‎Guerre‎

‎[CHINA - RUSSIA - JAPAN - WORLD WAR II MAP] BURKE, HOWARD‎

‎Japan and Russia Will Divide China. Signs Increase That Northern Area and Lower Yangtze Basin Will be Carved Into Puppet States by Stalin and Mikado Leaving South Largely at Mercy of Both.‎

‎Los Angeles.: Los Angeles Examiner. 1940. Printed colour pictorial map on a single newspaper leaf 42.3 x 39.9 cms; 54.3 x 42.5 cms sheet archivally laid down on linen slight discoloration to lower centrefold and sheet slightly age-toned but in very good condition. A striking geopolitical map by Los Angeles Examiner artist Howard Burke covering China Japan Southern Russia and the northern part of French Indochina and Siam showing how the "Aggressors Divide China." Areas under Japanese occupation are shown in red and their naval blockade shown by an arc of naval vessels with vivid arrows indicating lines of supply. Text labels including sources of agricultural and raw materials provide a dynamic overview of the geopolitical situation and show the influence of American scientific illustrator and cartographer Richard Edes Harrison who argued for examining geographic issues from multiple perspectives and Los Angeles Times artist Charles Owens. . Los Angeles Examiner. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 209821

‎[Civil War – Confederacy] FH, Amanda F H‎

‎A Letter from Richmond Virginia September 1864 Concerning Textile and Flour Shortages‎

‎Richmond Virginia 1864. Single letter measuring 8 x 5 inches one double-sided sheet. Excellent condition. A letter written by “Cousin Amanda†of Richmond Virginia detailing the price and quality of cloth cotton spools and flour available to her late in the American Civil War. The Confederacy was under a blockade and Union forces were destroying anything deemed valuable to the Confederate cause including cotton fields and textile mills causing prices to skyrocket even for inferior goods. Amanda writes that moldy cloth was being sold for what today would be well over $200 per yard:<br /> <br /> “At some of the Jews stores today I found yard wide purple calicoes at $12 damaged with yellow spots all over them. The merchants assured they would wash out and Sue Coulling who was with me thought so too but I do not. Not one of them would give me samples to try. . Cotton is from $4 to $5 for a spool.â€<br /> <br /> Most shocking is the cost of flour; Amanda thanks her cousin for “letting us have†some flour “so cheap†as “It is $350 here and we certainly expected to pay that.†A little over a year earlier in April of 1863 an armed mob of women in Richmond had marched on the governor’s office in protest of the untenable cost of food storming and looting storehouses in what came to be known as the Richmond Bread Riot.<br /> <br /> Of interest for those studying civilian life during the American Civil War and especially textile history. unknown‎

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‎[Civil War - Jefferson Davis]‎

‎Civil War Patriotic Cover Uncle Sam sends his bird after Traitor Jeff‎

‎United States: s.i. 1860. Very Good. United States: n.d. ca. 1860s. Unused Civil War patriotic mailing envelope 7.5x14cm; upper panel adorned with a woodcut illustration printed in red. Light soil and wrinkling else a Very Good bright and unused example. <br /> <br /> Patriotic cover revisiting a popular Union theme: the unpopularity of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. The image shows a soaring eagle dangling Davis from the seat of his pants while a Black family on the ground look up at the spectacle. Davis holds a small flag with a death's head in his right hand while a word balloon coming out of his mouth reads "Oh! Lord! Let me alone." Another word balloon comes out of the woman on the ground: "You's in a bad fix sure enough! s.i. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 33426

‎Architects and Planners Against the War‎

‎Large diazotype poster "A Soldier = 5 Housing Units = 4 College Classrooms $90000 a year"‎

‎<p>Large poster executed in diazotype process with texts and images showing equivalencies in military and civilian spending. 24.5 x 33 in. Very good old central fold. Loose as issued. 1519</p><p><em>A fascinating work of graphic art produced by Architects and Planners Against the War an organization with chapters in New York and the Bay Area that sought to organize professionals in architecture and city planning against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The group has cited by architectural historian Brian D. Goldstein for its further engagement with the Black Power movement to decry so-called "urban renewal" the government-backed clearance and reconstruction of American cities in the postwar period. We cannot locate another example of the work.</em></p>‎

Référence libraire : 1519

‎Murphy, John M; Howard Michael Madaus‎

‎Confederate Rifles & Muskets. Infantry Small Arms Manufactured in the Southern Confederacy 1861-1865‎

