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Wrappers. Condizione: Good. The Book Is In Good Condition. The Pages Are Clean And Tight. There Is Minor Chipping On The Outer Spine With A 1/4 Inch At The Top Of The Front Joint Missing. Portions Of The Front And Back Cover Show Minor Smudges From Usage.Hooker Was A Senior Officer In The Union Army During The American Civil War. Hooker Had An Aggressive Approach To Campaigning And During The American Civil War His Men In Recognition Of This Gave Him The Nickname Fighting Joe.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 298 pages, photos, map, Brand new hardcover. NEVER READ! The author saw action at First Bull Run, the Penisula Campaign, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Todd's Tavern where he was seriously wounded. A great first hand account by an officer of the Union Army who served with General Samuel Zook.…

Octavo, softbound (stiff, illus. slick brown wrappers), xxx pp + 557 pp + 40 pp. Near Fine, with sunned spine. From lower cover: The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War, first published in 1848 just six years after the conflict ended, is an outstanding account of the Second Seminole War that lasted from 1835 to 1842. Nearly one hundred and fifty years after first publication, this book is still outstanding. Florida, Floridiana, Florida History, Native American, Seminole, American History, United States History, U. S. History, Military History, Americana, U.S.-iana nslic.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 527 pages, index, Very good hardcover First edition in original green cloth boards with gold stamping. Some spotting to covers. VOLUME I only.

Condizione: Very Good. 2 pages, 1 plate An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Intellectual Observer; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Wraps, reprinted from the official Senate copy, various foxing and browned text, several dog-eared pages, signed twice on the front paper cover by Virginia Historian Richard V. Gaines, 186pps, double columns, minor waterstaining at top of a few rear pages unaffecting text. G+ as small chip to lower right corner of front cover. Signed by Author(s).…

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Battles & Leaders of the Civil War; 9 x 11; 19 pages; Very nice condition, with illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Reprint. Illus. , second printing, this reprint limited to 300 copies; 423 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. PUBLISHER: Frank Desilver DATE/EDITION: 1845, stated new edition with additions and improvements BINDING: Hardbound in full brown leather with gold lettering on a black title block on the spine, 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", 303 pages. DUST JACKET: No jacket BOOK CONDITION: Cracking starting at the top rear hinge. Covers have some rubbing and spotting but lettering is bright, covers and interior are clean and the binding is tight. Light foxing but no brittleness to paper. DESCRIPTION: Attached to the inside of the front cover and one loose sheet from Massachusetts HQ relative to distribution of the book. Details the exercises and movements of the infantry, light infantry, and riflemen; cavalry and artillery; together with manner of doing duty in garrison and camp, etc. Illustrated. Title on spine is Cooper's Tactics Mass. Militia.…

hardcover. Condizione: very good. Illustrated with 5 maps, plus 2 larger folding maps in pocket at rear. vii + 254 pages. 8vo, gilt-stamped red cloth (ex-library copy with bookplate inside front cover, partial paper sticker on spine). London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co., 1898. A very good copy. Forming the third volume of The Wolseley Series, edited by Captain Walter H. James. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condition: Good. 400p. Illustrations. Original green cloth. Gilt letter/decoration bright. Wear to edges and corners. Good Copy.

Leather. Condizione: Good Plus. First Syracuse Edition. hinges holding however, leather boards and spine need.work price 150.00 to allow for needed repair.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. .and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44; Fresh half tan leather & pale cloth over boards, gilt title on original spine label laid back; A new binding over a just very good textblock with moderate but not dark foxing; 5.75"x9"; 186 + publisher advertisements.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 28th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Doc 174, 693 pp.+ 22 Engraved Plts & 2 FoldOut Maps (lacks Lge FoldOut Map in pocket), Bound in Period Blk Three-Quarters Leather & Bds, Gilt & Ruled Spine Title, Provenance: Signature & Bookplate of John S Phelps (23rd Governor of Missouri), Light edgewear, foxing, else VG, 1st ed (Howes #F370 - "aa" rating).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 232 pages, numerous full-page photo plates plus some engravings, frontis with tissue guard. First edition. Near fine condition, a crisp bright copy, no owner names.

