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857Albany and New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1896. 1st edition. Pages 1059 pp.8vo. Blue cloth binding. 1st edition. Brief biographies of each soldier who served in these units in alphabetical order. Covers soiled corners bumped and worn. Still in good condition with tight text block. Assembly member�s stamp on front paste down. Albany and New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1896. hardcover
a88715Philadelphia 1863 believed to be first edition A. Winch. 5-1/2 x 3-3/4 inches 16p. Inch and half high engraving of eagle with ribbon imprinted with "Victory" held in his beak on front cover wraps. Fair quite worn cover soiled tips curled splitting at spine fold but complete. Three rubbed areas on rear panel have very very faint blue residue possibly from ink name or stamp since rubbed away but very hard to tell. Contains "37 sections". No tears in text. There is one copy in the Library of Congress but this once hated document is quite Rare. Pictures available on request. . paperback
a90652Testimony given to Senate of United States December 1864 pp. 1-272. Offered in one complete volume of Reports of the Committees of the Senate of the United States for 38th Congress 2nd session volume 1 1864. first edition. Hardcover. thick octavo. numerous other reports in volume as well. The Petersburg report is full of detailed information on events around the Battle of Petersburg in the American Civil War. . hardcover
186843994Philadelphia; Cincinnati; Atlanta .: National Publishing Company 1868. 8vo. 23.2cm First Edition in 2 volumes 654 & xii5-827pp. plus engraved frontis view & 15 engraved portrait plates 1 plate being A Sketch of the Battleground of Manassas; And 3 facsimiles letters from Abraham Lincoln to Stephens on 6 page contemporary style half brown polished calf gilt ruled raised bands double crushed morocco black labels gilt titles and tan fine grain linen boards former owner's name of both title pages faint damp stain on the frontis portrait of Stephens otherwise in fine sound condition. fine. A contemporary account of the American Civil War by the former vice president of the Confederate States of America published in book form 1868-1870.Howes S-938: "Most elaborate - and best - argument for the constitutional validity of the doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of secession". ~ The portraits include Jefferson Washington Daniel Webster Andrew Jackson Lincoln Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant. and a frontis view of Liberty Hall. National Publishing Company unknown
18616001<p>Wood-engraved map with contemporary hand coloring engraved by Waters & Son New York with publisher's advertisement above map near contemporary marginal annotation to lower right margin which reads 'Position of Federal Army under General Maclellan sic July 1862 stretching towards the James River'; two closed tears in image carefully restored and barely visible a few other very minor repairs; a little fraying and some light discoloration at an old fold. 55.5 x 32.5 cms. Altogether a very nice example attractive.<br /></p><p>An attractive contemporary hand-colored very rare this edition not in the Library of Congress separately issued US Civil War map focusing on the area of Virginia and Maryland where the earliest battles were fought between the Union and Confederate armies and among the earliest broadside maps to specifically treat the battleground states in the growing conflict. Signaling its impartiality by prominently displaying both the Confederate and Federal flags the map represents the most recent news of the conflict in Virginia and Maryland from a British perspective as it was published in England and intended for a British audience. Britain was officially neutral in the American contest but had ardent sympathizers on both sides. Printed from a woodblock engraved by the New York firm Waters & Son the edition offered here is undated but must have appeared very early on around the time of the Battle of Bull Run the first important battle of the Civil War in July 1861. "Bull Run" the mapmaker states on the spot on the map where the actual battle was fought "is three miles from Manassas Junction between that point and Centreville." Water's engraving or its likeness would appear a number of times over the next several years with each edition or version bringing to the public's attention the most recent and sometimes climactic events of the war. Both American and British newspapers would report these events as they occurred and sometimes used an updated version of the Waters' woodblock as a full-page illustration. It is however particularly rare to find this map as a separately issued broadside printed on special paper such as the present contemporary hand colored example offered here. <br /></p><p>At the top of the sheet is text listing in separate columns the names of the Union and Confederate generals and a separate column for US exports in 1860. Notable is the enormous figure for US cotton which was exported primarily to England before the war nearly $192000 of $373000 of the total exports for the US economy – a statistic which must have reminded the British reader of the great cost the developing war would have on their textile industry. Much of the text is promotional. Bacon was perhaps the most important purveyor of American maps and atlases in England at the time and the representative for J.H. Colton one of the leading map publishers in the United States whose cartographic publications available from Bacon & Co. in England are prominently described and priced in the text.