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1885rif. 98849Charles L. Webster 1885-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 9x5x1. 2 volume set 1885-1886 Webster volume one has tender binding and is missing the tissue guard for the frontis. Volume two intact. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Charles L. Webster hardcover
1885rif. 233835Charles L. Webster & Co. 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Yes it is the scarcest of the first editions. But I see only one or two online offerings of this work in worse condition than this one. The leather is heavily scuffed hinges are cracked although the bindings are still relatively firm the front gutter of Vol. II is split and the cloth is dampstained across the upper 10% to 20% of the covers and is separating from all four boards. The water damage affects the text blocks to a varying degree. On most pages it extends only an inch or so from the top. In a few cases including one of the plates the damage is to most of the page. Perhaps the only bright spot is that both of the fold-outs are intact and undamaged. Charles L. Webster & Co. hardcover
rif. 697532391Alan Rodgers Books . Hardback. New. pp. 288 Alan Rodgers Books hardcover
rif. 6131682781Digital Scanning Incorporated . Papeback. New. pp. 656 Digital Scanning, Incorporated unknown
rif. 6131683058Digital Scanning Incorporated . Papeback. New. pp. 596 Digital Scanning, Incorporated unknown
rif. 696989914Alan Rodgers Books . Hardback. New. pp. 352 Alan Rodgers Books hardcover
rif. 63683596Digital Scanning Incorporated . Hardback. New. pp. 596 Digital Scanning, Incorporated hardcover
rif. 63662729Digital Scanning Incorporated . Hardback. New. pp. 656 Digital Scanning, Incorporated hardcover
rif. 6750609Random House . Papeback. New. Random House unknown
rif. 61048044The Library of America . Hardback. New. pp. 1199 The Library of America hardcover
1870rif. 3292608/01/1870. John Quincy Adams first enlisted in 1862 with the 38th Ohio Volunteers. On October 15 of that year he was a quartermaster sergeant with the 10th Ohio Cavalry reporting to Cairo Ill. for Instruction on February 23 1863. After a stint as acting lieutenant on July 15 1864 he was appointed by the President Second Lieutenant to date from March 3 1863. Adams was actively involved in the Georgia campaign conducted by Gen. William T. Sherman. He was with left wing of the 16th Army Corps on the march to Chattanooga Tenn. In the Atlanta Campaign he participated in the battles of Resaca Dallas Kennesaw Mountain. and Jonesboro. He manned signal corps stations at Kennesaw Mt. and Allatoona. Adams was on the ""the March to the Sea"" with Sherman’s forces. He was in the engagements at Port McAllister and Rice Mill station in the campaign from Savannah through the Carolinas including battles at Columbia Bentonville and Raleigh; and at the surrender of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to Sherman on April 26 1865. Adams was breveted 1st lieutenant for gallant and meritorious service in the Signal Corps at the battle of Allatoona; he was breveted captain for gallant and meritorious services in the Signal Corps at the capture of Fort McAllister and Savannah and throughout the war. Adams was mustered out August 22 1865. After the war he was in the 1st U. S. Cavalry and was in the Indian wars and finished his career as captain and aide to Gen. O.O. Howard in October 1884. He is listed on the roster of the U.S. Signal Corps in the Civil War. This is President Ulysses S. Grant’s appointment of Adams as First Lieutenant in the 1st U. S. Cavalry. Document signed Washington January 8 1870 naming Adams “First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Cavalry” to rank as such from the fourteenth of September 1869. The document is countersigned by William Belknap as Secretary of War. In 1866 the 1st Cavalry Division was sent west to California and other western states and it served during the Indian Wars in the west. In June 1884 while Adams was still serving with the regiment it was transferred to the Department of Dakota. In their new assignment the troops were assigned to various forts which had been established during the Indian wars to subjugate the Sioux Cheyenne Crow and other Native Americans. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown
1869rif. 3251406/04/1869. The Dakota Territory was created by an Act of Congress on March 2 1861. Boundaries of the Dakota Territory changed on a number of occasions. Originally the territory comprised an area that included the present states of North Dakota South Dakota and much of Montana and Wyoming. From 1863 to 1864 the area of the territory was limited to the present day Dakotas. The territory included most of the present state of Wyoming and the Dakotas from 1864 to 1868. And from 1868 to 1889 the territory comprised the present states of North Dakota and South Dakota. The territorial capital was established in Yankton in 1861 and later removed to Bismarck in 1883. When the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota the Supreme Court of the Dakotas was abolished by operation of law and its function was taken over by the North Dakota Supreme Court and the South Dakota Supreme Court. Document signed Washington April 6 1869 appointing George W. French subject to the advice and consent of the Senate to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Dakota. <img class=""alignnone wp-image-25018 size-post-window"" src=""https://cdn.raabcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/20231204144051/Folder-site-11-1600x1327.jpg"" alt="""" width=""1600"" height=""1327"" /> unknown
1880rif. 104971880. Middlesex Club. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant 1880 records a Boston Republican gathering honoring Ulysses S. Grant four months after his unsuccessful attempt to secure the Republican presidential nomination for an unprecedented third term. Grant had returned to the United States in December 1879 after more than two years of international travel and entered the 1880 Republican convention as a leading candidate. He received 304 votes on the first ballot and remained near that total through thirty six ballots before James A. Garfield emerged as the nominee receiving 399 votes on the final ballot. The October dinner therefore belongs to the closing weeks of the 1880 presidential campaign rather than to Grant's nomination effort itself. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant by the Middlesex Club at the Brunswick Boston Oct. 13 1880. Middlesex Club. Boston 1880. 11 x 17 inches. Printed seating chart identifying the dinner attendees and assigning their positions at the tables preserving the names and physical arrangement of participants at the event. Rather than simply announcing the dinner the chart records the composition of a political gathering organized around the former president during a presidential election in which Grant's continued standing within the Republican Party remained conspicuous despite his defeat at the national convention. Held less than three weeks before the November 2 presidential election the dinner documents Grant's public prominence during the campaign that elected Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. The named seating assignments permit study of the individuals gathered around Grant in Boston and may support further investigation of Republican political networks in Massachusetts during the 1880 election. Excellent condition. A substantive piece of Grant and Republican Party ephemera that preserves the personnel and seating organization of a precisely dated political dinner. unknown
