1 Civil War Lithograph Of The First Refreshment Saloon

Transcription

1
C i vil W a r
Civil War Lithograph Of The First Refreshment Saloon
1. (CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE) QUEEN, James and SINCLAIR, Thomas. Union Volunteer
Refreshment Saloon of Philadelphia. Being the First Institution of the Kind in the United States.
Organized, May 27th, 1861. Philadelphia, circa 1861. Large original color lithograph, sheet measures 30
by 28 inches.
$950.
Original panoramic chromolithograph by James Queen, printed by Thomas Sinclair, depicting ranks of
Union soldiers marching through the Refreshment Saloon and then onto a south-bound train.
Lithographic prints were the means for visually documenting news-worthy current events in the 19th
century. Their popularity reflected a growing taste for the sensational and the sentimental. Soldiers going
off to war fit the popular subject matter of the times. This magnificent panoramic color lithograph was
produced by Thomas Sinclair, a direct competitor to Currier & Ives. Sinclair’s work “has a certain crisp
touch that raises it above many” (Peters, 369). With the embossed seal of the Union Volunteer Refreshment
Committee. Peters, 329 and 368. Two fold lines, one splitting with tape repairs to verso, some chipping to
edges (affecting border text, but not affecting the image). A very large and detailed Civil War scene.
www. baumanrarebooks . com
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
2
“Heroic Portrait In A Bold New Form”:
Exceptionally Rare Civil War Carte De Visite Album, Circa 1865,
With 61 Albumen Prints Of Lincoln, Robert E. Lee And Others
(CIVIL WAR) (BRADY, Mathew, et al.). Civil War Photograph Album. Philadelphia, (circa 1865). Oblong quarto,
original blindstamped full brown morocco, ornamental brass catches and clasps.
$27,500.
2.
Original Civil War Photograph Album, circa 1865, featuring 61 mounted albumen cartes de visite portraits, many by
Mathew Brady, of President Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and
Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, Sheridan, McClellan and Burnside, along with many others. From the major
photography collection of musician Graham Nash with his signed bookplate.
“Photography was more intricately involved in the American Civil War than in any other historical event in the 19th
century… The documentary of the Civil War by photographs in carte de visite formats represents one of the few remaining,
untapped sources of contemporary Civil War information” (Darrah, 74, 87). This handsomely bound carte de visite album
represents the finest of the period in its collection of 61 mounted albumen prints (57 displayed in gilt paper frames).
Represented herein are numerous Civil War portraits by Mathew Brady, who by 1863 was hailed as “the ‘Father of American
photography’” (Panzer, 115). Additionally featured are prints by colleague Alexander Gardner and leading rivals such as
Charles Fredericks, Augustus Turner, R.W. Addis and Frederick Gutekunst, Jr. Especially notable is Brady’s striking
portrait of President Lincoln taken circa 1862, printed from one frame of the lost original
stereographic negative (Mellon, 96). Also within are fine albumen prints of Mrs. Lincoln,
the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis, President Andrew Johnson and General Ulysses S.
Grant, together with over 50 other carte de visite portraits of key Union officers, including
those of Sherman, McClellan, Burnside and Scott. This scarce album thus fully represents
the beliefs of Brady and others who saw their work as a major “part of the material from
which the historians and the partners could construct their record”—producing a
timeless series of “heroic portrait in a bold new form” (Panzer, 85, 77). Each mounted
albumen print measuring 2-1/2 by 4 inches: 57 prints displayed within numbered
frames on heavy gilt-edged stock and four prints laid in, many with photographer/
studio printed on the verso. “Index to Portraits” completed in manuscript. With the
signed bookplate of photographer and musician Graham Nash tipped in. Images
generally quite fresh with only light scattered foxing occasionally affecting images, tiny
closed tear to gutter of “Index to Portraits.”
1-800-99-bauman
R enowned H istories
3
4.
(HISTORY) JOHNSON, Robert Underwood, and BUEL,
Clarence Clough. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. New
York, 1887-88. Four volumes. Quarto, contemporary threequarter burgundy polished calf gilt.
$2800.
First edition of this essential Civil War reference, composed of
narratives of leading military “survivors” (many generals),
with hundreds of in-text illustrations (including those of
Winslow Homer), maps, plans, and facsimiles.
“Written In Letters Of Fire”
3. (HISTORY) DUYCKINCK, Evert A. National
History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and
Naval. New York, 1862-65. Three volumes. Quarto,
original publisher’s deluxe full embossed dark brown
morocco gilt.
$1500.
First edition of this contemporary Civil War history,
with engraved frontispieces, title pages and over 75 illustrations engraved from paintings by Alonzo
Chappel and Thomas Nast. A handsome copy in publisher’s deluxe morocco.
These three volumes provide valuable, in-depth, contemporary accounts, drawn from official documents
and first-hand narratives, of the war years. At his work’s
conclusion, Duyckinck reflects, “It is hardly needed to
point to [this record’s] moral. That is written in letters of
fire in the disasters of the period, and in the utter ruin of
the gigantic revolt… Enough, surely, is here recorded to
warn faction, in future, of its crime and danger, and to
strengthen with an invincible resolve for the preservation of the Nation, the hearts of all true patriots and
lovers of their country…” The text is illustrated by finely
engraved portraits of most Civil War generals as well as
vivid battle scenes “Chappel’s talents were ideally suited
to historical illustration and his pictures reveal the results of painstaking research” (ANB). Dornbusch
III:188. Sabin 21497. Nicholson, 253. Ink presentation
inscription in Volume III, dated 1887. Occasional foxing, chiefly marginal. A few light rubs to extremities. A
near-fine copy of this richly illustrated history in publisher’s handsome deluxe morocco.
Robert Underwood Johnson, associate editor of Century
magazine, “shepherded leading military survivors of the Civil
War through the celebrated series of Century articles, 188487, which he then amplified into Battles and Leaders of the
Civil War… [Johnson] coaxed recalcitrant generals to take up
the pen… The enterprise was a landmark on the long road to
reconciliation” (DAB). “The 388 articles by 226 authors are
accompanied by 197 well-drawn maps, nearly 1500 engraved
illustrations, statistical summaries, orders of battle, and editorial notes… The engravings are among the best relating to
Civil War history and were done by a team of artists and illustrators [including Winslow Homer]… Numerous accounts
by general officers make this work a necessary, primary source
for all Civil War libraries… It should be read carefully and
often” (Eicher 743). So vivid are the accounts in Battles and
Leaders that Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle,
based his classic Red Badge of Courage largely on his reading
of this landmark work. Nicholson, 428. Interiors clean and
fine. Light expert restoration, mostly to joints and extremities. A handsome set in contemporary calf.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
“A Necessary, Primary Source…
It Should Be Read Carefully And Often”
“The Concentration Of All That Is
American”: With Tipped-In Autograph
Note Inscribed By Grant
C i vil W a r
4
5. (HISTORY) (GRANT, Ulysses S.) BADEAU, Adam.
Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, from April 1861 to
April 1865. New York, 1881. Three volumes. Thick octavo,
contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco. $4500.
First edition, mixed issue set of aide-de-camp Badeau’s
important “eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war,” with a stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Grant from a photograph by
Gurney & Son, and 35 folding maps (6 in rear pockets). Volume II with tipped-in autograph card inscribed by Grant, “Yours Truly U.S. Grant, New York
City, Febr. 2nd, 1882.”
A contemporary of Ulysses S. Grant once described him as “the concentration of all that is American” (Theodore Lyman).
This important early military biography of Grant was written by Adam Badeau, who served on his staff during the Civil
War. Though Badeau’s admiration for his general might suggest a lack of objectivity, historians have noted that “Badeau’s
style is matter of fact without the embellishment or glorification typical of some early works. The accuracy is impressive…
The author does not digress or reflect on matters, so the volumes have a technical precision that is both valuable for its
truthfulness… and for delivering an eyewitness estimation of Grant’s performance during the war” (Eicher 486). First
published between 1868 and 1881, this work has become particularly valuable for its first-hand accounts of the 1864
campaigns and the surrender at Appomattox. Volume I is second issue, dated 1881; Volumes II and III are first issue.
Nicholson 1994. Eicher 486. Dornbusch II:51. Nevins I:22. Text, frontispiece and maps generally fresh with light scattered
foxing, minor repairs to fold lines of several maps, very lightest edge-wear to contemporary boards. An especially
handsome near-fine copy.
“A Stellar Work Of Civil War History—A Classic”
(HISTORY) CHAMBERLAIN, Joshua Lawrence. The Passing of the Armies. New York and London, 1915.
Octavo, original blue cloth.
$2800.
6.
Rare first edition of “one of the finest accounts of a campaign penned by a Federal soldier” (Eicher), with two portraits
and three maps, two folding.
Written by a former teacher who was later commissioned brevet major general of volunteers, this “clear and precise
recording of the final campaign of the war [recounts] the last days of fighting at the Petersburg front, along the
White Oak Road and elsewhere, through Five Forks, the flight of Lee’s tattered army, the slipping of Southern hope
at Amelia Courthouse, the disaster at Sayler’s Creek, and the surrender at Appomattox. The work also includes a
narrative of the Grand Review and the closure of Sherman’s march northward to Washington and concludes with
the disbanding of the armies. Chamberlain’s intelligence and literary ability enabled him to compose a work of
superior quality, from the precision of the facts cited to the prose with which he has woven them together…
Additionally, the author casts interesting reflections on the relationships between the two Federal armies and their
commanders. This is a stellar work of Civil War history—a classic” (Eicher 146). Dornbusch I:37. Interior fine, spot
of discoloration to original cloth, and only mild toning to spine.
1-800-99-bauman
Inscribed By Catton
First edition, inscribed: “To Lewis Cott
with best wishes, Bruce Catton.”
“After Lloyd Lewis’ death, the articulate and expressive writer Bruce Catton
finished Lewis’ biography of Grant,”
Captain Sam Grant (1950), supplementing Lewis’ notes with his own
extensive research, using “a wide array
of primary and secondary sources
with care, providing a work that is balanced and varied”
(Eicher 488). Catton later completed the project with
Grant Takes Command in 1968. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece and nine maps. Dornbusch III:2499.
Book with faint dampstaining affecting rear board and
final leaves of text. Dust jacket with pinpoint foxing, scattered dampstaining, and wear and toning to extremities.
A very good inscribed copy.
“A Model Of What Military History Can
Be”: Signed By Shelby Foote
8. (HISTORY) FOOTE, Shelby. The Civil War. New
York, 1958-74. Three volumes. Large octavo, original gray
cloth, dust jackets.
$4500.
Scarce first editions of all three volumes in Foote’s massive,
authoritative and engrossing history, with a tipped-in leaf
signed by the renowned historian in the first volume, in
original dust jackets.
“A sweeping overview of the war from a decidedly different perspective… Foote is a master storyteller of the war,
“Admired By Historians And
Students Alike”
(HISTORY) CHURCHILL, Winston. The American
Civil War. London, 1961. Octavo, modern three-quarter
navy morocco.
$1200.
9.
First separate English edition of Churchill’s history of the
American Civil War, with six maps and numerous blackand-white photographs, handsomely bound.
“The first of many spin-offs from Churchill’s History of the
English-Speaking Peoples, this fine little work captures his
marvelous and detailed description of America’s greatest
domestic convulsion, coupling his text with excellent Civil
War photographs by Mathew Brady and others. Churchill had explored the battlefields of
Virginia with none other than Douglas
Southall Freeman, the great American Civil
War historian; and he had toured Gettysburg
with a local resident of some experience at war,
Dwight Eisenhower. His fine if brief account of
the War Between the States has been admired
by historians and students alike” (Langworth,
327-28). Issued in the same year as the first
American edition. Excerpted without
change from History of the EnglishSpeaking Peoples, Volume IV, first published in 1958. Cohen A272. Woods
A138(b). Fine condition.
1-800-99-bauman
5
C i vil W a r
7. (HISTORY) CATTON, Bruce.
Grant Moves South. Boston and
Toronto, 1960. Octavo, original blue
cloth, dust jacket.
$600.
and his accounts are riveting” (Eicher
740). Despite this three-volume, million-word history, two decades in the
writing, “Foote remained relatively
unknown before his role in Ken Burns’
[documentary film] The Civil War
made him a cultural icon. Since that
event, Foote has become widely viewed
as an authority on the Civil War, and
more generally, as a representative of
an era and region whose place
continues to be central to our
country’s understanding of itself”
(University of Mississippi). “His
mission was to tell what he considered America’s biggest story as a
vast, finely detailed, deeply human
narrative… A model of what military history can be”
(New York Times). First edition sets signed by Foote are
much sought-after and increasingly scarce. Dornbusch
III 1387. Wright 339. Books fine; only lightest edge-wear
to scarce original dust jackets.
C i vil W a r
6
douglas southall freeman/ robert e . lee
“A Triumph Of Scholarly Tribute”:
Scarce Presentation/Association Copy Inscribed By Freeman
(HISTORY) (LEE, Robert E.) FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. R.E. Lee: A Biography. New York and London, 1947.
Four volumes. Octavo, original red cloth gilt, original box.