</p><p><b>A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MAP TO 1863</b></p><p>The earliest dated edition of Water's engraving which we were able to find appeared in the morning edition of the New York Herald on June 17 1861 Stevenson 451.3. Published a few weeks before the Battle of Bull Run specifically mentioned on our map but not in this newspaper version it notes in anticipation the number of troops amassing at Manassas Junction and on their way by train from the south. This edition was issued twice more on July 27 and September 11 the latter with no reference to the troops at Manassas. Another edition also entitled "Map of the Seat of War…." located at the BPL nearly identical to ours appeared in the London American Newspaper 1861. This version has an additional reference to the Battle of Bull Run below the map. All 3 of these maps found in <i>Stevenson's Civil War Maps</i> were published in newspapers. We find no reference to a separately issued broadside edition. Approximately a year later in an edition dated July 1862 Stevenson 452 the map once again appears this time updated to include Mc Clellan's position on the Peninsula which is shaded red as noted in several printed lines in the lower right corner. This latter is a handcolored broadside. The Library of Congress also has a similar example to ours though significantly modified published 2 years later in 1863 around the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania which replaces the historical and promotional text at the top of our sheet by extending the map north to include part of southern Pennsylvania and a list of Bacon's Shilling maps in the lower left hand corner Stevenson 476.5. This too is a colored broadside. In summary it appears that major battles or impending significant events such as Bull Run noted on ours and Mc Clellan's battle at Manassas may have been treated in a hand colored broadside publication. With the war continuing elsewhere the Waters' woodcut focusing on Virginia and Maryland became irrelevant to ongoing cartographic documentation of the war as battles moved from one locale to another in different parts of the country.</p><p>A handwritten contemporary annotation in the lower margin references a star added to the map by hand that updates it indicating the "Position of Federal Army under General Maclellan in July 1862 stretching towards the James River." Four minor punctures in the blank margins suggest that this copy was affixed to a wall at some point in its earlier history. A rare survival.</p><p>See Stephenson Richard. Civil War Maps An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress.</p>
187044001Boston: Wright & Potter Printers to the State 1870. Thick4to. 29cm First Edition in 2 volumes 793 & 10851p. errata page rebound in full dark blue cloth gilt spine titles the paper is toned but sound marginal stain on the last few leaves on volume one the text is otherwise sound and clean a fine set. fine. Subjects<br /> A comprehensive two-volume official publication by the Adjutant General's Office documenting the service of state regiments during the Civil War. It details rosters service dates and histories for thousands of soldiers. ~ Content: contains roster lists battle summaries and records for soldiers in Massachusetts volunteer regiments. Volume I: Covers regiments 1-32 and 1st Heavy Artillery. Volume II: Covers regiments 33-62 2nd Heavy Artillery and various cavalry/light battery units. Wright & Potter, Printers to the State unknown
1870134066Port Elizabeth: Richards Impey & Co 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Port Elizabeth Richards Impey & Co. circa 1870. One leaf 216 × 140 mm printed on both sides; paper tanned and marked with a few small holes and chips; mild signs of use; in decent condition now housed in a custom-made stiffened cloth folder. A rare South African handbill advertising a touring 'Diorama' of the American Civil War. The recto provides the sequence of events from the bombardment of Fort Sumter Bull Run the battle between the 'Kearsarge' and 'Alabama' the main battles from Gettysburg to General Lee's surrender at Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination and funeral. <p>The verso is headed 'For the Children visiting the American War Diorama' and contains a poem by Harry Stanley about an orphan boy at Christmas. This side has the imprint of T.H. Grocott Machine Printer Grahamstown. <p>Provenance: Geoffrey Ingleton with the G. & N. Ingleton bookplate inside the front flap of the portfolio and the Ingleton Collection catalogue inkstamp and number 10492 on the verso of the leaflet. Richards, Impey & Co hardcover
