Search Results: CIVIL WAR from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co, 1865. Very good condition. Review concerning the Union General Benjamin Butler, notorious for issuing "The Woman Order" (General Order No. 28) during the 6 months (May - October 1862) he was the military governor of New Orleans. It essentially ordered that any woman showing contempt for a Union soldier, "shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation", in other words, a prostitute. Butler, nicknamed "The Beast", was also charged with looting gold and other valuables from New Orleans mansions and banks, the subject of this review. 8vo, 27pp. Tan printed wrappers, title in black at front wrapper. Wrappers a bit sunned. OCLC: 5728749.

1887. Very good overall. A manuscript letter along with an unrecorded handbill of Henry C. Dane. Major Henry Dane was a Civil War veteran who made his way to Australia and New Zealand in 1887 as a lecturer. He began as a wheelwright, then enlisted at age 29 in Cambridge, 4 Oct., 1862, and mustered in as 1st Lieutenant. He received a commission as Captain of Co. "F", Third Massachusetts Calvary Regiment. He was promoted to Brevet Major 13 March, 1865. He resigned his post 15 May, 1865, and became an attorney at law practicing in the District of Columbia. In 1873 he is listed as a partner of Dane & Baker in Boston, MA. In 1880-81 he traveled to Chicago lecturing. He became a resident of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia in 1875 and reviews of his lectures appear in Sydney Morning Herald and National Library Newspaper in 1887,1888, 1891. His letter speaks fondly of his friend Henry Allison of Fitchburg, MA and describes the beautiful trees, ferns, flowers, bays of both NZ and Australia, and is… Read More

Ritchie, Richmond 1862, 1863 & nd.

New York: G. Savage, 1862. Fine. Civil War era addenda to the Municipalist, a New York magazine, published following the "Separation of the United States". The first sentence reads, "Since the preceding Letters have been published the United States of America have been dissevered, and a new federation, under the name of Confederate States of America, formed". The Municipalist was first published in 1858; the second edition in 1859. Contents include secession, enforced union, convention of the states, Abolitionists, Shay's Rebellion, the United States a great people, no nation; and more. Plain paper wrappers. 16mo, [303-348]pp, [1]pp, "Some Private Opinions". Stitched. Sabin 51330. OCLC: 950932219, one copy at the American Antiquarian Society.

London: Illustrated London News, 1861. Hardcover. Very good condition. Two half yearly volumes for the year 1861 of this influential and popular illustrated newspaper, with important content and many engravings, the beginning of the US Civil War from the British perspective. Content includes an engraving of Jefferson Davis, "President of the Southern Confederacy of America" with article on p248; Other articles, illustrations include: Disunion in the United States; The Secession Movement in America; Map of Charleston Harbour; A Slave Auction in Virginia; John Anderson Fugitive Slave in Canada; The Hon. Jefferson Davis, President of the Southern Confederacy of America; General Winfield Scott, Commander in Chief of the United States' Forces; The Crowd at Baltimore Waiting for Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States; President Lincoln Delivering his Inaugural Address in front of the Capitol at Washington; Slaves for Sale: A Scene in New Orleans, The Dandy Slave; Interior of an American Railway-Car;… Read More

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1872. Hardcover. Very good overall. Large 8vo, 8 volumes "Encyclopedic yearbooks for each year of the war: excellent for congressional summaries, and still a most useful tool." Civil War Books II, p. 3. The first eight volumes of the encyclopedia, a complete run for the Civil War years, providing a detailed account of the conflict, together with the first three years of reconstruction, with illustrations. Bound in publisher's half tan morocco, marbled boards, gilt title & year on spine. Each volume approx. 800pp, text in two columns. Leather with minor rubbing, overall a very pleasant, clean set, the spines uniformly bright.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1870. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. The Civil War and anti slavery book is dedicated to the author's sister, Mary May, wife of Samuel May, one of the great social reformers who worked for freedom and civil rights for blacks, voting rights for women, and workers' rights. The volume is made up of letters written by goddard to the various newspapers around Britain commenting on events and background to the civil war. 8vo, xvi, 583pp, half title has been removed; all edges red. Gilt stamped maroon buckram, gilt title at spine. Spine slightly sunned, back cover has a narrow faded strip. Internally, tight and bright with some very light scattered foxing at end papers.

New York: John Bradburn, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Otherwise good condition. The autobiography of Robert Seymour Symmes Tharin, a southern lawyer who left the south at the beginning of the Civil War. 12mo, 245pp [1 ad], black embossed cloth covers, front board detached but present. Ex-library with book plate and deaccession stamp on the inside cover. Would benefit from a reback, sold as is. A scarce volume.

New York, 1862. First edition. Pamphlet. Good + overall. By ... Author of "The History of the United States Naval Academy." Marshall analyzes the 203 resignations and dismissals of West Point graduates during the Civil War period, from November 1860 until the end of 1861. Most were Southern graduates, but many southerners remained loyal to the Union. Sabin 44770n. Disbound pamphlet, 8pp, stitched. Caption title, institutional stamp.

London: Harrison and Sons, 1872. Paperback. British Parliamentary blue paper, sml. folio, 193 pp. Orig. wrps slt. chipped o/w vgc. Claims for compensation by the United States arising out of Britain's support of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Long accounts of the actions of the vessels Florida, Alabama, Georgia & Shenandoah, (including its controversial stopover in Melbourne, Australia). British Parliamentary blue paper, sml. folio, 193 pp. Orig. wrps slt. chipped o/w vgc.