Hardcover. Condizione: About Very Good. New Edition. 10, 303 pages. Rebound in brown cloth sometime in the 20th century. Samuel Cooper was one of the few Northern West Point graduates who resigned to join the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Immediately appointed Brigadier General (later full general), he became Adjutant & Inspector General CSA and was the senior ranking officer in the CSA throughout the Civil War. He accompanied Jefferson Davis when he fled Richmond at the end of the war. But he also preserved the official CSA records and turned them over to Federal authorities; they became part of the Official Records published in the early 1890s. The book offered here, first published in 1936, was widely used and and revised several times prior to 1860. This "New Edition," published in 1846, included "additions and improvements." The binding is in virtually as new condition. Pages are toned and foxed, but all text is quite legible; first 15 leaves have a chip in bottom margin that is a result of an old acidic stain. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Leather. Condizione: Very Good. New Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. New Edition, 1847 printing. A Very Good copy. 12mo., viii, (9)-303 , 12 pp., illustrated with numerous engraved plates, diagrams and figures. Bound in period full leather, with the title on a black morocco label on the spine. Light edge wear; small portion of the spine's crown pulled away; rear joint beginning to crack. Occasional light scattered foxing. An attractive copy, Very Good. *** Comprised of 3 parts; Part 1 -Infantry Tactics; Part 2- Cavalry Tactics; Part 3- Artillery Tactics. Author by Samuel Cooper, who would go on to become the Adjutant Generall of the US army, Acting Secretary of War, and the highest ranking Confederate General. ***. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with leather spine. Gold lettering on brown title plate on spine. Title page dated 1846, no separate copyright page. 186 pages. In fair condition. Considerable rubbing to cloth and spine, with corners of boards exposed through split cloth. Leather is cracked along the entire length of both hinges and horizontally towards head of spine. Leather is very worn, though lettering on title plate remains bright and clear. Textblock remains firmly bound. Prominent foxing on all pages of textblock. Lower right corner of first half of pages have stain from water damage. Additional water damage on front endpaper, which is also split along the gutter. Personal library book plate on flyleaf before title page, this page is no longer attached to binding. Name written in fading ink along top edge of title page. A couple pages creased in the corner as if they had been dog-eared at one point. Print remains bold and crisp- in good reading condition. Does not appear to be missing any pages. Overall worn, though sturdy and readable.…

Full Contemporary Pigskin. Condizione: Moderate Edge Wear. No Jacket. New Edition. "comprehending the exercises and movements of the infantry, light infantry, and riflemen; cavalry and artillery; together with the manner of doing duty in garrison and in camp.Leather spine label. Front free endpaper missing piece from lower free margin, about 2 1/2". Title-page foxed. Some foxing through text but never heavy. Generally rather clean. Illustrated with full-page diagrams, figures, a section on drum beats. See photos. Size: Octavo.…

Cloth. Condizione: P/No Dustjacket. Philadelphia, PA: Robert P. Desilver. P/No Dustjacket. 1836. . Cloth. Comprending the Exercise and Movements of the Infantry, Light Infantry, and Riflemen; Cavalry and Artillery; Together with the Manner of Doing Duty is garrison and in Camp, and the Forms of Parades, Reviews, and Insepections, as Established by the Authority for the Government of the Regular Army. . 12mo., cover rubbed, stained, frayed, textblock seperated from cover, page foxed and stained, tears, bookplate . Black & White Illustrations (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Thirty-one black and white illustrated plates. First edition. INSCRIBED by Captain Appleton to a previous owner in 1905. Minor edge wear at the spine ends and corners, age darkened along the spine, else very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 232 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Subtitle : "As Seen in 1866-67 by Appleton and Longfellow, Two Young Travellers (sic) from the United States of America, Who Had Been Officers in the Union Army, and a Journey to Russia with General Banks in 1869. With Sketches of Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, and Emancipation in the Empire of Russia and the Republic of the United States of America." Publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration of a bear and eagle on front, some rubbing. 232 pages with index and 31 plates, complete. Inscription on front fly leaf, "Baron Ernest Schilling First Vice Consul of Russia with the regards of Nathan Appleton, New York, 23 October 1904". Nathan Appleton (1843-1906) was the son of prominent Massachusetts merchant and politician Nathan Appleton (1779-1861) and the half-brother of Fanny Appleton Longfellow, the second wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This volume contains letters and his impressions during a trip to Russia with his nephew Charles A. Longfellow. It also contains chapters on Abraham Lincoln and Alexander II, Emperor of Russia. Inscribed by Author(s).…

