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"There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice": First Edition of Grants Memoirs
GRANT, ULYSSES S. [U.S.].
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885-86.
First edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which focusing mainly on his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Octavo, 2 volumes, original green cloth with title and front panel in gilt, illustrated with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 134188
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"There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice": First Edition of Grants Memoirs; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
GRANT, ULYSSES S. [U.S.].
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885-86.
First edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which focusing mainly on his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel of each volume, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145765
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"A LANDMARK TREATY WHICH FORGED PERMANENT FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA AND PAVED THE WAY FOR THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS": RARE COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington; signed by all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant
[GRANT, ULYSSES S.; HAMILTON FISH; WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN; ET AL].
Ulysses S. Grant Treaty of Washington Signed Document Collection.
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Rare collection of documents related to the 1871 Treaty of Washington including signatures of all of the key figures involved in its signing including President Ulysses S. Grant, his Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and the British delegation led by George Robinson, Earl de Grey and Ripon. The collection was assembled by Frederic Daustini Cremer who acted as secretary to de Grey and travelled with him and his son Viscount Goderich to Washington for the proceedings, where he also obtained letters by William Sherman amongst others for his collection and contains:
Two lined folio pages containing the signatures of the British and American signatories of the Treaty of Washington, including: the British High Commissioners (George Robinson, the Earl de Grey and Ripon (chairman), Stafford Northcote, Edward Thornton, John Macdonald and Montague Bernard) and the American delegation (U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (chairman), Robert Schenck, Samuel Nelson, Ebenezer Hoar and George Williams), with seven other protagonists. 2 pages, folio, written on recto only on lined paper, watermark ‘Department of State/ US’, creased, page one affixed to an album leaf, page two loose, dated at head “May 8 1871 11am.”
A portrait photograph of President Ulysses S. Grant seated in an armchair, signed in ink on lower margin, “U.S. Grant.” Affixed to the reverse of the above album leaf.
An autograph note in the third person from General W. T. Sherman to Earl de Grey, accepting an invitation to dine, on US Army Headquarters notepaper. One page on a bifolium, lined paper, affixed to an album leaf, dated “28 February [18]71.”
Two autograph letters signed “U.S. Grant”, the first to Hamilton Fish, making arrangements to meet the Italian Minister on Executive Mansion notepaper, one page on a bifolium, creased, dated 13 May [18]70; the second to an unknown recipient, arranging to meet at Harrisburg, 3 pages on a bifolium, lined paper, torn along fold, creased, sent from Long Branch, N.J., 6 August 1870, both affixed to an album leaf with an accompanying letter to Frederic Daustini Cremer on Executive Mansion notepaper sending him “…an autograph letter of Gen Grant’s as a memento… it is one selected for the reason that it is entirely unofficial…” Three pages on a bifolium, sent from Washington, 5 May [18]71.
An autograph letter signed “Hamilton Fish” to Hon Ogden Hoffman of San Francisco, a letter of introduction for “…Lord Goderich and his friend Mr Cremer. The former is the son of the Earl de Grey & the latter is his Lordships Secretary…”, 2pp. on a bifolium, sent from Washington, 6 May 1871. With an accompanying autograph envelope; and two autograph letters from Charles Sumner, one to Mrs Fish regarding a book of Froissart illustrations and another in the third person to Earl de Grey accepting an invitation, 4 pages, 7 May [18]66 and 13 March [no date]; with autograph letter signed (“Schulyer Colfax”) to Hamilton Fish, reporting he has not yet received his copies of the Lincoln Memorial, on Vice President’s Chamber notepaper, one page on a bifolium, Washington, 9 July [18]70; with signature of J. G. Blaine, Speaker, dated 19 April 1871, one page, three items affixed to an album leaf, the others loose.
An autograph letter signed “de Grey” to Cremer written on the voyage back to England after the signing of the Treaty, sorry to leave Washington and regretting that the Senate would not ratify the Treaty before he left, talking of the Free Trade movement in the US and asking him to report back on the reaction to the treaty in Canada, 8pp., creased, remains of guard, 31 May 1871; with a manuscript fragment outlining two points of the treaty with regards to inshore fisheries, one page torn from a larger sheet.
In very good to near fine condition.
Provenance: The Rev. Frederic Daustini Cremer (1848-1927); thence by descent to the present owner.
Price: $20,000.00 Item Number: 143272
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"There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice": First Edition of Grants Memoirs; Finely Bound by The Harcourt Bindery
GRANT, ULYSSES S. [U.S.].
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885-86.
