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1 (Abolitionism) Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878. An ESSAY on SLAVERY and ABOLITIONISM, with References to the Duty of American Females. Philadelphia: Henry Perkins; Perkins & Marvin, Boston; 1837. 152 pages. 6 x 4", cloth, gold lettering upper board. American Imprints 43129. Addressed to Angelina Grimké, cautioning her against abolitionist activism. Holy Cross College Library bookplate, Boston College High rubberstamps, white cover call numbers, few marginal pencil lines, trifle foxed, G. $75.00 2 (Abraham Lincoln) The Governor and The General Assembly of the State of ILLINOIS extend to you a cordial invitation to join with The PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, in doing honor to the memory of ILLINOIS' MARTYRED PRESIDENT, at the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Remodeled Tomb of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Springfield, Wednesday, June 17, 1931 at 2:30 P.M. (Engraved invitation). No imprint. Folded white sheet, 10 x 7.5", gold state seal, black Italic text, 2 photo-engravings inserted: Herbert Hoover, Lincoln's Tomb, tissues. VG. $20.00 3 (Abraham Lincoln) Addison Gilbert Procter & William E. Barton. TWENTY-FOURTH LINCOLN BIRTHDAY SERVICE in Memorial Hall, Chicago, on Monday, February 12, 1923. Addresses. The Grand Army Hall & Memorial Association of Illinois, copyright 1923. 35 pages. Halftones: Lincoln statue, Procter. 6.75 x 5", printed wrapper. VG. $20.00 4 (Abraham Lincoln) Christian, George L. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: An Address delivered before R.E. Lee Camp, No.1, Confederate Veterans at Richmond, VA., October 29, 1909. Second edition. L.H. Jenkins, Publisher, Richmond. 31 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. 'I wish to state what I shall say will be said in no spirit of carping criticism, no desire to do injustice, free from sectional prejudice & passion as one who has suffered as I have, by the conduct of Lincoln & followers can, solely in the interest of truth.' Few wrap edge nicks, toned, VG. $25.00 5 (Abraham Lincoln) Hertz, Emanuel, New York Bar. LINCOLN'S DIPLOMACY: An Unwritten Chapter. Delivered at the Forty-fifth Annual Dinner of the National Republican Club, on Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, 1931. No imprint. 21 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00 6 (Abraham Lincoln) Judson, Harry Pratt, President, University of Chicago & Jessie Palmer Weber, Illinois State Historical Society. The GRAND ARMY HALL and MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION of ILLINOIS LINCOLN BIRTHDAY SERVICE. Addresses, Memorial Hall, Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, February 12, 1916. 39 pages. 3 halftones: St. Gaudens statue, Judson, Memorial Hall Association President Charles Koch. 7 x 5", printed wrapper. VG. $20.00 7 (Abraham Lincoln) Julius E. Francis, collector. The LINCOLN MEMORIAL COLLECTION: Relics of the War of the Rebellion. Autographs of Soldiers & Sailors & Government Officials. Collected by Julius Francis. Property of Lincoln Birthday Association, in Rooms of Buffalo Historical Society, Young Men's Library Building, Buffalo, N.Y. Art-Printing Works, Matthews, Northrup & Company, Buffalo, 1887. 55 pages. 9.5 x 7.5", color printed wrapper. Officers, Programmes, Dedicatory Exercises, Grosvenor Library, List of Relics, Dedication of Memorial Case, Lincoln Birthday Association Exercises, February 12, 1874-1881, poems by women. Promoted establishment of national holiday. Wrap bit soiled, small foredge stain, VG. $25.00 8 (Abraham Lincoln) Lincoln, Abraham. ADDRESS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN of ILLINOIS in CINCINNATI, OHIO, September 17, 1859. Chas. F. Lotz Printing & Stationery Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1910. 60 pages, 4p advertisement. 2 tipped-in halftones: George B. Ayres portrait photographs, prices for prints, letter, ballot facsimiles. 6.75 x 5.25", printed wrapper. Address before Republican Mass Meeting. Corner bumped, VG. $20.00 9 (Abraham Lincoln) Nellie Browne Duff, announcement; Vachel Lindsay; Henry B. Rankin; Adolph Bernard, introduction; Hardin W. Masters, address; Edgar Lee Masters. CEREMONIES at the UNVEILING of MONUMENT to WILLIAM H. HERNDON, Abraham Lincoln's last law partner, Oak Ridge Cemetery, May 30, 1918, Springfield, Illinois. Privately Printed. 32 pages. Frontispiece portrait, halftone plate of monument, facsimile. 9.5 x 6", printed wrapper. Lindsay, 'Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight'; Masters, 'William Herndon' from Spoon River. Trifle rubbed, VG. $20.00 10 (Abraham Lincoln) Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York. The Immortal AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, DOCUMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, PORTRAITS, PERSONAL RELICS and Other LINCOLNIANA Collected by the Late OLIVER R. BARRETT, Chicago. Sale Number 1315. February 19 & 20, 1952. 264 pages. 842 lots. Portrait, illustrated. 