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Lot 799
Sale 1194 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online
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Jun 26, 2023
Lots Close
Jul 7, 2023
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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300
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$95
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[LINCOLNIANA]. New York and New Jersey newspapers reporting on Lincoln's assassination. April 1865.
The New York Times. Vol. XIV, No. 4231. New York, NY: 17 April 1865. 8pp., folio, uncut (folding, some chipping, short tears, and occasional spotting/soiling). Issue mourning the loss of Lincoln, including details of the "fearful crime," with mourning bars. A report of the inauguration of Andrew Johnson is included on the front page.
[With:] 3 issues of The New York Herald. Nos. 10,461, 10,465, 10,467. New York, NY: 20 April, 24 April, 26 April 1865. 8pp., folio (each with moderate to heavy wear especially near fold lines, including some separation, tears, loss, occasional spotting, edge and corner wear including chips, tears, loss). Each with mourning bars, the newspapers report on Lincoln's funeral.
[Also with:] New York Tribune. Vol. XXV, No. 7,501. New York, NY: 21 April 1865. 8pp., folio (toning, spotting, edge and corner wear including chipping, tears, some loss). -- New York Weekly Times. Vol. XIV, No. 710. New York, NY: 29 April 1865. Folio, 8pp., folio, uncut (fold lines, occasional spotting, edge and corner wear including chipping, tears). -- State Gazette Weekly & Republican. Vol. LXXXIII, No. 16. Trenton, NJ: 21 April 1865. 4pp., folio (folds, toning, occasional spotting, edge wear including some chips and loss). Each issue with mourning bars, reporting on the assassination and events that followed.
Together, 7 issues.

