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Infantry Tactics by Brigadier General Silas Casey, Vol. I
1862
Green cloth cover, front and back with blind stamped eagle, spine with gold lettering, lightly inscribed in pencil "A. W. Eames / Aug 1866 / Leicester Mass."
Condition: flyleaf diagram has tear in one fold and foxing on front and back cover pages otherwise very good, volume I only.
Dimensions: 5.25 by 3.75-inches.
Price: $175
110-329
Book of 500 Curious Puzzles
Circa 1859
Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, NYC, 1859, hardcover; very good, edges of cover worn, soiled, corners dented, last two advertising pages have pencil notations on outside margin, no foxing, tears, or stains.
Price: $465
913-16
E. Foster, Jr.'s
Masonic Lodge Book
Written in code
The book measures 5 by 7.5-inches.
Price: $1,275
116-18
1854 Book Signed By Union General Hiram Berdan
Inventor, crack rifleman, creator of two Civil War Sharp Shooter regiments
Hiram S. Berdan Autograph, Commander of Berdan's Sharpshooters - Copy of The Works of Washington Irving, Volume IX, 1854, signed on inside of end paper "H. Berdan." The inside cover page has a Francis Marion Crawford bookplate; Marion Crawford was a very popular American author who married Hiram Berdan's daughter Elizabeth in 1884. Hiram S. Berdan (1824 - 1893) was a millionaire who formed a unit of expert marksmen that became famous as "Berdan's Sharpshooters" during the Civil War. Berdan's autograph is uncommon.
Price: $395
110-289
Our Prize Dogs
Descriptions and Criticisms of the Prize Winners of 1887
By Charles H. Mason
Circa 1888
Forest & Stream Publishing Company
"Artotype" illustrations, leather spine with gilt lettering, green cloth covers, library markings, some scuffing on spine, corners bent. Approximately 11-inches x 8 ½-inches x 2-inches, 588 pages, ex-library copy.
Price: $375
110-260
Marmaduke Multiply
A James Miller, NY published copy of the 1816 English Standard. Fabulous hand colored engravings with some of the finest and most colorful details.
Price: $400
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History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore.
Fine descriptions of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. By. W. H. Pyne. Illustrated by one hundred highly finished and coloured engravings, fac-similes of original drawings by the most eminent artists. In three volumes. London, Printed for A. Dry, 1819. Eight parts in three large quarto volumes. Red Morocco with fancy gold lettering. Some shelf wear and other minor issues; see pictures. Not pristine, but a very worth set of a very rare issue.
Price: $15,000
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The Art of George Frederick Munn - Limited Edtition, Number 208 of 1000 Copies (NINETEENTH CENTURY ART, 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ART)
Munn, Margaret Crosby and Cabot, Mary R. (editors). Limited Edition, unnumbered, but inscribed with several important additions., including a cabinet card of George F Munn in Mass General Hospital C. 1900 suffering from “La Grippe”; a mss. Letter from Munn’s wife, Margaret C. Munn, also a famous artist of the period; an inscription from from both Frederick and Margaret to Louise C Cobb, an apparent friend and admirer.. The volume itself suffers from shelf wear and reading usage, but is also covered in a less than protective paper cover with a MSS inscription of the title. Taken in it’s entirely, an important insight into Munn’s life as he lived it.
Price: $1,450
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History of Manchester, Mass, Book
Book Description: Published By The Town, [manchester, Mass.], 1895. Hard cover. First Printing edition. - Very Good. No dust jacket. Folding map. Shelf and reading wear.
Price: $125
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Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families
By Amos Otis
Book Description: 1890. Book Condition: Tight copy, but boards coming loose, spine loose, needs to be re-attached. Owner has written on inner front leaf with extensive ownership history. OTIS, Amos. 2 vols. in one. 8vo, orig. cloth; (ex- lib, inner hinge wea1k). Barnstable: F. Goss, 1888, 1890. Tow volumes in one; brown cloth cover needing restoration, yet a rare survivor. Technically, and ethically, a reading copy, yet one that shows the passion of research. A true researcher’s copy. If it were a musical instrument, it would be called a “player’s instrument; in need of a good home.
Price: $175
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The Microcosm of London
Ackermann, Rudolph | Combe, William | Pugin | Rowlandson
Book Description: London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1808. Early Issue "Microcosm" in a Contemporary Binding ACKERMANN, R[udolph]. [The Microcosm of London; or, London in Miniature]. London: R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, [1808-1810].First edition, early issue, with text watermarked 1806-1807 and plates watermarked 1805-1808 ). Three large quarto volumes (12 7/8 x 10 11/16 inches; 327 x 271 mm With 104 hand-colored aquatint plates, including fifty-four by J. Bluck, twenty-nine by J.C. Stadler, ten by T. Sutherland, ten by J. Hill, and one by Harraden, after Rowlandson and Pugin "original impressions of these splendid plates have a luminous quality entirely absent from later printings". Minor water issues on some pages of one volume, not affecting plates or text. Worst pages are pictured. For the most part, a wonderful and early set of Ackermann’s best. These early sets often sell for $25,000
Price: $14,500
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