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18849587Norwich CT: The Henry Bill Publishing Company 1884. First edition. 2 volumes 10.5x7.5" 626 and 724pp. Each signed on the title page by Blaine. Frontis portraits plates large fold-out map of the U.S. territories at rear of Vol 1. Presentation bindings of two different shades of brown morocco elaborately tooled in blind and lettered in gilt gilt-tooled turn ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Boards with some rubbing to edges and a few scuffs vol 1 spine a bit faded. Ownership signature of Marie E. Mulford at front of each else clean internally. <br /> <br /> Beautiful signed presentation set of James G. Blaine's historical and political memoir covering roughly the period from Lincoln's election in 1860 through the end of Reconstruction. Blaine was one of the most powerful Republican politicians of the time serving in the House of Representatives from 1863-76 and as senator from '76-81. He was Secretary of State under Garfield Arthur and Harrison. He narrowly lost the presidential election to Cleveland in 1884. This memoir serves as one of the earliest substantial insider histories of Reconstruction-era Congress. The Henry Bill Publishing Company unknown
188088877Chicago: Fleming H. Revell 1880. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 20cm. Publisher's plum cloth decoratively stamped in black with gilt spine and cover titles; 331pp; portrait map and six leaves of unnumbered plates; text illus. Spine slightly sunned with dulling to gilt; a few unobtrusive stains to covers; occasional foxing to text still a tight complete sound copy Very Good.<br /> <br /> Bunnell 1824-1903 was a member of the Mariposa Battalion famous as the first non-indigenous group to enter Yosemite Valley where they burned Native American villages and forcibly relocated the inhabitants. Bunnell's book describes the discovery of an iconic American landmark and one episode in what is sometimes called the California Genocide. HOWES B-954. COWAN California p.83. Fleming H. Revell unknown
184635410Pensacola 1846. Letter. Very good. Letter. Folded to make 4 pages. 1 page of content 2 blank pages 1 page with address and postal mark from Pensacola Florida dated August 20 1846. Letter addressed to "Dear Sister" and signed "W Conway". Multiple folds and some creasing and toning to the paper. Red wax seal left edge page 1. Small paper tear from opening the letter. Good condition. Letter content summarized:<br /> <br /> US Frigate Potomac. W. Conway Pensacola Florida writes to sister Camden Goose River Maine while involved in the Blockade of Vera Cruz. USS Potomac sailed w/ships Cumberland Missippy sic Princeton Falmouth Truxton Somers Reefer Bonito and Petrel to mouth of river Alvarado off of Veracruz. Describes bombardment: “…the Commodore made rig to get spring word the cable to bring the broadsides to bear on the fort at 6 PM the firing Commenced and Continued about 2 hours we didi not land the next day we got under weigh and came back to our anchorage. we are waiting for orders from Washington to Attack the Castle of St. Juan Ola Fort San Juan de Ulúa offshore opposite Veracruz. unknown
185835408Barbados: n.p. 1858. Letter. Good. Letter. 8" x 10". 4 pages. 3 pages of contents. Page 4 clipped section at bottom. Paper folded and in very good condition otherwise. <br /> <br /> Letter written aboard the USS Atlanta at Barbados December 27 1858. Eggleston writes: "I am perfectly willing to leave Barbados and its free impertinent darkies. I would like to lasso some 50 or 100 and put them to work in a cotton field. I am convinced that such a field is the only one in which the darky character can be truly developed. Here they do nothing but stroll about the streets & chatter like so many monkeys from sunrise to sunset. We employ them to coal our vessels and how I have wished for Jack Stringer with a bull whip among them whenever I have had anything to do with them". <br /> <br /> Eggleston would later serve as a Lieutenant on the CSS Virginia and was later promoted to Captain in the Confederate Navy. Eggleston was one of the lieutenants of the Virginia Merrimac during its life under the Confederate flag. During his life Eggleston provided details of the legendary battle of the two ironclad ships which can be found under various web sites. n.p. unknown