$1600.
10.
Later edition of Freeman’s profusely illustrated Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, an exceptional presentation/
association copy inscribed by him in Volume I to a fellow Civil War historian, then serving as an officer in the U.S.
Army: “Autographed for Capt. William G. Gavin, U.S. Engineers, with the best wishes of Douglas Southall Freeman,”
also with his laid-in typed letter to Gavin, typewritten on Richmond News Leader letterhead, dated February 20, 1947
and signed by Freeman. In original box with printed label.
This scarce presentation/association copy is inscribed by the author to a fellow Civil War historian, William Gavin,
then a lieutenant in the U.S. Army. In addition to his warm inscription to Gavin, this copy also notably contains
Freeman’s signed letter to Gavin, dated February 20, 1947 and typewritten on the letterhead of The Richmond News
Leader, where Freeman served as editor from 1915-49. In his letter Freeman addresses a question from Gavin about
“the point of attack in some of the assaults at old Cold Harbor.” He urges Gavin to examine a “detailed study by Major
Carow made of Cold Harbor… Sometime when you have leave, go to the Battlefield Park headquarters at Fort Harrison
near Varina and find Mr. Taylor… He doubtless has Major Carow’s book. That may answer your question.” Freeman,
the son of a former Confederate soldier who served in the Army of Northern Virginia, “was invited in 1915 to write a
biography of Lee for Scribner’s… He identified with him strongly, seeing Lee’s life through Lee’s own eyes. His biographical method produced an ample, empathetic, and ruminative treatment, abundantly researched and documented,
a triumph of scholarly tribute” (ANB). First published in 1934. See Dornbusch II, 2930. Haynes 6441. Recipient William
Gavin, who graduated from West Point to become an officer in the U.S. Army, “was an avid historian of the American
Civil War” and the author of several books, including Campaigning with the Roundheads (1989). Occasional penciled
marginalia. Interiors generally fresh with only lightest scattered foxing, bright gilt cloth; expert repairs to original box.
1-800-99-bauman
7
C i vil W a r
douglas southall freeman
“One Of The Epic Works On The Confederate Armies”:
Signed By Freeman
(HISTORY) FREEMAN, Douglas Southall. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command. New
York, 1942-44. Three volumes. Octavo, original black cloth, dust jackets.
$2500.
11.
First editions of all three volumes of Freeman’s important study of Lee’s officers, profusely illustrated
with numerous full-page photographs, as well as many maps and battle plans, including a doublepage map and a large folding map of the Army’s battlegrounds, signed by the author in Volume I.
“One of the epic works on the Confederate armies, these exhaustively researched and brilliantly
written volumes deserve to be read by all Civil War students. Freeman employs an amazing quantity
of information, much of it gleaned from Confederate sources in Richmond, and he is an interesting
and intelligent writer, offering insights into a multiplicity of actions and personalities. The three hefty
volumes cover the period following Sumter to the end of the Peninsular campaign (Volume I), Second
Bull Run to Chancellorsville (Volume II), and the Gettysburg campaign to war’s end (Volume III)”
(Eicher 971). Lee’s Lieutenants supplements Freeman’s classic biography of Lee and “stands in its own
right as one of the great works of military history” (In Tall Cotton, 61). His “success with Lee’s
Lieutenants was brilliant. His advantage, of course, was that he was already profoundly versed in
Confederate military lore, but, for a Virginia patriot, he brought a Homeric resonance to such episodes
as the death of ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. Being so completely at home with his material… Freeman was able
to pass judgment with calm authority” (DAB). Interiors fine;
light rubbing to extremities. Some shallow chipping and wear
to extremities of bright dust jackets; Volume II dust jacket with
light soiling and a one-inch closed tear to spine head. An
extremely good signed copy.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
8
Large Contemporary Civil War Lithograph Of Lee’s Surrender
12. (HISTORY) VALOIS, Edward, artist. The Surrender of General Lee and His Entire Army to Lieut.
General U.S. Grant, April 9th 1865. New York, 1865. Original lithographic print (17 by 27 inches), handsomely
framed (entire piece measures 25 by 35 inches).
$1200.
First impression of this large lithographic view of the “memorable event [that] terminated the great
Rebellion,” drawn on stone by Edward Valois and printed at the New York press of William C. Robertson.
Once the papers of surrender were signed, Lee left for his headquarters in the Appomattox court house. As he
passed his men, with tears streaming down his face, he said, “Men, we have fought through the war together.
I have done the best that I could for you.” “Lee surrendered 28,231 men, who received paroles. Many hundreds
of others just went home in the final days of the campaign. The number of deserters from the Confederate
Army of Northern Virginia was so great the Yankees did not even attempt to stop them from just going home.
There were too many to care for or imprison” (Lanny Howe). While the formal surrender of Lee to Grant
actually took place in the McLean House at Appomattox, popular legend held that the two generals had met
outdoors under an apple tree (as pictured here). Grant did meet Lee the following day, outside, on horseback,
with staff officers nearby. Peters, 337. Four closed tears (three repaired with tape). A splendid Civil War image
in extremely good condition.
1-800-99-bauman
13.
(HISTORY) KARBERG, Peter. Retaliation. A Souvenir. Lansing,
Iowa, 1878. Slim octavo, contemporary dark green cloth; pp. 29; custom
clamshell box.
$4800.
First edition of this riveting battlefield history of poorly armed African
American soldiers fighting rebel bands deep in the “heart of a country not
merely occupied by Guerillas, but by detachments of regular confederate
troops.” This rare presentation copy inscribed by the author “Compl. of
Peter Karberg.”
With the Civil War raging and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
newly in effect, W.E.B. Du Bois noted that “fugitive slaves appeared
within [Union] lines. ‘They constitute a military resource’ wrote the
Secretary of War.” Soon Congress “called earnestly for Negro soldiers…
Thus the barriers were leveled” (Freedmen’s Bureau). Here Union Adjutant General Peter Karberg, who led the Third U.S.
Colored Cavalry and the 51st Regiment of U.S. Colored Infantry in spring of 1864, writes of orders to “guard a section of
the Mississippi River” and protect freed slaves in Louisiana who worked the abandoned plantations of “their rebellious
owners… to replenish the cotton market.” Karberg’s Retaliation documents violent attacks by rebel bands targeting
freedmen, slaves and any black soldier who “fell into their clutches… [leaving] the bodies of their victims, in a ghastly
mutilated condition, on the road.” Though the men of the “Colored Cavalry” were often only “mounted on mules,” this tale
records their dangerous pursuit of well-armed rebel bands into “the heart of a country not merely occupied by Guerillas,
but by detachments of regular confederate troops.” Retaliation then follows the troops into shadowy forests, past farmhouses
and through “towns set ablaze” for sheltering the “Guerilla bands,” ultimately paying tribute to the “brave and gallant
officer” who disguised himself to infiltrate a rebel band and revenge the brutal killing of a fellow soldier. See Dornbusch
III:1709-1710. OCLC lists three copies. Owner inscription. Text quite fresh with occasional faint traces of penciled lines,
mild spotting and edge-wear to bright cloth. Near-fine. Scarce and desirable.
Hampton And His Cavalry In ’64
14. (HISTORY) WELLS, Edward L. Hampton and His Cavalry in ’64. Richmond, Virginia, 1899. Octavo,
original full brown morocco gilt.
$2400.
First edition of this military biography of Confederate General Wade Hampton, with frontispiece, 20 illustrated
plates, and two maps, in full publisher’s morocco-gilt.
An officer who served at Bull Run, in the Peninsular campaign, and at Seven Pines, Hampton was assigned
command of a cavalry brigade in 1862 and was quickly made J. E. B. Stuart’s second-in-command. He commanded
his brigade at Antietam, Chambersburg, and Gettysburg, where he was promoted to Major General in 1863.
“After the battle of the Wilderness he succeeded Stuart in command of the cavalry corps. He led this force as
Haw’s Shop, blocked Sherman’s Trevilian Raid, and fought at Sappony Church, Reams’ Station, and Burgess Mill
(Petersburg campaign). As remounts became scarce, he trained his cavalry to fight on foot, but in Jan. ’65 he left
Virginia to look for horses in his home state. He was appointed Lt. Gen. on 15 Feb. ’65. Ordered to cover Johnston’s
retreat through South Carolina, he was considered technically exempt from surrendering with him” (Boatner,
371). Although he considered resisting with Davis, he ultimately turned to private affairs and only returned to
public life in 1876, just in time to be twice-elected governor and later to be elected a United States senator. “For
Hampton’s military career, Edward L. Wells, Hampton and His Cavalry in ’64, is still useful” (ANB). Howes
W245. Dornbusch III:1196. Nicholson, 917. Turnbull IV:406. Contemporary owner inscription. Hinges repaired,
front free endpaper split, a few chips to preliminaries, only light wear to original morocco.
1-800-99-bauman
9
C i vil W a r
“Draw Sabers! Right Into The Line—Charge!”:
Vivid Eyewitness Account Of African American
Troops In The Civil War
C i vil W a r
10
Folio Illustrations Of The Union Army By Renowned Civil War Illustrator Edwin Forbes
(HISTORY—PICTORIAL) FORBES, Edwin. Thirty Years After:
An Artist’s Story of the Great War. New York, 1890. Two volumes. Folio
(12 by 16 inches), original navy cloth recently rebacked and recornered in
calf.
$5000.
15.
First edition, with 20 half-tone equestrian portraits of Union officers after
oil paintings by Forbes and nearly 300 full-page and in-text wood
engravings made from his sketches in the field illustrating the day-to-day
life of the Union armies during the years 1862-65. The copy of Assistant
Adjutant General Thomas Ward, with his signature on the title page of
Volume I.
Forbes accompanied the Army of the Potomac as staff artist for Frank
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, where his sketches of camp life and
battlefields appeared throughout the Civil War. “The habit of quick and
trenchant drawing from life which he developed during his years at the
front influenced all his later production, and the sketches themselves were
his main stock in trade for the rest of his life… In 1876 copper-plate
etchings from his war sketches were published as Life Studies of the Great
Army, and received an award at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
The original prints were bought by General Sherman, and were placed in
his office in the War Department in Washington” (DAB). Dornbusch III:
537. Interiors generally clean. Only minor discoloration to original cloth;
handsome calf bindings fine. An excellent copy with military provenance.
“The Classic Early Pictorial
History Of The War…
Touching And Memorable”
16. (HISTORY—PICTORIAL) (HARPER’S
WEEKLY) GUERNSEY, Alfred H., and
ALDEN, Henry M. Harper’s Pictorial
History of the Great Rebellion in the United
States. Chicago, 1866-68. Two volumes. Folio
(12 by 16-1/2 inches), original brown pebbled
cloth.
$2200.
Early Chicago edition of this richly illustrated
history of the Civil War, issued the same year
(and using the same sheets) as the New York
first, with almost 1000 wood engravings, many
full-page.
“Drawn from the pages of Harper’s Weekly, the
most popular journal of its day, the work offers not only a chronology of the war but a briefer treatment of the history of
the United States with emphasis on the causes of the war. Nearly 125 pages bring readers up to Sumter; thereafter the story
comes alive in copy taken from the periodical with minimal re-editing and written shortly after the war. Thus the work
seems fresh and exciting to read… As with Frank Leslie’s illustrated history, much of the pleasure here comes from the
engravings. There are 998 engravings, mostly scenes of battles, camps, marches, soldier life, and portraits of officers, with
a few maps and plans included… This work delivers the news of the war much as the civilians during the conflict
experienced it, and it is therefore both touching and memorable” (Eicher). Issued contemporaneously with the New York
first edition, and using the same sheets. Eicher 768. Expert restoration to original cloth. A handsome and desirable copy.
1-800-99-bauman
11
C i vil W a r
louis kinney harlow
With 12 Stunning Large Folio Chromolithographs, Each Signed By The Artist
17.
(HISTORY—PICTORIAL) HARLOW, Louis Kinney.
Army Memories. New York, 1887. Large folio (16 by 19 inches), 12
chromolithographic plates mounted to heavy cardstock with
printed tissue guards, original blue velvet portfolio.
$16,000.
Limited “Edition de Luxe,” number 19 of an unknown (but
clearly small) number of copies, with 12 stunning large folio
chromolithographs, each signed by the artist.
Both an etcher and a painter, Harlow usually chose landscapes as
his subjects, often working with color lithographer Louis Prang.
In addition to general views of army life, plates include depictions
of Grant with Generals Sherman, Logan and McPherson at
Vicksburg, General Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley and
another of General Sherman. Very scarce: OCLC lists only 6
copies. With a descriptive index card. Without original ties. Plates
fine, light wear to original velvet portfolio. An exceptional copy.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
12
francis trevelyan miller
“The Grandfather Of Civil War Histories”
(HISTORY—PICTORIAL) MILLER, Francis Trevelyan, editor. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New
York, 1911. Ten volumes. Quarto, publisher’s blue cloth.
$3000.
18.
First edition of Miller’s famous and important 10-volume
photographic history of the Civil War, containing “thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many
special authorities.”