116917First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong folio approximately 245 × 355 mm 12 pages the first one blank followed by five pairs of facing pages ruled paper with printed red and blue columns and black headings with printed certifications on the last page. The column headings across the double-page openings are Name Rank Age Description Married or Single Nativity Place of Residence Date of Enlistment Enlisted For Date of Muster Discharged and Remarks; only the last opening is unused. Thin plain brown paper wrappers a little undersized with a paper title-label mounted on the front cover printed with manuscript insertions; wrappers a little marked chipped and creased with a few light tidemarks affecting also the first leaf; heavy crease down the middle of the entire roll where folded in half resulting in a 50 mm split from the bottom of the crease to all six leaves; minor signs of use and age but overall this unique and fragile manuscript is in very good condition. 'Companies A and F were from the village of Kewanee in Henry county Illinois . The exigencies of the struggle and the call had wrought the enthusiasm of the village to its highest pitch when on the morning of August 7th a muster roll was opened in the office of Judge John H. Howe and a meeting called for the night. During the day 29 names were enrolled. At night the rally was immense. Speeches were made by Judge Howe James Elliott and other leading citizens and among them one by R.A. Tenney of Chicago formerly of Kewanee who proposed to enlist. The knowledge that "Ralph" as they loved to call him would go was electrifying and the enlistment was kept up till midnight to be continued the next day and furthered by liberal offers from those who could not go to aid those who could till the morning of the 9th just forty-eight hours from the time the first name was signed when 101 were enrolled. This number was subsequently increased to 111 and the second company was raised immediately. Two as noble companies as ever kept step to the music of the Union in one village raised by themselves and well officered within a week .' R.L. Howard: 'History of the 124th Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers' 1880 page 2. <p>Each opening of the roll contains printed columns with the particulars of enlistees added in ink in at least two hands. The details of 19 officers and NCOs and 80 privates are provided apparently in Captain Tenney's hand all but one with their date of enlistment given as 9 August 1862. A further 25 soldiers with enlistment dates from 1864 and 1865 have been added later in another hand presumably his successor Captain Edmond C. Raymond. The only black enlistees four 'under-cooks' are entered separately at the foot of the final opening. All four are described as residents of Vicksburg Mississippi and all enlisted soon after this important Confederate stronghold fell to Union forces on 4 July 1863 suggesting that they were likely freed slaves. <p>The siege also caused a change in the company's commanding officer. 'Capt. R.A. Tenney of Company A had tried to struggle through the campaign until reduced almost to a skeleton and even his life was despaired of when he felt compelled to resign. It was hard for us to lose the inimitable inspiring once jolly "Ralph" from among us but there was no alternative. His resignation bearing date July 9th and the death of Lieut. Julius A. Pratt caused the promotion of 2d Lieut. E.C. Raymond to the Captaincy' Howard page 136. The 'Remarks' column makes grim reading: almost all of the detailed entries commence with the words 'Deserted' 'Discharged' almost invariably with a disability 'Died' invariably of wounds or sickness or 'Killed' by shell musket ball . paperback
186430878Philadelphia: J. Magee 1864. Broadside. Single sheet folded. Printed in blue and red on the first page only. Thirteen verses with chorus red and blue ornamental border with American flags and the words Liberty and Union Forever. Blindstamp of the Southworth Co. paper company of Massachusetts on the top left edge. Measures approximately 20 x 25 cm 8 x 10". The red part of the ornamental border is printed out of register. Faint pencil markings on the top edge and on the lower edge of the last page mild soiling. Very good. J. Magee unknown
30877Broadside. Circa 1860s. No publisher. Eight verses with chorus with a simple ornamental border. Measures approximately 12 x 19 cm 4.5 x 7.5". Faint pencil markings on the top edge tiny spot to the left of the last verse. Near fine. unknown
19202465<p>8-1/4 x 11 inches. 60pp recto only. Burgundy cloth photo album with gilt title and ornament stamped to spine brown paper leaves reinforced with cloth at the gutter. 55 b&w photographs 6 cyanotypes 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches each; holograph text in verse in Spanish. All but two photos are pasted in one per page; two additional photographs are laid in one a duplicate possibly removed from another album and one on a loose leaf of black construction paper and seemingly unrelated to the text. Light wear to spine ends and corners; front hinge gently split; light dampstaining to edge of front endpaper; text of one page smeared from contact with moisture although there is no damp-staining and the text is still readable.</p><p>An original proto-fotonovella relating in dramatic fashion the tale of four young couples who fall in love despite opposition from their guardians -- who it turns out are themselves a pair of star-crossed lovers who fell in love during an unnamed 19th-century war in the United States presumably the Civil War. Their tales are told through detailed staged photographs of amateur actors paired with occasionally rather clumsy verse.