Wilmington, NC: The Herald of the Union, 1865. Newspaper. Good + overall. I am a detective in the Victoria police, and have been one for some years; I was formerly one in Paris and I was employed as such in the Hyde Park Exhibition of 1851..." he goes on, saying he has settled in Australia. This detective fiction occupies a half page, and presents itself under the guise of a police memoir. Entitled "Detective's Story, " it recounts how Policeman Vinton brought a double murderer to justice: "... my evidence hung Stevens, who... confessed not only to this murder, but the murder of a mate in the bush some years back with whom he was working on a station, making a stake and rail fence." Saunders p139 - "In December 1864 a story titled "An Australian Detective's Story" [An Australian Detective's Story; or, Murder Will Out] appeared in "Once a Week", which commented directly on police memoirs' contemporary popularity and suggested that 'detective literature' was designed to illustrate the 'science of… Read More

Sigaud, Louis A. Belle Boyd. Confederate Spy. Dietz Press, Richmond Virginia 1945, 2nd edition. 8vo, 254pp, 9 photo. plates. Orig. tan cloth fine in bright, slt. edgeworn dj, with 1 chip. The author was a spy in World War I.

New York: Grafton Press, 1904. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited edition of four hundred copies, of which this is number 120. Including Many Addresses and Military Writings. The dedication is as follows: This Memorial Volume is Dedicated to the Survivors of The New York Twelfth Regiment; The Third Brigade; the First Division, and The Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac; also to the Third Division, Twentieth Corps, Army of the Cumberland; All of Which General Butterfield Commanded During the Civil War. Lg 8vo, b&w engraved frontispiece, xii, 379pp, b&w illustrations throughout. Blue cloth covers with gilt coat of arms on front, and title in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned with lightly rubbed top and base of spine. Top edge gilt , foredge un trimmed. Presentation bookplate inside front cover: Presented to the Library of St. Philip's Church in the Highlands by Henry Fairfield Osborn in memory of his mother, Virginia Sturges Osborn and of his wife, Lucretia Perry Osborn. Nevins 1, p66.

Lexington, KY: Transylvania Press, 1932. Hardcover. Good + overall. Signed presentation copy of this study of ante bellum houses and families in Kentucky. Inscription reads, "To Garland H. B. Davis with the cordial good wishes of a fellow Kentuckian, Elizabeth M. Simpson, Lexington Kentucky, December the twenty fifth, Nineteen hundred and thirty three". An additional inscription at the front paste down: "Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, to Garland from Father & Mother, Dec 25th, 1933." Account of Kentucky homes, with introduction by William H. Townsend. Two cards loosely inserted in the front. Royal 8vo, 408pp, frontispiece, illustrations throughout. 3 items loosely inserted: hand colored Christmas greeting card, a card signed Frances Todd, and a Southwestern Bulletin, on Francis Walker Gilmer, by John H. Davis. Original green cloth, paper title pieces on front cover & spine. Spine darkened, spine ends rubbed.

Washington D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1875. Paperback. Good. Front cover torn and fragile along spine. Pages bright and unmarked.. Case brief of Edwards Pierrepont, Counsel for the Steamer Alabama, arguing that the Alabama was in no way at fault in the 1865 collision with the steam tug-boat Game Cock. Includes the testimony of various witnesses and illustrations of the collision. 8vo, 65pp, original wrappers.

New York: New York Herald, 1862. Ephemera. Very good condition. Civil War articles describing fighting on Roanoke Island, Gunboat reconnaissance from Fort Henry up the Cumberland River, Heavy Armament of the St. Lawrence, and a map 'The Expedition to Roanoke Island, Important Strategical Position of the Island - The Rebel Batteries on the Island and on the Mainland'. 8 page newspaper, slt. toned, o/w very good. Map measures 4 3/4 x 8". Newspaper 23 x 15 1/2"

Richmond, VA, 1863. Good + overall. Confederate imprint. Jefferson Davis's annual state of the Confederacy address to the Confederate Congress in Richmond dated December 7,1863. Davis tries to put the best light on a year that had seen the Confederate Army defeated at Gettysburg and the Union triumphant on the Mississippi with the fall of Vicksburg. Parrish & Willingham 925. 8vo pamphlet, 29pp, original stitching, very good condition. OCLC: 6786297; Crandall # 627.

1870. Cabinet card portrait, albumen print, with title printed below in gold. Head and shoulders of Sherman in uniform, but taken after the war, depicting a somewhat older man. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2", image 3 1/2 x 5 1/4". Obviously enjoyed by some collector as there are four pin holes, one on each corner, a little faded. Otherwise very good.

1865. Photograph. Fine condition. Breckenridge [1842 - 1920] was a Union officer from Kentucky in the Civil War; His two older brothers and cousin fought on the Confederate side. His rank during the war was 1st and 2nd Lieutenant (1862-3). In later life, he became a brigadier general (1889) in the U.S. Regular Army and Inspector General of the Army as well as a major general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War. (wikipedia dot com). Breckenridge is dressed in formal uniform with medals and insignia and looks off to his right. Portrait was taken by Prince with locations in New York and Washington DC. Signed by the General on verso. Captain Joyce, known thus by pencil writing on verso, is seated and looks to his left, dressed in full uniform with medals and saber. His uniform differs from traditional Civil War ranking officer, with 3 rows of buttons and soutache decoration. 4 1/4 X 6 1/2"

New York: Bogardus, 1863. Photograph. Good + overall. Two identical Bogardus images but with slightly formats - different Bogardus stamps on the verso and one with round corners, the other squared. The pencil names on the verso of one card say "David Foster, Israel Peopus, Miss Logan " The portrait has the lieutenant in uniform holding his hat in left hand, his right hand on a chair. Two identical images. 2 3/8 x 4" image on card. Photographer was Bogardus at 363 Broadway in New York, NY. Faintly foxed.