U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
September 11-12, 2013
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 | Lot #82 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1858 Douglas, Stephen Arnold (1813-1861) American politician from Illinois, designer of the Kansas-Nebraska act. He was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 1860 election, losing to Republican Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in a Senate contest, noted for the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature, but a forceful and dominant figure in politics. A free-frank envelope, signed "S.A. Douglas" with "Washington D./C. Free 1858" pmk alongside, addressed to Prof. Asa Gray, Cambridge Mass (Asa Gray is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. He was instrumental in unifying the taxonomic knowledge of the plants of North America. Of Gray's many works on botany, the most popular was his Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States. This book, known simply as Gray's Manual, has gone through a number of editions with botanical illu  | Price Realized $350.00 |
