1863 "Facsimile Emancipation Proclamation" Antique Broadside by Edward Mendel

This 1865 engraving features the Emancipation Proclamation in elaborate calligraphic text, with five patriotic vignettes and a small portrait...

Presented is a Proclamation of Emancipation wood engraving by W. Roberts. The engraving was published in 1864, just one year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the original Proclamation. W. Roberts was the artist and engraver and Corydon Alexis Alvord was the printer. The engraving was published by R. A Dimmick, in New York, 1864. The text of the Proclamation is set in a variety of typefaces, which is encased in a pictorial border. The border is decorated with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and seven other vignettes, including the horrors of slavery at left, the bombardment of Fort Sumter at bottom, and scenes from a prosperous and united nation at right. On September 22, 1862, five days after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states returned to the Union by January 1, freedom would be granted to slaves within those states. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1, 1863 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation...

Presented is a lithographic broadside of the text of the Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1, 1863. This broadside was published in...

Presented is an elaborate engraved broadside presentation of both the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamations, dated September 22, 1...

Fully-entitled: Army of the Potomac. The Wagon Trains of the Army of the Potomac en Route from Chickahominy to James River VA. During the Seven...

This is an 1844 engraving of President George Washington. The print was issued by G. Stuart in Albion, New York and engraved by H. S. Sadd. This standing portrait shows President George Washington in front of neoclassical columns. In his right hand, he holds a dress sword...

Antique 1865 German language version of W.H. Pratt’s calligraphic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln within the text of the 1863 Emancipat...

Antique map titled 'India Bengal'. Old map of India depicting the region near the Bay of Bengal. Originates from the 'Weekly Dispatch Atlas'. Artist...

Antique print titled 'Edward Prince of Aquitain & Wales Duke of Cornwall & Earl of Chester'. Old print of Edward, Prince of Wales, the Black Prince. Orig...

Antique print titled 'Joure'. View of the village of Joure, Friesland, The Netherlands. This original antique print originates from 'Het koningrijk der Nederlanden voorgesteld in een...

This is a unique facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of a Medieval manuscript on Astrology, the Albumazar Treatise, also known as the Liber As...

This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of an illuminated manuscript in Renaissance style, the Bok of Hours of Henry VIII, owned by the Morgan Library & Museu...