THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF COMMODORE JOSEPH TATTNALL. by Jones, Charles C. (Jr.) - 1878

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Morning News Steam Printing Hous, 1878T. hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and heavy soiling. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages tanned and mostly clean with a few minor marks in the margins.

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Savannah, 1878. x,255,4pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Original green publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Minor wear. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean. Very good. Biography of Commodore Josiah Tattnall (1794- 1871), who served in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and in the Civil War on the Confederate side. With the ownership inscription of H.H. Cabaniss of Georgia, who was a noted newspaperman and the Assistant Secretary of the Georgia Senate.

US: Morning News Steam Printing House, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Bound in the original blue cloth with debossed rule to covers and gilt particulars to spine. Biography of Commodore Josiah Tattnall, who served in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War on the side of the Confederate Army. Previously in the collection of the Annapolis Public Library, from which it was released in 1880. Contains several previous owners' names and bookplates to front endpages. Page 183 has been cut or torn and was repaired by a previous owner with tape which has now yellowed. This does not impact readability of text. Cataloguing note in white to spine. Boards are lightly soiled; light wear to extremeties. Text block is lightly soiled. Binding is tight and square. Book is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

Savannah, (GA): Morning News Steam Printing House, 1878. First edition. 8vo. x, 255, 4 pp. Portrait frontispiece. A career U.S. Naval officer and Savannah native, Tattnall (1795-1871) served as a senior officer for the Confederacy, in charge of Georgia and South Carolina naval defenses. Howes J-201. Nevins I, p. 227: "An over-romantic but reliable work which includes some of Tattnall's wartime correspondence not published elsewhere." Original plum cloth, gilt spine title. Upper rear edge abraded, else very good.

Savannah, GA: Morning New Steam Printing House, 1878. First edition. 8vo. vii, 255, (4) pp. Frontispiece portrait of Tattnall (1795-1871), a native of Savannah and a career American naval officer having served in the War of 1812 as a midshipman, the Mediterranean conflicts in the 1820s as a lieutenant, the Mexican War as commander of the "Spitfire," and in the Civil War as senior flag officer of the Georgia navy and captain in the Confederate States Navy, commanding the naval defenses of, first South Carolina and Georgia, then Virginia (see DAB). Howes J-201. Nevins Civil War Books I, p. 227: "An over-romantic but reliable work which includes some of Tattnall's wartime correspondence not published elsewhere." De Renne catalogue II, p. 775. Large Georgia-themed bookplate on front endpaper, else very good. Original blue cloth (rubbed, spine ends frayed), gilt spine title. Inscribed by author.