stitched in original printed green wrappers. Lightly worn and toned, two institutional marks at top blank margin of front wrapper, else Very Good. A scarce, open letter to the 37th Congress, then in session. The author expresses prevalent pro-Union, anti-Negro sentiment of..... More
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..... More
Baltimore: W.M. Innes, 1863. 32pp. Disbound, lightly worn, Good+. Baltimore, many of whose citizens had been arrested and held without trial for their pro-southern sympathies, was a hospitable place to publish this strict constructionist view of the Constitution, opposing the raising of an army by conscription and attacking Lincoln's..... More
Philadelphia: W Brotherhead, 1862. Dbd, old institutional rubberstamp Else a clean text and Very Good. 10pp. An embarrassing relic for the reputation of Brotherhead, who analyzes first the presidential style of Jefferson Davis and finds it wanting: he "lacks talents requisite to become a popular leader." Lincoln too, "a..... More
Philadelphia: G. Andre & Co., [1861?]. Sheet music. Folio, 10.5" x 13.75". 5, [1 blank] pp, folded [pp.3-4 loose]. Attractive color lithograph on title leaf of young soldier in military camp holding an American flag, signed in type, 'J. Queen Del. & Lith; P.S. Duval & Son Lith. Philada.' At..... More
Buffalo: 1862. 34pp, printed in double columns, bound in modern plain wrappers. Light tanning, light chipping of foredge of first several leaves [no text loss]. Good+. Benedict fell victim to War Secretary Stanton's order to "arrest and imprison any person or persons who may be engaged, by act, speech, or..... More
[Springfield? Chicago? 1860]. 16pp. Caption title, as issued. Disbound with some loosening, paper clip shadow on first and last leaves. Printed in two columns per page. Good+. This Illinois campaign document is probably the first of three printings, each with similar but not identical material. Each attacks Douglas..... More
Springfield: William Walters, Public Printer, 1840. 156, [4], xxxii pp. Including the Auditor's Report and a detailed index. Disbound, one closed margin tear without loss, occasional light soil. Good+. As a member of the Sangamon County delegation in the Illinois House of Representatives since 1837, Lincoln held his first elective..... More
Pittsburgh [PA]: Printed by W.S. Haven, Corner of Wood and Third Streets. 1865. 23, [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers. Disbound, loose, light wear, numerical rubberstamps, Good. On President Lincoln. Monaghan 588. More
[np: 1864]. Original printed wrappers [old institutional plate and withdrawal], stitched, 28pp. Light wear, Very Good. For a biography of this St. Louis German-American, see DAB. The attribution of authorship is by NUC. The Constitution grants the national government all the power it needs, in war or peace, to..... More
[St. Louis? 1862?]. 30, [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers [some extremity chipping]. Stitched. Printed in double columns, running title. Very Good. For a biography of this St. Louis German-American, see DAB. Kroeger spent a bit of time as a Lieutenant on General Fremont's staff in the Missouri theater..... More
c.1860-65, 1907]. Ten items described as follows: 1. Illinois Election Ticket from Sangamon County [1860]. Broadside, 3" x 7.25", paper. Mounted at top edge on card stock. Very Good. Lincoln and Hamlin lead the Ticket; Richard Yates for Governor, and list of other State officers, including Jesse Dubois [Treasurer], Newton..... More
[np. 1864]. Caption title, as issued. 16pp, printed in two columns per page. Stitched, widely scattered foxing, Very Good. This unusual item, a Democratic Party campaign pamphlet, is a compendium of "Derogatory Republican statements concerning Lincoln's capacity, compiled for the campaign of 1864. The Pomeroy circular, Fremont's letter of..... More
New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. [c.1860-1865]. Folio broadside, 12" x 16". Black and white bust portrait of a well-groomed, bearded Abraham Lincoln. He wears a dark jacket and vest with a white button-down collared shirt and dark bow tie. In very small print below the caption appears..... More
New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1864. 94, [2 blanks] pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Bit of loosening, Very Good. The Convention prominently featured loyal Border State men like Robert Breckinridge of Kentucky and William Brownlow of Tennessee. A dispute, well-documented here, on the seating of delegates is a...... More
New York: Printed by F. Somers, 1866. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 39pp + final blank. Shallow corner chips, Good+. Reprinted from the American Presbyterian Review for 1866, this pamphlet is a window on Reconstruction. Prentiss was intelligent and insightful, and brother of the renowned Mississippi lawyer Sargent Smith Prentiss..... More
New York: Printed by F. Somers, 1866. Disbound, 39pp + final blank. Signed by Prentiss with his initials on title page; manuscript correction at page 28. Very Good. Reprinted from the American Presbyterian Review for 1866, this pamphlet is a window on Reconstruction by an intelligent and insightful contemporary..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1926. 482pp, illus. frontis, in original cloth. Good+ to Very Good. More
[Washington: 1860]. 8pp. Light wear, Very Good. The Wisconsin German-American, whose advocacy was important in securing German immigrants to the Republican Party, denounces Douglas for destroying the repose that the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 had brought to the slavery question. As the result of his Popular Sovereignty..... More
[Boston: nd but probably 1863]. 8pp, folded, caption title [as issued]. Scattered foxing. Good+. A Democratic Party attack on Republicans, who are disunionists in disguise, and Charles Sumner, the abolitionist Republican Senator who is up for re-election. Sumner has long belonged to the Radical wing of the Massachusetts Republican Party..... More
[Washington: Towers, 1863]. Caption title [as issued], bound in modern wrappers, 16pp, scattered foxing Trimmed closely but no text loss Good+ Vallandigham "delivered a speech in the House Jan 14, , in which he said that the time had come to negotiate a peace, and that prolonging the war would..... More
[np: 1864]. 20pp, stitched, caption title [as issued]. Light foxing, Good+. Walker had been an expansionist Mississippi Senator and Polk's Treasury Secretary, enthusiastically supporting the Texas annexation and the Mexican War. But "Walker was at heart a Free-Soiler" and he remained an "eager Unionist" [DAB]. He spent much of..... More