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
![Histoire de la Révolution Française par M.A. Theirs [vol. 6]. Adolphe Thiers](/pictures/thumb/004175.JPG?v=1472082339)
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
Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1893. Hardcover. [14] leaves of text, [87] leaves of plates with illustrations and text, [12] leaves of color plates; 49 cm. Contemporary dark green leather with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment and gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled title..... 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
Philadelphia: Cottage Library Publishing House, 1882. Hardcover. 486, [4] p., frontispiece and 12 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Publisher's mustard cloth with gilt and black spine and covver titles and decoration. Back cover has blind stamped title and decoration. floral endpapers. Copyright 1882 by Hubbard Bros. First edition. Hubbard Bros..... 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
Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1899. Hardcover. "With appendices, enumerating the principal ships of the United States Navy, their batteries and armor, and official reports of the Battle of Manila and the action off Santiago de Cuba." -- title page. 241 p.: 43 leaves of chromolithographed plates with captioned tissue-guards (included..... 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. 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. 1905. 1 chromolithographed print 38 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," without the biographical text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' General James Wolfe-Murray (1853-1919) served in the 4th Anglo-Ashanti War, the 2nd Boer War, and the..... More
London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son, Lith. 1879. 1 chromolithographed print 39 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' Major-General Henry Hope Crealock (1831-1891), British soldier, author, and artist, was commissioned into the..... More
Utrecht: P.W. van de Weywer, 1898. 1 color print 39 x 26 cm. signed "Spy," with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Sir Leslie Ward (1851-1922), English caricaturist and portrait painter, signed his works 'Spy.' William Stephen Alexander Lockhart (1841-1900) was a British general who spent most of his career in..... More
London: Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Lith. 1891. 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.' Edward Field (1828-1912) retired from the Royal Navy as a captain and represented Eastbourne..... More
![The Soul of A Bishop; frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert [Clara Irene Shively Knight provenance]....](/pictures/thumb/002779.jpg?v=1472082255)
New York: Macmillan Company, 1917. Hardcover. Published September, 1917. [8], 341, [11] p.; color frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert; 20 cm. Publisher's red rib-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Publisher's advertisements for other books by Wells on verso of half title and on unpaginated pages..... More