1st edition (American Imprints 36933). 10, viii, 9 - 303 pp. Illustrated with diagrams, charts & musical scores. 12mo. Bound in 6s. On the front paste-down is a tipped-in New York State General Order of 1839 noting the purchase of a number of copies of Cooper's work, and their subsequent distribution '. among the field officers and commandants of companies . of the New - York militia." VG (some wear & rubbing to leather [board showing a bit at the corners]/faint stain to upper half of text block in rear third). Contemporary full sheep binding (flat back) with black leather spine label.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Issued Without Dustjacket. The book is bound in half black crushed goat leather with black book cloth. The front leather hinge is cracked ,but the hinge itself is strong. There are some scattered minor scuff marks, and mild bumping of some corners. The gilding is quite good. The marbled end papers are very attractive. Mild foxing of the text block. There are three illustrations. No map. A table of distances traveled.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Some faint staining to front cover cloth near spine, some other very small light spotting to covers. ; Illus. , very tight binding, bright front cover illustration and lettering and bright spine lettering, contents very clean; 416 pages.…

Pictorial Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Dust Jacket. No Edition Stated. Bottom rear spine edge has been chewed about 3-1/2", bottom corners of covers have small chips from being chewed, edges of covers rubbed w/small tears, top corners of covers mildly bumped, interior hinges cracking, several stamps inside front cover, little bit of blue pencil markings to text, pages lightly toning, spine toned, several pages have small chips along fore-edge; 3 illustrations by Day & Haghe; map is missing; 324 pages.…

186, [6] pp. Adverts last 6 pages. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4" General wear & soiling to wrappers, with front wrapper beginning to detach at bottom. 1" of paper loss at spine base. Penciled pos to t.p. top margin. Temoin, p. 69. An About VG copy of a rare wrappered edition. Original printed paper wrappers. "Price 25 Cents." Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve 1st edition thus, i.e., an inexpensive text-only edition, omitting the maps & plates. Cf. Howes F-370 for the other editions. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Issued Without Dustjacket. 1st Edition. The book is full calf leather bound with solid binding. The corners are mildly scuffed, and there are two circular stains on the bottom quarter of the front panel.Spine label is quite good. Some of the gilding on the raised bands is faded. The previous owner's name is written on the front free end paper. Scattered mild foxing. There are 22 illustrations, two complete maps (Beer Springs and Great Salt Lake) in the text, and two text foldout maps that are only 1/2 present(Bear River and Rio de losAmericanos). The Large foldout map is absent. There are large sections on Astronomical Observations, Meteorological Observations, Distances Traveled, and A Catalogue of Plants. This book has about every fact you need to know about these explorations. The senate report.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 8.75 x 5.5", printed wraps, 275pp, front cover very worn and soiled, torn at foredge, rear cover removed, contents foxed and well worn. SWAF. CHARLES C. TROWBRIDGE'S COPY WITH HIS INK SIGNATURE ON FRONT COVER. Trowbridge was an explorer himself, joining Lewis Cass on his exploration trip to the Great Lakes in 1820; Trowbridge was later Mayor of Detroit.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket (as issued). First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in embossed brown cloth. Very Good. Cloth rubbed, heavily foxed throughout, else Fine and unmarked. 692pp; illustrated in foldout maps, no fold-out map at rear. Book. …