A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">concert poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=New%20Order&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Order</a> performance at SO 36, Berlin on the 27th May 1981. <ul><li>Features a black and white image with the words ‘New Order were Joy Division’ in the upper left corner and concert details along the bottom edge.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

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A concert poster for the performance of New Order at Hal 4, Utopia, Rotterdam.&nbsp;<ul><li>The concert took place on the 13th&nbsp;December 1980.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

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Washington, George Manuscript document signed (“Go: Washington”), one page (333 x 203 mm) on a leaf of laid paper (counter-watermarked crowned GR), “Headquarters Morristown,” 8 January 1777, being orders to Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Blachley Webb headed “Instructions for Colonel Webb, Conducting the prisoners of War to Peekskill,” text in the hand of Stephen Moylan, verso addressed in Moylan’s hand “To Colonel Webb” and with filing dockets; some separations and pinholes at folds, two short horizontal tears, one just touching the crossbar of the t in Washington's signature, verso with a few stains and a couple of patches of mounting remnants. Half green morocco folding-case with engraved portrait of Washington. Even in the heat of war, Washington demonstrates his sense of honor and compassion, ordering an aide-de camp to ensure that some 211 British and Hessian soldiers taken prisoner at Princeton and Trenton be treated humanely: “You are to take charge of [space left for number ] privates of the Brittish Army & to Conduct them by the shortest and best rout from this place to Peekskill in the State of Newyork—Treat them with humanity, and Let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the Brittish Army in their Treatment of our unfortunate bretheren who have fallen into their hands, provide every thing necessary for them on the Road, and draw orders on the Quarter Master General for the amount of your several Disbursements, you will Deliver the prisoners to General Heath or the officer Commanding there who is desired to forward them to Governor Trumbull, who will dispose of them in such parts of the State of Connecticut as he will think proper." Webb conducted the prisoners through Peekskill on 12 January on their way to a permanent stockade in Connecticut. Washington issued an additional order to Webb on this date directing him to ask Major General William Heath to “order all Deserters and Straglers from this Army taken up and sent back.” Washington’s stance was in marked contrast to the brutal treatment of American soldiers and sailors captured by the British. This was at least partly because George III had declared American forces traitors in 1775, which denied them prisoner-of-war status. But beyond that, American prisoners were kept in appalling conditions without sufficient food, clothing, or shelter, many incarcerated on fetid prison ships anchored around New York. It is estimated that 10,000 American prisoners died from neglect, disease, and malnutrition—far more than the number killed in action. Samuel Webb (1753–1807) joined the Wethersfield Militia Company shortly after Lexington and Concord. He saw action during the Siege of Boston and at Bunker Hill and rose to be aide-de-camp to Major General Israel Putnam. Webb’s effectiveness in that position was noticed by Washington, who brought him on to his own staff. Webb was himself taken prisoner in December 1777, but as an officer, he was offered parole and fared much better than enlisted men, boarding in a private home on Long Island and even making several trips home to Wethersfield for private business. Webb was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and served as grand marshal at Washington's inauguration in 1789. REFERENCE The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, ed. Grizzard Jr., 8:16 PROVENANCE Absorbed into the papers of Major General Alexander McDougall, which were rediscovered to great fanfare in the possession of a descendant in 1968. (The Webb document is accompanied by a copy of the 23 February 1968 issue of Life, which featured a lengthy story on “The Long-lost Letters of General Washington,” that includes a photograph of this document on p. 38.) After again falling out of sight, the McDougall archive was purchased in 1993 by — Joseph Rubinfine — “A California Collector” (Christie’s New York, 19 June 2007, lot 310)

View 1 of Lot 513: Washington, George | The commander in chief orders that Redcoat prisoners be treated "with humanity, and Let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the Brittish Army" 

washington, george | the commander in chief orders that redcoat prisoners be treated "with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the brittish army"

