(CIVIL WAR.) Group of war-date issues of Harper's Weekly. 22 loose issues; condition varies but generally strong, not collated. List of issues available by request. sold as is. New York, 1861-65- 350
Five 19th C. wood engravings, Harper's Weekly illustrations, civil war themes, matted and framed under glass: "Our Generals," dated October 12, 1861, by C. Parsons; "Bivouac Fire On The Potomac," with black musician and dancer, by Winslow Homer; "The Rebel Raid Into Pennsylvania, Stuart's Cavalry On Their Way To The Potomac," by A.R. Waud; "General View of Morris Island, Union Camps, and Rebel Works, Fort Johnson, The Lower Harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, etc. etc.;" "A Battle As Seen By The Reserve," by Thomas Nast, all with center creases and some toning, ss: approx. 14" h. x 20" w.
Three Civil War Framed Prints including [Battle of Chancellorsville, Sunday, May 3, 1863] from a Sketch by Edwin Forbes, black and white print on newspaper stock, 15-1/2 x 19-3/4 in., framed in a wood and gilt decorated frame, 26 x 30 in. [good condition]; and two Harper's Weekly prints from 1861, 16 x 11-1/4 in., in simple black frames, 19-1/2 x 15-1/2 in., [good condition]. Provenance: Collection of Steve Chandler, Salisbury, North Carolina
After Frederic Remington (American, 1861 - 1909) 28?" x 28?" x 19?" "Coming Through the Rye". Large bronze with brown patina, inscribed in the casting, numbered 47 / 100, Roman Bronze Works. Originally created in 1902, posthumous cast bronze of four mounted cowboys, pistols raised aloft, keeping a steady pace in a tight, boisterous group. Incised signature in the base "Frederic Remington" and numbered. This monumental sculpture was inspired by the artist's own illustration published in "Century Magazine" in October 1888 and in “Harper’s Weekly” in December 1889. Attached to a marble base.
Offered with historical annotation framed under glass plaque, stating "Copyright October 8, 1902; cast 1902-3".
(CIVIL WAR.) Harper's Weekly. Volumes 5-9, covering the period of the Civil War. Profusion of illustrations and maps. Folio, non-uniform bindings, two volumes in need of rebinding. Not collated, but seems to be complete. New York, 1861-65
AFTER FREDERICK REMINGTON (AMERICAN. 1861-1909)Coming through the Rye. Impressed, Copyright by Frederic Remington. Bronze with Black Patina. Height 28 in. Width 28 in. Depth 26 in. cf. Remington’s bronze, Coming through the Rye, created in 1902, depicts four boisterous cowboys, mounted on galloping horses, arms raised high, flaunting pistols. Inspiration for the sculpture was Remington’s own illustrations, which he created for publications in Century Magazine, 1888 and Harper's Weekly, 1889.
Newspapers/Civil War/Miscellany.
8 Items, including approx. 19 periodical issues. 4to/folio. Uncollated, some tears, edge chipping, occasional losses to leaves. ++ The Greensburg Herald. Oct. 30, 1861. Includes 7 Civil War-related front page articles, partly related to combat near Leesburg, VA, involving about 1800 Union and an estimated 5000-10000 confederates. ++ The Westmoreland Intelligencer. 2 Issues: Dec. 11, 1840 and Jan. 1, 1841. Greensburgh, PA. Weekly. [4]pp each. Includes front page article "The Mormon Delusion," reproduced from the "Episcopal Recorder." ++ The Youth's Companion. Announcement Number, 1905. ++ Campaign ad for Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (Vice Presidential running mate), from a supplement to "The Gazette," York, PA, Oct. 5, 1912. [1] p. ++ The Daily Graphic. About 13 issues, mostly Sep. - Nov. 1873. ++ Harper's Weekly. 2 Issues (incomplete). ++ Public Ledger. 2 copies of Vol I, No. 1. Phila: March 25, 1836. ++ Original photograph of a woman holding a young girl (about 2-4 years old). [C. 1890's - 1910's]. 23 5/8 x 20 in. Mounted to contemporary backing. Normal yellowing, few edge tears, edges toned, early tape bit near lower left, scuffing to red signature or notation at lower left. Not subject to return.
LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)
Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. July 5, 1861. 37th Congress. 1st Session. Ex. Doc. No.1. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1861.
8vo (250 x 154 mm). 111pp. (Some light overall browning.) Includes Lincoln's message dated and sent to Congress on July 4, 1861 (but read on July 5, 1861) in which he outlines the events that ignited the war, shares his view on the role of the government, and presents his rationale in defense of the Union. AN INTRIGUING ASSOCIATION COPY: George Curtis, a noted orator, delivered his "Doctrine of Liberty" address to the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard in 1862 on behalf of President Lincoln encouraging support of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1863, he became the political editor at Harper's Weekly. Monaghan 105.
CIVIL WAR EPHEMERA & MONEY: Lot of vintage and earlier Civil War related items including: Authentic $50 and $20 Confederate currency; 7 Harpers Weekly journals from 1861 - 3 copies March 2nd, one copy March 6th, and 3 copies March 30th; Civil War Extra large reproduction paper; prints and postcards. Overall Dimensions Unit: Height: 0. 00 Width: 0. 00 Depth: 0. 00 Weight: 0. 00
Pair of Harper's Weekly Hand-Colored Newspaper Illustrations, depicting, respectively, the departure and landing of registered enemies of the United States at Madisonville, LA; and views of New Orleans, sight 15" x 10", dated March 7, 1863 and March 30, 1861. Glazed, matted and presented in ebonized and parcel-gilt Hogarth-style frames.
Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909)
Seated Man Holding a Walking Stick
Applied signature "Frederic Remington" in ink l.r., identified on a label on the
reverse (see below).
Pencil on paper, 11 1/4 x 9 in. (28.5 x 22.8 cm), framed.
Condition: Nicks and tears to edges, unobtrusive abrasions, toning, not examined out of frame.
Provenance: From the artist to his widow to Dr. Roland J. Mulford, then by descent within his family to the present owner.
N.B. This work is a preliminary sketch for Remington's A Sketch on the Work from 1890-91, which was published as an illustration in Julian Ralph's article, "Dan Dunn's Outfit" in Harper's Weekly (November 1891), p. 890. In this work, Mrs. Remington took a signature from one of her husband's canceled checks and applied it to the unsigned drawing, a common practice after the artist's death.
A copy of correspondence from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center's Remington Examination Committee discussing the work accompanies the lot.
(CIVIL WAR.) Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. Volumes 5-10, covering the period of the Civil War and beyond. Profusion of illustrations and maps. Folio, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; generally strong and fresh, scattered minor wear, folding map of 9 November 1861 worn; signatures of Edward A. Seccomb on front flyleaves. Not collated, but apparently complete. New York, January 1861 to December 1866- 4,000
Seven Framed Civil War-related Items, Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac.-Drawn by Mr. Thomas Nast.- an engraving from Harper's Weekly Magazine, October 10, 1863, pp. 648-49, 14 1/4 x 21 1/4 (sight); Abraham Lincoln Entering Richmond, April 3d, 1865, engraving by J.C. Butt after a drawing by L. Hollis, 5 x 6 1/2, (sight); Interior of the State Arsenal 57th St. Occupied by the 7th N.Y.V. (Steuben Reg.t) 1861, Sarony, Major, & Knapp, lithographers, New York," for D.T. Valentine's Manuel, 1862", 3 3/4 x 6 (sight); an embossed chromolithograph of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, J.R. Rosen, publisher, Boston, 13 3/8 x 9 3/4 (sight); an oval lithograph portrait of "President U.S. Grant.," 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 (sight); an oval lithograph depicting eight Rebel Officers, H. Wright Smith, publisher, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 (sight); and a copy of the Congratulatory Order From General Custer, 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Estimate $200-400 The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
FOUR BOUND VOLUMES OF HARPER'S WEEKLY New York, for the years 1861 and 1862, folio (16-1/2 in.), various bindings, some missing pages and some duplication between volumes.
CHARLESTON ILLUSTRATIONS, HARPER?S WEEKLYFour prints: Bombardment of Fort Sumpter by the Batteries of the Confederate States, April 13, 1861, Harper?s Weekly; The Bombardment of Fort Sumpter, April 7, 1863-From a Sketch by an Eye Witness, May 2, 1863, Harper?s Weekly; A Glimpse of Charleston and Bay from St. Michaels Church; Birdseye View of Charleston from Harper?s Weekly, August 15, 1863; the largest 14 x 20-1/2 in.; matching mats and maple frames, the largest 20-1/4 x 26-1/4 in.
Provenance: Private South Carolina Collection
Condition:
slightly toned; frames are in very good condition, very nice group presentation
TN Ephemera and Prints, 30 pcs Assorted TN Prints and Ephemera, 30 items total. 1st item: "Fourth Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Nashville, Tennessee" imprint, published by Smith, Camp, and Company, Printers, Patriot Office, 22 pages with a table of attendance, 1858. Paper and string bound book reporting the activities of the Nashville Public Schools of past year, submitted by J. F. Pearl, Superintendent, to the Board of Education, detailing information concerning subjects such as the deaths of the teachers and pupils, discipline and attendance, and examples of questions to be answered by candidates of the High Schools regarding English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, History, Latin, Watts on the Mind, and Spelling. Preceding the example questions, Pearl closes his report by repeating the petition "Give us a commodious school house on College Hill, and an Examination Hall upon the lot adjoining the Hume Building". 8 3/8" H x 5 1/4" W. 2nd item: Sepia toned photograph depicting "North on Gay St." after a "Big Fire at Knoxville, Tenn--April 8th 1897, "Hotel Knox" started". Features the burned-out building facades near Sanford, Chamberlain and Albers Druggists, with views of telegraph wires and crowds of people surveying the damage. Mounted to card stock. Photograph - 4 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W. Card stock - 5 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W. Late 19th century. 3rd item: "Buildings and Forts (TN/GA/VA)", Plate CXXIV, lithographed with tinted color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Depicts 9 scenes of significant Civil War buildings and forts in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia including "Nashville, Tenn. from the South-East. Showing the State Capitol", "Buzzard Roost Gap and Rocky Face Ridge, GA", and "Battery Spofford, VA". Image - 16 1/4" H x 27 1/4" W. Sheet - 18 1/4" H x 29" W. 4th item: "Nashville, Tenn. from the South-East. Showing the State Capitol", part of "Buildings and Forts (TN/GA/VA)", Plate CXXIV, lithographed with tinted color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Mounted to matte and sealed with plastic. Image - 8 5/8" H x 11 1/2" W. Matte - 12" H x 16" W. 5th item: "Cumberland Gap" steel plate engraving with hand coloring by Samuel V. Hunt, after Harry Fenn, published by Daniel Appleton and Company, New York, circa 1972. From "Picturesque America" by William Cullen Bryant. Housed in black wooden frame with matte. Image - 5 1/4" H x 7 7/8" W. Sight - 7 1/4" H x 9 1/8" W. Framed - 13 1/8" H x 6 1/4" W. 6th and 7th items: Two engravings with later hand coloring depicting Nashville, one from "A Comprehensive View of Our Country and Its Resources ", by James D. McCabe Jr., published by the Hubbard Brothers, Philadelphia, 1876. Both with text pages en verso. Both housed in wooden frames. Images range in size from 2 1/2" H x 3 3/4" W to 2 5/8" H x 4" W. Frames range in size from 5 5/8" H x 9 1/4" W to 7 3/8" H x 8 1/2" W. 8th and 9th items: Two copper plate engravings with hand coloring titled "General View of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee", drawn by Dr. B. Howard, published by Harper's Weekly, 1862, and "Army of the Cumberland--Nashville and its Fortifications", published by Harper's Weekly, 1864. "Cumberland Gap" engraving has linen backing. Both mounted to mattes. Images approximately - 6" H x 9" W. Sheets approximately - 8" H x 10 3/4" W. Mattes approximately - 11" H x 14 1/8" W. 10th and 11th items: Two woodcut engravings, one with hand coloring, of "The State Capitol, at Nashville, Tennessee", published by Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1857. The uncolored engraving includes the original full page with "A Prayer Wheel at Cashmere, India," engraving and text. Both engravings mounted to mattes, colored engraving sealed with plastic. Images approximately - 5 1/2" H x 7 7/8" W. Mattes approximately - 11" H x 13" W. 12th item: Copper plate engraving with hand coloring titled "Central Tennessee College", drawn by Wheeler Marshall Bruce, with "Central Certificates" text page en verso. Mounted to matte. Image - 3 5/8" H x 7 1/8" W. Sheet - 7 3/8" H x 10 3/4" W. Matte - 11" H x 14" W. 13th item: "Tennessee Centennial Exposition: The National Event of 1897" program, published by Marshall and Bruce Company, Nashville, circa 1897. The 38 page program features black and white images of significant buildings, including a "Bird's Eye View of Exposition", descriptions of the planned events, and nearby points of interest including Civil War battlefields and national cemeteries. Folded - 8 5/8" H x 4" W. Unfolded - 8 5/8" H x 15 3/8" W. 14th-24th items: Ten postcards, five chromolithographs, four sepia toned photographs, and one lithograph, depicting scenes in and around Nashville, Tennessee. "St. Ann's Church and Rectory and Martin Hall" postcard is addressed to Mrs. Louisa Sebring, Halifat, Kansas with writing in black in from her sister, and a one cent Franklin stamp, illegible postmark. Four photograph postcards housed in plastic sleeve. Postcards approximately - 3 1/2" H x 5 1/2" W. Early/mid 20th century. 25th-26th items: Two woodcut engravings titled "Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee", sketched by H. P. Whinnery, engraved by Rattlescraw. Depicts the majority of the Vanderbilt University campus including the Chancellor's Residence, the Science Hall, the Observatory, the Main Building, and others. Buildings labeled below map. Image - 9 3/4" H x 14 1/2" W. Sheets range in size from 11 3/4" H x 16" W to 12 1/2" H x 19" W. 27th-28th items: Two paper advertisements, one chromolithograph, one lithograph, for Knoxville businesses. Chromolithograph is to advertise the opening of "The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company" at 322 Union Street, Knoxville, TN and depicts "Madison Square, Hoffman House and Broadway in New York city. The lithograph is to advertise "Roth Coal Co", Yard at Oak St., Office at 603 Prince Street, Knoxville TN, and depicts "7,500 Tons Pure White Moss" in the yard. Chromolithograph - 6 1/4" H x 8 1/2" W. Lithograph - 4" H x 9 1/4" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. 29th-30th items: Two pages with engravings and text related to Tennessee with information about population, climate, industries, government, etc. South Dakota engraving and text page en verso of page 378. Pages range in size from 13 1/2" x 11 1/4" W to 14 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Early 20th century. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
