Item #11636 The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864. D. Appleton, Company.
The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864

The American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1864

Volume IV. Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture and Mechanical Industry New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1867.

Hardcover. Quarto. iv, 838 pages. Frontispiece engraving of General Grant. Illustrated with steel engraving of William Sherman, Civil War maps, illustrated scene of Dam across the Red River, surgical illustrations, ordinance and patent illustrations, etc. 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. Leather is dry and rubbed head and base of spine and corners. Marbled paper shelf worn. Frontispiece engraving and title page is foxed. Last few pages are foxed. Label removed from 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. Contents include Freedom of the Press, Georgia, Freedmen of the South, Gun Cotton, Navy Operations, Petroleum, Sanitary Commissions, and much more. Good. Item #11636

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.

Price: $100.00

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