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first printing of The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Encyclopaedia%20Britannica&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Encyclopaedia Britannica</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Edited by William Smellie (Scottish).</li><li>Engravings by Andrew Bell.</li><li>Printed by Colin Macfarquhar.</li><li>Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences compiled upon a New Plan. In which the Different Sciences and Arts are digested into Distinct Treatises or Systems; and the Various Technical Terms, etc. are explained as they occur in the order of the Alphabet.</li><li>Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771.</li><li>Quarto in half-sheets.</li><li>Half-title to each volume, 159 engraved plates (of 160, lacking plate 112 in 'Midwifery' section').</li><li>viii, 586, [10], 587-697; [4] 1009, [3]; [4], 280, 283-678, 879-953, [1]pp.</li><li>Contemporary calf-backed glazed blue paper boards,&nbsp;</li></ul> The first edition of 'the most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language' (PMM). A landmark Enlightenment text, the Britannica was the brainchild of the Edinburgh-based bookseller and printer, Colin Macfarquhar, and the engraver Andrew Bell. At the time, the city was arguably the intellectual center of Britain, host to many of the nation's leading thinkers from David Hume to Adam Smith, and the gathering place of discussion clubs like The Select Society and The Poker Club where members met to debate advances in the arts and sciences. Macfarquhar and Bell conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751 to 1766), which was widely viewed as heretical, but the key initiative that set the Britannica apart from other earlier encyclopaedias was its layout. Related topics were to be grouped together into longer essays, then organized alphabetically. Previously technical terms had been listed generally in alphabetical order, an approach that the Britannica derided as 'dismembering the sciences' (Preface). The 28-year-old press-corrector William Smellie was employed to provide the text. The result was originally issued in 100 parts (called 'numbers' and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on December 6, 1768 in Edinburgh, priced 6d or 8d on finer paper, with the last issued in 1771. With two of the three midwifery plates depicting childbirth in clinical detail that so shocked King George III that he commanded that the pages be ripped from every copy. These plates are consequently rarely found (see Kogan, The Great EB: The Story Of The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1958, p.13). The other plates include human anatomy, animals and other natural history subjects, scientific instruments and industrial apparatus, geometrical propositions, and miscellaneous subjects ranging from types of cannon to specimens of shorthand; there are also several plates of music score and a small number of maps. Sets in any state of completeness are rare.

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View 1 of Lot 515: [World War II – 21st Army Group] | An important archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to the German surrender

[world war ii – 21st army group] | an important archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in europe, from the early stages of planning for d-day and operation overlord, to the german surrender

