‎Guerre‎

‎War of 1812‎

‎Report of the Committee of Ways and Means on so much of the President's message as relates to the finances of the United States. October 10 1814. Read and referred to a committee of the whole House on Thursday next‎

‎Washington D.C.: Printed by Roger C. Weightman 1814. First edition. Removed. A very good copy dampstain on top edge light soiling on margins. 8 pp. 8vo. Contains an estimate of the amount of the proposed 50 per cent tax increase and of the new duties in order to offset the cost of the war. Line items in addition to direct taxes distilled spirits tobacco leather lotteries and more all of which would amount to additional revenue of an extra $10 million for 1815. American Imprints 33437. Printed by Roger C. Weightman unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 37592

‎Civil War Ephemera. Davis Jefferson 1808 1889‎

‎ELECTION BALLOT. For President Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. For Vice-President Alex. H. Stephens of Georgia.; Virginia Electorial Ticket for the State at Large‎

‎n. p. 1861. 1st printing presumed. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Upper left tip lacking. Small stain to center of ballot. A faintly penciled name "Hugh Kev " Very Good. Single sheet leaflet of flimsy blue paper printed recto only. 27 lines of printed text with the bottom 16 listing candidates for the divers state districts. 5-1/16" x 4-1/16" <br/><br/>Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederacy February 18 1861 with Alexander H. Stephens chosen as his Vice President. A rare bit of ephemera documenting the 4 year succession attempt by the southern states. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 46826

‎REVOLUTIONARY WAR‎

‎Massachusetts Militia Pay Petition Listing 27 Minutemen Who Responded to the Lexington Alarm‎

