GUN FALL 2016
The live portion of this session begins on Tuesday, October 4, 2016.
FINE AND RARE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF NOTABLE AND FAMOUS CIVIL WAR AND 19TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES.19th century anonymous autograph album with about 70 autographs and letters of mostly notable figures including: Confederate Generals, Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, John S. Mosby (Signed CDV), Edmund Kirby Smith, James Longstreet, John B. Gordon; Union Generals, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Meade, Ben Butler, Irwin McDowell and John C. Fremont; President Andrew Johnson. Other notable signatures noted are those of Brigham Young, Thomas Edison, "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Samuel L. Clemens, Booker T. Washington. There are also other eclectic signatures noted of the artist John La Farge, several women including Maud B. Booth who was early women's activist and involved in the early Salvation Army. This is a fascinating album that should be viewed. SIZE: CONDITION: Autographs overall are very good to fine and mostly tipped in to the 60+ pgs. Binding is poor with many sheets unbound, though autograph cards and letters are generally very good. Autographs overall are dark and discernible, the ink explanations written on the various sheets are also mostly discernible though some cracked with foxing, acid burn, and soiling to album pgs. 51073-1 JS (7,000-9,000)