12 PDR. MOUNTAIN HOWITZER & PACK CARRIAGE. 1849 - 1890.
Port Huron, MI: Anitque Ordinance Publishers, 1992. Oblong 4to with coated card stock covers. Illustrated with facsimile diagrams throughout.
Military
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ARMY APPROPRIATION ACTS. 1861 - 1885
Government Printing Office, 1861-1885. Appropriations for the Army as passed at sessions of Congress, excised from the volumes of the Government Printing Office, and bound together in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, with a morocco label letters in gilt to.....
ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865.
Port Huron, MI: Anitque Ordinance Publishers, 1984. Oblong 4to with coated card stock covers. Illustrated with facsimile diagrams throughout.
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[BROADSIDE; FRAMED] THE SOLDIER’S RECORD. 1861
New York: Currier & Ives, 1862. A framed color lithographic broadside, recording the Soldiers mustered into “United States Service, October 15, 1861”, comprising the Second Regiment, Company H, N. Y. Volunteer Artillery. Listing as Captain, Charles L. Smith, the officers.....
LIST AND DIRECTORY, OFFICERS OF THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS, U. S. ARMY. JULY 15, 1921.
Washington, D. C. Office, Quartermaster General, 1921. Stapled Pamphlet. The list of Officers for the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army, July 15, 1921. Responsible for the general supply of the Army, as well as material distribution and other support.....
LIVRET DE DETAIL DE L’OFFICIER COMMANDANT DE COMPAGNIE
Metz: Chez Veronnai, Imprimeur-Libraire pour les Troupes de tourte Armes, 1828. Full Leather. Entries in French from the late 1820’s and 1830 citing infractions of various officers and the punishment (mutations, punitions). The officer’s partially filled out Dance Card (contredances.....
![Item #295685 [MILITARY LAW] [MEXICO] [SPANISH] CODIGO MILITAR; LEY DE ORGANIZACION Y COMPETENCIA...](/pictures/thumb/295685.jpg?v=1656709383)
[MILITARY LAW] [MEXICO] [SPANISH] CODIGO MILITAR; LEY DE ORGANIZACION Y COMPETENCIA DE LOW TRIBUNALES MILITARES, MANDADA PONER EN VIGOR POR DECRETO NUM. 1832, DE 13 DE OCTUBRE DE 1989
Mexico: [Secretaria de Estado, del Despacho de Guerra y Marina], 1890’s. First Edition. 8vo. (9 1/4” x 6 1/8”); quarter leather over quite worn marbled boards with titling and double rules in gilt to the spine; one volume with different.....
![Item #292992 [MILITARY] HANDBOOK OF THE FRENCH ARMY. PREPARED FOR THE GENERAL STAFF, WAR OFFICE....](/pictures/thumb/292992.jpg?v=1611335594)
[MILITARY] HANDBOOK OF THE FRENCH ARMY. PREPARED FOR THE GENERAL STAFF, WAR OFFICE. 1906.
London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, [1906]. Hard Cover. In the publisher’s printed paper-covered boards, backed in tan calf. 231 pp., inclusive of 8 appendices. The 9th Appendix is an attractive folding plate showing the Service and Full Dress Uniforms, in.....
![Item #288823 [MILITARY] HUMOROUS BROADSIDE; ALBERT J. RODGERS. TRANSPORTATION CORPS, LIVORNO](/pictures/thumb/288823.jpg?v=1591218934)
[MILITARY] HUMOROUS BROADSIDE; ALBERT J. RODGERS. TRANSPORTATION CORPS, LIVORNO
An elaborate and comic broadside. presenting an “Honored Degree of Genius of Mathematical Orders” to one Albert J. Rodgers -- “Marine Superintendent and Watcher of the Curveline for Missing Vessels”. The “degree” is hand-lettered on a 32 x 20” piece.....
![Item #295869 [MILITARY] [GOVERNMENT FORM] SCHEDULE OF CLOTHING AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR ISSUE...](/pictures/thumb/295869.jpg?v=1659733365)
[MILITARY] [GOVERNMENT FORM] SCHEDULE OF CLOTHING AND MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR ISSUE TO ENLISTED MEN OF ____ BY ____,
[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.....
