1889-1891 CIVIL WAR. Three Volume Oversized Decorative History of the Battles of the War. Illustrated.

An unusually nice set of Abbot’s classic on the battles of the Civil War. All in very attractive Union Blue cloth with silver embossing and illustrated throughout with full color plates after W. C. Jackson and text-integral line drawings.

Abbot, Willis J. Battle-Fields of ’61. A Narrative of the Military Operations of the War for the Union up to the End of the Peninsular Campaign. With Illustrations by W. C. Jackson. New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1889. 356pp.

[with]

Abbot, Willis J. Battle Fields and Camp Fires. A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War. From the Removal of McClellan to the Accession of Grant [1862-1863]. Illustrated by W. C. Jackson. New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1890. 349pp.

[with]

Abbot, Willis J. Battle-Fields and Victory. A Narrative of the Principal Military Operations of the Civil War. From the Accession of Grant to the Command of the Union Armies  to the End of the War. Illustrated by W. C. Jackson. New York. Dodd, Mead & Company. 1891. 329pp.

Very handsome oversized quarto set of historical works on the Civil War in matching, decorative bindings. All with minor wear and rubbing, slightly bumped, but very nicely preserved. The final volume has mull exposed and slight tenderness to front interior hinge, all volumes remaining solid and clean.