Vicksburg, Ms. June 6, 1865. 4pp., on a small bifolium. Slight chips at upper right corner, two slits at gutter margin for intended binding. Faint foxing at edges. About very good. A brief report on two courts-martial of two officers in the 58th Colored Infantry in Vicksburg, two months after.....
Richmond: West & Johnston, 1862. Lithographed map, 25 1/2 x 36 3/4 inches, with ornamental border and inset view of Richmond. Sheet trimmed to just outside the ornamental border and mounted on modern linen. Old folds now flattened. Small chip in upper right corner, just touching the ornamental border. Separations.....
[Memphis, Tn. Aug. 16, [ 1861]. Broadside, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Mild toning and edge wear, minor expert tape reinforcements on verso. Very good. A very rare broadside extra of the MEMPHIS AVALANCHE, containing a telegraph dispatch from Richmond via New Orleans announcing a Confederate victory in the.....
[Charleston & Morris Island, S.C. April 6 - May 1, 1861]. Twenty-nine manuscript documents, a few on Confederate military stationery, the remainder on plain paper, totaling [37]pp. Original folds. Minor edge wear, chipping to four letters resulting in minor loss. Overall very good. An uncommonly-early collection of Confederate manuscript military.....
[Various locations, mostly Louisiana. November 1861-November 1862]. [120]pp. Contemporary sheep, later leatherette backstrip, titles stamped in dark brown on front board, reading, "GUARD BOOK D. CO. 12th REG. MAINE." Some edge wear, mild chipping, and light scuffing to boards. Front hinge detached, spine cracked, occasional thumb-soiling to text. Still, very.....
[Various locations in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina. Early September 1861 to late June 1865]. [219],87pp. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter maroon calf and black cloth boards, gilt spine titles reading, "PENN. CLOTHING BOOK COS. C & D 52nd INFANTRY P[?] & P OFFICE." Spine partially split, chipped, and rather worn.....
![BATTLE OF CORINTH. OCT. 1862 [manuscript caption title]. Civil War, Alexander? Simplot](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM48438.jpg?v=1593711744)
[Corinth, Ms. 1862]. Pencil drawing, 13 1/2 x 21 inches. Small tears at right and left edges, lower right corner torn away. Small red ink stain on lower edge. Central vertical fold. Light soiling and wear. About very good. An original pencil sketch depicting a crucial moment in the Second.....
[Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, late March or early April 1861]. Lithographic broadside, 33 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches. Matted and framed. Mild creasing, toning, and spotting. Very minor repaired marginal tears, small chip in lower left corner. Near fine. The very rare lithographic facsimile of the South Carolina Act of.....
[N.p., likely Beaufort, S.C. ca. July 15, 1863]. 3pp. Single folded sheet. Soft vertical center crease, light wrinkling. Clean and very good. An interesting circular written by Union Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, and printed on a military field press, laying out the procedures for prosecuting "all disputes and criminal matters.....
Richmond: Ayres & Wade, 1862-1864. Forty-four issues (of 110), most 8pp. each. Folio. Old fold lines and light wear. Separations along gutter vertical folds. Some light tanning and soiling, scattered foxing and wear. Some issues lightly dampstained. Many issues trimmed at gutter margin creating loose sheets. Still very good, overall.....
Knoxville. 1864. Two issues, [4]pp. each. Folio broadsheet. Folded, with a few slight separations along fold lines. Light tanning and foxing. Good. Two Civil War-era issues of William G. Brownlow's famed newspaper, the KNOXVILLE WHIG, dated March 12, 1864, and April 23, 1864. Brownlow began publishing the WHIG in Nashville.....
Murfreesboro, Tn. March 8, 1863. Small broadsheet, 8 x 5 inches. Light tanning and dust soiling, a couple of marginal fox marks. About very good. Gen. William Rosencrans, commander of the Union Army of the Cumberland in 1863, asks that the multiplicity of orders and the resulting variations thereof be.....
