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14 CDVs of Union generals and other officers wearing mourning bands or pins in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln following his assassination, ca 1865. With varying degrees of toning and spotting, wear and soiling. Some mount edges and corners clipped or trimmed. Generally good. Subjects include:
George Gordon Meade (2). First pose, Philadelphia, PA: Henszey & Co. Period identification on verso in unknown hand. Second pose, Philadelphia, PA: Philada. Photographic Co. -- Ulysses S. Grant. Philadelphia, PA: F. Gutekunst. -- J. Warren Keifer (2). First pose, Uncredited. Possibly signed by Keifer on verso, and dated 23 June 1865. Second pose, Washington, DC: John Goldin & Co. -- Samuel P. Heintzelman (2). First pose, Washington, DC: John Goldin & Co. Second pose, uncredited. -- Montgomery Meigs. Uncredited. -- John W. Geary. Harrisburg, PA: Le Rue Lemer. -- W.T. Sherman. Uncredited. -- Theodore Glazier as Major, 45th USCT. Philadelphia: Whitaker & Co. Possibly signed in lower margin of print. -- And 3 others. Few with revenue stamps affixed to verso.
Smith, John
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning Ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the Proceedings of Those Several Colonies and the Accidents that befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. London: Printed by J. Dawson and J. Havilland for Michael Sparkes, 1624. Small folio (292 x 181 mm).
The rare 1624 first edition, first issue of The Generall Historie, with all the maps. This seminal work, Smith's magnum opus, is one of the foundational sources for information about the English settlements in America and Bermuda. It was partly compiled from Captain John Smith's four earlier reports on the colonies in Virginia and New England, all of which are very rare. The text covers his time in Virginia (1606-1609) through his exploration of New England (1610-1617), and it contains Smith's eyewitness accounts of the founding of the English Colony at Jamestown, as well as his capture by the King of Pamaunkee and subsequent rescue through the intercession of Pocahontas.