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18703292608/01/1870. <p>John Quincy Adams first enlisted in 1862 with the 38th Ohio Volunteers. On October 15 of that year he was a quartermaster sergeant with the 10th Ohio Cavalry reporting to Cairo Ill. for Instruction on February 23 1863. After a stint as acting lieutenant on July 15 1864 he was appointed by the President Second Lieutenant to date from March 3 1863. Adams was actively involved in the Georgia campaign conducted by Gen. William T. Sherman. He was with left wing of the 16th Army Corps on the march to Chattanooga Tenn. In the Atlanta Campaign he participated in the battles of Resaca Dallas Kennesaw Mountain. and Jonesboro. He manned signal corps stations at Kennesaw Mt. and Allatoona.</p><p>Adams was on the ""the March to the Sea"" with Sherman’s forces. He was in the engagements at Port McAllister and Rice Mill station in the campaign from Savannah through the Carolinas including battles at Columbia Bentonville and Raleigh; and at the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Sherman on April 26 1865. Adams was breveted 1st lieutenant for gallant and meritorious service in the Signal Corps at the battle of Allatoona; he was breveted captain for gallant and meritorious services in the Signal Corps at the capture of Fort McAllister and Savannah and throughout the war. Adams was mustered out August 22 1865. After the war he was in the 1st U. S. Cavalry and was in the Indian wars and finished his career as captain and aide to Gen. O.O. Howard in October 1884. He is listed on the roster of the U.S. Signal Corps in the Civil War.</p><p>This is President Ulysses S. Grant’s appointment of Adams as First Lieutenant in the 1st U. S. Cavalry. <strong>Document signed</strong> Washington January 8 1870 naming Adams “<em>First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Cavalryâ€</em> to rank as such from the fourteenth of September 1869. The document is countersigned by William Belknap as Secretary of War.</p><p>In 1866 the 1st Cavalry Division was sent west to California and other western states and it served during the Indian Wars in the west. In June 1884 while Adams was still serving with the regiment it was transferred to the Department of Dakota. In their new assignment the troops were assigned to various forts which had been established during the Indian wars to subjugate the Sioux Cheyenne Crow and other Native Americans.</p><p><img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
186622955St. Louis MO 1866. No binding. Fine. Manuscript Letter Signed as Lt. Col of Ordnance and Brevet Brigadier General to Adam Badeau Grant's Military Secretary St. Louis Arsenal Mo. August 1 1866. 2 pp. 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Callender responds to Grant's aide-de-camp Adam Badeau's request ""for a statement of the number and calibre of guns captured at Fort Donelson February 16th 1862"" the Tennessee battle that was Grant's first success. Not having that report he offers one on Vicksburg instead.Callender advises: ""I have not been able to find any report of the character referred to among the records of my office and search for such a report has also been made among the records of the Department of the Missouri - likewise without success. But I applied to Capt. Brink late Acting Ordnance Officer at Fort Donelson for information on the subject and he has kindly furnished me with the enclosed list which I transmit herewith together with his letter neither is present. In looking for a report of the guns captured at Fort Donelson a very full report was found of guns and Ordnance Stores captured at Vicksburg - which if the General Grant desires could be forwarded to you.""Franklin D. Callender 1817-1882 Union officer; after distinguished service in the Seminole War and Mexican War took command of the St. Louis Arsenal in 1861 and served as Chief of Ordnance of the Dept. of the Missouri Nov. 19 1861-Mar. 11 1862; holding same post in Dept. of the Miss. March 11 - July 11 1862 he returned to Mo. where he was on the Governor's staff and then served in the advance upon and siege of Corinth; returned to Dept. of the Mo. and the St. Louis Arsenal July 11 1862 and commanded it throughout the war; breveted B.G. USA for Corinth St. Louis and war service. unknown
