Sale 2486, Part I - The Harold Holzer Collection of Lincolniana, September 27, 2018
40 c (EPHEMERA.) Group of ephemera relating to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. 12 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, circa 1861-1900 [500/750] “Southern Rights,” uncredited engraving in blue and red depicting Jefferson Davis, 8 x 6 1 / 4 inches * 3 pieces of Confederate currency including a $50 bill with Davis portrait * “An Elegant Book: Genealogical History of the Lee Family,” promotional flier, 8 1 / 2 x 5 inches. New York: University Publishing, circa 1866 * Matching plates of General and Mrs. Lee extracted from the same book, 1868, displayed in the 1987-88 traveling exhibition “The Confederate Image” * Hand-colored portrait of Lee clipped from an unidentified 1863 magazine * and 4 clipped portraits of Lee.
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