Germany Surrenders Unconditionally: Facsimiles of the Documents (National Archives Publication No. 46-4)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The National Archives: 1945

Seller ID: 2203504

Condition: Very Good

Spine faded and lightly stained. 1945 Stapled Binding. 41 pp. Facsimiles of the original documents that brought World War II to a close in the European Theater of operations. KEYWORDS: MILITARY HISTORY WWII GERMANY GERMAN NAZI SURRENDER View more info

Late 19th Century Photo Album

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Seller ID: 2260190

Condition: Good

Hardcover with clasp. Front hinge split, boards lightly rubbed, three black-and-white images laid in. Unpaginated. Late 19th Century photo album. Hardcover with clasp. View more info

The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263), March 1925 (Serial No. 265), April 1925 (Serial No. 266), September 1925 (Serial No. 271), October 1925 (Serial No. 272) (5-Volume Set)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: The Crowell Publishing Company: 1925

Seller ID: 2260201

Condition: Very Good

Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263)--one inch tear along spine-base; March 1925 (Serial No. 265)--spine lightly bumped; April 1925 (Serial No. 266)---light smudge to rear wrapper; September 1925 (Serial No. 271)--quarter-inch tear to top edge of front wrapper, two small surface tears to front wrapper; October 1925 (Serial No. 272)--very good. 64, 74, 62, 66, 72 pp. Five-volume set of The Mentor: January 1925 (Serial No. 263): Romance of Rings, by George F. Kunz; Anthony Van Dyck--Painter of Royalty. March 1925 (Serial No. 265): Joseph Conrad, Personal Memories; Old New... View more info

The Columbian Portfolio of Photographs of the Worlds Fair

By: N/A

Price: $75.00

Publisher: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company: 1893

Seller ID: 2262613

Condition: Very Good

23 unbound prints in hardcover portfolio. Pencil note and light stain on front board. Red stain along bottom left edge of photographs, a few light creases and faint spots to some photographs. The Columbian Portfolio of Photographs of the Worlds Fair. Includes 23 black-and-white prints. View more info

30 Views of Niagara Falls and Toronto

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: W.H.B., & Co.: 1883

Seller ID: 2267154

Condition: Good

No date (circa late 1800's), edges rubbed, spine slightly cocked, pages lightly toned. 1883 Small Hard Cover. 14 pp. 30 Views of Niagara Falls and Toronto. View more info

Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia, 1888: A Complete Reference Library

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Crossing PRess: 1978

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2275497

Condition: Good

1978 reissue of 1888 original. Spine lightly creased, wrappers lightly rubbed. x, 644 pp. 1978 reissue of 1888 original. Farmer's & Housekeeper's Cyclopaedia. A Complete Ready Reference Library for Farmers, Gardeners, Fruit Growers, Stockmen and Housekeepers, Containing a Large Fund of Useful Information, Facts, Hints and Suggestions, in the Various Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Live Stock Raising, Poultry Keeping, Bee Keeping, Dairy Farming, Fertilizers, Rural Architecture, Farm Implements, Household Management, Domestic Affairs, Cookery, Ladies' Fancy Work, Floriculture, Medical ... View more info

World of Fashion, Vol. I. II. III.

By: N/A

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Charles J. Peterson: 1842

Seller ID: 2276008

Condition: Good

Hinges starting, address label on front endpaper, title and index pages missing, rear free endpaper loose but included, a few light stains on some pages. 1842 Large Hardcover. 188; iv, 188; iv, 192 pp. Three volumes in one. The Lady's World of Literature and Fashion, Vol. I. II. III. A collection of women's fashion and literature from the 1800s. View more info

The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates: Their Trials and Executions, Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West Indies and the Expedition of Commodore Porter, Also Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Lyons Press: 2004

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 2284759

ISBN: 1592283241

Condition: Near Fine

Third printing. Bottom corner of front wrapper lightly bumped. 2004 Trade Paperback. 295 pp. Prepare yourself for the horror as you enter a world of murderers and thieves armed with swords, knives, and cannons. This book is filled with stories of terror on the high seas. As you turn each page be prepared to be consumed by a society where lying is a way of life and pilfering is a means of survival. These stories depict the lives of history's most noted pirates, from where they grew up, to how they became some of the most nefarious characters to terrorize nations around the world. Every story in... View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VII [7], June to November, 1853