18981081Chattanooga: Times Print 1898. Very good. 29pp. Narrow 12mo. Original red cloth cover gilt. Spine heavily chipped corners worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown contemporary notations to several leaves. Regimental roster for the Second Nebraska Volunteers mustered into service for the Spanish American War at Lincoln in May 1898. The regiment consisted of forty-six officers and 975 enlisted men each detailed herein by company. The regiment never saw active duty spending time training at Chickamauga before being transferred to Omaha and then mustered out in October of the same year. This copy with the ownership inscription of Irene G. Courtnay dated September 2 1898. Irene has made notations about several of the men -- presumably friends or acquaintances -- in the Remarks section of some pages. On the page for Company B she has written "Ernest G. Briggs drowned in Chickamauga Creek. 1st death in 2nd Neb. Regiment." Rare and likely produced in limited numbers for friends and family. Only a single photocopy reproduction located in OCLC. An interesting piece of Western Americana from this mostly-forgotten episode in American history. Times Print unknown
181544133Boston 1815. First edition. A very good copy old folds some minor marginal browning and soiling. 1 sheet 1 p. Folio. 35 x 21 cm. An important broadside noting the deficiencies of the volunteer militia. One of two states this with the fourth line in bold-type. Opens: Commonwealth of Massachusetts. General orders. Head-quarters Boston June 17th 1815. : On the 15th inst. the following order of Council was passed viz.: "In Council June 15th 1815. The committee of Council to whom was referred a resolve of the legislature . respectfully report--that His Excellency be advised to issue his order for the discharge of all the volunteer corps raised for the defence of the commonwealth .":--By virtue therefore of the powers vested in him His Excellency the commander in chief hereby discharges from further service all the volunteer corps ."<br /> <br /> Brooks of course began by 1 thanking the men for "the generous patriotic and voluntary tender of services for the defence of the Commonwealth at the most threatening period of the late war and the assiduity and zeal displayed by those Corps in training themselves for usefulness in the field without expense to the State." 2 discharge them from further service" and 3 ordering "all officers and others who may have received from the Commonwealth ordnance arms or munitions of war of any kind for the use or on account of any of those Corps to cause the same to be forthwith returned to the Quarter Master General at Boston." <br /> <br /> But more importantly he used the occasion to make military revisions for the future noting that "inconveniencies have arisen from restriction the election of company officers to the Wards" which he ordered changed and that "great irregularities" have followed "from the liberty that officers have taken to absent themselves for more than twelve months without leave from their Major Generals and the still more numerous evils resulting from officers removing their places of residence to such a distance from the bounds of their respective commands as to render discharge of their duty highly inconvenient and sometimes impossible." He ends by ordering wholesale changes in command structure.<br /> <br /> John Brooks 1752 -1825 a doctor by training a Federalist by disposition served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War later helped to put down Shay's Rebellion and at the conclusion of the War of 1812 was elected governor of Massachusetts less than a year after issuing this broadside.<br /> <br /> Rare. OCLC shows only two locations: American Antiquarian Society which has both issues and the Peabody Essex Museum which has one. Not in American Imprints. unknown
1894055535New York and Lexington KY: The Printery 1894. Hardcover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 192 pages. Hardcover bound in slate blue cloth with cover lettering in gilt. The binding is rubbed and worn and the front cover is quite soiled. Corners bumped. A sound copy. The text is toned but clean. The frontis portrait of Jefferson Davis has a tear at the gutter. An early owner's gift inscription at the top of the title page reads "Bernon Allen. / From his Father Monday January 21st 1895". A couple of pages have edge tears. There is a little damping at the top edge and corner of the pages in issue No. 3 starting at page 33 and running about 20 pages. This does not affect the text. The portrait after page 112 John W. Ellis Governor of North Carolina has a fold at the bottom corner which was improperly trimmed during printing does not affect the image. Three is a tear in the center of the image of the double page illustration Panoramic View of New Orleans1862 on the leaf for pages 185-186. Contains all 12 issues. Each issue has a portrait for the front cover The issues also contain text illustrations and text maps as well as some full or double page illustrations. The first issue is dated 1893 and the final issues are dated 1894 but we assume the book was published in its entirety in 1894. <br/> <br/> The Printery hardcover
