Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy by MGen George W. Cullum - 1879

Paris. Librairie de Firmin/didot. 1893. Lavishly bound by Champs of Paris in full gilt bordered crushed burgundy morocco. Raised bands. Gilt titles. Elaborate pictorial gilt tooled inner dentelles with horse and horse shoe motif frame and ornate gilt tooled figure of soldier with drawn sword to front and rear paste downs. Silk moire endsheets. Accompanied by custom hardshell slipcase. a.e.g. Thick Folio. Number thirty five of a limited edition printed on Japanese vellum. Sumptuously illustrated with fifty colour lithographic plates and 300 further monochrome drawings en texte. Also an original hand coloured litho mounted onto flyleaf. Vallet's classic work on cavalry life is artfully encased in a most splendid continental binding. A masterful presentation. The slightest of rubbing to spine. A Fine bright copy.

London: Hafod Press, 1807. First English language edition. leather_bound. Contemporary paneled calf, professionally rebacked, center panel decorations in gilt and dark brown. Very good.. 336 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Folding map of Tartar. Translated by Thomas Johns, proprietor of the Hafted Press, James Henderson, printer. La Brocquiere offers considerable encouragement in support of a campaign against the Turks, and concludes a force composed of French, English and Germans if in sufficient numbers could liberate Europe from the Ottoman Empire. POTSHOTS, p.702. TOILER pp. 46-47. WEBER II, 108. Half title, bookplate, extremities and backstrip rubbed, spine head 1/2 centimeter loss, interior contents generally clean, marbled endpapers and matching edges.

Amsterdam: Pierre Humbert, 1733., 1733. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., xxxv, 362, [13]index. engraved title, engraved portrait, & 9 large engraved headpieces by Bernard Picart. woodcut ornaments & initials. contemporary mottled calf, rebacked (extremities worn, some leaves lightly dampstained in lower margin). armorial bookplate of English diplomatist Edward Finch [d. 1771] & ownership entry dated 1733. First Edition. Edited by Isaac de Beausobre [1659-1738]. Written under the prince's supervision by a senior officer in his service, these posthumously published memoirs document the successful military campaigns conducted by Frederick Hendrik in the Low Countries against the Spaniards from 1621 to 1646, including the sieges and captures of Bois-le-Duc (1629), Maestricht (1632), Breda (1637), and Sas van Ghent (1644). The large engraved headpieces by Bernard Picart mainly depict sieges (plans) and naval engagements. Brunet III 195.. F.

Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. [14] leaves of text, [87] leaves of plates with illustrations and text, [12] leaves of color plates; 49 cm. Contemporary dark green leather with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment and gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Gilt-tooled title on front board; blind-ruled borders on both boards. Marbled endpapers. "Historiques et Uniformes de L'Armée Française" at head of title page. No date of publication. WorldCat says 1893, which is the latest date in the regimental histories. Contents: Cuirassiers -- Dragons -- Chasseurs -- Hussards -- Spahis -- Chasseurs d'Afrique. Each section has separate half title and title page and 2 full color plates. Includes detailed history of each regiment as well as the striking large color plates. A heavy book; for international shipping, it will have to be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed;… Read More

St. Lo, George. (d. 1718) England's Safety: or, A Bridle to the French King. Proposing A sure Method of Encouraging NAVIGATION, and Raising Qualified Seamen for the well Manning Their Majesties FLEET on any Occasion, in a Months Time, without Impressing; And a Competent Provision for all such as shall be Wounded in Service against the Enemy, either in their Majesties Ships of War, Privatiers, or Merchant-Men, to Encourage the better Defending them. ALSO An In-sight into the Advantages may be made by the Herring and other Fisheries, in respect to the Breeding of Seamen, and otherwise. Together with a PROPOSAL for the Maintenance and Education of the Male Children of all such as shall be Kill'd in Service, both Seamen and Officers; And a Provision for Gentlemens Younger Sons, and the Sons of Commanders Kill'd in the Service, to qualifie them for the Sea, in order to make Officers. ALSO Encouragement for Commanders of Men of War, Privatiers and Seamen, in Taking any Ship, or Effects of the Enemies, and… Read More

