Lincolniana : an Unusual Collection of Eulogies on Abraham Lincoln ... /Catalogue Compiled and Sale Conducted

Creator Display

Stan. V. Henkels (Firm)

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Description

Remainder of title: An unusual collection of eulogies on Abraham Lincoln, being the largest and most complete list offered at public sale. Works appertaining to the life of Lincoln and his administration, autograph letter of his favorite son ""Tad"" and T. Buchanan Read's last portrait of Lincoln from life. Also books from the assigned estate of Chas. Steigerwalt of Lancaster by order of Redmond Conyngham, Esq., assignee, embracing early almanacs, rare American history, early American broadsides, both Revolutionary and Confederate, rare old American atlases and early American maps with views of New York, Quebec, and other American cities, and a collection of American and foreign bookplates, and from other sources, American genealogies, state, county and town histories, Pennsylvania colonial records and archives, Revolutionary history, &c., &c., to be sold Monday and Tuesday afternoons, March 20th and 21st, 1911, at 2.30 o'clock each day. At the book auction rooms of Samuel T. Freeman & Co., 1519-1521 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Contains 778 lots. Cover title: Lincolniana : an inportant[!] collection of eulogies on Abraham Lincoln. Contains facsim. of letter from Tad Lincoln to ""Gumpert"", dated ...t. 6, 1864 (lot 351). Prices in ms. Book-plate of Joseph Benjamin Oakleaf.

Donor

Williams, Frank J.; Williams, Virginia

Date

1911

Measurement Display

74 pages :facsimile ;26 cm.

Format (Digital)

PDF

Subjects

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Bibliography--Catalogs.; Steigerwalt, Charles--Library--Catalogs.; Booksellers' catalogs--United States.

Work Type

pamphlet

Class

ephemera

Preferred Citation

[Physical ID#]: [Item Title], Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Rights Management

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Series

Catalogue ; no. 1027

Related Works

Monaghan 1982; Stern 1904

Digital ID#

Z8505.H46 1911

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries.

Publisher

Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.