9.5 x 6.25", printed paper boards, no dj. VG/none. $10.00 11 (Abraham Lincoln) Power, John Carroll. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: His Life, Public Services, Death & Great Funeral Cortege, with History & Description of National Lincoln Monument, with appendix. Monumental Edition. H.W. Rokker, Publisher, Chicago & Springfield, 1889. 458 pages, publisher & monument handbills inserted. Folding map, frontispiece portrait, engravings: vaults, ground plan, terrace, section, crypt, pedestal, seal, perspective, naval, infantry, artillery, equestrian statues. 7.5 x 5.25", pictorial, black stamped tan cloth. Text tanned, owner name, G. $25.00 12 (Abraham Lincoln) Rankin, Henry B. (Bascom), 1837-1927. ADDRESS at Lincoln's Tomb, Opening the Campaign To Raise a Million Dollars To Establish The ABRAHAM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Springfield, Illinois, May 15, 1924. Printed for Barker's Art Store, Springfield, by Edw. F. Hartmann Co., Springfield. #96 of 200 copies. (18) pages. 7.5 x 5.5", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00 13 (Abraham Lincoln) Ray, P. Orman, Northwestern University. The CONVENTION that NOMINATED LINCOLN: An Address Delivered before the Chicago Historical Society on May 18, 1916, the Fifty-sixth Anniversary of Lincoln's Nomination for the Presidency. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, copyright 1916. 38 pages. 3 illustrations: Republican Wigwam exterior, floorplan, Harpers Weekly convention scene. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00 14 (Adult Education) The Evening Classes of the Young Men's Christian Association of Dayton, Ohio. WHAT THEY SAY! WHAT YOU SAY? (Wrap title). Who they are. What is said. What we say. No date, but 1891 (text). 30 pages, errata slip. 6 x 3.5", printed wrapper. Occupations, intellectual & physical life, membership, fees & privileges, classes, library, entertainments, gymnasium, baths, park, social haunts, receptions, bible classes, gospel & prayer meetings, junior department, cities, distances, fire alarm boxes. Wrap soiled, VG. $20.00 15 (Advertising Alphabet) Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, New York. An EASY TASK for Young Students & Older Workers. (Sapolio booklet). No date, ca 1890? (16) pages. Illustrated rhyming alphabet ('A is for Aunty who in her old days, Declared that Sapolio deserved highest praise', 'Z is for Zenith where Sapolio stands, Sending gladness & light to all peoples & lands'), numbers ('1 day in early spring of year . 10 times the labor you will save & you'll look gay instead of grave'), Moral ('True happiness you'll always know if you will use Sapolio'). 3.5 x 5.25", brown & orange printed tan wrapper. Bit creased, VG. $20.00 16 (Advertising Drawing Book) King's Puremalt Department, Boston, Massachusetts. TOMMY'S and DOLLY'S ADVENTURES in the LAND of KING'S PUREMALT. Drawing Book. No date, ca 1915 (testimonial). (48) pages. 23 color illustrations face plain versions, dream rockinghorse Bohemia trip, picking grain, stork ride to castle, adopted by king, dinner, nursery, Swanboat ride, wholesale store, baseball game, bowling alley, balloon ascension, mask ball. 7.75 x 7.25", color wrapper. Testimonials & story in verse: 'Rich man, poor man, watchman, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, chauffeur, footman, short & tall, King's Puremalt gives strength to all.' 9 pictures partly colored, somewhat neatly, wrap rubbed, soiled, lower wrap pencil scribble, G. $25.00 17 (Advertising Fiction) Simplex Shoe Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The TALE of BROWNIE LIGHTFOOT. Copyright, 1924. 22 pages. Green, purple & pink drawings. 6 x 4", printed wrapper. Leprecaun teaches cobbler to make Simplex Flexies. Light creasing, bit soiled, scuffed, G. $15.00 18 (Advertising Fiction) The Esmond Mills, Esmond, Rhode Island. The STORY of BUNNY CORTEX: Being an Account of the Strange Adventure of Bunny Rabbit with the Red Foxes & His Blanket Discovery. Ninth Edition, 1922. (Advertising fiction). Copyright 1915. (28) pages. 9 color drawings, bunny-motif blanket, factory view. 5.5 x 3.5", color wrapper. Youngster shorn by foxes in retribution for verbal slight; bunny blanket to rescue. Wrap & titlepage soiled, rubbed, pitted, G. $15.00 19 (Advertising Fiction) Walker, Henry Cragin; Frances MacBrayne, pictures. The SILVER BOX and Other Stories for Children. Published for the many friendly patrons of this Bank. Copyrighted 1945. 16 pages. Color drawings. 7.75 x 5.5", color illustrated stiff white wrapper. Silver Box teaches saving, Foolish Giant (temper), Memory Game, Magic Medicine (smile), Where Dark Came From (rest), Queen Who Changed Mind (altruism), Thrifty Vine, with quizzes. Cover trifle soiled, VG. $20.00 20 (Advertising Verse) George W. Simmons & Son, Oak Hall Clothing House, Boston, Massachusetts. BOSTON OAK HALL PICTORIAL. By a Friend to American Enterprise. Twenty- fifth edition. Respectfully dedicated to Juvenile Patrons. No date, ca 1855? (31) pages, fronts only. Illustrated promotional paraphrase 'House that Jack Built': 'This is Oak Hall . This is man who planned