MUSTER ROLLS OF THE VIRGINIA MILITIA IN THE WAR OF 1812, BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO THE PAY ROLLS PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTED IN 1851. COPIED FROM THE ROLLS IN THE AUDITOR’S OFFICE AT RICHMOND.
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...
OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, CORRECTED TO AUGUST 1, 1855.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1855. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback, lacking its paper wrappers.
OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, CORRECTED TO AUGUST 31, 1847.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1847. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback. Beginning of separation along the spine.
OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1845.
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.....
OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1846. REVISED.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office, 1846. Soft Cover. Sewn paperback, lacking the paper wrappers. With a library number plate on the title page.
OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1854.
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.
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[PHOTOGRAPH] U.S.S. TRUMPETFISH GUPPY I
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.....
![Item #290511 REGISTER OF THE COMMISSIONED AND WARRANT [AND VOLUNTEER] OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF THE...](/pictures/thumb/290511.jpg?v=1591219849)
REGISTER OF THE COMMISSIONED AND WARRANT [AND VOLUNTEER] OFFICERS OF THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES; INCLUDING OFFICERS OF THE MARINE CORPS AND OTHERS FOR THE YEAR 1860, 1861, TO JANUARY 1, 1863. (THREE VOLUMES IN ONE)
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.....
REGULATIONS FOR CARE AND PRESERVATION OF ARTILLERY EQUIPMENTS. 1925
London: Harrison & Sons, Ltd., [1925]. Hard Cover. First Edition. 12mo.; in the publisher’s paper covered boards, backed in green cloth; 303 pages, including Index; with a folding chart, Carriage, Travelling, B.L. 6-INCH 24-CWT. Howitzer, Mark I; the boards are.....
RAJPUTS. CASTE HANDBOOKS FOR INDIAN ARMY. COMPILED IN THE INTELLIGENCE BRANCH OF THE QUARTER MASTER GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT IN INDIA.
Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1918. Hard Cover. A 1918 reprint edition, first published in 1899. This study on the Rajput, northern India’s Hindu warrior caste. Prepared for the British Government in India and its Indian Army. Small library plate.....
FORTS AND FORTIFICATIONS IN INDIA (WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CENTRAL INDIA)
Delhi: Agam Kala Prakasham, 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. 8vo.; in the publisher’s slightly soiled mauve cloth binding, with the publisher’s dustjacket; 236 pages including the Index, followed by 42 pages of plates, illustrations and maps. There is an old.....
OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER FOR 1832.
Washington: Adjutant General’s Office; F. P. Blair, Printer, 1832. Soft Cover. Stapled paper covers, with modern blue cloth along the spine. Library punch stamp on the title page. Fire damage to the bottom edge throughout. Beginning of separation to the.....
![Item #287105 MAP OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN [BATTLE MAP OF THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC]. Alexander Gross](/pictures/thumb/287105.jpg?v=1591218151)
MAP OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN [BATTLE MAP OF THE FAR EAST AND THE PACIFIC]
New York: Geographia Map Company, 1940’s. A World War II era map of the Pacific Theater, with an ancillary map on the the verso, “Map of the World, on Mercator’s Projection”. 64 x 99 cm., folded to 23 x 21.....
ENDING THE VIETNAM WAR. THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS’ PERSPECTIVE.
London and New York: Routledge Curzon, [2004]. Hard Cover. First Edition. A First Edition copy of Ang Cheng Guan’s Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective. With no marks of any kind. Blue paper hardback, with lettering printed in.....
THE VIETNAM WAR FROM THE OTHER SIDE. THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS’ PERSPECTIVE.
London and New York: Routledge Curzon, [2003]. Hard Cover. First Edition. A First Edition copy of Ang Cheng Guan’s The Vietnamese War from the Other Side. With no marks of any kind. Text in English. Red hardback with lettering in.....