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U. S. Grant

American Ulysses: Autograph album including Grant, his cabinet, and other political notables

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American Ulysses: Autograph album including Grant, his cabinet, and other political notables

Leather-bound autograph album, 5 x 7.75, circa early 1870s. A remarkable collection of more than 100 political and military notables, including congressmen, senators, and cabinet members. With a single exception, the pages are signed on one side only and bear from one to three generously spaced signatures. Among the signers: U. S. Grant (alone), Schuyler Colfax, J. P. Newman, George Boutwell, John A. J. Creswell, George Robeson, Amos Ackerman, William Belknap, Columbus Delano, Hamilton Fish, M. C. Hamilton, Alexander Ramsey, William Howard, James Nye, John Scott, Henry Wilson, Benjamin Perley Poore, James Harlan, William Buckingham, Abijah Gilbert, Lyman Trumbull, Charles Sumner, George Williams, O. P. Morton, John Pool, H. W. Corbett, Carl Schurz, George Spencer, John Johnston, John Lewis, William Hamilton, Joseph Fowler, J. S. Harris, Garrett Davis, Eli Ross, A. McDonald, Cornelius Cole, William Warner, Hannibal Hamlin, J. W. Patterson, Frederick Sawyer, A. Boreman, W. J. Willey, John Sherman, W. Sprague, Roscoe Conkling, W. P. Kellogg, Eugene Casserly, William Stewart, D. D. Prate, Justin Merrill, Adelbert Ames, John Thayer, John Stockton, George Dickey, W. G. Brownlow, C. W. McDonald, James Kelly, J. W. Stevenson, J. R. West, Eli Saulsbury, A. Caldwell, George Wright, John Logan, Simon Cameron, W. B. Macken, and others. Wear to binding and losses to spine, otherwise fine condition. Apart from a few minor blots and brushes, the signatures are exceptionally bold, clear, and clean. LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.

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  • Dates: #318 - Ended February 14, 2007