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THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Address of Hon.
Edward Everett at the Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg;
9th November, 1863. With the Dedicatory Speech of President Lincoln and
Other Exercises of the Occasion.
3 pages of printed music; [v], 6-82, [ii], [iii] pp music,
[i] pp. Tall 8vo, modern 1/4 brown morocco and marbled paper-covered boards.
Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1864
[800/1,200]
AN EARLY EDITION OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
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Lincoln’s famous speech took up exactly two
minutes, while the audience sat for two hours for Edward Everett’s opening address. “Four score and
seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and
dedicated to the principle that all men are created equal.”
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Thirteenth
Amendment, in Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Thirty-
Eighth Congress.
On pages 168-169. 8vo, modern brown morocco-backed marbled
boards; spine with four raises bands, highlighted in gilt; title in two panels; pages evenly
toned.
Washington D.C., 1865
[500/750]
The first appearance of the Thirteenth Amendment in this form, as it was adopted and passed by
Congress.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Proclamation of
Emancipation by the President of the United States of America.
20 x 23 inches,
some foxing most notable in the blank margins; top of the Proclamation with a circular
portrait of Lincoln held up by the wings of the American Eagle; to either side are vignettes
of slavery days and freedom days; at the bottom, beneath the signatures of Lincoln and
Seward is a large oval vignette of children at play.
Boston: B.B. Russell, 1865
[3,000/4,000]
EBERSTADT
44, “
ONE OF THE MORE ARTISTIC OF THE ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS
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WITH AN
INTERESTING SPRINKLING OF DISPLAY TYPES
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