Black Swan Books

ARMY APPROPRIATION ACTS. 1861 - 1885

Government Printing Office, 1861-1885. Appropriations for the Army as passed at sessions of Congress, excised from the volumes of the Government Printing Office, and bound together in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, with a morocco label letters in gilt to.....

Price: $150.00

[CIVIL WAR [CDV] [CIVIL WAR] PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND CABINET

c.1861. [CDV] [CIVIL WAR] President Lincoln and his cabinet. c.1861. Good.~~2 ½” x 4 ¼” carte-de-visite featuring lithographs of Abraham Lincoln at center, surrounded by his cabinet: Secretary of State William H. Seward, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase.....

Price: $100.00

Item #278331 [CIVIL WAR] FLAGS AND PENNANTS OF THE CIVIL WAR. PLATE CLXXV. ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY...

[CIVIL WAR] FLAGS AND PENNANTS OF THE CIVIL WAR. PLATE CLXXV. ATLAS TO ACCOMPANY THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION & CONFEDERATE ARMIES 1861-1865

New York: Julius Bien & Co. Lithographers | Government Printing Office, 1891. The large plate showing principal flags and pennants of the United States Army and the Army of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Lovelycolor lithographs.....

Price: $200.00

Item #299084 [CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY ...

[CIVIL WAR] PETERSBURG | CHANCELLORSVILLE | GETTYSBURG. [PAPERS OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. VOLUME V]

Boston: The Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, 1906. Hard Cover. First Edtiion. Small quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth with insignia in gilt to the upper board and titling to the spine; vi, [vii, viii], [2], 3-442; followed by 4.....

Price: $250.00

[CIVIL WAR] REPORT OF A GUARD: LIST OF THE GUARD; LIST OF PRISONERS

Broadsheet (14 3/8” x 10 1/8”) folded; Report of a Guard mounted at “Camp Near Union Mills” on the “Sixth Day” and relieved on the “Sixth day of April 1863” detailing the number of prisoners, the List of the Guard;.....

Price: $200.00

[CIVIL WAR] [CARTE DE VISITE ALBUM] GOLANSVILLE, VIRGINIA. TERRELL FAMILY.

1860-1880. A leatherbound Carte de Visite album with metal clasp belonging to “Mrs. Sue F. Terrell, Golansville, Virginia”. The album is full with 26 cartes de visite and 4 tintypes; there are two unbound cdv’s laid in that seem to.....

Price: $300.00

Item #292890 [CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] DESCRIPTIVE LIST AND ACCOUNT OF PAY AND CLOTHING...

[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] DESCRIPTIVE LIST AND ACCOUNT OF PAY AND CLOTHING OF DECD. PRIVATES IN COMPANY B, 15h REGIMENT, NORTH CAROLINA TROOP.

A Confederate broadsheet printed and in manuscript, listing six privates of Company B, 15th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. These six private were part of the Munroe Light Infantry and were killed in July of 1862 at the Battle of.....

Price: $300.00

[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] PETERSBURG RAIL ROAD ONLY

[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, [1864]. 3 3/4” x 6 1/8”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen July 25, 1864, and issued to one “Master C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Petersburg, and who swears on the.....

Price: $350.00

[CIVIL WAR] [CONFEDERATE PASS] TURNPIKES AND OTHER ROADS

[Richmond]: Confederate States of America War Department, [1864]. 3 7/8” x 6”. Printed Confederate pass, dated in pen Nov. 17, 1864, and issued to one “Mast.C. W. Montague” granting permission to visit Gloucester and Hanover “subject to the discretion of.....

Price: $350.00

Item #293381 [CIVIL WAR] [WHEELING IMPRINT] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PASSED AT THE EXTRA...

[CIVIL WAR] [WHEELING IMPRINT] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION HELD MAY SIXTH, 1862, AT THE CITY OF WHEELING.

Wheeling: A, S. Trowbridge, State Printed, 1862. Hard Cover. 8vo.; in the publisher’s sewn printed wrappers; 31 pages, including the Index.~~Containing the act in which consent is given to the Legislature to form the new state of West Virginia, and.....

Price: $250.00

Item #300235 [CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED...

[CONFEDERATE IMPRINT] ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PASSED IN 1861-2; IN THE EIGHTY SIXTH YEAR OF THE COMMONWEALTH..

Richmond, VA: William F. Ritchie, 1862. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; quarter calf over marbled boards;boards covered in marbled paper, with significant loss.to the marbled papers and wear to the spine; 182 pages, including Index; followed by Acts passed at.....

Price: $125.00

Item #293119 JOURNALS AND PAPERS OF THE VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION OF 1861 (3 VOLUMES; SLIPCASE) ...

JOURNALS AND PAPERS OF THE VIRGINIA STATE CONVENTION OF 1861 (3 VOLUMES; SLIPCASE) I: JOURNALS; II: ORDINANCES AND VARIOUS PAPERS; III: DOCUMENTS

Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1966. Hard Cover. 8vo. 3 volumes complete in publisher’s gray cloth and housed in slipcase. Two of the volumes still with the original glassine wrapper. There are no ownership or other marks in the books.....

Price: $250.00

Item #283108 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, TOGETHER...

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL OF THE COMMITTEE, AND THE TESTIMONY TAKEN BEFORE THEM, IN REGARD TO THE INTERFERENCE BY UNITED STATES TROOPS WITH THE GENERAL ELECTION HELD IN THE STATE ON THE FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1862.

