Wheeler, Richard

Sherman's March

Niew York, Thomas Y.Crowell Co, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 0690017464. 241pp. Yellow paper over boards. A vry clean unblemished book in a very good dust jacket. Sherman's step-by-step march through Georgia. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 003340

Catalogue: American History, Military

Keywords: Savannah "Civil War" Grant Conynham Lincoln Confederacy 0690017464

Whelpley, J.D.

British-American Relations

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1924. First Edition. 325pp. Red cloth. Spine darkened, light corner wear, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, text age-toned. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003477

Catalogue: American History, Military, European History

Keywords: Diplomacy Economics

Whipple, Charles H. (Compiler)

Genealogy of the Whipple-Wright Wager Ward-Pell Mclean-Burnet Families Together with Records of Allied Families

Los Angeles, Press of Commercial Printing House, 1917. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Compiler. 117pp. Marroon cloth, gilt lettering. Light dampness stains to boards, endpapers lightly stained and text has a few wavy pages, but is otherwise very clean. Front endpaper is INSCRIBED and SIGNED : "To my cousin William E. Hill with the affectionate regards of Charles H. Whipple". 7 sheets of genealogical charts bound-in and photos of family members. The original publication, not a recent reprint. Very Good.

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Book number: 001213

Catalogue: American History, Americana

Keywords: "Family Trees" Genealogy

Wilhelmina, Frederica Sophia

Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Baireuth, Sister of Frederick the Great.(Volume I only)

Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 268pp. 16mo. First Edition. Rust stamped cloth, black lettering to cover, black ornamentation and gilt lettering to spine, all edges red-stained. Wear to corners and spine, contents are sound. Frotn end papers are SIGNED by former owners, Henry L. Clinton, who was a prominent attorney, and Allan Nevins, historian, who wrote extensively about the United States Civil War. Includes an essay by William D. Howells. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000434

Catalogue: Biography, History, European History

Keywords: "Allan Nevins" "Henry L. Clinton"

Williams, Sherman

New York's Part in History

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1915. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 391pp. Green cloth, gilt lettering, top edges gilt. Wear to extremities, splitting to front hinge, contents are clean. FIRST EDITION. A concise history with illustrations and maps. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001523

Catalogue: American History

Keywords: Hamilton Seward Clinton "New Amsterdam" Schuyler Albany Ticonderoga

Connecticut Historical Society and the Towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield

Birthday of the State of Connecticut. Celebration of the Two Hunred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Adoption of the First Constitution of the State of Connecticut

Hartford, CT, The Connecticut Historical Society, 1889. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 98pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Slight rubbing to corners and spine ends, text is mildly toned, binding is tight and gilt is very bright. In very well-preserved condition. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002640

Catalogue: American History, Regional

Keywords: Governor Mayors

Wineberger, J.A.

The Home of Washington at Mount Vernon, Embracing a Full and Accurate Description, as Well as of the Birthplace, Genealogy,, Character, Marriage, and Last Illness of Washington

Washington, Thomas McGill, 1860. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 70pp. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration. Wear to edges and spine, gilt is partially faded but mostly intact, contents age-toned and there is some print offsetting to blank leaves, some splitting to front endpapers, lacks frontispiece, owner's name and date, Nov. '60 on front free endpaper. Curiously, the title on covers reads "Tomb of Washington", and title page reads "The Home of Washington", but the text and illustrations are clearly about the tomb. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001681

Catalogue: American History, Biography

Keywords: "George Washington" President

Wister, Owen

The Seven Ages of Washington (Signed By Harry Ogden)

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 263pp + ads. Blue boards, rebacked with buckram, paper spine label, top edges gilt. Some separation at hinges, pages toned, occasional pencil notes. SIGNED "H.A. Ogden" on front free endpaper. Harry Ogden was a well-known illustrator, specializing in military and historical themes. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001634

Catalogue: American History, Biography, Signed

Keywords: "Harry Ogden" Military President

Wolfe, Saml. M.

Helper's Impending Crisis Dissected

Philadelphia, J.T. LLoyd, 1860. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 14 ads, [4], 223, 30 ads. Blind-stamped black binding, gilt lettering to spine. Covers and spine worn and chipped, joints splitting but holding, endpapers heavily foxed, text occasionally spotted, owner's name on front pastedown, binding is tight. Wolfe's debunking of Samuel Helper's "The Impending Crisis of the South", in which Helper was critical of the negative economic impact slavery had on the South. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001654

Catalogue: American History, Social History, African-American

Keywords: Slavery "Black Republican Party"

Wolseley, Field Marshall Viscount

The American Civil War; An English View

Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 1964. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 230pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Book is in clean, unworn condition. Dust jacket spine is slightly sunned, 2 small edge tears. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 003811

Catalogue: American History, Military, U.S. Civil War

Keywords: Grant Lincoln Davis Lee Confederacy Union