“This mammoth work… a necessary part of any civil war
library,” contains contributions from over 39 eminent individuals, including academicians, President William H.
Taft, and veteran officers of both Confederate and Union
forces, many of whom wrote from personal experience. A
number of the photographs, previously unpublished, are
from the collections of private individuals, including the
extensive Eldridge Collection of Mathew Brady Civil War
photographs, “easily five times larger than that of any contemporary” (Everitt). “Zealous in their work, often regardless of danger, and at all times handicapped by the vexing
difficulties of the photographic process of that day,” Brady
and his assistants “carried their cameras to every scene that
promised an interesting picture,” capturing “scenes of actual conflict, others of places devastated by gunfire, of troops on the march or in bivouac, and of individual officers and
men” (DAB). Volume X is the first issue (with unrevised index, marked “1-Ed.” in bottom margin of page 323). Eicher 771.
Nicholson, 516. Interiors fine, only most minor wear to original cloth, gilt exceptionally bright and crisp. A fine copy.
1-800-99-bauman
13
C i vil W a r
the u . s . army and navy
With 44 Vivid Folio Color Lithographs Of American Soldiers,
Sailors And Ships In Battle
(HISTORY—PICTORIAL) (WERNER COMPANY, publisher) WAGNER, Arthur L.; KELLEY, J.D. Jerrold. The
United States Army and Navy. Akron, 1899. Large oblong folio (18 by 14 inches), publisher’s leatherette gilt with pictorial
vignettes on front cover.
$2200.
19.
First edition, with 43 vivid color lithographs of battle scenes, soldiers and sailors in uniform, and navy vessels in action.
“The Werner Company of Akron seems to have been at
the forefront of new developments in printing technology at the end of the [19th] century” (Reese, 114), as the
vivid colors of these chromolithographs readily attest.
These companion histories trace the development of
the U.S. Army and Navy from the era of the Revolution
through the Civil War to the close of the SpanishAmerican War, with accounts of their organization,
administration and duties. With appendices listing the
principal ships of the Navy, their batteries and armor,
official reports of the battle of Manila and the battle of
Santiago de Cuba. Owner pencil inscription. Front free
endpaper renewed. Plates fine and vivid. Light restoration to front joint and extremities of publisher’s binding. A near-fine copy.
1-800-99-bauman
each of the states from the 1850 census. Shortly after
April 13, 1861 (the date of the Battle of Fort Sumter),
John M. Batchelder, a telegraph engineer and inventor
from Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the bar-graphs
here to make a similar comparison, also based on the
1850 census. This striking broadside contrasts the statistical differences between the free and slave states, now at
war, on a scale of 100, including illiterate white adults
(free, 50; slave, 100), enrolled militia (free, 100; slave, 58),
miles of railroads (free, 100; slave, 38) and miles of canals
(free, 100; slave, 29). A wood-engraved vignette in the
heading depicts Sergeant Peter Hart’s heroic act during
the bombardment of Fort Sumter, when the fort’s flagstaff was “shot off near the peak, and, with the flag, fell
among the gleaming cinders. Lieutenant Hall rescued
the precious bunting before it took fire. Peter Hart carried it, with the piece of the staff, and fastened it, where
the soiled banner was kept flying defiantly” (Harper &
Brother, United States History). Three faint horizontal
fold lines, expert repairs to two chips in left margin, not
affecting text. Near-fine, bright and fresh. A splendid
Civil War broadside. Scarce.
C i vil W a r
14
“The Most Notorious Prison
After Andersonville”
21. (CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE) FISHER, Captain
Robert J. Officers of the United States: Army and Navy:
Prisoners of War. Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.
Cincinnati, 1864. Broadside, approximately 24 inches by
31 inches, handsomely framed.
$4500.
“Compare The Length Of The Red And
Blue Lines In Each Column”
20.
(CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE) BATCHELDER, John
M. Comparison of Products, Population, and Resources
of the Free and Slave States. Cambridge, 1861. Large
broadside (14 by 22 inches), printed in black, red and blue;
handsomely framed, entire piece measures 22 by 31
inches.
$2700.
Original large broadside red and blue bar-graph
comparing the resources of North and South at the outset
of the Civil War, with a small wood-engraved vignette of
Peter Hart restoring the flag at Fort Sumter.
Graphic representation of the growing sectionalism that
was dividing the nation during the late antebellum years
began with William Reynolds’ Political Map of the United
States (1856). Designed to portray and compare the areas
of free and slave states, it included tables of statistics for
Handsome engraved broadside listing officers imprisoned
at Libby Prison in Richmond, “the most notorious prison
after Andersonville” (Boatner, 482).
Contains at top center a Union war eagle nestled in the
Stars and Stripes; four separate cartouches of scenes from
Libby Prison; engravings of four soldiers; the names of
the northern states in an oval pattern interspersed with
floral designs and the names of numerous battles; and, in
the center, a list of Union officers at Libby, headed by
Brigadier Generals Neal Dow and E. P. Scammon. The
Cincinnati firm of Ehrgott and Forbriger is noted for a
series of over 70 broadsides it issued during the civil war
that featured Union military and government figures. The
top and bottom edges have been slightly shaved, losing a
bit of image from the top and bottom, including the imprint, which read “designed and executed with a pen in
Libby Prison” by Captain Robert J. Fisher from the 17th
Missouri Volunteers. Slight darkening in two bands
across middle. A rare piece in excellent condition, very
handsomely framed.
1-800-99-bauman
Sparked The Infamous New York City Draft Riots
15
WAR—CONSCRIPTION LAW) The United States
Conscription Law or National Militia Act. Approved March 2d, 1863.
New York, 1863. 32mo, original blue paper wrappers; pp. 32.
$2600.
C i vil W a r
22. (CIVIL
First edition of the pamphlet containing the United States Conscription
Law of 1863, the act that outlined the procedures for the Union Army’s
draft during the Civil War and that sparked the infamous New York
City draft riots.
A “most imperfect” congressional act, the Conscription Law instituted
a broad draft, requiring registration of all males between the ages of
twenty and forty-five. However, “instead of exempting specific classes
such as ministers and heads of families, money payment was made the
basis of exemption… The system was inequitable to the poor, and in the
working-class quarters of New York the first drawing of names in 1863
was the signal for terrible riots” (Morison, 666). Incensed by the provost
marshal’s first drawing of names on July 11th, 1863, “a mob, which soon
numbered 50,000, burned a Negro church and orphanage, attacked the
office of the N.Y. Tribune, wrecked the home of the provost marshal,
terrorized large parts of the city, started fires, did $1,500,000 worth of property damages, and killed more than a dozen
people” (Boatner, 245). When Federal troops from the Army of the Potomac came to disperse the rioters, it turned into
the bloodiest riot in history, with nearly 1,200 people killed by gunfire or in the resulting stampede. With 10 pages of
advertisements for military-related items interleaved. A few pinpoint spots of foxing to text. An extremely scarce historic
document in about-fine condition.
The U.S. Sanitary Commission’s Illustrated
Report On Prisoners Of War In Rebel Hands
23.
(CIVIL WAR—PRISONERS) UNITED STATES
SANITARY COMMISSION. Narrative of Privations and
Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while
Prisoners of War on the Hands of the Rebel Authorities.
Boston, 1864. Slim octavo, modern half green cloth.
$950.
First edition, with four woodcut plates depicting prisoners
suffering from malnourishment.
The Sanitary Commission, a civilian organization concerned
with the health of Civil War troops, was highly influential in
the reform of American medicine. This fascinating report
contains the testimony of soldiers and descriptions by the investigative committee on cruel treatment and deplorable hospital conditions, specifically in the Confederate hospital at
Belle Isle Prison in Virginia. Sabin 51791. Light foxing to first
and last leaves. Small closed tear to page 72-73. Plates clean.
Near-fine condition.
1-800-99-bauman
P resident L incoln
C i vil W a r
16
“Words Had To Complete The Work Of Guns”:
Exceedingly Rare Programme For The Inauguration
Ceremony Of The National Cemetery At Gettysburg
(LINCOLN, Abraham). Programme of Arrangements and Order of
Exercises for the Inauguration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, on
the 19th of November, 1863. Washington, 1863. Octavo (5-3/8 by 8-1/2
inches), printed bifolium, on blue paper.
$40,000.
24.
Exceedingly rare original Programme of the inaugural ceremonies at
Gettysburg, dated the day of Lincoln’s magnificent Gettysburg Address,
listing his legendary words only as “Dedicatory Remarks,” a virtually
unobtainable document.”
1-800-99-bauman
17
This exceedingly rare and virtually unobtainable document, printed by David Wills’
committee, offers exceptional insight into
that momentous day, for Lincoln’s speech is
listed far below Everett’s “Oration” on the
Programme. “Though we call Lincoln’s text
the Gettysburg Address… Lincoln’s contribution, labeled ‘remarks,’ was intended to
make the dedication formal (somewhat like
ribbon-cutting at modern ‘openings’).
Lincoln was not expected to speak at
length… [Yet] what should not be forgotten
is that Lincoln was himself an actor…
Lincoln’s text was polished, his delivery
emphatic. He was interrupted by applause
five times… Lincoln did for the whole Civil
War what he accomplished for the single
battlefield… The Civil War is, to most Americans, what Lincoln wanted it to mean. Words had to complete
the work of guns… Without Lincoln’s knowing it himself, all his prior literary, intellectual and political labors had prepared him for the intellectual revolution contained in those fateful 272 words” (italics in original, Wills, 24-40). “Lincoln’s address… is immortal, one of the supreme utterances of the principles of
democratic freedom” (PMM). This most rare item of ephemera from the day of Lincoln’s address consists of
a printed octavo bifolium, on blue paper, with the embossed oval stamp of “Rhoades & Sons, London,
Commercial.” No copies listed in OCLC. A few tiny marginal creases. Fine condition.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
Within weeks of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania governor Curtin and local civic leader David
Wills, together with architect William Saunders, sought to honor those fallen in battle. Wills called upon
Edward Everett, a figure famed for his eloquence, and invited him in late September to appear on October 23.
But Everett, who devoted much research to his speeches, said he could not be ready until mid-November.
Significantly, “the careful negotiations with Everett form a contrast, more surprising to us than to contemporaries, with the casual invitation to President Lincoln” that came nearly a month after Everett’s. On the evening before the dedication ceremony was to begin—a date named in this Programme of Arrangements as “the
19th of November, 1863”—Lincoln arrived by train in Gettysburg to see coffins were still stacked at the station, for only a third of the fallen soldiers
had been buried. “Wills and Everett met the
President and escorted him to the Wills
home.” Early the next morning, as military
formations described in this rare Programme
began to assemble, Lincoln, still wearing a
mourning band for his dead son, was joined
by his secretary of state William Seward as
they rode to the battle sites.
“A Crime… Which Has Sent A Shudder Through
The Civilized World”
C i vil W a r
18
(LINCOLN, Abraham) BINGHAM, John A. Trial of the
Conspirators for the Assassination of President Lincoln. Washington,
1865. Octavo, period-style half calf.
$1600.
25.
First edition of Judge Bingham’s powerful Argument in the trial of seven
men and one woman accused of conspiring to assassinate Lincoln,
delivered June 1865, only two months after Lincoln’s death and arguing
that the “intense hate and rage” of Jefferson Davis made him as “clearly
proven guilty of conspiracy as is John Wilkes Booth.”
Within hours of the assassination of Lincoln, the government pulled “into
custody anyone who might have the slightest connection to Booth…. By
April 26 Booth was dead and eight of his cohorts were in custody…. placed
on trial before a military tribunal established by an executive order of
President Johnson” (Steers, The Trial, xii). John Bingham, who served in the
Judge Advocate’s Office and would become the main author of the 14th Amendment, was named the trial’s Assistant
Judge Advocate General. Together with Judges Burnett and Holt, Bingham had to quickly review the evidence: “Lincoln
was shot on April 14, 1865… and the trial of the surviving conspirators opened before a military commission on May 9”
(Epps, Democracy Reborn, 169). Arguing the assassination was a confederate intelligence operation, Bingham herein
states “that Jefferson Davis is as clearly proven guilty of this conspiracy as is John Wilkes Booth” (70). Later “Bingham
would from time to time issue dark hints that he knew more about the Lincoln plot than he could tell because the true
dimensions of the conspiracy would wreak havoc on the nation. His doctor reported years later that, on his deathbed,
Bingham had said, ‘The truth must be sealed’” (Epps, 169). Sabin 5451. Harvard Law Catalogue I:172. McDade 625. NYU,
994. Text fresh with only faint occasional marginal dampstaining. Near-fine.
“May You And Yours Enjoy These Pages About A Glorious Fellow-Struggler Of Ours”
26. (LINCOLN) SANDBURG, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. Two volumes. WITH: The War Years. Four
volumes. New York, 1926, 1939. Together, six volumes. Octavo, original navy cloth.
$3200.
First trade edition of the second of Sandburg’s landmark Lincoln biographies, the profusely illustrated four-volume The
War Years, inscribed on the half title of Volume One by Sandburg, “Jimmy Cone, with good wishes, Carl Sandburg,
1940,” coupled with a third printing (issued the
same year as the first) of the two-volume The Prairie
Years, also inscribed on the half title, “Alfred G.
