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[Portfolio of 40 lithographs of Civil War Union officers]

[Portfolio of 40 lithographs of Civil War Union officers] by Ehrgott, Forbriger, & Company

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Title
[Portfolio of 40 lithographs of Civil War Union officers]
Author
Ehrgott, Forbriger, & Company
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Contemporary half dark brown morocco and cloth covered boards, worn. Some foxing, a few plates with edge tears
Description
Cincinnati: Ehrgott, Forbriger, & Company, 1862. 40 lithographed plates (2 hand colored). Folio. Contemporary half dark brown morocco and cloth covered boards, worn. Some foxing, a few plates with edge tears. 40 lithographed plates (2 hand colored). Folio. The patriotism inspired by the Civil War, particularly in the urban centers of the north, engendered a dramatic growth in the production of various media, such as sheet music, prints, photographs, and other ephemera, marketed to individuals by enterprising printers, stationers, photographers, print sellers, and the like. Among these was the sale of portraits of famous Union politicians and soldiers. Most of these popular prints were sold by publishers, picture dealers, or itinerant street sellers as individual items, although at least one enterprising seller during the Civil War offered prints bound in albums. Although seldom encountered, the best known of these albums comprise Union portraits by the Cincinnati lithographic firm Ehrgott, Forbriger & Co., like this one. Founded in 1856, the firm issued seventy-nine different prints of sixty-nine Union politicians and military officers between 1861 and 1864. The present collection represents nearly half of Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company's entire series of Union portraiture and includes Lincoln, two cabinet members (Chase and Stanton), three governors (David Todd of Ohio, O.P. Morton of Indiana, and Andrew Johnson of Tennessee), twenty-three generals, six naval officers, Col. Elmer Ellsworth (the first high-ranking Union officer to die in the war) and more. Although unable to find advertisements for the sale of Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company albums, Chris Lane's study of extant examples of such albums found a number of common characteristics: containing approximately forty prints (though varying in the selection and exact number); bound in plain cloth covers with black or brown spines; the presence of midwestern governors; a Gibson & Co. portrait of Winfield Scott; and the portraits of Navy officers in the rear. He posited that although without a titlepage (and therefore unlikely to have been distributed by the lithographic company itself), the survival of nearly identical albums proves these were not simply a case where the prints were gathered and bound by different collectors, but issued by a single, as yet unidentified midwestern agent. Interestingly, Ehrgott, Forbinger & Company used no more than twelve lithographic stones to create at least forty-five portraits by fashioning new heads but reusing stones with the same bodies and backgrounds. "To save the time required for artists to compose new designs whenever a new military celebrity emerged, printmakers could quickly insert new portraits onto existing designs and reissue the results as 'new.' Such recycled adaptations also obviated the need for thorough research - and saved artists' time in the bargain. No wartime printmaker made more frequent or more ingenious use of this system than Ehrgott, Forbriger & Company of Cincinnati. The firm issued a series of military portraits around 1862 that offered stock equestrian poses, into which were inserted, in almost amusement park, head-through-the-hole fashion, a succession of portraits of the latest military heroes. To produce the prints, Ehrgott, Forbriger created the design on a lithographic stone, printed as many copies as it thought would sell to admirers of the subject, and then erased the face, inserted a new one, and printed yet another set of portraits" - Neely & Holzer. This album includes the following: "The Star Spangled Banner," handcolored (Currier & Ives, Peters 921 variant). Portrait of George Washington, handcolored, with only a facsimile signature as caption (Currier & Ives, Peters 2045) "A. Lincoln, President of the U.S.," uncredited "Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury," uncredited "E,M. Stanton, Sec. War." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "David Tod, Gov . of Ohio," uncredited "O.P. Morton, Gov. of Indiana," uncredited "Andy Johnson, Military Gov. of Tenn.," uncredited "Lieut. Gen. Winfield Scott" (Gibson & Co., Cincinnati) "Henry W. Halleck, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A. ," uncredited "Geo. G. Meade, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A., Commander of the Potomac Army." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "W.S. Rosecrans, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited "Ulysses S. Grant, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "Joe. Hooker, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A., uncredited "A.E. Burnside, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited "Nath'l P. Banks, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "O.M. Mitchell, Brig. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "S.R. Curtis, Major General, U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati); 1-inch closed tear "Robt. L. McCook, Col. 9th (First German) Regt., O.V.U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "August Willich, Brig. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "Wm. B. Franklin, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "Lewis Wallace, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited "A. McD. McCook, Brig. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited; 1-inch closed tear "Nath'l Lyon, Brig. Gen'l U.S.A., Killed at the Battle of Springfield" (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "John C. Fremont, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "S.P. Heintzelman, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited "Jefferson C. Davis, Brig. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited "Corcoran, Vol. 69th Reg't N.Y.S.M." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "Jno. A. McClernand, Brig. Gen'l, U.S.A.," uncredited "J.C. Sullivan, Brig. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited; detached "E.E. Ellsworth, Col. Ellsworth's N.Y. Zouaves," uncredited "Franz Sigel, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "Carl Schurz, Maj. Gen. U.S.A.," uncredited "Louis M. Goldsborough, Flag Officer, U.S. Navy" (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "E.V. Sumner, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A.," uncredited "S.F. Dupont, Adm. U.S.N.," uncredited "Commodore Foote, U.S.N." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "Commodore Farragut, U.S. Navy" (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati) "D. Hunter, Maj. Gen'l U.S.A." (Ehrgott, Forbringer & Co., Cincinnati); quite foxed "John L. Worden, Commanding the Montauk, Capt. U.S. Navy," uncredited. Neely & Holzer, The Union Image, pp.39-49. Milton Kaplan, "Heads of States" in Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 6 (1970), pp.135-50; Chris Lane, "The Case of the Hydra-Headed Stones" in Art as Image: Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2001)
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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . . . perpetuis commentariis illustrata, communi studio PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier by NEWTON, Isaac

