Feb 02, 2006 - Sale 2065

Sale 2065 - Lot 46

Price Realized: $ 632
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR.) Jacobs, M. Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania and the Battle of Gettysburg July 1st, 2d and 3d, 1863. Color lithographed folding battleplan. 47 pages. Small 8vo, original cloth; owner's pencil inscription on front free endpaper ("William Blair Lord / Gettysburg, PA/ November 19 1863"). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1864

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The owner's inscription is intriguing -- dated the day of the Gettysburg Address. Lord served as a Congressional stenographer. The large color lithographed folding map in front of the battlefield shows the positions of Union forces by red lines and Confederate forces by blue lines for each day of the battle.