London: Thomas & William Boone, 1832-40., 1832. 6 Volumes. 8vo. with half-titles in Vols. I-II. 55 engraved plates incl. 1 map, 1 diagram & 53 of battle plans. later half chagrin, gilt backs (foxing to plates & neighbouring leaves). Second Edition of Vols. I-III and First Editions of Vols. IV-VI of this "classic of the English language." (DNB) "It is commended to the general reader no less by an impartial admiration for the heroes on both sides than by the spontaneity of its style. Its accuracy was the more firmly established by the inevitable attacks of actors in the scenes described, who thought the parts they had played undervalued." (Ibid.) "As a military historian Sir William Napier is incomparably superior to any other English writer…[He] always wrote as if he was burning with an inextinguishable desire to express what he was feeling, which gives his style a peculiar spontaneity, and yet he rewrote the first volume of his History no less than six times.… Read More

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. First edition. Very Good. First editions. Complete in 12 volumes. 'Illustrated by a Series of Historical and Explanatory Notes, which will be found to contain an Account of all the Naval Actions and other Important Events, from the Commencement of the Late Reign, in 1760, to the Present Period. With Copious Addenda'. 8vo, library rebound in half leather with blue cloth boards. Titles in gilt on spine & library name on cover.

London: London: printed for J. Nourse, at the Lamb, opposite Katherine-Street, in the Strand, 1746. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo; xvi,232pp, with full complement of 34 engravings, 33 of which are folding. In contemporary unlettered full calf (a little worn with minor loss to board corners, sometime skilfully rebacked in matching leather), five raised spine bands, internally clean with only the lightest of occasional dust staining. Muller was deputy head of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he was instrumental to its transformation into a disciplined cadet academy. An attractive first edition example of his first work. Laurence Sterne possessed the text in second edition, with possible influence on Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim's obsessions with fortification in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. ESTC T176381.

London: Mr. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Letter-press by T. Bensley, from Figgins's types., 1794. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (29 views of India) drawn by Robert Home engraved by Hawksworth, Skelton et al. + folding Plans (3 of 4, lacks Plan of Bangalore).. Royal quarto (33.5x28.5cm) speckled leather spine gilt ruled with orange gilt spine title label. Covers of wood-grain marbled paper (edges rubbed with vellum tips showing). First leaf of Urdu script (facing titlepage), vii (inc. titlepage, dedication & Preface) +[1]p blank) +[1] leaf of Inscriptions (on monuments shown in Plate 7) + 48pp of text, with 12 leaves of Urdu script keyed to first page number of each section (versos blank) and 29 plates as called for, + folding Plan of Ootradoog, folding Plan of the Carnatic and Mysore drawn by M. Armstrong June 1792, and finally larger folding Plan showing position of Confederate Armies under Earl Cornwallis before Seringapatam in February 1792. Small repair without loss to 1 inch of this final… Read More

1764. erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe, Berlin, ohne Verlagsangabe, 1764, 8°, 528 S. Text, 6 S. Anhang 'Ordre zu Erhaltung der Subordination bey der Armée', Pergamenteinband der Zeit mit Siegel mit einer am Rückdeckel montierten Lederschließe mit original Stoffband mit anhänglichen Siegelresten, erste 33 Seiten mit kleiner werdenden Wurmgang (mit winzigem Buchstabenverlust auf Vorsatz- und Titelseite), von den im Anhang befindlichen Falt-Karten ist nur die Monatsliste sauber enthalten, eine weitere Liste nur zu einem kleinen Teil enthalten, sonst altersgemäß schönes, sauberes Exemplar Im Vorsatz mehrere Besitzertexte von alter Hand (1761 bis 1776 / 1784 und 1892), worin das Husarenregiment Nr. 1 - "die grünen Husaren" (Friedrich Wilhelm Gottfried Arnd von Kleist) und das Kürassierregiment Nr.1 (Gustav Albrecht von Schlabrendorf) vermerkt sind. Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen,… Read More