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Description(Civil War)An album of 12 large lithographed War Department maps 
An album of 12 large lithographed War Department maps (plus two smaller untitled or fragmentary maps), various cartographers and lithographers, mostly produced in New York, 1862–1865, each dissected and mounted on cloth, various sizes up to 870 x 1040 mm; two maps detached and rather wrinkled, linen versos with adhesive staining occasionally showing through to map, occasional fold separations, maps and versos with ink stamp (see provenance below). Bound together in nineteenth-century half sheep, spine gilt-lettered “War Maps,” index mounted on front pastedown; very worn, front cover detached.
The maps comprise Central Virginia showing Lieut. Genl. Grant’s Campaigns, campaign routes shown in color — Portions of the Military Departments of Virginia, Washington Middle & the Susquehanna; Central Virginia … 1862 — Portions of Virginia and North Carolina embracing Richmond & Lynchburg, Va. And Goldsboro & Salisbury, N.C. … 1864 — Eastern Portion of the Military Department of North Carolina … May 1862, inset plans of “Entrances to Cape Fear River” and “Rebel Works for the Defense of … Entrance to Cape Fear River” — Part of the Military Department of the South embracing Portions of Georgia and South Carolina … 1865 — General Map of Charleston Harbor South Carolina showing Rebel Defences and Obstructions … 1865, partly printed in green and red — Northwestern Georgia (with Portions of the Adjoining States if Tennessee and Alabama) being Part of the Department of the Cumberland … 1865 — Extract from a Map entitled Portions of the Military Departments of the Cumberland … of the South … and of the Gulf … 1863 — Chart Showing the Entrance of Rear Admiral Farragut into Mobile Bay. 5th of August 1864, partially hand-colored, several vignettes of naval vessels, inscribed and signed by Farragut: “Presented to G. V. Fox Assistant Secty of the Navy by D. G. Farragut Rear Admiral” — Northern Mississippi and Alabama — Mountain Region of North Carolina and Tennessee, printed in color.Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.
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