American Civil War Pamphlets

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An important and valuable collection of 17 pamphlets on US slavery (from an abolitionist perspective) and on other Civil War and political matters, dated 1863-1864, all bound together in old half morocco, marbled sides titled gilt on the spine and with an old library number deriving from Manchester Public Free Libraries, whose armorial bookplate together with an identification label is on the front end paper; the opening recto carries a partially completed accession slip for the Reference Library of the Manchester Central Library, the last date shown as 18 Jul 1978; on a later free end paper there's a manuscript note "Presented to the Workingmen's Reform Club by J [or F] Milnes Edge Manchester January 18th 1867"; the binding is inevitably somewhat rubbed on the corners, edges and the outer hinges and is slightly cracked on the first inner joint but the volume as a whole is sound and firm; internal condition is good or better, albeit with a little browning of the paper, with the exception that the front and back wrappers of one pamphlet are acid browned with age and consequently fragile and with small tears although complete (see later); there are a very neat few library stamps or blind embossing of the circular library seal; 152 x 230mm; where original wrappers are called for nearly all are present . . . . . . . . . 11 of the pamphlets are published by the Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1864, (hereafter LPS, and titles listed toward the end of this catalogue entry) and in other instances details are given following with authors, titles and other relevant information. . . . . . . The Letters of President Lincoln on Questions of National Policy; H H Lloyd, New York, 1863, pp22, back wrapper not present. . . . James McKaye, The Mastership and its Fruits: The Emancipated Slave Face to Face with his Old Master. A supplemental Report to Hon. Edwin M Stanton; Bryant & Co., New York, 1864, 1st edition, pp 38, original wrappers. . . . William H Whitmore, The Cavalier Dismounted, An Essay on the Origin of the Founders of the Thirteen Colonies; G M Whipple, Salem, 1864, 1st edition, pp 48, original wrappers present, small crease of the front one. . . . ULA "Going Home to Vote", Authentic Speeches of S P Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, During his Visit to Ohio, with his Speeches at Indianapolis and at the Mass Meeting in Baltimore, October, 1863; W H Moore, Washington, 1863, first edition, pp 36. . . . Speech of William H Seward, of the Night before the Election at Auburn, New York, November 7, 1864; McGill & Witherow, Washington, DC, 1864, 1st edition, pp 12. . . . Henry W Bellows, The War to End only when the Rebellion Ceases; Anson D F Randolph, New York, nd [1863], 1st edition; original pamphlets present by browned and fragile; pp 16. . . . . . . . . . LPS details follow; most text is in English but titles indicate where this is not the case: . . . LPS No 41, Réponse de Mm. de Gasparin, Laboulaye, Martin et Cochin à la Ligue Loyale et Natonale de New York. . . . LPS 42, the same as 41 but in English. . . . LPS 43, the same as 41 but in German. . . . LPS 44, Proceedings at the First Anniversary Meeting of the LPS. . . . LPS 46, How the War was Commenced. An Appeal to the Documents. . . . LPS 48, Report to the International Statistical Congress at Berlin, by Samuel B Ruggles. . . . LPS 49, Soldiers' and Sailors' Patriotic Songs. . . . LPS 50, The Constitution Vindicated. Nationality, Secession, Slavery, by James A Hamilton. . . . LPS 51, No Property in Man. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Abolishing Slavery through the United States, In the Senate, April 8th, 1864. . . . LPS 52, Rebellion, Slavery and Peace, by Hon. G Upham. . LPS 53, version of LPS 46 in German. . . . . . . . . . Please get in touch if you'd like more detail on any individual pamphlet or on the collection as a whole. Seller Inventory # 000713

Bibliographic Details

Title: American Civil War Pamphlets

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good