Boston Almanac 1862 City & Business Directory New England Civil War Volunteers

(Old Books, 19th Century Books, Americana, United States, New England, Massachusetts, Boston, Almanac, Period Advertising).

The Boston Almanac for the Year 1862.
Published 1861, Boston by George Coolidge.
340 pages plus advertising. Text in English. Abundant period advertising at front and rear and interspersed throughout, no map (as issued during the Civil War?).

Wonderful detailed listing of endless categories of merchants and trades such as book binders, cigar stores. 

This particular year is without the trade directory found in most other years, but is here replaced as issued with over 250 pages detailing a full roster of all the New England states Civil War Volunteers. They are arranged by State, then Regiment and Company, all broken down by rank and then name alphabetized within each category. Thousands of names, possibly including one of your family ancestors.

Publisher's cloth binding, gilt title lettering, embossed cover decorations, all edges gilt.

Book is physically old and shows some signs of handling and time. Book is not new or in "new" condition.

Binding gently age worn, quite clean, only lightly rubbed, some early pencil notations seen within the monthly memoranda section, exceptionally fresh example which appears to have been set on a shelf 160 years ago and only recently removed.

Paper is gently toned, still clean, tight, sound internally.

Still attractive on the shelf. The book displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in overall nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws which may be present seem easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail showing how this pocket book survives. The asking price reflects the condition based on our examination and 35+ years full time exposure to antiquarian books, maps and printed ephemera of all types and genres. Flaws seen and/ or described have been taken into account.

Book Measures c. 5 1/2" H x 3 1/4" W.

[B10930].