Adams, John Autograph letter signed (“Your affectionate father John Adams”), 3 pages (246 x 200 mm) on a bifolium of laid paper (watermarked posthorn), Quincy, 12 March 1802, to his son Thomas Boylston Adams, reception and file dockets on verso of second leaf; a few short tears along bottom margins and fore-edge of first leaf, light browning and traces of guard mount on blank verso of second leaf. An extraordinary letter—both academic and affectionate—by the second president to his youngest son, offering Thomas advice on his budding legal career, analyzing common law and natural rights, and reminiscing about his own participation in the development of the Declaration of Independence. In a letter of 3 March 1802, Thomas Boylston Adams consented to his father’s suggestion that he study common law—with the stipulation that John Adams assist him with the task. Thomas also noted his satisfaction with U.S. district judge Alexander Addison’s statement that the common law arose from the laws of nature and dictates of God. In this response, John Adams reassures his son, a fledgling lawyer in Philadelphia, that he should not misconstrue a suggestion made in an earlier letter as his setting a chore or criticizing his practice: “I recd. last night, your Letter of the 3d.—It was far from my thoughts to assign you a task. I meant only to turn your mind to a Subject, which must necessaryly engage much of your contemplations, as long as you live. The Folc Right [i.e, folkright, the aggregate of rules, some unwritten, that express the juridical consciousness of the people at large, a concept dating back to the Anglo-Saxon period], the Peoples Right, the common law, is the natural, Inheritance of Us all. It is our Birth Right.” Adams, far more widely read than any public man of his day, insisted that no statesman could act wisely without a deep understanding of the principles of government and the nature of man (Elkins & McKittrick, The Age of Federalism, p. 530). He recognized, however, that these natural rights could be misinterpreted by the common public, and that a thorough and applied reading of the law would allow those in the profession to become conversant with the principles governing personal and political liberty. As he explained to Thomas, “But precious as it is, and dear as it ought to be to all our hearts, it is likely to be a subject of controversy in this country, untill an examination of it, on a large Scale, Shall be undertaken and accomplished by you or Some other, whose Industry may be equal to the Subject.” Yet Adams deprecates his own ability to help his son in this course of study: “The assistance to be expected from me, must be very Small. I have Scarcely a Law Book of any kind left in my office. It is almost 30 Years since I abandoned my Office and Law Library, and now I have none. My Recollections of the contents of Law Books, you may well Suppose to be very faint confused and incorrect.” (Adams’s involvement in politics and the rigors of the judicial circuit—the radius of his travels comprised more than 200 miles in all directions, taking him as far as Martha's Vineyard and the reaches of Maine—decided him to abandon his practice altogether in the 1770s. Oddly enough, about a fortnight after penning this letter to Thomas, Adams wrote several friends that he was toying with the idea of resurrecting his practice.) But despite this display of modesty, Adams does not stint on advising his son of the pragmatic steps necessary to make a success at the law. “A Lawyer, Should have in his Desk, or Bureau, more pidgeon holes, than a Coiner of constitutions. In these he should deposit, in exact, numerical or Alphebetical order, all the Effects of his Researches into moot Points, as well as the States of his Cases and his notes of Arguments or Authorities relative to them. One of these Apartments in your Scrutoire or your Case or Drawers for writings you may dedicate to the common Law, and fill it up with your disquisitions as Slowly or as Swiftly as you please.— And if it Should be growing upon you at intervals for fifty Years; instead of injuring your mind body or estate, it may be of great benefit to the first and last, at least. Hæc Olim meminisse juvabit.— Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti. The Plan indeed is vast, and will require a long time: but nothing presses for haste. The United States and the State of Pennsylvania are now within your reach. See what progress you make in ascertaining the common Law in them. You may pursue the Clue when you shall have Seized it, into other States at your Leisure.” The encouraging Latin epigram Adams provides is a hybrid, with the initial phrase taken from the first book of the Aeneid (“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this will be a pleasure”), while the second (“Let the unlearned learn, and let the experienced love to remember”) is a motto traditionally, if erroneously, attributed to Horace that appeared on the title-page of an anthology Adams was then reading, Jean François de La Harpe’s Lycée; ou, Cours de littérature ancienne et modern (16 vols. in 19, Paris, 1799–1805). Despite his earlier claim that his “Recollections of the contents of Law Books [is] very faint confused and incorrect,” John Adams recommends a number of specific texts by classic jurists for Thomas’s study of common law: “Judge Addisons thoughts may be of Use to you: but figures of Spech are not always Science of Law. Passion Politicks and Eloquence Should always be Studied with diffidence and Jealousy in discussions of Laws and Government. Avail yourself however of every thing that can afford you any light. “Lord Chief Justice Hale, wrote a Book under the Title of An History of the common Law I had it, and Suppose you have it now among my Law Books that I lent you. In this Work, an Octavo Volume well worth your reading, you will find much perhaps to your purpose. Fortesque Aland’s Reports You have among my Books. In a Preface to that Work there is much concerning the Saxon Language and the Saxon Folc Right. Ther is the best Deffinition, or description, or History if you will of the common Law, in that Preface, which I remember to have read. Blackstone took his Account of the common Law from that preface. Reeves’s History of the Law will probably assist you.” John Adams’s familiarity with these texts was well earned. He contracted to read law with James Putnam of Worcester in August 1756 for a period of two years. Once his studies were completed, he moved back to Braintree where he continued to prepare for the bar. In between chores on his father's farm, he translated Justinian and slowly read (by his own admission), Sir Geoffrey Gilbert's