Washington DC: Beresford, 1904. viii,228pp., plus photographic portrait frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt spine titles. Small chip at spine head, minor edge wear. Clean internally. A tight, square copy. The rare first edition of W. Bishop Johnson's excellent collection of twenty-six orations delivered by the African-American Baptist minister from the..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1866. 136pp., including portrait frontispiece of Abraham Lincoln. Original brown cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover, recased, with later black backstrip and new endpapers. Boards worn and a bit stained. Loss to bottom portion of frontipiece, costing most of Lincoln's name but not touching..... More
New York: 1863. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Very minor edge wear. Light foxing on text edges, but clean internally. A tight, square copy. A rare work containing important information on the New York City Draft Riots, including first-hand accounts by African-American victims of the bloody events in mid-July 1863. Between..... More
Boston: 1862. Broadside, 14.25 x 6.25 inches. Slightly rumpled, light soiling. Lightly tanned. One of the earliest playbills to use John Wilkes Booth's infamous surname, advertising his appearance as Charles De Moor in Friedrich Schiller's play "The Robbers," from the third night of his first Boston engagement. Booth's performance in..... More
[Washington, D.C. ca. 1895]. 16pp., plus illustrated frontispiece. Original printed orange wrappers. Minor chipping and some separations along spine, small abrasion to front wrapper, tiny bookseller label affixed to inner rear wrapper. A latter day Civil War memoir written by a Union chaplain named J.H. Bradford, in which he recounts..... More
[Providence: Hiram H. Thomas and Co., late December, 1865]. Letterpress broadside, 17.5 x 12 inches, printed in double columns, with decorative floral border. Old folds, two folds neatly strengthened on verso, other folds tender, bottom third darkened. A rare newspaper carrier's address closing out the fateful year of 1865 and..... More
New Orleans: December 26, 1862. [1]p. Old folds, short closed edge tear, one repaired edge tear. A rare general order from the Department of the Gulf, issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks as he was taking over command of the Union's western forces in December 1862. This order, dated December..... More
![Item #2769 Sabine Cross Roads, Near Mansfield, La. [caption title]. Civil War, William R. Moore](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2769.jpg?v=1645546092)
[Most likely Baton Rouge or New Orleans, La. 1864 or 1865]. Printed broadside, 14.25 x 6.25 inches, with text printed in two columns inside a decorative border. Old folds, even toning, minor foxing and creasing, small marginal chip to left margin. A Civil War commemorative poem in forty quatrains memorializing..... More
[Various locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas: 1862-1866]. About 200 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 600 pages, including both war-date letters and manuscript letters dated before the Civil War, mostly written in ink, with a few in pencil, most with original transmittal envelopes; plus five photographs and several other..... More
[Way Key, Fl. 1865]. Partially-printed muster roll completed in manuscript, approximately 21 x 31 inches. Old folds, some separations at crossfolds (as usual), minor wear and soiling. A rare muster roll recording details of the service of an African-American infantry company while stationed in Florida during the final year of..... More
Boston: Combination Publishing Company, [1886]. Broadsheet, 11.75 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, a few slight losses not affecting text. Lightly soiling and moderate wear. Ephemeral broadsheet advertising a new book, "A True Romance of the Rebellion" by Cyrus S. Haldeman, a veteran of the Civil War. "The story is unusually..... More
[N.p., but most likely Newark, N.J. 1864]. Letterpress broadside, printed in two columns, 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds, small chip to top outer margin, two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of..... More
[New Orleans: ca. December 24, 1862]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor creasing, a couple of short closed edge tears, light fraying to bottom edge, three small tape repairs to inner fold. An extraordinary document issued by General Nathaniel Banks in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1862, in which..... More
Topeka: W.Y. Morgan, 1902. 154pp. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly worn. Minor toning to text. “A reprint of Appendix 4 to the Adjutant General’s Thirteenth Biennial Report.”. More
New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1867. 34pp. plus photographic frontispiece. Original black cloth, cover stamped gilt. Light wear to spine and corners, minor soiling. Internally clean. Memorial volume for Captain Edward Lines, who served with the Kansas Cavalry during the Civil War and was killed in action on September..... More
Baton Rouge: J.M. Taylor, 1861. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Moderate staining, some chipping along fold line repaired with tissue, gutter reinforced with tape. A very rare Confederate imprint issued by the government of Louisiana in an attempt to reduce the cost of public printing by avoiding duplication. The..... More
[Various places in Missouri & Illinois: 1861-1862]. Five letters, totaling [18]pp. Previously folded. Minor wear and dust soiling. Accomplished in a highly legible script. A highly detailed and well written group of five letters by Jotham Tilden Moulton III (1836-1909) that describe his experience during the beginning of the Civil..... More
Towanda, Pa. December 24, 1862. Broadside, 17.75 x 12 inches. Old folds, minor offsetting, scattered foxing. An apparently unrecorded and important broadside issued by the Pennsylvania state government during the Civil War, laying out measures for the collection of excise taxes by the newly constituted Internal Revenue Service. The Revenue..... More
Rochester: 1862. 132pp. 12mo. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Corners bumped, moderate wear to corners and spine ends, cloth lightly soiled. Minor scattered foxing. Poetry written by a woman in Rochester, much of it with a Civil War theme. Among these is a poem entitled "The..... More
Sioux City: 1878. Broadsheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Minor soiling, lightly toned. Trimmed unevenly along bottom edge. Broadsheet advertising the land services of Daniel H. Talbot, a speculator and land agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. "Having but recently made a visit to the state, and with the aid of..... More
Brazoria: November 12, 1861. Broadside, 12.5 x 8.25 inches. Old folds with short separations, a few small edge chips and one small hole in the right margin, not touching text, extensive contemporary iron gall ink manuscript annotations on both sides, with minor ink burn in a few places costing a...... More