Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LINCOLN'S VICE PRESIDENT'S COPY The Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion and Seizure of the Public Property at Harper's Ferry . . . 255 pages. 8vo, original cloth with the American eagle stamped in blind on the covers; early library bookplate on the front pastedown; small label bearing a presentation from vice-president Hannibal Hamlin. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1860

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first edition. Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's vice president has signed a presentation label on the first blank end-paper. This report was published in the summer of 1860. Contains the entire account of John Brown's raid, with testimony from eye-witnesses.