dense Treatise of Feudal Tenures (McCullough, John Adams, pp. 42–43). After his interview with Jeremiah Gridley, the dean of the Boston bar, Adams was invited to read in Gridley's law library. Shortly thereafter in November 1758 Gridley sponsored Adams's admission to the bar. After his admittance, Adams forged on with his rigorous reading regimen. The burgeoning success of his practice spurred an interest in assembling a legal library of the first degree. In a diary entry dated 30 January 1768 he records that he is "mostly intent at present upon collecting a library and I find that a great deal of thought and care, as well as money, are necessary to assemble an ample and well chosen assortment of books" (Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, I:337). McCullough states that for Adams, like Jefferson, "books [were] an extravagance he could no longer curb (with one London bookseller he had placed a standing order for 'every book and pamphlet, of reputation, upon the subjects of law and government as soon as it comes out'" (McCullough, John Adams, p. 64). His library, comprising some 3,500 volumes, is now housed at the Boston Public Library. Of these, 254 volumes are legal treatises, including four of the works mentioned in the letter to Thomas, some of which are found in multiple editions. A copy of Sir Matthew Hale’s Historia Placitorum Coronæ, perhaps distinct from the copy given to Thomas, is part of the collection. Fortescue Aland's Reports bears Adams's ownership inscription and is dated 1770. Reeve's History of the Common Law not only contains Adams's signature but also that of Thomas Boylston's son John Quincy (dated 1853) and the bookplate of another grandson, Charles Francis Adams. Adams also owned two editions of Blackstone's famous Commentaries as well as a set of his law tracts which survive in the collection. Adams at last recommends some his own writings to his son, staking a claim for having provided “the rough materials of the Declaration of Independence.” Adams later chafed at the idea that his Declaration of Rights was overlooked as the cornerstone of the Declaration of Independence, having been eclipsed by Jefferson's authorial contributions. In his own copy of his Discourses on Davila, which recognized the dangers of an unbalanced democracy then unfolding in France, he privately fumes in an annotation: “The Declaration of Independence of 4 July 1776 contained Nothing but the Boston Declaration of 1772 and the Congress Declaration of 1774. Such are the Caprices of Fortune. This Declaration of Rights was drawn by the little John Adams. The mighty Jefferson by the Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776 carried away the glory both of the great and the little.” In a less agitated mood, he here informs his son, “If you look into the Journal of Congress for 1774 you will find a Declation [sic] of the Rights of the Colonies and another of the Violations of those Rights— These declarations or Lists were drawn up by two Committees. I was one of the first Committee and drew up the Report. in this you will See, not only the rough materials of the Declaration of Independence made two years after, but you will See in what Light the common Law was Seen by that Congress and by all America at that time. Extracts from these Journals, Should go into your common Law Pidgeon hole. There is a public printed declaration of the Town of Boston Some time anteriour to the meeting of the first congress which will deserve your Attention.” A footnote to this letter in The Adams Papers explains that “The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was adopted by the Continental Congress on 14 Oct. 1774 and listed ten rights that the Congress determined all colonists held, including the right ‘to life, liberty, and property.’ It also detailed recent parliamentary acts that were deemed ‘infringements and violations of the rights of the colonists’ and noted the pending implementation of a trade boycott and the preparation of an address to the inhabitants of Britain and ‘a loyal address’ to George III. [John Adams] successfully argued that the document should emphasize the relatively unassailable tenets of natural law over the more tenuous and variable precepts of common law. To support his claim [Adams] pointed to the Nov. 1772 resolutions of the Boston committee of correspondence, which listed grievances against Parliament and detailed colonists’ constitutional rights as Britons. The resolutions were published as The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, Boston, [1772]” (Evans12332; ESTC W29680). Adams concludes the letter with an admonition regarding Thomas’s safekeeping of their correspondence, “I can keep no Copies of my Letters to you and therefore I pray you to keep them Safely or to burn them, that they may not fall into the hands of the Ennemy of all good.” Thomas Boylston Adams, third son and youngest surviving child of John and Abigail (Smith) Adams, was born 15 September 1772. He graduated from Harvard in 1790 and studied law in the Philadelphia office of Jared Ingersoll for three years. He was admitted to the bar in 1793 but embraced the practice of law with far less enthusiasm than his father or siblings. When the opportunity arose in 1794 to serve as secretary to his brother John Quincy on the latter's first diplomatic mission to The Hague, he seized the moment, returning to Philadelphia four years later in the middle of his father's presidency. While his parents would have preferred him to settle in Quincy, they both recognized that Philadelphia offered more opportunities for a young lawyer with a recognizable name, but both evidently doubted their son's ability to succeed in the fast world of the capital (Ferling, John Adams, p. 388). He practiced law and contributed to Joseph Dennie's Port Folio in Philadelphia for some years thereafter. He was still in Philadelphia struggling with his practice in 1802. At the urging of his parents, he moved back to Quincy in 1803 and opened a law office there (Ferling, John Adams, p. 420) and sat in the Massachusetts legislature, 1805-1806. In 1811 he was appointed chief justice of the circuit court of common pleas for the southern circuit of Massachusetts. In spite of his participation in government and judicial appointment, Thomas's law practice never equaled the success of his father's. In later years Thomas sank into alcoholism like his brother Charles before him; and by the 1820s Thomas was employed chiefly as a caretaker for his father and the farm. He died 13 March 1832, in Quincy. REFERENCE The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, ed. Woodward, Martin, Minty, et al., 15:185–188

