JETERSVILLEAND SAILORS CREEK. Surveyed & drawn by Maj. J. E. Weyss by [CIVIL WAR] [MAP] - 1867

Maplewood, NJ: C.S. Hammond & Co, 1963. Small 4to (folded, as issued) -- opens to 38" x 26". Heavy glossy stock. Near fine. Superb, bright map from this American map producer -- other than original folds (none weakened), as pristine as it gets. An appealing, information-packed, full color map of the eastern third of the U.S., featuring pictorial representations of the major battles and accompanying texts, color arrows highlighting major troop movements, etc. -- and about the border portraits of the major Union and Confederate generals, the major flags for each side, etc. At lower right it's noted "Published in co-operation with the Civil War Centennial Commission" and bearing the printed signature of that august organization's executive director, Karl S. Betts. Interestingly, accompanying this map is a Typed Letter Signed from Betts, 1p, 8" X 11", Washington, DC, 2 June 1960. Addressed to Arnold Gates (1914-93), noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar. Near fine. On… Read More

New York: Harper & Bros, 1862. First Edition . Disbound. Near Fine. Complete original disbound issue in near fine condition with some marginal discolorations. A short speech by Lincoln also appears in this issue.

First Edition . Disbound. Fine. Complete, original disbound issue in fine condition.

New York: Johnson's, 1862. 27" X 18". Very good. Slightest bit of age toning and wear, else clean, bright and attractive. Handsome hand-colored map "Compiled from the Official Maps of the War Department, by A.J. Johnson" and "Showing also the interesting localities along the James, Chickahominy and York Rivers." Choice, early war-date map, simply and tastefully double matted and glazed in a 1¼" walnut-finish frame (overall dimensions 33½" X 25").

New York: J.T. Lloyd, 1862. Civil War Map. 1 folding map. 76 x 120 cm (31.5 x 51 inches); hand colored. [1862], c.1861 (Differs from other 1862 edition in including a list of new maps to the right of the map title as well as "Deviation of the magnetic needle . . ." and "Memoranda" describing the sources and projection used to make the map, and lacking the warning to the right of the map title). "Book form for Army Officers with Linen Backs, cut for folding" into marble paper covered boards (folded dimension 8 x 5.25 inches). "The only map used to plan campaigns in Virginia by Gen. McClellan." Regarded has the most influential map of Virginia during the Civil War period. Relief shown by hachures. Includes geographical remarks, population, altitudes, steam boat routes, and memoranda. Provenance: held in private family collection for generations, acquired from the Alga Schloss Estate. Alga's husband's first wife was a Morley of the Cleveland Morley… Read More

New York: J.T. Lloyd, 1862. Civil War Map. FIRST EDITION. (38.5 x 54.5 inches). Full Title:"Lloyd's map of the Lower Mississippi River from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico. Compiled from government surveys in the Topographical Bureau, Washington, D.C. Revised and corrected to the present time by Captains Bart and William Bowen, pilots of twenty years' experience on that River. Exhibiting the sugar and cotton plantations, cities, towns, landings, sand bars, islands, bluffs, bayous, cut-offs, the steamboat channel, mileage, fortifications, railroads. &c. along the River. J.T. Lloyd, Publisher. 164 Broadway, New York 1862. Entered ... 1862, by J.T. Lloyd ... New York." Pocket Edition with linen backs (folded dimension 8 x 5 inches). Lithograph map on five sheets joined, (37.25h x 51w) at line plus margins, hand colored, laid on linen, housed folded in the ORIGINAL marbled paper covered SLIPCASE with printed label. An exceedlingly SCARCE FIRST EDITION printing of Lloyd's… Read More