American Civil War. Collection of memoirs, biographies and letters, including:
1) Davis (Varina Jefferson). Jefferson Davis. Ex-President of the Confederate States of America. A Memoir by his Wife, 1st edition, New York: Belford Company, 1890. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, photogravure portrait frontispieces, numerous halftone photographic plates, folding map, bindings rubbed,
2) Grant (Ulysses S.). Personal Memoirs, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, 3 engraved plates including frontispieces, 3 plates of manuscript facsimile, folding map, numerous maps in text, spines sunned and nicked, volume 2 largely unopened,
3) Sheridan (P. H.). Personal Memoirs, 1st UK edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, engraved frontispieces, 11 folding maps,
4) Thompson (Robert Means, & Richard Wainwright). Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistance Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865, 1st edition, number 625 of 1200 copies 'for the society only', New York: for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, 1918. 2 volumes, 8vo, original half vellum, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 3 photogravure plates including frontispieces, retaining one slipcase (of two),
and 12 others, including: Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, 1st edition, Norwood, MA: privately issued, 1917 (5 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, Major General United States Army, 1st edition, New York, 1908 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army, 1st edition, New York, 1913 (2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth); A. L. Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee, 1st edition, New York, 1887 (8vo, modern cloth); and similar, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen (qty: 38)