Walthal, may you and yours enjoy these pages
about a glorious fellow-struggler of ours, Carl
Sandburg, The Shop, Chicago, 1926.”
Sandburg grew up in the Knox County neighborhoods with which Lincoln was familiar; the poet
met people who knew Lincoln not only as a politician but also as a man. “The most popular Lincoln
biography yet written… Lincoln publications increased after the appearance of this work”
(Monaghan 2877, 3711). The War Years preceded by
a deluxe signed limited edition of 525 copies, published in the same year. Without scarce original
box. Howes S82. Inscribed half titles in each work
rehinged. Only slightest rubbing to cloth extremities. A near-fine set, most desirable doubly inscribed.
1-800-99-bauman
19
C i vil W a r
Wonderfully Decorative Wood-Engraved Broadside
Of The Emancipation Proclamation, 1864
27. (BROADSIDE PROCLAMATION) LINCOLN, Abraham. Proclamation of Emancipation. New York, 1864.
Large wood-engraved broadside on beige tinted ground, image measures 15 by 20 inches; framed, entire piece
measures 20-1/2 by 25-1/2 inches.
$7500.
Original large wood-engraved pictorial border around the typeset text of the Emancipation Proclamation, with
a portrait of Lincoln and six border vignettes depicting African-American life before and after emancipation.
On January 1, 1863, Lincoln reportedly paused before signing the final Emancipation Proclamation, saying, “I
never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.” It declared that “all persons
held as slaves… are and henceforward shall be free.” The Emancipation Proclamation is “one of the strangest and
most important state papers ever issued by an American President… Technically, the proclamation was almost absurd. It proclaimed freedom for all slaves in precisely those areas where the United States could not make its authority effective, and allowed slavery to continue in slave states which remained under Federal control. It was a statement
of intent rather than a valid statute, and it was of doubtful legality… But in the end it changed the whole character
of the war and, more than any other single thing, doomed the Confederacy to defeat” (Ketchum & Catton, 252).
Eberstadt 21. Fine condition, with only the faintest foldlines.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
20
Disrespect, Disloyalty, And Conduct Unbecoming An Officer:
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed By Abraham Lincoln While President
Concerning The Trial Of A Kentucky Officer, One Day Before
Lincoln’s Suspension Of Habeas Corpus In Kentucky
28. LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed. Washington, DC, July 4, 1864. One octavo sheet (8 by 10
inches), folded, writing on recto only. Handsomely floated and framed with portrait, entire piece measures 20 by
18 inches.
$42,000.
Autograph letter signed by Abraham Lincoln on the matter of a controversial Union colonel dismissed and
arrested for his denunciation of Lincoln. The letter reads: “July 4, 1864. Senator Powell, Sir, The Sec. of War
informs me that Col. Woolford will be put on trial this week & just as early in the week as the case can be
prepared. Very Respectfully, A. Lincoln.” The letter was written only one day before Lincoln suspended Habeas
Corpus in Kentucky as part of an effort to prevent Kentucky from joining the Confederacy.
1-800-99-bauman
21
Powell had been particularly vocal in his opposition to
Lincoln’s desire to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus in
1861. Indeed, the day after Lincoln wrote this letter, he
proclaimed the suspension of the writ of Habeas
Corpus indefinitely in Kentucky, and the establishment
of martial law, in an effort to prevent Kentucky from
joining the Confederacy. On July 7, 1864, Wolford gave
his word as a gentleman and an officer to return to
Louisville and avoid all public speaking until the trial
discussed in this letter. Lincoln subsequently sent him a
letter on July 17, requesting he sign the following statement and thereby have his charges dismissed: “I hereby
pledge my honor that I will neither do or say anything
which will directly or indirectly tend to hinder, delay, or embarrass the employment and use of colored persons,
as soldiers, seamen, or otherwise, in the suppression of the rebellion, so long as the U.S. government chooses
to so employ and use them.” Wolford refused, on the grounds that he had done nothing wrong and his rights
were being violated. He went back to speaking against Lincoln and in support of McClellan, but his trial never
took place, as fear of Kentucky seceding faded; he enjoyed a successful career as a Kentucky politician and lawyer
from 1865 until 1887. The controversial Powell found himself shut out of Kentucky politics after the Union’s
victory in 1865, and he died in 1867. Expert tape repair to verso only of folds. Light toning to paper. An exceptional letter, written entirely by Abraham Lincoln on the final Independence Day of his life.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
Lincoln wrote this letter to Senator Lazarus W. Powell of Kentucky, regarding Colonel Frank Woolford (usually
spelled “Wolford”). A Union soldier in the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, on March 10, 1864, Wolford denounced Lincoln as a tyrant and a traitor at a ceremony honoring himself for his heroic actions on the battlefield.
Wolford was particularly angered at Lincoln’s acceptance of African-Americans in the Union ranks. Tensions
were particularly high in the border state of Kentucky, a slave state which maintained an officially neutral status
during the Civil War, and such activities were frequently met with suppression and arrest, as happened to
Wolford several days later. He was “dishonorably dismissed from the service of the United States for violation of
the Fifth of the Rules and Articles of War, in using disrespectful words against the President of the United States,
for disloyalty, and for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.” The Chicago Tribune condemned
Wolford in an editorial: “Let Mr. Wolford, and all his kith and kin in politics, remember that the God-fearing
black, who, with musket in hand steps forward at the call of the country, is tenfold more the brother and fellow
citizen of the true patriot, than the wretches who to spite the negro would ruin the country.” However, General
Grant reinstated Wolford to his rank and position in
April. Wolford then continued his anti-Lincoln activities, traveling throughout Kentucky condemning
Lincoln and supporting McClellan in the 1864 presidential election. Consequently, Wolford was re-arrested on
June 27, 1864, and taken to Washington, where he was
put up in a hotel rather than being imprisoned. Lincoln
requested a meeting with Wolford, and the two men,
along with Senator Powell, met shortly thereafter.
Senator Powell was himself an outspoken Lincoln critic
who had been censured for it by the U.S. Senate and the
Kentucky General Assembly, and the implication of this
letter is that he was taking a great interest in Wolford’s
situation and treatment.
C i vil W a r
22
“Restoration Of All Rights Of Property, Except As To Slaves”
29.
(BROADSIDE PROCLAMATION) LINCOLN, Abraham. Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction. Washington, circa December 8, 1863. Broadside, measuring 12 by 19 inches, printed in
two columns on wove stock.
$26,000.
First public notice of the December 8, 1863 Presidential proclamation offering amnesty to citizens of the
Confederacy, providing they take an oath that they “will abide by and faithfully support all proclamations
of the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves” (i.e. the Emancipation
Proclamation).
Toward the close of 1863, with the Confederate Army in full retreat, discussions in Congress centered on how
to restore the Southern states to the Union. “The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is
past,” announced Lincoln. Now it was the duty of Congress to ensure that all citizens in the South, regardless
of race, were guaranteed the equal protection of the law. A number of competing proposals emerged from deliberations, but in the end, during his message
to Congress on December 8, 1863, Lincoln declared reconstruction of the South a wholly executive responsibility and “offered ‘full pardon… with restoration of all rights of property,
except as to slaves,’ to all rebels who would take
an oath of future loyalty to the Constitution
and pledge to obey acts of Congress and presidential proclamations relating to slavery”
(Donald, 470-71). Those excluded from taking
the oath were the highest ranking members of
the Confederacy—government officials, judges,
military and naval officers above the rank of
army colonel or navy lieutenant, former congressmen, and “all who have engaged in treating colored persons or white persons otherwise
than lawfully as prisoners of war.” Lincoln further encouraged the Southern states to make
provisions “in relation to the freed people of
such State, which shall recognize and declare
their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be consistent, as a
temporary arrangement, with their present
condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless
class.” This particular copy of this rare public
broadside of Lincoln’s proclamation was received on February 15, 1864 at Union Army
headquarters in St. Augustine, Florida, where
“Major Hay” (probably James H. Hay of the 2nd
Florida Cavalry) was authorized to administer
the oath “to such persons of that vicinity.” See
Monaghan 191. Several faint patches of foxing,
four light fold lines, two tiny closed tears at intersections of folds. A splendid, wide-margined
copy in near-fine condition. Very scarce.
1-800-99-bauman
23
C i vil W a r
M emoirs & M emorabilia
“A Classic Civil War Autobiography”
30. (MEMOIR—UNION) GRANT, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs.
New York, 1885-86. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original green
cloth.
$850.
First edition of the memoirs of one of the most recognized figures
in American military history, illustrated with numerous steel engravings, facsimiles, and 43 maps.
After an ineffectual term as president, ruined by bankruptcy and
dying of throat cancer, Grant agreed to publish his memoirs to
provide a measure of economic security for his family. Mark Twain
agreed to serve as the publisher. Struggling to dictate his notes to a
stenographer, Grant finished his memoirs shortly before his death in
the summer of 1885. “It seemed to Twain, sitting quietly near him in
his bedroom at Sixtieth Street, that Grant had fully regained the
stature of a hero” (Kaplan, 273). “No Union list of personal narratives
could possibly begin without the story of the victorious general. A
truly remarkable work” (New York Times). “Grant’s memoirs comprise one of the most valuable writings by a military
commander in history” (Eicher 492). Dornbusch II:1986. Mullins & Reed 35. Contemporary owner inscriptions of Illinois
physician A.J. Ogram dated “1-29-92.” Interiors generally fresh with a few marginal paper repairs, expert reinforcement to
some inner hinges, cloth fresh and bright. An about-fine copy.
“Grant Used The Weapon That McClellan Forged To Defeat Lee”
31. (MEMOIR—UNION) MCCLELLAN, George B. McClellan’s
Own Story. New York, 1887. Octavo, original green cloth.
$550.
First edition of the Civil War memoirs of Lincoln’s controversial
commander of the Army of the Potomac, with steel-engraved
frontispiece portrait, nine illustrations, three full-page maps, and a
two-page facsimile letter.
“A military enigma, a brilliant administrator and a man possessing
much good strategic sense” (Boatner, 524), McClellan was commander-in-chief of the Union forces from November 1861 to March 1862.
“This controversial Union general’s memoirs are really an explanation
of his wartime activities and decisions. McClellan’s administrative
and organizational skills are often overshadowed by his alleged shortcomings in the field and his involvement in party politics. It is seldom
remembered that Grant used the weapon that McClellan forged to
defeat Lee and win the war” (Union Bookshelf 56). “Lee, who should
have known, set him down as the best commander who ever faced
him” (DAB). Eicher 539. Nevin I:124. Text and plates fresh and clean,
with front inner hinge expertly reinforced.
1-800-99-bauman
“The Military Analysis Is Enhanced By
Anecdotal Material”
C i vil W a r
24
32.
(MEMOIR—UNION) GORDON, George H. History of the
Campaign of the Army of Virginia… from Cedar Mountain to Alexandria,
1862. Boston, 1880. Octavo, original green cloth.
$900.
First edition of Brigadier-General Gordon’s detailed history of the Second
Massachusetts Infantry from the close of Cedar Mountain through Second
Bull Run, with four richly detailed folding maps, and a fifth large folding
map printed in color and laid into a pocket at rear, as issued.
This history, told by one of its chief participants, follows Gordon and the
Second Massachusetts Infantry from the close of Cedar Mountain (August 9,
1862) through the Second Battle of Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862). “The work
is well documented and draws on many official documents… The chief
attribute of this history is the enormous amount of detail presented on the
regiment, Gordon, related officers, and the campaign… There is a good—
though harsh—analysis of Pope’s inadequacy as a field commander, a defense of Fitz John Porter, and much of interest
relating to Massachusetts troops. The military analysis is enhanced by anecdotal material. Appendices cover strengths
of the forces engaged, casualties, a report on Second Bull Run from Robert E. Lee, and the Fitz John Porter case. There
are elaborate foldout maps” (Eicher). Gordon went on to fight at Antietam, and President Andrew Johnson nominated
him for the award of the honorary grade of brevet major general, United States Volunteers. He was one of the founders
of the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. Eicher 484. Nevins, I:30. Dornbusch I, Massachusetts 92. Fragile
folding map in pocket with archival repairs to folds, now laid into rear of book. The four folding maps bound into the
text are in excellent condition. A few minor rubs to cloth; skillful repair to spine head. An extremely good copy.
“A Basic Source For Federal Cavalry Operations In The East”
33. (MEMOIR—UNION) KIDD, J.H. Personal Recollections of a
Cavalryman. Ionia, Michigan, 1908. Thick octavo, original giltstamped navy cloth.
$850.
First edition of James H. Kidd’s important Civil War history, paying
tribute to the 6th Michigan Cavalry of General Custer’s Brigade who
bravely answered Lincoln’s call to arms, with 33 full-page
photogravures and three full-page maps, including “Route of the
Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign,” scarce in
original bright gilt-stamped cloth.
