London, England: Saunders, Otley & Co. (Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.), 1864. Third edition (i.e., first and only Confederate edition). 8vo. xix, 171, cix pp. 21 plates (17 lettered A-P, with two each for letters C and D and J not used, each labelled "Diagrams" and 4 numbered plates in..... More

Jan. 1943 - Jan. 1946. A group of 28 black & white photos, 8 x 10 in. (one slightly smaller), most stamped on verso with a date, file number, and brief historical explanation. Most of the images are from 1945. All are clear, bright. The PT Boat images, four from..... More

[Washington, DC]: Released for Publication by the Navy Department, nd [ca.1945]. First edition. Oblong 4to. 46 pp., mostly illustrations from black and white photographs, all well-captioned, color map and plate for unit citation, black and white cartoons. The photographs record “something of how we lived, what we saw, and what..... More

Richmond, VA: Richmond Press, 1910. First edition. 8vo. 69 pp. Two portrait plates of the author. Beall and his men, including Baker, operated as naval irregulars, primarily in the Chesapeake Bay area; after mounting an unsuccessful foray into Lake Erie in an attempt to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island..... More

Verifying service on Lake Erie in the War of 1812, in a clerical manuscript letter, “Navy Department, January 13th, 1831,” signed by Branch as Secretary of the Navy, to George Grady, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in part: “I send you a certificate [not present here] from the Fourth Auditor of the..... More

Providence, RI: Published by the society, 1890. First separate edition, Fourth Series of the Society's Papers, No. 6, 1/250 unnumbered copies. Small 4to. 51 pp. Nevins I, p. 220: "A good deal of personal observations by the paymaster's clerk of the Monitor." Still a good copy. Original printed yellow-green wrappers..... More

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1856. 8vo. Three-quartered green leather with marbled boards. Spine with raised bands and gilt rules and stamping. Edges worn. Illustrations all present but not opposite pages listed. More

[NY? 1876]. First separate edition, reprinted from Harper's Magazine. 8vo. 30 pp. A native of Bull's Island, South Carolina, Shubrick (1790-1874) served as a young officer in the War of 1812, at the beginning of a long career in the U.S. Navy. Not in Turnbull. OCLC locates 12 copies, but..... More

New York, (NY): John A. Gray & Green, Printers and Stereoypers, Fire-Proof Buildings, Corner of Frankfort and Jacob Streets, 1864. First edition. 8vo. 80 pp. Original beige printed wraps (spine glued to binder). Inscribed in ink by the author on the front cover. Sabin 20018. See DAB for a brief..... More

Washington, (DC): GPO, 1862. First edition. 8vo. (2), 107 pp. Illustrated with two chromolithographic plates and three folding maps. With the ownership signature, dated in the year of publication, of J. Winthrop Taylor (1817-1880), Surgeon-General of the U.S. Navy in the 1870s; Taylor was surgeon aboard the "Pensacola," 1861-1863, and..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition. 8vo. xii, 381 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, frontispiece portrait of Luce (1827-1917), a native of New York, who commanded a coast blockader during the Civil War; he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1848, was involved in naval education throughout..... More

Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Academy, 1929. First edition. Large 4to. 534 pp. Illustrated, portraits, three full-page color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. Among the graduating class was future science-fiction master Robert A. Heinlein, with a full-page devoted to his class photograph and biographical information, signed by Heinlein at his picture, and..... More

Single sheet, folded in half with integral address, postmarked. 32 cm. 3pp. of text, over 800 words in a legible hand. Sepia ink, old fold lines, one small hole affecting a word or two at a fold, old cello tape marks (tape since removed) along a few of the folds..... More