View 1 of Lot 502: Adams, John | A learned disquisition on the common law and natural rights and the roles those concepts played in Adams's own contributions to the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States

adams, john | a learned disquisition on the common law and natural rights and the roles those concepts played in adams's own contributions to the declaration of independence and the founding of the united states

The Great American Whiskey Collection

Old Rip Van Winkle 11 Year Old Very Special Stock 90.4 Proof 1969

Old Rip Van Winkle 11 Year Old Very Special Stock 90.4 Proof 1969 Distilled in 1969, bottled expressly for James Ransbottom by J. P. Van Winkle & Son, Lawrenceburg, KY, strip label worn and slightly torn The 'Very Special Stock' bottles were essentially a private label series, created by Julian Van Winkle III so that retailers could order personalized bottles for their customers, be it private individuals or companies, directly from him. They were originally bottled just with back labels, with customers in liquor stores filling in request forms which would then be sent back to Van Winkle to fulfill the orders with the personalized front labels. There are a number of different vintages and age statements in this series, with the earliest known vintage to be 1967, bottled in 1978. The glass bottle and labels changed slightly over time. The Great American Whiskey Collection includes various 'Very Special Stock' bottlings for a single private customer, James Ramsbottom, who at some point in the early 90s appeared to then go by the name Jim. 1 bottle 75cl (no original packaging) Please refer to images for levels and conditions﻿ All Lots are offered for sale in the condition they are in at the time of sale and sold “AS IS” in accordance with the Conditions of Business for Buyers. Prospective buyers should inspect each Lot to satisfy themselves as to condition. The images provided here are provided to assist you with assessing the condition of each Lot and are for guidance only; they should not be considered a replacement for inspecting the Lot in person. Buyers are encouraged to collect their purchased Lots in person at our New York premises. Please note we do not ship spirits to any location outside of Manhattan. ﻿Please note that all spirits are sold for collection in New York or delivery within New York via specialized carriers. For delivery outside of the United States, please see Important Information for Purchases at Wine and Spirit Sales in the Conditions of Business. Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT/GST and/or sales or use tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details.

