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...a New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (New York: E. B. Treat & Co., 1867), quarto, three quarter leather over marbled boards, gilt title, raised bands and embosed star-in-crescent motifs on spine, marbled endpapers and page edges, frontispiece engraving of Jefferson Davis.
Private Collection of a Gentleman, Southern MS The front pastedown carries the library plate for Moses A. Dropsie (1821-1905), a noted Jewish attorney and philanthropist from Philadelphia.
Front cover loose at hinge with interior linen tape stabilization; normal wear, internally clean with sound binding. An attractive copy. Good condition overall.