L'architecture militaire, ou l'art de fortifier les places regulieres et irregulieres. Expliqué, pratiqué & demontré, d'une façon facile & agreable. Avec un abregé de la pratique de la geometrie militaire. by Bourdin, R.P. Pierre - de la Compagnie de Jesus - 1655

1864 1ed Gunnery Catechism Navy Civil War Army Textbook Mortars Guns Illustrated

'Gunnery Catechism' was an influential military textbook for officers in United States Army in conjunction with instruction at the USMA under the supervision of the Corps of Engineers, and instruction offered at public and private universities, and colleges. Brandt writes this book in a question and answer format to teach on a variety of topics as it relates to gunnery including calls for assembling, different kinds of firing, mortars, housing guns, general questions on gunnery, and much more!

This 1864 first edition is complete with detailed illustrated diagrams of the guns and their component parts, tables and charts of ranges for different mortars, and a diagram showing the manner of shifting stations in exercise to drill each of the guns crew in all the required duties!

Item number: #9855
Price: $599
BRANDT, John D.
Gunnery catechism as applied to the service of Naval Ordinance
New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1864.… Read More

1888 1ed CALIFORNIA Illustrated Santa Clara GOLD Indian Tribes Mexico WARS Foote
Horace Foote's 'Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World' is a beautiful, illustrated account of Santa Clara County, California. Published in 1888, this book features sketches and photographs of notable locations in California showing homes, breweries, and government buildings. It also includes biographies of prominent Californians as well as accounts of Indian tribes and the influence of the discovery of gold and the gold rush!

Item number: #10364
Price: $550
FOOTE, Horace
Pen pictures from the garden of the world or Santa Clara County, California Containing a history of the county of Santa Clara from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time
Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co., 1888. First edition.

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1828 American Revolution NAVY 1st ed Andrew Sherburne Memoirs Prison Jersey Ship

"Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne" is the narrative of the author's service in the Continental Navy in 1779 at the age of 14, and his being taken prisoner by the British only to later be released after falling ill. Andrew Sherburne went on to become a Baptist Minister and includes many Christian themes throughout his tale of imprisonment during the American Revolution at Mill prison in Plymouth England. Sherburne includes information on voyages made during the revolution, treatment as a prisoner of war, suffering on the Jersey prison ship, and being discharged at the peace of 1783.


Item number: #14144
Price: $499
SHERBURNE, Andrew
Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: a pensioner of the navy of the revolution.
Utica: W. Williams, 1828. First Edition.

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1785 Boston Revolutionary War Soldier Colonial America Weatherwise Almanac
Eighteenth-century American periodicals are notoriously rare, regardless of contents. This 1785 edition of Abraham Weatherwise's Almanac was published in Boston shortly after the end of the Revolutionary War. This issue includes, like others, phrases of the moon, eclipses, sunrises, and other calendar notes; however, it also features a letter from an anonymous Revolutionary War soldier written to his beloved.

Item number: #15589
Price: $499
JUDD, Eben Warner (pseud. Abraham Weatherwise)
Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1785
Boston: Printed and sold by Weeden and Barrett, 1785. 1st edition

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· References: Evans 19224
· Provenance: Handwritten – Lydia Goodwin
· Language: English
· Binding: Pamphlet
· Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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1839 Infantry Tactics General Winfield Scott Military War Illustrated America

An important early 19th-century American infantry tactics manual designed for militias, light-infantry, and riflemen. Headed by General Winfield Scott, this handbook is filled with illustrated charts and diagrams of formations and regiment order. Other important topics include how to pass by and overcome obstacles and reforming a line when broken.

Item number: #18525
Price: $599
United States War Dept.
Abstract of infantry tactics; including exercises and manœuvres of light-infantry and riflemen; for the use of the militia of the United States.

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1839.

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Elected 3rd Corporal in 1839, possibly under a Capt. Reed
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Elected [2nd] Sergeant in 1840
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Berlin [and] Paris: G. Reimer [and] J. Correard, 1847. First edition and first French edition. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco label, all edges marbled. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, boards rubbed with some loss at one corner, short contemporary notation on rear pastedown.. 75 pp.; 68 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w drawings on 2 folding plates. 8vo. Wittich's original work on fortification and defense with Duparcq's French translation. Each version contains a copy of the single plate [51x45 cm (1840) and 60x48 cm (1847)]. Wittich was a Prussian Artillery Major. Deparcq was Chef de Bataillon of Engineers in the French Army, Professor of the Military Art in the Imperial School of St. Cyr, and considered one of the best military writers of his day. Either version is quite scarce. OCLC and European databases show only six locations… Read More

Naples, Italy: Domenico-Antonio Parrino, 1709. Paperback. Near Fine. Title page continued: "Colla Copia della Lettera, che scrive il Sereniss. Principe Eugenio di Savoja, In data de' 10. del caduto Decembre, Iu cui da raguaglio, che la Cittadella di Lilla con nuovo, e rarissimo esempio, prima di cominciare à batterla; senza lo sparo ne meno di un Cannone, abbia chiesto di Capitolare, e siasi resa agli 8. del medesimo Decembre à patti di buona Guerra. Capitata detta copia di lettera a' S. Emin. il Cardinal Grimani . . . In Napoli per Dom. Ant. Parrino, e Camillo Cavallo." [8] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Caption title. Woodcut initial. Original, or early, marbled stiffened wrappers. Endpapers are laid paper with partial watermark: "D. Giovanni Di G. M." Pages are untrimmed. Dura, Catalogo di Libri Antichi e Rari Vendibili in Napoli (1861), 14645. This rare pamphlet contains a report of military success in Flanders with a letter written by hero of the War… Read More

Netherlands, 1710. Paperback. Good. 8 p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Possibly disbound from a larger volume. No publication information. Not in Worldcat or STCN; not in Knuttel. Intended as a continuation of J.M.G.V. Bouckart's satirical poem "Koning Lodewyk in de Griekse A tot Delft, op het Eyndigen der Campangje 1702" (1702) [Knuttel, 14818]. In this poem the speakers are Louis XIV, the spirit of Abbe Porto-Carero, and Lucifer. An extremely scarce pamphlet from the War of the Spanish Succession. In Good Condition: disbound?; lacking stitching; outer two leaves separating; old dampstaining throughout.

London: Printed For James Ridgway, 1819., 1819. 8vo. pp. xviii, 215, [1]ads. with half-title. later half chagrin, t.e.g. (scattered foxing). Second Edition. Partly written in response to an anonymous pamphlet entitled Facts Illustrative Of The Treatment Of Napoleon Bonaparte which had attempted to vindicate the actions of Governor Lowe in relation to allegations against him made by OMeara. OMeara had refused to pass information to Lowe regarding Napoleon, whom he attended as physician at St. Helena. Lowe insisted that OMeara be dismissed from his post, and this was effected when independent evidence of OMearas intrigues reached Lord Bathurst. When OMeara sent a letter to the Admiralty instinuating that Napoleons life was not safe in Lowes hands, his name was stricken from the list of naval surgeons..

Paris: Chez Magimel, Levrault, Schoell, Strasbourg , F. G. Levrault. Very Good+. 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter leather over clean marble boards. Gilt decorated spine title and panels. Yellow endpaper. (ii) -(xvi) 321pp (ii) + 16 clean fold out plates with 164 illustrations. Includes Errata, (Table of Contents). First two pages very lightly foxed. Bottom front corners lightly rubbed. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Military, Strategies of attack & defense, underground fortification, early dissertation on mines and explosives ; Engraved plates; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 321 pages .