Military History from Lippincott Books

Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. 155 pp. Blue cloth. Includes the records of Revolutionary pensioners, and non-pensioners, marriage records and a list of veterans awarded Federal Bounty Land Grants. The records were taken from applications of Maryland veterans of the Revolutionary War, their widows and their heirs for Federal pensions and bounty land. … Read more about this item

Salem, Ma.: Peabody Museum, 1975. First Edition . Quarto. Softcover. With 53 plates, some in color, illustrating sword guards. With a catalogue index to the collection. VG+

Japan House Gallery; Japan Society, 1976. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 134, [2] pp. Folio. Stiff black paper wrappers, textured blue endpapers. A detailed catalogue of one of the most important collections of Japanese swords outside of that country. With numerous plates - photographs of Japanese swords, some in color, as well… Read more about this item

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. Stiff paper boards, black cloth backstrip. 66 pp. With 3 folding plates and numerous illustrations and tables. Some staining, soiling and wear to the boards - a Good copy; the interior pages in Very Good condition.

Portland, Maine, 1993. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 90 pp. Softcover. One of 500 copies, printed by the Ascencius Press. With black and white photographs of the Godfrey family and Cliff Cottage. With index. Includes an article from the Bangor newspaper, The Jeffersonian, about Captain John Godfrey. Fine

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1862. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good. xii, 403 pp. Original pebbled green cloth, blind-stamped, spine title gilt. Macleod was a surgeon stationed in Smyrna and Sebastopol during the Crimean war; the first war to use rifled and breech-loading cannons, which had longer ranges and greater accuracy, penetrating power, and rate of fire than the… Read more about this item

Jefferson N.C.: McFarland & Company, 2002. Soft cover. Near Fine. x, 198 pp. With appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, and index. Examines Afghan women in the 20th century with particular focus on the period between the Soviet invasion in Dec. 1979, and October 2001, when America and its allies invaded. Of particular interest are the series… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. vi, 448, pp. Includes index. Written between July 1942 and Easter, 1943. The Western allies were just beginning to turn the tide of the war, and Borgese was exploring the shape of a post war world. An anti-Fascist, Borgese had… Read more about this item

Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1995. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 256 pp. Includes bibliography, glossary and index. Illustrated with numerous black and white reproductions of paintings, plans, models and photographs. The second title in the 12 volume series, Conway's History of the Ship. The ship may be the most influential invention… Read more about this item

Tel-Aviv: Olive Books of Israel, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. The New Breed Series. 160 pp with numerous photos. Green covers, gilt title on spine, pictorial endpapers. Top corners bumped, title page creased.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1906. First Edition . Hardcover. VG. 291 pp. Green cloth with decorative red cross on gold circle, with white lettering on spine and front board. Includes detailed black and white photographs of the Japanese Army, mostly related to medical practices, during the Russo-Japanese War: " To the… Read more about this item