‎<p>A scarce petition for pay listing 44 members of Captain Luke Drury's Company 27 of whom were Grafton Massachusetts-area Minutemen who had marched 36 miles to respond to the Lexington-Concord Alarm on April 19-21 1775. The list includes Fortune Burnee a Minuteman of African American and Native American heritage and his half-brother Joseph Anthony who enlisted on April 29th and died in service. Another of the Minutemen listed is the famous clockmaker Aaron Willard.</p> <b>REVOLUTIONARY WAR.</b>Manuscript Document Dorchester Massachusetts December 30th 1775 addressed to Massachusetts Treasurer Henry Gardner. 1p. 8 x 13 in. Likely Drury's retained copy from the time with the signatures all in one hand though some may be signed with marks & Jonathan Hemenway has signed himself.<p>Petition<i> "to pay Capt Luke Drury the Whole of our Wages as born on his Muster roll for our Services as Officers & Soldiers in his Company from the time of our inlistment to the first Day of August for which this shall be your effectual voucher." </i></p><p>Today the terms <i>minuteman </i>and <i>militiaman</i>are often used interchangeably but there was a distinction in the eighteenth century. Militia were men in arms formed to protect their towns from foreign invasion. They could designate up to one quarter of their force as minutemen a specially trained force required to be highly mobile and able to assemble instantly to a call to arms. It is difficult to categorize specific men into either of the two groups based on the surviving historical record. We apply the term here to all of those militia who responded April 19-21 1775 to the Lexington-Concord Alarm. </p><p>The 27 soldiers and officers listed here who were part of Luke Drury's Grafton Aaron Kimball's Grafton & John Putnam's Sutton April 19-21 Minutemen companies are: 1st Lt. Asaph Sherman Sgt. Nathan Morse Sgt. Shelomith Stow Sgt. Ebenezer Phillips Sgt. Jonah Goulding Cpl. William Walker Cpl. Joseph Leland Drummer Elijah Rice Fifer Zadock Putnam Matthias Rice Isaac Brigham Eliphalet Smith George Smith Peter Butler Thomas Pratt William Evans Elisha Aldrich Aaron Willard Eseck Dexter Moses Sherman Fortinatus Fortune Burnee signed with mark Edward Buttrick Ebenezer Leland Solomon Brooks Ebenezer Melendy Thomas Leland Sr. & Samuel Stearns.</p><p><b>Luke Drury</b>1734-1811 of Grafton Massachusetts joined the militia in 1757 during the French and Indian Wars. As captain of a company of Minutemen and Militamen he responded to the Lexington Alarm and later joined Colonel Jonathan Ward's regiment to fight at Bunker Hill. Drury and his men served in different areas during the war from West Point to Grafton where his company guarded military stores. He also supported the Continentals financially at one point giving £50 fifty pounds to enlist soldiers in Grafton.</p><p>In 1786-1787 Drury became deeply involved in Shays' Rebellion a tax revolt led by farmers in western Massachusetts. The uprising was quashed and Drury imprisoned as "a person dangerous to the state." He was eventually released on good behavior. Drury remained active in state and local politics serving terms as constable deputy sheriff tax collector assessor selectman and state legislator.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Usual folds small loss at bottom left corner affecting some marginal ciphering else fine condition.</p><p><b>Joseph Anthony</b> and <b>Fortune Burnee Jr.</b> half brothers were both part African-American and Hassanamisco Nipmuc Native American. Compared to records of white New Englanders we know relatively little about them but even so more information exists on these freedmen than is the norm. Several of the Anthonys and Burnees were recorded in the Grafton vital land and probates records the U.S. census neglected to record Native Americans from 1790-1890 and the Burnees have been discussed in recent historical and sociological literature: exploring the relationships both amongst marginalized peoples as well as with their white Yankee neighbors in eighteenth century New England; the definitions of race and identity; social mobility; Indian and black cultures; gender roles; Anglo-Nipmuc land dealings; and the remarkable preservation and history of an 190-acre tract of land in Grafton known as Hassanamesit Woods which is the site of a seventeenth-century "praying Indian" village with Nipmuc habitations that clung on into the mid-nineteenth century.</p><p><b>Joseph Anthony</b>was born in Grafton on December 24 1753 son of Joseph/William Anthony "Negro" and Abigail Printer Abraham "Indian." According to a Nipmuc leader and genealogist Anthony's ancestors include Hassanamisco Nipmuc Chief Anaweakin second in command in King Philip's War in 1675-6; along with Philip/Metacom Anaweakin was killed and his children sold into slavery; his father Noas Sachem of Hassanamesit forced into exile at the same time and died at Deer Island in Boston Harbor; and Nanapashemet Great Sagamore of the Massachuset Federation who was killed in battle in 1619 at Rock Hill Medford the year before Massachusetts was colonized by the English.</p><p>In 1728 seven Indian "Planters" or householders and 33 English re-divided the land at Hassanamesit to incorporate the town of Grafton. In 1739 Abigail Printer married Andrew Abraham Jr. "Indian Planter." Based on Abigail Printer's surname and the very small population left at Hassanamesit in the 1700s it is believed that she is a descendant of Rev. John Eliot's notable contemporary James Printer a Harvard student in 1645-46 who worked for Samuel Green printing Eliot's famous "Indian Bible" in 1663. Abigail and Andrew had three sons before he died in August 1746 after returning from service in the Port Royal Campaign.</p><p>Abigail married second November 14 1752 Joseph/William Anthony. Little is known of him other than his listing in town records as a "Negro." It appears he died circa 1756. Their son the signer of this document <b>Joseph Anthony</b> married Lydia Mercy Johnson. He enlisted in the army April 29 1775 and was reported missing July 6 1777 probably at the Battle of Ticonderoga and dead December 26 1777 possibly a prisoner of war on board an infamous New York City British prison ship. At the time he was a private in Capt. Blanchard's Company of Col. James Wesson's 9th Massachusetts Regiment.</p><p><b>Fortune Burnee Jr.</b> Grafton records spell his name a number of different ways. Dr. David R. Mandell believes there was one man of that name but we find that Electa Kane Tritsch's postulation that there was a father and a son of the same name makes more sense. Abigail again a widow married a third time January 27 1757 to Fortune Burnee Sr. described as "Negro" a veteran of one or more expeditions to Canada during the French and Indian War and widower of another Hassanamisco Sarah Muckamaug Whipple. Mandell writes that Burnee had changed his first name from William to Fortune based on his good luck but does not cite the source or anecdote: Fortune seems more likely a given slave name. He also claims that Burnee abandoned his first wife Sarah before her death but Tritsch has found no evidence for this: that statement may have been compounded with Sarah's first husband Aaron Whipple of Providence Rhode Island. It is thought that Burnee Sr. died about 1771. If so his son <b>Fortune Burnee Jr</b>. is the man who served under Capt. Luke Drury. It is as yet unknown if he is the son of Fortune Burnee Sr.'s second wife Abigail Printer Abraham Anthony Burnee who died in 1776 or his first wife Sarah Muckamaug Whipple Burnee who died in 1751 thus he is either Anthony's younger half-brother or older step-brother. It is interesting to observe that Burnee signs another Drury document with a mark while Anthony was capable of signing in full – whether that hints that Anthony was the younger brother with less responsibilities on the homestead and more opportunity for education is mere speculation. However Tritsch probably by process of elimination finding that Fortune Burnee Jr. does not appear in Sarah's estate papers assigns him as the younger a son of Abigail and half-brother of Joseph Anthony. Fortune Burnee Jr. marched on April 21 1775 in response to the Lexington-Concord Alarm. Marriage records then show that Fortune Burnee Jr. married July 31 1778 "Phylis…negro servant of Rev. Mr. Frost…of Mendon both are listed as "Negroes" and then November 8 1781 Sarah Hector of Sutton again both are listed as "Negroes". He died in 1795.</p><p>Without going into the complex history of Hassanamesit and the Hassanimisco praying Indians Reverend Ezra Stiles's 1761 impressions of the settlement are notable: "At Grafton…I saw the Burying place & Graves of 60 or more Indians. Now not a Male Ind. in Town & perh. 5 Squaws who marry Negroes." By 1770 the town selectmen reported "that there is but one male Indian left" – this man was in fact one of Sarah Muckamaug Whipple's bi-racial children Joseph Aaron. 87 years earlier in 1674 Daniel Gookin had noted that the Indian village had contained twelve families perhaps sixty souls – King Philip's War of 1675-76 and its lingering years of conflict played a major part in this population displacement and decrease.</p><p><b>African Americans & Native Americans in the American Revolution</b></p><p>Of the estimated 100000 men who served in the Continental Army at least 5000 were black. Most black soldiers fought in integrated units as in Massachusetts; some states like Rhode Island had segregated regiments while Connecticut seems to have had both segregated and integrated. Both enslaved and free African-Americans served in the army as soldiers laborers and servants. In some cases slaves were offered freedom for their services as soldiers though others remained enslaved fighting in place of their masters. Many states had been reluctant to arm the black population but had no other countermove to the British Lord Dunmore's offer of freedom to Southern black enlistees. A significant number of colonial blacks at this time were also partly of Native American ancestry – to take once state Massachusetts's eighteenth-century Indian population had two females to one male while the majority of the imported African slave laborers were male. Those figures coupled with their removal to neighboring outskirts of colonial society as well as the enslavement of many Indians in New England after King Philip's War did much to comingle the two ethnic groups.</p> books‎

