Complete issue of Harper's Weekly for the week of February 7, 1863.

Condition is fair, with yellowing and discoloration, small tears at the edges, and staining in many places. There is pencil writing around the portraits of birth and death dates. Please see the photos.

Contents include full front-page prints of: "Rear-Admiral David D. Porter, Commanding Mississippi flotilla" and "Major-General John A. M'Clernand" as well as a nice print showing: "Bombardment of the Post of Arkansas, January 11, 1863." Inside contains a full page with 3 views of: "Our New Western gunboats--Lafayette--Choctaw--Indianola". Also: "Torpedo In the Western Rivers" "Stockade on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad" "Major-General Joseph Hooker, the New Commander of the Army of the Potomac" "Meeting of Union & Rebel Pickets in the Rappahannock"; a full page: ": The United States Ironclad Monitor 'Weehawken' in the Storm of 20th January". The very dramatic double page centerfold is by Thomas Nast captioned: "Historic Examples of Southern Chivalry, Illustrated by Thomas Nast--Dedicated to Jeff Davis" showing has 11 vignettes of various scenes of barbarism. The back page has 2 cartoons: "Great News" and "One of the Effects of the War". There is also an illustrated ad showing; "Miss Lavinia Warren, The Little Queen of Beauty" in Barnum's American Museum, and who will be married to General Tom Thumb.

And much more including advertising and all the Civil War news, politics, and culture of the day.

Securely packaged and shipped in flat, padded cardboard stiff envelope.

From the Alfred P Maurice Estate.