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

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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)

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica . . . perpetuis commentariis illustrata, communi studio PP. Thomae Le Seur et Francisci Jacquier by NEWTON, Isaac

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Title: 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 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.

PORTA NAEVIA ET LABICANA HODIE PORTAMAGGIO RE. (Naevia and Labicana Gate, now Maggiore Gate) by LAURO, GIACOMO. (ROMAN ARCHITECTURE)

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Title: PORTA NAEVIA ET LABICANA HODIE PORTAMAGGIO RE. (Naevia and Labicana Gate, now Maggiore Gate)
Author: 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.

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

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Title: Viscount Weymouth Signs A Letter About A Respite For A Condemned Prisoner At Newgate
Author: VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH
Seller: 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.

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