American Historical Ephemera and Photography

ROOT, George Frederick (1820-1895), editor. The Bugle-Call. Chicago: Root & Cady, [1863]. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. sheet music (some staining, scattered spotting throughout). Original publishers printed brown wrappers (chipping to spine and edges, soiling, staining, hole in rear wrapper). Provenance: Miss Grace Morrill (name inscribed on first page).

FIRST EDITION collection of patriotic songs compiled by George F. Root who wrote and produced the first Civil War song just three days after Fort Sumter. He is considered to have produced the most songs of anyone about the Civil War. This collection of tunes includes his most famous: The Battle Cry of Freedom. 

[With:] WELCH, Benjamin. Circular No. II. Surgeons' Splints and Improved Apparatus for Fractures. New York: Pudney & Russell, 1858. 9 x 5 3/4 in. circular with paper wrappers (loss to spine, upper and rear wrappers separated at spine, title page partially separated from spine with few tears to left margin). Provenance: C.H. Crane (named inscribed on front wrapper). -- Regulations for the Medical Department of the C.S. Army. Richmond: Ritchie & Dunnavant, 1863. 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. booklet with paper wrappers, 76pp (staining throughout, edge and corner wear including loss las page (p. 76).