‎Newport Beach California: Graphic Publishers 1996. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 768 pages indexed. Hardcover with a blue and red dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. There is a wrinkle on the spine of the book itself. Prior owner's signature is on the front flyleaf. The text has a slight aroma of potpourri but is unmarked. Otherwise a sound copy and clean within. Stated First edition. Illustrated throughout with photos. <br/> <br/> Graphic Publishers hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 050935 ISBN : 1882824016 9781882824014

‎Harris, Alex (Photography) Guerra, Lillian (Essay)‎

‎THE IDEA OF CUBA.‎

‎ALBUQUERQUE: NEW MEXICO. ALBUQUERQUE 1995. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. B . NEW MEXICO. ALBUQUERQUE 1995 hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 308777

‎[African Americans; Quakers; Civil War] Cromwell, William; Benjamin Tatham; William Wood; Harriet Jacobs‎

‎Report of a Committee of the Representatives of New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the Condition and Wants of the Colored Refugees.‎

‎New York: The Religious Society of Friends 1862. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Three reports from the Quakers during the Civil War on their ministry amongst the "Colored Refugees" of Virginia & Washington DC reporting on the conditions and needs at Fort Monroe Camp Barker Craney Island Alexandria Hampton Norfolk etc. Conditions are tough in the refugee camps but none wish to return to where they have fled from. "Slaves have been abandoned and we must help. Don't we owe them for our prosperity--- enjoying indirectly from the unrequited labor of these people." <br /> <br /> Encyclopedia Virginia writes on their website- "In this report dated May 1864 the Committee on Colored Refugees who were representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends gives its assessment of the needs of the formerly enslaved people escaping behind Union lines and how Quaker charity efforts were meeting them in contraband camps across Virginia including Alexandria. One of their agents Harriet Jacobs wrote her own letter documenting what she saw in Alexandria and Washington D.C. For Quakers the abolition of slavery was a moral and religious imperative."<br /> <br /> Title continues: Address of the Representatives of New-York Yearly Meeting of Friends to Its Members.; Third Report of Committee of the Representatives of New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the Condition and Wants of the Colored Refugees<br /> <br /> 1862 Report OCLC: 21308787 8vo 30pp black title on cream paper wraps saddle stitched. Clean throughout. 1862 Address OCLC: 25519700 8vo 10pp. October 24th 1862. 1864 Third Report OCLC: 25113848 cites 9 copies; 8vo 23pp May 1864 slt. marked wrapper. <br /> <br /> All in their original self wrappers overall in very good condition. The Religious Society of Friends unknown‎

Référence libraire : 27695

‎Civil War; Autograph‎

‎Cabinet Cards of Brig. General Joseph C. Breckenridge and Captain Joyce‎

‎1865. Photography. Fine condition. Breckenridge 1842 - 1920 was a Union officer from Kentucky in the Civil War; His two older brothers and cousin fought on the Confederate side. His rank during the war was 1st and 2nd Lieutenant 1862-3. In later life he became a brigadier general 1889 in the U.S. Regular Army and Inspector General of the Army as well as a major general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War. wikipedia dot com. Breckenridge is dressed in formal uniform with medals and insignia and looks off to his right. Portrait was taken by Prince with locations in New York and Washington DC. Signed by the General on verso.<br /> <br /> Captain Joyce known thus by pencil writing on verso is seated and looks to his left dressed in full uniform with medals and saber. His uniform differs from traditional Civil War ranking officer with 3 rows of buttons and soutache decoration. 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 unknown‎

Référence libraire : 28407

‎[Civil War; Hospital]‎

‎ALS letter from Civil War Turner's Lane Hospital considered the first US neurological research center‎

‎Philadelphia 1864. Letters. Very good condition. Turner's Lane Hospital was founded in 1863 and is considered the first US neurological research center. George Baxter of Battery G 1st NY Artillery writes to Capt. Ames that he has 'been droped sic from the Rolls reported a Deserter or something of that character the tenth of October 1863 consequently can get no pay. You will oblige me much by correcting the mistake or whatever it may be.' He asks for a certificate to be sent to 'Lieut. Davis at this Turners Lane Hospital.' One might wonder if Mr. Baxter was being treated at the hospital. Small note on the back page "Answered July 4th 1864".<br /> <br /> Bifold 4 7/8 x 8" manuscript on lined paper original folds. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 28546

