A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke with illustrations, portraits, and maps.
by COOKE, John Esten
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- Hardcover
- first
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1871 Robert E Lee 1st ed Civil War Military Confederate Army Illustrated CSA Map
"Human virtue should be equal to human calamity."
--Robert E. Lee
John Esten Cooke was an American novelist, writer and poet. During the American Civil War, Cooke served as a staff officer in the Confederate States Army cavalry.
After he started writing, he almost immediately became a successful novelist and prolific short story writer, eventually authoring 31 books and almost 200 published articles and poems Even before the end of the war, in 1863, Cooke wrote the first of several popular biographies, that of Stonewall Jackson. His later efforts at biography, such as this biography of Robert E. Lee as well as officers that he had personally known, were considered more accurate that his early Jackson biography.
"A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee" was published just after Lee's death. It includes 25 illustrations and maps.
Item number: #25181
Price: $599
COOKE, John Esten
A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke with illustrations, portraits, and maps.
New York: D. Appleton, 1871. First edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o vi, 577, [1]
o 24 engraved plates and 1 folding map
· Provenance: Handwritten – [F. H. Placent]
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~9.25in X 6.25in (23.5cm x 16cm)
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- Title
- A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke with illustrations, portraits, and maps.
- Author
- COOKE, John Esten
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Appleton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1871
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1871 Robert E Lee 1st ed Civil War Military Confederate Army Illustrated CSA Map, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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