Friends and Colleagues,

On occasion we list a book which has little value … but which, because of an association, has a lot of value.

That is the case with this small, quite worn copy of The New Testament.  In this case, we don’t even know when or where it was published because it is missing the first few pages.  But it contains a plate on the endpaper, which is both printed and handwritten.  And that interesting plate tells us a lot about the book, and its owner.

The Bible Society of Baltimore encouraged soldiers to fill it in – “Should I die on the battlefield … “.

I find it poignant and moving.  The soldiers, on both side of the Civil War, knew that this was serious business.  Their potential death was real and present.   Artifacts like this were carried in soldiers’ pockets, on the battlefield, in hospitals, in graves, in prisoner of war camps. 

Do you feel the same resonance I do?

Cheers,
Nick     

[Richard M. Jones]. [CONFEDERATE BIBLE] NEW TESTAMENT. Price: $950.00	Francesco Savasta. [FEUD] [ITALY] IL FAMOSO CASO DI SCIACCA. Price: $2,000.00

Jabez Lamar M. Curry. [CIVIL WAR] [LOST CAUSE] CIVIL HISTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, WITH SOME PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. Price: $150.00	Bill Hyde [Editor] | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] THE UNION GENERALS SPEAK. THE MEADE HEARINGS ON THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. Price: $95.00
James Russell Lowell | [Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue]. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE CATHEDRAL. Price: $300.00	Iraa M. Rutkow | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] [MEDICINE] BLEEDING BLUE AND GRAY. CIVIL WAR SURGERY AND EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN MEDICINE. Price: $75.00
Joseph Hall | Fritz Kredel (Illustrator). [SPECIAL PRESS] SAMSON: SELECTIONS FROM A CONTEMPLATION ON AN HISTORICAL PASSAGE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. Price: $300.00	Howard Phipps. [SPECIAL PRESS] INTERIORS: WOOD ENGRAVINGS (2 VOLUMES). Price: $450.00
Saint Thomas Aquinas | George N. Shuster | Reynolds Stone. [SPECIAL PRESS] SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS. SELECTIONS FROM HIS WORKS MADE BY GEORGE N. SHUSTER. Price: $50.00	{TRAVEL] A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. IN TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUEMS. VOL. XI. Price: $100.00
Anne Pratt. [GARDENING] THE FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN, AND THEIR ALLIES THE CLUB-MOSSES, PEPPERWORTS, AND HORSETAILS. Price: $60.00	A. W. Patterson. [DUELING] THE CODE DUELLO WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. Price: $50.00
Gwenda Morgan | John Randle [Introduction]. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE WOOD-ENGRAVINGS OF GWENDA MORGAN. (2 VOLUMES). Price: $750.00	Noel G. Harrison | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] [SIGNED] CHANCELLORSVILLE BATTLEFIELD SITES. Price: $75.00
Thomas S. Edrington; John Taylor | [Gary Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] THE BATTLE OF GLORIETA PASS. A GETTYSBURG IN THE WEST, MARCH 26-28, 1862. Price: $40.00	Richard R. Duncan | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] BELEAGUERED WINCHESTER. A VIRGINIA COMMUNITY AT WAR, 1861-1865. Price: $150.00
Gabor Boritt | [Gary Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] THE GETTYSBURG GOSPEL. THE LINCOLN SPEECH THAT NOBODY KNOWS. Price: $50.00	Duane A. Smith| [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] THE BIRTH OF COLORADO. A CIVIL WAR PERSPECTIVE. Price: $40.00
Timothy B. Smith | [Gary W. Gallagher]. [CIVIL WAR] GRANT INVADES TENNESSEE. THE 1862 BATTLES FOR FORTS HENRY AND DONELSON. Price: $100.00