Potter and Potter Auctions: How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX, 1180, Chicago

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Auction Date
April 18, 2024 - April 18, 2024
Page Size: 554 items in 23 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
75 [DAVIS, Jefferson (1808-1889)].

Satirical mechanical "Jeff Davis, After the fall of Fort Sumter" card.

Boston n.d. ca.1863. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 360.00
76 [JACKSON, Stonewall (1824-1863)].

Confederate sheet music.

New Orleans 1865 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
77

The Daily Citizen.

Vicksburg 1863 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 600.00
78

Autograph letter signed ("James H. Wing, Sr. Col."), prisoner of war, at Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, to his father, William Wing, now power of attorney,

1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
79

Extra. The Orleans Republican.

Albion 1861 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 570.00
80

Grand Tableau Entertainment! For the benefit of the Vermilion Zouaves, To be given at Lincoln Hall, Thursday Eve., October 24th.

Circa 1860s. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 120.00
81

A pair of military telegraph messages, plus a discharge document.

1863 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 840.00
82 LOVEJOY, John M. (1843-ca. 1880).

Manuscript Diary of Pvt. John M. Lovejoy of the 121st New York Infantry, with Descriptions of Major Events He Witnessed, Including Lee's Surrender to Meade.

New York: 1865 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
83 BLAKEMAN, James Henry (1841-ca. 1918).

Manuscript Diary of a Soldier in the 17th Connecticut Regiment, with Description of His Wounding on the First Day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

New York: 1863 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
84 BLAKEMAN, James Henry (1841-ca. 1918).

Manuscript Diary of a Soldier in the 17th Connecticut Regiment, with Descriptions of His Time in Hospital Due to Measles and His Time in Florida During the Palatka Campaign.

Stratford CT: 1864 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
85 VEASE [?], Harvey.

Manuscript Diary of a Union Soldier from the First New York Artillery, Battery M, for 1864 with an Eyewitness Account of the Atlanta Campaign and Several Related Battles.

New York: 1864 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,200.00
86 BLAIR, M. Lewis.

Manuscript Diary of Captain M. Lewis Blair, of the 143rd Pennsylvania Volunteers for 1864.

New York: 1864 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,800.00
87

Manuscript Diary of an Unidentified Union Soldier for 1862, who participated in the Siege of Corinth and the Battle of Shiloh.

New York 1861 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 900.00
88

"Free Excursion! to Richmond! F. H. Hale, Engineer."

Norway Village Maine ca.1861-62 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 900.00
89

"Report of Sick and Wounded" for Union Troops Stationed "Near Richmond, Va" September, 1864 [and] a Soldier's Letter to His Sister from Petersburg, VA, including: "Report of Sick and Wounded".

Near Richmond VA 1864 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 300.00
90

Advertising Circular for "The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia" and the "Rebel Ram 'Atlanta.'"

Philadelphia ca.1863. USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
91 OVERTON, P. N.

Autograph Letter Signed,

Richmond 1862 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
92

A group of 5 issues of the Confederate Newspaper, the Daily Richmond Examiner. Vol. XVI, Nos. 66, 85, 105, 141, 309.

Richmond VA 1862, 1863 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 150.00
93

The New York Herald. Whole No. 10451

New York NY 1865 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 330.00
94 [CUSTER, George Armstrong (1839-1876)].

Albumen portrait photograph.

St. Louis 1872 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
95 [CUSTER, George Armstrong (1839-1876)].

Manuscript document signed ("E.D.

1876 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,640.00
96

Rare-to-Find Rag Paper Edition of the "St. Louis Globe-Democrat", New Series. Vol. 2, No. 50

St. Louis 1876 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 96.00
97

Rare-to-Find Rag Paper Editions of the "St. Louis Globe-Democrat", New Series. Vol. 2, No. 52

St. Louis 1876 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
98

A Pair of Carte de Visite Photographs and a Printed Circular Related to Fort Abercrombie and the Harsh Treatments Enlisted Men Received.

N.p. n.d. USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 720.00
99

First Printing of the Declaration of Independence Outside of the United States [In: The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1776].

London: 1777 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 660.00
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