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Benson J. Lossing. The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence. In Two Volumes. Volume II.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Volume 2 only. Bound in full leather with extensive decoration in blind and gilt and lettering in gilt. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Marbled edges and endpapers. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are tanned. Profusely illustrated.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Benson J. Lossing. The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1859.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1859; two volume set; red leather covered boards with gold titles; wear and discoloration around edges; spine is coming apart on volume 2; corners are scuffed on both volumes; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book. From the collection of John Shy, professor at University of Michigan

Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.

Lossing, Benson, Illustrated by Benson Lossing & William Barritt. The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, in Two Volumes. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1859.

Price: US$348.80 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1859 Edition: Vol.I, 783 pp.; Vol.II, 778 pp. G+/No DJ. Rebound w/ leather spine and marbled boards. Double tissue frontis, vol. i; frontis, vol, ii. Illustrated w/ eleven hundred b & w engravings and field maps, by B. Lossing and Wm. Barritt. Marbled edging. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to e.p.s. and title pp only. Interiorage-toned, else clean and tight. An encyclopedic work in its scope. The author interviewed revolutionary war veterans and did the field work. Relevant for study today. A very handsome rebound set. Extra shipping required.

Seller: Brillig's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.

LOSSING, Benson J.. The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence: In Two Volumes. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1859.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Early reprint. Two volume set. Three quarter polished leather with marbled boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Color frontispiece present in volume one. Illustrated with eleven hundred engravings by the author and Barritt. Hinges cracked, extremities worn particularly the spine, boards scuffed, else very good minus.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Lossing, Benson J.. THE PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION; OR, ILLUSTRATIONS, BY PEN AND PENCIL, OF THE HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, SCENERY, RELICS, AND TRADITIONS OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. Harper & Bros., New York, 1859.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Two volumes. xxxii,33-783,[5]pp. including 523 in-text illustrations, plus color frontispiece; [4],viii,9-772,[4]pp. including 570 in-text illustrations, plus one plate. Lithographic and letterpress titlepages in both volumes. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, spines in six compartments, gilt labels. Both volumes somewhat rubbed and scraped. Text slightly foxed and tanned but otherwise quite clean internally. Very good. Later edition of Lossing's popular and extensively illustrated history of the Revolutionary War. Originally issued in 30 installments from June 1, 1850 to Dec 1, 1852, Lossing's work was a great success and was reprinted several times before the end of the decade, in different formats and with additional illustrations and notes. The author went on a journey to view all of the important locations of the Revolutionary War, learn their stories, and sketch them, many of which original sketches appear in this volume. According to his preface, he wished to follow a narrative of his travel more than of the war, and thus the chronology is "broken into fragments, arranged, in the exhibition, in accordance with the order in which each locality was visited." Lossing was known as a particularly apt historian with an uncommon care for accuracy and detail; he checked a variety of primary sources, interviewed veterans and locals, and carefully examined the discrepancies between his sources. "Contains many details and anecdotes which are not to be found in any other work; indeed, the great variety and numerous items of information contained in these volumes, make the work a cyclopaedia of the American Revolution." - Sabin. HOWES L477. SABIN 42129.

Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Lossing Benson J. THE PICTORIAL FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION; or, Illustrations, by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence. New York Harper & Brothers, Publishers 1859, 1859.

Price: US$935.00 + shipping

Description: 2 volumes. First Edition, later issue. With a fine chromo-lithographic frontispiece in colours of the Military Costume of the Revolution, and eleven hundred engravings on wood by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches by the author. Thick, Royal 8vo, very handsomely bound in three-quarter calf over diced cloth covered boards, the spine panels with raised bands blind tooled and ruled in dark brown-black, paneled designs in blind with central ornamental devices within the compartments, one compartment with green calf lettering label gilt, another compartment lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, all edges marbled. xxxii, 783; viii, 772, including index pp. A very handsome set, very well preserved with only minimal evidence of age, the bindings tight and sound and in very good order, the text-blocks clean and bright. AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS PRODIGIOUS WORK. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT WITH ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD. CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC FRONTISPIECE TO VOL. I, ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE TO VOL. II. ‘In 1835, Lossing became part owner and editor of the Poughkeepsie Telegraph. Out of that publication grew a semi-monthly literary paper, the Poughkeepsie Casket, which Lossing helped illustrate with wood engravings. He moved to New York City in 1838 seeking greater opportunity as a journalist and illustrator. In 1846, he joined William Barritt in a wood engraving business that became one of the largest of such firms in New York. His illustrations appeared in the New York Mirror and several other periodicals. During this time, Lossing sat for a portrait by Thomas Seir Cummings (1804–1894), now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Around 1848, Lossing conceived the idea of writing a narrative sketchbook on the American Revolution. The first installment was published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1850; the completed Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution was published in 1853. To gather material for the work, Lossing traveled some 8,000 miles throughout the United States and Canada. As with his subsequent books, his pen and ink drawings served as the primary illustrations. The book won him critical acclaim and general reputation. During and after the Civil War, Lossing toured the United States and the once Confederacy. On the basis of that research, he published his three-volume pictorial field book/history of the war. This work is also presumed to be Mathew Brady's first collaboration in the use of his Civil War photographs as book illustrations.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.