Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke, 1822. First edition. Engravings. Paper over boards with leather spine. Duodecimo. 155 pages. This manual is an early attempt to introduce a uniform system cavalry of exercise and movements for the U. S. military. Illustrated with eight copper-plate engravings. Includes significant instruction on swords. More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1931. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 294 pages. Drumond did extensive research in newspaper sources, which brought valuable material to light in this study of the various premises upon which various groups of Southerners based their resistance to the Federal Government. Includes a good..... More
New York: Chemical Publishing Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 464 pages. A wealth of information on the properties and production of pyrotechnic materials, including sections on flame and glow, light, smoke, noise, and more. Also includes a manufacturing formulary, extensive glossary, and complete reference section. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. First printing. Black and white plates. Cloth over boards. Octavo. [vi], 63 pages. William Ferguson, a native of Baltimore and family friend of John T. Ford, was working as a call-boy at Ford's Theatre the night of April 14, 1865. He was called upon to..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1976). First edition. Drawings by Gorey, some color. Hardcover. Oblong duodecimo. [64] pages. A collection of Edward Gorey's drawings relating to bicycling From the dust jacket, "This book combines, with breath-taking cleverness, two objects of consuming interest: postcards and bicycles." The endpapers advertise the..... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932-1939. Limited editions. Various illustrators. Hardcovers in custom slipcase. Octavos. A complete set of the five Gordon Grand books published by The Derrydale Press. "Southborough Fox" is signed by Grant on half title. The titles included are: - The Silver Horn, 950 copies..... More
London: Printed by T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, et al, 1802. New edition. Black and white plates. Three quarter leather with cloth sides. Tall octavos. A beautiful and sturdy set of this 1802 "New Edition" translated by Pope. Bindings feature blue leather spines and fore corners, marbled endpapers, with..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1943. Early printing. C. S. Lewis's now classic Christian apologetic novel that revolves around temptation and resistance. The title character is a senior demon, and his letters are to a young apprentice demon who is his nephew, Wormwood. Thus mentored by his uncle, it is Wormwood's..... More
New York: Random House, (1938). First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 379 pages. A real-time analysis of the world's precarious military situation in 1938 by the noted British military historian and theorist. This copy was acquired from the estate of William Safire by a prior bookseller... More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. Second edition, revised. Black and white plates, maps, and battle plans. Three quarter leather with marbled paper sides. Tall octavos. xxviii, 471 and xx, 427 pages. Mahan's biography of Admiral Nelson--the one man who, in Mahan's opinion, summed up and embodied the greatness and..... More
[New York]: McClure's Magazine, (1912). Full cloth. Octavo. [vi], 243 pages. The title story in this well-known but scarce collection eerily foreshadowed the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, though it was originally published in 1898. Morgan Robertston's novella "Futility" tells the story of a gigantic, "unsinkable" luxury..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First trade edition. Map, black and white photographic plates. Cloth over boards. Tall octavo. xxvi, 529 pages. Roosevelt's own account of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition he undertook after leaving office as President. The expedition collected over 11,000 specimens for the Smithsonian's natural history museum..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Daniel Boone Edition, #138 of 200 sets. Black and white plates, maps, some folding. Full leather over boards. Quartos. Over 1,500 pages. Roosevelt's historical account of the exploration and settlement of the United States, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific Ocean... More
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1927. Limited edition, #288 of 500 sets. Illustrated by E. Œ. Somerville. Cloth over boards. Octavos. "Somerville and Ross" was the joint pen name of the female writing team of Edith Anna Œnone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin. This special edition of their foxhunting stories..... More
San Francisco: The Wine Advisory Board, [1942?]. Pictorial map. Singe sheet 31 1/2" x 41", professionally mounted on linen to 35" x 44 3/4" One of the more famous of the colorful pictorial maps by brilliant artist of the genre, Ruth Taylor White. In this gorgeous map, commissioned by California's..... More
[Washington?]: 1970. Color map. Single sheet. 19" x 25" Pictorial map of the lower Potomac River, featuring illustrations marking various points of interest and historic sites. The course of a Prohibition era bootlegger's vessel--the E. T. Somers--is marked between Leonardtown, Maryland and McQuire's Wharf, Virginia. Other decorations include characteristic sailing..... More
[Tilghman Island]: Tilghman Island Packing Company, 1957. Map. 17" x 22" Striking map of Maryland's Eastern Shore by Edwin Tunis. The map was originally published in 1947 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding the Tilghman Packing Company. Reprinted here in 1957 to commemorate the company's 60th anniversary... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. Regents' Edition. Frontispiece illustration in each volume plus one map. Cloth over boards. Octavos. The first complete publication of all available diaries kept by George Washington. Unrelated portions had been previously published at different times and under various editorial plans, but the whole of those..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, (1952). First edition. Illustrated by Garth Williams. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 184 pages. E. B. White's famous children's story of the friendship between Charlotte the barn spider and livestock pig named Wilbur. This copy lacks the original dust jacket, but has a...... More
Washington: Department of Defense, (1977-1978). Endpaper maps. Hardcovers. Quartos. These volumes contain a major part of the communications intelligence which the U.S. gleaned from intercepted and decoded Japanese communications from February 1941 to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Of particular importance is the correlation of the intelligence with the discussions..... More