1885895 - 323 - 604<p>Salesman's Sample of the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant</p><p><strong>Publisher and Year</strong>: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885</p><p><strong>Edition</strong>: Salesman's sample issued prior to the publication of Grant's memoirs. These samples known also as <em>dummies</em> or <em>prospectuses</em> were at the center of the door-to-door campaign that made Grant's memoirs one of the best-selling books of the late 19th century. Because the book was not complete salesmen were equipped with these prospectuses to showcase to prospective customers. These were truncated mock-ups of the finished work containing selected chapters steel engravings and mounted binding samples spine strips representing cloth sheep and half morocco. Bound into each prospectus were order forms on which salesmen could record each customer's name address and preferred binding cloth sheep half morocco full morocco tree calf. All of the binding options were costly; adjusted for inflation they ranged from approximately $234 to $835. Mark Twain the co-owner of the publishing house and orchestrator of the sales campaign deliberately recruited Civil War veterans as salesmen and encouraged them to wear their uniforms recount wartime experiences and frame the purchase as a patriotic act in support of the financially distressed former president. Produced solely as temporary sales tools and never intended to survive most of these samples were heavily worn from use discarded or destroyed. Surviving examples seldom appear in commerce.</p><p><strong>Description of the Contents:</strong> Thin octavo front and rear boards stamped in gilt spine bare as issued floral endpapers. Contains abbreviated portions of the to-be-published first and second volumes including both title pages and steel-engraving portraits of Grant with tissue guards; several chapters of completed text; and tipped-in sheets indicating where foldout materials would be located. Tipped onto the front and rear pastedowns are spine strips representing three of the binding options cloth sheep and half morocco. After the sample text there are tipped-in notices that inform salesmen about the publisher's efforts to combat unauthorized imitations of Grant's memoirs the possibility of legal action against the responsible publishers the availability of the book only by subscription with the firm's agents and an announcement that Grant completed writing both volumes. The volume concludes with page listing the prices of the five binding options and a series of ruled pages on which the salesman could record customer's orders.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Boards worn soiled and stained; gilt rubbed but fairly bright; tips pushed with some exposure; edges rubbed. Tight hinges and binding. Closed tear to the top and bottom of the front free endpaper and one open tear to the bottom. Mild tanning of the leather spine strips on the front pastedown to the front free endpaper and heavy tanning to the subsequent blank leaf as usual. Pages tanned with occasional minor imperfections and handling marks including scattered finger smudging. One order page is filled out on four lines. The rest of the order pages are unfilled and the last has been torn out.</p><p><em>"The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army for instance and most of the press of the country clothed General Lee with just such qualities but I had known him personally and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this."</em></p><p>Inventory ID: 895 - 323 - 604</p> Charles L. Webster and Company
1880104971880. 1880 Republican nomination. Boston Seating Chart For A Dinner. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant by the Middlesex Club at the Brunswick Boston Oct. 13 1880." 11 x 17". The printed chart details all of the attendees and their seating positions. An interesting Grant item. Grant had returned from three triumphant years of touring abroad in December 1879 and hoped to win the for President. In excellent condition. unknown
18653069006/06/1865. <blockquote><p>He is confident that “the men will do me the justice to believe that all my sympathies are with them.â€</p></blockquote><p>Ulysses S. Grant through his intelligence determination iron will and patriotism was the military man most responsible for leading the United States through the greatest time of crisis and chaos in the nation’s history. As general of the Army during the Civil War he commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers leading the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy. Moreover all recognized that his strategy had compelled Lee and the Confederacy to fight the kind of war they could not win. Later as president he guided the nation through Reconstruction helping to bind the wounds between North and South while empowering newly freed African Americans.</p><p>After Lee’s surrender as the troops began to come home municipalities all over the North sought to give them all the kind of reception appropriate to victors. Grant was invited to some of these so many that he could not attend them all.</p><p><strong>Autograph letter signed</strong> two pages on Head Quarters Armies of the United States letterhead Washington D.C. June 61865 to C.T. Jones H.W. Gray T.A. Barlow A.M. Fox and S. G. King a committee who had invited Grant to a celebratory reception for returning volunteer troops in Philadelphia. Grant had to decline the invitation because he was due to attend the Great Northwest Fair in Chicago on the same date. In his letter to the committee Grant summed up his deep feelings for his men and the debt the nation owed the Union troops who had saved the Union.