U.S. CIVIL WAR
U.S. CIVIL WAR
The
Case that Split the Nation
—
(AMERICAN
CIVIL
WAR).
Howard,
Benjamin C. Report of the decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott
versus John F.A. Sandford. December term, 1856. Washington: Cornelius Wendell,
1857. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). 239, [1] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. A New York printing was issued simultaneously.
• Howes S218; Library Company, Afro-Americana, 4994; Sabin 33240. Recent very handsome black moiré cloth, spine with printed paper label. Original printed paper front wrapper bound in. Wrapper, title-page, and last text page tattered (wrapper significantly, pages less so) and now mounted; wrapper with inked ownership inscription dated 1896. Pages age-toned, with intermittent foxing. (25316)
You Will Find
NO Prettier Copy! Brooks, Elbridge S. The true story of the United States of America told for young people. Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co., © 1897. 4to. Frontis., [2], 246 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black, white, and red.
• Spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a lovely copy. Pages clean. (26919)
A Journalist Reports from
Virginia Cook, Joel. The siege of Richmond: A narrative of the military operations of Major-General George B. McClellan during the months of May and June, 1862. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 358 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 16279. Publisher's textured teal cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides and edges clean and showing virtually no wear, spine with head pulled, title dimmed, and small rubbed spots. Ex–social club library: number on endpaper in a good 19th-century hand, rubber- and pressure-stamp on title-page, several other pages faintly stamped. Front free endpaper lacking. A nice, clean, sound copy with its paper holding up beautifully. (26266)
The
Alabama Claims . . .
Davis, J. C. Bancroft. Mr. Sumner, the Alabama claims, and their settlement. A letter to the New York Herald. New York: Douglas Taylor, printer, 1878. 8vo. 20 pp.
• Original printed wrappers; cracked on lower spine; chip off at upper spine. Pamphlet loose in its covers. Pages clean, untrimmed. (559)
Davis Himself
on the Civil War
— Many
Plates &
Maps
Davis,
Jefferson. The rise and fall of the Confederate government.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). 2 vols. I: xxi,
[3], 707, [5 (adv.)] pp.; 9 plts., 1 map. II: xvii, [3], 808, [4 (adv.)] pp.;
10 plts., 13 fold. maps.
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the images for enlargements.
• Howes D120. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, covers framed in blind with central gilt-stamped horse and rider medallion on front, spines with gilt-stamped title; edges/extremities lightly rubbed and spines each with a patch lightened (moreso to vol. I). Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, title-pages rubber-stamped. Minor offsetting from some plates, pages otherwise clean. (26900)
A
Civil War
Narrative
Geer, John James. Beyond the lines: Or a Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie. Philadelphia: J.W. Daughaday, 1863. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). Frontis., 285, [3 (2 adv.)] pp.; 5 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. • Library Company, Afro-Americana, 4057; Sabin 26835. Contemporary half brown sheep and yellow marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and band decorations; rubbed and spine head with strip of dark cloth tape extending onto sides. Ex–social club library with its bookplate; call number on endpaper, title-page and several others rubber-stamped. Scattered spots of light staining. In fact a nice-looking and sound copy. (26397)
Acts
on the Cusp
of
Secession
Georgia.
Laws, statutes, etc. Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia,
passed in Milledgeville, at the annual session in November and December, 1860.
Milledgeville: Bougton, Nisbett & Barnes, 1861. 8vo. 267, [1] pp. 
• De Renne, II, 630; Parrish & Willingham 2777. Recent blue-gray boards. Old library stamps in some margins. A clean, tight copy.
INTERESTING
for a BUNCH
of REASONS!Godfrey, John A. Rhymed tactics, by “Gov.” New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1862. 16mo (14.9 cm, 5.9"). Frontis., 144 pp.; 8 plts.
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Held in most of the expectable libraries but currently uncommon in commerce.
• Sabin 70769. Recent black moiré cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and several others rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages clean.