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Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . . . perpetuis commentariis illustrata, communi studio PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier
Author
NEWTON, Isaac
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Glasgow: Andreae et Joannis M. Duncan, 1822. FIRST GLASGOW EDITION. Numerous text diagrams and illustrations. Contemporary calf, all covers with blind-stamped floral border within gilt floral borders within gilt-lined borders, spines in compartments with gilt decoration, spine labels; first few leaves of each volume spotted, otherwise an excellent set. First Glasgow reprint of the first Jesuit edition printed in Geneva from 1739-1742. This edition of Newton’s Principia was edited by John Martin Frederick Wright of Trinity College, who contributed additional commentary. Babson notes that Glasgow’s printing of this edition of the complete text was a great credit to the university, whereas Cambridge was “satisfied with reprints of the first three sections of the first book.” Babson, 32; Gray, 17; Wallis, 17.
Les Gueules Noires

Les Gueules Noires by [ARTIST'S BOOKS] MOREL, Émile; Paul Adam, préf.; Steinlen, illus

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Title
Les Gueules Noires
Author
[ARTIST'S BOOKS] MOREL, Émile; Paul Adam, préf.; Steinlen, illus
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris: Bibliothèque Internationale d'Édition, E. Sansot & Cie, 1907. First Trade Edition. Quarto (24.5cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers; 207pp.; frontispiece & 14 tissue guarded plates; numerous text illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn, especially at spine edges; preliminaries foxed, else Very Good and sound overall. Bleak collection of stories following in the footsteps of Zola's naturalistic novel Germinal. Mostly set in the mines of northern France; beautifully, albeit lugubriously, illustrated by the Art Nouveau painter and printmaker Théophile Steinlen. CRAUZAT 639.
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PORTA NAEVIA ET LABICANA HODIE PORTAMAGGIO RE. (Naevia and Labicana Gate, now Maggiore Gate) by LAURO, GIACOMO. (ROMAN ARCHITECTURE)

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PORTA NAEVIA ET LABICANA HODIE PORTAMAGGIO RE. (Naevia and Labicana Gate, now Maggiore Gate)
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LAURO, GIACOMO. (ROMAN ARCHITECTURE)
Seller
L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description
As published in a later edition of Antiquae Urbis Splendor (orig. 1612-1628). Pl. 80. Engraving. Image: 7 X 9 ¼. Margins: 9 ¼ x 13 ½. Includes the legend below. In fine condition. Giacomo Lauro was a printmaker active in the map and view industry of mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century Rome.
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Dynamik der Krystallgitter by Born, M - CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

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Dynamik der Krystallgitter
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Born, M - CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good with some unequal fading to the cloth; wrinkle in the last leaf.
Description
Berlin: B G Teubner, 1915. First Edition.. Original printed publisher's cloth.. Very good with some unequal fading to the cloth; wrinkle in the last leaf.. 8vo, vii, [1 - blank], [2 - errata], [1] - 122 + folding color plate. Some text illustrations. An important book that laid the foundation for modern solid state physics and Born's pioneering efforts in quantum mechanics. The work on crystal lattices (offered here) was to be a short journal article but Born's inquiry proved so productive that the manuscript soon became a book. The research is an inquiry into the nature of crystals at the atomic level. Born succeeded in deriving the formulae for the essential optical, thermal, and electric properties of crystals. Published during the war in Germany it did not receive wide circulation. DSB XV, 39-44.
When The Wicked Man..