M1851 Colt Navy Presented to Captain Michael Grealish by Col George H. Hoyt .36 cal. 7.5" octagonal barrel S/N 132996. Single line New York address. Factory engraved with one-piece ivory grips.? Blued finish with silver-plated backstrap and triggerguard.? Inside of triggerguard inscribed: "Presented to Captain M. F. Grealish/by Col. Geo. H. Hoyt". An interesting inscription in which the presenter Colonel Hoyt is of greater historical significance than the recipient Captain Grealish. The relationship between the two men is unknown. The post-war presentation could not have been made before July 1866 when Grealish was commissioned captain. By then Colonel Hoyt had already resigned in July 1865 following a promotion to brevet brigadier general that March.Irishman Michael Grealish (abt. 1839-1897) was employed as miner when he enlisted in Company K 1st Colorado Infantry at Central City Colorado Territory in September 1861. The 1st Colorado would be redesignated as cavalry in November 1862 and was commanded by the notorious Colonel John Chivington who would squander the minor celebrity he achieved in March 1862 at the battle of Glorieta Pass forever tainted in memory by his ruthless culpability in the November 1864 San Creek Massacre. Private Grealish was present at Glorieta and served uninterrupted with the regiment until May 1864 when he was ordered on detached duty to Ft. Lyon CT with the Commissary Department. He remained at Fort Lyon attempting to secure a commission in the Quartermaster Department until mustering out in December 1864. Private Grealish even petitioned the President. An interesting war dated letter found in his archive file bears the letterhead of the "Executive Mansion" dated January 1864. The President had scrawled a quick note to the Secretary of War inquiring "Is there a vacancy of Military Store Keeper in Kansas to which I can order the appointment of Michael Grealish? Signed "Yours Truly/A.Lincoln."Grealish ultimately was appointed Military Store Keeper (MSK) in the Ordnance Department in July 1866 with the rank of captain. Correspondence from the period relates that Grealish's preference was the Quartermaster Department but that he settled for Ordnance when a vacancy opened. Except for a few weeks leave every few years Captain Grealish would serve for the next thirty-one years as a dedicated Military Store Keeper at various government arsenals. In fact he died of heart failure at the Allegheny Arsenal on May 1 1897 while still on active duty. In the intervening decades he was posted to Hilton Head South Carolina August 1866 to November 1867; Pikesville Arsenal Md. to May 1876; Augusta Arsenal to November 1889; Rock Island Arsenal to November 1894 and the Allegheny Arsenal until his death in May 1897.His cumulative service record is nearly spotless. He was charged with "disobedience of orders" in December 1885 by the officer commanding the Ordnance Department but was never formally tried or sanctioned. Grealish married in Kansas in November 1876 and in 1879?unsuccessfully sued the government for back pay. Grealish's widow Mary collected his pension until her death in Riverton Wyoming in April 1918.The revolver's presenter George Henry Hoyt (1837-1877) was a most extraordinary fellow whose short career included stints as lawyer tied to Abolitionist John Brown and soldier with the notorious Kansas "Red Legs" that paved the way for a political appointment as Kansas Attorney General in 1867-69.Paid by one of John Brown financial backers George Hoyt a novice attorney in 1859 reluctantly found himself brought in to assist in the defense of the messianic John Brown who blithely stood accused of "treason" after his explosive Harper's Ferry Raid. Hoyt joined the defense team too late to affect the outcome of the rushed trial which seemed to sympathetic Abolitionists preordained to end at the gallows. Brown's attempted slave revolt riveted the nation giving currency to extreme elements on both sides of the smoldering sectional debate. The prospect of national compromise dimmed to darkness as the trap door dropped open under the weight of Brown's prophecy.With more than a hint of opportunism afforded by the advent of the Civil War the young Hoyt turned up in militantly free-state Kansas where he was commissioned in Company B 7th Kansas Cavalry as a 2nd lieutenant in 1861. After less than a year riding roughshod in Missouri with Jenison's Jayhawker's Captain Hoyt was discharged for disability September 1862. Hoyt then became associated with the formation of an equally notorious group of irregulars known as the "Red Legs" organized "sometime in 1862. One source says that Captain Hoyt commanded the "Red Legs" which came to be "recognized as a badge of desperate service in the Union army."As the worst of guerilla war subsided under the pressure of martial law and stricter military accountability Hoyt became Lieutenant Colonel of the 15th Kansas Cavalry in October 1863. Colonel Hoyt commanded detachments in the field during 1864-1865 as numerous citations in the O.R.'s attest. Hoyt duly received an obligatory brevet star in March 1865. Colonel Hoyt's military service was brought to an abrupt conclusion in April 1865 when he was badly injured in a runaway stage coach accident while traveling on army business. Barely able to walk Hoyt was declared unfit for duty and was compelled to resign in July 1865. Sustained by his political ambition Hoyt's last hurrah on the public stage came in 1867 when he became Kansas Attorney General. When the term was completed in 1869 Hoyt's fragile health gave out completely compelling him to "abandon business pursuits entirely" according to a consensus of affidavits in his pension file. George Henry Hoyt died prematurely on February 2 1877 in Athol Massachusetts and is buried in the local Silver Lake Cemetery (Lot 828). His widow Mary A. Hoyt continued to receive her husband's pension until her death in January 1920.The inscribed Colt Navy is likely Captain Grealish's early service revolver carried before the general availability of more modern cartridge conversions starting in 1870. The context of the presentation is unknown and it is not evident from the records how or when the two officers might have crossed paths in their respective ranks. Accompanying the Colt are two thick files containing National Archive military and pension records for both men. Condition: Revolver appears to be an old refinish however it still retains its factory sharp edges and markings.? Barrel and cylinder with nice patina brown and traces of blue finish.? Ivory grips has nice aged look .
LG 19C HARPER'S WEEKLY 5 VOL. COLLECTION New York,1861-1865Includes five maroon binders labeled Harper's Weekly, each binder holding over one hundred pages of Harper's weekly articles, print illustrations, and advertisements. Includes Harper's Weekly April 29, 1865 edition cover President Lincoln's Assassination.
Collection of Eleven Harper's Weekly Bound Volumes, from the 1960 centennial re-issue, bindings dated 1861-1866; 1866 and 1868 being full-year runs and the remainder half-year runs, h. 16-1/2", w. 12".
Ten 19th C. wood engravings, Harper's Weekly illustrations, Civil War themes, matted and framed under glass, title including: "The Capture of Vicksburg", 1863, sketched by Theo. R. Davis; "Preparing Merchant Vessels for the Blockade"; "Our New Western Gun-Boats"; "Commander Porter's Mortar Flatilla"; Admiral Farragut's Fleet Bombarding Fort Morgan", 1864; "Island Number Ten After the Surrender", sketched by A. Simplot; "Specimens of our New Iron-Clad Navy"; "The Second Reinforcement of Fort Pickens", 1861; "The Battle of Pittsburg Landing", 1862; "Battle of Malvern Hill", 1862; all with center creases, toning and some foxing, site sizes range from 7" h. x 9 1/2" w. to 14 1/8" h. x 20 3/4" w.
Group of Civil War Newspapers, Documents, and Images, c. 1861-65, group of Harper's Weekly and Boston Post newspapers, images, currency, and a framed image of Major General Winfield Scott Hancock with his autograph. Estimate $300-500 Some foxing on paper objects and some slight tears. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
"Jefferson City, Missouri," hand-colored Harper's Weekly print, July 6, 1861, framed, H.- 9 1/4 in., W.- 15 in.
