Publisher:
by Australian War Memorial. Melbourne : 1938
Seller ID: k180620a
2d edition; first published in 1939. 8vo. Vol I only [of 3]
Blue cloth; xxvi + 873pp., b/w plates, maps, glossary, appendices., bibliog., indexes.
A fine copy. A clean, bright, and tight copy. Some light toning adjacent to gutters of end papers; very light wear to edges; some very minor spotting on fore-edge. View More...
4to, heavy card covers with six card leaves [12 pp.]; publisher's coil binding with clear acetate covers. First and only edition, limited to 750 numbered presentation copies, this being no. 36 presented to the M.E. Blatt Co., Atlantic City s Greatest Department Store . World War 2 era manufacturer s catalog for rayon stockings. The catalog adopts the format of a contemporary Ballet Russes program with the stocking colors inspired by four ballets -- each leaf features a large pochoir colored lithograph by Willard Golovin leaf with smaller color lithographic illustrations on the facing pages an... View More...
Edited, and with a preliminary discourse by, Viscount Henry August Dillon. London: Small 4to, quarter leather and black cloth. 268 pp. 1st edition thus, inscribed by the ‘author’ (Dillon). Numerous full-page plates and engravings of military tactics and formations. Aelian's military treatise is a handbook of Greek drill and tactics as practiced by the successors of Alexander the Great. Thought to have been first published in the 2d century, an Arabic translation was made about 1350. It was first translated into Latin about 150 years later and was of great use to the army organizers of t... View More...
1st ed., illustrated boards, 8vo. 485 pp..Pristine hardcover edition. A guide to identification and values. New copy; issued without dust jacket. Numbered and signed by both author and illustrator. [edition size unknown but believed to be 500] View More...
1st ed. 8vo, copper cloth, 131 pp. Classic reference work on the 32 Savage automatic pistols [1907-1922]. Pristine copy in a lightly rubbed very good dust jacket. No tears or chips. View More...
A wide variety of photos of camp life at Schofield Barracks and activities of the Hawaiian Division Command -- extra-illustrated with original cartoons drawn by one of the soldiers stationed there. Appears to be assembled by Sgt. Robert J. Drake of Columbus Georgia. Camp social life, barracks, scenery. Not much military history, but a great portrait of life on base. View More...
First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper)
Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET.
171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees relat... View More...
Publisher:
Washington, Government Printing Office : 1877
Seller ID: 1231
1st ed., 485 pp., plus 13 fold-out plates, one photographic plate, and a fold-out frontispiece. Rebound in maroon cloth. Text block is clean and tight with no foxing. One of the plates is split in half but intact. some of the other plates have small tears or stains, but not affecting image. Frontispiece is detached. View More...
Second edition, 16mo, dark olive green boards. 1917. 54 pp. Limited to 5,000 copies. A brief general history of aviation in Southern California, a description of the War Department school of aviation at San Diego, and lessons on applied meteorology for aviators. Illustrated with charts and b/w photographs. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. CONDITION: Very good. Covers: light wear but rubbed at corners and top/bottom of spine. Text block is clean, tight, and bright. View More...
First edition, 18 pp. 8vo, stitched wrappers; disbound from a larger volume of serial publications; lacking any wrappers if issued. Special Session, March 5, 1877. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 1. A detailed account of the fighting between the Modoc Indians and US troops in Northern California during the first half of 1873, following the alleged murder of unarmed peace commissioners sent by President Grant. This includes accounts of battles with Modoc leader Captain Jack and his band near what is now Lava Beds National Monument. Gillem offers both a detailed report on the battles of Sand Butte and D... View More...
Full title: Under the conduct of the Illustrious JAMES Marquis of MONTROSE, in two parts. The first describing the wars in the years 1644, 45, 46. The 2nd part containing an account of Montrose's Negotiations abroad and the state of affairs in Scotland from the year 1647, to the year 1650 inclusive. The 2d part being never before published, is now done into English from the Latin of the right Reverend father in God, Doctor George Wishart, Bishop of Edinburgh, With an appendix containing 1st a Description of Montrose's pompous Funerals in the year 1661. 2dly, A character of King Charles the 1st... View More...
