Boston: Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1821. 1-page printed letter from a committee of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, dated 14 April 1821, Boston. The members of the committee are: William H. Sumner, William Sullivan, H. A. S. Dearborn, Benjamin Loring, Thaddeus Page, Samuel H...... More
New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1941. Hardcover. [8], 421, [13] p.: diagrams; 17 cm. Black faux leather cloth over card with gilt spine title and embossed cover title. All page edges red. Red endpapers. Includes index. Publisher's advertisements on final 6 unpaginated pages. Former owners' names on front free..... More
Boston: Rowe and Hooper, 1816. Hardcover. Title continued: "who was captured at sea by the British, in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last, at Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1917. 3, [1] p.; 33 cm. "Miscellaneous. No. 3 (1917)." Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) had become foreign secretary in David Lloyd George' coalition the previous month. In response to the United States' desire for a peaceful resolution to the war, he argues here that Britain..... More
London and New York: London Printing and Publishing Co., 1858. Hardcover. "Illustrated with Battle Scenes, Views of Places, Portraits and Maps, Beautifully Engraved on Steel." 2 volumes: [8], 2, vii, [1], 647, [1] p.; [4], viii, 663, [1] p., frontispiece and added engraved title page in each volume and 77..... More
New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co., 1900. Paperback. 8, [1], 686-880, 9-12 p.: illustrated advertisements; 25 cm. Paperback. Contents include: Cabinet Government or Departmentalism? by J. A. R. Marriott -- The Lake-Dwellers by the Rev. Dr. Jessopp -- Extravagance in Dress by Lady Guendolen Ramsden -- Voice Culture by Mrs..... More
West Point, N.Y. 1910. [2] p.; 18 x 14 cm. Typed response to a query from H. Stuart Watts, New York City, on stationary headed "West Point, N.Y." Major General Thomas H. Barry (1855-1919) served on the western frontier and in the Philippines in the Spanish American War, and was..... More
1921. 1 handwritten letter by Admiral Lewis Bayly to an unnamed recipient who had requested his autograph. Dated 27 Feb. 1921, on board the S. S. Celtic en route from New York to Liverpool. Admiral Lewis Bayly (1857-1938) served in World War One in command of joint British and American..... More
London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 1916. [2], 40, [2] p.; 33 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 30 (1916)." Contains 23 reports by American embassy attaché Boylston A. Beal (1865-1944) on camps in the United Kingdom in which Germans were held. In Very..... More
1926. 2 documents. The 1st is a typed letter, dated U. S. Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Va., 3 May 1926, signed "R. R. Belknap," informing Major Eben Putnam that he had received and would be happy to read Putnam's draft of an account of the North Sea Mine Barrage..... More
Washington, D.C. National Tribune Co., 1902. Paperback. xv, [1], 206 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations, map; 19 cm. Brown wrappers; stapled. Pagination includes back wrapper. Articles about Washington, D.C., during the Civil War by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, Marcus Benjamin, John Gross Barnard, Richard Wainwright, Thomas McCurdy Vincent, William Van Zandt..... More
1901. 1 typed letter, dated National Military Home, Ohio, 30 March 1901, signed by Major Carl Berlin, Assistant Adjutant General, on the letterhead of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. He informs Dickinson of the information required for someone to apply for admission to the Home. Along one edge..... More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1918. 24 p.; 33 cm. Stapled. "Miscellaneous. No. 7 (1918)." The report by the Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War was presented by its chair, Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh (1861-1946). The committee concluded that British prisoners of war had..... More
1898. 1 handwritten letter on both sides of a piece of Naval and Military Club stationery with the club emblem and a black border, dated 13 July 1898. General Bindon Blood (1842-1940), a British Army commander who served in India, Southern Africa, and Afghanistan, is responding to an invitation. He..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1917. 10 parts in 2 portfolios: illustrations, portraits; 32 cm. Brown cloth spine with printed paper spine label; brown paper over boards, printed in black. With original wrapper for each of 10 parts. Each portfolio contains 100 plates, with text, issued in fascicles of..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1970. Hardcover. 317 p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Blue endpapers with facsimile of Calnan's records as a German prisoner of war. Illustrated dust jacket. Thomas D. Calnan (1915-1981) was commissioned in the RAF in 1936. While flying a photo-reconnaissance mission over France..... More
Cherry Valley, N.Y. Cherry Valley Gazette Print, 1880. Hardcover. [2], 312 p.; 23 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Blind-stamped border on both boards, which have bevelled edges. Grey endpapers. Former owner's name on first (blank) leaf: S. A. Seward. Howes C-103. First published in 1831, this was..... More
Leavenworth, KS: Ketcheson & Reeves, printers and binders, 1895. Hardcover. 368 p.: illustrations, tables; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; black-stamped illustrations of two horse heads on front cover. Green floral endpapers. Front fixed endpaper and title page stamped: "Public Property, Q. M. Dep't." William H...... More
1810. 1 handwritten letter of 1 folio leaf, signed by Sir William Cathcart at Salton Hall, 2 April 1810, to the Quarter Master General of the Horse Guards. Contains a list of six local militia with the agreed on dates for assembling for annual training and excercise. Cathcart was a...... More
Washington, D.C. A. & G. Way, printers, 1808. 4 p.; 21 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. "April 2, 1808. Printed by order of the house of representatives." "Translation of a letter from M. Champagny to General Armstrong, dated Paris, January 15, 1808."--p. [3]. Early American Imprints, Second series (Shaw..... More
London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1987. Hardcover. xxii, 215, [3] p.; 24 cm. Black cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. "The Other Side of the War in Vietnam -- Told through Interviews with North Vietnamese, former Vietcong and Southern Opposition Leaders" -- dust jacket. Book is in Near..... More
London: Illustrated London News, 1933. Paperback. 2, [1], 518-548, 3-4 p.: illustrations (some in color); 37 cm. Stapled; pages 1-4 contain advertisements printed in red, blue, and black. First page contains full-page photograph of older Jewish man being harassed by German police in Berlin. Other photographs include the Japanese attack..... More
London: Virtue & Co., 1855. Print 25 x 16 cm. of Sir George De Lacy Evans (1787-1870), engraved by William J. Edwards from a daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet. No date of publication, but the original daguerreotype was made in 1855. Evans was involved in several battles of the War of..... More
1823. 1 handwritten letter, dated 6 March 1823, from Lord Thomas Cochrane to Captain David Porter of the U.S. Navy expressing condolences over the death of Lt. Cocke, who was killed when the Spanish commander in San Juan fired to warn the American ships from entering the port. Lord Thomas..... More
1765. 1 folded leaf with handwritten extract from a letter written Dec. 26, 1765 by Secretary Conway to Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, concerning the French delay in the demolition of fortifications in the harbor of Dunkirk, France, as required by the Treaty of Paris (1763). This extract is..... More