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old rip van winkle 11 year old very special stock 90.4 proof 1969 (1 bottle 75cl)

Lincoln, Abraham Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as sixteenth President, one page (232 x 188 mm) on a leaf of machine-laid paper, Washington, D.C., 4 June 1863, to Major General Daniel Butterfield; sheet remargined at top, costing engraved heading Executive Mansion (second engraved line Washington, D.C. retained), stamp (?) removed from upper right causing abrasion to one word of first line of text. Neatly hinged to a mat. Lincoln refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of Vicksburg: "The news you send me from the Richmond Sentinel of the 3rd must be greatly if not wholly incorrect … our troops [are] in good health, condition and spirits" and Union dispatches do not "mention any demand made by Grant upon Pemberton for a surrender." Both the North and South used the newspapers of the opposing region to gather intelligence during the Civil War. Northern journalists, in particular, indiscriminately published vital information on troop strength and movement. Robert E. Lee had agents supply him with the latest newspapers from the North, and William Tecumseh Sherman's relationship with the press was so antagonistic that he had a reporter from the New York Herald arrested and tried as a spy by a military tribunal (the journalist, Thomas W. Knox was acquitted on that charge but banished outside army lines for disobeying Sherman's orders.) In the midst of the Vicksburg Campaign, Sherman wrote that "the conductors of the Press of the Northern States as now conducted, are as much the Enemies of our Common Country as the Armed Rebels whose sentinels now walk in bold and manly defiance on the opposing heights of Vicksburg" (to William Scott, 11 February 1863; Sotheby's New York, 3 December 2004, lot 344). Sherman and other Union commanders also had to contend with the Southern press, which tended to be much more partisan in its coverage. Whether intended to mislead the North or simply to encourage the Confederate citizenry, Southern newspapers consistently exaggerated both Union setbacks and Confederate successes. Nevertheless, Southern papers were carefully scrutinized north of the Mason-Dixon Line, and when Ulysses S. Grant took his assault against Vicksburg incommunicado, President Lincoln turned to them for information. On 11 May 1863 he asked Major General John Dix if "the Richmond papers have anything about Grand Gulf or Vicksburg?"; and on 27 May he sent a telegram to Major General Joseph Hooker in the field, asking "Have you Richmond papers of this morning? If so, what news?" (Collected Works, 6:210, 233). Hooker replied that the Richmond newspapers contained only "rumors"—and these were plentiful. According to David Herbert Donald, during this period of the Vicksburg Campaign Lincoln read false Confederate newspaper reports "that Sherman had been seriously wounded during the siege, that [Union Major General Nathaniel P.] Banks had lost an arm in his campaign for Port Hudson, that Confederate General Edmund Kirby-Smith was bringing reinforcements from the trans-Mississippi region to relieve Vicksburg" (Lincoln, pp. 445–46). On 4 June, Lincoln received another bulletin assembled from the Confederate press in the form of a telegram from Hooker's chief of staff, General Daniel Butterfield: "Richmond Sentinel June 3d says … Grant demanded the surrender of Vicksburg on Thursday giving three days to [C.S.A. Lieutenant General John C.] Pemberton to consider the demand. Pemberton replied that he did not want 15 minutes & that his troops would die in the trenches before they would surrender. The federal troops are demoralized & refused to renew the attack on Saturday. … the federal loss is estimated at 25,000 to 30,000" (Collected Works, 6:247 note). Far from being despondent at this report, Lincoln seems to have sensed in its obfuscation the increasingly desperate position of the Confederate army holding Vicksburg. He replied immediately to Butterfield, discrediting the Sentinel's story point-by-point: "The news you send me from the Richmond Sentinel of the 3rd must be greatly if not wholly incorrect. The Thursday mentioned was the 28th and we have despatches here directly from Vicksburg of the 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st and while they speak of the siege progressing, they speak of no assault or general fighting whatever; and, in fact they so speak, as to almost exclude the idea that there can have been any—since Monday the 25th which was not very heavy. Neither do they mention any demand made by Grant upon Pemberton for a surrender. They speak of our troops as being in good health, condition and spirits. Some of them say that Banks has Port Hudson invested." The President's analysis proved correct and his steadiness allowed Grant to complete his brilliant siege. A month after Lincoln's exchange with Butterfield, Vicksburg had capitulated, and, as a result, Banks had captured Port Hudson as well. The Union Navy now controlled the whole of the Mississippi River, and lines of supply and communication between the Confederate armies and state governments in the east and those in the trans-Mississippi west were choked off. The death knell of the Confederacy had been sounded. REFERENCE The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Basler, 6:247 (the original not located; text printed from its appearance in Ida Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1900, with several errors in incidentals)

View 1 of Lot 507: Lincoln, Abraham | The President refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of Vicksburg

lincoln, abraham | the president refutes rebel press propaganda about the siege of vicksburg