</p><p>The story begins with four sisters -- Betty Jilly Molly and Nelly -- who live with their stern spinster aunt Miss Arabella Arrowrock in a palatial home in New York City. The sisters are romantically involved with four brothers -- Dick Fred John and Jack -- who are under the care of their uncle Florentin Williamson. Although the brothers are supposed to be immersed in their studies they are much more interested in romance and sneak out to meet their beloveds standing on the girls' windowsills to woo them under cover of night. However they are spotted by a maid Judith who immediately reports to Miss Arrowrock that "instead of being asleep each one of the girls is at their window making love with strange men." </p><p>The young women and men get in serious trouble with their respective guardians and Arrowrock and Williamson forbid their charges from seeing their as-yet-unknown lovers again threatening to disown them if they disobey. Arrowrock and Williamson who are friends then meet and resolve to marry of their charges quickly not realizing that they are already intimately acquainted with each other. Neither the sisters nor the brothers know who the others' guardian is and the sisters hatch a plan to scare off their suitors through grotesque makeup and outlandish outfits. The brothers are disgusted but the sisters recognize them at once and all four couples secretly resume their relationships believing they are capable of duping their elders.</p><p>Naturally Arrowrock and Williamson overhear them gloating about their successful charade and are furious. Arrowrock sits on a bench to recover herself and Williamson approaches and recounts the story of how they met in their youth. An extended flashback scene follows set during what this cataloguer presumes is meant to be the American Civil War although that is never explicitly stated. Arrowrock like many daughters of the aristocracy worked as a nurse in a hospital tending to the war wounded and Williamson who was a soldier then was sent to the hospital to recover from being wounded. As Arrowrock nurses Williamson back to health he develops strong romantic feelings for her but never dares to tell her; even on their last night together when they both attend a ball at the close of the war Williamson can't work up the courage to confess his love.</p><p>Back in the present the nieces and nephews have been eavesdropping. They convince Arrowrock and Williamson to marry and let them marry each other since it was they who brought their aunt and uncle back together to make their feelings known. All five couples are then married simultaneously in a mass ceremony and the nieces leave home presumably to live with their new husbands; Arrowrock and Williamson remain in the former's palatial home.</p><p>The story's emphasis on finding true love is strongly reminiscent of the fotonovelas rosas pink photonovels or fotonovelas suaves smooth photonovels that were popular in the Spanish-speaking world in the mid-20th century albeit without some of the tropes of those later creations. Photonovels as we know them today emerged in Italy in the late 1940s and the present album presents as a sort of prototype of the photonovel resembling its content and use of visual narrative. It also has an extremely high production value for being homemade: the night scenes are presented in cyanotypes; indoor scenese that take place at night show electric lights switched on; and their are numerous costume changes and multiple extras.</p><p>A cast photo and list at the beginning reveals that many of the actors were related. That the fact that this album is likely unique or at least one of a very limited quantity and the photo laid in at the rear which seems to be of a real wedding between two older people in 1922 suggests that this may have been a keepsake or even a wedding gift. Moreover the album's final lines read "Y adios amigo lecter: esta historia . que ahora empieza / para ti ya termino." "Farewell dear reader: this story . which has now begun has for you now ended."</p> hardcover
186514682New York: Harpers History of the Civil War. 1865. Non-Book. This wood engraving is in very good condition full borders as published text on reverse fine detail later beautiful hand-coloring. Images available. A stunning engraving. ; 22" x 16" . Harpers History of the Civil War unknown
a92199Group of 4 original newspapers: 1 Delaware Weekly Republican published in Wilmington Delaware issue for May 16 1861. 2 Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia July 6 1861. 3 Daily Evening Bulletin Philadelphia July 13 1861. 4 Delaware Weekly Republican issue for February 23 1865. All 4to intact and Fair to Good. Reading these papers one can begin to feel what living through the War Between the States was like. Groups of 4 original newspapers. . unknown
1861191066Camp Hardin Villa Ridge Illinois: 2 May 1861. A real Secession Flag. trampled it in the dirt. tore it in shreds A relic of one of the earliest captured Confederate flags taken in May 1861 and sent home by a young Union musician to his family. "Dear father Enclosed find a small piece of a real Secession Flag. It was torn down from a boat by our men. It is a real flag. When it was brought in camp we took it to the colonel's quarters. He made a short speech and trampled it in the dirt and the whole regiment tore it in shreds". On the verso he notes "Company A has the honor of tearing down the first Secession Flag". The letter was written by Christian Edmund Cotton 1846-1910 a musician in Company A 11th Illinois Infantry. The regiment was organized at Springfield mustered in on 30 April 1861 and ordered to Villa Ridge Illinois; Cotton was remustered on 30 July as principal musician and discharged in November 1863. He was 15 when he wrote this letter which has some crude spelling. The opening shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861. Though there are are reports of captured flags as early as April this is certainly an exceptionally early example from the first weeks of the rebellion. It is also from the earliest form of the Confederate flag: the initial "Stars and Bars" design had seven stars and three bars and was in use from 4 March to 18 May 1861 when a nine-star design was adopted. Single sheet 202 x 123 mm handwritten in pencil both sides fragment of flag pinned at head 102 x 28 mm. Together with manuscript transcript on letterhead of G. R. Vanhorne director of the Memorial Museum in Rockford Illinois circa 1900. Small patch of tape repair on verso toned slight splits along old folds. In good condition. unknown
1861190985New York: Harper & Brothers 1861-65. A rich treasury for the historical investigator The complete run of Harper's Weekly from the American Civil War an essential primary source for the conflict containing thousands of woodcut illustrations portraits of military figures political cartoons maps and battle plans. Harper's Weekly was founded in 1857. The set is complete from January 1861 to December 1865 covering the entirety of the war April 1861 to April 1865 alongside the build up to it and beginnings of Reconstruction. All 260 weekly numbers are present together with the annual title pages which were supplied for binding into volumes. Though it had supported Stephen A. Douglas in 1860 and had earlier sought not to alienate Southern readers once war began Harper's Weekly became decisively Unionist; by 1863 it strongly backed Abraham Lincoln emancipation and the Republican cause. Many of the wood engravings were based on photographs which are otherwise lost while others were drawn by prominent artists including Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast. "The old files of Harper's Weekly are a delight to the casual reader and a rich treasury for the historical investigator. Here is a vital illustrated history. The combination of pictures politics essays and fiction lends variety; and the frequent excellence of contributions in all these kinds together with the known influence of the journal upon its times gives first-rate importance" Mott p. 469. 5 vols folio 398 x 283 mm. Recent half morocco twin red and green morocco labels purple cloth sides printed marbled endpapers. Contents toned with occasional repairs and a few instances of faint marginal staining running ink stain at foot of vol. II. In very good condition. Frank Luther Mott A History of American Magazines Volume II 1970. hardcover
1865190638Charleston: 15 February 1865. It has been determined to evacuate the city of Charleston The military orders sent to the commander of the Confederate garrison in Charleston ordering the evacuation of the city as Sherman's army advanced. Charleston was a symbol of the Confederacy both the birthplace of secession and the site of the war's first shots. The city endured nearly two years under siege by the Union forces suffering heavy shelling from land and water. In February 1865 Union forces seized the South Carolina Rail Road leaving the Northeastern Rail Road as the Confederates' only escape route. On 15 February General Beauregard ordered the city to be evacuated immediately while the rail line remained open. These orders are marked "Confidential" and addressed the same day to Edward Clifford Anderson 1815-1883 who had commanded the post of Charleston since January. They open bluntly: "It has been determined to evacuate the city of Charleston". Thirteen detailed instructions follow including: "I. I desire you to make every preparation for the destruction early Friday night of your guns and gun carriages and such powder as may be left in your magazines as may be consistent with a safe retreat. To attempt to burst your guns or blow up your magazines would perhaps be a premature intimation of our intention to the enemy; therefore you will destroy the gun carriages as far as practicable by sawing and cutting them to pieces; your guns by spiking and shotting them and your powder by throwing it into the water". "IV. On the day of Friday you will cause all the small boats along the wharves to be destroyed by staving them". "V. You will cause the Ashley river bridge to be burned just before the time our troops leave town and you will take steps to provide yourself with combustibles beforehand for that purpose." "VII. When you move you will require your troops to march compactly commanding officers of companies in rear of their companies and permit no soldier to break ranks for any purpose without permission of the commanding officer of his company. Direct the officers to enforce this if necessary by shooting the offender". The evacuation proved chaotic. Jefferson Davis tried to postpone the order but was overruled. Cotton stores were burned and soon after Confederate troops departed the fires reached unexploded munitions causing a devastating explosion at the Northeastern Rail Road depot that killed about 150 people. Union forces entered the city on 18 February and Mayor Charles Macbeth surrendered Charleston to their control and protection. The Official Records vol. XLVII p. 1195 show orders sent the same day from General William B. Taliaferro to Brigadier General S. Elliott conveying similar instructions higher in the chain of command. Comparable orders may have been sent to several commanders in and around Charleston; however we have located no other copy. 3 sheets of lined paper 239 x 181 mm handwritten on 4 pages the final sheet has docketed title final page blank. Splits along old folds with minor repairs staining and foxing: in good condition given its wartime history. unknown