</p><p><em>“Your invitation for me to be in Philadelphia on Saturday night at the reception to be given by the citizens to the returning is received. Having already engaged to be present at the Great Northwest Fair now being held in Chicago Ill. on the same day it will be impossible for me to attend.</em></p><p><em>""The achievements of our volunteers for the last four years entitles them to the lasting gratitude of all loyal people and I therefore rejoice at the enthusiastic reception which they are everywhere receiving. It is not likely that I shall be present at any of these receptions but I know the men will do me the justice to believe that all my sympathies are with them.""</em></p><p>We don’t ever recall seeing another Grant letter articulating his feelings about the soldiers he commanded nor about the debt of gratitude Americans owed them for the victory.</p><p><img class=""alignnone size-post-window wp-image-25018"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /></p> unknown
188520955Charles L. Webster & Company 1885 & 1886. First Edition. Full-Leather . Good/No Jacket. Two volume leather hardcover set 1885-1886 in Good condtion. Octavo publisher's full tan sheep with gilt titles to the spine in five compartments within raised bands red and black spine labels. llustrated with numerous steel engravings facsimiles and maps. Wear on corners and edges; minor cracks and creases. Volume II has more significant rubbing along edge of back cover and slight water mark on spine. Burgundy marbled endpapers. Bindings are full intact. Stamp of former owner on first blank page of each volume. Frontispieces with tissue in each volume. Feather design on page edges which has faded on top of Volume I. Some foxing. A beautiful set. Charles L. Webster & Company hardcover
1885048 - 122 - 912<p><em>First edition in the publisher's green cloth binding</em></p><p><strong>Publisher and Year</strong>: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885 Vol 1 and 1886 Vol 2</p><p><strong>Edition</strong>: First edition first printing in the publisher's cloth binding. Customers could order their sets in cloth sheep leather three-quarter morocco full morocco and tree calf ranging in price from $7 to $25. Although cloth was the cheapest of these bindings at $7 it was still expensive to consumers amounting to about $234 today when adjusting for inflation. Publisher's Prospectus</p><p><strong>Condition and Description</strong>: Octavos two volumes publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt plain edges floral endpapers frontispieces with tissue guards. Vol 1: 584 pp; Vol 2: 654 pp index errata. Additional in-text plates. Complete with all pages tissue guards and fold-out materials present. Rubbing and handling marks to the boards of each volume including to the gilt medallions. Tips bumped with some exposure. Foxing to the frontispieces tissue guards and title pages. In Vol 1 there is a partially erased prior owner's name to the top-right corner of the front free endpaper and a small bookseller stamp on the front pastedown. In Vol 2 there is a small partially erased note "2 Vols" in pencil to the front free endpaper. No other writing or underlining. Pages exhibit occasional minor imperfections. A handsome set with uncommonly well-preserved covers.</p><p><em>"The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army for instance and most of the press of the country clothed General Lee with just such qualities but I had known him personally and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this."</em></p><p>Inventory ID: 048 - 122 - 912</p> Charles L. Webster and Company
1886115New York NY: Charles L. Webster & Company 1886. Very Good. <p data-start="151" data-end="748">A first edition set of Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant published in two volumes by Charles L. Webster & Company 1885–86. <br /> <br /> Handsomely bound in full butterscotch calf with gilt-stamped red and black spine labels marbled endpapers and matching marbled edges this deluxe set includes steel-engraved frontispiece portraits with tissue guards numerous maps plates and both original fold-out facsimiles: General Buckner’s surrender in Vol. I and General Lee’s surrender in Vol. II. Together the volumes span 1231 pages and measure approximately 6.5" x 9.375" x 4" stacked.</p> <br /> <p data-start="750" data-end="1324">The set carries notable provenance with both volumes bearing the gilt-stamped name Aubrey Louis Abramson on the front boards and the Abbie & Emily Abramson bookplate on the pastedowns. Volume I also features a San Francisco bookseller label J. Dewing & Co. and a penciled 1951 note referencing a Berkeley textbook shop. <br /> <br /> Condition is Very Good to Near Fine: light rubbing and edge wear as expected for its age a discreet repair to the spine base of Vol. II and a minor rear cover crack. Interiors are largely clean and crisp with only occasional age-toning.