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![Text Box: England: Windermere: John Heywood's Illustrated Guide to Windermere, Bowness, & Ambleside; with walks in their vicinity by Heywood, John 1889 Manchester, UK: John Heywood. Guide to Sights in the English Lake District, includes pictures of Windermere, Bowness from Furness Fell, Bowness church, Windermere from the Summit (Brantfell), Windermere from Biskey Howe, more. Ads for Crown Hotel, Timetable for Midland Railway for 1889 season, Mappin and Webb's knives and scissors, Banks & Co. Black Lead Pencils and Cadbury's Cocoa. 36 pp. 12 x 18 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (7967) $24.00. Travel/England
L'Invasion Dans Le Nord de Seine-&-Marne 1914; Trilport Montceaux Germigny; Publié sous loes auspices des Conseils municipaux de Trilport,Montceaux et Germigny. [Invasion of France North of the Seine-Marne, 1914, in French.] 1918 Meaux, France: Imprimerie-Librairie G. Lepillet, Place de la Cathédrale. This is the story of the German invasion of France in the early days of World War I, when Belgians fleeing the Germans poured into the three small towns in this history. This history covers the events in Germigny-L’Evèque, Trilport and Montceaux-les-Meaux, with French and British forces fighting the invading Germans. Includes photo of Railroad Bridge over the Marne at Trilport, blown up by the British, ruins of the Château de Montceaux, Bridge over the Marne at Germigny-l'Evèque, blown up by the Germans, and more. 52 pp. 17 x 25 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (7965)$26.00. World War I/History
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Women of the War; Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. Illustrated with steel engravings By Moore, Frank. 1866 Hartford, CT: S.S. Scranton & Co. Author does not spare the graphic, bloody imagery in his stories about female heroism and sacrifice during the Civil War. Included are Fanny Ricketts, Mary Brady, Kady Brownell, Mrs. P.B. Hurd, Margaret Breckinridge, Elida Rumsey Fowle, Bridget Divers, Isabella Fogg, Mary Lee, Major Pauline Cushman, Mrs. John Harris, Mary Shelton, Carrie Sheads, Mrs. Stephen Barker, Belle Reynolds, Charlotte McKay, Mary Morris Husband, Anna Maria Ross, Mrs. A.H. Hoge, Emily Dana, Harriet Hawley, Maria Hall, Mrs. Governor Harvey, Amy Bradley, Rebecca Usher, Mother Byckerdyke, Ann Hitz, Mary Dupee, Loyal Southern Women, Details about Gettysburg and Fort Pillow, Loyal Sanitary Workers, and more. Many high-quality steel engravings of heroines. 596 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Green cloth on board with gilt design and lettering, edges frayed, top rear hinge torn 7 cm at spine. Half title page and frontispiece engraving loose. Poor. (4934) $20.00. Civil War/Women
My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps and at the front; Superbly Illustrated with portraits and numerous full-page engravings on steel and fine chromo-lithograph plates; By Livermore, Mary A. 1890 Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington and Company. Mary Livermore was asked to write about her adventures during the Civil War just after it ended, but she kept so busy over the years that 20-odd years passed before she wrote this account. Author and husband, an editor of a Chicago newspaper, were exposed to much that went on in the war, and Mary's work in the Sanitary Commission exposed her to much more. Colorful narrative from beginning of war, includes accounts of contribution of notable women; hospital arrangements and work; Sanitary Commission and its work; Awaiting Shiloh, Awful Slaughter; Darkest Period of the War; Life in a Contraband Camp; Trip Down the Mississippi; Opposite Vicksburg; Sherman's March to the Sea; Mother Byckerdyke; President Lincoln; Soldiers' letters from the front, more. Excellent steel engravings of key figures and events, by F.O.C. Darley, also color illustrations of Union and Confederate Battle Flags, with descriptions. 700 pp. 15 x 23 cm. Maroon cloth on board with facsimile words "Yr's very truly, Mary A. Livermore" in gilt on cover. Blind-stamped design and gilt printed spine. Heel and toe of spine frayed, some foxing of engravings. Good. (4984) $25.00. Civil War/Women
Eugenia's Diary for 1869 in Proctorsville, Vermont by Goodrich, Eugenia A. 1869 Proctorsville, VT: ephemera. Young woman keeps careful record of the events in her life in family in small village along the Black River in central Vermont. It's cold, she and family are frequently snowbound. Genie (her nickname) records the events as dear Ella grows weaker and then dies. February is a bad month with several deaths of friends and family. Genie sews for local ladies. She records the active visiting that people did in the days before automobiles and telephones, except when the roads are filled with snow. Things look up in April when the sugaring starts. One day her brother boils off ("done off") 57 pounds of sugar. She records murders [Boston Post Feb. 19, 1869 carries report of one murder.] and fatal accidents in nearby towns, and writes about fear in the village that the reservoir will break and they'll all be drowned. She writes about one beau: "he is splendid", but others annoy her. The Fourth of July is "Glorious"; it's quite an honor when President Grant visits Proctorsville in August. There's a bad flood in October that takes out all the local bridges across the river and carries away Mr. Atherton's house. There's a smallpox scare in the village. Proctorsville celebrates Christmas, and Genie writes about a merry Christmas at home; her brother receives a box of collars. This is a fine view of life in New England just after the Civil War. Standard 19th century diary, with astronomical items, postage rates, moon phases, time of sunset and rise for each day, etc. ~400 pp. x 10 cm. Small leather-bound Cover worn, lining loose. Most entries are in ink and well-written; some are very hard to read. Fair. (7964) $260.00. American Originals
Chelsea Fire: Souvenir Book of The Great Chelsea Fire April 12, 1908; containing 34 views of the burned district and prominent buildings also a descriptive sketch 1908 Boston, MA: N.E. Paper and Stationery Co. Fire that started at about 11 a.m. in the Boston Blacking Company on West 3rd St. near the Everett line. So intense was fire that buildings made of solid granite crumbled and were entirely destroyed. Number of buildings destroyed was about 1500, and between 10,000 and 12,000 people were rendered homeless. Photos show various scenes of damage, including Stebbins Block, looking up Broadway from Third St., Everett Avenue, corner post of Granite Block, Cherry Street, Odd Fellows Building, Bellingham Hill, Chelsea Savings Bank Building, Williams School ruins on Walnut street, Shurtleff School ruins on Essex St. Also Ruins of City Hall and City Hall School on Central Avenue, more. 32 pp. 15 x 10.5 cm. Paper booklet, good. (7958) $48.00. History/Boston](image366.gif)
