Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

249 249 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Composite photograph of the signers of the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery. Composite oval albumen photograph, 12 x 10 1 / 2 inches, credited in negative, on the original tinted 16 1 / 2 x 13 1 / 2 mount; taped into mat on verso; gift inscription on verso. New York: Powell and Co., 1865 [1,000/1,500] Depicts the congressmen who voted in favor of the 13th Amendment, as well as Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Provenance: gift from J.W. Rose to John L. Bates (probably the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts), 30 April 1900. 248 c   (SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.) Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species . . . New Edition, Revised and Augmented by the Author. Folding diagram. xi, [1], [5]-116, 116*-121*, 117-440, [2] pages, including half-title and final ad leaf. 12mo, publisher’s cloth, rebacked with most of discolored original backstrip laid down; original endpapers, front free endpaper detached, hinges reinforced; owner’s note in ink on page xi, contents otherwise clean. NewYork: D.Appleton and Company, 1860 [600/900] first american edition ; fourth issue, with supplement of the author’s additions and alterations on pages [426]-432.Garrison-Morton 220 (1859 London original edition); Freeman 380 (this edition).