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[Abraham Lincoln]. Civil War Autograph Album. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [n. d., ca. 1865]. Octavo. Publisher's full bur...
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Approximately Fifty Famous Civil War Signatures, Including Lincoln, Grant, Meade, Sheridan and Sherman
[Abraham Lincoln]. Civil War Autograph Album. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [n. d., ca. 1865]. Octavo. Publisher's full burgundy morocco, rebacked. All edges gilt. Facsimile title page tipped in, coated on recto. Original Civil War-era autograph album, containing approximately fifty original historic signatures, including those of Abraham Lincoln (with a small, oval, albumen photograph mounted on the page), Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, George Gordon Meade, Phillip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Charles C. Alenshire, Christopher Columbus Augur, William Worth Belknap, William Bright, Benjamin Butler, David Ramsey Clendenin, Frederick Tracy Dent, Edward P. Doherty, Alexander Byrdie Dyer, Robert J. Fisher, Robert Fisher, Clinton Bowen Fisk, Joseph B. Foraker, Charles Griffin, Otis (Charles) Guffin, James Abram Hall, Thomas Harris, William Hays, Albion Parris Howe, Henry Jackson Hunt, David Hunter, Anthony G. Ingraham, Timothy Ingraham, Chester W. Inman, August Valentine Kautz, Preston King, Adam Eckfeldt King, Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Madison Miller, Thomas Armstrong Morris, John Grubb Parke, Benjamin Franklin Potts, John Ramsay, Frederick A. Sewall, Horatio W. Shaw, Sidney F. Shaw, Levi Sheffler, Henry Slocum, Giles Alexander Smith, John W. Taylor, Hartwell Carver Tompkins, Charles H. Tompkins, Lew Wallace. Small bookseller's ticket. A bit of scattered foxing, not affecting signatures. Moderate edge wear to boards. An important and impressive collection of Civil War signatures. Overall near fine. From the James and Deborah Boyd Collection.Auction Info
2012 April 11 Rare Books Signature Auction - New York #6085 (go to Auction Home page)
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