Doubleday, Abner Autograph manuscript with cover title “Gen. Abner Doubleday’s Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Original Autograph Manuscript with Twelve (sic) Original Maps.” [New York, ca. 1875–1885] 20 pages (209 x 170 mm) written on the rectos only of twenty nearly consecutive leaves of blue-line wove paper (one intervening blank leaf, another leaf without manuscript text, bearing only a large tipped-on map), 9 of the text leaves with tipped-on or pasted-down maps or plans, 4 of these with over-slip maps illustrating changes in troop positions, for a total of 14 maps (maps range in size from 28 x 128 mm to 208 x 235 mm), the maps and plans are largely drawn or finished by hand on slips cut from a mauve lithographed topographical map of the battlefield, text with a number of seemingly immediate deletions and emendations, as well as a more formal, later revision in red ink affecting four pages, including the addition of an extensive paragraph (ca. 85 words) to the penultimate text page. Bound, with additional blank leaves, in early twentieth-century green buckram, front cover lettered in gilt as above. Half blue morocco slipcase, chemise. A moment-by-moment account of the first day of Gettysburg, the most famous—and arguably the most consequential—battle in American history, in the hand of one of the commanders of the victorious Union forces. Abner Doubleday (1819–1893) was a career officer in the United States Army, graduating from West Point in 1842. Commissioned as a lieutenant in the First Artillery Regiment, he served at Monterrey and Buena Vista during the Mexican-American War. Over the next decade he held various posts and saw action in the Southwest and Florida in various iterations of the American Indian Wars. Fortune, good or otherwise, found Doubleday, by then a captain, second in command at Fort Sumter to Major Robert Anderson when the South Carolina Militia artillery fired the first shots of the Civil War. Doubleday was the first to return cannonade, later writing in Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860–’61 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876), “In aiming the first gun fired against the rebellion I had no feeling of self-reproach, for I fully believed that the contest was inevitable, and was not of our seeking. The United States was called upon not only to defend its sovereignty, but its right to exist as a nation. The only alternative was to submit to a powerful oligarchy who were determined to make freedom forever subordinate to slavery. To me it was simply a contest, politically speaking, as to whether virtue or vice should rule” (pp. 143–144). After Sumter was abandoned by the Union garrison, Doubleday continued to rise in rank as he served in the initial defenses of Washington, D.C., before leading troops in the Shenandoah Valley, and at Second Manassas, the Rappahannock River, Groveton (Virginia), South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, after which he was promoted to major general of volunteers. Doubleday’s finest achievement in the Civil War came on 1 July 1863, when command of the First Corps fell to him after corps commander Major General John F. Reynolds was killed in the dawn of the battle. Leading 9,500 Union troops against ten Confederate brigades with almost twice that strength, the First Corps was obliged to retreat through Gettysburg and take up a defensive position on Cemetery Hill. Still, Doubleday’s men inflicted ferocious casualty rates on the rebels. “Gettysburg proved to be Doubleday's last major battle, however. He left the Army of the Potomac afterward, believing that Meade was planning to reorganize the army along political lines. … Humiliated by Meade's decision to replace him as corps commander, Doubleday resented Meade’s treatment of him [Meade gave permanent command of the First Corps to a more junior officer, Major General John Newton.] Before long he began to circulate rumors that Meade had planned to retreat after the second day of the battle. He repeated these charges in an appearance before the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War in March 1864” (Simpson and Van Atta, in American National Biography). Although Meade was thought to dislike Doubleday, he likely passed him over for permanent command because of an inaccurate report by Major General Oliver O. Howard, commander of the Eleventh Corps that Doubleday’s First Corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse. In retirement, Doubleday became a notable historian of the Civil War, publishing, in addition to numerous articles, three major monographs: Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860–’61 (cited above), Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1882), and Gettysburg Made Plain: A Succinct Account of the Campaign and Battles with the Aid of One Diagram and Twenty-nine Maps (New York: The Century Co., 1888). His publications were intended in part to justify his own actions and undermine Meade’s decisions, and sometimes mired him in controversy. The present manuscript, however—running to some 1,800 words—is for the most part a straightforward and objective account, perhaps an early working draft later revised for publication. The account begins with a map showing the positions of the two armies at 6:00 a.m. after “The Confederate general A. B. Hill advances with two divisions of his Corps to take Gettysburg, which is only held by Buford’s division of Cavalry.” Doubleday further explains, “Pender’s division with 48 guns is back of Heth but is not represented in this map, as it would take up too much space.” The second entry is datelined 10:10 a.m. and describes the pivotal moment of day, again accompanied by a map, this one with an overlay: “Meredith’s brigade (commonly called the Iron Brigade) is ordered into the woods by the Corps Commander Genl. Doubleday who has ridden up from the rear of the column at Marsh Creek. “At this juncture Genl. Reynolds goes into the woods in advance of the troops and is killed. Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle. “The Confederate general Heth sends two brigades under Archer and Davis to attack the Union forces. “A curious state of things now occurs for the left of each force folds around the right of the other. “The Union left is quite successful. It captures Archer and a great part of his brigade, but the two Union regiments on the right are flanked and ordered to fall back to the town by Genl. Wadsworth. The third regiment (the 147 N. Y.) is surrounded by the enemy and loses heavily. Hall’s battery being attacked by skirmishers also retires as its supports are gone. “Genl. Doubleday sends his reserve, the 6th Wisconsin regiment, to rescue the 147 N. Y. The 6th Wisconsin under Lieutenant Colonel Dawes goes forward to the attack. It is joined by two regiments of Cutler’s brigade under Col. Fowler; the 14 Brooklyn and the 95th New York, who were about to attack the same enemy.” The manuscript moves forward just twenty minutes, to 10:30 a.m., with the text explicating another map with an overlay. “The plate represents the 2d Wisconsin who led the attack against Archer taking charge of the prisoners in the woods. The three remaining regiments have crossed the stream and formed line of battle on the other side. “Fowler and Dawes advanced to attack Davis’ Confederate brigade the greater part of which rushes into a railroad cut for shelter. Here being assaulted in front and flank, most of them are captured. “Genl. Doubleday finding his immediate front clear of the enemy reforms his lines east of Willoughby’s Run. “A glance at the Map would naturally lead one to inquire why Hill did not at once advance his reserves and sweep away the small force opposed to him. The fact is[,] owing to the absence of Stuart’s cavalry[,] that the movements of the Union army were not known to Genl. Lee or his subordinates. Hill therefore did not know whether he would find 5000 men or 50,000 in his front.” The cartographically illustrated narrative advances to 2:45 p.m., by which time, O. O. Howard’s Eleventh Corps has joined the First Corps in the field. At this point, Doubleday’s disaffection with the aftermath of the battle begins to show slightly, though his tone remains largely sober and impartial. “Ewell's two divisions under Rodes and Early now make a furious attack against both the First and the Eleventh Corps. “As Hill did not move promptly to second Ewell the First Corps repulsed the attack at all points, resisting repeated assaults, driving back O'Neal's brigade on the North and capturing all but one regiment of Iverson's brigade on the West. Daniel's attack on Stone’s brigade soon after was also driven back. “The enemy were more successful in their advance against the Eleventh Corps which indeed was too far out. Barlow being badly wounded and his division left in an angle between Dole’s Confederate brigade on the North and that of Gordon on the northeast the right flank of the Eleventh Corps was turned and forced back.” After further details of the battle, Doubleday admits that his own men could no longer carry the fight forward. “The First Corps from its heavy losses was no longer in a condition to repel the advance of four large brigades under Pender which up to this time had not been engaged but which now came forward.” The retreat of the First and Eleventh Corps are detailed next, but without finger-pointing or blame being assigned by Doubleday: “The Eleventh Corps are overwhelmed by superior numbers and are almost entirely driven from the field back to the rallying point on cemetery Ridge. … General Doubleday orders the First Corps to retreat undercover of a severe artillery fire from Seminary Ridge.” The manuscript concludes with the ending of the first day of battle, “Genl. Hancock now turns over the command of the troops to Genl. Slocum and rides back to report the state of affairs to Genl. Meade. The latter leaves Taneytown and reaches the field of battle soon after midnight.” The striking maps and plans are precise and detailed, depicting the shifting battlefield almost minute by minute. The positions of infantry, cavalry and artillery of both the Union and Confederate armies are indicated by Doubleday in red, yellow, green, blue and black inks, with the movements of troops, and the names of commanders are clearly designated. A number of similar maps appear in Gettysburg Made Plain, and versions of five of the maps from the present manuscript are reproduced in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume III: The Tide Shifts; Retreat from Gettysburg (New York: The Century Co., 1988), pp. 272, 282, illustrating General Henry J. Hunt’s chapter on “The First Day at Gettysburg.” PROVENANCE The Walpole Galleries, New York, 26 June 1916, lot 82 (undesignated consignor) — John Gribbel (bookplate; Parke-Bernet, 30 October 1940, lot 181) — Clendenin J. Ryan (Parke-Bernet, 5 November 1958, lot 54) — The Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 June 79, lot 690)