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1853

Seller ID: 2287640

Condition: Good

Board edges rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, ink stamp on Contents page. 1853 Half-Leather. viii, 864 pp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VII, June to November, 1853. Contents include: Ancient Peru--Its People and Monuments; Arlington House; Ballet Dancer; Bleak House, by Charles Dickens; Charity and Humor--A Lecture, by W.M. Thackeray; Edinburgh Review on the Influence of Novels; Fashions for June to November; Funeral Rites in Ceylon; Ghosts and Sorceresses of India; Growth of Cities in the United States; History and Incidents of the Plague in New Orleans; How Steel Pens ... View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VIII [8], December, 1853, to May, 1854

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1854

Seller ID: 2287641

Condition: Good

Minor loss to spine, some pages lightly foxed. 1854 Half-Leather. viii, 864 pp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume VIII, December, 1853, to May, 1854. Contents include: Aboard a Sperm Whaler; Chapter Upon Snakes; Cotton and Its Cultivation, by T. B. Thrope; Elephant Hunting in Ceylon; Fashions for December to May; Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin; Monthly Records of Current Events; Napoleon Bonaparte, by John S. C. Abbott; Pilgrims to Plymouth, by C. W. Philleo; School-Boy's Story, by Charles Dickens; Stories of the Huguenots; and more. View more info

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LXXIX [79], June to November 1889

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper & Borhters: 1889

Seller ID: 2287982

Condition: Good

Some loss to spine and boards, edges heavily rubbed. 1889 Three-Quarter Leather. viii, 972 pp. Topics include: Art; Artists, American, At the Paris Exhibition; Artists, Our, In Europe; Bird Notes; Cathedrals; Chartres, the Cathedral at, the Building of; England; Fairs; Forests of the California Coast Range; France, the Religious Movement In; Germany, the Religious Movement In; Hamlet, a Century of; Irish Rebellion, the, an Incident of; Kremlin and Russia ARt, the; Negro, the, on the Stage; Russia, Social Life In; Surgery, Recent Progress In; Poetry; and more. View more info

University Museum Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1937: Sherbro, Gabriel Paul's Treasure, Kourion, Tol-E-Bakun, Ptolemy II

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University Museum: 1937

Seller ID: 2289271

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly toned. 1937 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. University Museum Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 1, November 1937. A brief catalog of antiquities. View more info

The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania, March 1920, Vol. XI, No. 1 [Volume 11, Number One]

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University Museum: 1920

Seller ID: 2289508

Condition: Very Good

Two one-inch tears along edges of front wrapper. 1920 Soft Cover. 80 pp. The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania, March 1920, Vol. XI, No. 1. For art. For science. For civilization. CONTENTS: Foreword; By Louis Shotridge: Ghost of Courageous Adventurer; By H. U. Hall, Fetish Figures of Equatorial Africa; By Stephen B. Luce, Attic Vases from Orvieto; By Stephen B. Luce: Ancient Helmets from Italy; By Wm. C. Farabee, A Newly Acquired Wampum Belt. View more info

The National [Lamp Works] in the World War: April 6, 1917 - November 11, 1918

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: General Electric Company: 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 1721872

Condition: Good

First edition. One gathering loose but included. 1920 Hard Cover. 380, xiii. A history of General Electric's National Lamp Works during World War I. Illustrated with black & white photographs. View more info

United States Naval Institute Proceedings Volume 87, Number 2, February 1961

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute: 1961

Seller ID: 1818045

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed, ink stamp on front wrapper. 1961 Trade Paperback. 168 pp. CONTENTS: U.S. Sloop of War St. Mary's (front cover illustration); Defense Organization Issues; Project Poseidon; The Navy in the Space Age - Space Surveillance; The New Japanese-American Treaty; More Fun Than Fury in the Fish War; How Wide the Territorial Sea?: The Background and the Vote, The Problems Left by Discord; Japanese Submarine Tactics; The U.S. Sloop of War Wasp; Lebanon and Quemoy - The Navy's Role; Comment and Discussion; Book Reviews; Professional Notes; A Page from the Old Navy; Secretary's Notes. View more info

United States Naval Institute Proceedings Volume 87, Number 10, October 1961

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute: 1961

Seller ID: 1818046

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers rubbed, ink stamp on front wrapper. 1961 Trade Paperback. 176 pp. CONTENTS: The Bombardment of Algiers (front cover illustration); The Nature of the War We Are In; The Service Academies and Higher Education; Communist Terrorism in Malaya; The Opening of the Arctic Ocean; Noforms are the Answer!; America's Undeclared Naval War; A Question of Personality; Goodbye to the Gas Bags (Pictorial); Comment and Discussion; Book Reviews; Professional Notes; A Page from the Old Navy; Secretary's Notes. View more info

