1861 1st Reports of Delafield & Mordecai - Ohio Provenance - Illustrated

Description: REPORT OF COLONEL R. DELAFIELD, U.S. ARMY, AND MAJOR OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, FROM HIS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS MADE AS A MEMBER OF A "MILITARY COMMISSION TO THE THEATER OF WAR IN EUROPEON THE ART OF WAR IN EUROPE" IN 1854, 1855 & 1856, UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS, SECRETARY OF WAR. Washington: GEORGE W. BOWMAN, PRINTER, 1861. Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 59, 36th Congress, 2nd Sess. Commission: R. Delafield, A. Mordecai. Thick 4to. XXIV, 277 pages of text, 24 lithographic plates, including extra illustrated title page (most tinted, some folding), and 57 maps and plans. A couple maps with tears at edges. Numerous in-text illustrations. Original cloth stamped in decorative blind. Exhibits heavy edgewear and surface loss, soiling, amateur home repair to spine, backed in old black tape - upper hinge and title pages reinforced with archival tape, fragile, in need of repair. Old tidemarks at upper endleaves, moderate toning and foxing throughout, otherwise contents clear and unmarked. This copy bears contemporary penciled presentation inscription at second free endpaper from Ohio Democratic politician George W. Holmes: "To D. H. Holmes from Geo. W. Holmes - To L. H. Holmes from Geo. W. Holmes." MILITARY COMMISSION TO EUROPE, IN 1855 AND 1856 - REPORT OF MAJOR ALFRED MORDECI, OF THE ORDINANCE DEPARTMENT. Washington: GEORGE W. BOWMAN, PRINTER, 1861. Sen. Ex. Doc. 60, 36th Congress, 2nd Session. 4to. vii, 232 pages, 21 plates. Includes Rifled Infantry Arms, A Brief Description of the Modern System of Small Arms, As Adopted in the Various European Armies by J. Schön. Translated from the German by J. Gorgas, Capt. of Ordinance, United States Army. Dresden: 1855. Second Edition, Revised and Augmented, with Explanatory Plates, pages [177]-232, with 13 folded maps. Original blindstamped cloth exhibiting edgewear and surface loss, soiling, with the same amateur black tape backing, split at lower hinge, needs conservation. Toning at pastedowns, endleaves browned, various degrees of toning and spotting throughout, penciled annotations at upper pastedown and front flyleaf. Contemporary penciled inscriptions (2) at upper and lower endpapers from notorious Copperhead George Hunt Pendleton (Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate in 1864 against Lincoln and Johnson) to Ohio politician George W. Holmes: "Geo. W. Holmes from Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton."

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