[Confederate Autograph] "Stonewall" Jackson ANS
dated at Bolivia, June 11, 1861, a pass authorizing Thomas Marshall to go to and from Shepherdstown; signed "T.J. Jackson / Col. Cmdg Va Forces" (Bolivia was a small town located on the heights adjoining Harper's Ferry. A week later Jackson would be promoted to Brigadier General; on July 21 at the Battle of Bull Run he would earn the name "Stonewall." Capt. Thomas Marshall was a volunteer aide Jackson's staff. He would be present at Bull Run [commended in Jackson's official report] and subsequent battles.) Together With 2 Confederate themed prints
Complete Civil War Harper's Weekly, 1861-1865, folio (15.75" x 11.5"), approximately 4,000 pages total, five volumes, half leather binding by year with gilt lettering on spines, marbleized end papers, indexed, contains hundreds ...
Estimate: 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
TN Civil War ephemera inc. Broadside and Zollicofer Sign. : 8 pieces of Tennessee Civil War related ephemera. 1st item: Half of a printed 4 page broadside or pamphlet marking Tennessee's secession from the Union, titled AN ACT TO RAISE, ORGANIZE, AND EQUIP A PROVISIONAL FORCE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, passed May 6, 1861. (Lower half missing). 2nd item: Newspaper clipping titled ACTS OF TENNESSEE PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY, An Act to Amend an Act to Organize, Raise and Equip a provisional force. " Undated and incomplete; runs through Section 12. 3rd item: Signature of General Felix Zollicoffer, from cover sheet addressed to John Joslin of Nashville. 8" x 10" sheet. 4th item: Railroad pass, "Conductors . will permit Mr. E. D. Hicks to ride on Thur. __ between Belle Vue and Hicks Crossing to Nashville. " Signed __ Thomas Genl. Supt. __, Nashville July ___. " Written on half sheet of note paper, 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". 5th item: Partially printed document requiring the Quartermaster's Dept. at Nashville to provide transportation from Nashville to Louisville for J. Bropley (or Bromley) and George Burnes (or Burnet), who were then to proceed to Milwaukee on business connected with the U. S. Military Railroads, by order of Brig. Genl. D. C. McCallum (Daniel Craig McCallum). Dated Dec. 22, 1864, a few days after the Battle of Nashville. 6th item: Discharge paper for Indiana-born Lewis N. Johnston, 3rd Lieut. of Capt. James F. Murphy's Company H, 149th Reg. of 2nd Vol. Infantry, enlisted Feb. 14, 1865. Discharge dated Sept. 1865 at Nashville. 8 1/2" x 10". 7th item: Stonewall Jackson memorial postcard. 8th item: Page from Nashville Banner, 1925, "Civil War Scenes in Nashville" - mostly reprints from Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Magazines, and a 1928 Nashville Banner page, "Nashville's Hotels in the Eighties" depicting various hotels - the Maxwell House, Gilchrist, Nicholson and Commercial. Provenance: the estate of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www. caseantiques. com) Condition 1st item in very fragile condition, lower half missing, with foxing, toning, small losses at fold lines, losses and creases at edges. 2nd item: Incomplete content; overall fragile with upper left corner missing, creases and foxing. 3rd item: page toned and slightly faded, with 2 creases across Zollicoffer's signature. 4th item: Good condition, fold across signature. 5th item: Few small tears at fold lines, light soiling and toning. 6th item: some tears at fold lines, overall fading, toning, light grime. 7th item: Good condition, writing on back. 8th item: Tears at fold lines, several edge losses.
Mixed lot to include studio portrait of Clara Bow, Life Magazine issue 1 no 1, engraved portrait of Charles Morgan, cover of Harper's Weekly March 16, 1861, civil war song sheet, Heisey glass company, priceless 141 partial set of civil war era playing cards, a bottle for doctor McMunns elixir and a carte de visite of the Braintee Massachusetts congregational church Estimate $60-120
7 pieces. American Periodical Literature: Carey's United States Recorder. (Philadelphia), July 5, 1798. Folio, disbound. Slightly toned, minor spotting. With the notice of the appointment of George Washington as Commander of Chief of The Armies of The United States. * National Intelligencier. Washington, D.C., August 22, 1821. Folio. Minor toning & spotting. Death of Napoleon. * The New York Times. New York, Nov. 26, 1864. Andersonville prison. * The New York Times. New York, Feb. 21, 1865. Folio, disbound. Capture of Charlestown. * Harper's Weekly. New York, Sept. 7, 1861; Sept. 26, 1861; Sept.12, 1863. All folio, disbound. Wood-engraved illus. Carey's United States Recorder. (Philadelphia), July 5, 1798. Folio, disbound. Slightly toned, minor spotting. With notice of the appointment of George Washington as Commander in Chief of The Armies of The United States. * National Intelligencer. Washington, D.C., August 22, 1821. Folio. Minor toning & spotting. Death of Napoleon. * The New York Times. New York, Nov. 26, 1864. Andersonville prison. * The New York Times. New York, Feb. 21, 1865. Folio, disbound. Clean. Capture of Charleston. * Harper's Weekly. New York, Sept. 7, 1861; Sept. 26, 1861; Sept. 12, 1863. All folio, disbound. Wood-engraved illus.
TN Ephemera and Prints, 30 pcs: Assorted TN Prints and Ephemera, 30 items total. 1st item: "Fourth Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Nashville, Tennessee" imprint, published by Smith, Camp, and Company, Printers, Patriot Office, 22 pages with a table of attendance, 1858. Paper and string bound book reporting the activities of the Nashville Public Schools of past year, submitted by J. F. Pearl, Superintendent, to the Board of Education, detailing information concerning subjects such as the deaths of the teachers and pupils, discipline and attendance, and examples of questions to be answered by candidates of the High Schools regarding English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, History, Latin, Watts on the Mind, and Spelling. Preceding the example questions, Pearl closes his report by repeating the petition "Give us a commodious school house on College Hill, and an Examination Hall upon the lot adjoining the Hume Building". 8 3/8" H x 5 1/4" W. 2nd item: Sepia toned photograph depicting "North on Gay St. " after a "Big Fire at Knoxville, Tenn--April 8th 1897, "Hotel Knox" started". Features the burned-out building facades near Sanford, Chamberlain and Albers Druggists, with views of telegraph wires and crowds of people surveying the damage. Mounted to card stock. Photograph - 4 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W. Card stock - 5 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W. Late 19th century. 