Buenos Aires: n.p., 1940. Unpaged [20 leaves]. Illus. with 19 mounted silver-gelatin photographs with spider-web tissue guards, 29 b/w photo-reproductions on 7 plates, and two small portraits. Obl. 4to. (12 x 8.5 inches). Patterned maroon leather album, two holes with string ties and tassels, gilt titles and illustrations on front..... More

Madrid: En La Imprenta De Vega y Compaña, 1805. [1], title, 3-244 pp., [3 pp.] index. Sm. 8vo. Quarter calf over blue marbled boards, spine title & compartments ruled in gilt, tan spine label, speckled edges. First year of publication of this periodical (October 1st, 1805 through December 31st, 1805..... More

[Amsterdam]: [Jodocus Janssonius], [ca. 1652]. 1 sheet. Copper engraved map. 11.75 x 13.5 inches. Double-page copper engraved plate from "Fredrick Hendrick Van Nassauw Prince Van Orangien Zyn Leven En Bedryf." (page 128). Labeled "Fig. 10, Fol. 100" in top left corner. The two views depict the 1630 attack on the..... More

Chicago: Caxton Club, 1943. xviii, 295 pp. Map. 8vo. Gilt decorated quarter blue cloth over red cloth boards. Top edge gilt. First edition. Limited edition of 350 copies. "Lieutenant James Henry Carleton's first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spirit of the Times, New York, from November..... More

Lima: Imprenta del "Comercio" por J.M. Monterola, 1868. 56 pp. Sm. 8vo. Plain yellow wrappers. First edition. Upon the death of General San Roman, the President of Peru in 1863, Vice President General Juan Antonio Pezet (1810-1879) assumed control until 1865 when he was deposed by General Prado and General..... More

Washington, D.C. 1864. [1] pp. Bifolium. 5 x 7.5 inches. Details on the care of rifled guns. Republished from the prior year. "The following Circular from the Ordnance Office is republished for the guidance of all concerned. Its provisions will be strictly adhered to: Circular No. 55 - Series os..... More

Preston, CT: 1837-1840. 5 pp. 1. [Printed Document Completed in Manuscript] Inspection Return of the 7th Company of the 1st Regiment of Light Artillery from Hampton, Sept 20th, 1837. 17 x 12 inches. 1 pp. Split and separated at the folds, browned at the edges. List 48 soldiers, with their..... More

[Paris]: Imp. de Baudouin, rue Mignon 2, 1838. 103 pp. + 12 lvs of plates. Illus. with 83 b/w drawings on 12 folding leaves. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Redigee pour les Ecoles regimentaires. OCLC shows no copies of this first 1838 edition, but there are two at the BN..... More

London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, 1855. 106 pp., adv [2] + plate. Illus. with b/w diagrams with one folding cloth plate. 12mo. Limp red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Second printing. A gift from D. Van Nostrand to the Commandery with his blind emboss on free front end paper..... More

Barcelona: Thomas Piferrer, 1767. Portrait frontis, xlvi pp. (plus later blanks bound in). Sm. 8vo. Later full mottled calf, gilt titles, 4 raised bands. First edition. "Gentil Hombre de Camara con exercicio, Caballero de la Insigne Orden del Toison de Oro, y de la de Sancti Spiritus, &c. Capitan General..... More

London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1915. 3 pp.; 87 pp. 4to. Self-wrappers; stapled paper wrappers. First edition. [In continuation of "Miscellaneous, no. 5 (1915)": Cd. 7815]. A very good set. No. 5 with edgeworn wrappers, No. 7 with light toning on front wrapper, minor soiling on rear. More

Philadelphia: Lewis R. Hamersly & Co., 1879-1886. 8vo. Three quarter dark blue morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, five compartments ruled in gilt, gilt titles, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. First edition. A complete run of the initial series from Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1879) to Vol. 14 (Mar..... More