Jun 07, 2018 - Sale 2481

Sale 2481 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL WAR.) d'Orléans, Louis Philippe Albert; M. le Comte de Paris. Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique. Cartes et Planches. 30 color-printed maps (8 double-page), bound with 3 (of 6) printed paper parts wrappers. Atlas only. Folio, 17 1/2x12 1/2 inches, contemporary worn pebbled cloth, gilt spine label, manuscript paper label affixed to upper cover; endleaves and first wrapper with small loss at lower corners, double-page maps with small splits at folds, several maps with early neat manuscript annotations in ink. Bookplate of Felix Alexander Reeve, a Union colonel during the war and later Solicitor of the United States Treasury. Paris: Michel Levy Freres, [1874-1890]

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Rare separately issued atlas of Prince Philippe's account of the American Civil War, in which he served as a diplomatic aide de camp to General George McClellan from September 1861 to July 1862. Phillips, Atlases 1352; Stephenson, Civil War Maps 80.