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

146 146 c   (LINCOLN,ABRAHAM.) TheLincolnCatechism,Wherein theEccentricities & Beauties of Despotism Are Fully Set Forth. 46, [2] pages. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated wrappers, moderate wear; moderate foxing and edge wear; early owner’s inscriptions on wrappers, later bookplate of Alfred M. Hellman on inner front wrapper. NewYork: J.F. Feeks, 1864 [500/750] Billed as “A Guide to the Presidential Election of 1864,” this odious little pamphlet is filled with racist anti-Lincoln propaganda for the Copperhead audience. It is presented in the form of a satirical catechism, alleged to be written by the Republicans:“What is the Constitution? A compact with hell— now obsolete. By whom hath the Constitution been made obsolete? By Abraham Africanus the First.” TheTen Commandments are listed on page 12, starting with:“Thou shalt have no other God but the negro.” Monaghan 324. 147 c   (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Kenyon, Archibald. Manuscript sermon on the Lincoln assassination. [63] manuscript pages. 8vo, contemporary polished green calf, worn; front hinge split, a few leaves torn. Vp, 1854-65 [300/400] This volume of sermons is signed “A. Kenyon”, and was most likely by the Rev.Archibald Kenyon, an outspoken anti-slavery Baptist minister and prolific hymn writer. He was in Chicago when this volume was started in 1854. By 1865, he had moved on to another congregation, possibly Peoria. In the middle of this volume he notes “The following sermon was preached just after the death of Mr. Lincoln.” In the 32-page sermon which follows, he calls the assassination “an event without parallel in the world history” and places blame for the calamity:“Slavery has murdered Abraham Lincoln,” offering background to the “slave-law of 1850.” See Kenyon’s biography in Burrage’s Baptist HymnWriters, page 368. 148 c   LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Political Debate Between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. [4], 268 pages. 8vo, stitched; moderate dampstaining and wear to outer leaves, internally mostly clean with minimal foxing. Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster & Company, 1860 [1,200/1,800] First edition, early issue of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.This issue is not described in Monaghan’s arti- cle “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates” in the Lincoln Herald XLV:2 (June 1943). It is textually identical to what Monaghan calls IV, the Nomination Issue, except without the binding or the 2 flyleaves at both the beginning and end of the volume. However, David Leroy in his recent “Lincoln’s Book: Publishing the Lincoln-Douglas Debates” writes: “Recognizing the paper-wrapped issue as a separate edition gives the collector a total of eight books to pursue.” It has only two preliminary leaves: a title page with copyright statement on verso, and a Table of Contents which is blank on verso; the signature mark “2” can be found at the bottom of page 13. 148