Lot 1370
Orations, Tracts, Booklets. Thirty-five speeches, commentaries, tracts, etc., on Lincoln, slavery, and Civil War-related subjects, dated from 1835 to 1927, but most published during the Civil War. A complete list is available upon request. They include: "The Anti-Slavery Record," 1835, by R.G. Williams, for the American Anti-Slavery Society, N.Y.; "The Destruction of Republicanism the Object of the Rebellion," 1863, by the Emancipation League; "Brief Narrative of Incidents in the War in Missouri….," 1863, Boston; "McClellan Who He is, What He Has Done,"1863, by Sinclair Tousey; "A Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, on the State of the Union….," 1861; "General Lee at Gettysburg….," by James Power Smith, 1905; "…Speech of William H. Seward on the occasion of The Fall of Atlanta,"1864; "Speech of Senator S.A. Douglas…on the State of the Union," 1861; "Security and Reconciliation for the Future, Propositions and Arguments on the Reorganization of the Rebel States," by Charles Sumner, 1865; "Narrative of Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers & Soldiers While Prisoners of War," U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1864-65; and "Oration," a commemorative speech for Abraham Lincoln, 1865. Lengths vary; many are bound with string. An interesting collection, held in two leatherette volumes. Very Good to Fine.
Estimated Value $800 - 1,000.
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