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The 1867 photographic issue of the 1865 lithograph. Measures approximately 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. A striking piece. The text of the Emancipation Proclamation has been written in such a way as to create a portrait of Lincoln with the words themselves. EBERSTADT: LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, 40: "An interesting calligraphic portrait of Lincoln, after Meserve No. 87, and made by skillful shading of the handwritten text hence the peculiar hyphenations." Near fine.
$ 125.00

2. Funeral fan. HILLCREST CEMETERY ON HIGHWAY 70 SOUTH OF RALEIGH - RALEIGH'S MOST BEAUTIFUL COLORED CEMETERY. OFFICE: 312 SMITHFIELD ST.
RALEIGH, N.C. PHONES 3-1676 - 3-1677. New York: New York Imp. Co., 1946.

Title from verso of fan. Pictorial fan shows vignettes of Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and the Tuskegee Institute's Creed.
$ 85.00

3. Sutton, William Seneca. THE EDUCATION OF THE SOUTHERN NEGRO.
Austin: University of Texas, 1912. 24 pp.

First edition. Bulletin of the University of Texas No. 221. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. A scholarly work providing an historical survey and detailing "some of the principles of the Program for Negro Education." A list of references is appended.
$ 85.00

4. Turner, Justin G. THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1971. 17 pp., fldg. photographic reproduction of Schuyler Colfax's

copy of the Resolution to amend the Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln on February 1, 1865. First edition. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. Laid in is a typed letter by Justin Turner concerning his census of the various holographic copies of the 13th Amendment sent to States. The work itself provides a history of the Congressional wrangling required before the amendment was finally passed in December, 1865, almost three full years after the Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
$ 85.00

5. Zook, George Frederick. THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA.
Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New Era Printing Company, 1919. v,105 pp.

First edition. Offprint from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1919. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Inscribed by the author "With memories of a year in London / George F. Zook." A near fine copy of the author's first work. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas Zook had a distinguished government career: U.S. Commissioner of Education (1933-34) ; president of the American Council on Education (1934-50). He was a leading and influential advocate of expanding government aid to higher education and of developing junior colleges. This work was Zook's Thesis ( Ph. D.) at Cornell University, 1914. The Company of Royal Adventurers was a British commercial trading company established by Charles II in 1660. It was to secure a colony on the west African coast to counter the Dutch monopoly in the region that had grown up during the preceding 20 years of English political unrest. One of the Royal Adventurers chief exports was African slaves for the West Indies. Bibliography: p.97-102. WORK p.266.
$ 275.00

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