Référence libraire : 20781.03

‎Mailer Norman‎

‎THE NAKED AND THE DEAD‎

‎NY: Rinehart & Co. Fascimile edition printed from Rinehart's first printing sheets Originally published by Rinehart in 1948. Not the First Edition Library edition: no FEL identification printed on the copyright page or rear panel of the dustjacket. Faithful reproduction of the original edition but for lack of the printed price on the front dustjacket flap. Probably issued in the 1990's. Signed by Mailer on the half-title page. Few text pages with foreedge wrinkles; an unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Mailer first novel. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rinehart & Co. Hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 71022

‎WORLD WAR II ARTZYBASHEFF Boris‎

‎Axis in Agony! Presenting a Series of Caricatures from the Brush of Boris Artzybasheff‎

‎New York: Wickwire Spencer Steel Company 1944. First Edition. Oblong octavo 14cm x 19cm; black and white printed wrappers stapled; 48pp; chiefly illus. A few tiny stains to rear wrapper else very Near Fine. <br/><br/>A corporate paean to the end of the Axis powers reproducing 23 caricatures by Boris Artzybasheff painted expressly for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company a prominent steel manufacturer during the first half of the 20th century. Artzybasheff cleverly incorporated a different Wickwire Spencer product into each of the caricatures turning the volume into both a catalog for the company as well as a propaganda tool for distribution. Scarce with OCLC showing 10 holdings in member institutions. Wickwire Spencer Steel Company unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 47251

