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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 533

Civil War. Davis, Jefferson: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. New York; D. Appleton and Company, 1881. 2 Volumes. 8vo, gilt-illustrated, pebbled red cloth covers with gilt-lettered spine, illustrated with 19 full-page steel plate engravings and 18 maps (many folding), 707pp + 4 adv, and 808pp with 4 adv. Jeff Davis' argumentative dissertation on secession and states' rights, which is not too revealing of the inner workings and history of the CSA, but nonetheless an important history of the Confederacy penned by its president. Light pencil marks front endpapers, very minor foxing and cover scuff, small dirt spot back inside cover; a clean and sound first edition set, Very Good.

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