In Personal Recollections, Union officer James H. Kidd dramatically
records “the exploits of the 6th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry of
Custer’s Brigade, in whose ranks Kidd served with credit and honor,
at age 25 winning promotion to the rank of brevet brigadier general”
(Wittenberg, At Custer’s Side, xi). This key Civil War history, which
“remains a basic source for Federal cavalry operations in the East,”
also pays tribute to the Michigan ‘Wolverines’ who answered Lincoln’s
call to arms (Nevins I:117). Kidd’s stirring account resounds “with vibrant descriptions of hard-riding, rough campaigning,
the beauties of nature, the stern service, and above all the dash and glory of combat of heroic proportions. The studentturned-soldier had a way with words” (Wittenberg, xii). With frontispiece of Kidd, 32 full-page photogravures, and three
full page maps, including “Route of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Gettysburg Campaign.” Dornbusch I:MI29.
Broadfoot, 257.Seagrave, 428. Union Bookshelf 230. See Boatner, 458. Text fine, front inner paper hinge starting but very
sound, bright gilt cloth. A scarce about-fine copy.
1-800-99-bauman
One Of The “Nation’s Greatest Fighting Soldiers”
25
(MEMOIR—UNION) MILES, Nelson A. Personal Recollections
and Observations. Chicago, 1896. Large octavo, original pictorial
brown cloth.
$750.
C i vil W a r
34.
First edition, scarce first issue of this impressive volume of memoirs by
General Miles, profusely illustrated over 200 black-and-white
photogravures and engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, fullpage map and 15 full-page gravures after paintings by Frederick
Remington, in original pictorial gilt-stamped cloth.
General Nelson Miles fought with distinction “in almost every
important battle of the Army of the Potomac… He went to the frontier
as an infantry officer and was a primary field commander in the Red
River War… Miles’ winter campaign on the Northern Plains in 187677 brought several victories over the Sioux… and in 1877 he made a
forced march to intercept the fleeing Nez Percé and forced their
surrender.” Charged with capturing Geronimo in 1886, Miles was subsequently appointed “commander of the vast
Military Division of the Missouri.” Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1892, “Miles was an extremely able
officer who combined aggressiveness and boldness with imagination” (Lamar, 699). “One of the nation’s greatest fighting
soldiers” (ANB). Howes M595. Decker II:1111. Contemporary owner inscription dated “Jany 15, 1897.” Text and plates
fresh and clean, slight edge-wear to bright gilt boards, gilt and silver bright. A highly desirable near-fine copy.
Complete Run Of
100 First-Hand
Civil War Narratives,
Extra-Illustrated
35.
(MEMOIR—UNION)
RHODE ISLAND SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS HISTORICAL
SOCIETY. Personal Narratives of
the Battles of the Rebellion, Being
Papers Read before the Rhode
Island Soldiers and Sailors
Historical Society. Providence,
1878-1915. Ten volumes. Thick octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt, original wrappers bound in.
$4500.
First editions of this fascinating series of 100 eyewitness accounts of
engagements fought by Rhode Island soldiers and sailors in the Civil
War, extra-illustrated with portraits and landscapes of the people
and places mentioned in the texts.
“The society holds meetings each month at the houses of members…
It is the intention at each meeting to have a paper read by some member, giving his personal recollections of the part borne
by Rhode Island soldiers in the great conflict, and these papers, as they accumulate, are carefully verified in every particular,
and then published and preserved by the society” (The Providence Press, 1881). This complete set of these 100 detailed
narratives contains such highpoints as “Kit Carson’s Fight with the Comanche and Kiowa Indians,” “The Loss of the
Iron-Clad Monitor,” “Reminiscences of Two Years with the Colored Troops,” “In a Rebel Prison: Experiences in Danville,”
“The Siege and Capture of Harper’s Ferry,” “The Gettysburg Gun,” and “The March to the Sea.” Signature of P.S. Chase in
pencil on most wrappers. A fine set, with only some toning and wear to spines on the fifth and sixth series.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
26
“When The Battle Waged Hottest, Sheridan Was At His Best”
(MEMOIR—UNION) SHERIDAN, P.H. Personal Memoirs. New York,
1888. Two volumes. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth.
$650.
36.
First edition of Sheridan’s military autobiography, with 27 maps (many
folding) and 17 plates.
“Often ranked with Grant and Sherman as the foremost Union commanders”
(Mullins & Reed 82), Sheridan completed this work just days before his death in
1888. He recounts three decades of military service including his many decisive
Civil War campaigns and his later Indian campaigns, his military governorship
of Texas and Louisiana and his tenure as commander-in-chief of the army after
Sherman’s retirement. “When the battle waged hottest, Sheridan was at his
best—cool, exact, self-possessed, the dashing and brilliant leader of men willing
to follow him anywhere” (DAB). Dornbusch II:2400. Occasional foxing mainly
to preliminaries, original cloth quite nice with only slightest rubbing and a few
tiny spots, gilt very bright. A handsome copy, near-fine.
“The First Modern General”
37. (MEMOIR—UNION) SHERMAN, William Tecumseh.
Memoirs. New York, 1891. Two volumes. Octavo, original green
cloth gilt.
$2400.
Enlarged fourth edition of Sherman’s invaluable autobiography,
signed by him on a tipped-in card in Volume I, “W.T. Sherman,
General,” this expanded edition containing corrections and
revisions by Sherman, and including a concluding chapter
on his final illness and death and a personal tribute by
Congressman James G. Blaine. With 15 folding maps and
handsome steel-engraved portraits.
“Penned with intelligence and passion, [Sherman’s Memoirs]
cover the periods of birth to the Meridian Expedition early in
1864 (Volume I) and the remainder of the war to the
commander’s first decade following the war (Volume II)…
The memoirs frankly describe the rights and wrongs of the
Civil War campaigns Sherman experienced, without regard
to stepping on the feelings of others. The work is not unduly harsh, but is unwaveringly honest (as the author viewed these
events)… The writing in this work is enjoyable, more so than the average soldier’s memoirs, and the enlightened opinions
of the second-ranking Federal officer on a multitude of operations make the work invaluable” (Eicher 576). First published
in 1875. Owner inscription below signed card (2 by 3-1/2 inches) tipped to front pastedown of Volume I reads: “This
signature of Gen. Sherman was written for my father, John H. Rees on one of his cards by Gen. Sherman him-self [sic] at
the National Grand Army Encampment held at Minneapolis about 1883 or 4. [signed] B.R.G.” Owner signatures. Text,
plates and maps fresh and clean, front inner papers hinges starting, light edge-wear to bright gilt cloth.
1-800-99-bauman
Presentation Copy Of
A Memoir Of Hector Tyndale
First edition, presentation copy, of this biography of a famous
Union general who fought at Bull Run and Antietam, with
frontispiece portrait and folding plan of the Battle of
Wauhatchie, in original cloth. With presentation slip reading:
“Compliments of Mrs. Hector Tyndale.”
The son of a prominent Philadelphia businessman who made his
own fortune in the pottery and porcelain business, Hector
Tyndale became involved in Republican politics before the War,
failing to embrace abolition but nevertheless escorting the widow
of John Brown to visit her husband and recover his body postexecution. When the Civil War began, Tyndale volunteered for
the Union and soon became engaged in combat, fighting at the
Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam. He was wounded badly
while in service and promoted to Brigadier General for his conspicuous service at Antietam. General Tyndale returned to
command his brigade after Gettysburg. With the Union struggling at Chattanooga, Tyndale participated in battle one last
time, before finally resigning on August 26, 1864 due to poor
health. He was brevetted to Major General on March 13, 1865. A
near-fine presentation copy.
Manuscript Civil War Account Of Losses
At The Battle Of Bull Run
(MEMORABILIA—UNION) GRANGER, Brownell. List of
the Killed, Wounded and Missing in the 11th Reg[imen]t,
Mass[achusetts] Vol[unteers] at the Battle of Bulls (sic) Run,
Virginia, July 21st 1861. Manassas, Virginia, 1861. Original
sheet of blue-ruled wove stock (8 by 29 inches), backed by linen
and mounted in contemporary gray cloth wallet; custom
clamshell box.
$8500.
39.
Original manuscript listing of casualties suffered by the 11th
Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers at the Battle of Bull
Run, the first major land battle of the Civil War, in the hand of
Adjutant Brownell Granger.
“Union forces and civilians alike feared that the Confederates
would advance on Washington, D.C., with very little standing
in their way. The Union’s preemptive strike was the first major
land battle of the American Civil War, fought on July 21, 1861,
near Manassas, Virginia. Unseasoned Union Army troops advanced across Bull Run against the equally unseasoned
Confederate Army, and despite the Union’s early successes,
they were routed and forced to retreat back to Washington,
D.C.” (Hal Jespersen). This original manuscript in the hand of
1-800-99-bauman
27
C i vil W a r
38.
(MEMOIR—UNION)
(TYNDALE,
Hector)
MCLAUGHLIN, John M. A Memoir of Hector Tyndale.
Philadelphia, 1882. Octavo, original brown cloth.
$600.
Adjutant Brownell Granger lists casualties suffered
by the 11th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers at
the Battle of Bull Run: 15 killed, 55 wounded and
missing (46 of whom were taken prisoner). Bull Run
was the regiment’s first military engagement.
Organized at Readville and mustered in June 13,
1861, the 11th Regiment left Massachusetts for
Washington, D.C. on June 24th. There it was attached to Franklin’s Brigade, Heintzelman’s
Division, McDowell’s Army of Northeast Virginia,
and remained so through August, 1861. Altogether
the Regiment lost during service a total 261 men: 11
officers and 153 enlisted men killed or mortally
wounded; two officers and 95 enlisted men dead
from disease. Pencil annotations in a later hand. A
number of minor smudges and spots to manuscript,
dampstain to bottom segment of wallet. A very desirable item of Civil War memorabilia.
C i vil W a r
28
robert j . holley
Documents From The Estate Of Civil War Veteran Robert Y. Holley,
Including A Consular Appointment Signed By Grant
(MEMORABILIA—UNION) HOLLEY, Robert J. Naval document archive. No place, March 1852-June1886. Seven
documents of varying sizes, two albumen photographs, two manuscript leaves.
$3800.
40.
Archive of documents relating to the naval career of Civil War veteran Robert Y. Holley, including his consular
appointment to the Barbados signed by Ulysses S. Grant.
Robert Y. Holley (sometimes spelled ‘Holly’) was the grandson of Robert Holley, Esquire, of Vermont, a Revolutionary War
veteran. This archive of documents spans his career in the U.S. Navy, from his appointment as a midshipman to his
position as a U.S. Consul. Included in the archive are seven documents: (1) Printed document finished in manuscript,
dated March 16, 1852, granting Holley midshipman status and ordering him to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. (2)
Printed document finished in manuscript, dated September 3, 1861, Navy Department appointment designating Holley as
Acting Master and ordering him to report to the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. (3) Holley’s photogravure carte-de-visite,
dated November 1862 on the reverse and listing him as master on the U.S.S. Augusta. (4) Printed document finished in
manuscript (21 by 17 inches), dated April 16, 1869, appointing Holley U.S. Consul at Barbados, signed by President Ulysses
S. Grant and with his white paper seal. (6) Printed petition to President Grover Cleveland signed by 70 ship’s masters
requesting that Holley be retained as the U.S. Consul at Barbados. (7) Typed letter signed, dated June 10, 1886, from the
Navy Department, detailing Holley’s naval service. Also included are two albumen photographs on thin photographic
paper, one mounted on card stock, of unidentified groups of sailors in Union uniforms (mounted photograph approximately
7 by 4 inches on a 9 by 6-inch mount, unmounted photograph 9 by 6-3/4 inches); two undated manuscript leaves listing
“Vessels belonging to the United States Navy, with their designating numbers in numerical order—Extracted from the
General Signal Book,” with 497 ships listed and several color photocopies of related newspaper clippings from the Holley
family files. Holley served on the U.S.S. Norwich, a civilian steamship converted into a gunboat that was used to blockade
the coasts of Georgia and eastern Florida, from January to March 1862; on the U.S.S. Augusta, a civilian side-wheel steam
cruiser converted into a warship that was used to blockade Charleston during Holley’s March through August 1862 tour
of service; on the U.S.S. New Bern, a Navy blockading vessel and supply ship off the North Carolina coast, from October
1863 to March 1865, at which point Holly was given command of the U.S.S. New Bern; he commanded the U.S.S. New Bern
and the U.S.S. Massachusetts, originally an iron-screw steamship, until September 1867. Holley was appointed as U.S.
Consul at Barbados in 1869. Documents about fine. Carte-de-visite fine. Mounted photograph fine; creasing and closed
tears to very good unmounted photograph. A unique collection.
1-800-99-bauman
29
C i vil W a r
william mckinley
“Be It Known That Cadet Samuel Beck…”:
Collection Of Career Military Documents In Original Custom Metal-Gilt Tube
41. (MEMORABILIA—UNION) (MCKINLEY, William) BRECK, Samuel. Collection of military documents. West
Point, various printers, 1855-97. Seven items of various sizes, rolled into a contemporary 17-inch metal tube.
$7500.
