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Lot 43
Sale 6441 - Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln
May 21, 2025
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$4,160
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Lot Description
[LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865), his copy]. KEDDIE, William (1809-1877), editor. Cyclopaedia of Literary and Scientific Anecdote. Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1859.
8vo. Original brick cloth, gilt-lettered spine, recased, endpapers renewed, lower cover stained; repaired closed tear affecting letters on p.vii; in quarter morocco slip case and chemise.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN FROM THE PUBLISHERS: "Abraham Lincoln, Compliments of Publisher." Follett, Foster and Company published the Lincoln-Douglas debates the following year and would later publish Lincoln's campaign biography.
Provenance:
Abraham Lincoln (gift inscription from publisher).
Louise Taper, Beverly Hills, California.
Property from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation