In Wallpaper Wrappers
Joseph II and His Court ... from the...
Mobile, [Alabama]: S.H. Goetzel; Farrow & Bennett, Printers, 1864. First edition in English. In Wallpaper Wrappers. Rare and... Read More
Price: $1,500
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Confederate Arms.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company, [1957]. First edition, deluxe issue, number 23, Signed by both Authors. Deluxe Issue. Read More
Price: $750
Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of Representatives, January...
Washington: M'Gill & Withrow, 1861. Concerning what Garnett considered the disastrous economic and political consequences of the emancipation of slaves: "...the destruction of southern wealth and industry will be almost complete...You may substitue the slavery of the law...but you will get not half work; and in destroying the personal and... Read More
Price: $100
The Life of Turner Ashby.
New York: The Neale Publishing Co, 1914. First edition. Read More
Price: $300
Inside: A Chronicle of Secession. By George F. Harrington.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. A novel of Southern society during the Civil War. Read More
Price: $200
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861-1865).
Washington, D.C: General Printing Office, 1875. Second Issue (Vol. III, 1 first edition). Read More
Price: $2,000
Struggles and Triumphs or, Forty Years’ Recollections.
Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1879. Author's Edition. Revised and Enlarged, Newly Illustrated and Written up to December, 1878. Read More
Price: $200
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1928. First edition, one of 500 copies uncut. Read More
Price: $250
"Bonnie Blue Flag" with Seal of Maryland on right.
New York: Chas. Magnus, nd (c.)1863. Read More
Price: $250
The New-York Tribune. Containing front-page story of the apprehension and death of John Wilkes Booth.
New York: New-York Tribune, Friday, April 28, 1865. Vol. XX, No. 2,079. Read More
Price: $175
The Tax-Payer's Manual; Containing the Entire Internal Revenue Laws, With the Tables of Taxation, Exemption, Stamp-Duties, &c., and a Complete...
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1866. First edition. Our first attempt at a graduated Income Tax to help finance the Civil War. Read More
Price: $300
ON CIVIL WAR
5 Autograph Letters, Signed. to various recipients. Some interesting thoughts on our Civil War.
Rochdale: 1858-1866. ON CIVIL WAR. John Bright was Liberal Quaker statesman and a great orator. His thoughts here about the Civil War are very sharp. Read More
Price: $450
Confederate Imprint
By-Laws of the Orphan House of Charleston South Carolina. Revised and Adopted by the Board of Commissioners 4th April 1861.
Charleston: Steam Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. First edition. Confederate Imprint. Read More
Price: $150
Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph
“The Famous War Engine 'General' of the Western & Atlantic R.R. Now on Permanent Exhibition in Union Depot, Chattanooga, Tenn.”...
n.p: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, n.d. Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph. An absolutely brilliant chromolithograph, printed on heavy coated stock, its clarity of detail putting most examples of this medium to shame. Caption states: “The 'General' was captured at Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Ga. April 12, 1862, by... Read More
Price: $750
Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1907. First Edition. A detailed biography of the colorful financier (1821-1905), whose firm marketed the huge Civil War loans of the Federal Government; whose marketing of its bonds enabled the Northern Pacific Railroad to expand to the Dakotas; and whose firm's eventual closing precipitated the Panic... Read More
Price: $250
Rare and Fragile Civil War Map
Phelps and Watson's Historical Military Map of the Border and Southern States.
New York: Phelps & Watson, Publishers, 16 Beekman St, 1864. Rare and Fragile Civil War Map. Fragile and very scarce map from the Civil War, this copy being issued after May, 1864, as the final entry on the accompanying booklet listing skirmishes concludes with 'spotsylvania, Pa." The map itself locates... Read More
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Blue Jackets of ’61. A History of the Navy in the War of Secession.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1886. Mcvickar. First edition. An unusual item with a very handsome cover. Read More
Price: $150
Autograph letter signed "J. W. Bishop" to Daniel Aldrich, a lawyer in Warren or Washington Counties, New York.
258 Henry Street, New York: 13 November, 1861. Bishop writes Aldrich regarding a legal case concerning a lien on some property, in the post script he writes "The news from the South today is cheering-important & fully confirmed. Our troops have taken Port Royal, 2 or 3 forts & made... Read More
Price: $250
Original Acrostics, on Some of the Southern States, Confederate Generals, and Various Other Persons and Things.
St Louis: Published for the Author at Southwestern Book and Publishing Co, 1869. First edition. Read More
Price: $200
United States Register, or Blue Book, for 1861-62 containing a List of all the Principal Officers of the Federal Government...
New York: Published by Charles Scribner, [1861]. First edition. The Appendix contains Lincoln's and Jefferson Davis' statements regarding the secession, the Blockade and Davis' encouragement of privateers and his providing letters of marque. The map is by J. H. Colton, copyright 1855, on thin paper, colored in wash, about 14 x.... Read More
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Reply of Major-General W.B. Franklin to the Jont Committee of Congress on the Conduct of the War, on the First...
New York: D. Van Nostrand, No. 192 Broadway, 1867. Second edition. Read More
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The First Battle of Modern Naval History.
Richmond, VA: The House of Dietz, 1943. First edition, one of 199 copies numbered and autographed by the author, this being copy 41. With inscription “En route overseas 8/13/43 Garland Evans Hopkins Chaplain, A. U. S.”¶ This volume describes the battle between the C. S. S. Virginia [generally called the... Read More
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The Army of the Potomac: Its Organization, Its Commander, and Its Campaign … Translated from the French, With Notes, by...
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1862. Copyright Edition. Read More
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![Battle of Fort Donelson. Capture of Genl. S. B. Buckner, February 16th 1862. [Chromolithographic print]. Civil War, Louis Kurz.](/pictures/thumb/40276.jpg?v=1490998301)
Battle of Fort Donelson. Capture of Genl. S. B. Buckner, February 16th 1862. [Chromolithographic print].
Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1887. Kurz was the most prolific Civil War artist of the nineteenth century and he is most famous for the 36 chromolithographs of Civil War battles. Read More
Price: $450