18611848021861-63. The Royal Navy visits the warring North and South Made aboard HMS Rinaldo the map charts its two-year voyage in which it visited the capitals of both sides during the Civil War and transported Confederate emissaries while surviving two serious weather incidents. The accomplished map shows the wide-ranging route of the ship and includes drawings of the early Confederate flag the "Stars and Bars". Rinaldo was a Camelion-class wooden screw sloop launched in 1860 and in operation until 1884. It was commanded by William Nathan Wrighte Hewett who won a Victoria Cross during the Crimean War. The ship sailed from Spithead on 2 June 1861 but as noted on the map "sprang a leak" 400 miles offshore and returned to Plymouth on 18 June. It set off again in July and arrived at Halifax Nova Scotia following a stop in Madeira. It then travelled on to New York. In December it went to Cape Cod to collect the Confederate emissaries John Slidell and James Murray Mason. Slidell and Mason had been forcibly removed from the British steamer Trent causing a diplomatic incident - the Trent Affair - between Britain and the Union government which came close to war. It then set off to Halifax where they could be transported back to Britain. However harsh conditions off the coast of Newfoundland ensured the ship instead travelled to Bermuda. After it failed to arrive at Halifax newspapers reported the ship was feared lost; some Union newspapers celebrated Slidell and Mason's likely demise. The passage on the map shows this abrupt detour. The ship arrived safely in Bermuda in late January 1862 where the emissaries switched to the La Plata for the voyage to Britain. From Bermuda Rinaldo travels along the Confederate coast visiting Charleston Mobile New Orleans and Galveston. The map maker has drawn the Union flag over New York and the early Confederate flag over Charleston Mobile and Galveston featuring the stars in the upper left and red and white bars across prior to the better-known flag used from 1863 onwards. For New Orleans he has drawn the flag of Louisiana in use from 1861 to 1865. While in New Orleans Commander Hewett succeeded in pressing General Butler to recognize the appointed British consul. Leaving America the Rinaldo travelled to Havana and then several stops across Mexico the West Indies and South America returning to Bermuda along the way. In March 1863 Hewett was relieved of his command and returned home. The chart is unfinished ending abruptly mid-Atlantic. Minutes of latitude and longitude are marked on the map. The Bahama Banks are shown in a pale wash marking a serious hazard to shipping and suggesting the sailor knew these waters well. Manuscript on waxed linen 752 x 431 mm. Slight soiling creased where folded. In very good condition. Regis A. Courtemanche No Need of Glory: the British Navy in American Waters 1860-1864 1977 covers the voyage in detail. unknown
186045008Maine: Rockland Gazette 1860. 1st Edition. A good copy foxed with some chips at the edges and some tears none of which obscure text. One broadside two columns of text. 9-3/8" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>An extracted leaf from the Rockland Gazette likely printed in early January 1861. The reports include an account of shots being fired on the Steamer of the West supply ship which was en route with supplies to Fort Sumpter. Also recorded is a fight between Senator Robert Tombs 1810-1885 and General Winfield Scott 1786-1866 that began at a dinner party in Washington D.C. and ended with a supposed duel at sunrise with Toombe shooting Scott through the heart. History tells us that Scott died years later at the West Point Hotel after retiring. Fake news! A unique and unrecorded bit of Civil War history. Rockland Gazette unknown books
18616001<p>Wood-engraved map with contemporary hand coloring engraved by Waters & Son New York with publisher's advertisement above map near contemporary marginal annotation to lower right margin which reads 'Position of Federal Army under General Maclellan sic July 1862 stretching towards the James River'; two closed tears in image carefully restored and barely visible a few other very minor repairs; a little fraying and some light discoloration at an old fold. 55.5 x 32.5 cms. Altogether a very nice example attractive.<br /></p><p>An attractive contemporary hand-colored very rare this edition not in the Library of Congress separately issued US Civil War map focusing on the area of Virginia and Maryland where the earliest battles were fought between the Union and Confederate armies and among the earliest broadside maps to specifically treat the battleground states in the growing conflict. Signaling its impartiality by prominently displaying both the Confederate and Federal flags the map represents the most recent news of the conflict in Virginia and Maryland from a British perspective as it was published in England and intended for a British audience. Britain was officially neutral in the American contest but had ardent sympathizers on both sides. Printed from a woodblock engraved by the New York firm Waters & Son the edition offered here is undated but must have appeared very early