[Richmond? 1863]. Printed form, approximately 24 x 36 inches, completed in manuscript. Folded. Light wear and a few small separations along folds. Slightly wrinkled at right edge. Moderate tanning, scattered foxing. Still very good. A rare example of a Civil War muster roll for a Confederate unit. This roll is.....
Petersburg, Va. 1864. Pencil sketch, 10 x 14 1/4 inches. One vertical and two horizontal folds. Residue from previous mounting and old repair to verso, minute separation at two cross- folds. Lightly tanned. Very good. A large and well-executed pencil sketch of a field hospital toward the end of the.....
New York. 1860. 233,6pp. plus engraved frontispiece, with numerous full- page engravings reckoned in the pagination. Original publisher's cloth. Spine ends and corners worn, light insect damage to boards and joints. Ownership inscription on front pastedown, modern bookplate on rear pastedown, light occasional foxing. Very good. Memoirs and adventures of.....
Jackson, Ms. 1880. xxiii,[1],545pp. plus plates and errata. Frontis. Recent half calf and marbled boards. Ownership and gift inscriptions on front endpapers. Occasional foxing. Very good. Good, detailed history of the state and region, with chapters on early exploration and settlement, native Indians, the controversy over West Florida, the influence.....
Hattiesburg, Ms. The Book Farm, 1939. 39,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers, loose gatherings. Light shelf wear. Internally clean. Very good. Scarce index for Claiborne's voluminous history of early Mississippi, compiled nearly sixty years after the publication of the first edition in 1880. Another twenty- five years elapsed before history and index.....
Richmond. 1819. 112pp. 20th-century speckled calf, paneled in gilt, spine gilt. Hinges lightly rubbed, small chip at head of spine. Very good. Commentary on the War of 1812, most of the text having been written while the war was in progress. Includes, besides the biographical sketches noted in the title.....
Philadelphia. 1809. [2],150,199pp. Original paper boards; front cover lacking. Title darkened and dust soiled, lower foredge corner curled. Scattered foxing, at times quite heavy. Else good, untrimmed. Clark, a former resident of New Orleans and business associate of Wilkinson, produced considerable testimony against the General in the course of the.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956, 1959. Three volumes. Original cloth, gilt leather label. Fine. In very good dust jackets with slight wear at corners and spine ends. An excellect bibliography covering the period from 1527 to 1860. All three volumes in first editions.
Atlanta. 1881. 68,vi,[69]-224pp. plus xxxiv pp. of advertisements. Numerous woodcut illustrations. Lacks folding map. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Spine sunned and rubbed, covers rubbed; corners bumped. Light fraying to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and fresh. About very good. Third edition, enlarged, showing.....
[Augusta, Ga. Steam Press of Chronicle & Sentinel, 1862]. 191pp. Modern half morocco and cloth. Old ex-lib. ink stamp on titlepage and two other leaves. Somewhat dust soiled. Else very good. A revealing account of the war by the leading wartime printer of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The DIARY... covers the period.....
Raleigh; Charlotte, N.C. Commercial Printing Company; Honeycutt Printing Co., 1907. 8; [29]pp. Two issues. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth boards, spines gilt. Second part with original wrappers. Small bookplates on rear pastedowns. Wrappers slightly creased, with a small tear at foot of rear. Front wrapper with ink ownership and provenance.....
Augusta: Adams & Duyckinck, 1812. [6],708,[16]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco labels. Covers bowed, rubbed and scuffed. Minor worming. Moderate to heavy toning, foxing, and dampstaining. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and titlepage. Good. Lacks the errata. A useful assemblage of Georgia laws. The compiler, Augustin Smith.....
Augusta: Adams & Duyckinck, 1813. [6],708,[20]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, red gilt morocco labels. Covers bowed, rubbed and scuffed, buckram repairs at head of spine. Minor worming. Moderate to heavy toning, foxing, and dampstaining. Good. Lacks errata. Second issue, with corrections, after the first of the previous year. A useful assemblage.....
