Resultados de búsqueda: Sherman and His Campaigns de S M And R B Irwin Bowman

Hardcover. Poor. Missing title page and fronts piece. First few pages loose, otherwise binding is good. Pages heavily age toned, some foxing throughout. Binding is detached from leather cover. Cover extremely worn, with piece missing from the top of the spine. Stain on upper right corner of last few pages.

New York; Cincinnati: Charles B. Richardson; C.F. Vent & Co, 1865. Hardcover. Octavo; G+; brown spine with gilt text; no jacket; cloth shows only mild exterior wear; light rubbing to spine edges; strong, straight boards; probably rebound; text block exterior edges have age toned; gift inscription to front pastedown; frontispiece with tissue guard; light stain to frontispiece to fore edge; slight offset to tissue guard; slight offset to title page; interior pages show general mild toning; illustrated most with tissue guards; binding good; pp 512. 1350784. FP New Rockville Stock.

New York: Charles B. Richarson, 1865. Hardcover. Good condition; rebacked, spine chipped, small redstain on front cover. 512 p., illus.

New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in boards as issued with some staining, sunning and edgewear to the boards.

New York: Cincinnati: C. B. Richardson: C. F. Vent & co., [etc., etc. ], 1865. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Fair. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. Cover has wear and soiling. Boards weak. Pages have foxing and some discoloration.. 512 p. front., port., maps. 19 cm. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER ILL THE SECESSION JUGGLE IN KENTUCKY. The legerdemain by which the extreme Southern States were juggled out of the Union to feed the ambition of their leaders, had proved eminently successful. A Confederate dictionary had been made, in which slavery was called "the South; " rebellion, " secession; " the execution of the laws, " coercion; " and the desires of the conspirators, "the Constitution." A Confederate logic had been constructed, in which a system of postulates was substituted for the old-fashioned syllogism, and every thing taken for granted which it was impossible to prove. Only let it be granted that where thirteen or… Leer más

New York: Charles B. Richardson, 1865. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Fair. [2], 512, [4] pages. Frontis illustration. Occasional footnotes. Appendix. 8 Portraits. 5 Maps. Small lower right corner of pages 17/18 gone--no loss of text. Some page discoloration. Cover has wear, soiling and edge rubbing. Some hinge weakness noted. Spine worn and chipped. Pencil notation on fep. A military history of Sherman and his leadership, completed with the assistance of Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis and Sherman himself among others. Sherman's military legacy rests primarily on his command of logistics and on his brilliance as a strategist. The influential 20th-century British military historian and theorist B. H. Liddell Hart ranked Sherman as "the first modern general" and one of the most important strategists in the annals of war, along with Scipio Africanus, Belisarius, Napoleon Bonaparte, T. E. Lawrence, and Erwin Rommel. Liddell Hart credited Sherman with mastery of maneuver warfare,… Leer más