[Rarebooks] FS: Very early printing of The Emancipation Proclamation. Jan. 2, 1863

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Lincoln, Abraham. GENERAL ORDER, NO. 1... A Proclamation... All Persons 
Held as Slaves Within Any State... in Rebellion Against the United States, 
Shall Be Then, Thenceforward, and Forever Free... Washington: [The GPO] for the 
War Department, Adjutant General's Office. January 2, 1863. 4pp. (the final 
page blank). The single printed order as originally published. Light 
soiling, and with an old light crease.     $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
An early printing of the final text of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 
the Grolier Club's "One Hundred Influential American Books" (#71) this is 
described as, "Possibly the first, and certainly the first separate printing of 
the Proclamation." It is now known that it is the 5th printing in the course 
of a few days. The earlier printings are exceedingly rare, such as the 
Illinois State Journal "extra" of Jan. 2, 1863, known only in a single copy, or 
a small format two-page printing, also known in a single copy. Usually this 
"order" is found bound up with other General Orders of the year, it is 
seldom encountered separately. See Streeter Sale, #1751. Monaghan 182.

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