Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

24 CDVs and cabinet cards of politicians, clergy, and military figures associated with Abraham Lincoln, his assassination, and funeral, including the Lincoln Conspirators Military Trial Commission. Conditions generally good, with occasional toning, soiling, and edge/corner wear to mounts. Including: 

18 CDVs, comprised of portraits of the following subjects: Donald McNeil Fairfax, commander of the Ironclad Montauk, which was used as the floating prison for the conspirators in Lincoln's assassination and was the site of the autopsy and identification of assassin John Wilkes Booth (2). First, Massachusetts: J.E. Tilton & Co. Second, Boston: Black. -- Bishop Matthew Simpson (3). First, New York: S.J. & C.H. Hallett. Second, New York: Hallett & Brother. Third, Bridgeton, NJ: Chas. E. Edwards. -- Group portrait, including J.A. Bingham. Uncredited. -- John Cook, 7th Illinois Volunteers. Uncredited. -- John Worden, commander of the Ironclad Montauk. when it participated in an attack on Charleston, SC. Uncredited. -- Charles H. Davis. New York: E. Anthony (Brady negative). -- Charles Crane. New York: Brady. -- Winfield Scott Hancock. Washington, DC: Philp & Solomons. -- Possibly Lafayette C. Baker, US military intelligence leader. Uncredited. -- Ira Harris. New York: E. & H.T. Anthony (Brady negative). -- Clarence A. Seward. Levitsky: Paris. Signed on mount recto by Seward. -- Alonzo H. Church, Union officer who served as Orderly Sergeant in Co. G, 114th Illinois Volunteers, and saw action at Vicksburg, Jackson, and Guntown, where he was captured and held prisoner for nine months. Springfield, IL: Church & Henry. Image appears to be signed on mount recto by Church, who is shown wearing a Lincoln mourning cockade. Signature has faded, but is still legible. -- Seated view of an unidentified gentleman wearing a Lincoln mourning badge. New York: Peter Kohlbeck. Verso with US internal revenue tax stamp dated 22 April 1865. -- Commercially printed view of Lincoln with his son Tad. Uncredited, printed caption on verso. -- Commercially printed portrait of John Wilkes Booth. Uncredited, with printed caption on verso "J. Wilkes Booth, Murderer of Abraham Lincoln."

6 cabinet cards, comprised of portraits of the following subjects: Portrait after painting of Stephen Logan, law partner to Abraham Lincoln. Springfield, IL: J.H.W. Pittman. Print and mount edges trimmed. -- Bishop Matthew Simpson. New York: Davis Garber. -- John Hay (2). Each uncredited. Accompanied by John Hay's clipped signature, 2 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. -- Frederick Seward. New York: Sarony. -- Henry Bowen Anthony. Washington, DC: C.M. Bell.

Together, 24 photographs.