Resultados de búsqueda: F. Books--Civil War from The Prime Meridian: Antique Maps & Books

Washington (DC): House of Representatives, 1863. VG with minor fold browning and 1 or 2 small crease tears at fold junctions. A large map showing the First Corps' route from Middletown, Va. to the defenses of Washington, DC. Names of individual residents are listed along the march line. Much more detail than might be apparent from initial visual inspection of map. Map # 461 from RW Stephenson's "Civil War Maps". 58x89cm. (The ORIGINAL & ENTIRE 256pp. of Gen. Pope's report to the Secretary of War is included with this map, although it has been disbound: 37th Congress, 3d Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 81). First Edition.

Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1886. Near fine, extensively detailed, chromolithograph. There are locations and names of individual creeks, rivers (including portion of Potomac), communities, mountains (including Bull Run Mountain)and hills, railroads (finished and unfinished). This ma p was published in the Comte de Paris' "The Battle of Gettysburg: From the History of the Civil War in America". The book containing the map offered here was published as a separate volume, after the multivolume series, and included expanded militar y details with documentation included. The basic 3 chapters are as published with the larger earlier series. Vorzet's maps have been reproduced from the French text, and all information is printed in English. 23x32cm..

Jos. H. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 1876. Near fine, detailed chromolithograph of area of this area of northern Virginia. Railroad lines are shown, as is a small city plan of Fredericksburg. Numerous individual landowners are shown, along with moderate topographic detail (Rappahannock River ). This map is from Volume II of the Comte de Paris' multivolume work. Vorzet's original maps were done in French, but this item is from the first American edition, with the map information in English. This American edition was published in 4 volume s, as opposed to the 8 volumes of the French edition. The Comte was banished from France during the production of this work, and the final volume (vol. 4) of the American edition was delayed until 1888. The map listed here is 16.5x16cm..

Jos. H. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 1875. Near fine small chromolithograph of Hampton Roads waterways between Hampton and Portsmouth/Norfolk. This is a fairly simple map, from Volume I of the Comte de Paris' multivolume work. Vorzet's original maps were done in French, but this item is from the first American edition, with the map information in English. This American edition was published in 4 volumes, as opposed to the 8 volumes of the French edition. The Comte was banished from France during the production of this work, and the fin al volume (vol. 4) of the American edition was delayed until 1888. The map listed here is 15.5x12.5cm..

Houghton, Mifflin & Col (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1900. 8vo, HB, good with some fading of cover. Bindings a bit cracked, but tight. First illustrated trade edition. Two volumes, with numerous b&w illustrations, maps, facsimiles, prints and other historic materials. The author was a well-published univers ity professor/historian..

DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press , 2000. New book, 210pp with index. Detailed and literary letters of George Cram and his movements during the Civil War. Sherman later helped with the mapping of the transmississippi west, including work with the Union Pacific Railroad. Cram cofounded a large map publishing house, still in existence today. The book's endpapers are maps showing his routes of travel during this conflict. His comments reflect on many social issues of the times. . First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, Boston, 1905. VG, HB, no DJ (as issued), 471pp including index, with 6 b&w folding maps in rear (From the Rapidan to the James, The Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, The North Anna, The Totopotomoy, Cold Harbor). All the maps are in excellent conditon (there are a few minor marginal tears, none crossing neatlines of map). This book contains 16 separate essays read before the society between 1887 and 1899. The cover is a bit bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at ends of spine, but the binding is tigh t..

London: Illustrated London News, 1861. This is a small b&w view, issued, of the environs of Harper's Ferry Virginia. The image measures 7 x 9 inches (page measures16 x 11inches margins). This is dated Saturday, May 25, 1861. The image is clean and in very good condition.. First Thus.