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Lincoln, Abraham Abraham Lincoln: Photograph (CDV) Signed
$150,000.00
“I don’t know that I have any favorite portrait of myself; but I have thought that if I looked like any of the likenesses of me that have been taken, I look most like that one.” — Lincoln, quoted in Ostendorf, Lincoln’ s Photographs, no. 87
SIGNED CDV PHOTOGRAPH FROM 1864 MATHEW BRADY SITTING WITH DIRECT FAMILY PROVENANCE.
Vignetted photographic portrait from Mathew Brady’s sitting of January 8, 1864, signed by Lincoln along the lower edge of the photograph.
The photograph descended directly through Lincoln’s family, from the president and Mary Todd Lincoln through five generations to the family of Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last surviving direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln. The photograph remained within Lincoln’s direct family until it appeared at Cowan’s Auctions in 2010, offered as lot 272 along with other items descended in the Lincoln-Beckwith lineage. It had passed from Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to their son Robert Todd Lincoln, and from him to his daughter Jessie Lincoln Beckwith. Jessie’s son, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith (1904–1985), was the last surviving direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln; the photograph passed to his wife, Margaret Fristoe Beckwith, and by descent to her daughter, from whose estate it was consigned to the sale.
Albumen print, carte-de-visite, on Brady’s photographic mount; 1864. Small abrasion at bottom margin, toning to verso; ink blot (original) on “A.”
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Rare 1841 frontier narrative, last sold in 1920
Pritts, Joseph Incidents of Border Life Illustrative of the Times and Condition of the First Settlements in Parts of the Middle and Western States Comprising Narratives of Strange and Thrilling Adventure – Accounts of Battles – Skirmishes and Personal Encounters with the Indians – Descriptions of Their Manners, Customs, Modes of Warfare, Treatment of Prisoners, etc. etc.
$1,000.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Lancaster: G. Hills, 1841. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2401049 2nd edition, 1841 title page, with 1839 first edition pagination. Original boards, but rebound with new spine and leather-looking material extending past the joints and on the board fore edges covering the entire fore edges. Title stamped in gilt on spine. New endpapers. 507pp. The 1841 edition calls for 511pp, so I don’t know why the 1839 pagination is in this volume. Howes P619 lists variant issues. This copy has seven engravings. The double page foldout of Braddock’s defeat is bound in upside down & is missing about 1/5 of the lower right of the image. Two of the illustrations are full page and we believe include the essential visual information, but in each case there may have been a foldout extension with additional visual material or border. Engravings include portraits of Brant and Danial Boone. One interesting fold out engraving shows three Indian women bathing a white man in a river or pool of some sort. It is quite fetching. Title page near gutter was previously repaired with what may be thin archival tape and a minor loss of paper at the bottom edge. General foxing/browning. Tidelines (water stains) on many pages but not very dark in my opinion. The publisher essentially compiled dozens of reports and narratives from military and civilian sources from the western border of western New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and adjacent areas from the War of the Revolution. Sample chapters: “Devastation of Wyoming Settlements” (Penn.), “Singular Prowess of a Woman,” Incidents attending a Desertion,” “The Lost Sister,” Trial of Mamachtagea,” “War in the North-West — Gen. Harmar, St. Clair, Wayne,” “The Widow Scraggs.” The last recorded copy for sale of this book was in 1920. Several copies of this book appear in world libraries, mainly in the UK. Only a couple in US libraries. Overall good condition and nicely rebound. Rare.
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Author-inscribed family copy of lumbering memoir
Warren, George Henry THE PIONEER WOODSMAN AS HE IS RELATED TO LUMBERING IN THE NORTHWEST
$250.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Minneapolis: Gov’t Printing Office & Smithsonian, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2105092 1st printing. 1/2 leather & cloth boards. 184pp. Illustrated with nice photogravures. Family copy with unusual custom bookplate on the front paste down of the author’s son & daughter-in-law, Frank and Alice Warren, which has three half-tone photos on it showing a cabin, a lighthouse, & a forest road. On the frontispiece (showing a stream & some trees) there is a space for an inscription, this one being the author’s presentation to Alice, his daughter-in-law, & dated Aug. 10, 1914. This book is a superb memoir of early timber cruising in northern Wisconsin & Minnesota beginning in the 1870s. A remarkable life as a woodsman who eventually became what I believe to have been a leader in the industry in that Great Lakes area. The leather joints have been repaired and are holding well, but note some deterioration at head & toe of spine. A good, tight copy. This book was printed on beautifully textured paper from Italy.
