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Schiller's Poems.
SCHILLER, Johann.
Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., n.y., [Ca. 1880]. Translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Small 8vo. Highly decorated and embossed brown cloth, gilt. 349pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. .. more
Price: $40.00
![Noted Presbyterian preacher and author affiliated with the Lafayette Avenue Church in Brooklyn, New York. ALS, 2pp (1st and 3rd leaves), 5" X 8", Brooklyn, NY, 1865 November 27. Addressed to George May Powell. Very good. Powell, a photographer, had sent Cuyler a print of a large photo montage he was marketing, "Being a group of Portraits of all those members of Congress who voted for the AMENDMENT of the CONSTITUTION PROHIBITING SLAVERY, with those of President LINCOLN and Vice-President HAMLIN added." Cuyler's response is the "blurb" Powell had requested for use in a leaflet he was preparing advertising this photograph: "The likenesses are excellent; the idea is happy -- and the engraving ought to be on every loyal citizens' wall. 'Honor to whom honor is due'. And on that roll, who deserve better from a grateful country than the Congress which put slavery into its charnel-house?... [It] deserves a place beside my 'Emancipation Proclamation' of dear departed Lincoln...." On the blank fourth leaf, Cuyler adds and initials a sentiment: "Our temperance cause brightens. Lay hold & help."](/mainstreet/images/items/120x500/22683.jpg "Noted Presbyterian preacher and author affiliated with the Lafayette Avenue Church in Brooklyn, New York. ALS, 2pp (1st and 3rd leaves), 5\" X 8\", Brooklyn, NY, 1865 November 27. Addressed to George May Powell. Very good. Powell, a photographer, had sent Cuyler a print of a large photo montage he was marketing, \"Being a group of Portraits of all those members of Congress who voted for the AMENDMENT of the CONSTITUTION PROHIBITING SLAVERY, with those of President LINCOLN and Vice-President HAMLIN added.\" Cuyler's response is the \"blurb\" Powell had requested for use in a leaflet he was preparing advertising this photograph: \"The likenesses are excellent; the idea is happy -- and the engraving ought to be on every loyal citizens' wall. 'Honor to whom honor is due'. And on that roll, who deserve better from a grateful country than the Congress which put slavery into its charnel-house?... [It] deserves a place beside my 'Emancipation Proclamation' of dear departed Lincoln....\" On the blank fourth leaf, Cuyler adds and initials a sentiment: \"Our temperance cause brightens. Lay hold & help.\"")
Autograph Letter Signed.
CUYLER, Theodore (1822-1909).
Noted Presbyterian preacher and author affiliated with the Lafayette Avenue Church in Brooklyn, New York. ALS, 2pp (1st and 3rd.. more
Price: $295.00
Lincoln's Secretary Goes West: Two Reports by John G. Nicolay on Frontier Indian Troubles 1862.
BLEGEN, Theodore C. (editor).
La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press, 1965. 8vo. Red cloth. Illustration, map. Near fine. First edition, tight and lovely. Lincoln sent Nicolay to Minnesota to report on.. more
Price: $75.00
We Think the World of You.
ACKERLEY, J.R.
New York: Ivan Obolensky, 1961. 8vo. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 184pp. Near fine/very good. Very minor jacket edgewear. Handsome, tight first edition. Rather uncommon... more
Price: $95.00