3rd item: "Buildings and Forts (TN/GA/VA)", Plate CXXIV, lithographed with tinted color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. , 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Depicts 9 scenes of significant Civil War buildings and forts in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia including "Nashville, Tenn. from the South-East. Showing the State Capitol", "Buzzard Roost Gap and Rocky Face Ridge, GA", and "Battery Spofford, VA". Image - 16 1/4" H x 27 1/4" W. Sheet - 18 1/4" H x 29" W. 4th item: "Nashville, Tenn. from the South-East. Showing the State Capitol", part of "Buildings and Forts (TN/GA/VA)", Plate CXXIV, lithographed with tinted color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. , 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Mounted to matte and sealed with plastic. Image - 8 5/8" H x 11 1/2" W. Matte - 12" H x 16" W. 5th item: "Cumberland Gap" steel plate engraving with hand coloring by Samuel V. Hunt, after Harry Fenn, published by Daniel Appleton and Company, New York, circa 1972. From "Picturesque America" by William Cullen Bryant. Housed in black wooden frame with matte. Image - 5 1/4" H x 7 7/8" W. Sight - 7 1/4" H x 9 1/8" W. Framed - 13 1/8" H x 6 1/4" W. 6th and 7th items: Two engravings with later hand coloring depicting Nashville, one from "A Comprehensive View of Our Country and Its Resources ", by James D. McCabe Jr. , published by the Hubbard Brothers, Philadelphia, 1876. Both with text pages en verso. Both housed in wooden frames. Images range in size from 2 1/2" H x 3 3/4" W to 2 5/8" H x 4" W. Frames range in size from 5 5/8" H x 9 1/4" W to 7 3/8" H x 8 1/2" W. 8th and 9th items: Two copper plate engravings with hand coloring titled "General View of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee", drawn by Dr. B. Howard, published by Harper's Weekly, 1862, and "Army of the Cumberland--Nashville and its Fortifications", published by Harper's Weekly, 1864. "Cumberland Gap" engraving has linen backing. Both mounted to mattes. Images approximately - 6" H x 9" W. Sheets approximately - 8" H x 10 3/4" W. Mattes approximately - 11" H x 14 1/8" W. 10th and 11th items: Two woodcut engravings, one with hand coloring, of "The State Capitol, at Nashville, Tennessee", published by Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1857. The uncolored engraving includes the original full page with "A Prayer Wheel at Cashmere, India, " engraving and text. Both engravings mounted to mattes, colored engraving sealed with plastic. Images approximately - 5 1/2" H x 7 7/8" W. Mattes approximately - 11" H x 13" W. 12th item: Copper plate engraving with hand coloring titled "Central Tennessee College", drawn by Wheeler Marshall Bruce, with "Central Certificates" text page en verso. Mounted to matte. Image - 3 5/8" H x 7 1/8" W. Sheet - 7 3/8" H x 10 3/4" W. Matte - 11" H x 14" W. 13th item: "Tennessee Centennial Exposition: The National Event of 1897" program, published by Marshall and Bruce Company, Nashville, circa 1897. The 38 page program features black and white images of significant buildings, including a "Bird's Eye View of Exposition", descriptions of the planned events, and nearby points of interest including Civil War battlefields and national cemeteries. Folded - 8 5/8" H x 4" W. Unfolded - 8 5/8" H x 15 3/8" W. 14th-24th items: Ten postcards, five chromolithographs, four sepia toned photographs, and one lithograph, depicting scenes in and around Nashville, Tennessee. "St. Ann's Church and Rectory and Martin Hall" postcard is addressed to Mrs. Louisa Sebring, Halifat, Kansas with writing in black in from her sister, and a one cent Franklin stamp, illegible postmark. Four photograph postcards housed in plastic sleeve. Postcards approximately - 3 1/2" H x 5 1/2" W. Early/mid 20th century. 25th-26th items: Two woodcut engravings titled "Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee", sketched by H. P. Whinnery, engraved by Rattlescraw. Depicts the majority of the Vanderbilt University campus including the Chancellor's Residence, the Science Hall, the Observatory, the Main Building, and others. Buildings labeled below map. Image - 9 3/4" H x 14 1/2" W. Sheets range in size from 11 3/4" H x 16" W to 12 1/2" H x 19" W. 27th-28th items: Two paper advertisements, one chromolithograph, one lithograph, for Knoxville businesses. Chromolithograph is to advertise the opening of "The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company" at 322 Union Street, Knoxville, TN and depicts "Madison Square, Hoffman House and Broadway in New York city. The lithograph is to advertise "Roth Coal Co", Yard at Oak St. , Office at 603 Prince Street, Knoxville TN, and depicts "7, 500 Tons Pure White Moss" in the yard. Chromolithograph - 6 1/4" H x 8 1/2" W. Lithograph - 4" H x 9 1/4" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. 29th-30th items: Two pages with engravings and text related to Tennessee with information about population, climate, industries, government, etc. South Dakota engraving and text page en verso of page 378. Pages range in size from 13 1/2" x 11 1/4" W to 14 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Early 20th century. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www. caseantiques. com) Condition 1st item: Overall good condition. 1" tear top of binding visible from page 19 to end of imprint. Few foxing spots, largest 1/8" lower left of cover. Top right corners of page 21 and back cover torn. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Two black pen marks, largest 1", top left of photograph. 3rd item: Light toning around edges of sheet. Two tears, largest 1 1/4", center bottom edge of sheet. 4th item: Overall excellent condition. Not examined out of matte. 5th item: Minute foxing spots on surface of sheet. Not examined out of frame. 6th and 7th items: Minute foxing spots on surfaces of sheets. Not examined out of frames. 8th and 9th items: Minute foxing spots on surface of sheets. 10th and 11th items: Toning on edges of uncolored sheet. Colored engraving in overall excellent condition. Not examined out of matte. 12th item: Slight toning on edges of sheet. 13th item: Light overall toning. 14th-24th items: Overall good condition with slight wear expected from age. 25th-26th items: Overall excellent condition. Slight toning, bends, tears on larger sheet. 27th-28th items: Advertisements exhibit foxing spots, scuffs, and paper tears to be expected from age. 29th-30th items: Overall good condition. Slight toning around edges of pages.
(CIVIL WAR.) Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. Volumes 5-9, covering the period of the Civil War. Profusion of illustrations and maps. Folio, uniform modern buckram; just a bit of minor foxing, neatly trimmed to 15 1/2 inches; name of later owner Roy Hofheinz embossed in gilt on covers. Not collated, but seems to be complete. New York, April 1861 to April 1866
4 RARE 19TH C BOOKS RELATED TO WHALING AND THESOUTH PACIFIC INCLUDES LIFE AND ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC BY A ROVING PRINTER, NEW YORK, 1861, HARPERS & BROS., PUBLISHERS. 361 PAGES WITH NUMEROUS INTERESTING ENGRAVED PLATES. CLOTH BOARDS WITH EMBOSSED BORDER. OCTAVO. OVERALL CONDITION IS TIGHT AND GOOD. SECOND BOOK IS A RESIDENCE IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS BY C. S. STEWART U. S. N., BOSTON WEEKS, JORDAN & CO, 1839. 8VO, 348 PAGES, CLOTH BOARDS WITH HEAVY FOXING. DOCUMENTS A WHALING VOYAGE TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. THIRD BOOK INCIDENTS OF A WHALING VOYAGE BY FRANCIS ALLYN OLMSTED, NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY D. APPLETON & CO, 1841. OCTAVO. EMBOSSED CLOTH BOARDS, 360 PAGES. MODERATE FOXING. OVERALL CONDITION IS TIGHT. EMBOSSED TITLE ON SPINE. FOURTH BOOK IS RARE. TITLED THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SPERM WHALE BY THOMAS BEALE, SURGEON, LONDON, 1834. 393 PAGES. OCTAVO. EMBOSSED CLOTH BOARDS WITH GILT LETTERS. EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ALMOST NO FOXING OR DISCOLORATION. GILT PAGE EDGES. FROM IPPOLITO COLLECTION.