United States Naval Institute Proceedings Volume 87, Number 8, August 1961

By: N/A

Price: $3.00

Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute: 1961

Seller ID: 1818048

Condition: Good

Wrappers rubbed, ink stamp on front wrapper, 2 inch chip from margin of contents page. 1961 Trade Paperback. 164 pp. CONTENTS: Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, U.S. Navy (Retired) (front cover illustration); The First Hundred Days of the New Frontier; Oceanography - Old Science, New Future; Russia and Red China - Mutual Nemeses; Icebreakers South; Problems of Contemporary Defense Planning; The Will to Win; German Submarines in the Far East; NAS Whidbey Island (Pictorial); Comment and Discussion; Book Reviews; Professional Notes; A Page from the Old Navy; Secretary's Notes. View more info

Military Publications: Index of Administrative Publications (Regulations, Circulars, Pamphlets, Posters, General Orders, Joint Chiefs of Staff Publications, and DOD Publications) (Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 310-1, May 1975)

By: N/A

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Headquarters, Department of the Army: 1975

Seller ID: 1819782

Condition: Very Good

Minor pencil notes on front wrapper, lightly toned. 1975 Stapled Binding. 165 pp. Original wrappers. Three-hole punched upon publication. An index of administrative publications released by the U.S. Army. Useful for the scholar or collector interested in what was printed when. View more info

Seaplanes and General Aircraft of To-Day [Today]

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Juvenile Productions Ltd.:

Seller ID: 2182156

Condition: Good

Wrappers foxed. 18, [2] pp. Color illustrations and general specifications of nine early 20th century airplanes, including: Short 'Sunderland' Long-Range Reconnaissance Flying-Boat; Short 'Empire' 'C' Class Flying-Boat; Supermarine 'Stranraer' Flying-Boat; Supekrmarine 'Walrus' Amphibian; Airspeed 'Envoy' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane; Avro 'Anson' Reconnaissance Monoplane; Airspeed 'Oxford' Advanced Training Monoplane; Fairey 'Swordfish' Torpedo-Spotter-Reconnaissance Seaplane; De Havilland 'Dragon Rapide' Passenger or Freight Carrying Monoplane. View more info

Army Air Force I Fighter Command Aircraft Warning Service Certificate of Honorable Service (Mitchel Field, New York: May 29, 1944)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: 1944

Seller ID: 2190027

Condition: Very Good

G.O. Form No. 147. Name area left blank. Very light wear to lower left corner. 1944 Unbound. A Certificate of Honorable Service, with printed signature by Stewart W. Towle (Colonel, Air Corps), which was given to volunteers of the Army Air Force Aircraft Warning Service Reserve. View more info

Gefahrten unser Jugend (Companions of Our Youth): Die Flak-Abteilung der Leibstandarte Geschichte und Geschichten (The Flak-Division Leibstandarte History and Stories)

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Condo Verlag GmbH: 1999

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 2201681

ISBN: 3928483722

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. 1999 Large Hardcover. 272 pp. German text. Gefahrten unser Jugend (Companions of Our Youth): Die Flak-Abteilung der Leibstandarte Geschichte und Geschichten (The Flak-Division Leibstandarte History and Stories). View more info

Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Field Artillery of the Army of the United States, 1917, Volume I [1] [with] Volume II [2] (War Department, Document No. 614.)

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Military Publishing Co.: 1917

Seller ID: 2203187

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled. 1917 Hard Cover. 281, 278 pp. Two volumes in one. Includes fold-out map. View more info

Pilot Training Manual for the Liberator B-24

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: George A. Petersen: 1944

Seller ID: 2204837

Condition: Near Fine

No publisher date (circa 1944). Minor surface tears to front wrapper. 262 pp. Published for Headquarters, AAF Office of Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training by Headquarters, AAF, Office of Flying Safety. This manual is the text for your training as a B-24 pilot and airplane commander. The techniques and procedures described in this book are standard and mandatory. In this respect the manual serves the dual purpose of a training checklist and a working handbook. View more info