When The Wicked Man.. by Ford, For Maddox

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When The Wicked Man..
Author
Ford, For Maddox
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780682491341
Condition
Very Good Plus
Description
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc, 1931. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo., 352pp. Sharp First US and True First Edition, preceding the British edition. Bound in blind-stamped patterned black cloth with titles in gold on front board and spine. Slight spine lean. Some bumping to spine ends and tips. Still solid and clean throughout. Very attractive, unclipped dust jacket, ($2.50), has some wear to edges and tips with some tiny nicks to corners. Spine toned. Small hole in rear panel and a short closed tear to top, rear edge. Owners name lightly signed on front flap. Still bright, complete and quite presentable. A solid collectable copy of a rather uncommon title, particularly in dust-jacket.
Viscount Weymouth Signs A Letter About A Respite For A Condemned Prisoner At Newgate

Viscount Weymouth Signs A Letter About A Respite For A Condemned Prisoner At Newgate by VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH

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Viscount Weymouth Signs A Letter About A Respite For A Condemned Prisoner At Newgate
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VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
THOMAS THYNNE, THIRD VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH (1734-1796). Weymouth, a British noble, was the Secretary of State for the Southern Department and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was also the First Marquis of Bath.LS. 1pg. November 21, 1776. St. James. A letter signed Weymouth to Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the Keeper of the Jail of Newgate & all others whom it may concern. Weymouth wrote: Gentlemen, I am commanded to signify to you His Majestys Pleasure that the Execution of the Sentence of Death passed upon Ian Grant, now a Prisoner in Newgate, and which stands respited till Friday the Twenty Second Instant, be further respited till Friday the Sixth Day of December next. I am, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant Weymouth. Newgate Prison was notorious for its harsh conditions and was the primary holding place for those condemned to death at the Old Bailey. The letter has repairs to the right margin and soiling; it is in very good condition.
SWAMP LANDS OF THE STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA: FACTS FOR EMIGRANTS AND CAPITALISTS. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LITERARY BOARD

SWAMP LANDS OF THE STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA: FACTS FOR EMIGRANTS AND CAPITALISTS. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LITERARY BOARD by [North Carolina]

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SWAMP LANDS OF THE STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA: FACTS FOR EMIGRANTS AND CAPITALISTS. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LITERARY BOARD
Author
[North Carolina]
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Raleigh, N. C.: Printed by W. E. Pell, State Printer, 1867. 31, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, loosening, old rubberstamp on blank portion of title leaf. Mild foxing. A half page addition is laid down on page 19, a portion of General Gwynn's Report to the Literary Board in 1867 concerning "the fertility of the lands drained by Mr. Franck." Good plus. A post- Civil War, early New South pamphlet issued at the behest of the Governor, seeking to attract immigrants and capital. It promotes lands in North Carolina which many had erroneously considered unusable. The "Literary Board" was apparently the North Carolina Board of Literature, which was tasked with publishing information about the wonders of North Carolina. Not in Thornton. OCLC 38902760 [4- Newberry, UNC, ECU, Nat. Agric. Lib.] as of November 2025.
Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel

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Robinson Crusoe
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Defoe, Daniel
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, generally toned, a few small chips and longer tears. Grey buckram, some soiling, with black ink lettering and designs. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned at the endpapers. A nice reprint scarcely found in this jacket.
The House on the Mound

The House on the Mound by Derleth, August

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The House on the Mound
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Derleth, August
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Verona: E.V.A., 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Reprint Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, clipped, a tidemark on the front panel, some soiling and bumping. Black cloth with green ink and gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the top edge, clean internally. Derleth's historical fiction about life during the first decade in Wisconsin statehood.
Algonquin Cat

Algonquin Cat by SCHAFFNER, Val

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Algonquin Cat
Author
SCHAFFNER, Val
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780440000730
Condition
Fine
Description
[New York]: Delacorte / Eleanor Friede, 1980. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Hilary KNIGHT. First edition. 8vo; 132 [4]pp; ISBN: 0440000734; mustard buckram with spine stamped brown; mustard toned pictorial endpapers with the cat over a reservation listing; b&w illustrations; clipped color pictorial dust jacket; fine in fine dj. Story of the cat who lives at the Hotel Algonquin in New York City where he mixes and mingles with the literati at the bar and the interesting hotel guests.
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COOK'S NOTEBOOK ON PARTIES AND PARTY MENUS; A Sequel To "A Cook's Notebook on "CASSEROLES AND SUCH". Published in 1952

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COOK'S NOTEBOOK ON PARTIES AND PARTY MENUS; A Sequel To "A Cook's Notebook on "CASSEROLES AND SUCH". Published in 1952
Seller
Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description
Belvedere, CA: St. Stephen's Guild, 1955. recipes, ind., spiral wrps.

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