A "folding" or collapsible cap, constructed of green morocco leather and bound with green silk tape of 1/4-inch width. The outer leaves are 12 inches long at bottom and 5 1/4 inches high and essentially an oval of leather folded in half and edge-bound together with tape. The crown is.....
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.....
Die-struck brass, oval form, 4 13/16 x 3 3/4 inches. Hompesch's Light Infantry, also called Chasseurs was a corps of light troops consisting of 450 "chasseurs" armed with military rifles and 690 musket-armed fusiliers raised in Germany for British service. They sailed for Martinique at the close of 1796, served.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
THE NORTH-AMERICAN AND THE WEST-INDIAN GAZETTEER, Containing an Authentic Description of the Colonies and Islands in That Part of the Globe, Shewing Their Situation, Climate, Soil, Produce and Trade, With Their Former and Present Condition. London: G. Robinson, 1776. Octavo, period full calf binding with raised bands with gilt lines.....
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.....
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Dr. Samuel Anderson, autograph letter signed (ALS), 4 January 1824, 1 page, 5.25 x 7.75 inches, in full "Sir, you will confer a favour by furnishing the medicines named in the enclosed requisition, S[amuel] Anderson, Surg. U.S. Ship Hornet"; with referenced requisition of medicines required, Anderson autograph document signed (ADS).....
[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.....
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.....
DS, Versailles, 12 March 1748. 1 p., folio, toned, with some separation at folds and minor staining on margins, llc. "His Majesty having given the seigneury of the old fort to the vacant company of the Conde Regiment by the death of Seigneur Montvalot, the officers, sergeants and soldiers who.....
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.....
Attributed to Auguste Couder. "Study of the Comte de Rochambeau for the Siege of Yorktown, c. 1835." Watercolor and graphite on paper, 8 7/8 x 11 3/8 in., 10 1/4 x 8 3/8 in. (view), conservation matted within UV-glazed frame. Louis-Charles-Auguste Couder or Auguste Couder (1789-1873) was a French painter.....
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.....