[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.....
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.....
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.....
George M. Dennett. History of the Ninth U.S.C. Troops. Philadelphia, 1866. Duodecimo, approximately 5" x 7.5". Publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln. [7]-148 pages. The roster and concise history of the 9th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, written by its Lieutenant Colonel and sometime commander shortly after.....
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.....
[Women's History] [Military] [Female Soldiers]. Archive of 30 photographs and one colored card captures women's participation in the military from the 1870s through the 1950s. Photographs range in size from 7" x 9.5" to 2.5" x 4". Black and white or sepia. All show women in military uniforms. Some are.....
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.....
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.....
Wilson, Joseph T. The Black Phalanx, A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1887. First edition with original illustrated cover collage of various images including a musket, drum, and what appears to be a meteor shattering, both meteor and title are gilt.....
[African Americana] [Military] FLIPPER, Henry Ossian. The Colored Cadet at West Point. New York: Homer Lee, 1878. Rare First Edition. 2 portrait plates. Duodecimo, 322 pages, publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth. First edition of Henry Ossian Flipper, who was born into slavery in Georgia and went on to become the.....
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.....
[WWI] ] [Military]. Photo album of American soldiers in action at the Western front in the last days and aftermath of WW1. Album size 11.5" x 8" with pebbled black leather covers. 172 photos on 74 pages. Photo sizes range from 2.5" x 1.5" to 5.5" x 3.5", usually 8-9.....
[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.....
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......
[African American] [Military] African American naval serviceman documented in family photo album. Kansas City as well as various other places, [1952-53]. Album has 55 photographs laid in to 11 album leaves. 14 of the photographs plus a clipping document the navy service of Lean Dan Jones of Kansas City in.....
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] [COLORED TROOPS]. Military Special Order. Dated December 15th, 1863. Handwritten and signed on Headquarters letterhead of the Draft Rendezvous, Long Island, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Measures approximately 9.5" x 7.5". In late January 1863, Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts received permission to raise a regiment of African American soldiers.....
Original item from W.W.II Reuters Correspondent David Brown who was attached to Third Fleet Landing Force- Japan. Archive of two items. Not dated but circa August 1945 as it related to the occupation of Tokyo, Declaring the end of the war, 7 pages. Titled "Memorandum To Correspondents- Third Fleet Landing.....
[DOUGLASS, Frederick] [African Americana] [Colored Troops]. Issue of the Liberator featuring the departure of the 54th Massachusetts for the front. Boston, 5 June 1863. One folding sheet, uncut, 4 pages, 25 x 18 inches. An issue of William Lloyd Garrison's famous abolitionist weekly with a 12-inch article on the legendary.....
Little Boy was the code name of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945 by the 12-man crew of the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay. Here we have a black and white copy of a Blue print showing the first atomic bomb with handwritten explanations of.....
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1968. A collection of three speeches from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from April 1967 to February 1968 regarding America’s role in the.....
Salmasius, Claudius. DE RE MILITARI ROMANORUM LIBER Opus Posthumum. Leyden: Johannem Elsevirium. 1657. First edition, 7.5” x 9.5”. Quarter calf leather over boards,with gilt title on spine. 244 pages. Text printed in 1657 with binding circa 1800. This is a first edition of a military history of the Roman empire.....
This WWII archive consists of a large USS WASP scrapbook of about 70 original documents and 22 original photos, as well as a WWII Scrapbook consisting of more than one hundred pages of clippings from newspapers such as Time, Life, and many others The USS WASP scrapbook measures 14" x......
Blue leatherette bound photo album containing photographs from Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1954. Measuring 14" x 11" with 172 standard 3.5" x 4.5" photos, plus six 8" x 10" photos, with 50 images showing parachute jumps. Most photos in black and white but three are notably in color, two.....
Archive of 5 original vintage newspapers on Emile Zola involvement to Defend Alfred Dreyfus. Zola a major figure in the political liberalization of France and the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, as well as a novelist, playwright, and journalist. The Archive Includes Le Petit.....