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SLAVERY &CIVIL WAR
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Union with Freemen - No Union withSlaveholders. Anti-Slavery Meetings!
Salem, Ohio: Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10¾inches. A few short closed edge tears, light toning and foxing. A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio,the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and a small butimportant center of progressive movements through much ofthe 19th century. (#30385) $ 4,750.
ABOLITIONIST
BROADSIDE
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Panorama of the Seat of War. Birds Eye Viewof Kentucky and Tennessee showing Cairo andpart of the southern states.
New York: John Bachmann, 1861 [but 1862]. Chromo-lithograph, by Bachmann. Sheet size: 20 7/8 x 31 inches. A fine copy of this bird's-eye by Bachmann, “one of thefinest American artists and lithographers specializing inbird's-eye views” (Stephenson & McKee), recalling a pivotalmoment in the Civil War. 'Bachmann did six views of theConfederate States like this one ... They are very rare.'(Rumsey). (#20706) $ 4,750.
JOHN BACHMANN
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Panorama of the Seat of War. Birds Eye Viewof Virginia, Maryland Delaware and theDistrict of Columbia.
New York: Charles Magnus, 1864. Chromolithograph, byBachmann. Backed onto tissue with neat repaired tears tomargins (two just touching the title). Sheet size: 24 x 34 1/2inches. Third state of this fascinating quasi-aerial view of thenorthernmost part of the east coast of the Confederacy, andthe southernmost areas of the Union, including Washington:\ (#20527) $ 4,750.
JOHN BACHMANN
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Map of the State of Virginia containing thecounties, principal towns, railroads, rivers,canals & all other internal improvements.
Richmond: West & Johnson, 1862. Folding lithographedpocket map, ornamental border, inset view of Richmond.Sheet size: 27 1/2 x 37 inches. Folds into original dark blueand gilt card covers. (Minor candle wax stains). Provenance:David B. Langston, 3rd Georgia Regiment, Company K(pencil signature). Rare Confederate pocket map of Virginia, with provenanceto an officer in the 3rd Georgia. (#27015) $ 11,000.
LEWIS VON BUCHOLTZ
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Jefferson Davis.
[circa 1880]. Original metal printing plate, engraved byButtre, impressed manufacturer's name "John Sellers &Sons / Sheffield" on verso. Plate Size: 10 5/16 x 7 inches. A very rare original 19th-century printing plate: a portrait ofJefferson Davis. (#13075) $ 350.
JOHN CHESTER BUTTRE
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The Popular John Brown Song. A FamousCamp Song and Chorus. Partly Written,Composed and Arranged by Frank Wilder.
Boston: J.W. Turner, [1861]. Broadside, with music andlyrics. Sheet size: 9 1/4 x 11 inches. Minor staining. Very rare broadside edition of the great marching song ofthe Civil War. (#35795) $ 1,850.
CIVIL WAR
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Miller's Planters' & Merchants' State RightsAlmanac, for the Year of our Lord 1861: Beingthe ... first of Southern Independence.
Charleston: A.E. Miller, [December 1860 - January 1861]. 8vo(7 3/8 x 4 3/8 inches). 26 leaves, erratically paginated asissued. Interleaved with ruled paper at a contemporarydate. 5pp. publisher's ads in the rear. Publisher's browncloth, covers blocked in blind, upper cover titled in gilt,expertly rebacked to style. A rare Confederate almanac, with an early printing of theSouth Carolina Ordinance of Secession. (#36136) $ 2,200.
CIVIL WAR ,
CONFEDERATE
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The State of South Carolina. At a Conventionof the People of the State ... An Ordinance toDissolve the Union between the State of SouthCarolina and the other States ... under thecompact entitled 'The Constitution of theUnited States of America' ... done atCharleston, 20 December 1860.
Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, [late March or early April1861]. Lithographic broadside, 34 x 26 inches. Expertrestoration, archivally paper-backed. South Carolina calls for secession. (#36810) $ 60,000.
CIVIL WAR ,
CONFEDERATE
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Bound volume of 44 pieces of lithographedConfederate sheet music, mostly withillustrated covers.
