An especially appealing military commission, signed by Abraham Lincoln, promoting Guido Norman Lieber to the rank of captain just two months after his father’s groundbreaking codification of the laws of war were issued as General Orders to the Union Army. Guido Norman Lieber was the son of Matilda Oppenheimer and.....
The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch, originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell, printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln and.....
An unusual, hand-colored example of this handsome broadside edition of the Emancipation Proclamation designed by penmanship master Gilman R. Russell of New Hampshire and described by Eberstadt as a “highly decorative edition.” The text of the proclamation, omitting the preliminary matter, is presented here wrapping around a central full-length portrait.....