‎The War Office‎

‎Special Weapons and Types of Warfare: Screening Smoke Signal Smoke Flame Warfare Insecticides and Insect Repellants and Special and Common User Equipment: Official History of the Second World War Army‎

‎Paperback / softback. New. paperback‎

Référence libraire : B9781783313662 ISBN : 1783313668 9781783313662

‎[Division of Customs and Insular Affairs, War Department]‎

‎Translation of The Penal Code In Force in the Philippines‎

‎Washington: Government Printing Office 1900. Hardcover. Good. Boards in three-quarter calf with brown cloth sides; two leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Boards and spine scuffed and heavily rubbed. ''Bassett / Office Attorney General'' hand-written on front cover. From the Library of the Philippine Commission as identified on leather spine label paper label on front pastedown and a few rubber-stampings. Internally generally clean except for two pages which are soiled with what looks like orange paint here there is a bit of blemished text but all words can still be parsed. 155 pages. English translation of Spain's penal code as amended by the codification commission of the Colonial Provinces designated to be published in and put into effect in the Philippine Islands in 1884. This copy belonged to Arthur Bassett 1878-1962 Assistant Attorney General for the Philippines. After earning his law degree at Washington University St. Louis he was appointed by the Philippine Commission to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Philippine Islands an office he held between 1903-1906 working with the first Attorney General Lebbeus R. Wilfley. The two had been associated back home in Missouri and in 1906 they each relocated to Shanghai when they were appointed to the United States Court in China Bassett as first district attorney and Wilfley as a judge. Bassett followed this with a short stint working as counsel for the British-Amerina Tobacco Co. in Shanghai. Upon the U.S.'s entry into the First World War he joined the Army and served as judge advocate general in North China 1917-1919 with the rank of major. Between the World Wars he was chairman of the Red Cross Committee in China. Bassett the ''old China hand'' returned to the United States in 1941 and settled in San Francisco. Government Printing Office hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 014744

‎Various‎

‎Collector's Library of the Civil War 20 Volumes 1984‎

‎<p>The Collector's Library of the Civil War 20 Volumes Publisher-Printing Location: New York Time Life Date: 1981 to 1984 Size and Page Count: 5.5 X 8.5 Condition:-Fine-Like New- Leather Bound Bound in dark blue leather with marbled endpapers gilt titling on the spines and the front boards; embossed scene on the front panel. All edges gilt. Red ribbon markers are sewn in. <br /><br />Included on each volume is bookplate and the publisher's notes summarizing the author's career and the book's contents on a two-sided sheet. Embossed private library stamp on end page. Illustrations Information: frontispiece on each volume assorted illustrations in volumes -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector researcher or historian --------- <br /><br />Articles and Information: The Time Life Collector's Library of the Civil War Series contained 30 volumes. They were published in the 1980s and sold via book club subscription. Each book is a reprint of an original first hand account of the war. They are magnificently bound in dark blue leather with gold stampings and gold gild on the edges. The books are no longer being produced. The following 20 volumes are in this set for sale. Battlefields of the South An English Combatant. Army Memoirs Barber Lucius The Citizen Soldier Beatty Hardtack and Coffee Billings In and Out of Rebel Prisons Cooper Four Years in Rebel Capitals De Leon Three Months in the Southern States Fremantle Army Life in a Black Regiment Higginson War From The Inside Hitchcock Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman Kidd Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life McCarthy A Soldier's Recollections McKim Randolph Harrison Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Moore Campaigning With Grant Porter Gen. Horace Richmond During The War Putnam Three Years in the Sixth Corps Stevens Story of a Common Soldier Stillwell Campaign of a Noncombatant Townsend Life in the Confederate Army Watson The Narrative of a Blockade Runner Wilkinson</p> Time Life‎

