Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018

17 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. [2 blank], [7], [one blank], 268, [2 blank] pages plus free endpapers. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, minor wear and sunning; moderate foxing; early owner’s signature on front flyleaf, Holzer bookplate on front pastedown. Columbus, OH: Follett, Foster & Company, 1860 [400/600] First edition, fifth state, published on 21 May 1860, shortly after Lincoln’s nomination. The second ad leaf notes “15,000 copies sold of Lincoln and Douglas Debates. Every body reads them!” See Monaghan’s “The Lincoln-Douglas Debates” in Lincoln Herald, June 1943. This copy bears the inscription of H. Farnam Smith (1828-1874), a Boston lawyer. 18 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) Portraits and Sketches of the Lives of All the Candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency for 1860. 8 portrait plates including Lincoln. 24, [13]-32, [4] pages as issued. 8vo, original printed wrappers, moderate wear; intermittent wear to contents. New York: Buttre, 1860 [400/600] This early campaign pamphlet was published by the prominent New York engraver John Chester Buttre. It introduced readers to the tickets of the four parties contesting the 1860 presidential race, with Buttre engravings of each; Lincoln’s was taken from Brady’s Cooper Union photograph. In the rear of the pamphlet, Buttre advertised a variety of his other political prints and pamphlets, including campaign ribbons and his 34-inch full-length engraving of Lincoln. Monaghan 74. 19 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) President Lincoln’s Views: An Important Letter on . . . the Vallandigham Case. 16 pages. 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers with additional title “The Truth from an Honest Man: the Letter of the President,” minor wear; minimal soiling to title page, otherwise clean internally. Philadelphia, 1863 [200/300] The text of a resolution by the Democratic government of New York attacking Lincoln, with his response. Monaghan 242. VERY EARLY PRINTING OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 20 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Burial of Massachusetts Dead at Gettysburg. Folding map. 93 pages. 8vo, publisher’s printed wrappers, minor wear; faint marginal dampstaining; in custom slipcase by Knowlton. Boston, 1863 [300/400] The Gettysburg Address appears on pages 20-21, with a prefatory note: “Perhaps nothing in the whole proceedings made so deep an impression on the vast assemblage . . . as the remarks of the President. Their simplicity and force make them worthy of a prominence among the utterances from high places.” This is the longer of the two issues, which also features Everett’s lengthy address (priority undetermined). The imprint date is 1863, but as it contains a report dated 28 December, an actual press date of early January 1864 seems more likely. Carbonell, in his “Early Printings of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address” (entry 5b) posits that this was just the third pamphlet printing of the address. See also Monaghan 193 (note). 21 c   (BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.) United States Sanitary Commission Bulletin. Numbers 1-40 complete. [2], xvi, 384, xvi, 385-768, xiii, 769-1280, iv pages. 8vo, individually stitched, bound with worn original collective wrappers and then mostly disbound, lacking rear wrapper; occasional foxing, final index leaf defective. Vp, November 1863 to August 1865 with 1866 collective title and index [300/400] The bimonthly magazine of the organization which raised funds for the troops during the Civil War. The issues were published variously in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, and were bound in 1866 with a New York collective title page and three index sections. Nevins, page I:18.