México: Tipografia de Manuel Payno, 1848. v, [1], [1], 401, [3] pp. Illus. with 28 lithographic maps and plates: 14 folding maps; 14 portrait plates; and one folding table. Sm. 4to. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled boards, four raised bands, gilt title on spine. First edition. With all maps and... More

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

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. xvi, 486 pp. Illus. with 73 b/w & color drawings, reproductions and photos, some folded. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Being the Yarn of the American Midshipman (Naval Cadet) showing his Life in the old Frigates and Ships-of-the-Line, and then at the Naval School... More

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1894. 362 pp. + 21 lvs. of maps. Illus. with 21 b/w folding maps. 8vo. Cloth. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Signed by O. [Oliver] W. Nixon (1825-1905), Major and Surgeon, Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, USV, and author of "How Marcus Whitman saved Oregon," "Reminiscences of... More

[Bruxelles]: [1854]. 21, [3] pp. 1 diagram. 8vo. Folded leaves. First edition. Addressed in manuscript to J. A. Dahlgren, Superintendent of the Naval Ordinance, United States" and signed by Bormann, who was a Colonel at the time in the Royal Belgian Artillery. These are unpublished notes that Bormann had intended... 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

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. iv, 307 pp. Illus. with large folding map (21.8 x 42.8 cm.; 8.6 x 16.85 inches). 8vo. Original terra-cotta cloth, spine lettered in gilt, stamped in black. First edition. A sequel to 'Scenes and Adventures in the Army'. "Contains a condensed narrative of... More

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1878. iv, 400 pp.+ Adv. [43,1] pp. Illus. with 29 b/w plates. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. Second edition. Translation of Cours de tactique. Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787-1875) was a Swiss general who served under Napoleon and in 1847 led the Swiss federal forces to victory... More

Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Institute, 1950. [192-215] pp. Sm. 4to. Stapled paper wrappers. Offprint. Reprinted from Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Volume 13. June, 1950. Numbers 1 and 2. A very good+ copy, clean, crisp, and unmarked. More

Jena: Thuringer Verlagsanstalt, n.d. [ca1900]. vi, 807 pp. Illus. with 800 b/w drawings & reproductions. 4to. Cloth. First edition. now. The stamp of the library of F.A. Wittfogel [Karl August], the German historian and sinologist. Profusely illustrated examination of the history of war, extensive collections of weapons. Prefigures much of... More

Paris: Allais, 1805. [6], 299, [1], Plates. Illus. with 13 numbered folding plates + an additional 3 folding plates. 4to. (26 x 19 cm). Mottled calf, six compartments four decorated and bordered in gilt, one brown morocco lettering piece with title, and one red spine label with volume number and... More

New York: The American Numismatic Society, 1922. 110 pp. Plates. Bibliography. Notes. Index. Illus. with 34 b/w photos. 16mo. Paper wrappers. First edition. One plate for each of the 34 orders created in France from 496 to 1783. Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 11. A very good or better copy... More