Civil War Navy and Blockade Runners, Collection of Books

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Civil War Navy and Blockade Runners, Collection of Books

Over 30 titles including: The American Neptune: a Quarterly Journal of Maritime History, July 1948.

The American Neptune: Pictorial Supplement III: Blockade Runners, 1961.(2 copies)

Bernath, Stuart L. Squall Across the Atlantic: American Civil War Prize Cases and Diplomacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. 8vo, blue cloth w/dj, 229pp.

Bradlee, Francis B.C. Blockade Running During the Civil War, and the Effect of Land and Water Transportation on the Confederacy. Salem (MA): The Essex Institute, 1925. 8vo, grey cloth w/dj, 340pp.

Brock, R.A., ed. Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXIV. Richmond (VA): Publ. by the Society, 1896. 8vo, rebound in blue cloth, original paper covers bound in, 383pp.

Chapel, Charles Edward. The Gun Collector’s Handbook of Values. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1955, 3rd rev. ed. 8vo, red cloth, 398pp.

Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. Part III – 1863. Washington (DC): Navy Department, Naval History Division, GPO, 1963. 4to, printed paper covers, 169pp.

Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. Part V – 1865. Washington (DC): Navy Department, Naval History Division, GPO, 1965. 4to, printed paper covers, 149pp.

Coski, John M. The Confederate Navy. Richmond (VA): Museum of the Confederacy, 2005. Exhibition publication. 62pp.

Deichmann, Catherine Lynch. Rogues & Runners: Bermuda and the American Civil War. Hamilton (Bermuda): Bermuda National Trust, 2003. Small obl. 8vo, illustrated paper cover, 79pp.

Plus Archives Exhibition booklet of “The Bahamian American Connections,” 16 Feb. – 4 March 1976.

Eller, E.M. Rear Adml., USN. Monitors of the U.S. Navy. 1861-1937. Washington (DC): GPO, 1969. 8vo, paper covers, 48pp. Illus. with photos.

Farragut, Loyall. The Life of David Glasgow Farragut, First Admiral of the United States Navy, Embodying his Journal and Letters. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. 8vo, brown cloth, 586pp. Shelf wear, rear hinge going.

Gibbons, Tony. Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War. New York: Gallery Books, 1989. 4to, royal blue cloth w/dj, 175pp.

Harvard Class of 1944: Fiftieth Anniversary Report. Cambridge: 1944. 8vo, maroon (of course) cloth, endpapers are University maps, in brown paper shipping dj, 594pp.

Headley, J.T. Farragut and our Naval Commanders. New York: E.B. Treat & Co., 1867. 8vo, green cloth, extensive gilt on spine, 609 plus 2 pp ads.

Kelbaugh, Ross J. Introduction to Civil War Photography. Gettysburg: Thomas Publications, 1991. 4to, paper, 48pp.

Mapp, Alf J. and Ramona. Portsmouth: a Pictorial History. Virginia Beach: Donning Company Publishers, 2006, 2nd ed. 4to, green cloth with dj, printed endpapers, 256pp.

Rawson, Edward K., USN and Stewart, Charles W. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington: GPO, 1899. 8vo, navy cloth, 915pp.

Roberts, Captain. “Never Caught – Personal Adventures Connected with twelve Successful Trips in Blockade-Running During the American Civil War, 1863-64.” Abbatt, William, ed. The Magazine of History. Extra Number No. 3, 1908. Pp. 143-205 (63pp). Smithsonian Collection of Warship Plans. Washington: revised 1983. 4to, obl. Spiral bound.

Sprunt, James. Chronicles of the Cape Fear River. Spartanburg (SC): The Reprint Company, 1973. 8vo, navy cloth, endpaper maps, 732pp.

Stein, Roger B., Intro. American Naval Prints from the Beverley R. Robinson Collection, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, MD. International Exhibition Foundation, 1976. 4to, obl. Printed paper cover, 121 pp.

Stern, Philip Van Doren. The Confederate Navy: a Pictorial History. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. 4to, black and blue cloth w/dj, maps on endpapers, 256pp.

Stick, David. Graveyard of the Atlantic: Shipwrecks of the North Carolina Coast Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952. 8vo, grey cloth, 276pp.

Still, William N., Jr., ed. The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1861-65. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1997. 4to, navy cloth w/dj, 262pp.

Symonds, Craig L., ed. Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy 1861-1862. Newport (RI): Naval War College Press, 1976. 8vo, illustrated paper covers, 287pp.

Thomes, W.H. Running the Blockade; or, U.S. Secret Service Adventures. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1875. 8vo, green cloth with extensive gilt illustr. On front, 474pp.

Walker, Jeanie Mort. Life of Capt. Joseph Fry The Cuban Martyr. Hartford: J.B. Burr Publishing Co., 1875. 8vo, green cloth, gilt front and spine, 589pp. Shelf wear and toning of pages.

Walske, Steven C. Post Office Mail Sent Across the Lines at the Start of the American Civil War May to July 1861. Louisville (KY): Leonard H. Hartmann, 2003.

Williams, Hermann Warner, Jr., Director. The Civil War; The Artists’ Record. Boston: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1961. 8vo, paper covers with gilt, 266pp.

Wise, Stephen Robert. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the American Civil War. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1983. PhD dissertation, Univ. of South Carolina. Softbound photocopy.

Plus miscellaneous publications, including The History of the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, 1937-1987; Fort Fisher Visitor Center-Museum Souvenir Booklet, Aug. 24, 1963; Currier and Ives, American, Historical and Decorative Prints; Confederate Guns and their Current Prices; Guns: The Story Behind the Nunnemacher Collection; reprint “Wilmington During the Blockade, Harper’s, Sept. 1866; Donald McNarry Exhibition and Sale, 2001 catalog; and a 1985 printed Confederate Passport.

Provenance: The M. Clifford (Cliff) and Lynne B. Young Confederate Blockade Runner Collection

Condition

Good to very good.
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