Base printing plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, (1918). A highly visual broadsheet printed on two sides. 13 3/4 by 9 1/8. A calendar of 1919, it has three months in each corner leaving a large center filled by a red diamond. The diamond is divided into 16 smaller diamonds, in..... More
(Oklahoma City, OK): Eastside Ministerial Alliance, Co-sponsoring James Europe Post 157, the American Legion, (1964). First edition (?). 4to. 28 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portraits. Up until 1960 the American Legion posts in Oklahoma were segregated; this pamphlet, with many congratulatory letters from state and federal offices, celebrates, in part..... More
1885. Broadside, printed on silk. Measuring 11 x 14 1/2 inches. Signed in type by H.M. Nixon, L.M. Brown, and J.H. Oliver, Committee. Some soiling and wear at edges (short splits near top edge, not affecting text). The resolution adopted was to thank the citizen soldiery of Philadelphia for their..... More
Baltimore, MD: Charles C. Saffell, [1889?]. New edition (first published 1858). 12mo. 137 pp. Includes muster rolls of the various units charged with the defense of Baltimore. Sabin 13158 (for the earlier edition). Ex-Minnesota Historical Society copy, with its stamp on the front pastedown, overstamped "withdrawn," weak front hinge, a...... More
[NY?]: nd [1887?]. Broadside lithograph portrait, 28 1/2 x 21 in., of Frederick Dent Grant (1850-1912), oldest son of President Ulysses S. Grant, is shown from mid-chest, his head turned one quarter turn to the right, wearing a double breasted coat and sporting a small star pin just below his..... More
Paris: Librairie Militaire J. Dumaine, Libraire-Editeur de l'Empereur, 1868-69. Bound volume of various conferences organized by the Commission des Conferences Regimentaires. 14 cm. Bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, raised bands and gilt rules on spine, gilt stamped black morocco spine label. Some wear and rubbing to boards but..... More
(Dresden: Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, c1936). First edition. 4to. 79, (1) pp. 250 mounted color "cigarette cards," picturing German army troops in action, each with descriptive text. Original color illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. More
Zurich, Switzerland: Waffenfabrik Solothurn A.G, [1934?]. First edition (?). 4to. 12 pp. [rectos only, reproduced typescript]. Large folding plate. Report on a newly developed fighter bomber; the plate pictures design drawings of the plane from several perspectives. Not recorded on OCLC. Printed stiff gray wrappers, tied. Very good. (2014)... More
Camp Dix, NJ: I.L. Cochrane, (c1919). First edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Illustrated with the color insignia of each division serving in General John J. Pershing's American Expeditionary Forces and four maps, portraying the American troop movements of 1918; division casualty list. OCLC locates two copies (Rutgers, U.S. Army Military History..... More
Baltimore, MD: Geo. A. Meekins (Press A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore), 1899. Revised edition (first published in 1889 with 162 pages). 8vo. 304, (2) pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits; 42 pages of ads for local businesses. Includes roster, record of stateside service during the Spanish-American war, etc. Previous owner's..... More
Washington, (DC): U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927. 8vo. 36 pp. Illustrated, 28 plates. Original illustrated yellow wrappers (institutional stamp on outer wrappers). Very good. First edition. Eight pages of text describe courses and qualifications for training; the plates picture airfields, planes, flying formations, parachute jumping, etc. Revised editions were published..... More
Forwarding a regimental return of “deceased soldiers” 4to. One-page, approximately 25 words. Brown (1842-1889) served as an officer in the Civil War with the 11 th Ohio, serving through the western theater to Atlanta, the March to the Sea, and the Carolinas, to surrender, mustering out with the unit in..... More
Fort Humphreys, VA: The Engineer School, 1929. First edition, 1/500 copies. 8vo. (5) pp. Among the 18 graduates of the Company Officers’ Course was 2nd Lt. Benjamin B. Talley who, as a colonel in World War II, would lead the engineering effort on D-Day at Omaha Beach. Original printed wrappers..... More
Winfield, Kas. B. F. Sadil, February 19, 1895. Broadside, 50.5 x 40 cm., printed in various sizes and styles of type. Red seal of the chapter affixed at the lower left side. Signed by R. E. Nickles, Grand High Priest and Jacob DeWitt, Grand Secretary. Proclamation thanking Brig. Gen'l. James..... More
Printed handbill, 7 ½ x 4 3/8 inches, in which Carpenter announces his command of a brigade composed of the 15th U.S. Infantry, the 3rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and the 8th U.S. Cavalry, departing Huntsville for Savannah on November 7, for a sea voyage to Nuevitas, Cuba, with other instructions..... More
[Washington, DC?]: United States Information Service, (Maggio, 1967). First edition in Italian. 8vo. 11 pp. A chronological list of United States attempts to bring North Vietnam into negotiations to end the Vietnam War, all rejected. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Very good. Printed wrappers (some soiling and age-toning), stapled. (#7231)..... More
17 are 5 x 7 inches, mounted one to a page, the balance approximately 2 1/2 x 4 1/4, mounted four or five to the page. Photographs mounted on plain black album paper bound into blue cloth boards, gilt-stamped "Navy" on the upper cover, tied. Some of the images are..... More
San Diego, CA: The Society of the First Division, n.d. [ca.1950]. Red and green lettered tan paperwraps, hole punched and bound with cord. Oblong 4to.; 104 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Some wear and scuffing to outer wrappers, else a very good copy. A pictorial history of the division known as..... More
(Jettingen, Germany: Messerschmitt A.G., 31 December 1944). First edition (?). 4to. 15 pp. [rectos only, reproduced typescript]. Plate, tables, map. Report on the company's foreign activities; the plate pictures several types of planes among advertising illustrations. Not recorded on OCLC. Cloth-backed printed stiff tan wrappers (rear wrapper partly torn away..... More
Richmond, (VA): Printed by Shepherd & Pollard, 1820. First edition. 12mo. 216 pp. Contemporary ownership signature "Lieutenant / James Eddings' Book / May 1st 1823"; later inscription Property of the 58 Regiment." American Imprints 4120. Not in Sabin or Haynes. Thoroughly foxed, old tideline through upper corner, but a very..... More
London: Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, 1837. First edition. 18 cm. Ninety plates, each with a page of accompanying text. Bound in three-quarter blue leather with gilt fillets and raised bands on spine, joints and corners rubbed. Top edge gilt. More
[Philadelphia: np, 1861]. Broadside verse. 24.5 x 19 cm. Forty-one rhymed couplets printed in two columns within an ornamental border, dated in type "Philadelphia, December 5, 1861" at end. Very good. First line: "The love of country is a holy love." A poem in praise of Gen. John Ellis Wool..... More
nd [1900-1910?]. Nine photos, most 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in., mounted on stiff card stock. Depicted are the Forts Pickens (3), Barrancas (1), and "Readoff," (1) [sic- actually the 'Advanced Redoubt' built near Barrancas as an extra line of defense]. On the verso of one of the photos of..... More
Baton Rouge, (LA): Tom Bynum, State printer, 1862. First edition. 8vo. l4 pp. Prints 78 sections governing the duties of the state militia; Section 38: "The militia and volunteers shall be trained according to the system from time to time adopted by the Confederate States, in arms and tactics, and..... More
New Orleans, (LA): Crescent Job Print, 1866. 8vo. 21 pp. Includes list of "Board of Supervisors" (led by J. Madison Welles, Louisiana's governor at the time), faculty, and students by class (giving residence, date of admission, class ranking, and comments), a description of the school and its programs, including a...... More
