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Sat, Apr 18, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 553

Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America.

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[Civil War] Lossing, Benson J. Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America. Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1866/68. First edition. 3 vols. Original pebbled green cloth stamped in gilt and ruled in blind. Each volume with steel-engraved frontispieces. Illustrated profusely with wood engravings and small intertextual maps. Large 8vos. 608; 640; 640 pp. Gentle rubbing to corners and ends, faint offsetting from plates; a handsome set.