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Bachelder's Illustrated Guide with Gettysburg

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Bachelder's Illustrated Guide with Gettysburg
<B>John B. Bachelder. </B></I><B><I>Bachelder's Illustrated Tourist's Guide of the United States.</B></I></B></I> Popular Resorts, and how to reach them. Embellished by One Hundred Wood Engravings, by the Best Artists and Engravers in America. Including Gettysburg, What to See, and How to See It. With Complete Index. Illustrated by the Isometrical Drawing of the Gettysburg Battle-Field showing the position of every Regiment and Battery of both armies. By John B. Bachelder. Boston: John B. Bachelder, and New York: Lee, Shepard, & Dillingham, 1873. <BR><BR>First edition. Octavo. 148 pages plus 83 pages (separate title page). The first 148 pages are about the Civil War battle at Gettysburg, while the last 83 pages are about various landmarks of the Eastern United States. Illustrated with engraved plates and illustrations in the text, and with a large folding plan of the Battlefield at Gettysburg. <BR><BR>Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in black on the front board and in blind on the rear board. Dark coated endpapers. Binding slightly rubbed and bumped, else an exceptionally bright, very good copy.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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