L'architecture militaire, ou l'art de fortifier les places regulieres et irregulieres. Expliqué, pratiqué & demontré, d'une façon facile & agreable. Avec un abregé de la pratique de la geometrie militaire. by Bourdin, R.P. Pierre - de la Compagnie de Jesus - 1655

Glasgow: printed for the Regiment by Robert Maclehose at the University Press, 1934. xx and 547 pages. 22 plates (including 8 tipped-in colour plates and 3 hand stencilled plates of colours), 4 folding general maps and 47 plans and diagrams in the text. 4to. Presentation half red morocco and blue cloth with the French eagle in gold on the spine; one corner is bumped. Number 106 of 125 numbered copies for subscribers. (For other British army regimental histories please search my stock using the keyword regimental.)

London: Lund Humphries, 1926. 3 volumes published between 1926 and 1929. Illustrations and maps. Copy number 174 in the subscribers' full white vellum blocked in gold, spines slightly soiled, corners a little bumped. The normal edition is in blue cloth. (For other British army regimental histories please search my stock using the keyword regimental.)

London: Longman Brown et al., 1855. vii and 311 pages. Publisher's blind stamped black cloth; covers a little rubbed, occasional light foxing, a giood tight copy. Mrs Duberly accompanied her husband, who was paymaster of the 8th Hussars, to the Crimea. (For other books about the Crimean War please search my stock using the keyword crimean.)

1839 Infantry Tactics General Winfield Scott Military War Illustrated America

An important early 19th-century American infantry tactics manual designed for militias, light-infantry, and riflemen. Headed by General Winfield Scott, this handbook is filled with illustrated charts and diagrams of formations and regiment order. Other important topics include how to pass by and overcome obstacles and reforming a line when broken.

Item number: #18525
Price: $599
United States War Dept.
Abstract of infantry tactics; including exercises and manœuvres of light-infantry and riflemen; for the use of the militia of the United States.

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1839.

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138
o 30 engraved plates
· Provenance: Stamp/Handwritten – Gideon L. North, 1840
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Ensign in 1841
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Elected 3rd Corporal in 1839, possibly under a Capt. Reed
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Elected [2nd] Sergeant in 1840
· Language: English
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1847 1ed Mexico and Military Chieftains WAR of Independence SPAIN Hidalgo Revolt
Fayette Robinson's "Mexico and Her Military Chieftains" is a rare, mid-19th-century history of the wars with Mexico. This 1847 first edition contains descriptions of military figures and battles, focusing heavily on the Hidalgo Revolt and the Mexican War of Independence from 1810 to 1821. Note the inclusion of numerous full-page portrait engravings and scenes of Mexico.
Item number: #18667
Price: $499
ROBINSON, Fayette
Mexico and her military chieftains : from the revolution of Hidalgo to the present time
Philadelphia : E.H. Butler & Co., 1847. First edition.

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ix, [3], 13-343, [1], 8
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12 engravings
· Provenance: Handwritten
o Fayette Robinson
o W. B. Wess
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Brown cloth
· Size: ~7.75in X 5in (19.5cm x 13cm)
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Paris, Auguste Blaizot, 1925. 1st Edition . Soft cover. .. Quarto. Pp. (vi) dedication leaf, preface, 274. Title-page printed in red and black. Hand-coloured lithograph to title, and 106 other hand-coloured lithographs, some of which are full-page. Initials printed in red. Footnotes. Uncut. Original card wrappers with integrated dust-jacket of heavy paper, lithographed and hand-coloured. Handsome bookplate to prelim. In exceptionally fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Printed in a limited edition of 350 copies on hand-made paper, of which this copy is number 330. Text printed in 1922 by Jacoub et Aulard, Paris. The fine illustrations were lithographed by Maurice Potin three years later. In this edition they are hand-coloured in aquarelle. I-3

Hodder, 1991. Soft Cover. Very Good. Inscribed By Author On Bookplate Attached Inside Front Cover...Stated First U.K. Edition, First Printing..Pocket Paperback Original Edition..No Hardcover Edition Printed...Nice Clean Tight Copy..Text Unmarked..Spine Has No Creases..Corners Slightly Bumped...Beautiful Copy..Not Ex-Library..

Paris, Delanchy, 1840. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Octavo. Pp. 14, (1) verso blank. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, gilt leather lettering-piece to spine, original printed wrappers bound in. In fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Of utmost rarity. General de Brigade Charles Georges-Hyppolyte, Baron Le Senecal (1767-1836). General Baron Pierre Berthezène (1775-1847). Noteworthy, "Campagne de 1815. Fragments historiques réunis pour établir le fait de calomnie répandue dans un libelle du général Berthezène, publié en dat du 27 Mai 1840" (also offered by Librarium) was published in 1840 in Paris. [Provenance:] From the private library of the late H. J. Wijsman, with his handsome bookplate. TIMO-2

Richard Bentley. London. 1860/61. SECOND EDITION. 2 Volumes. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Illustrated with four charts (3 folding) in volume 2, complete. A bright and clean set in the publishers decorative original Navy Blue cloth bindings. Boards with elaborate blind-stamed designs. Spines decorated in blind and ruled & lettered in gilt. Light brown coated endpapers. Neat previous owners armorial bookplates, and another family member's name plate below, on each of the front paste-down endpapers. Some light spotting to the fore-edges and an off white mark to the spine of one volume otherwise a superior set in the uncommon publishers original cloth bindings. Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald (1775 1860) was a Member of the British Parliament and noted naval commander who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1814 he was imprisoned on a false charge of committing fraud at the London Stock Exchange and expelled from the Navy and Parliament. In 1832 he was pardoned and reinstated in the Royal Navy with the… Read More

Paris: Chez Magimel, Levrault, Schoell, Strasbourg , F. G. Levrault. Very Good+. 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter leather over clean marble boards. Gilt decorated spine title and panels. Yellow endpaper. (ii) -(xvi) 321pp (ii) + 16 clean fold out plates with 164 illustrations. Includes Errata, (Table of Contents). First two pages very lightly foxed. Bottom front corners lightly rubbed. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Military, Strategies of attack & defense, underground fortification, early dissertation on mines and explosives ; Engraved plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 321 pages .