8vo, 269 pp. Lacking original wrappers -- but complete. A clean, tight copy with some light toning to the first twenty pages. Practically no foxing. A collection of data and correspondence concerning San Juan Island; details the claims of British subjects and developments in "the war against the Indians of Washington and Oregon territories." Important contemporary material on the territory Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War. View More...
16mo, 553 pp. 3.75±”x5.25”. Detailed instructions on Gunner, ammunition, Material, Drill, Care of Armament and Stores, Coast Defence, Practice. Illustrated with dozens of figures, tables, and several fold out plates and diagrams. Condition: Ex-lib, but a good copy. Bound in burgundy cloth with typical library markings, part of original leather cover inset on front board. A clean tight copy overall; several small tears and tape repairs to advts at front and back; contemporary owner’s signature and date on title page. View More...
War communiques, German atrocities, Holocaust, Soviet Annexation#####Published by the Czechoslovak Government Press Bureau, NY. Vol 4 nos. 1-103 [less issue 46] 102 issues in all; a near complete run of the final year of publication. 11x8.5", 4-8 leaves each. Offset printed from typed originals. Most, but not all, stapled in upper left corner. Each issue contains news about the progress of the war and the occupation, reports of the Holocaust and other German war crimes, reprints of important documents, and speeches by Jan Masaryk, Edvard Benes and others.#####Among significant topics:-Apparen... View More...
8vo, black cloth, t.e.g., gilt emblem on front, paper labels. First American edition.The War service of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards from 1914 to 1918. Meticulously researched from primary sources, Kipling undertook this regimental history following the death in action of his son John at the Battle of Loos. A classic work. 9 maps. Fine, as-new copies; vol. 1 in nicked d/w; d/w lacking on Vol 2. [Livingston 483, Richards A341] View More...
During the Second World War, a ship's war diary and its appendices contained the essential details of their activites and encounters.M-1806 was a German minesweeper in the German 18th flotilla, taking part in the invasion of Norway. This log contains 42 leaves on printed logbook pages, comprising 84 pages, both typed carbon and entries in pencil; about a dozen leaves blank. Entries initialed and occasionally signed in ink by Capt. Witting. Another 14 pages on 8.5x14 ruled paper, all in holographic pencil appears to cover Sept and October, 1940 in a more narrative format; also in Witting's hand... View More...
First edition. 243pp. Illus. The Honda Point disaster is the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel. Twenty-three sailors died in the disaster. This history of the incident is a relatively common and inexpensive book. But accompanying it are 13 vintage 3x5" b/w photographs, 8 original b/w negatives with different images, and 9 b/w photos from the negatives, possibly printed later. The book is good in d/w. The photos were apparently taken by an... View More...
First Rand McNally edition; originally published in 1951. 8vo, grey cloth. 618 pp. Signed by Omar Bradley on title page with inscription, "Best wishes to a fellow veteran, Colonel Wallace.” A near fine copy in d/w. Some spotty discoloration on the edges from accumulation of shelf-dust; otherwise a virtually pristine copy. View More...
B/w copper plate engraving; Image size 6-3/8”x 12-3/4” plus margins to 8”x12-3/4”. The view depicts the British siege under General Oglethorpe, on St. Augustine [Spanish Florida]. This siege failed and the British troops retreated back to Georgia. A lettered key identifies the positions, identifies the ships and gives a general history of the battle.
Good condition with several light folds and creases, several small edge-nicks, some browning to lower third.. View More...
Published by Isaac Friedenwald, Lithographer & Printer, Baltimore, 1888
Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster's Department, 1888.
First edition, large 4to, pp. [6]; text in triple column; lettered in gilt on upper cover; a very good, sound and clean copy.
First edition. Compiled by direction of the Secretary of War under the Supervision of the Quartermaster General and Inspector General. Large 4to. Lithographic title page, [6] text pages, 12 color chromolithographic plates showing the uniformed men at work and play, plus 13 b/w photo-lithograph plates of uniform decorations and ele... View More...