[Rarebooks] FS: Army and Navy Journal 1863-65

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Army and Navy Journal. THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL, AND 
GAZETTE OF THE
REGULAR AND VOLUNTEER FORCES. VOLUME I: 1863-64 AND VOLUME II: 1864-65 [TWO
VOLUMES]. New York: Publication Office, No. 39 Park Row, [Army and 
Navy Journal],  1863-1865. [2], 860 + 4  pp; [2], 828+ 32 pp. Folio. 
Three quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco spine labels 
(hardback).  First edition. Also includes the first issue of Volume 
III.

A complete run from August 29 1863 (Vol.  I, no. 1) to September 2, 
1865  (Vol. III, No. 1) with index and three supplements: Report of 
Major  General George McClellan upon the organization of the Army of 
the Potomac and its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland July 26, 1861 
to November 7, 1862 (complete in two supplements); and Report of 
Major General Thomas, September 7, 1864- July 1865.

The Army and Navy Journal was the most important military journal of 
its day, covering not only Civil War battles, but foreign news, 
reprints of war coverage from Confederate Newspapers, social issues, 
and other public events  including in these issues the taking of 
Atlanta, the assassination of Lincoln, and the trial of his 
assassins. Spines worn, chipped, and brittle, front boards detached 
on both volumes, rear on volume I, front endpaper and first blank 
detached on volume I, re-glued on volume 2, binding still tight, 
contents clean with very little foxing, both volumes from the Civil 
War Library of the Illinois Commandery, MOLLUS, darkened accession 
label on spine, bookplate on front paste down; solid copies. ABPC 
shows only two at auction in the last quarter century.    [31369] 
$950.00


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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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