Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.) Bound volume of sheet music, including many military and patriotic pieces. 70 printed pieces. Folio, original 1/2 calf, moderate wear; a few torn leaves; original owner's name plate on front cover. Vp, 1847-64 and undated

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Highlights include Millard, "Viva l'America, Home of the Free," with colored cover, 1859 Hays, "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh," with lithographic cover Lambert, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," 1863 Rauch, "Lincoln Grand March," with lithograph of beardless Lincoln, 1860 Work, "Grafted into the Army," with lithograph cover, 1862 Stephen Foster, "The Glendy Burk," 1860. The original owner was Lizzie E. Fickardt (1845-1932), a druggist's daughter in Circleville, OH; the book was bound in nearby Columbus. She later married Civil War surgeon William Irvin Wolfley.