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Berlin: Cigareten-Bilderdienst, Hamburgo . 1936. 1st. 4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black le ttering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy phot ographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A go od+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners a nd top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and so me rubbing to the gilt logo. .

1st ed., 8vo, red cloth 400 pp. Illus. with more than 175 b/w plates, many folding. Includes numerous appendices, containing reports on guns, ordnance, construction of an 11-inch muzzle-loading rifle and an 3.16-inch muzzle-loading rifle; hydraulics, revolving cannons and gatlings, other weapons and fuses
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"Compliments of Brig. Gen. S. V. Benet' label on front pastedown
CONDITION: Good; corners lightly bumped; spine darkened with chipping at top and bottom of spine. Front hinge lightly cracked; owner's bookplate on fep
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Brig. Gen. Stephen Vincent Benet (1827-1895)
Stephen Vincent Benet is the grandfather of author/poet Steven Vincent Benet. He served a variety of posts prior to the Civil War and also taught geography, history, ethics and law at the West Point Military Academy. Promoted to captain in August 1861, Benet was again detailed to West Point, this time as an instructor in ordnance and gunnery. By 1864, he had been made commandant of Frankfort Arsenal, a post he held for five years.… Read More

1st printing. 8vo, Brick red cloth. Limited to 160 copies. The club's second publication. John Sutter Jr was the eldest son of Capt. John Sutter; he managed the Sutter properties during most of the critical period between 1848 and 1851, and was himself the founder of the city of Sacramento. By 18952, the Sutter holdings had all been lost, and Sutter Jr was a penniless exile in Mexico. He returned to California early in 1855 hoping to retrieve some of his lost fortune. Here, published for the first time, is the story of his life in California, telling how the property was lost and how he had been drugged and swindled. A few months after writing this, he moved again to Mexico where he became a successful business-man and public official. He never returned to California. "His 'Statement' is a straightforward and guileless account…and its revelations are essential to a true understanding of the Sutter family and their part in the early history of Sacramento. Perhaps nowhere else is the… Read More