Alexander Gardner carte-de-visite portrait
Signed by Abraham Lincoln as President
Exceedingly rare Alexander Gardner carte-de-visite portrait of Lincoln, boldly signed "A. Lincoln" below the image, one of only three signed examples of this image that we know of, showing him seated at a marble-topped table with his reading glasses in one hand and the partially folded pages of a newspaper in the other, this exceptionally rare portrait printed from Gardner's glass collodion negative, taken at his Washington studio on August 9, 1863. $110,000. | More...
1861 Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
Rare second printing of Lincoln's important first inaugural address, printed by order of the Senate four days after its delivery. $7200. | More...
Emancipation Proclamation
Iowa: W.H. Pratt, 1865
Original large calligraphic portrait lithograph of Abraham Lincoln created from the text of the Emancipation Proclamation, with portions of the text highlighted to create a portrait of Lincoln clearly visible within the text, designed by W.H. Pratt. $3800. | More...
1864 Engraved Document
Signed by Abraham Lincoln
Splendid Lincoln Civil War document appointing James S. Casey as "Captain in the Firth Regiment of Infantry," countersigned by Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War. $17,500. | More...
Proclamation of the President Relative to Pardons for Deserters
Washington: Government Printing Office,
circa February 24, 1864
First public notice of the February 24, 1864 Presidential proclamation regarding deserters, appended to the amended conscription Act of 1863. $3500. | More...
Old Abe's Jokes
New York: T.R. Dawley, 1864
First edition of a humorous and often moving collection of Old Abe's Jokes, issued at the height of the Civil War and Lincoln’s 1864 presidential campaign against McClellan, this very scarce work a testimony to the brilliance and exuberance of Lincoln’s “comic genius… an essential element of his political leadership and democratic leadership,” with his engraved portrait on the frontispiece and front wrapper. $1250. | More...
Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin
New York: New York Times, Saturday, April 15, 1865
Original New York Times issue front page reporting the events surrounding Lincoln’s death and the search for his assassin. $3000. | More...
Memento Mori broadside
ca. 1865
Original late 19th-century printed broadside memorializing President Lincoln after his assassination, featuring a rustic woodcut after a photograph by Anthony Berger. $2900. | More...
Lincoln Portrait
Signed by Aaron Copland
Hawkes Pocket Scores edition, signed and dated on the title page, "Aaron Copland / 1983." $650. | More...