First edition of the autobiography of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, which focusing mainly on his military career during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel of each volume, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 141402
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Exceptionally rare autograph album containing the autographs of 24 American Presidents in addition to numerous autographs of Cabinet Members, vice presidents and several rare carte-de-visites
WASHINGTON, GEORGE; JOHN ADAMS; THOMAS JEFFERSON; JAMES MADISON; ANDREW JACKSON; MARTIN VAN BUREN; WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON; JAMES TYLER; JAMES H. POLK; JAMES BUCHANAN; ZACHARY TAYLOR; MILLARD FILLMORE; JAMES BUCHANAN; FRANKLIN PIERCE; ABRAHAM LINCOLN; WILLIAM SEWARD; ANDREW JOHNSON; ULYSSES S. GRANT; JAMES GARFIELD; CHESTER A. ARTHUR; GROVER CLEVELAND; BENJAMIN HARRISON; GROVER CLEVELAND; WILLIAM MCKINLEY; ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Autograph Album of the Presidents and Cabinet Officials of the United States of America.
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Rare late 19th century folio album containing an extensive collection of Presidential autographs, letters, carte-de-visites, and portraits in addition to those of each Cabinet. Folio, bound in three quarter morocco with five raised bands and gilt titles to the spine. The album contains: a clipped signature of President George Washington with a four-page letter of provenance dated July 13 1948, several portraits of him including two rare carte-de-visites as well as a carte-de-visite of Martha Washington; and autograph letter signed by John Adams as President to Benjamin Lincoln, Quincy, July 23, 1799; a clipped document signed by Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison as Secretary of State with numerous portraits of each; a trimmed ship’s passport signed by James Monroe; clipped signatures of Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren; autograph letter signed by William Henry Harrison, North Bend, March 4, 1840; clipped signature of James Tyler; clipped document signed by James H. Polk as President and countersigned by James Buchanan as Secretary of State with the Presidential Seal intact; a card signed by Zachary Taylor and members of his cabinet; slipped signature of Millard Fillmore; autograph letter signed by James Buchanan; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signatures of Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, and Andrew Johnson; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Gran with numerous portraits of him including a rare carte-de-visite; clipped signature and autograph not signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, March 21, 1892; autograph note signed by James Garfield, Menton, Ohio June 22, 1880; signature card of Chester A. Arthur dated November 15, 1881; an autograph letter signed by Grover Cleveland on White House stationery, dated September 1, 1887; a card signed by Benjamin Harrison; a signature card signed by Grover Cleveland; and a letter signed by William McKinley, 27 February 1892. The Presidential autographs and portraits are followed by extensive section of cabinet officials including: a clipped signature of Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury; an autograph letter signed by Albert Gallatin; clipped signatures of Aaron Burr, John Armstrong, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay; autograph note signed by Daniel Webster; card signed by James Polk, James Buchanan and other members of his cabinet; autograph letter signed by Edward Everett; autograph note signed by Jefferson Davis and other members of the Confederacy including Howell Cobb and James Thompson; autograph note signed by William H. Seward, dated 1855; and a note signed by Gideon Welles on Navy Department stationery in addition to dozens of other notable American public figures including cabinet officials and Vice-Presidents. In very good condition. An exceptional rarity.
Price: $82,000.00 Item Number: 129509
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First Edition of Hymns of the Ages: Second Series; from the library of Ulysses S. Grant
[GRANT, ULYSSES S.].
Hymns of the Ages: Second Series. Being Selections From Wither, Crashaw, Southwell, Harington, and Other Sources.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1865.
First edition of the second series of Hymns of the Ages, from the library of Ulysses S. Grant. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant with a presentation bookplate to the pastedown which reads, “Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, from the Citizens of Boston, January 1, 1866.” In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 138284
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Special presentation first edition of Matthew Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas & Japan; With a Note from President Ulysses S. Grant
PERRY, MATTHEW [ULYSSES S. GRANT].
Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas & Japan.
Washington, D.C: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer 1856.
Special presentation first edition with secretarial note signed by Ulysses S. Grant as President, sending this specially bound example to Sir Edward Thornton, “As a slight evidence of his kindness in undertaking the laborious task of arbitrating the questions between the United States and Brazil in the case of the ship Canada,” signed January 14, 1871. Quarto, four volumes, bound in full contemporary morocco over beveled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, with Grant’s note tipped between endpapers in volume one, illustrated throughout, the censored bathing plate present, lacking three hand colored natural history plates (one bird, one fish, one shells), with two duplicate copies of fish plate XII. In near fine condition.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 134782
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First edition of Horace Porter's Campaigning with Grant
PORTER, HORACE. [ULYSSES S. GRANT].
