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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 800

Lincoln, Abraham. Sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865); guided the nation through the throes of the Civil War, abolished slavery, modernized the economy, strengthened the federal government and preserved the Union; assassinated by actor John Wilkes Booth. A quintet of Lincolniana: The Terrible Tragedy at Washington. Assassination of President Lincoln. Barclay & Co., Philadelphia, 1865. 8vo, 116 pages, illustrated paper covers, various illustrations. Lower corner clipped and first few pages, light soiling. Good-About Very Good; A Discourse on the Death of President Lincoln Preached by Rev. A.B. Dascomb to His People at Waitsfield, Vt. Walton's Steam Printing, Montpelier, 1865. 8vo, 23 pages, faux-bark covers; A Great Man Fallen! A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln by the Rev. Wilbur F. Paddock Delivered in St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia. Sherman & Co., Philadelphia, 1865. 8vo, 24 pages (with additional blank pages for notes), faux-bark covers. Both discourses Very Good; Sepia Photo of Lincoln and son, Tad. 2 3/8 x 4". Fine; Memorial Print of Lincoln (1865). 14 1/3 x 17 1/3". Type as that produced by Kimmel & Forster shortly after Lincoln's death, but without name, likely a contemporary copy to fill the public demand for these mourning prints. Lincoln is depicted, hand beneath his coat, before an American shield draped in mourning. Repaired tear and reinforced back. Fine. [5]

Estimate
$200 to $300