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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
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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.
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
Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs, illustrations and digrams throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, the smallest of marks to lower page edges, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing to upper edge and spine foot. 394pp. Detailed study of American medicine and surgery in the 1860s and how it affected the American Civil War. Very scarce in the UK.
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.
Book appears in mint unread condition. 279pp. The fascinating story of an American serviceman in the Confederate Army, only allowed to enlist just as Grant's brutal spring 1964 campaign began.
3 vols., 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with numerous maps coloured in outline and endpaper maps; cloth (blue/red/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good clean set in dustwrapper. Catton's universally acclaimed Centennial History comprises The Coming Fury (1966), Terrible Swift Sword (1963) and Never Call Retreat (1966). COMPLETE SETS OF THE UK EDITION ARE SCARCE.
No inscriptions or marks. Tiniest of creases to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. The battle that was the masterpiece of the Confederate commander in the American Civil War, Robert E Lee, when he split his forces under Jubal Early and 'Stonewal' Jackson and beat the Army of the Potomac which was twice its size. Well illustrated and with full descriptions of Orders of Battle.
185058269Leipzig, Zehl (Druck), um 1850. Darstellung ca. 8 x 8,5 cm, Blatt ca. 19 x 12,5 cm. 1 Blatt, verso weiß.
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
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
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
18651483Paris, Dentu, s.d.(vers 1865. in-12, vi-309 pp., broché. (dos cassé, rousseurs)
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., Eleventh Impression thus; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, green top (lightly faded), small crease at extreme head of backstrip else a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Mitchell's Civil War masterpiece was first published in the UK in September 1936 (three months after its US predecessor); this issue in January 1938. This book is, of course, the basis of the multi-Oscar-winning feature film (1940) starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ORIGINAL DUSTWRAPPER PANELS (FRONT PANEL WITH LOSS) MOUNTED ON NEW AND SEPARATE LEAVES AT FRONT, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Mitchell's Civil War masterpiece was first published in the UK in September 1936 (three months after its US predecessor). This is the first UK edition published (with redesigned dustwrapper) to capitalise on the success of Victor Fleming's multi-Oscar-winning feature film of the same year starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland.
8vo., Twenty-First Impression thus; red cloth, gilt back, black top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly sunned at backstrip and on (predominantly white) rear panel. Mitchell's Civil War masterpiece was first published in the UK in September 1936 (three months after its US predecessor). This book is, of course, the basis of the multi-Oscar-winning feature film (1940) starring Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., handsomely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, boards with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Elegant copy of an early UK issue. Mitchell's Civil War classic is the basis of Victor Fleming's memorable film version (1939) starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 17 battle-plans and 11 folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second volume of Catton's masterly Grant trilogy.
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