186428078New York: Harper's 1864. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. A full year bound volume of Harper's Weekly with woodblock illustrations on every page including artists like Winslow Homer and writers Charles Dickens Alfred Tennyson and Benson Lossing. Some images include New Year's Day North & South Thomas Nast Jan. 2; George A. Custer on horseback; Grant receiving commission from President Lincoln; General Robert Edmund Lee July 2; General Custer Presenting Captured Battle Flags at the War Department Nov. 12; and Lincoln cartoon on having won the election Long Abraham Lincoln A Little Longer Nov. 26. Folio iv 848pp. Weekly issues bound up into yearly volume with the leather spine perishing and the covers detached. Internally good condition with a few pages with tears repaired with archival tape. Harper's hardcover
1869W2370New York: F. J. Huntington & Co. 1869. The rare first printing of the second book in a trilogy of Civil War novels by John Esten Cooke. Sabin 16318. The book has been professionally rebacked with the original spine cloth retained. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book. F. J. Huntington & Co. Hardcover
1882055830<p>Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling State Printers and Binders; Presses of Edward Broughton & co. 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. ix 581; 743; 741; vii 458 pages. Hardcovers bound in full dark brown or black cloth. The bindings are worn bumped and stained. Volume I has been re-backed with the original spine laid down and is quite sound. Volume II has some fraying to the cloth about the edges and the rear outer hinge at the spine is splitting. This volume has a bookseller's ticket from Raleigh NC from the "Southern Law Book Exchange". This volume also has 2 leaves 4 pages numbered 3-6 pasted into the front with the title "An Act for the Relief of Certain Confederate Soldiers Sailors and Widows" from the North Carolina General Assembly. It looks like it may have been cut out of another book. This Volume II also has an inscription at the front "James M. Ray's Volume / Bought at Raleigh / Sept. 1907. Pd. 60c". A former owner has laid in loosely some typed research on Ray noting that he enlisted on 5/26/62 as a 1st Lieutenant in Company "F" NC 60th Infantry Other information given including that he was wounded at Chickamauga GA and more information is given about the 60th Regiment. Rear inner hinge is splitting in this volume. Volume III is worn and stained and has a nick on the front hinge but appears sound. Volume IV has moderate wear and is sound. The lettering on the bindings is dulled and the text is toned. <br /><br /></p> Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Binders; Presses of Edward, Broughton & co. hardcover
184735018February 6th 1847. 1847. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling almost 3 sides of a sheet of light gray paper folded once to form 4 sides approximately 7-1/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The letter has been mounted on a lightly larger sheet of cream-colored stiff paper. Signed "Anglesey" There are a few small ink smudges to the 2nd & 3rd sides. Very good. <p>The letter is addressed to Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Murchison and concerns a publication which Murchison is proposing and how it would be funded. "Some Estimate of the probable cost of money and of time is called for from General Colby and when it is received you shall again hear from me." The reference is probably to General Thomas Frederic Colby a leading geographer who had been director of the Ordnance Survey.<p>Henry Paget 1st Marquess of Anglesey 1768-1854 was a British army officer and politician. After serving as Member of Parliament for Carnarvon and then for Milborne Port he took part in the Flanders Campaign. During the Peninsula War he commanded the cavalry for Sir John Moore's army in Spain and at the Battle of Sahagun virtually destroyed a regiment of French cavalry. He led the charge of the heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's column at the Battle of Waterloo losing part of one of his legs to a cannonball at the end of the battle. In later life he served as Master-General of Ordnance from 1846 to 1852.<p>The Scottish geologist Sir Roderick sometimes as here spelled "Rhoderick" Impey Murchison 1st Baronet 1792-1871 was the first to describe and investigate the Silurian system. During the last decade of his life he chiefly investigated the Highlands of Scotland. Murchison was one of the founders and a president of the Royal Geographical Society and served on the Royal Commission on the British Museum. In 1855 he was appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey and director of the Royal School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street London. February 6th, 1847. unknown
