[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. NICOLAY, JOHN G. and JOHN M. HAY. Abraham Lincoln: A History. New York: Century Co., 1904. 20 vols., 8vo, dark plum morocco gilt, covers with double gilt-ruled borders, gilt cornerpieces, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt panel in the rest, t.e.g. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS AND A PROFUSION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, DOCUMENTS SIGNED AND SIGNATURES from various important personages of the Civil War period and Lincoln's era.

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[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM]. NICOLAY, JOHN G. and JOHN M. HAY. Abraham Lincoln: A History. New York: Century Co., 1904. 20 vols., 8vo, dark plum morocco gilt, covers with double gilt-ruled borders, gilt cornerpieces, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated gilt panel in the rest, t.e.g. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS AND A PROFUSION OF AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, DOCUMENTS SIGNED AND SIGNATURES from various important personages of the Civil War period and Lincoln's era.

Includes: Jefferson Davis (Card inscribed and signed, "Fraternally Jefferson Davis"), W.T. Sherman (ALS, 3pp., mentioning Robert Todd Lincoln, Congressional politics), James Longstreet (Card inscribed and signed), Daniel Webster, William Seward (LS), Gideon Welles (DS), Thurlow Weed (LS), Ninian Edwards (ANS), Sam Houston, James Buchanan (cut sig.), William R. King (ALS), G.M. Dallas, Rutherford B. Hayes (cut sig.), Millard Fillmore (cut sig.), Hannibal Hamlin (ALS), Charles Wilkes (ALS), Maj. Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan (boldly signed card), William F. ("Baldy") Smith (ALS), Admiral D.G. Farragut (cut sig.), Rear Admiral Daniel Ammenn (ALS), David E. Twiggs (ALS), Maj. Gen. J.B. Steedman (ALS), W.H. French (ALS), Gen. Isaac R. Trimble (ALS), Gen. Truman Seymour (ALS), Gen. Harry T. Hays (ALS), and numerous other military and political figures (including a forgery of a Lincoln signature). (20)