A
Radical
Republican's
CONTROVERSIAL
Civil War
Critique
Gurowski, Adam,
count. Diary, from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 [and]
from November 18,1862, to October 18, 1863. Boston: Lee & Shepard; & New York: Carleton, 1862–64.
8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). 2 vols. I: [4], 315, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4], [7]–348
pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 29319; Howes G465. Publishers' brown cloth very close in color but Boston's textured while New York's is smooth; covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped author, title, and variant place information in parallel places and in typestyles not exactly matching but very close; corners rubbed, spine extremities chipped, spine heads with small strip of brown cloth tape, vol. I with binding very slightly cocked and cloth starting to split at front joint. Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-pages and two others, no other markings. Front free endpaper of vol. I lacking. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean and paper good. (26252)
Important
(Grey Side)
Civil
War Journal
Jones, John Beauchamp. A rebel war clerk's diary at the Confederate States capital. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1866. 8vo (21 cm, 8.35"). 2 vols. I: 392 pp. II: 480 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. A successful novelist and journalist, Jones was wholeheartedly loyal to the Confederacy, and convinced right up until the end that the North would never conquer a united, determined South; he was also notably anti-Semitic, and there are a number of references here to the Jews being largely responsible for the country's economic woes.
• Howes J220; Nevins I, 115 & II, 173. Publisher's brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; sunned and with some discolorations; corners rubbed and spine heads pulled/chipped. Ex–social club library: front pastedown with inked numerals in a 19th-century hand (partially obscured), title-page pressure- and rubber-stamped, a few other pages rubber-stamped. Front free endpaper of vol. I lacking. Pages with light waterstaining to upper inner portions in vol. I One leaf in vol. II with tear extending into text, without loss. (26297)
So, Then. Are You Loyal? Loyal National League. The Sumter anniversary, 1863. Opinions of loyalists concerning the great questions of the times; expressed in the speeches and letters from prominent citizens of all sections and parties, on occasion of the inauguration of the Loyal National League, in mass meeting on Union Square, New York on the 11th of April, 1863, the anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter. New York: Pr. by C. S. Westcott & Co., 1863. 8vo. 144 pp.
A ChicagoPre-Fire IssueMcClellan, George Brinton. Report of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan upon the organization of the army of the Potomac and its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland from July 26, 1861, to November 7, 1862. Re-printed entire from the copy transmitted by the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives. Chicago: Times Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1864. 8vo (22 cm, 8.7"). 145, [1 (blank)] pp.
Single-click either image • Recent wrappers. Pages clean; two leaves shaved at bottom with very minor loss.
Confederate–Indian
Treaties
& Acts
of Congress
Matthews, James, ed. The statutes at large of the provisional
government of the Confederate States of America, from the institution of the government, February
8, 1861, to its termination, February 18, 1862, inclusive. Arranged in chronological order. Together
with the constitution for the provisional government, and the permanent constitution of the
Confederate States, and the treaties concluded by the Confederate states with the Indian tribes.
Richmond: R. M. Smith, printer to Congress, 1864. 8vo (26.2 cm, 9.5"). xv, [1], 411, xlviii pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Contains the
full text of the separate treaties signed between
the Confederate government and the Indian nations of the Creeks
on 10 July 1861, the Choctaws and Chickasaws on 12 July, and the Seminoles
on 1 August. Also includes the text of the two treaties concluded with the
Wichita and Comanche Indians, on 12 August, and those with the northeastern
tribes and bands of the Indian Territory — Quapaws, Shawnees, Senecas,
and Cherokee Nation — on 2 and 4 October. The treaties secured military
alliances against the Union in return for the recognition of Indian rights
and sovereignty, and many Indians fought for the Southern cause.
Constitutional
Law — SECESSION?
Parker, Joel. Constitutional law: With reference to the present condition of the United States. Cambridge: Pr. by Welch, Bigelow, & Company, 1862. 8vo. 35 pp.
