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[CIVIL WAR]. Harper’s Weekly: Journal of Civilization. New York: Harper Brothers, 1861-1865. Bound in 5 volumes (V–IX), folio, spanning the entire American Civil War. Not collated but appears nearly complete. Re-backed with new cloth boards and gilt spines. Densely illustrated with wood engravings from drawings after Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast, and after photographs by Mathew Brady. a series of issues from the Civil War years that documented eyewitness accounts and was one of the most important publications that reported on the happenings of the war. Includes illustrated accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation, and full coverage of the Lincoln assassination. [Together with] 14 additional bound volumes spanning 1858-1907, including 1858, 1862, 1863, 1866 (Including Vol. I, 1866.), 1870, 1874, 1873, 1871 supplement, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1907. Densely illustrated with wood engravings, many full pages. Fragile with several missing the binding boards, partial copies. (sold as-is). [And] a large assortment of death-related single full pages, clippings, supplements, and partial issues of Harper’s [And] several sections of “Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.” Largest approx. 16 ½ x 11 ¾”. Paper is fragile, some chipping and flaking, toning, foxing. Some paper repairs. Illustrations and interiors are generally clean.