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London: Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1809. Sixth edition, Corrected and considerably improved. at p. 6 of ads this edition offered at 4s 6d. Read More Item Details for The Bombardier and the Pocket Gunner Add to Wish List
Item #366516
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London: The Tactiks of Aelian or Art of Embattailing an Arm, 1616. First Edition in English, In this Earliest state the contents begin on p. 5. The Tactiks of Aelian is a handbook of Greek, i.e. Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of Alexander the Great..... Read More Item Details for The Tactiks of Aelian or Art of Embattailing an Army After Ye Grecian Manner. Englished and Illustrated with Figures Throughout: and Notes upon Ye Chapters of Ye Ordinary Motions of Ye Phalange. [Translator’s dedication signed: Io: Bingham.] Add to Wish List
Item #366444
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1898. First edition. Campbell was a lt. colonel in the famed Scottish Highlanders, when he was captured in Boston Harbor during a naval engagement with a fleet of Yankee privateers in 1776. A scarce history of his life and internment during the war as well as an..... Read More Item Details for Sir Archibald Campbell Of Inverneill Sometime Prisoner in the Jail at Concord Massachusetts Add to Wish List
Item #371375
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Hartford & Windham [CT]: 1785. Too young for marriage and children, but old enough to join the fight for independence, these documents may be the last few remaining records of a largely forgotten soldier of 1776. Samuel Robinson III (1757-1776) was born in the Central Village of Windham, Connecticut, and..... Read More Item Details for A Group of Two Manuscripts and One Document, Attesting to the Service of Samuel Robinson in the Continental Army and Orders for Payments to be Made to His Estate Add to Wish List
Item #308429
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Hartford: Printed by Peter B. Gleason & Co, 1819. First edition. Intended for the use of the militia, in which it was found “that every company had a Drill of its own; and no small embarrassment was occasioned … when they were called to exercise toghether.”. Read More Item Details for The Artillerist; Comprising the Exercise and Movements of the Light Horse Artillery. Together with a Sword Exercise for the Light Artillery. Also, Rules for the Formation of Companies Add to Wish List
Item #57543
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Frankfurt am Mann: Verlag der jägerischen Buchhandlung, 1790. Third part. The continuation of the military history of the Russian and Austrian war on Turkey. Read More Item Details for Geschichte des gegenwartigen Kriegs zwischen den vereinigten Herren Oesterreichs und Russlands, gegen die Ottomanische Pforte dessen Veranlassung und Folgen aus den glaubwurdigsten Nachrichten gezogen Add to Wish List
Item #30171
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London: 1712. First edition in English. Ozanam's Cours de mathematiques, first published in 1693, contains sections on algebra and Euclid's Elements, arithmetic, trigonometry, geometry, fortification, mechanics, perspective, geography and dialling. John Theophilus Desaguliers, whose name is mentioned on the title-pages of volumes 4 and 5, published his translation of Ozanam's..... Read More Item Details for Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks... Now done into English, with additions and corrections by several hands. [Volumes 4 & 5: by J.T. Desaguliers] Add to Wish List
Item #317879
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À Paris: Chez l’auteur. Et se vend À Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1699. Sixth edition (first published 1683). Blondel (1618-1686), brilliant mathematician, architect engineer, and topographer, was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1669. He became director of the Royal Academy of Architecture in 1671, was appointed director..... Read More Item Details for L’art de jetter les bombes Add to Wish List
Item #257405
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VP including Ladysmith, Geluk Farm, Vluchfontein et al: 28 October 1899 - 5 April 1901. A fine group of letters by an English intelligence officer steadily rising through the ranks. In 1899 he is "sleep[ing] in the open air, only one blanket & one waterproof sheet." Within a year he..... Read More Item Details for 20 Letters reporting events at Ladysmith, the Transvaal, Bloemfontein and elsewhere Add to Wish List
Item #303348
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Hidden House Center Conway, NH: June 25, 1928. Reading in part: "It would give me great pleasure if I could contribute to the proposed Club Volume. Unfortunately I have made no trip which had as its object hunting, exploration or natural history. My advanced years for some time debarred me..... Read More Item Details for T.L.S. To George Bird Grinnell, Honorary President of The Boone & Crockett Club Add to Wish List
Item #252576
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New York: Boylan, [1895]. Read More Item Details for Catalogue of Military Uniforms as Worn by Prominent Military Organizations of the United States Add to Wish List
Item #352738
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[N.p: written ca. May-June 1889]. A detailed and digressive retrospective account of the early years of the long service of Col. Alexander Gordon Duff (1828-1904) in Burma, composed in his retirement in the spring of 1889. Duff notes that he is reviewing his diaries while writing this account. Duff was..... Read More Item Details for [Manuscript account of service to the Burma Commission in Burma, 1857-1860] Add to Wish List
