Nov 04, 2010 - Sale 2228

Sale 2228 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 2,460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
CIVIL WAR'S MOST IMPORTANT NORTHERNERS (CIVIL WAR--ALBUM.) Autograph album containing approximately 150 Signatures, or Autograph Inscriptions Signed, by prominent military and political figures. Most written on alternating pages containing between two and five signatures. 8vo, original calf, spine lacking, contents completely loose, both boards bowed and cracked with marked loss and inexpert repairs to rear board; dampstaining throughout affecting every signature, fading to many signatures. sold as is. Vp, [1863-66]
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Abraham Lincoln. As President: "A. Lincoln / Washington D.C. / June 12, 1863." Bottom half of leaf is lacking, shares page with William H. Seward William T. Sherman. "W.T. Sherman / Maj. General." Shares page with Philip H. Sheridan, Sheridan's signature touched by recent ink markings, two minor signatures on verso Rutherford B. Hayes. "R.B. Hayes / Cincinnati." Minor smudging to "R" Ulysses S. Grant. "Yours Truly / U.S. Grant / Lt. Gen. U.S.A. / Washington D.C. / May 4th 1866." Shares page with Ely Samuel Parker Millard Fillmore. "Buffalo N.Y. / Oct. 19, 1864" Winfield Scott. "Winfield Scott, 1864" Montgomery Blair. "Very truly yours / MBlair" Benjamin F. Butler. "Yours Truly / Benj. F. Butler / Maj. Genl / U.S.A." Shares page with Samuel P. Chase, Edwin M. Stanton, and Gideon Welles Ambrose E. Burnside. "Yours truly / A.E. Burnside / MajGenl / New York / Mar 4/1864." Shares page with Joseph Hooker Charles Sumner. "Chas. Sumner / Brevoort House / . . . '64" David Hunter. "Very Sincerely / D.Hunter / Maj. Gen." George W. Clinton. "G.W.Clinton / Buffalo, N.Y. / Oct. 24, 1864" Oliver Otis Howard. "O.O.Howard / Maj.Gen." Nathaniel P. Banks. "N.P. Banks / Massachusetts / 30 Aug : 1866" others.