1863 CIVIL WAR Battle Fredericksburg Stonewall Jackson Illustrated London News

1863 CIVIL WAR Battle Fredericksburg Stonewall Jackson Illustrated London News

A rare, mid-19^th-century issue of ‘The Illustrated London News’ – an enormous tome!

This series of issues from 1863 covers a wide variety of important topics; however, the entirety of topics included is too vast to include here. Nonetheless, some of the most important and interesting topics include:

• Descriptions of California
  • Floods
• American Civil War
  • Attack at Charleston, and harbor
  • Fort Moultrie Bombardment
  • Portrait of Stonewall Jackson
  • Repairs made to Fort Sumter
  • Map of the war in Virginia
  • Battle of Fredericksburg, bombardment
  • General Longstreet crossing the Blue Ridge
• Anti-Slavery demonstrations
• Chinese Civil War
  • Fungwha Bombardment
• Descriptions of countless ships and harbors

Item number: #24237

Price: $750

periodical

The Illustrated London News, vol XLII Jan. to June

London: printed by George C Leighton, 1863. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Jan.-June 1863
  • iv, 708
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Inman Sealby
  • Captain Inman Sealby (1862–1942) was a sea captain and lawyer, who is best remembered for captaining the RMS Republic for the White Star Line when it collided with the SS Florida and was lost at sea in 1903. The ship was equipped with a new Marconi wireless telegraphy transmitter, and issued a CQD distress call, resulting in the saving of around 1,500 lives. This was the first important marine rescue made possible by radio, and brought worldwide attention to this new technology. Despite this success, Sealby was fired from his position, and instead began to study and practice maritime law. Motto: FORT ET LOYAL
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Cloth
• Size: ~16.5in X 11.75in (41.5cm x 30cm)
• Rare and desirable

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