STEDMAN, Charles. The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London: Published for the Author and S. Hooper, 1794. 2 volumes. First edition. Quarto. Vol. 1 is 399 pages, Vol. 2 is 449 pages. Quarter red morocco with five raised bands on spine; gilt titling. Marbled.....
Two early and important military books bound together in the original binding. Widukind’s Chronicle of the Saxons bound with Procopius’ History of the Wars. Published: Basel, Lo. Hervagium, 1531 and 1532. A scarce first edition of Widukind’s Chronicle of the Saxons. The chronicle was written during the lifetime of the.....
UNITED STATES ARMY. Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Army of the United States. June 1851. From the original text and drawings in the War Department. Philadelphia: William H. Horstmann & Sons, [1851]. Folio. Original grey paper-covered limp boards, blue/grey title label on upper cover, rebacked with green.....
[World War II] U.S. Navy. Navy Original Cable Dispatch declaring "GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES......." U.S.S. Biscayne heading, The cable was sent from the Secretary of Navy ("SECNAV"). 8" x 6.5" inches. Dated "11 Dec 1941". Two punch holes along top edge. In near-fine condition. On December.....
ITALICUS, Silius. Published by Baptista de Toris, Venice, 1483. Hardcover volume bound in vellum. Silius Italicus (c. 26-102 A.D.) was an ancient Roman poet whose lived during the reign of Nero. He wrote the longest poem in Latin literature, and it details the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.) between Carthage.....
CLAUSEWITZ, Carl Von. Translated by Colonel J. J. Graham. Clausewitz’s seminal work was originally published in German from 1832-4, and this is the first English-language edition. London: N. Trübner & Co., 1873. Cover is near contemporary and has gilt badge of the Calvary Club on front cover. A very important.....
Grace Hopper. A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. Cambridge, 1946. First Edition. Thick Quarto. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Minor signs of use on spine and covers. This copy belonged to the United States Air Force. Library number on spine, with two stamps of.....
[W.W.II] [Auschwitz] Archive of 7 Original W.W.II German Concentration camp Letters mailed from Auschwitz by prisoners. As soon as the Nazis rose to power in Germany, Jews were cruelly persecuted. What started out as stripping of rights, dispossession, abuse, humiliation and starvation turned, in June 1941, into calculated, systematic and.....
Synopsis: Archive of 25 pieces celebrating the rise of nursing as the first medical profession for women. The first trained nurses entered the field in the 1860s, and their knowledge of antisepsis and hygiene immediately reduced fatalities in hospitals and on the Civil War battlefronts. Amidst their life-saving duties, these.....
WILKES, Charles. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. 5 volumes. Octavo. Original blind-stamped cloth with eagle emblem in gilt on upper boards. Complete with all 13 maps and 64 engraved plates. The naval expedition.....
Robert Altman & Ring Lardner Jr. Original script of the film dubbed “perfect for the times [...] the cacophony of American culture brilliantly reproduced onscreen.” January 1969. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Original owner’s name on upper wrapper. Wrappers show a faint damp discoloration from the spine.....
On August 6, 1945, the "Enola Gay" dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Completely filled out navigator's log of the Enola Gay. Handwritten by the Navigator of the historic Hiroshima flight Theodore Van Kirk . 3 pages in pencil, (as all 1094's aviation logs), entirely in his hand.....
Emperor of France and great military leader. 1 page Letter Signed in French and dated May 6, 1811. Writing to his Minister of War the Duke of Feltre, Napoleon writes (translated): "I am answering your report of the fifth of May. It is desired that the conscripts who are at.....
Charles I. King of Great Britain until the outbreak of Civil War and his beheading in 1649. 1 page Letter Signed "Charles R" and dated November 15, 1628. Writing to the Viscount Falkland, Charles sends aid to a gentleman "by whom there are many debts due unto him from sveral.....
Wallenberg, Raoul. Rare Wallenberg Swiss Embassy Protective Document. Single page typed document on letterhead of the Swiss Embassy, Department for Foreign Interests, 8" x 11.5". Represents a piece of official documentation which was from a larger group of Wallenberg Schutz-Pass protective documents. Dated "October 23, 1944" with the official red.....
Archive of the American Ambulance Field Service Stanford Unit in France Before US Entry in the Great War. Field Service. Archive of over 60 letters and associated documents of volunteers to the American Ambulance Field Service, who were active on the front in France in the war prior to American.....
Archive of Fifteen original WWII photographs of Iwo Jima Reconaissance Missions for the US Military. Date July 4, 1944. Images mounted on paper with typed descriptions, set includes Photo No. II - XVI (missing photo I). Photos measure 5 x 7” to 6 x 7”, all mounted onto 8 x......
Important Anti-Nazi Document Exposing Atrocities in 1936, Issued by Editorial Board of the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. "Facts on Nazi Germany". Number Three, October 15, 1936. 63 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The document has some marginalia and some underlined portions in pencil. 11 mimeograph pages, 8.5.....
[EAST GERMANY.] Die Kaserne. Bonn: Verlag „Ganz offene Worte“, 1957-1963. 26 issues of an East German propaganda magazine. 1957 Heft 3; 1958 Heft 1-5; 1960 Heft 7; 1961 Heft 4-10, 12; 1962 Heft 1-7, 9-11; 1963 Heft 2. 7 ½ x 5 ½ in. Three smaller format. Staplebound.. All have.....
[Emancipation Proclamation]. New York Times. Vol. XII, No. 3519. Saturday, January 3, 1863. Four sheets, eight pages. 21 x 15 ½”. Printed on page 5. On January 1, 1863, as the US was entering its third year of bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing “all.....
[United States Congress] Third Congress of the United States: At the First Session, Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives... that the Secretary.....
[Americana]. All Impressments Unlawful and Inadmissible. Boston: Published and Sold by William Pelham, [c. 1808]. A Contemporary Response to the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair. 12 pp. Octavo, 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" inches. Stab-stitched pamphlet in self wrappers, untrimmed edges. One of two issues, both printed c. 1808. This pamphlet addresses the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair.....
TLS signed “H. G. Rickover,” one page, 7 x 8, United States Atomic Energy Commission letterhead, December 8, 1964. Letter to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, in full: "Thank you for your kind letter. Coming from one such as you who accomplished so much despite scientific, engineering and personnel problems, it.....
"The Heavier-Than-Air; The Aeroplane". 1918 English Translation from the original French, as "A Course for the American Officers" in Paris for service in World War I. Written by Marchis, a professor at the University of Paris. Mimeographed translation in English. A very rare example of early Franco-American cooperation on aeronautics.....
French Emperor who conquered most of Europe. Letter signed "Bonaparte", dated January 1, 1801, in French, page size is 13 1/4" x 8 1/2" on letterhead titled "To 1st Counsul Bonaparte, General 1st Counsul." Written by General Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 9th division Commander, to Napoleon Bonaparte. One page, on.....