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rare 1901 Oklahoma Native American reference
Gideon, D. C. INDIAN TERRITORY Descriptive Biographical and Genealogical including the Landed Estates, County Seats Etc., Etc. with a General History of the Territory in One Volume
$1,996.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
NYC and Chicago: Lewis, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2206028 1st printing. Beautifully rebound in three-quarter leather and cloth with gilt titles (slightly flaked) on spine and with new endpapers. 956pp. 100 photogravure portraits plus several other photos. A. E. G. (all edges gilt). Originally owned by and with the signature (three times) of “H. S. Suggs, Berwyn I. T.” The second Suggs signature was on a chipped sheet & in rebinding the binder affixed it to a sheet of matching tone and bound it in. The third signature of Mr. Suggs is written along the inner margin of where he is in the book (pps. 580-581). Suggs “… came to Berwyn in the Indian Territory, where he continued in the lumber business [from Texas] and also ran a cotton gin until 1901, when he sold his gin and is now engaged in the hardware and lumber business . . . he is interested [also] in the cattle business, and firm being known as Suggs and Brother.” The brother, Sidney Suggs, has an even longer entry in the volume and a portrait. A glossy photo of him and his family is laid in. It is printed from the archives of the Okla Hist Soc. One leaf (pps 931-932) was once detached but has been tipped back in. It has tears radiating out from the gutter and has 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ inch loss of text in the middle of the page. Title page has two edge chips. One index sheet has old cloth tape edge repairs. Throughout there are some edge tears that have not been repaired, but we have discovered none of a serious nature. Many tissue guards are missing. There is some browning/foxing on some pages, but not extensively. Some page corners are rounded from use. We have conservatively graded this copy “good,” but in our view with experience in these kinds of volumes, if it were in our personal collection we would have no issue grading it very good. Adams (Six-guns 1107) says, “Has a long section on all the outlaws of the Indian Territory, including the Dalton gang and the Cook gang …” [but Adams adds the author is mistaken about Belle Starr’s brother & repeats false information about her]. In this section there is glowing information on the famous Black Man, Deputy. U. S. Marshal Bass Reeves, and an account of one of his captures of outlaws involving gunplay. An Oklahoma rarity. Howes G158.
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Second Ed. of Tocqueville with tipped in Map
Alexis de Tocqueville De la Démocratie en Amérique … Orné d’une carte d’Amérique. First Part (Vols 1 & 2, bound as one). Second Ed.
$1,500.00Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1835. Second Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Size: 8″-9″ – Octavo (8vo). 771 pages. Text is in French. Second edition of the first part of this classic analysis of democracy in America, printed the same year as the small first edition of around 500 copies. The first volume’s topic is the institutions of the United States (Institutions des États-Unis) and the second is the functioning of those institutions (Fonctionnement de ces institutions). In a publication note Tocqueville says that because the first edition sold out so quickly, he was only able “to introduce very slight changes in the second. He had to confine himself to correcting some typographical errors and to removing a small number of material errors” (translated from the French). The second part was not published until April 1840 and was released with the eighth edition of this first part. The two volumes are bound together in an 19th century binding. Quarter bound in leather and dark marbled paper over boards. The spine has five compartments separated by gilded lines with two black morocco labels, one with author and title and the other indicating “Tomes 1-2″ and a gilded decoration at the foot of the spine. There is some cracking to the leather, resulting in a few spots of surface loss. The top corners are turned in, but the paper has not worn through. There is a 1/2″ bump at the bottom edge of the front cover when the leather and paper come together resulting in some surface loss. The hinges have been expertly repaired in cloth that is stained brown to match the marbled endpapers. The covers appear to have been coated with a thin layer of varnish, probably added when the hinges were repaired. The text block is tight, only slightly tanned and unmarked. There is some scattered spotting. A silk bookmark has become detached from the spine, but remains laid in. There are bookseller notes in several hands written in pencil on the verso of the front free end paper, both sides of a blank leaf and at the upper outside corner of the half-title page for the first volume. The top edge appears to have been guilded, though it is now dark. The side and bottom page edges have a speckled pattern on them. The map has been hand colored and remains bright. It is in excellent condition, with only a small tear to the left margin where the map has been tipped in at the end of Vol. I. The legend provides information on surface features such as the height of the two main mountain ranges and the comparative white and black populations between the slave and free states. There is a 1/2” tear at the top of the tab used to tip the map in. WorldCat shows a copy of the two volumes at The British Library, St. Pancras (OCLC 557772386) and a one volume binding of the second edition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (OCLC 458323320).
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