[Rarebooks] FS: U.S. Grant's Vice President's very own SIGNED copy of MILITARY MEASURES OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. 1861-1865, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:    Was $750   Now  $500:

WILSON, Henry. MILITARY MEASURES OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS. 
1861-1865. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1866. First Edition. Octavo in 
contemporary half brown morocco with marbled boards and morocco corners; 
frontispiece portrait, v, [i], 88 pages. A collection of the 91 acts, 
bills, and resolutions for the military during the Civil War by the 
Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, printed from Advance 
Sheets of the Rebellion Record. This is Wilson's own copy with his 
bookplate on the front pastedown and a clipped SIGNATURE and closing 
pasted to the front free endpaper. Wilson was born Jeremiah Colbath in 
1812 in Farmington, New Hampshire. An indentured farm laborer at the age 
of ten, he changed his name to Henry Wilson after obtaining his freedom 
in 1833. He became a school teacher, acquired and edited a newspaper, 
and in 1855 won a seat in the Senate. After the war Wilson served as 
Vice President for Ulysses S. Grant. Small leather bookplate of Frank C. 
Deering at the top of the front pastedown. Light foxing. Near Fine. 
(#013904)        $500.00

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