on around the time of the Battle of Bull Run the first important battle of the Civil War in July 1861. "Bull Run" the mapmaker states on the spot on the map where the actual battle was fought "is three miles from Manassas Junction between that point and Centreville." Water's engraving or its likeness would appear a number of times over the next several years with each edition or version bringing to the public's attention the most recent and sometimes climactic events of the war. Both American and British newspapers would report these events as they occurred and sometimes used an updated version of the Waters' woodblock as a full-page illustration. It is however particularly rare to find this map as a separately issued broadside printed on special paper such as the present contemporary hand colored example offered here. <br /></p><p>At the top of the sheet is text listing in separate columns the names of the Union and Confederate generals and a separate column for US exports in 1860. Notable is the enormous figure for US cotton which was exported primarily to England before the war nearly $192000 of $373000 of the total exports for the US economy – a statistic which must have reminded the British reader of the great cost the developing war would have on their textile industry. Much of the text is promotional. Bacon was perhaps the most important purveyor of American maps and atlases in England at the time and the representative for J.H. Colton one of the leading map publishers in the United States whose cartographic publications available from Bacon & Co. in England are prominently described and priced in the text.</p><p><b>A SHORT HISTORY OF THE MAP TO 1863</b></p><p>The earliest dated edition of Water's engraving which we were able to find appeared in the morning edition of the New York Herald on June 17 1861 Stevenson 451.3. Published a few weeks before the Battle of Bull Run specifically mentioned on our map but not in this newspaper version it notes in anticipation the number of troops amassing at Manassas Junction and on their way by train from the south. This edition was issued twice more on July 27 and September 11 the latter with no reference to the troops at Manassas. Another edition also entitled "Map of the Seat of War…." located at the BPL nearly identical to ours appeared in the London American Newspaper 1861. This version has an additional reference to the Battle of Bull Run below the map. All 3 of these maps found in <i>Stevenson's Civil War Maps</i> were published in newspapers. We find no reference to a separately issued broadside edition. Approximately a year later in an edition dated July 1862 Stevenson 452 the map once again appears this time updated to include Mc Clellan's position on the Peninsula which is shaded red as noted in several printed lines in the lower right corner. This latter is a handcolored broadside. The Library of Congress also has a similar example to ours though significantly modified published 2 years later in 1863 around the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania which replaces the historical and promotional text at the top of our sheet by extending the map north to include part of southern Pennsylvania and a list of Bacon's Shilling maps in the lower left hand corner Stevenson 476.5. This too is a colored broadside. In summary it appears that major battles or impending significant events such as Bull Run noted on ours and Mc Clellan's battle at Manassas may have been treated in a hand colored broadside publication. With the war continuing elsewhere the Waters' woodcut focusing on Virginia and Maryland became irrelevant to ongoing cartographic documentation of the war as battles moved from one locale to another in different parts of the country.</p><p>A handwritten contemporary annotation in the lower margin references a star added to the map by hand that updates it indicating the "Position of Federal Army under General Maclellan in July 1862 stretching towards the James River." Four minor punctures in the blank margins suggest that this copy was affixed to a wall at some point in its earlier history. A rare survival.</p><p>See Stephenson Richard. Civil War Maps An Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress.</p> books
Initials to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 303pp. A detailed account of the naval battles of the American Civil War, which, although there has been less coverage of them than of the land battles, were crucial factors in the outcome of the war.
4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, numerous coloured illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board and backstrup blocked and lettered in silver, a very good, brigght, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at extremities and with loss at head and tail of backstrip.
8vo., with portrait frontispiece, coloured plate and numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed fascsimile reissue of the original edition of 1909.
A celebration of the tercentenary of the Bank of Scotland by the Chief Archivist Alan Cameron - before we had all heard the phrase 'sub-prime'. Dust jacket has tear at top back. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with endpaper maps; brown cloth, upper board with decorative frame border enclosing eagle in cartouche all in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, brown silk marker, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy.
