New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. "First and second printings before publication." [2], viii, [2], 369, [1], vii, [3] p.; 22 cm. Blue cloth with silver stamped spine and cover titles. Top page edges red. Dust jacket with price on front flap; in mylar cover. Former owner's name and... More
1931. 1 letter typed on letterhead with the address 104 Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusettes, dated Oct. 14, 1931. Sims is replying to a Mr. Claghorn who has asked three questions. Sims thinks asnwering them would be very time-consuming and states that Claghorn has given no reason for Sims to waste... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1853. Hardcover. 4 volumes: viii, 549 p.; [4], 554 p.; [4], 560 p.; 555 p.; 28 cm. Original grey-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: Correspondence of the Revolution: Letters to Washington. Blind-stamped decoration on spines and boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Pages in vol. 4 are... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1866. Hardcover. Vol. 1 only. [4], 890 p.: tables; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments; marbled paper over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title: Report of the Secretary of War. The report itself is dated Nov. 22, 1865 and the spine states "1865"; the... More
New York: John P. Haven, 1831. Hardcover. "Sleight & Robinson, printers." Vol. 1 only: 357, [1] p.; 18 cm. 19th-century half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raied bands; black leather labels in second and fourth compartments with gilt-tooled title and volume number. All page edges... More
Harrisburg, Pa. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1900. Hardcover. [2], 952 p., 1 folded leaf; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Contains the name, residence, date of enrollment, rank, promotions, date of death or discharge of the officers and enlisted men of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 1st through 19th... More
Philadelphia: Strawbridge & Clothier, 1912. Paperback. [4] p.; 16 cm. Printed in black on grey paper. No date of publication; this exhibition was advertised in the Philadelphia Inquirer in Oct. 1912. The 20-foot long painting "The Battle of Gettysburg" was first shown in 1870 in Boston. It depicted the repulse... More
Boston: Rowe and Hooper, 1814. Hardcover. 156 p.; 19 cm. Original white paper over spine and plain grey paper over boards. Pages are untrimmed. The subject of this volume is Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763-1813), a French General under Napoleon Bonaparte, who was banished from France in 1803. He arrived... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. Hardcover. xi, [1], 70 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece, 30 full-page illustrations; 26 cm. Publisher's grey cloth with red, black, and gilt embossed spine title, cover title, and cover illustration and decoration. Boards have bevelled edges. All page edges gilt. Dark brown endpapers with black decoration... More
Paris: Just Tessier, 1838. Hardcover. Cinquième Edition. Vol. 1 only: [2], 6 leaves of tipped-in engraved plates; 21 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Leather label with gilt-tooled title in second compartment. Gilt-tooled decoration on raised bands. Marbled paper over boards. Title vignette; historiated... More
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie. 1870. Hardcover. Treizième Édition. vol. 6 only: [4], 395, [1] p., frontispiece and 4 additional leaves of engraved plates; 21 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment, author and volume number in fourth, gilt-tooled decoration in... More
1849. 1 leaf of light blue paper folded to make 4 pages, dated Jan. 26, 1849, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. Captain Daniel Turner, Commandant U.S. Navy Yard, Portsmouth, writes to Nathaniel Wilson, Purser of the U.S. Navy, with a copy of a circular from J. Y. Mason, the Navy Department... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1863. Paperback. Revised edition. iv, 52 p.: tables (1 folded); 18 cm. Lacking wrapper; disbound from a nonce volume. Instructions from the Union War Department for record-keeping during the Civil War, with forms to be used, issued by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton on... More
Paris: A. Lahure, Imprimeur-Éditeur, 1898. Paperback. [4], 172, [6] p.: 24 leaves of tissue-guarded collotype plates, many in-text drawings; 34 cm. Original brown paper covers with "Detaille" printed in black on the front cover. Colophon states: "Achevé d'imprimer le 30 Novembre 1897." Title page printed in red and black. A.... More
Paris: Éditions Bossard, 1924. Ouvré, Achille. Paperback. 139, [7] p.: frontispiece portrait of Vauban, 1 leaf of a facsimile; 19 cm. Light green wrappers with black spine title and wrapper title. Title page in red and black. Collection des Chefs-d'Oeuvre Méconnus, no. 38. This is number 1,496 of a limited... More
Bielefeld und Leipzig: Velhagen & Klafing, 1886. Knötel, Richard. Hardcover. vi, 569, [1] p.: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Dark brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Black and gilt stamped illustration on spine and front cover. Blind-stamped border on back cover. Green-and-black patterned endpapers. Illustrations are by Richard Knötel... More
Iowa City, Iowa: Qara Press, 1961. Baasch, Norman. Hardcover. [16] p.: 2 linoleum cuts; 27 cm. Original light blue paper over boards with white paper label on front board, printed in black. "Printed by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr. on Curtis Rag paper with linoleum cuts by Norman Baasch. Of an... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1917. Paperback. [2], ix, [1], 116 p.; 19 cm. Blue cloth-cover paper covers printed in black. "Two articles in The Nineteenth Century and After (Dec., 1916, and April, 1917) have been embodied in substance."--p. vii. Contents: Preface -- Critical Examination of Various War-Aims -- Translation... More
London: J. Debrett, 1793. Hardcover. "And now First Published from the Original Manuscript. With an Introduction by the Editor. Embellished with Portraits of Sir William Waller, and of J. Lenthall, Esq. Speaker of Cromwell's Parliament." [4], 14, [2], 326, [14] p.: engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir William Waller (signed R.... More
Wilmington, Del. Historical Society of Delaware, 1941. Hardcover. This is no. 81 of a limited edition of 395 copies subscribed prior to pubication and signed by the author. xviii, 620, [4] p., color frontispiece and 13 leaves of maps; 24 cm. Cream linen with gilt-stamped spine title. Maps on endpapers... More
London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. 1901. 1 chromolithographed print 39 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," without the leaf of biographical text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' General Sir Neville Gerald Lyttleton (1845-1931) served in the Anglo-Egyptian War, the Mahdist War... More
London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. 1897. 1 chromolithographed print 39 x 27 cm. signed "Spy," with the leaf of biographical text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' After serving in the British army, Major General Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot (1841-1929)... More
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. 1896. 1 chromolithographed print 39 x 27 cm. signed "Spy"; with the biographical text (photocopy). Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' Frederick Marshall (1829-1900) served in India and the Crimea; in 1879 assumed the command of... More
London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. 1898. 1 chromolithographed print 38 x 25 cm. signed "Spy," with the biographical text (photocopy). Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' Major General Lord Edward Wilfrid Gleichen (1863-1937) joined the Grenadier Guards in 1881, serving in... More
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. 1902. 1 chromolithographed print 38 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," with the leaf of biographical text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone (1841-1920), modernized... More
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