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

117 c   (PRINTS—CARTOONS.) Group of 13 war-era cartoons of Lincoln and his circle. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1860-64 and undated. [300/400] Includes 5 prints in various formats from Adalbert Volck’s Confederate War Etchings, including [Passage through Baltimore] on thin mounted tissue; “Worship of the North”; and [Lincoln and Butler as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza]. Also includes 10 cartoons clipped from contemporary magazines such as Vanity Fair, Harper’sWeekly, and the Southern Illustrated News. 118 c   (PRINTS—EMANCIPATION.) Clay & Cossack; engravers. President Lincoln Acrostical Star. Illustrated tinted lithograph broadside, 24 3 / 4 x 20 1 / 4 inches; toning and dampstaining, minor edge wear including a few short closed tears, tape repairs and reinforcement on verso. Buffalo, NY: L. Dodge, H.B. & J. Weir, 1864 [700/1,000] This print features an abbreviated version of the Emancipation Proclamation at center, surrounded by inset portraits of Lincoln and his generals Grant and Sheridan and numerous religious acrostics on the themes of Union and Liberty: “Unyielding chains begin to break / Now God doth speak, and tyrants quake . . . Millions now are free / Death trembles at the Jubilee.” Not listed in Eberstadt’s Emancipation Proclamation, and not in OCLC, though a later Chicago print with the same name appears. The Library of Congress holds a copy, and only one other example has been traced at auction. 118