Search Results: Titles starting with M from Montgomery Rare Books

Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968. First Edition. B&W card wraps with two staple binding, illustration of space walk reproduced four times on the cover. Very good. 8" x 10.25", pp. 1 - 30, with frontispiece of an astronaut in space walk and B&W photos and illustrations throughout. This is the most uncommonly found booklet (EP-57) in a series of 13 (published on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of NASA. Some scuffing along spine vertical, light wrinkles emanating from spine where opened and read, however inside is clean and collectible. "Man in Space" covers the ground from those pre-Sputnik days when only a handful of scientists and engineers in the United States believed that man would ever fly in space, to the preparation for a manned lunar landing and return in this decade." (Introduction: George E. Mueller).

House of Representatives, 1870. 8"x 20", folded, 4 pp., with manuscript on two pages. Fade to 1/4" of right margin, one fox spot on p1, two mail folds, otherwise a fine document. Included is an unresearched name and address insert. Four Congressman from Wisconsin sign a letter to President Ulysses S. Grant to appoint one of their collegues to a newly created Judgeship. This letter is not only signed by four Congressman, three of them were Generals in the Civil War.<br /> <br /> Cadwallader Colden Washburn (1818 - 1882) was a businessman, politician, and soldier who founded a mill that later became General Mills. A member of the Washburn family of Maine, he was a U.S. Congressman and governor of Wisconsin, and served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.<br /> <br /> Halbert Eleazer Paine (1826 - 1905) was also a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he was elected to three terms as U.S. Congressman from… Read More

Boston, MA: West and Richardson, 1818. First American. Blue printed wraps, bound into a red cardboard cover with tape along the spine. Very good. 5" x 8.5", pp. 6 - 40. Aging to paper and occasional fox marks with shadow of print text block on opposing page. A few spots and smudges on the cover. Enclosure has a chipped top right corner, but not affecting the pamphlet. Scarce account by an officer who was the Aide-de-Camp to General Ferrier during Murat's reign and had a first person opportunity to observe Murat when he was elevated to the King of Naples. Murat became Napoleon's brother-in-law through marriage and was executed for treason by a firing squad of his own men in 1815. "Murat had the courage of Cesar, the rashness of Charles the twelfth, the openness of Hery the fourth, and perhaps some of his good nature; but his genius and talents in military concerns, as well as politics, how far short in comparison to any of them!" (p 40).

Portland, OR, 1924. Tinted photo of Wilson on the front with eagle and presidential seal. Fine. 8.5" x 5.5", 4 pp., Program of events 3 days after the death of the 28th President of the U.S. Presided over by Richard W. Montague and in cooperation with Mayor George L. Baker and Gov. Walter M. Pierce. A few light fade spots, otherwise a fine piece of historic presidential ephemera. Wilson was a former governor of New Jersey, President of Princeton University and a two term Democratic president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work following the first World War. "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord!" (A favorite hymn of President Wilson).

London: Orient Line, 1960. Very good. Nine (9) original dinner menus from a Pacific Cruise on board the S. S. Orsova. Four have a pin-hole at the top where it may have once been displayed, three with light foxing or dinner residue. 6.5" x 10", folded with decorative covers of plants native to the docking ports, one menu is has a photo of the ship mounted on the front cover and another has a map of the world showing the ports visited by the round-the-world trip. Menus have been prepared by Chef de Cuisine, J. Cornwell. The regal menus are replete with 8 or more courses. A typical meal suggestion includes: Consommé Royale, Fillet of Mahimahi Grenobloise, Roast Suffolk Capon, Glace Revillon.<br /> <br /> SS Orsova, a 1,503-passenger ocean liner, was built by Vickers Armstrong Shipbuilders Ltd. of Barrow-in-Furness, England, was launched on 14 May 1953 and entered service in 1954 for the Orient Steam Navigation Company for Great Britain-to-Australia services via the… Read More