Maps and Views: Civil War Charleston South Carolina 19th century consisting of: THE HOUSE-TOPS IN CHARLESTON DURING THE BOMBARDMENT OF SUMTER from Harper's Weekly 4 May 1861 page size: H16'' W11''; EXCITEMENT IN FRONT OF THE MILLS HOUSE ON HEARING OF THE SURRENDER OF FORT SUMTER and THE CROWD ON THE BATTERY CHARLESTON S. C. WATCHING THE COMBAT hand-colored from Pictorial Weekly War Record page size: H16 1/4'' W10 3/4''; ATTACK BY THE FEDERAL IRONCLADS ON THE HARBOUR DEFENSES OF CHARLESTON...7TH OF APRIL [1863] double page view from The Illustrated London Times 16 May 1863 H9'' W22''; CASTLE PINCKNEY CHARLESTON HARBOR S. C. double page view hand-colored H8'' W22''; CHARLESTON AND ITS ENVIRONS birds-eye view circa July 1863 hand-colored from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War page size: H11'' W16''; PLAN OF CHARLESTON (SOUTH CAROLINA) HARBOUR AND VICINITY by T. Euling from The Illustrated London News 9 February 1861 H9 1/2'' W11''; MAP OF CHARLESTON S. C. hand-colored from Harper's Weekly 28 March 1863 H16'' W11''; CHARLESTON S. C. AND ITS VICINITY birds-eye view c. 1863 hand-colored with another copy matted H8 1/8'' W11'' (9pcs) Provenance: Columbia South Carolina private collection. HOUSE-TOPS: edges toned; waterstains at top right and lower right corner; top left corner creased; pencil-written ''SC'' in top right corner. EXCITEMENT and THE CROWD: horizontal crease at center; toning to edges; loss at lower right edge and at center left edge; tiny tears along edges not affecting images; creases at right corners. ATTACK: repaired vertical center crease; tear with loss at top center; trimmed; slight discoloration to center crease. CASTLE PINCKNEY: toning to paper; losses to bottom corners; loss along right edge; vertical crease at center where pages attached; trimmed; lower corners with tape on verso. CHARLESTON AND ITS ENVIRONS: waterstaining along right edge and lower edge; toning to paper; pencil-written ''SC'' in top right corner. PLAN OF CHARLESTON: trimmed; tear to text block at lower left; paper with very minor age discoloration. MAP OF CHARLESTON: toning; nicks and small tear to edges; top left corner with crease. CHARLESTON AND VICINITY (1): toning and stains to margins; top edge trimmed; pencil-written ''SC'' in top right corner. CHARLESTON AND VICINITY (2): matted with top and bottom edges taped to matte; top and bottom edges trimmed not removed from protective plastic sleeve.
[Civil War, Harper's Weekly], complete year for 1861, bound in two volumes, 832 pages; and the complete year of 1863, bound in one three-quarter leather volume, 830 pages, with index, together with a large group of Civil War era weeklies and newspapers. $600/900
William T. Crane (after) New Hampshire (1832-1865)
THE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER or GRAND ATTACK OF THE NATIONAL IRON-CLADS... (from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 2 May 1863)
handcolored newsprint image, unframed, titled: lower margin
paper size: H16" W46"
together with two other unframed hand-colored South Carolina Civil War scenes including: THE BATTERY OR PARK PROMENADE AT CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA DURING THE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER (from Harper's Weekly 18 May 1861) and THE CONFEDERATES BUILDING FORTIFICATIONS ON JAMES ISLAND, S.C.
paper sizes: H11" W16" and H16 1/2" W22" (3pcs)
TN EPHEMERA AND PRINTS, 30 PCSAssorted TN Prints and Ephemera, 30 items total. 1st item: "Fourth Annual Report of the Public Schools of the City of Nashville, Tennessee" imprint, published by Smith, Camp, and Company, Printers, Patriot Office, 22 pages with a table of attendance, 1858. Paper and string bound book reporting the activities of the Nashville Public Schools of past year, submitted by J. F. Pearl, Superintendent, to the Board of Education, detailing information concerning subjects such as the deaths of the teachers and pupils, discipline and attendance, and examples of questions to be answered by candidates of the High Schools regarding English Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, History, Latin, Watts on the Mind, and Spelling. Preceding the example questions, Pearl closes his report by repeating the petition "Give us a commodious school house on College Hill, and an Examination Hall upon the lot adjoining the Hume Building". 8 3/8" H x 5 1/4" W. 2nd item: Sepia toned photograph depicting "North on Gay St." after a "Big Fire at Knoxville, Tenn--April 8th 1897, "Hotel Knox" started". Features the burned-out building facades near Sanford, Chamberlain and Albers Druggists, with views of telegraph wires and crowds of people surveying the damage. Mounted to card stock. Photograph - 4 1/2" H x 6 1/2" W. Card stock - 5 1/2" H x 7 1/2" W. Late 19th century. 3rd item: "Buildings and Forts (TN/GA/VA)", Plate CXXIV, lithographed with tinted color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Depicts 9 scenes of significant Civil War buildings and forts in Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia including "Nashville, Tenn. from the South-East. Showing the State Capitol", "Buzzard Roost Gap and Rocky Face Ridge, GA", and "Battery Spofford, VA". Image - 16 1/4" H x 27 1/4" W. Sheet - 18 1/4" H x 29" W. 4th item: "Nashville, Tenn. from the South-East. Showing the State Capitol", part of "Buildings and Forts (TN/GA/VA)", Plate CXXIV, lithographed with tinted color by Julius Bien & Company, published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1895. From "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865". Mounted to matte and sealed with plastic. Image - 8 5/8" H x 11 1/2" W. Matte - 12" H x 16" W. 5th item: "Cumberland Gap" steel plate engraving with hand coloring by Samuel V. Hunt, after Harry Fenn, published by Daniel Appleton and Company, New York, circa 1972. From "Picturesque America" by William Cullen Bryant. Housed in black wooden frame with matte. Image - 5 1/4" H x 7 7/8" W. Sight - 7 1/4" H x 9 1/8" W. Framed - 13 1/8" H x 6 1/4" W. 6th and 7th items: Two engravings with later hand coloring depicting Nashville, one from "A Comprehensive View of Our Country and Its Resources ", by James D. McCabe Jr., published by the Hubbard Brothers, Philadelphia, 1876. Both with text pages en verso. Both housed in wooden frames. Images range in size from 2 1/2" H x 3 3/4" W to 2 5/8" H x 4" W. Frames range in size from 5 5/8" H x 9 1/4" W to 7 3/8" H x 8 1/2" W. 8th and 9th items: Two copper plate engravings with hand coloring titled "General View of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee", drawn by Dr. B. Howard, published by Harper's Weekly, 1862, and "Army of the Cumberland--Nashville and its Fortifications", published by Harper's Weekly, 1864. "Cumberland Gap" engraving has linen backing. Both mounted to mattes. Images approximately - 6" H x 9" W. Sheets approximately - 8" H x 10 3/4" W. Mattes approximately - 11" H x 14 1/8" W. 10th and 11th items: Two woodcut engravings, one with hand coloring, of "The State Capitol, at Nashville, Tennessee", published by Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, 1857. The uncolored engraving includes the original full page with "A Prayer Wheel at Cashmere, India," engraving and text. Both engravings mounted to mattes, colored engraving sealed with plastic. Images approximately - 5 1/2" H x 7 7/8" W. Mattes approximately - 11" H x 13" W. 12th item: Copper plate engraving with hand coloring titled "Central Tennessee College", drawn by Wheeler Marshall Bruce, with "Central Certificates" text page en verso. Mounted to matte. Image - 3 5/8" H x 7 1/8" W. Sheet - 7 3/8" H x 10 3/4" W. Matte - 11" H x 14" W. 13th item: "Tennessee Centennial Exposition: The National Event of 1897" program, published by Marshall and Bruce Company, Nashville, circa 1897. The 38 page program features black and white images of significant buildings, including a "Bird's Eye View of Exposition", descriptions of the planned events, and nearby points of interest including Civil War battlefields and national cemeteries. Folded - 8 5/8" H x 4" W. Unfolded - 8 5/8" H x 15 3/8" W. 14th-24th items: Ten postcards, five chromolithographs, four sepia toned photographs, and one lithograph, depicting scenes in and around Nashville, Tennessee. "St. Ann's Church and Rectory and Martin Hall" postcard is addressed to Mrs. Louisa Sebring, Halifat, Kansas with writing in black in from her sister, and a one cent Franklin stamp, illegible postmark. Four photograph postcards housed in plastic sleeve. Postcards approximately - 3 1/2" H x 5 1/2" W. Early/mid 20th century. 