Seven original documents relating to the career and family of Brigadier General Samuel Breck, Adjutant General of the
Army, including his diploma from West Point and his final commission signed by President McKinley. Housed in a
handsome contemporary black metal tube, hand-lettered in gilt.
Career officer Samuel Breck “graduated the United States Military Academy in 1855 and served in the Florida War of
1855-56. He was Assistant Professor of geography, history, and ethics at the Academy in 1860-61. During the Civil
War he served as Assistant Adjutant-General of McDowell’s division early in 1862… and [later in the year] of the
Department of the Rappahannock, being engaged in the occupation of Fredericksburg and the Shenandoah Valley
expedition” (Appleton’s). Breck received three brevets for war service (Boatner, 82). From 1870 onward he served in
Washington as Assistant Adjutant-General in charge of rolls, returns, and the preparation of the Volunteer Army
Register, under General George D. Ruggles, whom in 1897 he succeeded as Adjutant General of the Army with the
rank of Brigadier General (New York Times). This collection of seven military and family documents begins with
Breck’s ornately engraved diploma from the United States Military
Academy (1855) and ends with his final commission as Adjutant
General (1897), signed by President William McKinley and Secretary
of War Russell Alger. Documents in generally fine condition, rolled
to fit into contemporary metal tube.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
30
Vintage Civil War Parlor Game, With 12 Hand-Colored Playing Cards
42.
(MEMORABILIA—UNION)
McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS, publishers. Game of Visit to Camp. New
York, circa 1871. Twelve original
hand-colored pictorial charactercards, 71 (of 72) article-cards, original instruction booklet; original
wooden box with mounted chromolithographic lid label.
$2000.
Vintage card game in the context of
the Civil War, with 12 hand-colored
character-cards drawn by Justin
Howard, each with six accoutrements
to be displayed on demand during a
spoken reading of the game’s storyline. In original wooden storage box
with sliding lid.
Creators of the mechanical paper toy
“Jolly Jump-Ups” and early publishers of “Tiddledy Winks,” the New York publishing house McLoughlin Brothers “pioneered the systematic use of color printing technologies in children’s books, particularly between 1858 and 1920… During
the early years, the product line expanded to include non-book toys including games, blocks, and paper dolls… The firm’s
publications served to popularize illustrators including Thomas Nast, William Momberger, Justin Howard, Palmer Cox,
and Ida Waugh” (Laura Wasowicz). In February of 1871 McLoughlin Brothers moved its operations to 71 Duane Street (as
listed here on the lid label). The firm was sold to Milton Bradley in 1920. Nearly intact (missing only one small piece of 84).
Beautiful condition, despite minor chipping to booklet and box label.
“A Genuinely Tragic Book, Brave And Bitter”
43. (MEMOIR—CONFEDERATE) HOOD, John Bell. Advance and Retreat.
New Orleans, 1880. Octavo, period-style three-quarter tan calf.
$1200.
First edition of this dramatic Confederate memoir, with two full-page engraved
portraits and four maps, one folding.
Hood’s memoir focuses on his Confederate service, from his early involvement
at Second Manassas and Sharpsburg to his surrender at Natchez, Mississippi.
Though much admired as a divisional and corps commander, Hood’s aggressive tendencies helped to seal the fate of the Confederacy at the Battle of Atlanta.
Hood took over army command after Johnston’s removal and decided to move
his troops from their well-entrenched positions in and around Atlanta to attack
Sherman’s numerically superior forces. The resulting rout broke the last
Southern stronghold and freed the way for Sherman’s infamous march to the
sea. Of Advance and Retreat, Freeman wrote in The South to Posterity, “This is a
genuinely tragic book, brave and bitter, wistful and manly, touched with humor in the early chapters, grim in its recountal of the circumstances which defeated his final plan of operations.” Tall Cotton 93. Eicher 240. Wright 1051. Howes
H622. Early owner signature, dated 1896. Fine condition.
1-800-99-bauman
“The Southern States Had Rightfully The Power To Withdraw”
31
(MEMOIR—CONFEDERATE) DAVIS, Jefferson. The Rise and
Fall of the Confederate Government. New York, 1881. Two volumes.
Thick octavo, original publisher’s full tan sheep.
$2500.
C i vil W a r
44.
First edition of Jefferson Davis’ important history of the Confederacy,
with 18 maps (14 folding) and 19 plates, including stipple-engraved
portraits of Davis, members of the presidential staff, General Lee,
and others, quite scarce in handsome publisher’s binding.
“Every impartial reader must recognize the ability with which Davis’
history is composed, the sincerity with which his opinions are held and
the good faith with which they are set forth, and the value which it
possesses as the authentic commentary on the most momentous episode
in the history of the United States” (Allibone, Supplement I:461). Howes
D120. In Tall Cotton 34. Small owner bookplates. Text, plates and maps
fresh and clean. Joints corners and spine ends with expert restoration. A
handsome copy in contemporary calf.
Large Engraved Military Commission,
1856, Signed By Both President
Franklin Pierce And Secretary
Of War Jefferson Davis
45. DAVIS, Jefferson and PIERCE, Franklin.
Document signed (Military Commission).
Washington, DC, July 11, 1856. Folio, one sheet of
vellum measuring 13-1/2 by 17-1/2 inches, engraved,
finished in manuscript.
$3800.
Fine military commission, fully engraved on vellum
and finished in manuscript, signed by President
Franklin Piece and countersigned by then-Secretary
of War Jefferson Davis, future President of the
Confederacy.
“To aid the Democratic party in an uphill contest in
Mississippi in 1851, Davis resigned his Senate seat
and ran for governor. His personal popularity made
the contest close, but he lost and considered leaving
politics. In little more than a year, however, Davis
returned to public life as secretary of war in the administration of Franklin Pierce. He was a hardworking and competent secretary who stressed
promotions on merit, better training and expansions of the army’s arsenals, fortifications and size…
He strengthened the army technologically by converting flintlock muskets to rifles and supporting experiments with
breech-loading rifles and improved cannons. On grounds of national security he advocated a transcontinental railroad
and was delighted when surveys suggested that a southern route was most feasible” (ANB). Davis re-entered the Senate
in 1857; upon the outbreak of the Civil War, of course, he was elected the first (and only) President of the Confederate
States of America. With large ornamental vignettes of the American Eagle at top and military flags and regalia at bottom. Embossed paper seal affixed. For more on the career of recipient Samuel Breck, see item 41. Faint fold lines. A fine
document, signed by both Pierce and Davis.
1-800-99-bauman
First edition, presentation copy, of this story of “the bloodiest
man in American history” as told by a member of his band
of Confederate guerrillas, John McCorkle, to author O.S.
Barton, inscribed: “Presented to my friend Thomas Hand
by the writer, O.S. Barton. Carthage Mo. Feb 24-/16.”
C i vil W a r
32
“A Milestone Of Great Importance
In Confederate Literature”
46.
(MEMOIR—CONFEDERATE) LONGSTREET,
James. From Manassas to Appomattox. Philadelphia,
1896. Thick octavo, original three-quarter brown
morocco.
$1750.
First edition, with frontispiece portrait, 16 maps and 30
illustrations of battle sites and portraits, in scarce
publisher’s deluxe three-quarter morocco binding with
Longstreet’s portrait stamped in gilt on the front board.
“Longstreet’s tome is a milestone of great importance in
Confederate literature. It tells the story of the war in the
first person from one of the great generals of American
history, allows him to make his case… Longstreet here
provides ample documentation of his close relationships
with Lee” (Eicher). Contrary to myth, Longstreet, not
Stonewall Jackson, was Lee’s intimate confidant, close
friend, and principal military adviser (ANB).
“Longstreet’s reminiscences are basic to any study of
the Army of Northern Virginia” (In Tall Cotton 114),
and is “a necessary source for any study of Lee’s army”
(Nevins I:122). Dornbusch II: 2977; Eicher 277; Wright
664; ITC 114; Nevins I, 122; Howes L451. Gift
inscription. Light expert restoration to original
morocco. A handsome near-fine copy.
“An account of Quantrill and his activities, repeating legends
about this famous guerrilla… Also tells of some of the escapades of Cole Younger and Frank James while they were
members of the guerrillas” (Adams, Six Guns 76). Although
William Clarke Quantrill began his roving career of crime as
a bandit in Kansas, where he professed abolitionist sympathies, he got out of a sticky situation in Missouri by representing himself as a proslavery native of Maryland, joining
the Confederacy when war broke out. “Having helped regular Confederate forces capture Independence, Missouri, he
received a captain’s commission as a partisan ranger. By this
time he was the most notorious of the many ‘bushwhackers’
operating in Western Missouri. The climax of his career
came on 21 August 1863 when he led more than 300 guerrillas in a raid on Lawrence, Kansas, that resulted in the destruction of the business district and the massacre of 150
men and boys. This was the most atrocious event of its kind
during the Civil War, making Quantrill the most famous,
and infamous guerrilla chieftain of that conflict” (ANB).
Quantrill went on to attack Union troops at Baxter Springs,
killing nearly 100 of them. However, after that point, he encountered resistance from the Confederacy itself and then
from his own men, with the result that his own lieutenant,
Todd, supplanted him as leader of the guerrillas. He was
eventually captured and mortally wounded by a group of
Union guerrillas who hunted him down in 1865. He came to
be known as “the bloodiest man in American history.” This
work was taken from the recollections of John McCorkle, who
spent three years with Quantrill and later recounted his story
to author O.S. Barton. Dornbusch III:278. Wright M432. Graff
2581. Howes M63.
Chipping to extremities and some wear
to original wrappers.
A very good presentation copy.
Presentation Copy Of McCorkle And
Barton’s Three Years With Quantrell
47.
(MEMOIR—CONFEDERATE) (MCCORKLE,
John) BARTON, O.S. Three Years with Quantrell.
Armstrong, Missouri, 1914. Octavo, original black paper
wrappers.
$850.
1-800-99-bauman
“What You Did Not Hear During The War”
33
C i vil W a r
48. (MEMOIR—CONFEDERATE) NORTH, Thomas. Five Years in
Texas. Cincinnati, 1870. Octavo, original brown cloth.
$550.
Rare first edition of this “barbed commentary on the Lone Star State
during the war years” (Nevins I:138), in original cloth.
Written by a Northern businessman who took up the ministry to evade
the Confederate draft, this first-person Civil War narrative contains deep
insight into life in Texas during the war. Here, the author tempers biting
criticisms and harsh assessments of his neighbors and their behavior with
a generally amiable tone. Howes N193. Wright 183a. Marginal tears to
pages 187-88, light foxing mainly to preliminary and concluding pages,
light wear to extremities of cloth. Extremely good. Scarce.
Very Scarce 1861 Confederate Printing Of
Hardee’s Classic Tactical Manual—
The Copy Of A Confederate Artilleryman
49. (CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS) HARDEE, William Joseph. Rifle and Light
Infantry Tactics. New Orleans, 1861. Slim octavo, contemporary limp brown
cloth, pp. 102; custom clamshell box.
$3800.
One of a number of Confederate printings made during the first year of the Civil
War of this widely accepted tactical guide (first published in 1855), with in-text
wood-engravings illustrating various firing positions and 14 tipped-in diagrams of
field maneuvers. This copy belonged to Confederate engineer Lieutenant Colonel
Edward Ivy, who presented it to his
“distinguished
friend,”
Captain
Marshall McDonald, fellow prisoner
after the siege of Vicksburg.
Commander of the Army of Tennessee
and one of the great Confederate generals of the Civil War, William Hardee graduated the U.S. Military Academy
and served with Lee in the 2nd Cavalry. First published in 1855 and dubbed
“Hardee’s Tactics,” this scarce military manual soon became a standard work
on riflery and was adopted as a text-book for the Confederate army. Hardee’s
guide underwent numerous printings during the first year of the Civil War
throughout the South—though only eight copies of this scarce printing are
recorded (Parrish & Willingham). With title page vignette of a rifleman.
Parrish & Willingham 4867. The owner of this copy, Confederate Engineer
and Chief of Artillery Edward Ivy, was captured with Smith’s Brigade in the
fall of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. On July 26th, while awaiting his parole, Ivy
presented this copy to “his highly esteemed and distinguished friend, Capt.
M[arshall] McDonald,” Chief of Ordnance and fellow prisoner. Several pencil
annotations. Crease to front cover, faint dampstain to bottom margin, inner
hinge expertly repaired. An extremely good copy with intriguing provenance.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
34
“The Slave Found A Purse In The Ditch”: 1865
Confederate School Speller
50.
(CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS) CHAUDRON, Adelaide De V.
Chaudron’s Spelling Book, Carefully Prepared for Family and School
Use. Mobile, 1865. Small octavo, original self-wrappers; pp 48
$650.
Fifth edition of this popular Confederate speller, illustrated with numerous
woodcuts, in original wrappers.
Includes examples of alphabets in capital and lower case letters; roman,
italic, and Old English typefaces; and punctuation marks. One illustrated
alphabet woodcut depicts “Victory” for the letter V; another woodcut
depicts an alligator chasing a running slave. One review sentence reads,
“The slave found a purse in the ditch.” “These Confederate school-books
inculcate strong Southern sentiments” (Sabin 12287). Chaudron also
authored a popular series of school readers. Original paper wrappers
reinforced. Parrish & Willingham 7686. Sabin 12287. Interior fine with light
offsetting. Light soiling to paper wrappers and splitting along the spine,
sewing strong. A near-fine copy of a fragile rarity.
