Civil War Atlas to Accompany Official Records of Union & Confederate Armies For Sale

Civil War Atlas to Accompany Official Records of Union & Confederate Armies
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Civil War Atlas to Accompany Official Records of Union & Confederate Armies:
$2800.00

Selling a Complete 3 Volume edition of the Atlas toAccompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.

When the US War Department began issuing its 70 volume setof records generated by both the Union and Confederate Armies, it also createdan Atlas to Accompany the Official Records. The atlas was published in 35sections, from 1891-1895. It contained 175 loose plates with more than 1,000maps, illustrations, and diagrams, detailing battlefield maps, scenes from theconflict, and military equipment.

Published by a Resolution of the U.S. Congress of May 19,1864 as The Official Historical Record of The Civil War, and was never openlysold, but distributed only to Federal depositories, university libraries,public museums, various public & semi-public concerns. Fewer than 1,000complete atlases rare said to remain.

Given the age of the edition, the books are in very goodshape. The cover of Volume 1 is close todetaching from the binding and I\'ve tried to do what I can to note andphotograph other condition issues.Volume 2 probably has the most damage of the three books as there is asection of plates with dogearing in the margins and then others that have tearscrossing into the actual frames and a few with loss. Volume 1 is in excellent shape, cover aside,as the plates are in tact for the most part barring some small clean tears inbottom margins of a few of them as well as a few plates with minor staining inspots. Volume 3 is a mix of plates inexcellent condition as well as some with small pieces out of them.

Below are some notes I\'ve taken. If there are any additional photos someonewould like representing damage, or if there is just a particular plate youwould like photos of to verify it\'s condition, please let me know. Given the 12 photo limits, I only addedphotos showing bindings of the books and ones indicative of the damage asmentioned in the notes below. I didn\'tadd any photos for the numerous plates that are in excellent shape but couldsend along to anyone should they want examples.

Plate 20 - slight staining in center fold area as well assmall tear on bottom right margin of the plate

Plate 45 - slight staining in center fold

Plates 61-70 - yellowing of page edges is more noticeablethan earlier plates

Plate 67 - tear on bottom right that does go into the slideitself

Plate 68 - Crease on left center of slide

Plate 70 - Staining in bottom of map of Savannah

Plate 71 - Dogeared left corner

Plate 72&73 - slight tear in bottom margin

Plates 72-74 and 85- minor dogearing of corners of pages,

Plates 86-89 - dogeared corners of pages. Not terrible, but more noticeable thanpreceding pages

Plate 90 - Dogeared worse than preceding pages and has tearin bottom right side of plate

Plate 91 - edges of pages gone and staining

Plates 93-95 - staining and tears in bottom margins

Plate 116-117 - damage in bottom margin

Plate 118-119 - damage at bottom of plates with piece out of119

Plate 120 - tears in multiple locations of plate - leftside, bottom left and right

Plate 121- tear on bottom left and missing portion of bottomright

Plate 122 - Piece out in bottom left margin

Plate 169-171 - small tears in bottom margin

Plate 172 - color transfer from illustrated images ofsoldiers.


Again, given the age these are in excellent shape and wouldmake a fantastic addition to the Civil War collector’s collection.

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