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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 575

Prisons and Civil WarU.S. Sanitary Commission: Narrative of the Privations and Sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers While Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Rebel Authorities. Philadelphia; King & Baird, 1864. 8vo, gilt title on blue cloth covers and later marbled endpapers, "Copies of Photographs of Union Soldiers after Their Return from Imprisonment At Belle Isle," with supplement, 283pp. An extensive report by the Commission which includes "Evidence Relating to United States Stations for Rebel Prisoners." Contemporary signature on title page "With Compliments of E.C. Fisher. Agent" and red stamp seal of the United States Sanitary Commission, London. "Ex Libris Raymond L. J. Riling" inside cover. Some foxing on blank adjacent pages to photo copies, otherwise Near Fine

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