Référence libraire : 398

‎(CIVIL WAR -- HISTORIANS)‎

‎Document Signed‎

‎Printed DS 4pp rectos only 8½" X 14" New York NY 1955 November 11. Very good. Bit of edgewear minor folds and light age toning to top and bottom pages only; staple holes at upper left. Mimeographed press release captioned "Formation of Civil War Centennial Association Announced Before Meeting of the Southern Historical Association" boldly signed in ink on the verso of the last page by eleven noted Civil War historians eight of them directors named in the text; after their signatures each also adds their city and state. In order: Robert S. Henry 1889-1979 popular Civil War writer Robert L. Kincaid 1893-1960 president of Lincoln Memorial University Bell I. Wiley 1906-80 prolific Civil War scholar Bruce Catton 1899-1978 Pulitzer prize-winning Civil War historian Benjamin P. Thomas 1902-56 Lincoln biographer Ezra J. Warner 1910-74 Civil War author Joseph T. Durkin 1903-2003 Civil War historian and author E.B. Long 1919-81 Civil War historian Christopher Crittenden 1902-69 North Carolina historian editor and archivist Rex B. Magee 1888-1965 noted Civil War scholar and collector and Paul B. Freeland 1904-76 Presbyterian pastor and historian. These were no doubt gathered by Ralph G. Newman 1911-98 founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop who is mentioned in its text as a member of the association's board of directors; at top of the first page he pencils "Keep" and "autographed on back page." An unusual assemblage a veritable "Who's Who" of Civil War writers. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 51307

‎War, Crimean‎

‎Remarks On The Providence Of God In The Present War By An Officer‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 102492369X.G ISBN : 102492369X 9781024923698

‎War Department‎

‎German 105-mm Howitzer Materiel: War Department Technical Manual: TM E9-325A‎

‎USA: War Department 1944. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo. pp.218.stamped on front cover file copy War Department paperback‎

Référence libraire : 326516

‎Archibald Forbes (1838-1900), British war correspondent, born in Scotland [Henry S King & Co, 65 Cornhill, London publishers]:‎

‎Manuscript receipt signed 'Arch Forbes' by the war correspondent Archibald Forbes for £50 from the London publishers Henry S. King & Co. for the right to publish an edition of 1000 copies of his 'Soldiering and Scribbling'.‎

‎Place not stated. 27 June 1872. 1p. landscape 12mo. In good condition on aged paper. Signed by Forbes over a purple one penny Inland Revenue stamp. Reads: '£50 : 0 : 0 27th. June 1872. Received of Messrs: Henry S. King & Co. of 65 Cornhill London the sum of Fifty Pounds in payment for the right to publish an edition of 1000 copies of "Soldiering and Scribbling" signed Arch Forbes'. The book was published by the firm in the same year as the receipt. Place not stated. 27 June 1872. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 12215

‎military intelligence division war department‎

‎JAPANESE INFANTRY WEAPONS special series no.19‎

‎military intelligence division 1943 soft cover in very good conditionnamerank adm3/L oat top of first blank pagesome creases at cornersspine and lettering on cover are in very sharp condition. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. military intelligence division paperback‎

Référence libraire : 32272

‎Michihiko Hachiya; translator and editor War‎

‎HIROSHIMA DIARY The Journal of a Japanese Physician August 6S‎

‎UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Owner inscription on front free-endpaper. Mapped endpapers. Binding tight and straight inner pages clean and unmarked. Dust Jacket is flap-intact 1.5" Triangular tear to front cover now protected within mylar cover.; 238 pages . UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 67119

‎Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), British Prime Minister [as Secretary at War]:‎

‎Printed 'WARRANT. To the Agent for FOREIGN CORPS.' filled in for payment to Ripking and signed by Palmerston.‎

‎28 January 1813; War Office London. Printed on one side of a piece of paper 23.5 x 17.5 cm. In fair condition on aged paper. Laid down on a gilt-edged leaf from an autograph album 24 x 18.5 cm. Firm bold signature 'Palmerston' 6 cm long in bottom right-hand corner. Authorising the payment of £24 15s 9d to 'Mr. George Ripking Assistant Surgeon of the Third Regiment of Hussars of The King's German Legion . being the approved Balance due to him for the Contingent Hospital Expenses of the said Corps from the 21st. June to the 24th. December 1812 both days inclusive'. 28 January 1813; War Office, London. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 8870

‎Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804), friend of George Washington, loyalist in the American War of Independence, clergyman and author [T‎

‎War of Independence; Washington Autograph Letter Signed 'Jonan. Boucher' from George Washington's friend Rev. Jonathan Boucher to T. Norton of Baston bearing Boucher's red wax seal.‎

