This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...memorandum, complete in all its details, by which one hundred and twenty-five thousand troops, whose officers and leader were selected and everything fully arranged, were to be thrown into Canada. This resistless army of veterans would have been across the border within twenty-four hours after England recognized the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...memorandum, complete in all its details, by which one hundred and twenty-five thousand troops, whose officers and leader were selected and everything fully arranged, were to be thrown into Canada. This resistless army of veterans would have been across the border within twenty-four hours after England recognized the Confederacy. Canada would have been overrun and wrested from the mother-country before she could have taken an effective step to prevent it. Grant carried this memorandum in his breast-pocket for weeks, ready to act on the very minute the news reached him. Fortunately for England, she was afraid to do as Na-Peeiod Vi poleon III. urged her to do, and the crisis passed. She knew her thpa vulnerability, and was so alive to her unfriendly course during the """j10" war so far that, when the Union was restored, she believed that the tO 1865 United States would annex Canada, as could have been done with--little difficulty. As for Napoleon III., who had shrugged his shoul ders when the American minister formally protested against the occupation of Mexico by French troops, the time speedily came to deal with him. It must not be forgotten that a Presidential election took place that year. The almost universal sentiment demanded the re-, jJt?Jj nomination of Lincoln, though he had rivals in his own party. Election Secretary Chase of the Treasury had a considerable following-of 1864 The extreme abolitionists, who thought the President was "too slow," met in convention at Cleveland, May 31st, and nominated This statement was made by General Grant to Hon. Chester Holcombe (Secretary of Legation, and acting minister of the United States at Peking), at the time when oa his tour around the world General Grant was the guest of M...
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Publisher:
A.E. Braddock-Rogers (The Jones Brothers Publishing Company
Published:
1910
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12751049522
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Very Good. One of 500 copies of the edition deluxe, unnumbered. Volume eight only: 2047-2244pp., 8pp., 18pp., 30pp., 7pp., 2pp., 88pp. Green pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped spine, all edges gilt, purple silk bookmarker. Two page color illustration of Gen. Pickett taking the order to charge from Gen. Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 by H.A. Ogden. Illustrated with black and white portraits, color maps, and drawings. Tissue paper loose and laid in, a near fine copy. Containing McKinley and Roosevelt's Administrations, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Amendments to the Constitution, Chronological Table, Articles of Confederation, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclomation, and General Index.
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LIKE NEW. Like new. Very attracctive complete 8 volume set. Original 1910 publication by J H Wooling & Co, copyright by Jones Bros. Publishing Co.; Deluxe Edition, one of 500 copies, slightly oversize (10"x7.5"), dark green pebbled covers with decorative gold lettering and design on spines; gilt page edges; 2244pp + appendices. Perfect condition, no marks or writing. **OVERSIZE-overseas orders may require additional shipping. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. **Your purchase supports our town's public library.
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Very Good. Condition: Very Good +; "FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA TO THE PRESENT TIME. 1910, sm 4to. Parts 1-72. Periodical bound in stiff wraps with spine. Part 1 with title pg and text through pg 32, part 2 starts on pg 33 and has no title pg, and so on through all 72 parts. Stated edition de luxe, limited to 500, no # written in blank. The series was illustrated by a number of well known artists, such as H. A. Ogden, W. H. Lippincott, A. B. Doggett, and others. Each part has at least one plate and numerous cuts, illustrations, maps and charts. All wraps lightly tattered along edge with some dust soil from age. Otherwise in very good condition. Texts are clean throughout." Paperback.
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Very good. 8 vols. Profusely illustrated with maps, charts, portraits, historic scenes and a series of polychromatic plates. Large 8vo, 3/4 red leather over marbled boards; marbled end-papers; spines gilt. Los Angeles: Sanderson Whitten, (1900). Edition de luxe, limited to 500-numbered copies.
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Very good(+) 8 volumes. Numerous illustrations with 16 color plates including a few maps and a few double page chromo lithographs by H. A. Ogden. Tall 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco, marbled boards and edges, decoratively gilt spines (slight wear on a few spines). Philadelphia: History Company, (1899). Very good(+).
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 9 volumes, rebound in red buckram. #11 in this deluxe edition of 500 copies.; 8 volumes, plus Analysis of United States History, in matching binding-this volume provides a study guide for the set. Gilt tops, marbeled page edges, full color double page frontispiece in all volumes of original set (with the exception of vol 2, as issued). The frontispieces are all of Civil War generals. The binding is handsome and a reinforced binding, the new endpapers are white, and acid free. Although obviously modern binding, it is handsome, and sets off this set, which usually suffers from defects in the binding.
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