‎Americana Civil War Sherman William Tecumseh et al.‎

‎REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE‎

‎Cincinnati: Published by the Society 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 33 volumes in 17: I-XVI XXV-XLI. Various paginations with frontispieces most color engravings photographs and folding maps. Octavo seventeen volumes. Original green cloth bindings with beveled edges and decorative gilt and blind stamping. Some creasing to the folding maps. Light staining to the front board of the second volume with minor mottling to some volumes; otherwise very good overall. Formed in late 1861 the Army of the Tennessee was a Union army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War named for the Tennessee River and not to be confused with the similarly named Confederate force. Initially under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant in the Union's District of West Tennessee the army survived a severe test at the Battle of Shiloh and played an important role in both the Siege of Corinth and Battle of Vicksburg. Later under William Tecumseh Sherman James McPherson Oliver Howard and John Logan it marched and fought from the Chattanooga Campaign through the Relief of Knoxville the Meridian Campaign the Atlanta Campaign the March to the Sea the Carolinas Campaign and to the end of the war and disbandment. The preliminary meeting for the formation of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee was held in the senate chamber at the state capitol in Raleigh North Carolina on April 14 1865. Membership was restricted to officers who has served with the Army of the Tennessee with Sherman serving as President from 1869 to 1884. This partial record includes transcripts of the speeches and statements of prominent members and guests reminiscences of the war remembrances of the recently deceased a detailed account of the proceedings and information on the society's philanthropic efforts which included the erection of statues and monuments in Washington D.C. Published by the Society hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 71066

‎Rand McNally & Company‎

‎Rand-McNally War Map of the Italian Front Northern Section: A Strategic Map of the Battle Ground in Northern Italy Swiss Border to Adriatic Sea Showing the Farthest Advance of the Italians and the Battle Line in 1917 Compiled from the Latest Military Maps of the Army Staffs in Washington London Paris and Rome and from Other Official Sources Showing in Minute Detail the Cities Towns and Villages Forts and Fortified Places Railroads and Highways Rivers and Canals and the Physical and Political Features of the Regions Five Great Military Maps of the Western Front in Europe No. 5‎

‎Rand McNally & Company 1917. Soft Cover. Very Good. Crease on front wrapper. 1917 Soft Cover. Large color fold-out map providing details of troop positions during World War I. The last in a series of five ostensibly published to bolster support for the war effort on the home front. Rand McNally & Company paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 2159327

‎United States War Department‎

‎REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-4. Volumes I II and III.‎

‎Washington: Beverly Tucker printer 1855. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Volumes I II and III. Vol. I: viii 651 pages of text. Original brown cloth binding is heavily worn with spine neatly detached at the front hinge and bumping to corners. Vol. II: iv 128 pages; 132 pages; 185 pages; ii 50 pages; 28 pages; 22 pages. Leather spine is moderately darkened and shelfworn remaining intact and attractive. Vol. II contains 13 tinted plates 24 black & white plates a folding geographical map and a folding geographical section chart. Vol. III: iv 36 pages; viii 136 pages; 77 pages; ii 127 pages; xii 175 pages of text. Vol. III contains 23 tinted plates 10 black & white plates a folding geographical map and two folding geographical sections charts. Each volume has a small label at the bottom of the spine and a seminary bookplate on the inside front cover with no additional markings. Several of the plates in volume II are foxed and/or toned while the plates in volume III are quite clean with only minor foxing here and there. Beverly Tucker, printer Hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 016494

‎CIVIL WAR Philip F. Brown‎

‎REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR OF 1861-1865‎

‎Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson 1917. Second Printing. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Signed. Roberston writing in the Nevins Bibliography notes that "The bulk of these recollections treat of the author's experiences while a clerk in a Richmond hotel; his prior service as a soldier ended with a wound at Antietam". First printed in Roanoke in 1912 this Richmond edition was 5 years later -- both are uncommon. This copy is signed by "the Author" with a personal inscription to Rev. J. Murray Taylor. The front panel has scattered silverfishing. It has a an indentation as to the first few leaves that does not actually puncture the paper. Nevins I 64. Very Good binding. Whittet and Shepperson unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 276187

