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New York: Harper's, 1864. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. A full year bound volume of Harper's Weekly, with woodblock illustrations on every page including artists like Winslow Homer and writers Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Benson Lossing. Some images include New Year's Day North & South (Thomas Nast, Jan. 2); George A. Custer on horseback; Grant receiving commission from President Lincoln; General Robert Edmund Lee (July 2); General Custer Presenting Captured Battle Flags at the War Department (Nov. 12); and Lincoln cartoon on having won the election, Long Abraham Lincoln A Little Longer (Nov. 26). Folio, iv, 848pp. Weekly issues bound up into yearly volume with the leather spine perishing and the covers detached. Internally good condition with a few pages with tears, repaired with archival tape.
Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns / The Union Cavalry and Artillery starting in Pursuit of Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike. IN COMPLETE ISSUE OF MAY 17 1862 HARPER'S WEEKLY. by CIVIL WAR) Homer, Winslow (illus) - 05-17- 1862.
by CIVIL WAR) Homer, Winslow (illus)
Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns / The Union Cavalry and Artillery starting in Pursuit of Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike. IN COMPLETE ISSUE OF MAY 17 1862 HARPER'S WEEKLY.
by CIVIL WAR) Homer, Winslow (illus)
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New York.: Harper & Brothers.. 05-17- 1862.. Complete issue of Harper's Weekly, May 17, 1862, 16 x 11 inches with map and several pages of wood engraved illustrations. IN COMPLETE DISBOUND MAGAZINE. Light general toning, some spots of foxing; overall very good condition. This issue contains three illustrations after Winslow Homer; front cover: Rebels Outside Their Works at Yorktown Reconnoitring with Dark Lanterns; single page: The Union Cavalry and Artillery starting in Pursuit of Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike; half page Charge of the first Massachusetts Regiment on a Rebel Rifle Pit near Yorktown. The centrefold wood engraving is a bird's eye view of "Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar Fleet Entering the Mississippi River." There is also a single page illustration "Fort Macon Repossessed." .
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Harper's Weekly, Vol. VIII January 2, 1864 to December 31, 1864
by Civil War; Frederick Remington; Matthew Brady; Waud; Davis; Nash; Winslow Homer; Charles Dickens; Benson Lossing
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