Provisional Small Arms Firing Manual, 1909

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1909

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2204999

Condition: Good

First edition. No jacket, sticker to front board, bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, pages 104-108 torn along page corner. 1909 Small Hard Cover. 263 pp. For the United States Army and for the Organized Militia of the United States. Includes fold-out elevational map. CONTENTS: Definitions; General Scheme; Preliminary Instruction and Drills for Rifle; Known-Distance Practice; Field Practice; Revolver Practice; Targets and Ranges; Competitions; Miscellaneous. KEYWORDS: PROVISIONAL SMALL ARMS FIRING MANUAL UNITED STATES ARMY ORGANIZED MILITIA MILITARY GUNS REFERENCE View more info

Charlotte in the War of 1812

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Neighborhood History Project:

Seller ID: 2206820

Condition: Fine

No publisher date. A fine copy. 22 pp. An account based on the words of the local pioneers who were there, containing an annotated bibliography of sources.KEYWORDS: CHARLOTTE LOCAL NEW YORK REGIONAL HISTORY MILITARY WAR OF 1812 View more info

American Naval Battles: Being a Complete History of the Battles Fought by the Navy of the United States, from its Establishment in 1794 to the Present Time; Including the Wars with France and Tripoli; the Late War with Great Britain, and with Algiers; with an Account of the Attack on Baltimore, and of the Battle of New Orleans. Embellished with Twenty Elegant Engravings.

By: N/A

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Luther Roby: 1848

Seller ID: 2208177

Condition: Good

Edges lightly rubbed, boards almost entirely loose from binding, bottom half of front endpaper missing, pencil notes. 1848 Hard Cover. v, 278 pp. American Naval Battles: Being a Complete History of the Battles Fought by the Navy of the United States, from its Establishment in 1794 to the Present Time; Including the Wars with France and Tripoli; the Late War with Great Britain, and with Algiers; with an Account of the Attack on Baltimore, and of the Battle of New Orleans. Embellished with Twenty Elegant Engravings.KEYWORDS: AMERICAN HISTORY NAVAL BATTLES MILITARY NAVY UNITED STATES FRANCE TRIPO... View more info

General Instrument Equipment for Aircraft. 1927. (For Official Use Only. Air Publication 1275.)

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office: 1927

Seller ID: 2208369

Condition: Good

Former library copy, only a few marks. A few light spots on front board. 1927 Hard Cover. Unusual binding - sewn gatherings, printed paper spine wrap reinforced underneath with cloth, hardcover boards shoestring bound over top. A military personnel manual printed by the British government between the world wars, illustrated with numerous photographs of instruments used in military aircraft, and charts and diagrams providing useful information for pilots. Includes a fold-out of correction curves for air speed indicators. View more info

The R.O.T.C. Manual Infantry: A Text Book for the Reserve Officers Training Corps, 1st Year Basic, Vol. I (20th Edition)

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Military Service Publishing Co.: 1938

Seller ID: 2208425

Condition: Very Good

No jacket, front board lightly rubbed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1938 Hard Cover. 398 pp. CONTENTS: National Defense and the Educated Man; The National Defense and the Reserve Officers' Training Corps; The Obligations of American Citizenship; Evolution of the Military Policy of the United States; The National Defense Act; Military Organization; Military Discipline, Courtesies and Customs of the Service; Military Sanitation and First Aid; Map Reading; The Rifle and Rifle Marksmanship; Leadership (Infantry Drill Regulations) Physical Training; Organization of the Infantry.KEYWORDS: ... View more info

One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign: Historical Programs and Dedication of Markers along Route of March

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of the State of New York: 1929

Seller ID: 2259845

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly toned. 1929 Stapled Binding. 63 pp. Pageants: Genesee Country, Leicester, September 14, 1929; Finger Lakes Area, Geneva, September, 21, 1929; Newtown Battlefield Area, Elmira, September 28, 1929. Includes black-and-white photographs. View more info

Memorial of the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Oriskany, August 6, 1877

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oneida Historical Society: 1878

Seller ID: 2264266

Condition: Good

Edges rubbed, hinges starting, light stain, rear endpaper missing. 1878 Hard Cover. 199 pp. The Battle of Oriskany, fought on August 6, 1777, was one of the bloodiest battles in the North American theater of the American Revolutionary War and a significant engagement of the Saratoga campaign. An American party trying to relieve the siege of Fort Stanwix was ambushed by a party of Loyalists and allies of several Native American tribes, primarily Iroquois. This was one of the few battles in the war in which almost all of the participants were North American: Loyalists and allied Indians fought a... View more info