Campaigning with Grant.
New York: The Century Co. 1897.
First edition of Horace Porter’s Civil War memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with portraits and maps. In good condition. First editions are rare.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 132638
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Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs; containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, GEORGE; JOHN ADAMS; THOMAS JEFFERSON; JAMES MADISON; JAMES MONROE; JOHN QUINCY ADAMS; ANDREW JACKSON; MARTIN VAN BUREN; WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON; JOHN TYLER; JAMES POLK; ZACHARY TAYLOR; MILLARD FILLMORE; FRANKLIN PIERCE; JAMES BUCHANAN; ABRAHAM LINCOLN; ANDREW JOHNSON; ULYSSES S. GRANT; RUTHERFORD B. HAYES; JAMES GARFIELD; CHESTER A. ARTHUR; GROVER CLEVELAND; WILLIAM MCKINLEY; THEODORE ROOSEVELT; WILLIAM H. TAFT; WOODROW WILSON; WARREN G. HARDING; CALVIN COOLIDGE; HERBERT HOOVER; FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT; HARRY TRUMAN; DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.
Autographs of the Presidents of the United States of America.
: 1783-1956.
Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs, containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quarto, bound in full red morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt presidential seal to the front panel with white and blue morocco onlays, gilt arms and motto of George Washington to the rear panel with white and blue morocco onlays and his gilt signature in facsimile, centerpieces within quintuple gilt ruling with star emblems at each corner, blue morocco doublures with multiple gilt presidential signatures, blue silk endpapers. This complete series of autographs of the first 34 Presidents of the United States contains the signature of each mounted on an album leaf opposite a loosely tissue-guarded engraved portrait of each. The collection includes: the signature of George Washington on an envelope addressed to Major General Knox as Secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati, November 3, 1783; a clipped signature of John Adams; clipped signature of Thomas Jefferson; the signature of James Madison on an envelope addressed to Reverend Frederick Freeman of Manayunk, Pennsylvania; and inscription signed by James Monroe; the signature of John Quincy Adams on an envelope addressed to William Plumer jun. Esq. in Epping, New Hampshire; a partially printed land grant signed by Andrew Jackson dated 1831 registering the purchase of 20 acres in Detroit by Peter Aldrich; clipped signature of Martin Van Buren; clipped signature of William Henry Harrison; signed inscription from John Tyler; signed inscription from James Polk; clipped signature of Zachary Taylor dated Baton Rouge, March 5, 1841; clipped signature of Millard Fillmore; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signature of James Buchanan on a document dated July 18, 1858; clipped signature of Abraham Lincoln; endorsement signed by Andrew Johnson as President; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Grant; card signed by Rutherford B. Hayes; inscription signed by James Garfield; large card signed by Chester A. Arthur and dated May 22, 1884; autograph noted signed by Grover Cleveland declining an invitation, dated November 16, 1890; an Executive Mansion card signed by William McKinely; clipped signature of Theodore Roosevelt; clipped signature of William Howard Taft; clipped signature of Woodrow Wilson; typed letter signed by Warren G. Harding as President, dated June 4, 1923 on White House letterhead; card signed by Calvin Coolidge; White House card signed by Herbert Hoover; typed letter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, February 15, 1917. Laid in is a typed letter signed by Harry S. Truman as President, June 30, 1950, on White House stationery and a typed letter signed by Dwight Eisenhower. TLS as President, November 13, 1956, on White House stationery. In fine condition. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. An exceptional collection and presentation.
Price: $80,000.00 Item Number: 125384
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"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins": Rare Henry Kirke Bush-Brown Bust of Ulysses S. Grant as the first general of the united states army
BUSH-BROWN, HENRY KIRKE. [ULYSSES S. GRANT].
Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust.
New York: Henry-Bonnard Bronze Co. [c. 1885].
Attractive bronze bust of of Ulysses S. Grant as General of the Army by famed American sculptor Henry Kirke Bush-Brown. The adopted nephew of sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Kirke Bush-Brown was revered for his accurate realist sculptures illustrating American history. He produced three equestrian bronze sculptures erected at the Gettysburg battlefield depicting General George Mead (the victor at Gettysburg), General John F. Reynolds (killed in action July 1, 1863), and General John Sedgwick (the senior most Union casualty of the American Civil War). In addition, Bush-Brown made a bust of Abraham Lincoln, dedicated in 1912 as part of the Lincoln Speech Memorial commemorating Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Mounted on a bronze base, the entire piece measures 7.75 inches in height. In fine condition.
Price: $12,500.00 Item Number: 125381