• Removed from a nonce volume. (180)
The Trent Affair
Rush, Benjamin. Letter on the rebellion, to a citizen of Washington from a citizen of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1862. 8vo. 23, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Sewn as issued. Once folded in six parts. Long 2 1/2 inch tears extending from fore-edges, to first three leaves. Two dog-eared corners, a few short tears to final leaf, two small holes with loss of a few words of text. (557)
COMFORT in the Hospitals & on the Battlefields Smith, Edward Parmelee. Incidents of the United States Christian Commission. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1869. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). Add. engr. t.-p., 512 pp.; 8 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The volume is illustrated with an additional engraved title-page and eight other steel-engraved plates, as well as several in-text engravings of dramatic moments in soldiers' lives.
• Sabin 82457. Publisher's dark red/plum cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, corners and spine extremities moderately rubbed. Ex–social club library; front fly-leaf with inked numerals covered over with paper, rubber-stamps on frontispiece recto, title-page, and several other pages. Paper slightly embrittled; occasional short edge tears. Title-page and five plates with very faintest waterstaining in lower margins, other pages seemingly untouched. (26273)
Deceased Soldiers' Pay
& Survivors'
“BOUNTIES”
United States.
Treasury Department. [drop-title, first word in brackets] [Circular.]
Instructions in preparing claims for soldier's pay. [Washington, D.C., 1862].
4 pp.
• Folded, never bound; with additional fold lines as to fit in an envelope or pocket. Dust-soiling; stray ink marks on p. 4. Edges tattered and dog-eared. In all a fair/good copy.
For
more of MILITARY/NAVAL
Extended
Government Report United
States Sanitary Commission. Narrative of privations and sufferings
of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of
the rebel authorities. Being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed
by the United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864.
8vo. 283, [3 (blank)] pp.; 4 plts.
• Good in printed paper wrappers, lacking back cover, light waterstaining to front cover and first and last few leaves. (927)
Extracts
for“Gratuitous”
Distribution
United
States Sanitary Commission. Narrative
of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners
of war in the hands of the rebel authorities. Being the report of a commission
of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission. With an appendix,
containing the testimony. Boston: Office of “Littell's Living Age”,
1864. 8vo. 86, [2 (1 blank)] pp.; 4 plts.
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• Sabin 51791; NSTC 2USA3337. Removed from a nonce volume. Original printed wrappers, chipped. Two instances of blue crayon marking, in top right corners of front wrapper and top right corner of title-page. Now in a mylar folder. (8963)
Let's
Work
with 'Em —
A Presentation
Copy
Wall, James W. The Constitution: Originating in compromise, it can only be preserved by adhering to its spirit, and observing its every obligation. An address delivered ... at the City Hall, Burlington, February 20, 1862. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1862. 8vo. 60 pp.
• Original printed wrappers. Five-digit number stamped on front wrapper. (287)
Wartime
BIBLICAL PARODY
— Nasty
& Still
at
Points Shocking
[White, Richard Grant]. The new gospel of peace according
to St. Benjamin. New York: Sinclair Tousey, 1863, 1863, 1864. 3 vols. 12mo. I: 42, [2 (1 blank)] pp.
II: 48 pp. III: 47, [1 (blank)] pp.
One does not need to be up on details of the Copperhead
controversy to enjoy this as a variety of, yes, literature (if “enjoy”
is quite the word); the anger and indeed the horror of the period are palpable here.
By Richard Grant White, who disavowed authorship of the work.
A
Copy
inVERY
Clean
NICE!
Shape
Wilkes, George. McClellan: From Ball's Bluff to Antietam. By George Wilkes, editor of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. New York: Sinclair Tousey (Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, printers), 1863. 8vo. 40 pp.
With an advertisement on the back for "Wilkes's Spirit of the Times. The American Gentleman's Newspaper. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, the Army and the Stage."
• Miles 485. Original wrappers. Removed from a nonce volume.
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