18475218San Luis Potosi: Imprenta del Estado a Cargo de V. Carillo 1847. Near fine. 17pp. Original decorative wrappers stitched as issued. Light toning to wraps. Internally clean. A vigorous self defense by General Anastasio Parrodi against attacks on his conduct in his withdrawal from Tampico during the Mexican-American War. Parrodi a Cuban by birth joined the Mexican army in the early years of independence and rose through the ranks due in no small part to his personal friendship with Santa Anna. When the Mexican leader called on Parrodi's garrison to join the forces heading north to confront Taylor at Saltillo his swift exit from Tampico left unguarded the city and a large stockpile of munitions both of which were swiftly captured by the Americans. In this pamphlet Parrodi reprints official orders and documentation in the hopes of demonstrating that he acted correctly rather than treasonously in his abandonment of the city as was being charged in newspaper attacks against his character. OCLC records four copies at Yale SMU Berkeley and UT Arlington. Imprenta del Estado, a Cargo de V. Carillo unknown
186114609Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1861. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . An exceptionally bright copy of the 1861 1st edition. Tight and VG in its bevelled dark-green cloth with crisp completely unflecked gilt-titling and insignia along the spine. Light foxing at the pastedowns and endsheets faint staining to the front inner hinge and continuing very lightly thru the preliminaries. 15 fold-out plates all intact and very clean except the frontispiece plate the left half of which has been neatly excised and 77 additional plates thruout the text. Thick 64mo 450 pgs. plus Lippincott's list of recent publications "McClellan's Bayonet Exercises" etc. at the rear. This copy bears the ownership blindstamp of William Buell Sprague 1795-1876 of Albany NY noted Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of the 9 volume set "Annals of the American Pulpit J.B. Lippincott & Co unknown
1897304-4147New York: Dillingham 1897. Very Good in the publisher's full burgundy cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in gilt still brilliant. Octavo. 361pps. with numerous black-and-white illustrations -- 20 of them full-page. There is mild bumping to the tips and light touches of soiling to the cloth. Also the page-edges are slightly browned. Modest reading wear including the very sporadic smudge fox-mark or creased page-corner. This item has been recently restored: it has new inner hinges the endpapers are original a tightened spine and new endcaps where there had previously been a bit of fraying to the cloth. It is overall then quite clean and the binding tight with all pages intact. This is an association copy inscribed in a fine calligraphic hand to 'Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady with compliments of T. F. Rodenbough New York April 6/'03.' It is also inscribed in an only slightly less stylish hand 'with the compliments of the old sergeant Jno. H. Cook.' Brady would of course go on to become a successful and highly-published author of historical and biographical titles his career barely begun at the time of this signing; his works included 'Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West' 'Commodore Paul Jones' 'In the Wasp's Nest' 'Sir Henry Morgan Bucaneer' 'Arizona' and 'Indian Fights and Fighters.' He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1883 and had spent several years in the West seeking adventure and working for the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. He later became an ordained deacon in the Episcopal church before resigning to engage in his literary pursuits. The two signers of the book the author Rodenbough and Cook were both recipients of the Medal of Honor for feats of heroism during the Civil War. Rodenbough a horseman served with the 2nd U.S. Cavalry the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry and the 3rd Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry; he received his citation for actions at Trevilian Station Virginia. Cook -- on whom a chapter including a couple of sketches is devoted in this book -- was a member of Company A 119th Illinois Infantry; he received his Medal 'for conspicuous bravery at the battle of Pleasant Hill Louisiana April 9th 1864.' A very nice copy of an elusive book -- a collection of true stories concerning the Civil War and the Wild West -- rendered one-of-a-kind with the inscriptions. Rodenbough published a number of Civil War titles and is perhaps best known among collectors for his 'From Everglade To Canon With the Second Dragoons' 1875 a classic piece of nineteenth century American military history. Purchase with confidence: all books gradings and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision photos comprehensive can be emailed upon request. SIGNED. Cloth. Dillingham Hardcover
181763937Concord NH: Isaac Hill 1817. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Full leather. Fair. No dust jacket. Cover worn and corners bumped. Substantial page foxing and some discoloration. 330 p. Includes index. No plates present. Published by Order of the War Department. Isaac Hill hardcover
18631902070087J. B. Lippincott & Co 1863. Hardcover. Very Good. Civil War Union Tactics and Drill Manuals 2 volume set. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott 1863 1865. Bound in publisher's blind-tooled green cloth. Numerous illustrated plates some folding. Musical scores. Light foxing to end sheets title. V. 1: 450 14 pages 70 unnumbered leaves of plates ads for other military books by the publisher. V. 2: 270 p. ads. School of the soldier and company. Instructions for skirmishers and music. J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
18944745Washington: Rufus H. Darby 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 5/8 X 8 1/2 Inches. 89 PP with original covers bound in at rear. A collection of essays and material about the assassination including an account of the organization of a memorial museum across the street from Ford's Theater. The author was the door-keeper on the night of the assassination April 14 1865. Originally issued in printed wraps which are not bound in at rear. <br /> <br /> Bound in 1/2 moroccco and marbled boards. Rufus H. Darby hardcover
186313099Brownsville TX: April 4 1863. 2pp. Old mailing folds moderate foxing and toning. Overall about very good. An interesting letter from Samuel Gallatin a Confederate soldier stationed in far south Texas during the middle of the Civil War. Gallatin writes that there is not much going on but his categorization of Brownsville and his brief discussion of the value of money provide important details of a soldier's life on the Gulf of Mexico during the war. The text of his letter in full is as follows with spelling corrected:<br /> <br /> "It is with much pleasure that I seat myself to answer your kind letter which I received a few days ago. I was truly glad to hear that you all was well and doing well. Me and Milam are both well hoping when you receive this it will find you all enjoying the same blessing. All the boys are well that bears your acquaintance. I have nothing to write that would interest you much. We are just laying around Camp not doing much of anything. There is no prospects of us having any fighting to do soon. The Yankee transport boats have all left the mouth of the Rio Grande. The weather is very warm and for that reason I think will be some healthier than it has been. We get plenty to eat and wear such as it is though we will not grumble.<br /> <br /> Ed Pace received a letter from his father the other day. He stated that Albert was sick but was not dangerous. There is a great deal of talk about peace being made pretty soon in this country but I expect that has got to be a by word with you all down there. We are in one of the last places in the world to get news of any kind and would be glad that you would write oftener and let us know what all is going on down there. Money is tolerably plenty in this country. Paper money is only worth twenty to thirty cents on the dollar. With silver or gold we can get things as cheap as we used to or near about it. April 4 unknown
18655062March 14 1865. Very good. 2pp. on a folio sheet. Old folds some abrading in the margins minor edge wear. A Confederate Texas legal document in which Judge A.D. McGinnis of the "2nd Judicial District" orders those parties holding William L. Carter to report to court for a hearing on a matter "on a writ of habeas corpus." A month before the end of the Civil War Carter alleges that he was "illegally restrained in his liberty" by Lt. Robert Burton of "Alexander Cowan's Company of the Reserve Corps of Caldwell County of the Confederate States of America." Judge McGinnis states that Carter is now apparently being held by another officer of Cowan's Company and orders that said officer "is hereby commanded to produce the person of said Carter before the district court of said county.and there to show cause why he is held in custody and under restraint." Confederate habeas corpus documents are quite uncommon in the market. March 14 unknown