Presented By Confederate Senator Robert
Ward Johnson To His Son In The Army
(CONFEDERATE IMPRINTS) ROBINSON, R.H.P. General
Orders from the Adjunct and Inspector-General’s Office, Confederate
States Army, for the Year 1863. Richmond, 1864. Small octavo, original
pale yellow printed wrappers, contemporary blue wallet-style paper
protective wrapper; custom clamshell box.
$2500.
51.
First edition of this collection of Confederate General Orders for 1863,
“compiled and corrected under the authority of Gen’l S. Cooper,” inscribed
on the wrapper (and partially repeated on the title page), “To Capt. B.S.
Johnson by his father R.W. Johnson, Mch 1864. I will send those of 1864 as
soon as I can.”
Prepared and annotated by R.H.P. Robinson of the Adjutant and Inspector
General’s Office, this volume contains Confederate congressional acts and
army regulations regarding such matters as absences without leave, court
martial, “slaves, taken by, or employed in, army,” “citizens held in confinement,” and “stragglers and deserters,” with an “Analytical Index.” Parrish &
Willingham 2425. As of May 1864, the recipient of this copy, Major B.S. Johnson, had become Assistant Adjutant General
of Churchill’s Division of the 27th Arkansas Infantry (identified in manuscript of the protective cover). His father, Little
Rock attorney Robert Ward Johnson, was one of the richest men in the Confederate Congress. He had joined with
Congressman Hindman in carrying Arkansas out of the Union and into the Confederacy and was one of five Arkansans
elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress in May 1861. “He strongly supported the administration of President
Jefferson Davis, and by 1864 served on the powerful Military Affairs Committee, and chaired the Committee on Indian
Affairs. The South’s defeat bankrupted him and destroyed his political career” (James M. Woods). Faint foxing throughout, original stitching broken but text holding firm, moderate soiling to original wrappers. A very desirable copy with
distinguished association.
1-800-99-bauman
P relude
War
to
35
C i vil W a r
“Our Contest Will End In Blood And Disunion”:
First Edition Of The Key Remedy Speech By Leading South Carolina Nullifier Harper
(NULLIFICATION) [HARPER, William J.]. The Remedy by State Interposition, or Nullification… Charleston,
1832. WITH: [HAMILTON, James, MCDUFFIE, George et al.]. The State Rights and Free Trade Almanac for the Year
of our Lord 1832. Charleston, 1832. WITH: The State Rights and Free Trade Almanac for the Year of our Lord 1833.
Charleston, 1833. Three volumes. Octavo, original tan printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued, largely uncut.
$1600.
53.
First editions of three seminal works in South Carolina’s controversial call for nullification, with the first publication of a
foundational speech—The Remedy—by Harper, a leader in the Southern crisis that set a course for Civil War, this scarce
presentation copy with a laid-in autograph note signed by Harper, who authored the 1832 Ordinance for Nullification,
presenting this copy to U.S. Congressman Drayton. Along with the nullifiers’ 1832 and 1833 Almanacs, an exceptional
collection in original wrappers on the constitutional crisis that sparked Jackson’s 1832 Proclamation.
This scarce collection of three major works in South Carolina’s call for nullification, a searing constitutional challenge that
set the stage for Civil War, contains the first publication of a foundational speech—The Remedy by State Interposition—by
William Joseph Harper, a leading voice for nullification. ‘In an 1830 speech, given in Columbia and published two years
later as The Remedy by State Interposition [herein], Harper declared… the states… not the U.S. Supreme Court, stood as
‘authority of the last resort’ on the meaning of the Constitution” (ANB). 1832 Almanac with excepts from the Declaration
of Independence; 1833 Almanac with a printing of Harper’s Ordinance of Nullification. To President Andrew Jackson “the
action of the ‘Nullies’ was folly and madness” and he forcefully countered the nullification crisis with his December 1832
Proclamation (Houston, Critical Study, 116). Turnbull II:271; II:289. Sabin 30446; 87784. Light scattered foxing, faint
soiling to wrappers, Remedy with slight dampstaining, minor loss to right corners not affecting text, faint foldlines to
laid-in note. An extremely good collection.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
36
“Can There Be Nothing Pure In Government, Except The Exercise Of Mere Control?”:
Webster’s 1830 Senate Speech, A Major Step In The
Battle Of Words That Led To Civil War
52. WEBSTER, Daniel. Speech… on the Subject of the Public Lands, &c. Washington, 1830. Slim octavo,
disbound; pp. 28.
$450.
First edition of the seminal 1830 speech by Senator Daniel Webster, his eloquent defense of the Union in an increasingly
bitter debate over state rights that would escalate into Civil War.
“When Andrew Jackson’s first Congress met in December 1829, land sales as well as Indian policy demanded
the attention of the members.” As many southern states contested federal authority over the sale of public lands,
there emerged a powerful “political alliance of South and West under Jacksonian auspices, directed against New
England. Then Daniel Webster spoke up. ‘Sir, I rise to defend the East’ [18]” (Howe, 367-9). With that line, boldly
proclaimed in this January 20, 1830 speech, the celebrated Massachusetts senator established his formidable
pre-eminence in a battle of words that defined pre-Civil War tensions—a battle couched in an increasingly
vitriolic state-rights debate. “In an America where spoken rhetorical grandeur still carried weight in legislative
debates,” Webster was widely held as the Senate’s finest orator (Wilentz, 490). Text generally fresh with light
scattered foxing, tiny marginal pinholes from original stitching. A near-fine copy.
1-800-99-bauman
37
“Many Are Looking For Civil War, And Scenes Of Bloodshed”
(NULLIFICATION) [HAYNES, Robert Y., HARPER, William, TURNBULL, Robert J. and MCDUFFIE, George].
The Report, Ordinance, and Addresses of the Convention of the People of South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina,
1832. Octavo, original printed tan self wrappers, uncut; pp. 28; 15; 16.
$1600.
First edition of this scarce collection of pivotal 1832 documents proclaiming South Carolina’s fiery resistance to federal
authority, containing the incendiary Ordinance of Nullification, Turnbull’s Address to the People of South Carolina,
McDuffie’s Address to the People of the United States, and the Report of the Committee of Twenty One, authored by the
state’s next governor, key documents in the nullification battle that Andrew Jackson countered with his December 1832
proclamation that urged South Carolina to refuse the legacy of “authors on the first attack on the Constitution,” in
fragile original self wrappers, entirely uncut.
By the 1830s, many of South Carolina’s white citizens rose against federal authority, “motivated by a fundamental fear:
slave violence… and protective national tariffs.” In particular, passage of the 1828 Tariff “led the state to consider shattering
a union that seemed at best indifferent and at worst hostile” (Meacham, 53-4). In early 1832 a state convention assembled,
seeking to explain “nullification as the legitimate, peaceful and rightful remedy’” (Houston, Critical Study, 105). This led
to a subsequent convention of delegates, many of them nullifiers, that met in Charleston from November 19-24. There, on
the 22nd, Judge Colcock “introduced the Ordinance of Nullification. On Friday [Turnbull’s] Address to the People of South
Carolina was reported, and later an Address to the People of the United States was read by McDuffie.” This exceedingly
scarce first edition collection of those three crucial documents, rarely found with the title page of Report, Ordinance, and
Addresses, is completed by the convention’s Report of the Committee of the Twenty One, authored by Senator Robert Haynes,
the state’s next governor. On November 24th, the Ordinance of Nullification was adopted and its signing “was accompanied
with unusual solemnity; the seven old members of
the convention who had borne arms in the
Revolutionary War were called upon to affix their
signatures first” (Houston, 110-11).
Ultimately the Ordinance, drafted by former senator
William Harper, “expressed the determination of the
people of South Carolina not to submit… The die had
now been cast” (Houston, 111-12). Shortly after its
passage, a visitor observed: “Many are looking for
civil war, and scenes of bloodshed” (cited in
Meacham, 223). That December 4, in his Annual
Message to Congress, Andrew Jackson would adopt a
conciliatory tone to the nullifiers. Within days,
however, he issued his landmark Proclamation of
December 10, soundly attacking nullification as
“incompatible with the existence of the Union.” In
addressing the people of South Carolina, Jackson
urged them not to be remembered “as the authors of
the first attack on the Constitution of your country.
Its destroyers you cannot be.” Tiny marginal pinholes
from original stitching. Sabin 87428; 87423; 87427.
Turnbull II:265-266; II:273. With small occasional
inked pagination. Text generally fresh with light
scattered foxing, faint occasional dampstaining,
slight edge-wear to fragile uncut leaves and wrappers.
An extremely good copy of this seminal work in
America’s pre-Civil War history.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
54.
C i vil W a r
38
“Decide For Yourselves, Before The Power Of Deciding Is Taken”:
Scarce Collection Of Five First Edition Pamphlets, 1831-2,
Key Unionist Works In South Carolina’s War Of Words Over Nullification
(NULLIFCIATION) HUGER, Alfred. A Letter to the People of Spartanburgh District. Columbia, December 5,
1832. WITH: [MIDDLETON, Henry]. Prospects of Disunion. Part I. South Carolina, 1832. WITH: [MIDDLETON,
Henry, LEGARÉ, Hugh et al]. Manifesto and Resolutions of the Constitutional State Rights & Union Party…
Charleston, 1831. WITH: [TAYLOR, Thomas et al.]. The Report of the Committee of the Convention of the Union and
State Rights Party… Columbia, 1832. WITH: [WASHINGTON SOCIETY]. Address of the Washington Society to the
People of South-Carolina. Charleston, 1832. Five volumes. Octavo, original tan printed self-wrappers, loose signatures
or stitched as issued, uncut and partially unopened.
$950.
55.
First editions of five major pamphlets in South Carolina’s war over nullification—a stark challenge of federal constitutional
authority and a major step toward Civil War—with key anti-nullification (Unionist) works urging restraint in a battle
ultimately settled by Andrew Jackson’s assertion of federal rule in his forceful 1832 Proclamation. An important collection
in original wrappers.
With passage of unpopular federal tariffs, many in South Carolina urged nullification, arguing “the Union could survive
only if the states, as the original parties to the Constitution, had the means to nullify a law if and until the Constitution
were to be specifically amended” (Meacham, 184). John Calhoun led the nullifiers, while restraint was urged by Unionists
such as Alfred Huger, Hugh S. Legaré and Henry Middleton—whose positions are pre-eminent in this scarce collection.
By late 1832 “roving bands of armed Unionists and nullifiers confronted each other nightly. Nullifier rhetoric bristled
with attacks on majority rule” and Unionists insisted “that South Carolina’s interests were far more secure inside the
Union than outside” (Wilentz, 378). Generally fresh with light scattered foxing, occasional faint dampstaining, Address of
the Washington Society with closed tears affecting text. An extremely good collection of scarce pre-Civil War works.
1-800-99-bauman
39
C i vil W a r
“Rivals Dred Scott V. Sanford In Historical Importance”
56. (SLAVERY) (PRIGG, Edward) PETERS, Richard. Report of the Case of Edward Prigg… In which it was Decided
that All the Laws of the Several States Relative to Fugitive Slaves are Unconstitutional and Void. Philadelphia, 1842.
Octavo, period-style full speckled calf gilt.
$4200.
First edition of United States Supreme Court decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, the momentous first Court ruling
directly addressing the Constitution’s Fugitive Slave Clause, a pivotal step toward increased sectional conflict and Civil
War, beautifully bound.
“In 1837 Edward Prigg, a professional slave catcher from Maryland, seized Margaret Morgan, a fugitive slave residing in
Pennsylvania… He then acted unilaterally and, in contravention of Pennsylvania law, took Morgan back to Maryland
without any state process.” With that Prigg violated an 1826 Pennsylvania law that conflicted with Congress’s 1793
Fugitive Slave Act and its provisions, and crucially heightened the battle over federal supremacy sparked by a national
divide over slavery. “Prigg was subsequently indicted for kidnapping… [and] extradited to Pennsylvania. There he was
tried and convicted. In a pro forma hearing, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed this conviction, and the case was
then taken to the United States Supreme Court… With one justice, John McLean, dissenting, the Court held the
Pennsylvania Act of 1826 unconstitutional as an interference with congressional power. The conviction of Prigg was
reversed.” In writing for the Court, Justice Story noted, “Few questions which have ever come before this Court involve
more delicate and important consideration.”
Legal scholars argue that “the decision in Prigg ultimately became an antislavery weapon” in prompting passage of the
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (Finkelman, 60-2). Others, however, note that Prigg ominously advances, to a “remarkable
extent… the involvement of the federal government in the protection of slavery,” generating an impact that “rivals Dred
Scott v. Sanford in historical importance” (Fehrenbacher, Dred Scott Case, 43). Occurring almost immediately after
announcement of the ruling, this first edition printing of Prigg also distinguishes it as “an unusually rare instance of
‘instant’ mass communication in the 19th century” (Finkelman, 62-3). Sabin 61207. Harvard Law Catalogue II:1169.
