Josiah Gilbert Holland. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Springfield, Massachusetts: Gurdon Bill, 1866. 8vo. Portrait and 3 plates. Publisher's original dark brick red cloth with gilt facsimile Lincoln signature. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 32512.

WITH SIGNATURE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN TIPPED INTO FRONTISPIECE. 

Front free endpaper inscribed: "C.H. Buxton / Washington City / July 25th 1866." With vignetted bust-length albumen CDV portrait of Lincoln mounted to front free endpaper. 

Provenance: C.H. Buxton (ownership inscription to front free endpaper); Hindman Auctions, Sale 1250 American Historical Ephemera & Photography, 30 November 2023, Lot 265. 

A first edition memorial of Abraham Lincoln featuring a signature clipped from a document of the President mounted to the frontispiece portrait. Interestingly, the book bears the ownership inscription of C.H. Buxton, identified as the assistant Doorkeeper for the House of Representatives. 

ALSO WITH half-length studio albumen CDV portrait of John Wilkes Booth. New York, C.D. Fredericks & Co. ca 1862. 

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