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

107 c   (PRINTS—PRESIDENTIAL.) Group of 17 smaller prints from the Lincoln presidency. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1861-62 and undated [800/1,200] Magee after Brady’s Cooper Union photo (O-17).“Abraham Lincoln”(beardless,body added). 8 x 5 inches. Philadelphia, 1861 * Kellogg. “Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States” (after Cooper Union photo, beard added). Hartford, CT, circa 1861 * Johnson, Fry & Co. after Alonzo Chappel.“A. Lincoln, Likeness from a Recent Photograph from Life.” 3 copies, one colored, with two variant heads. NewYork, 1862 * Small proof engraving of Brady “$5 bill” portrait (O-92), 2 x 1 1 / 2 inches on a 7 x 9 1 / 2 -inch sheet * Bricher Russell, after German (O-9). “Yours &c A. Lincoln” (facsimile inscription and signature). Woodcut engraving, apparently from a book, 7 x 4 inches; inscription by author John E. Burton on verso * Clipped portion of a presidential poster showing Buchanan and Lincoln, possibly from an 1861 H.H. Lloyd poster * Magnus. “The Presidents of our Great Republic.” 5 x 8 inches. New York, 1861 * National Bank Note Company engraving, 3 1 / 2 x 2 1 / 4 inches * Ritchie after Brady, engraving from book, 9 x 5 1 / 2 inches, New York: Derby & Miller, undated * Treasury Department engraving with elaborate border, 7 x 5 inches * Jackman after Appleton engraving, 6 x 4 inches * Putnam for the Rebellion Record, 7 x 5 inches * Samuel Sartain. “16th President of the United States.” Mezzotint, 10 x 8, of 1860 print with beard added (see lot 87); dampstaining and moderate wear. Philadelphia, circa 1861 * Prang. “Abraham Lincoln.” Lithograph, trimmed to 9 x 6 1 / 2 inches oval. Boston, 1861 * Chubbock. Engraving of the Thomas Dow Jones bust of Lincoln. Springfield, MA, circa 1861? 108 c   (PRINTS—CARTOONS.) [Maurer, Louis; artist?] Storming the Castle: “Old Abe” on Guard. Lithograph, 13 x 17 3 / 4 inches; moderate dampstaining, 3-inch closed tear with tape repair on verso. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860 [800/1,200] The three candidates opposing Lincoln struggle to break into the White House— Douglas fiddles with a set of keys while Bell stands guard, and lame duck President Buchanan tries to haul Breckinridge through a window. Lincoln comes around the corner carrying a rail sharpened into a spear: “You needn’t think to catch me napping; for I am a regular Wide Awake.” Reilly 1860-40. 109 c   (PRINTS—CARTOONS.) [Maurer, Louis; artist?] An Heir to the Throne, or the Next Republican Candidate. Lithograph, 13 1 / 4 x 16 3 / 4 inches; light toning, minimal wear. New York, Currier & Ives, ©1860 (possible restrike) [1,500/2,500] A deeply racist anti-Lincoln cartoon from the 1860 campaign, in which Lincoln announces his plan to install an African-American as his successor. Pro-Lincoln editor Horace Greeley says, “Gentlemen allow me to introduce to you, this illustrious individual in whom you will find combined, all the graces, and virtues of Black Republicanism, and whom we propose to run as our next Candidate for the Presidency.” Lincoln responds: “How fortunate! that this intellectual and noble creature should have been discovered just at this time, to prove to the world the superiority of the Colored over the Anglo Saxon race, he will be a worthy successor to carry out the policy which I shall inaugurate.” Between them stands their future candidate for the presidency: William Henry Johnson, a microcephalic circus performer known as “Zip the Pinhead” or “The What-Is-It” (his Barnum poster can be seen faintly in the background). He wonders about Lincoln’s ominous-sounding “policy”: “What can dey be?” “Attacks Lincoln’s chief sin in Democratic eyes, his unbending insistence that the black man was a person with inalienable rights”—Lincoln Image, pages 38-39. Reilly 1860-33.