[Revolutionary War in West Indies]. Matthews, John. Twenty-One Plans, with Explanations of the Different Actions in the West Indies During the Last War by an Officer who was present. Published in Chester and printed by J Fletcher for the author 1784. Dedicated to Lord Hood by John Matthews. Comprising printed.....
1st Ed. London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1865. 8vo, xxvi + 601 pp. + advert. leaves. Separate listings for each Presidency (Bengal, Madras & Bombay) each part with Civil & Military indices. Contains both Civil & Military establishments, inc. regular, local & irregular corps, commissariat, medical &c. Lists of commanders.....
Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1839. v, [3], 422, [2] pp. First Edition. Last page has an advertisement for other Lecount titles. Profusely illustrated, with the 10 fold-out plates at rear. 12mo. 8-1/8" x 5" Internally, a VG+ copy. Original publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine.....
A Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode-Island: written with care and impartiality, from original and authentic materials; consisting of two parts…with an accurate and improved map of each state. By John C. Pease and John M. Niles. Printed and published by William S. Marsh, 1819. vii, 389, [2].....
1932. First. Cloth. Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1932. Octavo. 116 pp. First edition of author’s second book, with only 1000 copies printed. Top edge trimmed, others uncut. A very good to fine copy internally, pages bright and clean; good in original black cloth gilt, with one ½ inch split.....
2 volumes. London: Charles Rivington for the Author et al., 1771. 7 engraved plates, all but 2 folding, and 9 folding engraved maps and plans. viii, [2], 379, [1]; [4], 414 pages. 4to, 295x228 mm, spine of modern calf with raised bands and gilt, with worn contemporary tree sheep covers.....
John CLERK. An Essay on Naval Tactics ... Second Edition. Edinburgh: for Archd. Constable & Co., 1804. Quarto. Half-title, advertisement leaf, 51 of 52 engraved folding plates only, with dispositions hand-colored in red (lacking plate 1 opposite title page), Some old dampstaining, some damage to the first seven leaves). Contemporary.....
Liste générale des postes de France: Dressée par Ordre de Monseigneur Etiene Francois de Choiseul.... Paris: Chez les Sr. JAILLOT, 1769. 12mo., i-viii, 1-82 pp. One title vignette, engraved throughout and with one folding engraved map at the rear, showing all of the postal routes in France and those to Britain, Spain.....
AN AMERICAN HERO OF CHIPPEWA AND LUNDY’S LANE, 1814 Ephraim Shaler [or Shaylor], ALS, 2 ½ pp, folio, to U.S. Senator Thomas Ewing from Ohio, Tallmadge, Portage County, Ohio, 9 June 1834. Massachusetts native Ephraim Shaler received a commission as ensign in the 25th U.S. Infantry in 1812 and was.....
THOMAS DIXON after SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. Henry, Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery. Mezzotint by Thomas Dixon, pub. 5 Feb. 1771 by William Wynne Ryland, Cornhill, London; 18 x 13 in. platemark with wide margins; within French mat. Pembroke, then a major general, was colonel-commandant of the 1st or Royal Dragoons.....
One page, 9.5" x 7", Stillwater [New York]; October 17, 1780, "5 O Clock after noon". Shortly after Loyalists and their allies under the command of Sir John Johnson had started destroying crops and property across the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys, Lieutenant Colonel Brinton Paine of Dubois's Regiment of New.....
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One page, 8.25" x 11.875", "Orderly Office" at Verplank's Point [New York]; September 1, 1782. War-dated letter written by Brigadier General Henry in his position as Adjutant General of the Continental Army, concerning the security and relief of troops in and around West Point. Although recipient’s name is not appended to.....
A model built by H. Philips in the manner of an 18th century Admiralty and Navy Boards, with open frames below painted main wale, open gun ports, semi-planked deck with fittings and cut-away masts, contained within a glazed display case. Overall measurements: 15¾ x 31½in. Little is known of.....
Copperplate on paper, 3.5 inches (view), within carved frame. William Rodman (1757-1824) served as a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, 1791-1800, a state senator, 1804-1808, and as a representative to the U.S. Congress, 1811-1813. Provenance: deaccessioned from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2013. .
Oil on canvas (relined), 40 ¼ inches x 30 ¼ inches; in later frame. Jose Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza was the leading painter of Creole society in New Orleans for the last two decades of the 18th century. Salazar had first arrived in New Orleans in c. 1780.....
Copperplate on paper, 2.25 inch-diameter, engraved portrait on sheet of paper, underneath window mat with gilded brass edging within a carved and painted oval frame. Joseph Whipple (1738-1816) was a noted Portsmouth merchant and the brother of William Whipple, signer of the Declaration of Independence. He served briefly as a......
Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches; within carved and gilded frame. Portrait of Lieutenant Raymond Henry Jones Perry (1789-1826) in the undress uniform of a Navy lieutenant per the 1812 Navy regulations, probably painted to celebrate his promotion to lieutenant in 1813. Raymond was the second son.....
Carved, sandstone plaques, each approximately 43 3/4 x 16 3/4 x 5 inches. Found by the previous owner in eastern Pennsylvania, these handsome relief carvings of an 18th century fieldpiece and a siege mortar were likely set in the walls of key arsenal structures or in masonry walls, the most.....
Ink on illustration board, 27 x 19 3/8 inches; signed "Copeland/66" on lower right; conservation matted. A young teen stands proudly before the Williamsburg Magazine wearing his new "LIBERTY OR DEATH" frock and holding one of the blue-painted trade guns issued to his company from the Virginia State Store. Peter.....
Watercolor on ivory, 1¾ x 1½ inches, initialed and dated: ‘IP/1789’; within original rose gold case. A superb Peale miniature of an American artillery officer, wearing a scarlet-faced, blue uniform featuring gilded buttons and a “rise-and-fal” cape or collar, with gilt bullion epaulette. The single epaulette on the right shoulder.....
The Institution and Proceedings of the Society of the Cincinnati...May 10, 1783: with the Proceedings of the Massachusetts State Society of the Cincinnati, from its Organization, June 9, 1783, to July 4, 1811. Boston: printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1812. Octavo, 112 pages, with engraved frontispiece, in original.....
1794. Stipple and line engraving by W. Nutter, published by John Jefferys, London, 1 Nov. 1794; 19 x 24 in. (plate-mark). Brigadier General Simon Fraser commanded the Advance Corps of “Gentleman Johnny” Burgoyne’s army and distinguished himself in combat during the 1777 Northern Campaign. While leading his troops during the.....
A handsome and rare 18th century arsenal modelof a Gribeauval System limber for a field gun with wonderful patina, probably a 4-pounder cannon based on the wheel and axle proportions in relation to the harness pole, based on comparison of this model with original 18th century plans for the same.....
A fine volunteer’s musket of the Napoleonic period as carried by a member of the elite Honourable Artillery Company of London (HAC), which during this period consisted of an artillery company, called the “Matross Division”, plus a battalion of infantry consisting of eight line “divisions” or companies, one light infantry.....
Np. [London]: “Publd. M. Darly, Augt. 1. 1778.” Etching on laid paper with early hand-coloring; platemark 245 x 355 mm (9 5/8 x 14 inches); sheet 270 x 380 mm (10 5/8 x 14 7/8 inches); with some light toning in places, marginal loss to center right, small marginal chip.....