![Item #299484 [MILITARY] U. S. S. GUADALCANAL MEMORY LOG](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/299484.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754937155)
c. 1944 or 1945. Hard Cover. Oblong Octavo; text shows small amount of soiling; lacking three leaves (1/2), (41/42, 43/44) Heavily illustrated throughout, with funny cartoons and captions; light soiling to first two pages; previous owner sticker to corner of.....
![Item #295869 [MILITARY] [GOVERNMENT FORM] SCHEDULE OF CLOTHING AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR ISSUE...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/295869.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659731101)
[Washington, D. C.]: Government Printing Office [?], 1897. Blank copy of Form No. 86 -- Long; Schedulce of Clothing and Material required for issue to enlisted men of ____, Regiment of ____, Stationed at _____ during the ____ Quarter, Fiscal.....
![Item #285845 [MILITARY] [PHOTOGRAPH] U.S.S. TRUMPETFISH GUPPY I](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/285845.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1544900111)
A mounted photograph (7 1/2” x 9 1/2”; on 9 1/2” x 10 1/2” captioned mount), along with a patch for the Trumpetfish attached at the top of the mount. The USS Trumpetish, a Balao class submarine was launched in.....
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787. Seventeenth Edition. A copy with a Washington association. On the pastedown is the signature of S. Tayloe Washington, signed again on the title page as Sarah Tayloe. Sarah Tayloe Washington was the third.....
1920. Hard Cover. The January through September issues of The Mississippi A&M Forum, Volume II, 1920. With detailed information about the college, and statistics from the post World War I era. With a few namestamps on the preliminaries, bookplate on.....
![Item #299858 [MUSIC] [AFRICAN AMERICAN] LOT OF BLACK OPERA SINGER MATERIAL](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/299858.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770666383)
Pittsburgh, PA: 1944-1975. 5 items constitute this grouping of material relating to the celebration of black female opera singers, including Mary Cardwell Dawson, Jeannette Taylor, and Marian Anderson. Ms. Anderson of course was instumental in overcoming racial prejudice in mid-20th.....
Richmond, Va. William F. Ritchie, 1852. “This Supplement contains the Companies and parts of Companies which were omitted in the printed Pay Rolls”. 858 pp. In contemporary marbled boards; rebacked, with a new spine and new leather label. Uncommon...
M. C. Spaulding. Hard Cover. Octavo; in the publisher’s maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering; 244 pages including the Index boards are soiled; small tears and closed tears at top and bottom of spine with fraying of cloth at top.....
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1855. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback, lacking its paper wrappers.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1847. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback. Beginning of separation along the spine.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1845. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback, with significant paper reinforcement along the spine, now with beginnings of separation at the head and tail of the spine. Toning to the covers and to the text. Few contemporary markings.....
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1846. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback, lacking the paper wrappers. With a library number plate on the title page.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1854. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback, with significant paper reinforcement along the spine, and textblock and covers nearly fully separated and disbound. Folding diagram. Contemporary owner’s name on the front cover.
Oldsmobile | General Motors, 1952-1958. A large number of Oldsmobile Technical Information Bulletins: 2 from 1952; 36 from 1953; 23 from 1954; 21 from 1955 and 1 rather lengthy manual form 1958. All hole punched and stored in a three.....
London: Rock Bros. Ltd., [c. 1900]. Hard Cover. Small quarto; in publisher’s red flexible leather with decorations and titling in gilt to the upper board; 36 unnumbered pages with 101 photographic images of Manchester and environs -- “The Fountain, Boggart.....
![Item #284120 [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] 1870’s. THOMAS FAMILY. OHIO](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/284120.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1532034009)
Philadelphia: William M. Harding, [1870’s]. A deeply embossed morocco photograph album with clasps; all edges gilt and gauffered. Sadly, a number of the mounts are torn and with loss at the bottom. The album is about half full, with approximately.....
![Item #300080 [PHOTOGRAPHY] [AMERICANA] “A WALK AROUND YE OLDE HISTORIC CHARLESTON”](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/300080.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771278408)
Charleston: Lanneau’s Art Store, 1911. First Edition. Oblong Quarto; in brown paper wrappers with a sepia illustration pasted to the upper wrapper; 6 pages; complete with 24 sepia photographic illustrations of colonial architecture in Charleston; some chipping to the edges.....
London: J. S. Jordan, [1795]. Full Leather. First Edition. This volume contains the complete copy of the “Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America”. 634 pp. plus “Index to the Ninth.....
![Item #277981 [PROSPECTUS] ANNOUNCING THE LINCOLN CUSTOM FOR 1941](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/277981.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500733972)
A really splendid hardcover book presenting the Lincoln Custom for 1941. There are four full page lithographic images of the Lincoln Custom sedan and the Lincoln Custom limousine, as well as full page pictures of interiors of the cars. There.....
![Item #290511 REGISTER OF THE COMMISSIONED AND WARRANT [AND VOLUNTEER] OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF THE...](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/290511.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1581708883)
Washington: George W. Bowman, Printer; Government Printing Office, 1860, 1861, 1863. Half Leather. The Register of Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States, for the years 1860, 1861, and 1862, bound together in one volume. Staining.....
Dover, Delaware: Printed by James Kirk, 1863. Original Sewn Wrappers. First Edition. A report on potential military interference in the Delaware general election of 1862, published just after the announcement of the Emancipation. The Democratic party elected officials of Delaware.....
Washington, [D.C.]: Duff Green, 1832. Printed self-wrappers newly bound in marbelized papers with a linen spine. The British report on steam carriages reprinted by the House of Representatives. From the era when Congress was actively interested in the development of.....
![Item #268685 [RICHMOND] ALL SAINTS CHURCH RICHMOND, VA. FROM CHRISTMAS 1888 TO CHRISTMAS 1903](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/268685.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1500733972)
Richmond: Everett Waddey Company, 1904. Hard Cover. A near fine copy with a cabinet card photograph of of the Rev. J. Y. Downman, the first Rector of All Saints Church in Richmond laid in. This is the photograph used by.....
![Item #299313 [RICHMOND] VARINA DAVIS’ FUNERAL PHOTOGRAPHS](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/299313.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784578714)
1906. Four mounted photographs from the Richmond funeral and interment of former Confederate States of America First Lady, Varina Davis. Davis died of pneumonia in her post-war home in New York City and honored with a funeral procession in her.....
![Item #290510 [SAMMELBAND] VIRGINIA ISSUES 1848-1892. 19 PAMPHLETS BOUND TOGETHER IN ONE](https://blackswanbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/290510.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1582226857)
[1848-1892]. Hard Cover. A collection of 19 Virginia pamphlets, published from the 1840’s to the early 1890s. Being three female college catalogues, nine ‘Proceedings’ of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Virginia, three issues of the ‘Educational Journal of Virginia,’ a......