Mounted on front flyleaf of C. B. Foote's Catalogue of the...collection made by Charles B. Foote...sold at auction...by Bangs Co... New York, 1894-1895 (Lilly Z997 .F68).
In ink Contemporary calf binding with stamped design of birds and foliage. Mounted on the inside front cover is C. R. Boxer's bookplate Japanese colored print of European soldiers, probably Dutch, tipped in on front fly leaf. Colored picture of Sakuma Shozan on a white horse by Shuho Ikegami from a Japanese magazine is mounted on inside back cover. On the last page of the text are two red seals. Dr. Boxer's is the smaller seal.
Holograph additions in blue ink Removed from Evans, Henry Lawes, musician and friend of poets, New York, Modern Language Association, 1941 (ML410 .L4 E9).
Bound in marbelized paper over board with linen spine Name of C. Fabre found on p. 21 and 40; personal reference in an invitation on page 17 Several missing pages Letters chiefly to Admiral Aime Felix Saint Elme Reynaud, 1808-1876, French naval commander, reporting ship movements from on board the Gregeios while stationed at Bone, Algeria, 1855-1856 (p. 1-20) and on board the steamer Catinat, 1861-1864 (p. 20-114) reporting from Brest, Halifax, New York, Hampton Roads, New Orleans, Fort Royal in Martinique, Bermuda, Caracas, and Havana Includes two extracts from the log of the Catinat for 1861, Aug. 23-Sept 1 and Sept. 26-Oct. 8 (p. 40 and 43); letter of 1862, June 8, addressed to American rear admiral, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, 1805-1877 (p. 55-56); a letter of 1863, Feb. 27 reporting on a voyage to Caracas, Venezuela (p. 73-74); drawing of half-figure of a naval officer on p. 97; personages and events of the American Civil War, especially Benjamin Franklin Butler, 1818-1893 (passim), and (amont other), Nathan Prentiss Banks, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Jefferson Davis, David Glasgow Farragut, William Henry Seward, the Monitor and the Merrimac Battle at Hampton Roads (p. 59-62), Black troops and slavery (p. 92-95, 102-109), the Red River Campaign of 1863 (p. 100-102), and William Tecumseh Sherman See bookseller's description in Vertical File In French
French Penciled note in blue refers to Bismarck Further blue penciled notes may be found in the following volume Removed from Jules Favre, Gouvernement de la Defense Nationale... Paris, Henri Plon, 1872 (DC310 .F27 Vol. 2).