</p> <br /> <p data-start="1326" data-end="1874">Grant’s memoirs remain among the most significant works of Civil War literature. Written during his final year while battling terminal cancer the project was championed and published by Mark Twain who secured generous royalty terms to benefit the Grant family. Completed just days before Grant’s death in 1885 the memoirs were a commercial triumph ultimately providing his widow with over $450000. <br /> <br /> This set with its elegant binding and compelling provenance is a fine example of one of the 19th century’s most enduring historical narratives. SD3</p> . Charles L. Webster & Company unknown
187811145Paris: A. Picard 1878. Fine. A. Picard Paris 1878 15 x 23 cm broché First edition of this offprint printed in a small number of copies. A. Picard unknown
188110327Vienne Vienna: E.J. Savigné 1881. Fine. E.J. Savigné Vienne Vienna 1881 16 x 24.50 cm broché First edition printed on fine paper in a very small number and established from the manuscripts of Grenoble Montpellier & Vienna. Front board marginally sunned three tiny marginal lacks affecting the boards gift inscription handsome interior condition. E.J. Savigné hardcover
18947148Tournai: Societe S Jean l'Evangeliste 1894. pp 286 In a fine binding by Stoakley of Cambridge of crushed green morocco raised bands no titles delicate gilt tooling to the book edges all page edges bright gilt floral dentelles around the textured end papers which are decorated with gilt foliage. The text is attractively printed in black and red and elaborated with gothic script titles decorated capital letters and engraved head pieces and vignettes. There are several Gothic style engravings of biblical scenes. The leather is very lightly rubbed the text block age toned some dark stains to the end papers but otherwise the book is in fine condition no inscriptions. A beautiful copy of this devotional work. Please contact Christian White at Modernfirsteditions if you would like more information about this item. Fine 1894 Societe S Jean l'Evangeliste hardcover
188410786THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN in Century Magazine for November 1884 to April 1885 first edition some minor scuffing else a vg/near fine copy bound in half leather and cloth with marbled end-papers. This volume contains the first appearance in print preceding the book edition by several months time of all 3 advance published installments of this most famous novel; 12/84. 1/85 & 2/85. A Peter Parley to Penrod title. Also contains original contributions by Theodore Roosevelt Henry James Joel Chandler Harris Ulysses S. Grant George W. Cable W. Dean Howells John Burroughs et.al. Century Magazine hardcover
188370569Paris: A. Quantin imprimeur-éditeur rue Saint-Benoît 1883. 16mo pp. 4 vi 220; 14 oval cul-de-lampe vignette engravings in the text by Méaulle printed in color after watercolors by Meyeré; text within chromolithograph border contemporary and likely original full blue morocco gilt rules on covers with fleurons in the corners and enclosing a central gilt lozenge gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; the whole lightly rubbed but overall very good clean and sound. Issued as no. 10 in the publisher's Petits Chefs-d'Oeuvre Antiques series. Mills College Check List 1874a. A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, rue Saint-Benoît unknown
188370888Paris: A. Quantin imprimeur-éditeur rue Saint-Benoît 1883. 16mo pp. 4 vi 220; 14 oval cul-de-lampe vignette engravings in the text by Méaulle printed in color after watercolors by Meyeré; text within chromolithograph border contemporary and likely original full blue morocco by Kauffmann gilt rules on covers with fleurons in the corners smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 3 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1 t.e.g.; fine throughout. Bookplate of B. Franklin and Helen G. Hadduck. Issued as no. 10 in the publisher's Petits Chefs-d'Oeuvre Antiques series. Laid in is a one-page autograph letter signed dated May 7 1911 from Henry C. Folger to "Dear Dr. Furness -- Emily and I hope the little Horace sent in a separate package has escaped your drag-net; or if you have a copy you will keep this for its condition." Mills College Check List 1874a. A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, rue Saint-Benoît unknown