Richmond, Columbia, Augusta, and elsewhere: 1863-64.Quarto. Collation as below. Expertly bound to style in halfdark purple morocco and purple cloth covered boards, flatspine ruled and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. An impressive collection of Confederate lithographed sheetmusic. (#35748) $ 12,000.
CIVIL WAR ,
CONFEDERATE
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Evening Delta ... Published at 1 p.m. ... FallenBut Not Disgraced.
New Orleans: Tuesday, April 29, 1862. Broadsheet (16 1/2 x 11inches). 2pp., printed in four columns. Unbound. A rare issue of this New Orleans newspaper, announcing thefall of the city to Union forces. (#29951) $ 2,500.
CIVIL WAR ,
LOUISIANA
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Bound volume of War Department GeneralOrders
Washington: 1864. Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches). Numbered 1-308, without orders numbered 109, 134, 221, 252, 254, and 256and with a few duplicates. Contemporary sheep, with blackleather spine labels. With a binding/stationer/printer'sticket from Peter O'Donnell of New Orleans. The general orders issued by the War Departmentdocumenting the administration of the Union army in 1864. (#36271) $ 1,750.
CIVIL WAR, UNION
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Autograph letter signed to Member ofParliament Benjamin Hawes, concerning theSpanish slave market in Sierra Leone and thecolony at Liberia.
Philadelphia: 5 May 1834. 3pp. Later annotation at head offirst page. Scarce letter on the Liberian colonization movement by oneof its founders. (#31598) $ 2,500.
ELLIOTT CRESSON
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Sketches of Camp Boone. The FirstEncampment of the Kentucky State Guard;held near Louisville, from August 23rd toAugust 30th, 1860. Also, photographic views ofthe camp, and Portraits of the General's Staff.
Louisville: Published by G. T. Shaw for Garrett & Nickerson,Photographists, 1860. 4to (10 x 7 3/4 inches). 27, [1]pp. plus 9oval salt paper print photograph portraits mounted on onesheet with printed captions, 11 salt paper print photographviews of the camp, with rounded corners mounted on 11sheets. Contemporary red morocco, upper cover titled ingilt, rebacked, with original spine laid down. Very rare early photographically-illustrated work, depictingmilitary camp life on the eve of the Civil War in LouisvilleKentucky. (#34887) $ 32,500.
GARRETT & NICKERSON
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The Ordnance Manual for the Use of theOfficers of the Confederate States Army.
Richmond: West and Johnston, 1863. 8vo. 546pp. 33 plates.Contemporary leather, upper cover tooled in gilt, rebacked.Provenance: General William Preston (binding). A substantial Confederate military manual, covering allaspects of ordnance, from artillery and transport to smallarms and gunpowder. With distinguished provenance fromConfederate General and Ambassador William Preston. (#35961) $ 3,500.
JOSIAH GORGAS
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Army Memories.
New York: Koch, Sons, & Co, 1887. Folio (18 3/8 x 16 inches).Mounted on guards throughout. 12 mounted tinted (2) orchromo-lithographed (10) plates, the first plate with anintegral title on a plain card mount, the 11 others with cardmounts decorated with tinted lithographic vignettes, all 12of the mounts with paper labels. All twelve plates signed byHarlow in pencil on the mount. Expertly bound to style indark red half morocco over original dark green cloth-covered boards, the upper cover titled in gilt, spine in sixcompartments with raised bands, lettered in the secondcompartment, the others with repeat decoration in gilt,marbled endpapers. Very rare: the deluxe issue of one of the great Americanchromolithographically illustrated works and a wonderfulgraphic representation of the Civil War. (#26200) $ 6,500.
LOUIS KINNEY
HARLOW
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Autograph manuscript signed, the completefive stanzas of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
[No place]: 4 August 1900. 1p., single small folio sheet[WITH:] Battle Hymn of the Republic. [Boston:] Published bythe Supervisory Committee for Recruiting ColoredRegiments, [1863]. 1p. Approx. 9 1/2 x 6 inches. Housed in ablue morocco box. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..." (#31683) $ 35,000.