188561040New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1885-1886. Two vols. 8vo. 583 1; 647 1 pp. Both volumes w/ steel-engraved frontisp. numerous maps and facsimile documents. Original green embossed cloth gilt medallion on front covers of both volumes gilt lettering very slight rubbing slight bumping to couple corners very light darkening to spines still a VG bright and sound set w/ former ownership markings on 2nd title. First edition of perhaps one of the best memoirs of the experiences during and after the Civil War. Charles L. Webster & Co., hardcover
18636884Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons 1863. Full Leather. Very Good binding. 12mo. x 316 pp. frontis ports. First edition. In contemporary half morocco binding with corners; six portraits all present as called for. Rubbing to extremities including some chipping to the spine ends; corners frayed; boards have been discreetly reattached; largely a clean copy and free of foxing but for several preliminary and terminal leaves. <br /> <br /> Coulter calls this "a well-considered reliable account of what an observant and intelligent Englishman saw during a three-months journey from one end of the Confederacy to the other" Coulter 175. And while Fremantle was sympathetic to the Confederacy and the enthusiasm and patriotism of soldiers and civilians he "did not fail to record some uncomplimentary observations." Nevins writes "Fully deserving of its reputation as the best commentary on the wartime South by an English visitor" CWB I 91 NY edition. This uncommon first edition preceded a New York and a very desirable Confederate edition in 1864. Dornbusch IV 10816; Eicher 357; Howes F-361 "aa"; In Tall Cotton 64; Sabin 25832. William Blackwood and Sons unknown
189855283Long Island NY: n.p. August-Nov. 28 1898. Oblong 8vo. 7 x 5.25 in. 24 leaves unnumbered. on thick card stock. Albumen photo showing four boys seated on a ledge with one holding a camera mounted on front cover 21 mounted albumen photos sized 3.75 x 4 in. to 3.75 x 4.75 in. each w/ neatly written caption describing the scene below. Bound at gutter margin through punch-holes very minor bowing to the textblock due to the mounting of the photos occasional light foxing and very minor soiling still VG exemplar. This intriguing photo souvenir book appears to have been created by four aspiring Long Island NY photographers in 1898. Five early photographs shot August 28-29 1898 show Camp Wikoff which had been opened at Montauk Point Long Island NY a couple weeks before to house returning Spanish-American War soldiers possibly infected with malaria and other communicable disease outbreaks. By the end of August 1898 when these photos were taken the camp housed over 21000 soldiers and camp hospitals with 300 female nurses were treating over 10000 patients. The images show a panoramic view of the camp from Observatory Hill two photos of the “Rough Riders†First Cavalry Troop I seated and arranged in a group and the second showing the “Camp Barber†shaving the soldiers. Another photo shows the First Cavalry troopers in a dinner line and another the Second Cavalry Troop K heading out on maneuvers. These are followed by shots of the young boys camping on Ram Island Sept. 19-24 on Ram Island near Shelter Island were many fish processing plants and canneries operated until the opening years of the 20th Century. Other images include the Minnesunk Lake on Long Island possibly Little Fresh Pond; one of the iconic windmills at East Hampton; along with the Gothic Revival tomb of Lion Gardiner 1599-1663 designed and built in 1886 by James Renwick Jr. architect perhaps best remembered for St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In addition there are images of the Clinton Academy shown with the James Renwick 1881-1886 addition -- later demolished; the Rogers Memorial Library designed by R.H. Robertson in 1895 and opened in 1896 as well as the country residence of Walter Lewis Jagger 1846-1918 successful Southampton farmer and older brother to Charles Albert Jagger editor of the Southampton Press newspaper. n.p., unknown