‎U. S. Secretary of War‎

‎Shipping troops to and from the Philippines etc. Letter from the Secretary of War in response to the Senate of May 23 1900 a letter from the quartermaster-general relative to the cost of shipping troops and supplies for the army to and from the Philip‎

‎Washington D.C: Government Printing Office 1900. Book. Very good- condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. Spanish-American War; Philippines; 7 pages; 22.3cm; disbound; U. S. Senate document #439.Very minor discoloration at the bottom edge about an eighth of an inch. Government Printing Office Paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 014630

‎Roland Gaul; These two new volumes offer new insights into the events of one of the fiercest battles of World War II. Volume II‎

‎The Battle of the Bulge in Luxembourg: The Southern Flank - Dec. 1944 - Jan. 1945 Vol.II The Americans The Americans Vol 2‎

‎Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2004-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 186362 ISBN : 0887407471 9780887407475

‎Civil War Connecticut‎

‎Dedication of the Monument at Andersonville Georgia October 23 1907 in Memory of the Men of Connecticut Who Suffered in Southern Military Prisons 1861-1865‎

‎Hartford: Published by the State Connnecticut 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good . The actual original edition published in 1908 large 8vo blue ribbed cloth gilt-pressed titles and vignette to front and titles to spine. Two frontispieces of sepia photographs of the Union soldier sculpture monument one of his face in close-up separated by tissue guard. 73pp. Laid-in is printed card "Compliments of the State of Connecticut. Library stamp of CT town on pastedown but no other library markings. Published by the State (Connnecticut) hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 011404

‎Americana 19th Century Civil War Shipping Customs Duties Immigration‎

‎1862 Port of Philadelphia Manuscript & Printed Bill of Lading Entry of Merchandise Customs Duties for the Ship Wyoming from Liverpool for a Cargo of Bicarbonate Of Soda & Ash Imported By Yarnall & Trimble with Attached Additional Shipping Documents‎

‎Philadelphia PA: Not Published 1862. Bill of lading & Entry of Merchandise form completed in manuscript. Dated 24 May 1862 for the ship Wyoming; Burton master; sailing from Liverpool; bringing in a cargo of bicarbonate and soda ash in various casks. The goods were imported by Yarnall & Trimble and are listed in the packages and contents section of the form. The quantities are calculated for customs duties and signed by the agents in charge in manuscript. The reverse with the District and Port of Philadelphia bill of lading affirmation printed information not filled-in and with receipted note of duties paid on the blank panel at the bottom of the sheet. Form with a small woodcut sailing ship at upper left corner printed and sold by John C. Clark & Son 230 Dock Street Philadelphia. Approx. 11" x 16 3/4" size; old fold lines little nicks closed edge-tears to the paper edges edge-soiling; overall in good condition. with Two approx. 6" x 11" attached documents from the consignors sending the soda ash from Liverpool both documents signed by the master Wm. Burton and with the details of the cargo; these additional documents are affixed at top left corner to the Entry form with a metal grommet; smaller document with old edge-stain. Interesting American Civil War era maritime trade business shipping & customs imports history ephemera. We note that the Wyoming was also an immigrant ship; the National Archives and Records Administration Film M425 Reel 85. Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild has a list of hundreds of passengers noted as on this voyage along with a transcription of Wm. Burton's affidavit of the manifest. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 25352

‎War Department.‎

‎Signal Corps Field Manual: Mission Functions and Signal Communication in General. FM 11-5.‎

‎Washington.: Government Printing Office. 1940. Softcover printed wraps. . Small dampstain to foredge otherwisel very good. . 12mo. Government Printing Office. paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 133711

‎Donahue Arthur Gerald‎

‎Tally-Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire‎

‎The Macmillan Company 1941. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 2nd printing. Spine a bit faded minimal loss form top jacket edge jacket price clipped. The Macmillan Company hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 2193259

‎World War I‎

‎The Reception of Wounded Prisoner Soldiers of Great Britian in Switzerland‎

‎London: Jas. Truscott & Son. Very Good. 1916. Softcover. Very light soil and fading to wraps library stamp pages 8 else . Jas. Truscott & Son paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 14280

