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Dust jacket title adds: From Fiery Secessionist to New York State Supreme Court Justice. First edition. Original cloth, fine in fine dust jacket. A much needed biography. Prior to the Civil War, Pryor was a newspaper editor, first with the Richmond "Enquirer" and later with the "South," a Richmond daily paper. He was an ardent advocate of State's Rights and represented the extreme views of the Virginia Democracy. His aggressive course and the intense utterance of his convictions led to several duels. Pryor began his Confederate service as Colonel of the 3rd Virginia Infantry. He served gallantly and was promoted brigadier general after the Battle of Williamsburg. After the war he went to New York and settled there as a lawyer. At the end of his career he was a New York State Supreme Court Justice.
$ 25.00

17. EDWARD EVERETT'S COPY Loring, Charles Greely and Edwin W. Field. CORRESPONDENCE ON THE PRESENT RELATIONS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1862. 153 pp.

First edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. Loring, who also published this work, inscribes a gift presentation to Edward Everett. Loring like Everett was an eloquent and effective speaker. Numerous addresses included one at the Republican mass-meeting in Faneuil Hall in 18 62, and one at the meeting of Boston citizens after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Edward Everett, a fellow Bostonian, was the orator of the day at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863. He gave a detailed, colorful, two hour address before the President rose and in a few words commented on the task at hand - that of officially dedicating the cemetery. A tremendous association copy of this important work. NEVINS I, 253: "Reflects the positions of most educated opinion in England and America during the first year of the war." BARTLETT 2824. Not in NICHOLSON. SABIN 16880.
$ 250.00

18. Winsor, Justin (ed). NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICA.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1889]. 8 vols.

First edition. Original publisher's brown cloth with title in gilt on spine. A very good set. Contents of set are as follows: Volume 1: Aboriginal America [c1889]. Volume II: Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century [c1886]. Volume III: English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689 [c1884]; Volume IV: French Explorations and Settlements In North America and those of the Portuguese, Dutch and Swedes 1500-1700 [c1884]. Volume V: The English and French in North America 1689-1763 [c1887]. Volume VI: The United States of North America Part I [c1887]. Volume VII: The United States of North America, Part II [c1888]. Volume VIII: The Later History of British, Spanish, and Portuguese America [c1889]. Each volume indexed separately, general index in Volume VIII. Larned: LITERATURE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 404: "Composed of critical essays by different writers covering American history in detail to the adoption of the Constitution and briefly to about 1850. The most valuable parts of the work are the critical essays on the sources and Mr. Winsor's notes, which together form an exhaustive and generally critical account of the printed and manuscript sources and of the secondary authorities on American history. The volumes are rich in facsimiles of maps, historical illustrations, and portraits. For the student it is the most useful and valuable work on American history that he can possess." HARVARD GUIDE p.73. HOWES W-578.
$ 650.00

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