25th-26th items: Two woodcut engravings titled "Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee", sketched by H. P. Whinnery, engraved by Rattlescraw. Depicts the majority of the Vanderbilt University campus including the Chancellor's Residence, the Science Hall, the Observatory, the Main Building, and others. Buildings labeled below map. Image - 9 3/4" H x 14 1/2" W. Sheets range in size from 11 3/4" H x 16" W to 12 1/2" H x 19" W. 27th-28th items: Two paper advertisements, one chromolithograph, one lithograph, for Knoxville businesses. Chromolithograph is to advertise the opening of "The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company" at 322 Union Street, Knoxville, TN and depicts "Madison Square, Hoffman House and Broadway in New York city. The lithograph is to advertise "Roth Coal Co", Yard at Oak St., Office at 603 Prince Street, Knoxville TN, and depicts "7,500 Tons Pure White Moss" in the yard. Chromolithograph - 6 1/4" H x 8 1/2" W. Lithograph - 4" H x 9 1/4" W. Late 19th/early 20th century. 29th-30th items: Two pages with engravings and text related to Tennessee with information about population, climate, industries, government, etc. South Dakota engraving and text page en verso of page 378. Pages range in size from 13 1/2" x 11 1/4" W to 14 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Early 20th century. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
Condition:
1st item: Overall good condition. 1" tear top of binding visible from page 19 to end of imprint. Few foxing spots, largest 1/8" lower left of cover. Top right corners of page 21 and back cover torn. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Two black pen marks, largest 1", top left of photograph. 3rd item: Light toning around edges of sheet. Two tears, largest 1 1/4", center bottom edge of sheet. 4th item: Overall excellent condition. Not examined out of matte. 5th item: Minute foxing spots on surface of sheet. Not examined out of frame. 6th and 7th items: Minute foxing spots on surfaces of sheets. Not examined out of frames. 8th and 9th items: Minute foxing spots on surface of sheets. 10th and 11th items: Toning on edges of uncolored sheet. Colored engraving in overall excellent condition. Not examined out of matte. 12th item: Slight toning on edges of sheet. 13th item: Light overall toning. 14th-24th items: Overall good condition with slight wear expected from age. 25th-26th items: Overall excellent condition. Slight toning, bends, tears on larger sheet. 27th-28th items: Advertisements exhibit foxing spots, scuffs, and paper tears to be expected from age. 29th-30th items: Overall good condition. Slight toning around edges of pages.
FREDERIC SACKRIDER REMINGTON (American, 1861-1909) "WHIPPING IN A STRAGGLER", CIRCA 1891. En grisaille pen and ink with watercolor and gouache on paper. Housed in a period gilt wood frame, matted under glass. Signed lower right "Remington-", titled on a Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme CT, label affixed to the backing board. NOTE: This work was published in Harper's Weekly November 28th, 1891 page 933. It is also included in Peter H. Hassrick and Melissa Webster's "Frederic Remington, A Catalog Raisonne of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings" (Buffalo Bill Historic Center of the West, Cody, WY, 1996) catalog number 01308. SIZE: Sight 13" x 7-3/4". Overall 21-3/4" x 16" PROVENANCE: A private Washington DC collection, circa 1930; The Cooley Gallery, CT; Skinner Inc, 11/19/2004 lot 54 CONDITION: Appears to be in very good condition, not examined out of frame 51246-6
CIVIL WAR EPHEMERA & MONEYLot of vintage and earlier Civil War related items including: Authentic $50 and $20 Confederate currency; 7 Harpers Weekly journals from 1861 - 3 copies March 2nd, one copy March 6th, and 3 copies March 30th; Civil War Extra large reproduction paper; prints and postcards.
TN CIVIL WAR EPHEMERA INC. BROADSIDE AND ZOLLICOFER SIG...8 pieces of Tennessee Civil War related ephemera. 1st item: Half of a printed 4 page broadside or pamphlet marking Tennessee's secession from the Union, titled AN ACT TO RAISE, ORGANIZE, AND EQUIP A PROVISIONAL FORCE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, passed May 6, 1861. (Lower half missing). 2nd item: Newspaper clipping titled ACTS OF TENNESSEE PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY, An Act to Amend an Act to Organize, Raise and Equip a provisional force... " Undated and incomplete; runs through Section 12. 3rd item: Signature of General Felix Zollicoffer, from cover sheet addressed to John Joslin of Nashville. 8" x 10" sheet. 4th item: Railroad pass, "Conductors ... will permit Mr. E.D. Hicks to ride on Thur. __ between Belle Vue and Hicks Crossing to Nashville." Signed __ Thomas Genl. Supt. __, Nashville July ___." Written on half sheet of note paper, 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". 5th item: Partially printed document requiring the Quartermaster's Dept. at Nashville to provide transportation from Nashville to Louisville for J. Bropley (or Bromley) and George Burnes (or Burnet), who were then to proceed to Milwaukee on business connected with the U.S. Military Railroads, by order of Brig. Genl. D.C. McCallum (Daniel Craig McCallum). Dated Dec. 22, 1864, a few days after the Battle of Nashville. 6th item: Discharge paper for Indiana-born Lewis N. Johnston, 3rd Lieut. of Capt. James F. Murphy's Company H, 149th Reg. of 2nd Vol. Infantry, enlisted Feb. 14, 1865. Discharge dated Sept. 1865 at Nashville. 8 1/2" x 10". 7th item: Stonewall Jackson memorial postcard. 8th item: Page from Nashville Banner, 1925, "Civil War Scenes in Nashville" - mostly reprints from Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Magazines, and a 1928 Nashville Banner page, "Nashville's Hotels in the Eighties" depicting various hotels - the Maxwell House, Gilchrist, Nicholson and Commercial. Provenance: the estate of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
Condition:
1st item in very fragile condition, lower half missing, with foxing, toning, small losses at fold lines, losses and creases at edges. 2nd item: Incomplete content; overall fragile with upper left corner missing, creases and foxing. 3rd item: page toned and slightly faded, with 2 creases across Zollicoffer's signature. 4th item: Good condition, fold across signature. 5th item: Few small tears at fold lines, light soiling and toning. 6th item: some tears at fold lines, overall fading, toning, light grime. 7th item: Good condition, writing on back. 8th item: Tears at fold lines, several edge losses.