1863119455Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1863. Two volumes from the library of Ulysses S. Grant published the same year The Civil War was raging. Octavo 2 volumes bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine marbled endpapers marbled edges. From the library of Ulysses S. Grant with a presentation bookplate to the pastedown of both volumes which reads "Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant from the Citizens of Boston January 1 1866." In very good condition. Rare and desirable. Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States 1869–77. As Commanding General of the United States Army 1864–69 Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War. He implemented Congressional Reconstruction often at odds with Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery protect African-American citizenship and supported unbridled nationwide industrial expansionism during the Gilded Age. Ticknor and Fields hardcover
1868149393Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co. Publishers 1868. First edition of this detailed account of Massachusetts’s political leadership military organization and social contributions during the American Civil War. Octavo original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine tissue-guarded frontispiece of the author. Association copy inscribed by the author to General Ulysses S. Grant "Senate Chamber Boston June 9th 1868 To General U.S. Grant U.S.A. from the Author Wm Schouler Late Adjt General of Massachusetts." Schouler was an American journalist politician and Adjutant General of Massachusetts during the American Civil War. In 1861 a Massachusetts militia training camp was named for him but later renamed for Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. He remained Adjutant General throughout all of the U.S. Civil War until 1867. Ownership stamp of Jesse R. Grant to the front pastedown. In very good condition with light toning and rubbing and damp staining to the bottom right corners of the panels. Housed in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase with gilt titles. An exceptional association. Ulysses S. Grant served as the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877 following his leadership as Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War. A key military strategist Grant played a central role in securing Union victory alongside President Abraham Lincoln. As president he supported Congressional Reconstruction aimed at protecting the civil rights of formerly enslaved people and rebuilding the South. His administration though marked by efforts to stabilize the postwar nation and promote industrial growth was also marred by widespread political corruption. Grant’s presidency reflected the complexities of the Gilded Age and the challenges of reunifying a fractured nation. E.P. Dutton & Co., Publishers hardcover
185849829Chur 1858. Nach dem unedirten italiänischen Originalmanuskript bearbeitet mit Anmerkungen erläutert. Beigebunden: Salis-Seewis J.U.von; Gesammelte Schriften zur Bündner Geschichte Zwei Bände in einem Einband-Ecken u. Kanten berieben ansonsten in gutem Zustand Pradella 8°. Hln. marm. Raetica unknown
186936730Washington D.C. 1869. Single page entirely in ink manuscript Very Good.<br /> <br /> Randall was a Pennsylvania Democrat born in Philadelphia and a Union soldier during the War. He was Speaker of the House 1876-1881. This letter is an early unfavorable evaluation of President Grant's character only two weeks after Grant's inauguration as President. "The chief characteristic thus far developed is his vindictiveness. He must have much changed from the time when he received Lee's surrender. But we shall see the end is not yet. unknown
1897190144Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot. Very Good. 1897. Hardcover. Librairie De Firmin Didot hardcover
1897132638New York: The Century Co. 1897. First edition of Horace Porter's Civil War memoir. Octavo original cloth illustrated with portraits and maps. In good condition. First editions are rare. American soldier and diplomat Horace Porter served as a lieutenant colonel ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant. He also was secretary to General William T. Sherman vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905. From 1869 to 1872 Porter served as President Grant's personal secretary in the White House. The Century Co. hardcover
186568569Paris : A. Faure 1865. 180x120mm. XLIII - reliure demi-basane. Plats papier marbr. Auteur titre et filets dors au dos. Bon tat. 380 A. Faure unknown
1883339682Paris : Firmin Didot 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong.Includes previous owner's signature. Provenance; from the library of Reginald Russell Needham Baron and John Napper with the owner's respective bookplates. Physical description; vol. VII only: 369 pages ; 23 cm. Subjects; Mary Blessed Virgin Saint ; Legends. Mary Blessed Virgin Saint Apparitions and miracles. Mary Mother of Jesus Christ. Mary Blessed Virgin Saint ; Legends Legends. French poetry To 1500. Mystery. Devotional literature French ; Early works to 1800. Mysteries and miracle-plays French. French drama To 1500. Mysteries and miracle-plays French. Devotional literature French To 1500. Mary the Virgin Saint. Genre; Legends. Paris : Firmin Didot hardcover