184612668Near Milam Tx 1846. 1p. with integral blank leaf addressed on verso. Original mailing folds repairs to address leaf and small unobtrusive loss from removed wax seal. Text clean and highly readable. Very good. A rare communication from Texas during the Mexican-American War in which an Ohio Army soldier describes his march through Texas. Boggs writes as follows: "We arrived here last night about 9 o'clock. We crossed the Sabine River at Sabine town and traveled 5 miles in the dark. If you look at the map you can see our route. We came through Trinity and Alexandria and are now 5 miles into Texas. We will sleep tonight at Saint Augustine 20 miles from this place. Biddle is ahead of us. I have not seen him but he is well and getting on very well. He will get $100 per month. He has done better than most other captains. We will get to San Antonio about October and will expect to find some letters from you and those at home." Captain Charles John Biddle served as a captain in the Mexican-American War before serving as a lieutenant colonel for the Union in the Civil War. Biddle was also a prominent lawyer politician and newspaper editor in Philadelphia. unknown
1860010818Washington D. C: George W.Bowman Printer 1860. xxiv 277pp.with 24 lithographed views incl. additional title most tinted some folding 2 with some hand-colouring & 57 folding maps plans & plates. numerous text illus. original blind-stamped cloth In 1855 Major Delafield of the American Corps of Engineers was appointed to form a commission to visit the Crimea and the theatre of war in Europe for the purpose of gathering information regarding various aspects of their military systems: the organization of armies furnishing and distributing supplies medical and hospital arrangements kinds of arms ammuniition and equipment including the Lancaster gun and rifle cannon the construction of fortifications methods of transportation &c. The plates include numerous lithographed views of Sebastopol and fortifications there the military hospital at St. Petersburg the Turkish Barrack at Scutari used by the English Army as their general depot hospital and as a residence by Florence Nightingale folding plans of fortifcations in Paris Cherbourg Sebastopol Constadt and other cities and plates showing weapons hospitals batteries storehouses military structures. Text plates and maps in excellent condition - no tears foxing. However the binding is in very poor condition. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. George W.Bowman, Printer Hardcover
184922543<p><b>DORR WAR.</b>Pamphlet. <i>The Dorr Movement in Ohio; Being an Examination into the Causes Progress and Probable Effects of the Revolutionary Course of Locofocoism in the Organization of the General Assembly of This State for the Session of 1848-49.</i> Columbus Ohio: Legg & Murray Columbus 1849. Disbound. Inscribed in pencil on the title by H.A. Swift the author in presentation. </p><b>Historical Background </b><p>The Locofocos were a faction that split from the New York Democratic party in 1835 after local disagreements with machine politicians and Tammany Hall's support of Andrew Jackson's stance on the national bank. They opposed state banks monopolies exclusive privilege and other antidemocratic measures. They also advocated suspending paper money and legal protection of labor unions. In New York the machine politicians ultimately prevailed by co-opting their principal issues and nominating fusion candidates and reabsorbing the dissidents by 1838.</p><p>The anti-bank anti-corporation and increased democracy movement gained steam in neighboring Ohio throughout the 1840s with many looking to the Dorr movement in Rhode Island as a template for their own acts.</p><p>In 1841 Rhode Island's Thomas W. Dorr had led the effort to change Rhode Island's political system and expand voting rights. After trying to change the system internally he created the People's Party held an extralegal constitutional convention and set up a competing government. The Rhode Island General Assembly drafted a rival constitution and in 1842 both groups voted on their respective Constitutions. Both Dorr and sitting Governor Samuel Ward King were elected governor but King refused to accept the People's Constitution declared martial law and accused Dorr of treason. While he did not attempt to seize the State House or governmental institutions a few armed clashes did occur. Dorr fled the state but returned and was convicted in 1843 but released for health reasons two years later. Ultimately Rhode Island greatly liberalized voting rights in the aftermath of the rebellion.</p><p>NAIP 358662. The American Antiquarian Society lists another edition with slightly different imprint with 1848 date.</p>
