History from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[1940 BLITZKRIEG ARTILLERY PLAN Weidinger in German typed manuscript 8 pp original] "Gedanken über Feuerleitung stärkerer Artillerie" ["Thoughts on stronger artillery fire control line"] by the WWII German officer Colonel Wilhelm Weidinger (see Notes). The date "Februar 1940" is written in pencil at the upper right-hand corner of the first page indicating the essay was written about three months before… Read more about this item

[YALE MEMORABILIA, CIVIL WAR GRADUATES] CLASS OF 1862 YALE - PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES, published De Vinne Press, 1899, limited edition 200 copies (stated in front), dark blue cloth cover with gilded lettering, 7-1/2" x 11", xii, 267 pp., frontispiece photograph The Old Brick Row and Fence, illustration President Theodore D. Woolsey on reverse of title page, portrait illustrations of professors… Read more about this item

[1781 ROYAL COAT OF ARMS ORDER GARTER ENGRAVING G. TERRY] ORIGINAL ENGRAVING BRINGING TOGETHER THE BRITISH ROYAL COAT OF ARMS AND MOTTO OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER, Published As the Acts Directs, October 5, 1781, by G. Terry, 54 Pater-noster Row [London], engraving (cut from larger sheet of old paper), 7-1/4" high x 8-1/2" across, British Royal Coat of… Read more about this item

ORIGINAL DOCUMENT OF COMMENDATION FROM THE 3rd/THIRD EVACUATION HOSPITAL FOR THE SEVERELY WOUNDED by the South-Western Regional Zemstvo Committee, 4th gymnasium [district] Vasilkovskaya (Kyiv), 8-1/2" x 14" with 3 horizontal and one vertical fold as found (fragile at folds), printed text and handwriting making up nearly all of the document in Ukraine or Russia Cyrillic, at bottom left stamp of… Read more about this item

[SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM 1920s; LENIN, TROTSKY, GORKY, JOHN REED, etc.; PERIODICAL] THE LIBERATOR – A Journal of Revolutionary Progress, Vol. 3, No. 11 (Serial No. 32), November, 1920, Editors: Max Eastman [and others]; with a full-page photograph of John Reed with caption "John Reed - Died at his revolutionary post, October 17, 1920" across from small masthead noting Reed as a "foreign… Read more about this item

[1950 UNITED NATIONS ORIGINAL RADIO SCRIPTS ON ATOMIC ENERGY WITH SOME EINSTEIN CONTENT / HANDWRITTEN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR GERALD KEAN EDITING AND TIMING NOTES] THREE VERSIONS: THE YEAR OF DECISION [Atomic Energy Show] written by Mavor Moore, starring John Garfield, United Nations Radio in association with the Mutual Network, Sunday, June 18, 1950, (:00-10:00 PM EDST (Final pre-broadcast script), Director…Mavor Moore, Producer…Gerald… Read more about this item

[HASEGAWA WORKS CHEMICAL COMPANY LABORATORY; FOUNDER'S 1916 LETTER TO GEORGE KUNZ SEEKING INVESTMENT; WITH HIS 4-PAGE ESSAY ON BUSINESS CONDITIONS AND AMBITIONS IN JAPAN AND HIS NEWLY-FOUNDED COMPANY] HASEGAWA WORKS, Tokyo, Tetsutaro Hasegawa, 1916 signed letter from Tokyo to George. F. Kunz in New York concerning investment in Hasegawa's newly founded business with a 4-1/4 page double-space essay/prospectus going into… Read more about this item

[SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA PROPAGANDA POSTERS; REPRODUCTIONS PORTFOLIO] SOVIET RUSSIA PROPAGANDA POSTERS 20 in portfolio Moscow 1967, UNFORGETTABLE DAYS OF HISTORY [loose English translation from title in Cyrillic on portfolio front] Sovetskii Khudozhnik [Soviet Artist], Moscow, 1967, A portfolio of 20 copies of Soviet Union/Russia/Communist propaganda posters titled (rough translation from Russian] "Unforgettable/Memorable Days of History], most were published by various Soviet… Read more about this item

[1942 DEAR ADOLF, 5 (of 6) RADIO SCRIPTS; STEPHEN VINCENT; COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRACY] STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, 5 (of 6) 1942 RADIO SCRIPTS FOR THE PROGRAM / SERIES "DEAR ADOLF", series of six radio letters written each week by Stephen Vincent Benet based upon actual letters written to Hitler by representative Americans and delivered over the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation… Read more about this item

[1944 NAZI / GERMAN HOLOCAUST FINAL SOLUTION LEBENSBORN DOCUMENT TRANSLATED; HIMMLER, KALTENBRUNNER] TRANSLATION OF A NAZI SS DOCUMENT FOR EVIDENCE IN THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, original ribbon/presumably teletype copy, 3 pages stapled at upper left corner, single-spaced, 8-1/2" x 14"/legal size, at top above dashed line TRANSLATION: [heading of document as translated] CHIEF OF THE SECURITY POLICE AND THE SECURITY SERVICE,… Read more about this item

The Story of the Stamford Hospital 1896-1971, Seventy-five Years of Service, with more than 100 photographs, by Marie Updegraff, published by Stamford Hospital, 1971, illustrated hardcover, no jacket as issued, 7-1/2" x 10-1/2", 97 pages, black-and-white photographs; CONDITION: near fine, touches of edgewear to cover, minimal normal wear, hinges firm, text block tight, exceptionally well-preserved copy.