![Item #3834 Rosa. A Slave Girl from New Orleans [caption title]. Abolition, Photography,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3834.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692887159)
New York: S. Tackaberry, [1864]. Carte de visite photograph, 3.25 x 2 inches, on a slightly larger printed mount. Minor soiling and spotting, light edge wear. One of a series of CDVs featuring recently freed slaves produced in 1863-64 as part of a fundraising effort in the American South. This..... 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
[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
Chicago: [ca. 1863]. [2]pp., printed on the same side of a quarto sheet and folded, sheet size 8.25 x 11 inches. Original mailing folds, light foxing. With original transmittal envelope addressed to A. Kingsbury in Cassopolis, Michigan. An ephemeral advertising flyer touting insurance against the military draft during the Civil..... More
Natchez & New Orleans: 1864-1865. Eighty-seven & sixty-three orders for each year, respectively. Lacking five for 1864 (1, 2, 70, 72, 90) and three for 1865 (27, 41, 44). Contemporarily stitched with ribbon. Minor soiling and wear to outer leaves. A few orders with manuscript signatures. Extensive run of General..... 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](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2769.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&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
[Various locations, mostly in Georgia and Florida: mainly 1856-1876]. Sixty manuscript letters and documents, totaling approximately 110pp., plus a handful of drawings and a manuscript architectural sketch. Some wear and occasional chipping and minor losses to letters. Occasional minor repairs. An eclectic and wide-ranging archive containing unique reportage of antebellum..... 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
[Annapolis, Md; Petersburg, Va.; and Knob Noster, Mo. 1864-1868. Three manuscript letters: [4]; [2]; and [3]pp. First letter with retained envelope. Original mailing folds to all letters, minor soiling to second letter. A well-preserved group. An eclectic and informative trio of manuscript letters written by Corporal John A. Falconer, a...... More
Washington DC: [1864]. Albumen photograph, 5 x 8 inches, on a "Brady Washington" studio mount measuring 6 x 9 inches. Top left corner creased, light spotting to photo and mount, minor soiling to image. A striking photograph from the Washington, D.C. studio of Mathew Brady, capturing the scene in a...... 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
[New Orleans]: 1864. Broadside, 21 x 6 inches, on thin paper. Old folds, moderate toning, occasional small marginal chipping, tip of lower left corner chipped, light offsetting to itself while folded. A scarce Civil War-era broadside from Union-occupied New Orleans. The Varieties Theatre on Gravier Street in New Orleans was..... 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
[N.p. ca. 1866-1868]. Broadside, 25.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in eight columns. Old folds, a bit frayed at the edges, short closed tear at bottom affecting a few words, minor loss in five columns along one fold line. An unrecorded broadside printing of Indiana Senator Oliver P. Morton's speech on..... 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
![Item #3882 [Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture]. Slavery, 13th Amendment, Abraham Lincoln](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3882.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686593239)
New York: Powell & Company, 1865. Oval-shaped photographic collage, measuring 20 x 16 inches at apex points. Old wooden frame with gilt decorative border by Marshall Field and Company. Some chipping and craquelure to frame. Occasional small fox spots to photograph, but otherwise in excellent condition. May have been trimmed..... More