Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 283

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
"THE PEOPLE HAVE AT LAST FOUND AN HONEST MAN" (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.) Washburne, Elihu Benjamin. Abraham Lincoln, his Personal History and Public Record. 8vo, disbound; minor wear to top edges. [Washington, 1860]
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A biographical speech delivered in the House of Representatives by an Illinois congressman. Washburne was a "warm friend of Lincoln" and his account is "principally from the author's own intimate knowledge of Lincoln's career"--Wessen, Campaign Lives of Abraham Lincoln 4. "First detailed account of the rail splitting incident"--Magazine of History 43 (1915), page 170. Monaghan 87.