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HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. VOLUME V. FOR THE YEAR 1861 (JANUARY - DECEMBER 1861) by HARPER'S WEEKLY - 1861

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HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. VOLUME V. FOR THE YEAR 1861 (JANUARY - DECEMBER 1861) by HARPER'S WEEKLY - 1861

HARPER'S WEEKLY: A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. VOLUME V. FOR THE YEAR 1861 (JANUARY - DECEMBER 1861)

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. Elephant Folio. Original brown embossed cloth with gilt oval stamping on cover lettered in gilt. Some wear to the joints and light fraying to spine ends, else firmly bound. An old repair to some inner pages with a few pages numbered out of sequence (pp. 706-717) but apparently complete. The large double-page fold-out map of The Southern States is split along the fold but complete. (see pictures) Profusely illustrated with wonderful engravings. An important document of the first year of the Civil War including the secession of the Southern States and the attack on Fort Sumter. Interior pages clean and bright. Additional photos available on request. [No Priority or International shipping on this item]. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.
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  • Date Published 1861

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Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization January 25, 1862 (reissue copy)

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization January 25, 1862 (reissue copy)

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Shenandoah, IA: Living History, Vol. VI No. 265 (January 25, 1862. 16pp. illus. paper folio: Good [some edge tears, age browning; else complete] A ca. 1962 Civil War Centennial era reissue of an original copy of this famous 19th century magazine. Contains Civil War news and numerous illustrations. Cover illustration is of General George B. McClellan astride a horse: "Little Mac rides again."
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No. 24: June 13, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (full page with engraving); are We in Danger of anarchy?; First 3 Chapters of Lytton's What Will he Do with it?; Poem, The Ball-room Belle; An Hour with Rembrandt Peale (w/engraving0; domestic and Foreign news; Travel Notes in Bibl Land (2 1/2 Pages w/5 engravings); Veneration for a Hair of Prophet Mohammed; The Regatta of the New York Yacht Cluv (full Page Engracing, Story and 2 Other engravings; Ads, fiction, fashions, Etc pp 369--384 clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No. 28: July 11, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: Travels in Bible Lands Pt 5 (1 1/3 Page, 2 Engravings);death of William L. Marcy; Home Exercises (for Women (full Page, 8 drawings); Poem (Bethany); Rev. John P. Durbin (2/3 Page, 1 engraving); Book Reviews; Domestic and Foreign news; Salt Lake City Utah and Its Rulers (3 Plus Pages, 9 Engravings; Mormon tabernacle); E. Bulwer Lytton's Novel, What Will he Do with it?, Chapters 12--16; Reminiscences of San Francisco, Pt. 12 Pages w/lovely engraving); Ads, fiction, cartoons, Etc pp 433--448 clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Magazine.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No.32: August 8, 1857

Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No.32: August 8, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: Travels in Bible Lands Pt 9 (1+ Page, 2 Engravings); Gossip; Book Reviews; domestic & Foreign News; Life in Saratoga Springs; Our Excursion to the Fishing Banks (Humorous story w/5 sketches), Honorable Henry C. Murphy (story & portrait); Domestic and Foreign News; Cattle Fair Day in New England (23/4 Pages ; Story and 10 Engravings); E. Bulwer Lytton Novel, Book II, Chapters 1-2: Did She, Miss Madeleine Smith, Poison Her Lover (2 Pages, 2 engravings), How to Make Moss Pictures; ads, cartoons, Etc pp 497-512 clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Magazine.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No. 19: May 9, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: Decline of Hotel Life in America; Foreign Religious Items; Poetry, The Brit6ish Elections (3 Engravings) (Lord John Russel Viscount Palmerston); book reviews; Laying of the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable (w/8 engravings); St. George's Society Dinner (2 Engravings, Including Portrait of Lord William John Napier, 9th Lord Napier); Fashions, fiction, Cartoons, Etc.; pp 273-288 clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No.46: November 14, 1857

Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No.46: November 14, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: CHARLES DICKENS Serial, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Chapter 3; the Meeting of the Soverigns at Stuttgardt (1+ Page with Half Page engraving); Editorials (rights of Labor, elections), Bohemian Walks and Talks in New York; Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon at the Crystal Palace (full Page with Story and 2 Engravings; Travel in Bible Lands Pt. XX, (one Page with Two engravings); Domestic and Foreign News; A True and Pictorial History of the Career of the Patagonian Cash and Confidence Co.; Illustrating the Simple and Beautiful Manner in Which Commercial Revulsions are Created in Our Time (double Page Satirical piece); e/ Bulwer-Lytton's Serieal Novel What Will he Do with it?, Chapter 13; Female Life in Manilla Philippines (full page+ with Two engravings), Market News, ads, cartoons, Etc pp. 721-736, clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No. 17: April 25, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: Mormons;Judge John Worth Edmond & American Spiritualism; Poetry; Some Celestial Paradoxes; Sir John Bowring (w/engraved portrait) ; A Ranger's Life in Nicaragua: Chontales, Nicaragua (w/6 engravings); birds of Message--carrier Doves, Pigeons; fiction, Cartoons, Etc.; pp257-272 clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No.7: February 14, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. full original issue pp.97-112; includes: Our Administration of Criminal Justice; Murder Will Out--cruelty; Rejection of the Dallas Treaty; Consumption (Tuberculous); man About Town: The Dance of Death; Age of Discocery (w/map on the African Continent); Literary (william Cotton's Sir Joshua Reymonds, Asa Mahan's Science of Logic; etc), Domestic and Foreign News; a Tramp through the Back Woods of Costa Rica (8 Engravings); Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries; Cartoons, fiction Pieces & classifieds. Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Artist Unattributed. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No.5: January 31, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. full original issue pp.65-80; includes: New York City Police; William Walker and Nicaragua; Pillared Coins of Spain, Dr. David Livingston in Africa (with engraving); Reviews (Alexander M. Burrill, Treatise on the Nature, Principles and Rules of Circumstantial Evidence; Alexander M'Whorter, Yahveh Christ; Rev. John Johnston (Autobiography and Ministerial Life of Rev. John Johnston; Anna Hastings (Russellfamily) Cuttings from the Garden of Eden (with Engravings), Moral Insanity (cartoon sequence), Fiction Pieces & classifieds, Fiction Pieces & classifieds Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Artist Unattributed. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization: Vol. 1, No. 14: April 4, 1857

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NY: Harper's Weekly, 1857. original, full original issue containing: Separation of Church & State; Medicine & Charlatanism; Alexander Dumas, Jr. (w/engraved portrait), Domestic & Foreign News; Al Albany Dutchman in Holland (with6 engravings)The Story of Iindia Rubber (w/engravngs and Portraits of Thomas Hancock and Charles Goodyear), Fiction, Cartoons, Etc.; pp.209-224 clean, bright pages; Disbound. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by b/w Engravings. 10.5" x 15.5". Newspaper.
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