[Civil War] Two bound vols. of Harper's Weekly for 1861 and 1862 in uniform half green pebbled morocco cloth boards Estimate $ 400-600
TN Civil War ephemera inc. Broadside and Zollicofer Sign. 8 pieces of Tennessee Civil War related ephemera. 1st item: Half of a printed 4 page broadside or pamphlet marking Tennessee's secession from the Union, titled AN ACT TO RAISE, ORGANIZE, AND EQUIP A PROVISIONAL FORCE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, passed May 6, 1861. (Lower half missing). 2nd item: Newspaper clipping titled ACTS OF TENNESSEE PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY, An Act to Amend an Act to Organize, Raise and Equip a provisional force... " Undated and incomplete; runs through Section 12. 3rd item: Signature of General Felix Zollicoffer, from cover sheet addressed to John Joslin of Nashville. 8" x 10" sheet. 4th item: Railroad pass, "Conductors ... will permit Mr. E.D. Hicks to ride on Thur. __ between Belle Vue and Hicks Crossing to Nashville." Signed __ Thomas Genl. Supt. __, Nashville July ___." Written on half sheet of note paper, 4 3/4" x 7 1/2". 5th item: Partially printed document requiring the Quartermaster's Dept. at Nashville to provide transportation from Nashville to Louisville for J. Bropley (or Bromley) and George Burnes (or Burnet), who were then to proceed to Milwaukee on business connected with the U.S. Military Railroads, by order of Brig. Genl. D.C. McCallum (Daniel Craig McCallum). Dated Dec. 22, 1864, a few days after the Battle of Nashville. 6th item: Discharge paper for Indiana-born Lewis N. Johnston, 3rd Lieut. of Capt. James F. Murphy's Company H, 149th Reg. of 2nd Vol. Infantry, enlisted Feb. 14, 1865. Discharge dated Sept. 1865 at Nashville. 8 1/2" x 10". 7th item: Stonewall Jackson memorial postcard. 8th item: Page from Nashville Banner, 1925, "Civil War Scenes in Nashville" - mostly reprints from Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Magazines, and a 1928 Nashville Banner page, "Nashville's Hotels in the Eighties" depicting various hotels - the Maxwell House, Gilchrist, Nicholson and Commercial. Provenance: the estate of Sarah Hunter Hicks Green, formerly of Historic Devon Farm, Nashville, Tennessee. (Higher-resolution photos are available at www.caseantiques.com)
(CIVIL WAR--CALIFORNIA.) Townsend, Louis R. Original drawing of the San Francisco funeral of General Edward D. Baker. Pencil and ink drawing, 5 1/2 x 6 inches, signed "L.R. Townsend," with his Autograph Letter Signed to the editors of Harper's Weekly on verso; pasted by one corner is a related newspaper description of the catafalque mounted over Townsend's signature; minor wear. San Francisco, 11 December [1861]at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, and his body was sent by steamer to San Francisco for burial. The artist Louis R. Townsend (circa 1835-1898) sketched his catafalque, the ornate decorated platform where his coffin sat for three days at the San Francisco Music Hall. Townsend took this opportunity to introduce himself to the editors of Harper's, writing on verso: "If it is used, remit the amount that you think it is worth. . . . I should like the appointment as artist for your ill. paper for this coast." Townsend eventually did have other drawings published in Harper's, and went on to a career as an architect in San Francisco.
19TH C LOCKING TOOL CHEST WITH BAIL HANDLES AND CIVIL WAR MEMORABILIA: Finely crafted chest with band moldings. Fitted interior with lift-out tool trays. Inside lid pasted with 1861 Harper's Weekly and Civil War scenes, key available in office. 22''h. x 23'' x 38 3/8''.CONDITION: Note evidence of prior termite damage.
REMINGTON, Frederic. Gouache on Paper. "We PackedOur Mules in the Corral of the Hotel" 1889. Signed and dated lower left: 'Frederic Remington / 89'. Illustrated in Harper's Weekly, January 4, 1890, page 5 and accompanied by a copy of the publication. Frederic Remington (American, 1861–1909). From a Long Island, NY estate, purchased by the decedent at Parke-Bernet, New York, 1952; old auction labels affixed to frame verso. Catalogue Raisonne no. 953. Dimensions: 15.25" high x 18.25" wide. Condition: Good.
Complete Civil War Harper's Weekly 1861-1865, folio (11.5" x 15.75"), approximately 4,000 pp. total, five volumes, half leather binding by year with gilt lettering on spines, marbleized end papers, indexed, contains hundreds of ...
Estimate: 1,200.00 - 1,500.00
"The First Gun - 1861-1874," October 3, 1874, Harper's Weekly print, framed, H.- 15 in., W.- 10 in.
1861 Harper's Weekly ''Charleston Duringthe Bombardment of Sumter''.
[CIVIL WAR] Harper's Weekly. A Journal of Civilization. Volumes V [CIVIL WAR]
Harper's Weekly. A Journal of Civilization. Volumes V-IX, Nos. 210-470. New York: 1861-1865.
5 volumes. Folio (396 x 278 mm). Numerous wood-engraved illustrations and maps, some full page, many by Winslow Homer, advertisements. (Lacking front leaf only from nos. 365, 367, 210, and 256, A few tears, some affecting text or illustrations, minor spotting throughout.) 20th-Century half morocco (rubbed, hinges reinforced, a few joints separated, a few spines chipping).
A NEARLY COMPLETE RUN from January 1861 to December 1865, covering the entire Civil War. From its founding in 1857 until 1861, Harper's Weekly upheld a modest editorial stance on slavery and related issues of the time, as it had a considerable readership in the South, and wanted to maintain the Union at all costs. Once the war came, it threw its full support to Abraham Lincoln and the Union. Harper's was one of the most widely-read newspapers of its time and both its news and illustrations kept soldiers and their families up to date on details of the war.
HAND COLORED ENGRAVINGS 19TH C. HAND COLORED ENGRAVINGS, 19TH C., 4:Hand colored engravings from newspapers, sailing ships, and city scenes. From 14" x 9 1/4" and 9" x 17" to 9" x 14". Includes images from the May 18, 1861"The Illustrated London News and Harper's Weekly. Titles include "The Grand Army Reunion at Detroit" after W.A. Rogers, "A Union Mass Meeting in New York", etc. Custom frames.
HARPER'S WEEKLY, "BALLOON VIEW OF WASHINGTON D.C.", JULY 27, 1861, HAND COLORED ENGRAVING, 17 X 21 1/2 IN. (43.2 X 54.6 CM.)Harper's Weekly, "Balloon View of Washington D.C.", July 27, 1861, Hand Colored Engraving,, Dimensions: 17 x 21 1/2 in. (43.2 x 54.6 cm.)
AFTER FREDERICK REMINGTON (AMERICAN. 1861-1909)Coming through the Rye. Impressed, Copyright by Frederic Remington. Bronze with Black Patina. Height 28 in. Width 28 in. Depth 26 in. cf. Remington’s bronze, Coming through the Rye, created in 1902, depicts four boisterous cowboys, mounted on galloping horses, arms raised high, flaunting pistols. Inspiration for the sculpture was Remington’s own illustrations, which he created for publications in Century Magazine, 1888 and Harper's Weekly, 1889.
EPHEMERA relating to mid-19th C. military conflict in United States and Europe, three pieces: "Atlas of the Battlefields of Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Vicinity", large folio complete with fourteen color maps prepared by Julius Bien & Co., NY and compiled by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission, c. 1902, torn end papers including title page, weak and loosened binding, bottom edge of front wrapper detached, foxing mostly limited to end papers and backs of maps, as: 29" h. x 22 1/4" w.; two illustrations from "Harper's Weekly" mounted on artist board, including front cover of Vol. V, No. 214 dated 2 February 1861 showing members of Mississippi delegation to U.S. Congress who defected to the Confederate States of America, tape burns and wrinkles; and poster in color, "Mirror of the City of Sebastopol [sic] and Map of Crimea and Black Sea", published by A.H. Jocelyn, NY, © 1854, showing aerial view of landmarks around Sevastopol, topographical map of Crimea in relation to Black Sea, and allied fortifications besieging Sevastopol, letterpress description, decorative border in color, large central tear, torn and folded edges, as: 31 1/2" h. x 25" w. [Deaccessioned from a Connecticut Institution]