Apontamentos para a historia da revolta em Goa dos Soldados, Ranes e Satarienses em o anno de 1895 by CARVALHO, Inácio Caetano de (Visconde de Bardês) - 1896

Privately Printed, 1943 Tan decorated w/blue/yellow Ribbon of Honor. Inscribed, "To Miss Alice Wainwright with my compliments, Richard Derby March 8, 1943." Wake Island, The Fox Holes of Bataan, The Supreme Test of Valor, Subic Bay Saga, To Philip Billings, Brooksville Maine. very scarce. OCLC list 4 copies 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Moisture marks to front cover. Particulars in gilt to spine, which is severely lacking the fabric. Bookplate removed from front pastedown. Odd pagination with corrections in pen to pages 161-163. Text block separated at page 258/259. ; xiii, 418 pages.

1865 1st ed Camp March & Battlefield Civil War Union Campaigns Burnside Meade

Alexander Stewart was a soldier in the Union Army who served in the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. His contribution to Civil War literature was his book 'Camp, March and Battlefield', a book that described various war campaigns including those of General Burnside, General Hooker, General Meade, and Ulysses S Grant.
According to Nevins,
"A composite of individual studies that originally appeared in a Pittsburgh newspaper; the author was chaplain of the 13th Pennsylvania and served in Virginia."

Item number: #10386
Price: $499
STEWART, Alexander
Camp, march and battle-field, or Three years and a half with the army of the Potomac
Philadelphia: J.B. Rodgers, 1865. First edition.

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1848 1ed Mexican War United States Military Texas Alamo Mexico Mansfield Plates
"It has been wisely remarked by a distinguished American statesman, that 'the commencement of the Mexican War was the opening of a new volume of American history.'"
– E.D. Mansfield, The Mexican War, preface
Known most for his books on United States military, E.D. Mansfield wrote works on the life of U.S. Grant, Winfield Scott, and the Mexican War, but also wrote books on American education. This book on the history of the Mexican War includes maps and battle views.

Item number: #14660
Price: $499
MANSFIELD, Edward Deering
The Mexican War a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals. To which is added, the treaty of peace, and valuable tables of the strength and losses of the United States Army.
New York, A.S. Barnes & Co.; Cincinnati, H.W. Derby & Co., 1848. First edition.

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Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Not seemingly otherwise available to the trade in this state and condition insofar as it is a set complete in two Fine condition burgundy-colored, pebbly leatherette hardcover volumes and with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spines and gilt devices to front covers. Top edges gilt. Illustrated, printed paper dust wrappers, sunned moderately and soiled lightly along edges, a bit of chipping thereto, else clean and intact, not price-clipped, and now in archival plastic coats. First Editions, both. Set comes with the original publisher's packing boxes, with Kanji character and English titles, printed labels to spines, and archival boxes riveted along top and bottom edges, folding in front. One in Good condition, with short split along one joint, the other in easily Very Good condition. Fine black-and-white photographic portrait of the goggle-eyed author at frontis of Volume I, and another… Read More

1914 Peking Beijing CHINA Memoirs Court Buddha Ming Forbidden City Illustrated

John Bland and Edmund Backhouse were already famous for their book 'China Under the Empress Dowager' when they wrote their history of the rulers of China - 'Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking.' This chronicle begins at the fall of the Mongol Empire, covering the Ming & Manchu dynasties, Li Tzu-Ch'eng's rebellion, the fall of Peking, the Mings at Nanking, Tao Kukang and the impact of the West, memoirs of the Boxer Year in 1900, and information on Buddha, laws and the forbidden city.
This 1914 edition includes 25 full-page black and white photogravure engravings.
Item number: #9833
Price: $399
BLAND, John Otway Percy; BACKHOUSE, Sir Edmund Trelawney
Annals & memoirs of the court of Peking (from the 16th to 20th century).
London: W. Heinemann, 1914.

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1864 1ed Gunnery Catechism Navy Civil War Army Textbook Mortars Guns Illustrated

'Gunnery Catechism' was an influential military textbook for officers in United States Army in conjunction with instruction at the USMA under the supervision of the Corps of Engineers, and instruction offered at public and private universities, and colleges. Brandt writes this book in a question and answer format to teach on a variety of topics as it relates to gunnery including calls for assembling, different kinds of firing, mortars, housing guns, general questions on gunnery, and much more!

This 1864 first edition is complete with detailed illustrated diagrams of the guns and their component parts, tables and charts of ranges for different mortars, and a diagram showing the manner of shifting stations in exercise to drill each of the guns crew in all the required duties!

Item number: #9855
Price: $599
BRANDT, John D.
Gunnery catechism as applied to the service of Naval Ordinance
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1864.… Read More

1888 1ed CALIFORNIA Illustrated Santa Clara GOLD Indian Tribes Mexico WARS Foote
Horace Foote's 'Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World' is a beautiful, illustrated account of Santa Clara County, California. Published in 1888, this book features sketches and photographs of notable locations in California showing homes, breweries, and government buildings. It also includes biographies of prominent Californians as well as accounts of Indian tribes and the influence of the discovery of gold and the gold rush!

Item number: #10364
Price: $550
FOOTE, Horace
Pen pictures from the garden of the world or Santa Clara County, California Containing a history of the county of Santa Clara from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time
Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co., 1888. First edition.

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1828 American Revolution NAVY 1st ed Andrew Sherburne Memoirs Prison Jersey Ship

"Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne" is the narrative of the author's service in the Continental Navy in 1779 at the age of 14, and his being taken prisoner by the British only to later be released after falling ill. Andrew Sherburne went on to become a Baptist Minister and includes many Christian themes throughout his tale of imprisonment during the American Revolution at Mill prison in Plymouth England. Sherburne includes information on voyages made during the revolution, treatment as a prisoner of war, suffering on the Jersey prison ship, and being discharged at the peace of 1783.


Item number: #14144
Price: $499
SHERBURNE, Andrew
Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: a pensioner of the navy of the revolution.
Utica: W. Williams, 1828. First Edition.

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1785 Boston Revolutionary War Soldier Colonial America Weatherwise Almanac
Eighteenth-century American periodicals are notoriously rare, regardless of contents. This 1785 edition of Abraham Weatherwise's Almanac was published in Boston shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War. This issue includes, like others, phrases of the moon, eclipses, sunrises, and other calendar notes; however, it also features a letter from an anonymous Revolutionary War soldier written to his beloved.

Item number: #15589
Price: $499
JUDD, Eben Warner (pseud. Abraham Weatherwise)
Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1785
Boston: Printed and sold by Weeden and Barrett, 1785. 1st edition

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· References: Evans 19224
· Provenance: Handwritten – Lydia Goodwin
· Language: English
· Binding: Pamphlet
· Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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