‎29 March 1802; Epsom. 4to 3 pp. In a bifolium. 52 lines of neatly-written text. Clear and complete. Very good on lightly-aged and creased paper. Part of the second leaf has been cut away on the breaking open of the letter and is now under the seal with no loss of text. The seal is cracked with a light imprint of Boucher's monogram beneath a jester's head. The letter concerns the enclosure of the Langtoft Estate and 'Mr. Bankes' who 'never had any Legal Right to interfere in the Business'. Norton's last letter has made Boucher 'very uneasy' as he declines 'to have any more to do with my unfortunate Concerns in your Neighbourhood'. 'Whatever may have been the Case with You I have been too long blind but my Eyes have now been opened.' Declares himself pleased with 'Mr. Gee who appears to be a plain well-disposed honest Man: & notwithstanding Mrs. Banks's Insinuations to the Contrary I do assure You when I fairly put the Question He honestly said if He might chuse Mr. Norton was the Man whom above all others He should like & did wish to be my Agent.' Tells him not to 'send in your Accts. till the whole of the Buildings is compleated'. See Image. 29 March 1802; Epsom. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 9491

‎[Major-General Samuel Irwin Townsend (1732-1794), 19th Foot; American War of Independence; King George III'; William Pitt the Yo‎

‎American War of Independence Copy MS. 'King's Warrant' declaring ' . Townsend discharged from further accounting for the Sum of £17464. 14. 8 received by him for Recruiting Service from the end of the year 1778 to 24th. June 1786.'‎

‎'Given at Our Court at Saint James's this First day of May 1787 in the Twenty Seventh Year of Our Reign.'. Folio 2 pp. On first leaf of bifolium with the verso of the second leaf docketed under the heading 'King's Warrant'. Text clear and complete. Fair on aged paper. Headed 'Copy' and with 'George R' in a bold hand in the top left-hand corner. Although the signature is almost certainly not in the hand of the king the document is docketed in pencil: 'Signature of his late beloved Majesty King George III on Copy of a Warrant retained by General Saml. Townsend'. Begins in another hand: 'Whereas We are given to understand that our Trusty and Well beloved Major General Samuel Townsend Inspector General of the Recruiting Service is set insuper in the Account of Our Right Trusty and Well beloved Counseller Richard Rigby late Paymaster General of Our Forces for the Sum of Seventeen Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Four Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eight Pence being Money Imprested to him for carrying on the above Service from the end of the year 1778 to the 24th. day of June 1786 .'. The document records that the original was signed by Pitt Eliot and Aubrey as 'Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts' 'the Commissioners having recommended unto Us to discharge Major General Samuel Townsend from rendering any further Account of the same'. 'Given at Our Court at Saint James's this First day of May 1787 in the Twenty Seventh Year of Our Reign.' unknown‎

Référence libraire : 10790

‎[Crimean War Broadside]‎

‎News for Country Friends‎

‎Nottingham: Thomas Stevenson Printed broadside approximately 245mm x 375mm in size in three columns n.d. but 1855. Laid on tissue tiny amount of loss to bottom right hand corner date in pencil May 30th 1855 to foot lightly browned otherwise fairly clean. Relating the latest news from the Crimean War with the fall of Kertch details of the losses of both sides and the weather. Printed by Thomas Stevenson of Wheeler-Gate Nottingham. Not found in Library Hub. First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. Thomas Stevenson Paperback‎

Référence libraire : 004865

‎Robert T Lincoln (Secretary of War) and FH Parker F H‎

‎Letter from the Secretary of War Transmitting Report of "Tests of iron and steel and other materials for industrial purposes" by Maj. F. H. Parker commanding the Watertown Arsenal‎

‎1884. Hardcover. Good. Book is in good condition. The front board is fully cracked from the spine but still tethered together fully. Leather spine. 507pp. Fold out charts. Please reach out with any questions! hardcover‎

Référence libraire : Lib1625BC3mh

‎Secretary of War‎

‎Official Army Register For 1868 1868‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Référence libraire : 1164955551.G ISBN : 1164955551 9781164955559

‎George III [War with France]:‎

‎George III Clipped signature with a few important surviving lines of text.‎

‎n.d.1793. A bold signature on surviving part of a document which retains the beginning words as follows: "George R/ These are to Authorize you by beat of Drum or otherwise to raise so many Volunteers in any County within that part of Our United Kingdom of Great ." rest missing. This appears to be the surviving fragment of a significant document by which a militia was raised to counter the threat of France who declared war in 1793. SEE IMAGE. n.d.[1793] unknown‎

Référence libraire : 1045