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Large Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant; Signed by Him as President of the United States
GRANT, ULYSSES S. [U.S.].
Signed Photograph of Ulysses S. Grant.
: 1877.
Large signed photograph of Ulysses S. Grant as President of the United States. Boldly signed below the image by Grant. The entire piece measures 14.5 inches by 17 inches. Handsomely matted and framed. Scarce and desirable signed by Grant.
Price: $9,800.00 Item Number: 4608
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Signed Engraving of Ulysses S. Grant
GRANT, ULYSSES S.
Ulysses S. Grant Signed Engraving.
Washington, D.C: 1871.
Portrait engraving of President Ulysses S. Grant. Boldly signed U.S. Grant. The engraving measures 5.5 inches by 4 inches. This portrait engraving produced by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In near fine condition, affixed to an 8 inch by 10 inch sheet bearing a small note. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 16.5 inches 18 inches.
Price: $5,500.00 Item Number: 44047
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Rare Autograph Letter Signed by Ulysses S. Grant to Attorney General Edwards Pierrepont
GRANT, ULYSSES S.
Ulysses S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed.
: 1876.
Autograph letter signed by and entirely in the hand of Ulysses S. Grant as President. Addressed to the Attorney General of the United States Edwards Pierrepont the letter reads, “Elizabeth, N.J. Sept. 2nd 1876 Dear Judge, While in Utica Judge Hunt spoke to me of the importance of appointing a member to Judge Woodruff at as early as a day as practicable on account of the great amount of business before the court. I do not know of any lawyer in the circuit to whom to tender the position when it should be Senator Edmunds and he I should dislike to see leave the Senate. But you are well acquainted with the Bar in that circuit and its wants, and can no doubt suggest the right man for the place. If you will send me a commission therefore to St. Louis so as to reach me there between the 24th and 28th either filled up of the name blank, with suggestions as to the best man I will sign and return it. Very truly your humble servant U.S. Grant.” Grant appointed Pierrepont Attorney General of the United States on April 26, 1875. When he assumed the office, Pierrepont immediately implemented overdue reform in the South’s U.S. Marshal and U.S. Attorney departments including extensive investigations into the conduct of the U.S. Attorneys and U.S. Marshals, exposing fraud and corruption. Double matted and framed with a carte de visite of Grant. In fine condition. The entire piece measures 21.75 inches by 15.75 inches.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 101208
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"One of the FINEST EXAMPLES OF 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS": Official George Casilear U.S. Treasury Department Engraving of President Ulysses S. Grant; Signed and dated by Him
GRANT, ULYSSES S. (GEORGE W. CASILEAR).
Ulysses S. Grant Signed Engraving.
Washington, D.C: 1871.
Official Bureau of Engraving & Printing U.S. Treasury Department engraved portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant by George W. Casilear. Boldly signed “U.S. Grant.” The brother of landscape painter John William Casilear, George W. Casilear was an early and nationally recognized security engraver. He held several important patents to features including tamper-proof ink, printing techniques and paper. In consideration of the aesthetic needs of the Treasury for both widespread reproduction of these images on banknotes and well as the fine detail required to distinguish counterfeiting, the engravings are considered among the finest American examples of 19th century. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 10 inches by 9 inches. Engravings signed by Grant are rare, particularly by Casilear.
Price: $5,000.00 Item Number: 101590
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"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace": Rare Henry Shrady Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust
GRANT, ULYSSES S.] HENRY MERWIN SHRADY.
Ulysses S. Grant Bronze Bust.
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Original bronze bust of Ulysses S. Grant by Henry Shrady, the famed sculptor of the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on the west front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Mounted on socle and base, the entire piece measures 18.5 inches in height, the base measures 9.5 inches square. In fine condition. An exceptional piece of Americana.
Price: $22,500.00 Item Number: 102885
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Rare Carte de Visite Signed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant
GRANT, ULYSSES S.
Ulysses S. Grant Signed Carte de Visite.
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Rare original carte de visite signed by Ulysses S. Grant, “U.S. Grant Maj. Gen. U.S.A.” In near fine condition. Matted and framed. The entire piece measures 9.5 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $8,200.00 Item Number: 109556
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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
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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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Louis A. Coolidge's Ulysses S. Grant; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
COOLIDGE, LOUIS A. [ULYSSES S. GRANT; WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN].
Ulysses S. Grant.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1924.
Later edition of this biography of the eighteenth president of the United States; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Duodecimo, two volumes, original cloth, top stain red, frontispiece portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in each volume. P. T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front pastedown of both volumes beneath his ownership signature with an additional gift inscription on the title page of Vol. I. In near fine condition with very light rubbing to the extremities, front and rear panels of both volumes. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, this set was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania. A nice association.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 145876
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Rare 19th century autograph album containing the signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes, and numerous governors, senators, and cabinet members
[LINCOLN, ABRAHAM; JAMES BUCHANAN; ULYSSES S. GRANT; RUTHERFORD B. HAYES; ANDREW JOHNSON; FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Presidential Autograph Album Containing the Signatures of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Others.
: [1877-1880].
Unique 19th-century autograph album containing the signatures of six American presidents, fifteen senators, several cabinet members, and governors including Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James Buchanan, and Franklin Pierce. Narrow quarto, bound in one quarter period dark brown cloth over stiff marbled wrappers, the autograph album is a repurposed 19th-century caucus record, dating from ca. 1870. The caucus book is alphabetically tab-indexed and filled out in ink, voters are tracked by their name with caucus results appearing in the back. Although this is labeled “Ward 5” in the first page, the term “Ward” was flexible in its usage. This could have been for a Ward election, precinct caucus, legislative, congressional, or state convention caucus. The autographs are mounted over the caucus records in their respective alphabetical tab. Also mounted at front are 6 printed pieces of 19th-century ephemera. The autograph album was assembled between 1877 and 1880 and can be dated by a contemporary pencil note that John Sherman had transitioned from the Senate to be Secretary of the Treasury. From the collection of a Mr. Boyd, a 19th-century Ward politician in the upper Midwest, Minnesota or Wisconsin. The Presidential autographs are primarily clipped from Presidential appointments, and include: Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce and Rutherford B. Hayes. In very good condition. A very rare and unique collection.
Price: $17,500.00 Item Number: 146562