View 1 of Lot 503: (Gettysburg) | “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Abner Doubleday’s autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen insightful maps and plans 

(gettysburg) | “genl. doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: abner doubleday’s autograph witness to the first day of the battle of gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen insightful maps and plans

A.H. Hirsch Reserve 15 Year Old 95.6 Proof 1974

A.H. Hirsch Reserve 15 Year Old 95.6 Proof 1974 Distilled on April 24th 1974, bottled on September 16th 1989 by Hirsch Distillers, Lawrenceburg KY, gold wax, green glass, Japanese import label adhered to rear of bottle, small hairline crack in wax capsule, front label soiled and slightly faded This bottle ranks among the rarest bourbons ever produced. Its story began in 1974, when a Pennsylvania liquor executive named Adolph H. Hirsch ordered a run of bourbon from the Pennco Distillery, near Philadelphia. He later sold it to a Kentucky liquor retailer named Gordon Hue, who had it bottled by Julian Van Winkle III at his Old Commonwealth Distillery. They began in 1989 with 15-year-old whiskey, sealed in gold wax, making this bottle one of the very first released in what would become the most legendary runs of American whiskey ever. 1 bottle 75cl (no original packaging) Please refer to images for levels and conditions All Lots are offered for sale in the condition they are in at the time of sale and sold “AS IS” in accordance with the Conditions of Business for Buyers. Prospective buyers should inspect each Lot to satisfy themselves as to condition. The images provided here are provided to assist you with assessing the condition of each Lot and are for guidance only; they should not be considered a replacement for inspecting the Lot in person. Buyers are encouraged to collect their purchased Lots in person at our New York premises. Please note we do not ship spirits to any location outside of Manhattan. ﻿Please note that all spirits are sold for collection in New York or delivery within New York via specialized carriers. For delivery outside of the United States, please see Important Information for Purchases at Wine and Spirit Sales in the Conditions of Business. Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT/GST and/or sales or use tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details.

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a.h. hirsch reserve 15 year old 95.6 proof 1974 (1 bottle 75cl)

Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 45.7 abv 1975

Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 45.7 abv 1975 Green glass, black wax, distilled in Spring 1975, exclusively bottled for Corti Brothers Wine Merchants in Sacramento by Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery Lawrenceburg KY, retail sticker adhered to front of bottle Corti Brothers is a gourmet grocery store in Sacramento, California, that in the 1980s became one of the earliest buyers for Julian Van Winkle III’s bourbon, which he was buying from Stitzel-Weller and bottling at his Old Commonwealth distillery. The people at Corti Brothers were far ahead of the whiskey curve, and they ordered 19-year-old bourbon at a time when well-aged American whiskey was practically non-existent – bottles like this one constitute the first known private-barrel bourbon selection. It was Darrell Corti, who ran the business at the time, who first convinced Van Winkle to use a cognac-style bottle. Today bottles from Van Winkle that carry the Corti Brothers name rank among the rarest and most sought-after whiskeys in the world. 1 bottle 75cl (no original packaging) Please refer to images for levels and conditions﻿ All Lots are offered for sale in the condition they are in at the time of sale and sold “AS IS” in accordance with the Conditions of Business for Buyers. Prospective buyers should inspect each Lot to satisfy themselves as to condition. The images provided here are provided to assist you with assessing the condition of each Lot and are for guidance only; they should not be considered a replacement for inspecting the Lot in person. Buyers are encouraged to collect their purchased Lots in person at our New York premises. Please note we do not ship spirits to any location outside of Manhattan. ﻿Please note that all spirits are sold for collection in New York or delivery within New York via specialized carriers. For delivery outside of the United States, please see Important Information for Purchases at Wine and Spirit Sales in the Conditions of Business. Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT/GST and/or sales or use tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details.

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van winkle 19 year old special reserve corti brothers 45.7 abv 1975 (1 bottle 75cl)

Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 90.4 Proof NV

Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 90.4 Proof NV Green glass, red wax, front label very slightly soiled, slight hairline crack around top of wax capsule Corti Brothers is a gourmet grocery store in Sacramento, California, that in the 1980s became one of the earliest buyers for Julian Van Winkle III’s bourbon, which he was buying from Stitzel-Weller and bottling at his Old Commonwealth distillery. The people at Corti Brothers were far ahead of the whiskey curve, and they ordered 19-year-old bourbon at a time when well-aged American whiskey was practically non-existent – bottles like this one constitute the first known private-barrel bourbon selection. It was Darrell Corti, who ran the business at the time, who first convinced Van Winkle to use a cognac-style bottle. Today bottles from Van Winkle that carry the Corti Brothers name rank among the rarest and most sought-after whiskeys in the world. 1 bottle 75cl (no original packaging) Please refer to images for levels and conditions﻿ All Lots are offered for sale in the condition they are in at the time of sale and sold “AS IS” in accordance with the Conditions of Business for Buyers. Prospective buyers should inspect each Lot to satisfy themselves as to condition. The images provided here are provided to assist you with assessing the condition of each Lot and are for guidance only; they should not be considered a replacement for inspecting the Lot in person. Buyers are encouraged to collect their purchased Lots in person at our New York premises. Please note we do not ship spirits to any location outside of Manhattan. ﻿Please note that all spirits are sold for collection in New York or delivery within New York via specialized carriers. For delivery outside of the United States, please see Important Information for Purchases at Wine and Spirit Sales in the Conditions of Business. Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT/GST and/or sales or use tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details.

View 1 of Lot 1172: Van Winkle 19 Year Old Special Reserve Corti Brothers 90.4 Proof NV (1 Bottle 75cl)

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