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Lot 79
Sale 6431 - American Historical Ephemera & Early Photography Online
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Nov 11, 2025
Lots Close
Nov 24, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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600
Lot Description
[CIVIL WAR]. A group of 3 scarce war-date publications. [With:] Post-war title.
[AGNEW, Daniel]. Our National Constitution: It's Adaptation to a State of War or Insurrection. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, Son & Co., Printers, 1863. 8vo, 39pp. Printed wrappers (text fully separated from wrappers, some staining, chipping, and slight loss to wrappers. -- STILLE, Charles J. How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter from English History. Philadelphia: William S. & Alfred Martien, 1863. 8vo, 40pp. Printed wrappers (light staining to wrappers and text). -- [BARNARD, Frederick Augustus Porter]. Letter to the President of the United States, by a Refugee. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1863. Barnard, an American scientist and educator who later became the president of Columbia University, was a Unionist who lived in the South at the outbreak of the Civil War. As a result of his political views, he was forced to flee the Confederacy and become a "refugee" in the North. In the letter, addressed to President Lincoln, Barnard expresses his views on the Civil War and the policies of the Union government. 8vo, 32pp. Printed wrappers (light staining to wrappers and title page, tear near top edge of front cover). --
[With:] STRICKLER, Theodore D. When and Where We Met Each Other on Shore and Afloat. Battles, Engagements, Actions, Skirmishes, and Expeditions during the Civil War 1861-1866. Washington, DC: The National Tribune, 1899. 8vo, 220pp. Printed wrappers (light staining to wrappers and some text, edge wear to wrappers and spine).
Together, 4 titles, highlighted by three war-date publications.
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