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.....
Chevalier D’Eon. 1895. Original ink drawing showing the duel between the Chevalier d'Eon - dressed as a woman - and Monsieur de Saint-Georges, which took place on the 9 April 1787 at the instigation of the Prince of Wales, George August of Hanover, future George IV. Measures 17 x 21.....
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.....
CESAR, Julius. C. Cesar's Commentaries, 1534. One of the earliest and rarest printed editions of the Caesaris Commentarii. Published by Sebastian Gryphius, Lyon, 1534. Octavo (6" x 4" inches), 592 pages. This edition includes 5 beautiful full-page woodcuts of Roman war machines; a double-page woodcut map showing Gaul, Germania, and.....
SARDI, Pietro. The most important work on artillery, L'Artiglieria di Pietro Sardi Romano divisa in tre Libri. Nel Primo dei quali si discorre sopra la Machine Antiche.Nel secondo, si tratta, che cosa sia Artiglieria,.Nel terzo Libro si tratta con soma faculita et ordine chiaro dell'Uso di tale Ar. Venetia: Printed.....
[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.....
GESSNER, Conrad. Ailianu Ta Heuriskomena Hapanta: Claudii Aeliani Praenestini Pontificis Et Sophistae, Qui Romae Sub Imperatore Antonino Pio Vixit Aut Meliphthongus Ab Orationis Suauitate Cognominatus, Opera, Quae Extant, Omnia Graece Latineque e Regione. Zurich: Tiguri apud Gesneros Fratres, 1556. Folio. 655 pages. Greek and Latin. Bound in contemporary tooled pigskin.....
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.....
HUGO, Herman. De militia equestri antiqua et noua ad regem Philippum IV. libri quinque. Published by Antuerpiæ: Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1630. First Edition, complete with 34 engravings: 25 in-text engraved illustrations, 5 full page engraved illustrations, and 4 folding engraved plates. Large folio, approximately 12.75” x 8.5” inches. 344.....
American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, “To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry.....
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.....
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.....
Le Roy de Bosroger. The Elementary Principles Of Tactics; With New Observations On The Military Art. Written Originally In French, By Sieur B-, Knight O The Military Order Of St. Lewis. And Translated By An Officer Of The British Army. With Twelve Copper-plate Plans, To Illustrate The Different Manoeuvres. London.....
SOLIS, Antonio de. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico [ Histoire de la conqueste du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, par Fernand Cortez, traduite de l'Espagnol de dom Antoine de Sol] Paris: Par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1714. Complete in two duodecimo volumes, with 2 folding maps and 11 plates.....
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.....
[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.....