JULIA WARD HOWE
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An Oration delivered on the Battlefield ofGettysburg, (November 19, 1863,) at theConsecration of the Cemetery Prepared for theInternment of the Remains of those who fell inBattles of July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863.
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863. 8vo (9 x 5 5/8 inches).48pp. Publisher's lettered wrappers, publisher's ad on rearwrapper. (Repair to paper spine). Within a modern box. "Four score and seven years ago...": the earliest publicationof the Gettysburg Address in book form, preceded only bythe exceptionally rare sixteen-page pamphlet, TheGettysburg Solemnities, known in only three copies. (#31428) $ 40,000.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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Northern Mississippi and Alabama.
[Washington]: 1864. Folded map, 24 x 33 inches, in thirty-twosegments mounted on linen. Original card covers withprinted paper label. Contemporary ownership inscriptionon label. Some light wear and minor soiling. Detailed field map for the Union Army in NorthernMississippi and Alabama. (#27011) $ 4,750.
ADOLPH LINDENKOHL
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Map of Northern Georgia, made under theDirection of Capt. W. E. Merrill.
Chattanooga: 2 May 1864. Lithographed folding map,sectioned and linen-backed as issued. Original card covers,printed paper label. In a modern folding morocco-backedbox. Sheet size: 39 x 35 ¼ inches. A remarkable Union Army field map, printed for Sherman'soperations in Georgia. (#26136) $ 13,500.
W. E. MERRILL
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Maj. Gen. Geo. B. M'Clellan, Commanding,United States Army.
New York: [1861-62]. Engraving. Plate mark: 25 x 18 1/2inches. Minor foxing. Large format Civil War portrait of McClellan. (#35873) $ 1,200.
W. L. ORMSBY
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Southern Mississippi and Alabama Showing theApproaches to Mobile.
[Washington]: Coastal Survey Office, 1863. Folding map, 24 x25½ inches, mounted in twenty-four sections on linen.Original card covers with printed paper label. Contemporaryownership inscription on label. Light wear. Minor foxing andwear to map. Rare field operations map of Mississippi. (#27010) $ 5,500.
JOSEPH CORSON READ
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Partly-printed estate ledger accomplished inmanuscript for the Saxham sugar plantation inJamaica, including a listing of approx. 260slaves by name, with their duties and adescription of their health and abilities.
Saxham Estate, Jamaica: January to June 1783. Folio. Besidesthe 7pp. listing of slaves, the ledger includes sections onlivestock, accountings of amounts distilled between Januaryand June 1783 and invoices of sales of sugar and rum.Approx. 100pp., in all (including unaccomplished pages;approx. 32pp. accomplished in manuscript). Later calfbacked marbled paper covered boards. Scarce 18th century manuscript ledger from a largeJamaican sugar plantation, with a detailed listing of slaves. (#37076) $ 9,500.
SLAVERY, JAMAICA
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U.S. Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction,Exercise and Manoeuvers of the United StatesInfantry.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1862. Small 8vo. 450,[14]pp. 77 plates or full-page woodcut illustrations (15folding). Publisher's ads in the rear. Publisher's greenblindstamped, pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Provenance: MajorH. R. Hershberger, Camp Franklin, Near Alexandria VA(early pencil signature); F. P. Williamson (bookplate). Union infantry manual. (#36030) $ 250.
UNITED STATES
WAR DEPARTMENT
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Map of Eastern Kansas.
Lawrence, Kansas [Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co.], 1856.Lithographed [by L. H. Bradford & Co.] folding pocket map,Indian lands hand-coloured, three vignette views ofbuildings in Kansas. Folds into original green cloth covers,covers decoratively blocked in blind, upper cover titled ingilt, printed letter by Whitman and Searl on the inside frontpastedown. Sheet size: 27 1/4 x 21 inches. A Bleeding Kansas cartographic rarity: a map intended topromote Free Soil, anti-slavery activists to the region. (#34898) $ 4,750.
E .B . WHITMAN &
A .D . SEARL
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