2007rif. 1-1432819089Thomson Gale 2007. Paperback. New. 78 pages. 10.50x6.75x0.19 inches. Thomson Gale paperback
1865rif. 185876Library of Congress. Very Good-. 1865. 1st Edition. Paperback. 44 pp; Lacking wraps string tied as issued was at one time folded down the middle . Library of Congress paperback
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1866rif. 22955St. Louis MO 1866. No binding. Fine. Manuscript Letter Signed as Lt. Col of Ordnance and Brevet Brigadier General to Adam Badeau Grant's Military Secretary St. Louis Arsenal Mo. August 1 1866. 2 pp. 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Callender responds to Grant's aide-de-camp Adam Badeau's request ""for a statement of the number and calibre of guns captured at Fort Donelson February 16th 1862"" the Tennessee battle that was Grant's first success. Not having that report he offers one on Vicksburg instead.Callender advises: ""I have not been able to find any report of the character referred to among the records of my office and search for such a report has also been made among the records of the Department of the Missouri - likewise without success. But I applied to Capt. Brink late Acting Ordnance Officer at Fort Donelson for information on the subject and he has kindly furnished me with the enclosed list which I transmit herewith together with his letter neither is present. In looking for a report of the guns captured at Fort Donelson a very full report was found of guns and Ordnance Stores captured at Vicksburg - which if the General Grant desires could be forwarded to you.""Franklin D. Callender 1817-1882 Union officer; after distinguished service in the Seminole War and Mexican War took command of the St. Louis Arsenal in 1861 and served as Chief of Ordnance of the Dept. of the Missouri Nov. 19 1861-Mar. 11 1862; holding same post in Dept. of the Miss. March 11 - July 11 1862 he returned to Mo. where he was on the Governor's staff and then served in the advance upon and siege of Corinth; returned to Dept. of the Mo. and the St. Louis Arsenal July 11 1862 and commanded it throughout the war; breveted B.G. USA for Corinth St. Louis and war service. unknown
1885rif. 895 - 323 - 604Salesman's Sample of the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Publisher and Year: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885 Edition: Salesman's sample issued prior to the publication of Grant's memoirs. These samples known also as dummies or prospectuses were at the center of the door-to-door campaign that made Grant's memoirs one of the best-selling books of the late 19th century. Because the book was not complete salesmen were equipped with these prospectuses to showcase to prospective customers. These were truncated mock-ups of the finished work containing selected chapters steel engravings and mounted binding samples spine strips representing cloth sheep and half morocco. Bound into each prospectus were order forms on which salesmen could record each customer's name address and preferred binding cloth sheep half morocco full morocco tree calf. All of the binding options were costly; adjusted for inflation they ranged from approximately $234 to $835. Mark Twain the co-owner of the publishing house and orchestrator of the sales campaign deliberately recruited Civil War veterans as salesmen and encouraged them to wear their uniforms recount wartime experiences and frame the purchase as a patriotic act in support of the financially distressed former president. Produced solely as temporary sales tools and never intended to survive most of these samples were heavily worn from use discarded or destroyed. Surviving examples seldom appear in commerce. Description of the Contents: Thin octavo front and rear boards stamped in gilt spine bare as issued floral endpapers. Contains abbreviated portions of the to-be-published first and second volumes including both title pages and steel-engraving portraits of Grant with tissue guards; several chapters of completed text; and tipped-in sheets indicating where foldout materials would be located. Tipped onto the front and rear pastedowns are spine strips representing three of the binding options cloth sheep and half morocco. After the sample text there are tipped-in notices that inform salesmen about the publisher's efforts to combat unauthorized imitations of Grant's memoirs the possibility of legal action against the responsible publishers the availability of the book only by subscription with the firm's agents and an announcement that Grant completed writing both volumes. The volume concludes with page listing the prices of the five binding options and a series of ruled pages on which the salesman could record customer's orders. Condition: Boards worn soiled and stained; gilt rubbed but fairly bright; tips pushed with some exposure; edges rubbed. Tight hinges and binding. Closed tear to the top and bottom of the front free endpaper and one open tear to the bottom. Mild tanning of the leather spine strips on the front pastedown to the front free endpaper and heavy tanning to the subsequent blank leaf as usual. Pages tanned with occasional minor imperfections and handling marks including scattered finger smudging. One order page is filled out on four lines. The rest of the order pages are unfilled and the last has been torn out. "The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army for instance and most of the press of the country clothed General Lee with just such qualities but I had known him personally and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this." Inventory ID: 895 - 323 - 604 Charles L. Webster and Company
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1978rif. 008666Presidio Pr. DJ in archiva cove book plate price clipped ware to head and foot of spine . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1978. Presidio Pr hardcover