Washington D.C.: General Land Office printed in New York by Julius Bien lithographer 1879. Color-lithographed map. A very detailed colour-coded map of Arkansas showing towns rivers roads railroads among other landmarks.<br/> <br/> The General Land Office was founded in 1812 as an independent government agency responsible for the surveying and disposition of land in the public domain. Prior to the Civil War much of the attention of the GLO was fixed on the settlement of such land east of the Mississippi which had resulted from military bounties and cessations by the original thirteen states. The end of the Civil War the Homestead Act the completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad and the military campaigns against Native Americans in the West with resulting treaties that "transferred" land ownership to the United States together engendered an incredible increase in westward settlement and expansion. Newly-admitted states and newly-created territories west of the Mississippi were primed for settlement. Between 1866 and 1876 the GLO surveyed over 200000000 acres of land in the public domain for settlement in New Mexico Idaho Dakota Nebraska Montana Colorado Wyoming and elsewhere. As the official surveyors of these remote areas and with access to military information the maps of the General Land Office were far and away the most accurate and detailed of the western states and territories published to that time. Indeed these large-scale official maps became the basis for future maps of those regions by commercial cartographers. In 1876 the GLO headed by S.S. Burdett published an atlas containing 18 maps on 19 sheets California being on two sheets showing the regions of the United States with newly surveyed and plotted public lands. Although the GLO had issued individual maps of the United States to accompany their annual report in 1866 and 1868 the 1876 Geographical and Political Atlas of the States and Territories sometimes referred to as The Centennial Atlas was the first atlas to be published by the department. The incredible growth of settlement in the west coupled with new exploration and surveying in the short time following the 1876 atlas engendered a second atlas to be published by the General Land Office between 1878 and 1879 i.e. where the present example is from. Like the Centennial Atlas the maps were composed by the chief draughtsman in the GLO Charles Roeser Jr. The maps were done on a large scale and are consequently very detailed. Chromolithographed by Julius Bien each map is colour coded to clearly depict land plotted for settlement the locations of the general land offices Indian territories county divisions towns rivers roads railroads etc. Furthermore like The Centennial Atlas the Atlas of the States and Territories over which Land Surveys have been Extended was produced for official purposes and distributed to members of Congress government agencies each land office the post office the railroads and other large entities and was not available for public distribution. The limited distribution of this atlas coupled with its large size accounts for its great rarity today; very few copies are known to be in private hands and no copies were in the famed collections of Rumsey Streeter or Graff.<br/> <br/> Phillips Atlases 1405. General Land Office [printed in New York by Julius Bien, lithographer] unknown
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iii 379 p. Occasional footnotes. H.A.S.C. No. 103-19. The subcommittee conducted hearings to assess the plan announced by President Clinton. This was not a popular policy elaboration when announced and the intervening years have not lessened the concern confusion and controversy surrounding the issue of whether acknowledged homosexual men and women should be permitted to serve in the armed forces or whether their presence would be so disruptive to unit cohesion as to pose an unacceptable risk. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1970. Paperback. Near Fine. 4 volumes: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback; green covers printed in black. Hearings began Feb. 20 and concluded June 11 1970. With: the text of H. R. 17123 as it was referred to the House Committee on Armed Services and that committee's report to the House of Representatives on April 24 1970. A detailed examination of the U.S. military expenditures near the end of American involvement in the Vietnam War. In Near Fine Condition: minor creasing to edges of covers; spines are faded; clean and solid. Government Printing Office paperback
New York: Military Book Company 1939. Hardcover. Good. iv 194 2 pages. Illustrations. Figures. Appendix. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some marks to text. The drill prescribed herein is designed for general use and may be adapted to any type of unit; therefore some of the explanation is of a general nature which gives sufficient latitude for adaptation to specific units. Chapters include topics on the soldier with and without arms drill for foot troops drill for units with animal-drawn carts or pack animals and units with motor carriers drill for motor and wagon units formations of the battalion and regiment ceremonies extended order and signals. This manual reflects the state of knowledge and the state of practice in the United States Army at the beginning of the Second World War. Military Book Company hardcover
Washington DC: United States Department of the Army 1965. Presumed First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. NOTE: This issuance is in a slightly smaller format than other copies observed. It lacks the distribution page number 133 which also contains the U.S. Government Printing Office statement. Contains the designation TAGO 5732-B. 132 4 pages. Illustrations. References. This manual supersedes FM 5-31 31 January 1956 including C 1 16 December 1957 and C 2 28 August 1959. Cover has some wear and soiling This reflects the state of the art the state of knowledge and the state of practice during a period of increasing U.S. operations during the Vietnam War. Boobytraps FM 5-31 Field Manual. Topics covered include introduction and principles of boobytraps basic doctrine planning and installation equipment firing devices demolition materials including small missile construction techniques miscellaneous boobytraps from improvised materials. Also chapter on detecting and removing boobytraps clearing and disarming methods. A booby trap is a device or setup that is intended to kill harm or surprise a person or animal unknowingly triggered by the presence or actions of the victim. As the word trap implies they sometimes have some form of bait designed to lure the victim towards it. At other times the trap is set to act upon trespassers that violate personal or restricted areas. The device can be triggered when the victim performs some type of everyday action e.g. opening a door picking something up or switching something on. They can also be triggered by vehicles driving along a road as in the case of victim-operated improvised explosive devices IEDs. Booby traps should not be confused with mantraps which are designed to catch a person. Lethal booby traps are often used in warfare particularly guerrilla warfare and traps designed to cause injury or pain are also sometimes used by criminals wanting to protect drugs or other illicit property and by some owners of legal property who wish to protect it from theft. United States, Department of the Army paperback