Colonel William Brooke Rawle. The Right Flank at Gettysburg. Compilation sammelband. [Philadelphia], circa 1879. 

8vo. Manuscript title page. Folding map. Extra-illustrated with frontispiece photograph of "Rummel's Farm, The Scene of the Grand Charge, July 3. 1863" laid in. Contemporary one-quarter navy calf with marbled boards. Smooth spine gilt-lettered. Broadfoot 6128; Dornbusch; Nevins I, p. 41; Sauers 1998a. 

Provenance: William Brook Rawle (bookplate); Marshall D. Krolick collection. 

WILLIAM BROOK-RAWLE'S PERSONAL COMPILATION, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH EXTENSIVE ANNOTATION

A fascinating and unique book, compiled by the author William Brooke Rawle, who served as the Colonel of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, which notably fought with Gregg's cavalry at the Battle of Gettysburg. 

The title page is supplied in beautiful calligraphic manuscript preceding the assembled volume, which Rawle has hand-numbered. Included are extracts from the Annals of the War (Dornbusch III: 377), to which he contributed, plus a copy of his With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign (Dornbusch I: P45). From the Annals, he has pulled his article, bound in first, along with the articles for others, including Generals Gregg and Pleasonton.  

Notably, an original photograph of Rummel's Farm is used as a frontispiece, with a manuscript caption title by Rawle: "Rummel's Farm, Scene of the grand charge, July 3, 1863 from Capt. Miller's position." The maps, mounted on linen, evidently come from other editions of Rawle's Right Flank and show cavalry operations east of Gettysburg on July 2nd & 3rd. 

Rawle's neat annotations appear throughout, and also laid in are about 6 pages of manuscript notes by Rawle regarding the actions at Gettysburg, most notably a note about what Gregg told him of General Meade's orders on the night of July 2nd. 

In full: "Gen Gregg told me that Gen. Meade had informed him on the night of July 2, 1863 that his (Gregg's) cavalry command had been placed in its position on the Baltimore Pike so as to be ready to relieve the infantry along the line of Cemetery Ridge and to Keep the enemy in check and cover the moment in case he (gen. Meade) should determine to withdraw the Army to the line of Pipe Creek" (As to this see Gen. Pleasonton's Report to the Commander on Conduct of War, Supplement to Rept. of Comm. on Cond. of War. Part. 2, p. 10). 

Rawle not only participated in the specific action but had published extensively on it, writing both The Right Flank at Gettysburg (1878) and With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign (1884). He would go on to write the regimental history of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry in 1905. See also Lot 158, an autograph letter signed by Rawle with a detailed defense of Gregg's Cavalry at Gettysburg,

A unique compilation. A rare opportunity for Gettysburg collectors. 

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Boards detached. Short separations along old folds to map.