A small, but interesting archive of six letters sent by US Army Chief of Ordnance, LTC George Talcott and his assistant, Captain William Maynardier during 1843 and 1844 to Professor Daniel Treadwell in Cambridge, Massachusetts regarding cannon of Treadwell's patented design, which the Army was then considering for purchase. Treadwell.....
HAMILTON, James (1710-1783) as lieutenant governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, appointing "Jonas Seely Commander of two Companies of Foot to be forthwith raised in the County of Berks in the Pay of the said Province" on 11 July 1763. Party-printed manuscript, a duplicate copy of the original commission, but.....
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.....
Silas Talbot (1751-1813) 2-page ALS, dated New York, 1 March 1793 and addressed to Judge Joshua Mersereau, Esquire. Talbot, Revolutionary War naval hero and future captain of Old Ironsides, responds to friend and political ally Judge Joshua Mersereau's letter requesting support for his aspirations for a seat in the New.....
King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (1683-1760). Royal commission appointing "Our Trusty & Welbeloved [sic] Roger Townshend Esqr." to be "Our Aid de Camp & to take your Rank as Lieutenant Colonel of Foot." The King was then on military campaign in Europe and the appointment is signed.....
[probably Philadelphia]: Quartermaster General, US Army, 1833. 16 x 10 1/8 folio sheet, encapsulated in mylar. Manuscript list with all of the types and forms of enlisted garments to be procured for the United States Army in 1833 and the costs to be assigned for each [not filled in]. Above.....
Great Britain: c. 1906. Simkin, Richard. [UNIFORMS AND MEDALS]. Queen Victoria’s British Army by Richard Simkin. Large scrapbook in oblong, folio format, containing numerous prints of British Army regiments and their uniforms by military artist Richard Simkin from his famous series, ranging from the 1880s to 1905. The chromolithograph prints.....
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.....
OEUVRES CHOISIES DE J.-B. PIRANESI: Frontispices, Compositions, Prisons, Trophees, Plan et Vues de Rome dessines et Graves de 1746 a 1778. Paris: Auguste Vincent, 1905. Reprint of 1778 edition. Folio. [4], 7, [i] pp and 114 numbered plates (the 18 double-page and folding plates each account for 2 plate numbers).....
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.....
1829. 10th. BAKER, Ezekiel. "Remarks On Rifle Guns. Being The Result Of Upwards Of Fifty Years Practice And Observations, With Specific Remarks On Fowling Pieces, the Percussion Lock, And Fire Arms In General. To Which Are Subjoined Descriptions Of A new Bullet Mould And Clipper, Various Improvements In Gun And.....
1808. A CORPORAL OF RIFLEMEN [CAPTAIN HENRY BEAUFOY]. "Scloppetaria: or Considerations on the Nature and Use of Rifled Barrel Guns, with Reference to their Forming the Basis of a Permanent System of National Defence, Agreeable to the Genius of the Country." Printed by C. Roworth.for T. Egerton, T E Gerton.....
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......
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. .
Watercolor on card, 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches (view) within gilded brass mat inside original, carved, oval frame (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. overall). Portrait of an unidentified officer of the elite 5th Battalion of the 60th or "Royal American" Regiment of Foot, circa 1803. He wears the.....
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.....
Paris: Libraire de René Colas, 1933. [COLAS: COSTUME BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Colas, René. Bibliographie Général du Costume et de la Mode. Description des suites, recueils, séries, revues et livres Français et Etrangers relatifs au costume civil, militaire et religieux, aux modes, aux coiffures et aux divers accessoires de l'habillement. Hardcover. 1933. Quarto.....
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1939. First. hardback. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1839. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes, octavo (235 x 145 mm). 1-394, 1-481 pp. One engraved map and one plan as frontispieces. First authoritative (and still highly regarded) history of the Navy from its origins during the Revolutionary War until.....
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.....
Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Heavily illustrated with color and BW images on 312 pages. "Insignia of Independence is a heavily illustrated magnum opus that reconstructs the appearance of the armies of the American Revolution in painstaking detail. The two leading authorities on 18th-century Anglo-American military material.....
1829. 2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded. London: John Murray, 1829. Second Edition. Quarto, with several tables in the text, 5 folding engraved diagrams and 4 folding tables; Contemporary marbled boards, but quarter bound in modern cloth. A clean and complete, highly desirable copy of a classic work in its most.....
1814. 5th. [WAR OF 1812]. William Duane. "Hand Book for Infantry." 5th ed. Philadelphia: Printed for the author, 1813. 8vo, original boards; With 12 leaves of plates, figures in text. (i)-vii, (viii-blank), (1)-112 pages, 12 plates. American Imprints 28364 (locating 1 copy); this edition not recorded in OCLC. The rare.....
[Rare Black Hawk War Imprint]. Narrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of Misses Frances and Almira Hall….[with] The Interesting Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Philip Brigdon. First edition. 1832. Copyright [and published?] by William P. Edwards, n.p. [St. Louis]. Paper wraps. Octavo (9 x 5 ½ in.).....
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Cyril Field. "Britain's Sea-Soldiers: A History of the Royal Marines and their Predecessors and of their Services in Action, Ashore and Afloat" 2 vol. set. Liverpool: The Lyceum Press, 1924. Large quarto, x, 324 pp. [and] x, 358 pp. 2 frontispieces (1 color), tissue guards, 22 color plates, tissue guards, 54.....
1904. William Alexander Graham, ed. General Joseph Graham and His Papers on North Carolina Revolutionary History With Appendix, An Epitome of North Carolina's Military Services in the Revolutionary War and of the Laws Enacted For Raising Troops. Published for the Author by Edwards & Broughton, 1904. Scarce, original first edition of the.....