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Group Lot of 25 Civil War Military History Books

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:250.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Group Lot of 25 Civil War Military History Books
<B>Group Lot of 25 Civil War Military History Books Including Many Regimental Histories</B></I> Notable among this large collection of military history books is:<BR><B>Camille Baquet <I>History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers From 1861 to 1865</B></I></B></I> (Trenton: MacCrellish & Quigley, 1910), first edition, 515 pages, illustrated, blue boards with gilt titles and decoration, 8vo (6.5" x 9.5"), good condition with replaced endpapers, bumped corners, broken spine, soiling to boards.<BR><B>Newton Martin Curtis <I>From Bull Run to Chancellorville - The Story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry Together With Personal Reminiscences</B></I></B></I> (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906), first edition, 384 pages, illustrated, blue cloth boards with gilt titles and red cross divisional emblem on cover, 8vo (6.25" x 9.25"), bumped corners, shelf wear, else very good condition.<BR><B>Randolph Keim <I>Sheridan's Troopers on the Borders: A Winter Campaign on the Plains</B></I></B></I> (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1885), first edition, 308 pages, illustrated with numerous engravings, green cloth boards with light blue and pink floral decoration, 12mo (5.5" x 7.75"), bumped corners, some light stains and soiling to boards, scuffing to lower edge of front board, back inside hinge cracked, missing rear free endpaper, gift inscription and ex-libris from former owner, good condition.<BR><B>Abner Doubleday <I>Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61</B></I></B></I> (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876), first edition, 184 pages, engraving of Ft. Sumter on the frontis, blue boards with gilt titles and decorations, lightly foxed pages, bumped and worn corners, wear to head and tail of spine, 1" area of missing cloth at bottom of rear board, else very good condition.<BR><B>Frank Robinson <I>History of the Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia</B></I></B></I> (Boston: W.F. Brown & Company, 1879), first edition, 238 pages, illustrated, rosters, brown decorative boards with gilt titles, 8vo (6" x 9"), worn and bumped corners, wear to head and tail of spine, else good.<BR>Other titles include: <I>History of the Second Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac</B></I> (1886), two copies (different bindings) of <I>The Seventy-Seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh</B></I> (1905 and 1908 respectively), one copy very good, the other poor, <I>The Manual of the Seventh Regiment National Guard State of New York</B></I> (1868), <I>Report on the Proceedings of the 42nd and 43rd Reunions of the Society of the Army of Tennessee</B></I> (1918), very good, <I>History of the Seventy-Eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry</B></I> (1905), very good, <I>The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion</B></I> (1890), fair condition, <I>History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia</B></I> (1908), ex-lib else very good, <I>One Hundred years with the State Fencibles</B></I> (1913), good condition, <I>Vol. II New York Monuments Commission for the Battlefields of Gettysburg and Chattanooga Final Report on the Battlefield of Gettysburg</B></I> (1902), poor condition, <I>Vol. I Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox</B></I> (1918), very good in slip case, <I>The Young Captain - A Memorial of Capt. Richard C. Derby</B></I> (1865), poor condition, <I>War Years With Jeb Stuart</B></I> (1945), ex-lib, poor condition, <I>War Pictures From the South</B></I> (1863), good condition, <I>The History of Fort Riley</B></I> (1926), very good, <I>The Story of Little Big Horn</B></I> (1945), very good, <I>Sons of the South</B></I> (1961), ex-lib, very good, <I>The Life of Abraham Lincoln</B></I> (1924), four volumes, very good, <I>Samuel Francis Du Pont - A Selection From His Civil War Letters</B></I> (1969) three volumes in slip case, very good.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Large Collectibles (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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