General Orders by Thomas: First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This is a hardcover first edition copy in brown cloth binding. This is the book used by Historians to track the war. Please note that the first 22 pages are missing. Lacking the title, table of contents and the first 5 letters. But all the rest, which is a lot is there. 554 pages. Photos on request.…

1st edition wrappers Very Good small quarto 9pp., Loosely inserted typed amendments.

Handbills. 12mo. Very good to near fine. One is 4-punched at left edge (not affecting text). Unusual gathering of three Wisconsin-related "General Orders" issued in 1862, 1863 and 1864, all issued from the Adjutant General's Office at the War Department in Washington, DC, as follows: General Orders, No. 217 (30 December 1862), 1p, Notes three miscellaneous actions for three individual servicemen, the last of which involves 2d Lieutenant Samuel B. Morse of the 7th Wisconsin Volunteers, who resigned before the order dismissing him. General Orders, No. 11 (10 January 1863), 1p, dismissing Colonel R.C. Murphy of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteers from the Army "for allowing his command to be surprised at Holly Springs, Mississippi, without having taken proper steps to protect his post, or repulse the enemy, and his troops having been found in bed at the time of attack." General Orders, No. 211 (15 June 1864), 1p, text of a Congressional resolution "tendering the thanks of Congress to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey, of the 4th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. for distinguished services in the recent campaign on the Red River, by which the gunboat flotilla under Rear Admiral David D. Porter was rescued from imminent peril." General Orders were usually made in modest quantities for distribution to the various army commands, where the company clerks would collect them (hence the occasional file holes). A great many were destroyed during the course of the war, and original examples of most survive in surprisingly few copies. …

A rare separate edition, of which only one other copy is known, of perhaps the most significant document of Raffles's tenure in Java: his announcement of the sacking of the royal residence at Yogyakarta and the deposing of Sultan Hamengkubuwono II. Appointed lieutenant-governor in September 1811 by Lord Minto, Raffles set to work making his mark with military might. Led by Robert Rollo Gillespie, British forces moved decisively against Hamengkubuwono on 20 June. The event was a turning point in the history of Java: power was centralized in the colonial administration at Batavia and the prospect of future organized resistance evaporated. Raffles's orders, and the other documents presented to support it, describe the events of 20 June, sing Gillespie's praises, and celebrate the demise of "the bane of the European authority in Java." The text was printed in the Java Government Gazette on 4 July 1812. By its format and quality of production, the present edition likely has precedence. The other copy we have traced is held by the National Library of Singapore. Quarto (270 x 195 mm), pp. 7, [1] (blank). Paper watermarked "C Cripps 1809". Recent grey boards, red label on spine and front cover, bulked with blanks. Old light staining and creasing, upper half of final blank toned and dust-soiled: a well-preserved example.…