‎Jones James‎

‎FROM HERE TO ETERNITY‎

‎NY: Scribner 1951. First edition first prnt. Signed by Jones on the title page. Lightly bumped upper board corners and a tiny soil scuff on the bottom edge; the dustjacket has two small chips on the spine topedge minimal wear at the spine bottom edge and touched corners and beginning toning on the flap edges. Tight bright and clean copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Jones' first novel. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Scribner Hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 80667

‎Committee on Public Information Division of Women's War Work‎

‎WWI Propaganda Archive of approximately 450 press releases from the Creel Committee also known as Committee on Public Information Division of Women's War Work‎

‎Washington D.C.: Committee on Public Information Division of Women's War Work 1918. Approximately 450 mostly mimeographed press releases spanning from February 1918 until July that same year many of which are 8.5" x 11" or 14" others of which are newspaper column-size 3" x 21" or varying lengths. Three groupings of the releases are claspbound the rest are loose. Includes Bulletins Nos. 1 & 2 both printed in January 1918 by the Government Printing Office folded in half vertically with reply card. Includes a TLS from Guy Stanton Ford Director of Civic and Educational Publications later President of the University of Minnesota to the President of Rice University. Very Good overall lightly toned with age a little chipped along edges folded horizontally two or three sheets torn in half.<br /> <br /> <p>A collection of pieces attempting to mobilize domestic support for the US in World War I issued by the women's division of the Creel Committee an independent agency in the Wilson administration. The Creel Committee attempted an unprecedented full court press of propaganda aiming to reach every stratum of American society. Many a budding public relations figure cut his teeth in the agency including Edward Bernays and Carl R. Byoir. The particular division from which all these pieces were issued focused on American women: variously promoting the work of journalist Ida Tarbell and the YWCA soliciting women to become Morse code telegraphers spreading anti-German and pro-Ally stories trying to get women of any number of religious denominations or ethnic groups to directly contribute to the war effort. This archive illuminates how American war propagandists saw women at the twilight of WWI. Specifically it reveals how civic participation technology military service and information theory were gendered in mass society-- or at least as observed and molded in that society by a particular body of elites. Committee on Public Information, Division of Women's War Work unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 140941439

‎Americana Anti War WWI‎

‎Conscription and the "Conscientious Objector" to War Facts Regarding Exemptions from Military Service Under the Conscription Act‎

‎Washington D.C: The American Union Against Militarism 1917. 13 pages; Chairman of the Union was Lillian D. Wald 1867 - 1940 the organization ".which fought against preparedness and for a peaceful solution to international disputes." ANB; the pamphlet giving pointers on how the law will operate advice to objectors legal aid constitutionality; with references; approx. 6" x 9" size; stapled printed paper self-wraps; light wear dustiness; old discoloration at very bottom edge; in very good condition and interesting early 20th century anti-war pacifist ephemera. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The American Union Against Militarism Paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 22167

‎ABRAHAM LINCOLN‎

‎The Gettysburg Address‎

‎<p><i>Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldier's National Cemetery Together with the Accompanying Documents as Reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania March 31 1864.</i></p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Book. Includes a foldout map of the planned cemetery and a copy of Lincoln's dedication. Published in Harrisburg 1864. Fair condition. <br /> hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 21371

‎War Department.‎

‎Engineer Field Manual: Engineer Troops.‎

‎Washington DC.: Government Printing Office. 1943. Tan printed stiff wraps. . Very good. 17x11 cm. . Uncommon WWII era field manual. weight: 0.3 lb. Government Printing Office. paperback books‎

Référence libraire : 133738

‎Scrapbook World War I‎

‎World War I Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings‎

‎Hardcover. Very Good. Thick scrapbook. 85 leaves with clippings on both sides. Most of the newspaper articles are from the New York Times. The photographic reproductions from other sources magazines. Included as examples: Belgians shooting a spy at sunrise various battle scenes etc. Neatly and carefully assembled compilation. 1914-1916. The red scrapbook lettered "Book Shelf Scrap Book" on front cover is copyrighted 1931 The Educational Press. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : LD16688