Item #305377
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np: nd. ODNB summarises Cadogan's achievement's thus: "His manner was often boisterous and loud and his dress ostentatious. He also had an unfortunate tendency to teasing levity that could give offence on occasions. However, Cadogan had enough diplomatic skill and courtesy to carry off many delicate and complex missions during..... Read More Item Details for Clipped signature Add to Wish List
Item #304980
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Venice: Società Albriziana, [1737]. Beautiful copy of this impressive edition, with the Italian translation of Francesco Baldelli, Palladio's corrections, and the stunning engravings adapted from the Samuel Clarke edition. Read More Item Details for C. Julii Caesaris Quae Extant Omnia, Italica Versione ... auxit Hermolaus Albritius Add to Wish List
Item #225954
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Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. Read More Item Details for [Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri Add to Wish List
Item #62362
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London: Longman,Orme & Co, 1839. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Third Regiment of the Foot, or The Buffs; Formerly designated the Holland Regiment. Containing an Account of Its Origin in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and of its subsequent Services to 1838 Add to Wish List
Item #60174
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Homilow: March 15, 1842. With engraved portrait. The officer in the British Army who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. He led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Read More Item Details for ALS Add to Wish List
Item #304919
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London: Printed for the War-Office by T. Egerton, at the Military Library, 1807. Sixth edition. Read More Item Details for Instructions and Regulations for the Formations and Movements of the Cavalry Add to Wish List
Item #222466
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San Francisco: Printed for Ransohoffs by The Grabhorn Press, 1941. First Edition, thus, one of 250 copies. Read More Item Details for Broadcast Addresses to the People of Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia and the United States, by the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Winston Churchill MCMXL-MCMXLI Add to Wish List
Item #339735
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London: Cassell, 1941–1961. First British editions. A finely-bound collection of Churchill's separately published World War II and Post-War speeches, including his rare last book. The war speeches, published between 1941 and 1946, "onstitute a contemporary history of the war with is as lively as it is authoritative...they may be said..... Read More Item Details for Collection of His Speeches: Into Battle, The Unrelenting Struggle, The End of the Beginning, Onwards to Victory, The Dawn of Liberation, Secret Session Speeches, Victory, The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite, In the Balance, Stemming the Tide, The Unwritten Alliance Add to Wish List
Item #375288
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956; 1956; 1957; 1958. First American Editions printed at the Kingsport Press. Issued in four volumes, this is the very rare U.S. publisher's deluxe issue, bound for presentation. We have had and seen one other deluxe set of this edition, presented to the president of the..... Read More Item Details for A History of the English Speaking Peoples. [Volume I: The Birth of Britain; Volume II: The New World; Volume III: The Age of Revolution; Volume IV: The Great Democracies] Add to Wish List
Item #334887
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Portmouth: 11 May 1891. With a touch of false modesty, Commerell writes: "Peaceful times in the English Navy for the last half century have not given us much chance of adding many bright pages to the annals ..." Commerell's early career could hardly have been more auspicious: he was awarded..... Read More Item Details for ALS lauding the state of the English Navy Add to Wish List
Item #304965
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Park Place [Oxfordshire]: 4 July 1785. Almost certainly addressed to Secretary for War, Sir George Yonge, Conway writes in aid of the surgeon, Mr Stewart. Here he hopes to use his influence to bend the rules selling Stewart's commission in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. Rising to Field Marshal..... Read More Item Details for ALS to [Sir George?] Yonge Add to Wish List
Item #304968
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Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1856. Description of the war from the point of view of a Zouave trumpeter. Mention of Florence Nightingale and her nurses is made and hospitals described as well as information about operations and treatment. Read More Item Details for Recollections of a Zouave before Sebastopol...translated from the French by Mrs. M. Harrison Robinson Add to Wish List
Item #31865
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[New York: 1879]. Rare broadside poem by the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Field, 1814-1893. The poem's opening line begins: "Among these hills his youth was spent ... " Read More Item Details for Written on the occasion of unveiling Wilson MacDonald's statue of General George A. Custer, Aug. 30th, 1879, at West Point Add to Wish List
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