Ending 27th Apr, 2025 18:00
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1861 Civil War BIBLE- Pocket Soldier English/American
Livermore, George (Prefatory Note): Cromwell's Soldier's Pocket Bible (1643). Cambridge, Limited Edition of 100, printed for Private distribution, 1861. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by George Livermore, in the Clerk's Office of District Court of the district of Massachusetts. PP: vi, (ii), 16. Cont. full leather with lettering to upper cover and all edges gilt. Inscription to front blank endpaper 'Col. T L Livermore with compliments of Chas. C. Livermore. 10 Sept 1900'. [Colonel Thomas Leonard Livermore of 1st New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, is best remembered today as the post-war author of numerous historical works, notably histories of New Hampshire soldiers & units in the War; Numbers and Losses - the standard reference work for statistics about Civil War unit strengths]
From the library collection of Mulberry House, a former rectory of High Ongar church.
Sold for £180
Auction: Books, Manuscripts and Maps, ending 27th Apr, 2025
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