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Lot 1236
Biography of Robert E. Lee with the General's Signature Tipped In
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
As follows: Memoirs of Robert E. Lee / His Military and Personal History Embracing a Large Amount of Information Hitherto Unpublished (New York: J. M. Stoddart & Company, 1887), octavo, half leather with gilt to spine, boards and top edge of pages; General Lee's signature reads Robert E. Lee / Genl on a 2-1/8 x 3-7/8 in. piece of paper that is tipped in on the front free endpaper; the book is also personalized by its owner "Thomas Fyshe / Sunnyside / Halifax N.S. / June 1887; two folding maps, one showing the region between Gettysburg and Appomattox and the other of Gettysburg are bound with the text.

9-3/8 x 6-1/4 in.

Binding remains tight; the larger map has a two-inch edge tear; overall age toning to text; light foxing to non-gilt page edges; some areas of wear to leather; the Lee signature lightly toned and quite clear; overall very good condition.