Dover, Delaware: Printed by James Kirk, 1863. Original Sewn Wrappers. First Edition. A report on potential military interference in the Delaware general election of 1862, published just after the announcement of the Emancipation. The Democratic party elected officials of Delaware.....

Price: $250.00

[RICHMOND] VARINA DAVIS’ FUNERAL PHOTOGRAPHS

1906. Four mounted photographs from the Richmond funeral and interment of former Confederate States of America First Lady, Varina Davis. Davis died of pneumonia in her post-war home in New York City and honored with a funeral procession in her.....

Price: $350.00

Adam Gurowski

[CIVIL WAR] DIARY: 1863-'64-'64-'65.

Washington, D. C. W. H. & O. H. Morrison, 1866. Hard Cover. 8vo; in the publisher’s green cloth binding; with gilt lettering on the spine and decorations stamped in blind on the boards; (4), 5-413 pages; there are signs of.....

Price: $700.00

Item #299878 [CIVIL WAR] [REVIEW COPY] THE STORMY PRESENT. CONSERVATISM AND THE PROBLEM OF...

Adam I. P. Smith | Gary W. Gallagher

[CIVIL WAR] [REVIEW COPY] THE STORMY PRESENT. CONSERVATISM AND THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN NORTHERN POLITICS, 1846-1865

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Hard Cover. First Edition. Octavo; in the publisher’s black cloth binding, with dustjacket; xi, 331 pages, including the Bibliography and the Index; there are no marks of any kind in the.....

Price: $95.00

Item #300619 [CIVIL WAR] THE MILITARY OPERATIONS OF GENERAL BEAUREGARD IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE...

Alfred Roman | [G. T. Beauregard] | William Ruffin Cox

[CIVIL WAR] THE MILITARY OPERATIONS OF GENERAL BEAUREGARD IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES [2 VOLUMES]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1884~. Hard Cover. First Edition. Two small quarto volumes; in the publisher’s green cloth bindings, with titling in gilt to the spines; [xvii], 594 pages; [xvi], 691 pages, including the Index, 12 pages of ads.....

Price: $250.00

Item #295084 [CIVIL WAR MEDICINE] CATALOGUE OF THE SURGICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY...

Alfred [Alexander] Woodhull

[CIVIL WAR MEDICINE] CATALOGUE OF THE SURGICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM [WITH] CATALOGUE OF THE MEDICAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM PREPARED BY J. J. WOODWARD [WITH] CATALOGUE OF THE MICROSCOPIAL SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL MUSEUM PREPARED BY EDWARD CURTIS.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866, 1867, 1867. Hard Cover. First Edition. Thick quarto; nicely rebound in black moire cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, over marbled boards; three volumes in one as issued; all edges gilt; with six full.....

Price: $750.00

Arminstead Gordon

WILLIAM GORDON McCABE. A BRIEF MEMOIR

Richmond: Old Dominion Press, Printers, 1920. A much shorter memoir, preceding Armistead Gordon’s Memories and Memorials of William Gordon McCabe which was published five years later, 1925.~~This copy is signed “From William Gordon McCabe” and dated in his hand Sept.....

Price: $100.00

Item #284995 RANDOM SKETCHES AND WANDERING THOUGHTS; OR, WHAT I SAW IN CAMP, ON THE MARCH, THE...

Bartholomew S. De Forest | [James I. Robertson, Jr.]

RANDOM SKETCHES AND WANDERING THOUGHTS; OR, WHAT I SAW IN CAMP, ON THE MARCH, THE BIVOUAC, THE BATTLE FIELD AND HOSPITAL, WHILE WITH THE ARMY IN VIRGINIA, NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, DURING THE LATE REBELLION. WITH A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SECOND ESWEGO REGIMENT, EIGHTY-FIRST NEW YORK STATE V. I.

Albany, N. Y. Avery Herrick, Publisher, 1866. Hard Cover. First Edition. A First Edition copy of De Forest’s Random Sketches and Wandering Thoughts; from the library of Bud Robertson, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. In his words: “correctly.....

Price: $165.00

Bill Winsor

TEXAS IN THE CONFEDERACY: Military Installations, Economy and People

Hillsboro Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1978. Hard Cover. First Edition. The publication date penned in red at the top of the front free end paper; otherwise a clean copy without any marks or writing. The dust jacket is bright.....

Price: $250.00

Bob Zeller | Gary Gallagher

[CIVIL WAR] THE CIVIL WAR IN DEPTH [2 VOLUMES] [WITH TWO VIEWERS]

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997; 2000. Hard Cover. Two square quarto volumes; in pictorial boards; with view at the rear of Volume I; and viewer for Volume II in a separate cardboard portfolio.~~Both volumes are from the library of Civil.....

Price: $75.00

Item #273329 ADDRESSES, REVIEWS AND EPISODES, CHIEFLY CONCERNING THE “OLD SIXTH”...

B[enjamin] F[rank] Watson

ADDRESSES, REVIEWS AND EPISODES, CHIEFLY CONCERNING THE “OLD SIXTH” MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT

New York City: 1901. Hard Cover. First Edition. A bright and attractive First Edition copy of these materials concerning the “Old Sixth” Massachusetts regiment, which consists of seven essays loosely related to the regiment. Slip “With the Compliments of B......

Price: $300.00

Capt. C[harles] C[ornwallis] Chesney

[CIVIL WAR] A MILITARY VIEW OF RECENT CAMPAIGNS IN VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND

London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1863. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s red cloth binding; xii, 230 pages; with frontispiece map “General Sketch of the Scene of McClellan’s and Pope’s Operations in 1862’ and with an additional folded.....

Price: $300.00