Library stamp and notation. Light scattered foxing, near-fine.
1-800-99-bauman
“The Formation Of A Southern Confederacy”
40
C i vil W a r
57. DE SAUSSURE, W.F. Report on the Address of a Portion of the Members
of the General Assembly of Georgia. Charleston, 1860. Slim octavo, original
tan printed wrappers; pp.6.
$1500.
First edition of one of the very first Confederate imprints, De Saussure’s
December 22, 1860 Report alerting Georgia to passage—only two days
earlier—of the Ordinance of Secession by South Carolina, the first state to
secede from the Union, triggering the secession of six more states over the
next six weeks, including Georgia on January 19, 1861. An exceedingly scarce
work, rarely found in original wrappers.
This December 22, 1860 Report, one of the very earliest Confederate imprints,
is signed in print by William F. De Saussure, delegate to the South Carolina
Secession Convention and signer of the state’s Ordinance of Secession, which
was passed two days before. Here De Saussure urges Georgia, South Carolina’s
southern neighbor, to follow its lead, and emphasizes that his state had not
desired “to take the lead in secession.” He points out that an Address of the
General Assembly of Georgia, which had urged postponing any state’s secession until a meeting of a Convention of the
Southern States, was not received “until just before the Ordinance of Secession was put upon its passage” (3). With South
Carolina’s electrifying action, “‘a snowballing process’ began that over the next six weeks, six additional states followed
suit—Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas” (Goodwin, Team of Rivals, 293.). ‘The rapidity and
vehemence of the secession movement” was a fearful sign of a nation tearing itself apart (Goodwin, 294). Turnbull
III:320. Wright II:R304. Parrish & Willingham 3185. Sabin 27093. Text fresh, small bit of faint dampstaining, slight edgewear to fragile wrappers. An extremely good copy of this important Civil War document.
“A Government Of The People…
Not A Government Of The States”
58. STREIGHT, Abel. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty… Its
Cause, And How It Should Be Met. Indianapolis, 1861. Octavo, original
printed tan wrappers sympathetically rebacked.
$850.
First edition of this forceful defense of the Union by Streight, who served as
the Indiana Governor’s “personal emissary to Abraham Lincoln” before
commanding the 51st Indiana Volunteer Regiment, then serving under
Grant in a campaign that ended with Streight’s capture and daring escape
from a Confederate prison.
Abel Streight had just opened a publishing firm in Indiana when Civil War
loomed. “Streight deeply believed that the North should go to war, if
necessary, to preserve the Union of the United States. He used his writing
and publishing skills to produce a brief book, The Crisis of 1861.” On
publication, Governor Morton sent Streight “to Springfield, Illinois as his
personal emissary to Abraham Lincoln. Hence Streight was appointed a
Colonel” in the Union Army, commanding the 51st Indiana Volunteer
Infantry Regiment (Baughman, Boys from Lake County, 248-50). This scarce
first edition of Streight’s self-published Crisis cites the Constitution and passages from the Federalist, prints Jackson’s
1832 Proclamation (41-64), and includes excerpts from a key Senate speech by Daniel Webster and the Missouri
Compromise in order to emphatically argue “that this is a government of the people collectly [sic], and not a government
of the States.” See Boatner, 811; Nevins I:200. Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, minor edge-wear with bit of
loss to corner of rear wrapper not affecting text. An extremely good copy of this elusive work.
1-800-99-bauman
in
L iterature
C i vil W a r
The War
41
“War Changes Many Things; But It Doesn’t Change
Everything, Thank God!”
CRANE, Stephen. The Little Regiment And Other Episodes of the
American Civil War. New York, 1896. Octavo, original tan cloth, uncut. $700.
59.
First edition, first issue, of the first publication in book form of six Crane short
stories, including “The Veteran,” which tells “the end of Henry Fleming, whose
beginning was so astonishingly set forth in The Red Badge of Courage” (New
York Times), in original cloth.
The six powerful war stories in The Little Regiment earned Stephen Crane further
renown as a writer of “unusual intuitive power” (New York Times). Prompted by
his publisher’s commission to tour Civil War battlefields, the volume features “A
Mystery of Heroism,” which was “Crane’s first story after having actually
witnessed combat” (Sorrentino, Student Companion to Stephen Crane, 77), and
closes with “The Veteran,” which memorably “tells of the end of Henry Fleming,
whose beginning was so astonishingly set forth in The Red Badge of Courage [1895]” (New York Times). First issue, with
“Gilbert Parker’s Best Books” on page 197, and top edge orange, as called for. Without original dust jacket, rarely found.
BAL 4076. Bruccoli & Clark, 80. Faint library inkstamp not affecting text (184). Text generally fresh, front free endpaper
excised, trace of plate removal to front pastedown, light edge-wear, soiling to cloth with library shelf label to spine end.
A very good copy.
“What Flower Is This That Greets The Morn, Its Hues From Heaven
So Freshly Born?”: Illustrated With 50 Patriotic Chromolithographs
60. FURBISH, Julia A.M., editor and illustrator. The Flower of
Liberty. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1869. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial salmon
cloth gilt.
$1850.
Early edition of this patriotic poetry anthology celebrating the
conclusion of the Civil War, illustrated with 50 chromolithographs
after Furbish’s watercolor paintings of the American flag and other
national emblems, in publisher’s pictorial cloth-gilt.
After the Civil War, Furbish collected and illustrated, with 50
chromolithographs after her own watercolor paintings, this
poetry anthology to honor “gentlemen of the Army and Navy
and… all lovers of our glorious flag and the institutions which
it symbolizes and protects.” Includes verse by Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Whitier, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Longfellow,
Emerson, Julia Ward Howe and many more. First published in
Boston, 1866. All early editions are quite scarce. Scattered light
foxing. Light dampstaining to front free endpaper, title page and
first several leaves. Faint offsetting to pages 30-[31]. Cloth lightly
worn. A very good copy.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
42
“He Loved His Country As No Other Man Has Loved Her”
HALE, Edward Everett. The Man Without a Country. Boston, 1865.
12mo, original printed pink self-wrappers, pp. 23; custom chemise and half
morocco slipcase.
$1500.
61.
First edition, first issue, of Hale’s classic tale of American patriotism, in
original wrappers.
Contrary to popular belief, Hale’s story was not based on fact, but was instead
“inspired by the remark of Congressman Vallandigham that he did not wish
to live in a country that supported Lincoln’s administration, and was written
to arouse patriotism during the Civil War” (Hendrickson, 95). “One of the
best short stories written by an American, and representing Hale at his best
as a writer of fiction with a purpose” (DAB). The story was first published in
The Atlantic Monthly in December 1863. This copy is without publisher’s
announcement slip, as are all first issues. Wright II, 1056. Sabin 29627. Owner
signatures on title page. Back wrapper gone, some creasing to edges of front
wrapper. Internally clean. A wonderful copy of a fragile landmark.
“My Dear, I Don’t Give A Damn”
MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York, 1936.
Thick octavo, original gray cloth, dust jacket.
$7500.
62.
First edition, in first-issue dust jacket, of Mitchell’s sweeping story of
romance and resolve against the backdrop of the Civil War.
“This is beyond doubt one of the most remarkable first novels produced
by an American writer. It is also one of the best… It has been a long
while since the American public has been offered such a bounteous feast
of excellent story-telling” (New York Times Book Review, 1936). Said to
be the fastest selling novel in the history of American publishing (50,000
copies in a single day), Gone with the Wind won Mitchell the Pulitzer
Prize. First printing, with “Published May 1936” on the copyright page
and no mention of other printings. First issue dust jacket with Gone with
the Wind listed in second column of booklist on back panel. Books of the
Century, 111. Eicher 730. In Tall Cotton 125. Paper clip impressions to
first few leaves. Interior clean. Cloth with light rubbing to spine ends.
Price-clipped dust jacket with expert restoration, extremely good.
1-800-99-bauman
“A Different Story From The One You Learned In School”
43
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, one of the most popular
and acclaimed works of Civil War fiction.
“Stephen Crane once said that he wrote The Red Badge of Courage because
reading the cold history was not enough; he wanted to know what it was
like to be there, what the weather was like, what men’s faces looked like. In
order to live it he had to write it. This book was written for much the same
reason” (Shaara). “A book that changed my life… I had never visited
Gettysburg, knew almost nothing about that battle before I read the book,
but here it all came alive” (Ken Burns). “One of the greatest American
historical novels and among the finest fictional treatments of the Civil
War” (Chronology of American Literature). Contemporary owner’s initials.
Book fine, dust jacket very nearly so. A lovely copy.
“The Grandfather Of Civil War Novels”
64. TUCKER, Nathaniel Beverly. The Partisan Leader. New York,
1861. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt.
$400.
Second edition of this forerunner of the modern political novel,
published in 1861 as the nation divided against itself in years of
bloody conflict, preceded only by a suppressed 1836 publication, a
fascinating work that offered “a prophetic foretelling of the Civil
War” (Howes T394).
This early American political novel, with its “a prophetic foretelling of
the Civil War,” was issued in 1861 after an 1836 edition was immediately
suppressed on publication (Howes T394). The Partisan Leader “is an
important book… This is the grandfather of Civil War novels. It was
written as an anti-Jackson and Van Buren document in the guise of
fiction and published surreptitiously in Washington in 1836, with a
fictitious imprint date of 1856. The Partisan Leader describes a war
centering in the southwestern mountains of Virginia in which the
South is victorious. It was republished in New York in 1861 as antiConfederate propaganda and then in Richmond in 1862 as pro-Confederate propaganda. The Southern Literary Messenger
declared in 1862 (XXXIV, 400): “The Partisan Leader supplies a great desideratum… Interesting as a novel, surprising as a
work of prophecy, and invaluable as an incentive to the prosecution of the existing struggle, and an assurance of our
ultimate success, it cannot fail to meet with universal favor” (In Tall Cotton 182). Two volumes issued in one: also issued
in a two-volume edition, no priority established. With two internal title pages containing the fictitious imprint of 1856
and Tucker’s pseudonym of Edward William Sidney. Sabin 97374. BAL 20586. See Parrish & Willingham 6586. Bookplate.
Owner signature. Bookseller ticket. Text fresh and clean, lightest edge-wear to gilt-lettered cloth. A near-fine copy.
1-800-99-bauman
C i vil W a r
63. SHAARA, Michael. The Killer Angels. New York, 1974. Octavo,
original blue-gray cloth, dust jacket.
$3800.
“The Social Impact… Was Greater Than
That Of Any Book Before Or Since”
C i vil W a r
44
65. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Negro Life in
the Slave States of America. London, 1852. Octavo, original giltillustrated blue cloth.
$2000.
Early Clarke edition of this influential novel, with 40 illustrations, issued
the same year as the first English edition (un-illustrated), also published
by Clarke.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was immediately successful upon its publication in
book form, and publishers in England, where there was a large and vocal
anti-slavery contingent, were quick to issue their own editions of the
controversial novel. This is an early Clarke printing, issued the same year
as the true first English edition, also published by Clarke; this edition
contains 380 pages and 40 illustrations, rather than 329 pages in the first
un-illustrated Clarke printing. “In the emotion-charged atmosphere of
mid-19th century America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared
as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack
on ‘the Southern way of life’… the social impact of [the novel] on the United States was greater than that of any book before
or since” (PMM 332). Publisher’s ticket on rear endpaper. BAL 19518. See Grolier English 100, 91 and Grolier American
100, 61. A beautiful unrestored copy, with only light rubbing to extremities.
“Dred, I Will—I’ll Do As You Tell Me—I Will Not Be A Slave!”
STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal
Swamp. Boston, 1856. Two volumes. Octavo, original blind-stamped
brown cloth.
$700.
66.
First edition of Stowe’s second novel, sequel to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
First printing of both volumes, in binding “A” with pale yellow
endpapers, in original cloth.
Dred “complements Uncle Tom’s Cabin by showing the demoralizing
influence of slavery on the whites. [The titular character] Dred is
modeled on Nat Turner” (Hart, 211). Dred is an escaped slave who lives
in the Great Dismal Swamp, preaching violent retribution for the evils
of slavery while rescuing escapees from the dogs of the slavecatchers.
BAL 19389. Early bookseller’s ticket tipped into front of each volume.
Light scattered foxing; a few signatures mildly embrowned. Original
cloth generally clean and fresh, with tiny pinprick hole to rear board of
Volume II. An extremely good copy in original cloth.
1-800-99-bauman

1 Civil War Lithograph Of The First Refreshment Saloon

Transcription

Similar documents

Canadian firm pays $35M for Lincoln Road shop

Glass instructions

HR-2510

Shop Online: JamiMark.norwex.biz

Vintage Guitar Approved Gear

2012-02 Awards - Lincoln Builders

NEW MEMBER INCENTIVE SHEET

waterloo news

14 Watling Close, Bracebridge Heath, Lincoln, LN4 2BD