The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1862
Volume II. Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture and Mechanical Industry New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1863.
Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 830 pages. Hardcover. Dark leather spine and corners with marbled paper covered boards. 5 raised bands, gilt stamped decorations and title on spine. Reddish marbled end sheets and text edges. Edge wear to the boards. Illustrated with a large Southern Railway map and a few in page illustrations. Leather is dry and rubbed head and base of spine and corners. Marbled paper chipped and shelf worn. Label removed neatly from the rear end paper. Presentation label on the front paste down - "Presented to the Young Men's Library Association by Mrs. J. R. Lamar From the Library of Justice Lamar January, 1917." Address label of E. Merton Coulter pasted down in the upper left corner of the front paste down. Civil War era contents of the Cyclopaedia include Army Operations, Blockade, Samuel Colt, U.S. Congress, Habeas Corpus, Literature in 1862, Slavery, Territories, and much more. Good. Item #11634
Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1857-1916, was an Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court up until his death from 1911-1916. His cousin was Lucius Lamar of Georgia also an Associate Justice. Justice Lamar was born in Elbert County, Georgia and practiced law in Augusta, Georgia. He was appointed to the Court by President Taft.
E. Merton Coulter was a professor at the University of Georgia. He was a Georgia historian and author of several books and articles dealing with southern history.
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