The Battles of America by Sea and Land by Robert Tomes and John Laird Wilson, Three Volumes, 1878

Tomes, Robert and John Laird Wilson. The Battles of America by Sea and Land. New York: Patterson & Neilson, 1878. Thick quarto three volume set. Original full leather boards, embossed decorative border and titles to the front, with raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to the spine, edges gilt.  Engraved plates throughout. Presented with new custom archival slipcases.  Presented is an early edition of Robert Tomes and John Laird Wilson’s The Battles of America by Sea and Land. This ambitious three volume work explores American conflicts from the Colonial and Revolutionary eras (Volume 1), the War of 1812 and the Mexican Campaigns (Volume II), and the Civil War (Volume III). It also includes biographies of important naval and military commanders who shaped the conflicts, and ultimately the outcome, of our Nation.  The Battles of America was first published in book form from subscribers’ parts in 1861. This edition, published by Patterson & Neilson in 1878, includes Robert Laird