Sale 2473 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, April 12, 2018

77 c   (CIVIL WAR—PRINTS.) Endicott; after Batchelder. Gettysburg Battle-Field. Lithograph, 26 x 37 inches; several closed tears, two small sections of the sky missing and restored, stabilized and laid down on heavy archival paper. Boston and New York: John B. Batchelder, 1863 (copyright date) [250/350] A detailed aerial view of 25 square miles of battlefield, with troop deployments down to the regimental level, topographical features including Round Top and Culp’s Hill, and testimonials signed in facsimile by General Meade and other leaders. Reps, Views and Viewmakers 3423 and page 159. 77 78 c   (CIVIL WAR—PRINTS.) Ho! For Fort Monroe, the Steamer Bread and Butter “Cow-an.” Illustrated handbill, 4 x 8 1 / 2 inches, on an irregular slip of lined necessity paper; minor wrinkling and wear. [Virginia, 1865] [400/600] Understanding humor across the centuries is always tricky. This inscrutable handbill features a vignette of an overseer with a whip driving slaves into Virginia’s Union-held Fort Monroe over the caption “with the promised crew in the Navy Yard, will sail forthwith for Fort Monroe to keep company with Jeff Davis, stopping at Washington for Andy, Seward and Wells” (apparently new president Andrew Johnson and his cabinet). Next to it is a caricature of Pennsylvania Copperhead Hiester Clymer “on his way to the home of Jeff. Davis,” and the text below reads “Colored Population Voted on the 8th, Niggers Vote To-day.” Hummel, More Virginia Broadsides 743. One copy in OCLC, and none traced at auction. 78