(Grover CLEVELAND) A 19 x 19 in. cotton bandana bearing the portraits of Grover Cleveland and running mate Alan G. Thurman manufactured for the 1888 presidential campaign.
Usual folds, a few minor toned spots, else fine.
(EXA 3908) $350
(Civil War) An appeal to Union sentiments on the eve of the Civil War by Currier and Ives. Hand-colored lithograph, 1860 (11 1/2 x 8 3/4 in. on a 14 x 10 in. sheet). Entitled “THE SPIRIT OF THE UNION” with two verses below:
“Lo! on high the glorious form, of WASHINGON lights all the gloom. And words of warning seem to come; From out the portal of his tomb; Americans, your fathers shed, Their blood to rear the UNIONS fame,Then let your blood as free be given,The bond of UNION to maintain.”
Light toning at top and bottom margins, minor mounting remnants and toning on verso, else fine condition.
(EXA 3882) $500
Harry S. TRUMAN (1884 – 1972) An enormous photograph, 19 1/2 x 15 1/4 in. (black & white) on a 24 x 20 in. mount captioned “THE WHITE HOUSE… The President signs the ‘National Security Act Amendments of 1949’ with invited guests attending the ceremony in his office.” Signed on the mount below the caption, ”Harry Truman” as President. Together with a second mounted photograph of similar dimensions depicting an alternate view of the signing ceremony.
National Security Act of 1947 created the cabinet post of Secretary of Defense and combined the Department of the Army and Department of the Navy into the combined National Military Establishment. However, the first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal did not enjoy sufficient power to be effective as the Secretaries of the Army and Navy still enjoyed quasi-cabinet level . The amended act of 1949, signed into law by Truman on 10 August 1949 aimed to rectify this situation, created the Department of Defense which unified the several service branches in one federated structure. The modernization of the structure of the armed forces was a key component in Truman’s Cold War strategy.
Minor glue remnants and toning, photographs slightly lifting from mount, else very good condition. Together, two pieces.
(EXA 3886) $1,450
(John ADAMS) John WOOD. The History of the Administration of John Adams, esq. Late President of the United States. (New York: 1802), [2], 506 pp. First Edition, second issue. Bound in later three-quarter leather boards.. With bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering affixed to front pastedown. With ownership signature “John Bartlett’s” on title page together with marginalia in his hand.
John Wood, a Burr partisan, did such a masterful job slandering John Adams, that Burr publicly repudiated the work and sought to purchase all extant copies. Likely due to popular demand, the publisher reprinted the title, despite Burr’s opposition, this time omitting the publisher information on the title page. The original owner of the present copy was not scandalized in the least and made several affirmative notes in the margins. When Wood intimated that Adams’ was acting to subvert the republic, by [in Adams’ words], “…a sudden introduction of wasting calamities, would soon convince the people themselves of the necessity of instituting another form for their own security and protection”, Bartlett agreed wholeheartedly in the margin: “the very design of Mr Adams’s Policy”.
Wood’s final conclusion proves an apt summary of the overall tone: “Extravagance and folly characterised [sic] the last as well as 
the first measures of Mr. Adams. The benches of justice were filled with me who fought against American Independence, and those who have been since most active to destroy it. – Mr. Adams determined and declared that he would nominate to the last hour of his presidential existence, and was not sparing of a species of insult an indecency to his successor which no man of command sense and civility could be guilty of … The matter in which Mr. Adams departed from Washington after his power ceased, has even received the censure of his warmest friends: in place of remaining to witness the inauguration of Mr. Jefferson like his illustrious predecessor, he ordered his carriage ready the moment the hour of twelve at night struck and as if ashamed to witness in a private station, the capital of that nation which he had for four years insulted and oppressed, he took his departure before sun rise, and bid (it is to be hoped) a final adieu to the seat of American government.”
Light foxing and toning to some pages, some margins rough, else very good condition overall.
(EXA 4313) $1,000
