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A wide range of rushed shipping options are also available at cost. Each purchase is expertly packaged to ensure safe arrival and free gift wrapping services are available upon request. FOR MORE INFORMATION For further details regarding any of the items featured in this catalog, visit our website or call 561-508-3479 for expert assistance from one of our booksellers. www.RaptisRareBooks.com Raptis Rare Books | 226 Worth Avenue | Palm Beach, FL 33480 T. 561-508-3479 | F. 561-757-7032 | [email protected] 2 Contents Americana 2 Philosophy & Religion 14 History & World Leaders 28 Literature 40 Art, Illustration & Photography 94 Children’s Literature 98 Sports & Leisure 104 Travel & Exploration 110 Economic & Social Theory 114 Index 126 4 Americana RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF ROBERT E. LEE AND HIS STAFF; INSCRIBED BY CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHER MATHEW BRADY BRADY, MATHEW. (ROBERT E. LEE). Original Photographic Portrait of Robert E. Lee. 1865. Photographic portrait of General Robert E. Lee flanked residence with his son, General George Washington Custis Lee by his son, General George Washington Custis Lee, on his (left), and his chief of staff, Colonel Walter H. Taylor (right). right and Colonel Walter Taylor on his left. Inscribed by one The image conveys the pathos of defeat for the Confederacy of the earliest photographers in American history, Mathew and for Lee personally. For Brady, who had been present at the Brady, on a mount, "To Col. Robert Alexander Compliments first battle of the Civil War at Bull Run, this portrait completed of his friend, M.B. Brady." The photograph was taken at his photographic coverage of the conflict" (WAM). Matted and Lee's estate in Richmond, Virginia in April of 1865, only days framed. The entire piece measures 17 inches by 14 inches. An after his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. This exceptional piece of Americana. $15,000 is one in a series taken by Brady in the basement below the back porch of the estate and from the original wet plates in One of the earliest photographers in American history, the Brady-Handy collection. "This photograph is one of the Mathew B. Brady brought home the reality of the Civil War most celebrated images produced by Brady, who established to the American public with his innovative use of a mobile his reputation in the 1850s as the preeminent portraitist in New studio and darkroom to capture thousands of war scenes York and Washington, D.C. In the aftermath of the Civil War, throughout the Civil War. Brady was also recognized as one Brady sought out General Robert E. Lee, who had returned of the premier photographic portraitists of the 19th century, to the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, after his taking photographs of numerous celebrities including Andrew surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert House on April 9, 1865. At the photographer's request General E. Lee among others. Item #89011 Lee reluctantly put on his uniform and posed at the back of his 2 SIGNED BY BOTH JAMES MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS MONROE, JAMES AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Consular Commission Signed. 1824. Consular commission singed by James Monroe as President of the United States and John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State. Folio, one page folded. Dated April 1824, the commission letter formally recognizes Mr. Alexander Pillavoine as Consul of His Majesty the King of France and Navarre for the Port of Baltimore. Signed by James Monroe and John Quincy Adams at the conclusion of the letter. In near fine condition with some light toning. Double matted and framed. $5,000 Prior to serving as the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe gained national prominence for his critical role in the negotiation of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and service as Secretary of State and Secretary of War under President James Madison throughout the War of 1812. Monroe won over eighty percent of the electoral vote in the presidential election of 1816 and used his position to ease existing partisan tensions and endorse American nationalism. With the ratification of the Treaty of 1818 under the diplomacy of Monroe’s Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, the United States acquired harbor and fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest, and in 1891 acquired the state of Florida under the Adams-Onis Treaty. Item #89150 RARE ORIGINAL EXECUTIVE PATENT SIGNED BY PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON JACKSON, ANDREW. Andrew Jackson Autograph Executive Patent Signed. 1835. Original patent executed and signed by Andrew Jackson as President of the United States. Two folio vellum leaves. Engraved vignette header, embossed paper seal with ribbons, ribbon bound. Signed by President Andrew Jackson on April 3rd 1835. Countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsythe and Attorney General Benjamin F. Butler. The patent is issued to "Elisha Holton, a citizen of the United States, who hath alleged that he has invented a new and useful improvement in the construction of a grist mill." The second page contains a lengthy hand-written description of the construction and design of the grist mill signed by Holton on the verso. Also bound in is an original hand-colored technical drawing of the grist mill. In fine condition. The entire document measures 15 inches by 11.5 inches. Uncommon. Rare and desirable in this condition and format. $3,000 American statesman and soldier Andrew Jackson was inaugurated as the seventh President of the United States of America in 1829 after defeating President John Quincy Adams in a landslide electoral victory. "The Age of Jackson" was marked by a shift and expansion of democracy with a goal of passing a portion of the political power of the established elites to the ordinary voter, or "common man" whom Jackson strongly believed had the ability to "arrive at right conclusions." Item #89149 3 EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AUTOGRAPH ALBUM SIGNED BY PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS CABINET INCLUDING SALMON P. CHASE AND WILLIAM H. SEWARD LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph Album Signed by Abraham Lincoln. 1863. Exceptionally rare finely bound autograph album signed by Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th President of the United States the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as well from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the as his cabinet and 225 senators, representatives, and delegates of United States through its Civil War, and in doing so preserved the the 37th Congress, 1861-1863. Octavo, bound in full morocco, Union of the United States of America, abolished slavery, and gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled, all strengthened the federal government. Lincoln began constructing edges gilt, marbled endpapers, with the name "Lizzie F. Harlow" his cabinet on election night and sought to create a cabinet that gilt on the front panel. Singed by Abraham Lincoln on the first would unite the Republican party. His eventual cabinet would page of the album, "Yours truly, Abraham Lincoln." Additionally include his primary rivals for the Republican nomination and, signed by William H. Seward, Edwin M. Stanton, Gideon Welles, although his appointees held differing views on economic issues, M. Blair, Edward Bates, J. P. Usher and S. P. Chase. Collected all were opposed to the expansion of slavery into the territories between the years of 1862 and 1863 by James McCain, a young of the United States. The most senior cabinet post of Secretary of patent officer at the United States Patent Office. McCain presented State was appointed to William Seward who had recently failed to the custom-bound album to his sweetheart, Lizzie F. Harlow, win the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and Lincoln’s who, despite not marrying the young clerk, passed it down to choice for Secretary of the Treasury was Ohio Senator Salmon her heirs. In near fine condition. An exceptional rarity with noted P. Chase, Seward’s primary political rival and the leader of a provenance. $25,000 radical faction of the Republican party that sought the immediate abolition of slavery. Item #91488 4 “I WOULD UNITE WITH ANYBODY TO DO RIGHT AND WITH NOBODY TO DO WRONG” DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Autograph Note Signed. Rare autograph note signed by American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Boldly signed, “I am, Dear Madam, With great respect, Frederick Douglass.” In near fine condition. Double matted and framed with a portrait of Douglass. The note measures 3.75 by 7.5 inches. The entire piece measures 15.25 by 10.75 inches. Rare and desirable signed by Douglass. $1,750 After escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, Frederick Douglass became a leader of the national abolitionist movement gaining notoriety for his acute and powerful antislavery orations and writings. Douglass wrote several bestselling autobiographies which became instrumental in promoting the cause for abolition.