[Rarebooks] fs: Diary of Gideon Welles, 1st edition, 3 vols...

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(No. 9281 )  Welles, Gideon (1802-1878), Introduction by John T. Morse, Jr. 
DIARY OF GIDEON WELLES, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY UNDER LINCOLN AND JOHNSON 
(COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES).
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. First printings, Original cloth, 
Octavos, liv, 549; xviii, 653; and xviii, 671 pages, Black & white 
portraits. Near Fine.
      The diary of Secretary Welles is of prime historical importance for 
its first hand accounts and evaluations of important events during the Civil 
War and Reconstruction, including General McClellan's shortcomings, 
Lincoln's evolving ideas on emancipation, the assassination, the impeachment 
trial of Andrew Johnson, and more. EICHER #437; HOWES #W240; NEVINS et al, 
Vol. I page 238; UNION BOOKSHELF #108, etc. Bound in dark blue cloth over 
boards with gilt titles and rules to spines, double gilt rules along top and 
bottom of upper boards, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispieces. Some 
light extremity rubs to bindings, shallow bumps to a few fore corners. A few 
leaves unopened. Interiors clean and sound, hinges not cracked.    $300.00
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