‎US. Navy; maritime; African Americana; Civil War era U. S.‎

‎Civil War Era Navy Ship Ledger documenting all activity and details about the 614 men aboard including six African-American sailors enlisted with the Union‎

‎1860s. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth morocco backstrip; folio 400x260mm; approx. pp. 100 full of manuscript entries by a single hand with permanent instructions and headings in ink and crew member names and station designations in pencil; numerous additional blanks at rear. Nonetheless a trove of information. Lined paper listing the 614 men aboard assigning each a number gun and location Fore Castle Port Main Top Mizzen Top etc.; listing division and stations; and recording details of every situation that might occur on the ship see examples below. The ship is unnamed but it appears to be a ship of the Line or a Frigate which had 3 masts as well as some minimal amount of steam power. There were 6 African-American members of the crew all of whom were Union Sailors during the Civil War Edward Turner Joseph Davis and Thomas Mills from Maryland; Henry Andres from the West Indies; Joseph Gordan from New York; Samuel R. Whittaker from Buenos Aires. Three of these men served on the USS Minnesota which may help identify the ship. Also includes the ship's Fire Bill crew member stations of Making Sail from Single Anchor Mooring and Unmooring and much more. A rich volume worthy of further study. Cloth torn; front hinge cracked; first few signatures loose. Alittle faint waterstaining and soiling but generally nice and clean. <br/><br/> hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : D13030

‎War Department Library United States. Greely A. W.‎

‎Finding List of Military Biographies and other Personal Literature in the War Department Library Subject Catalogue No. 4‎

‎Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1897. First edition. Three quarter calf over marbled boards with morocco title piece lettered in gilt. Front joint tender spine and corners rubbed else a very good copy some edgewear and sunning. vii 93 pp. 8vo. David Fitz Gerald Librarian. OCLC shows only 9 copies. A second edition was published two years later. Government Printing Office hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 32807

‎Texas. World War I‎

‎Birds Eye View of Camp Travis. San Antonio Texas. Oct. 1917‎

‎San Antonio 1917. Very good. Large panoramic photograph 8 x 92 inches. Rolled. Minor wear at edges with one very short closed tear at top edge. Light blemish in negative at center of image. Light dust soiling and toning. An outstanding and extremely long panoramic photograph measuring well over 7.5 feet in length that depicts Camp Travis in San Antonio following its recent opening. Although the camp was open and housing an entire division-in-training at the time of this image the camp was still under construction as evidenced by the organized piles of lumber at the far right of the image and the incomplete barracks building in the center foreground. The panorama nevertheless gives a sense of the scope and size of the training camp with barracks and outbuildings stretching almost as far as the eye can see in the center and left sections of the photograph. Structures are more sparse in the right-hand side of the image both because they as yet unbuilt and because some of the training fields were located in this part of the camp. The photographers Mayhart Studio of Chicago were responsible for a number of military and patriotic views during the United States' involvement in the Great War including the well-known "Living Flag" image of thousands of servicemen composing an American flag. <br/><br/>"On July 15 1917 after its selection as the training site for the Ninetieth Texas-Oklahoma Division of the army Camp Wilson was renamed Camp Travis in honor of Alamo hero William B. Travis. The camp was ready for occupancy on August 25 1917. Additional land was subsequently acquired for vital training facilities and numerous structures were erected by the soldier welfare agencies. Camp Travis comprised 18290 acres of which 5730 were on the main campsite adjoining Fort Sam Houston. The Ninetieth Division was organized at Camp Travis in September and October of 1917. During the summer of 1918 Camp Travis served as an induction and replacement center with an average strength in July of about 34000 White and Black troops. On December 3 Camp Travis was named as a demobilization center. The facility was also designated a local recruiting station and a regional recruit depot in March 1919. Some 62500 troops were discharged at Camp Travis in about eight months. The camp then became the home station of the Second Division. Its service as a separate entity was terminated however upon its absorption by Fort Sam Houston in 1922" -- Handbook of Texas Online.<br/><br/>A quite fascinating view of this enormous World War I-era training camp in San Antonio now a part of the even larger Fort Sam Houston military base on the east side of the city. We locate no other copies of this large and remarkable panorama. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 1992