Various places: 1831-1894. An archive of letters, documents, and financial instruments of Henry Blood (1811-1885) and Laura Shelby Blood (1825-1891), consisting of a little under 1000 letters and over 1300 receipts, bills, statements of account, notes, deeds, and other papers, covering the period of 1831-1894, with the majority of material..... More

Exeter, N.H. Samuel Hall, Monday, June 30, 1862. 21¾" x 16½", pp. [4]; 6 columns per page, removed from binding, small tear near lower gutter with minor loss, early owner's name. Agriculture, miscellany, letter from the Mississippi River "There is war to the knife, among the people here. They are..... More

Greenfield, Mass: S. S. Eastman & Co., Monday, January 26, 1863. 26¾" x 20¾", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page; creased where previously folded and with a few small breaks, early owner's signature, occasional dampstaining and small tears. Includes articles on troubles in the tenth regiment, General Butler's opinion of..... More

Shreveport, LA: March 25, 1865. 8vo, approx. 9¼" x 6½"; chips in the margins and wrinkled; short tear repaired on verso. In full: "All Post and Depot Commissaries, will report to, and receive instructions from, the Chief Purchasing Commissary of the Purchasing District in which they are located. By command..... More

New York: Garret & Company, 1856. First American edition, 8vo, pp. [2], iv, iv, [2], 356, [4]; original brown blindstamped cloth; gilt lettering on spine; spine extremities a bit scuffed; spine faded; binding a bit skewed; otherwise very good. The author of this anonymous work has been attributed either to..... More

N.p. publisher not identified, [1964]. 8vo, pp. xx, 338; numerous maps and illustrations throughout; fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, original pictorial dust jacket very slightly chipped. Presentation copy from the author "To Elihu S. Wing Jr. M.D. with the kindest regards..... More

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 419, [1], 16 (ads); original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine sunned else very good. A collection of articles from the New York Ledger and the New York Independent. With the ownership signature of W[atson] C. Squires, the governor of..... More

Leipzig: Verlag von Moritz Ruhl, [1891]. 8vo, pp. 38, [2]; 19 color plates depicting uniforms and insignia; illustrated paper wrappers; upper cover starting, light shadowing to plates. More

1850s-'60s. Eleven lines, approx. 125 words; 6¼" x 7¾"; in ink and very legible; very good. Rev. George B. Cheever (1807-1890) was a New England reformer who vocally supported the temperance movement and abolition. In this short speech he writes, "True kindred, there can be neither peace nor prosperity for..... More

[N.p., Montgomery? neither publisher nor printer identified], May 21, 1861. Broadside (approx.10" x 8"); previous fold, small break in the right margin; very good. The document has been stamped on verso by the Record Department of the War Department. "The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That..... More

New York: J. P. Robens, 1866. 12mo, pp. [2], 116; engraved frontispiece, vignette title page, printed slip from the Bureau of Military Record tipped in prior to the half-title page; original maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind; small snag in the spine at the bottom and spine lightly sunned;..... More

Philadelphia: printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1863. 8vo, pp. 16; original pink pictorial wrappers; small cracks on spine; very good. Nine short articles supporting the pro-Union North in the Civil War: Speech of a brave old patriot [by Isaac Funk, a long-time associate of Abraham Lincoln]; A voice from the..... More

Hartford: Gilman & Company, 1878. 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 21-417, [1]; frontispiece and 8 plates; original brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; very good. More