| 1. Busk, Hans. Hand-Book for Hythe: An Introduction in the System of Musketry. 1st edition, London, 1860. 184 pages, many illustrations. Duscusses shooting, various rifles (Enfield, Whitworth, Jacobs Rifle), sights, projectiles, drills, history, etc. Fine condition; needs re-backing of spine. Rare. $150
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| 2. Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut. Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican War. 1st Edition; 1889; 960 pages. Invaluable reference. Excellent condition. $295 |
| 3. Cogswell, L. W. History of the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment in the Rebellion War 1861-1865. First edition, 1891; 784 pages. Illustrated with photos of officer and folding maps. Complete roster. Excellent condition; lacks one end paper. Interesting reading. $150 |
| 4. Information Respecting the Purchase of Camels for the Purposes of Military Transportation. Washington: 1857. (Ex. doc #62; Report of the Secretary of War.) 238 pages. Illustrated and with folding plates. Fine, tight condition (spine chipped). $250 |
5. Dudgeon, R. C. Maj. History of the Edinburgh or Queens Light Infantry (3rd Bn. Royal Scots). 1st Edition; 1882. 184 pages; 8 full page illustrations. Fine, original condition. $100   |
| 6. Kerrick, Harrison S. Military and Naval America. (1916 edition). 404 pages. Description of Army, Navy, and Air Service, and USMC uniforms, equipment, etc. Photos; large foldout on rank insignia. Great reference on the pre-WWI military and their tactics and equipment. Fine overall condition (no dust jacket). SOLD
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| 7. Pittenger, William. The Great Locomotive Chase. 2nd edition, 1893; 490 pages. Illustrated. Pictorial cover. First hand account by a member of the raiding party . One of the outstanding raids of the Civil War. Excellent condition. SOLD
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| 9. Meadows, E. Scott. US Military Holsters and Pistol Cartridge Boxes. 450 pages; hundreds of photos. The best work ever done on the subject and long out of print. $295
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10. Chappell, Gordon. Brass Spikes and Horsetail Plumes. Thomas Publications: 1997. 118 pages, over 100 photos. Identifies and illustrates both officers' and enlisted mens' dress helmets, 1872-1904. Great reference. Mint condition. Special: $25  |
| 11. America's Munitions: Report of Benedict Crowell, Assistant Secretary of War. Washington, 1919; 592 pages. Complete, highly illustrated report of ordnance production during WWI. Small arms, artillery, aircraft, grenades trench knives, gas masks, bombs and ammunition. Literally everything you ever wanted to know. No better WWI source material. Excellent condition. $85 |
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12. Ogawa, Morihiro. Japanese Swords and Sword Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. First edition, 1987. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Complete with glossary. Over 400 pages, hundreds of full page photo plates, many in color. Showing the museum collection of the best Japanese swords in the US. Fantastic reference; long out of print. Mint condition, with dust jacket. SOLD
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13. Quartermaster Dept. Uniform of the Army of the United States, October 1908. Hundreds of chromolitho prints showing all uniforms, insignia, blankets, socks, underwear, you name it and it will be illustrated in color. This folio contains all the prints actually printed for the 1908 regs in living color. There is no better reference. Mint condition. $550        |
| 14. Whiting, J. R. S. British Commemorative Medals: A Medallic History of Britain from Tudor Times to the Present Day. 1st edition, 1972; 236 pages; 35 full-page plates. Excellent condition, with dust jacket. $25
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15. Stratt, N. A. Alphabetical List of Battles 1754-1900. First edition; 1905; 252 pages. Crammed full of dates, places, and naval vessels, pay tables, etc. Excellent condition. $125  |
| 16. The Standards, Flags, and Banners of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution. 1st edition, 1913. 43 pages of text; approximately 20 full-page color plates. Fine condition. $50
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| 17. French Imperial Field Manual entitled de la Defense des Places Fortes. Paris, 1812; 616 pages. 11 folding plates. Excellent condition. Ex libris University of Mississippi Library. Board covers. Spine chipped and loose; spine title intact. An interesting and unusual volume. Condition of text and plates is excellent. $350 |
| 18. Pennsylvania Battlefield Commission. The 77th Pennsylvania at Shiloh. 1st Edition, 1908; 341 pages. Roster; photo illustrated. Fine condition. $75 |
| 19. Tactics & Technique of Cavalry (Advanced). Military Service Publishing, Harrisburg. Over 1100 pages. Early armored manual, with hundreds of illustrations of tactecs, weapons, early armored vehicles, and afoldout plate of a cavalry (mechanized) brigade in the field. Good condition copy; weak at the hinges; student's pencil notes. SOLD
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| 20. Steffen, Randy. United States Military Saddles 1812-1943. University of Oklahoma Press: 1973. 155 pages; 74 illustrations. Extremely good reference. Excellent condition, with dust jacket. $40
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| 21. Werner, Herman. On The Western Frontier with the United States Cavalry, Fifty Years Ago. First edition; 1934. 98 pages, soft cover. Fine condition; title page almost loose. $40
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| 22. Van Rensselaer, Stephen. History of American Gunsmiths, Arms, Manufacturing, and Patentees. Limited edition of 500 published in 1947. 288 pages; photos. Mint condition. $45 |
| 23. Personal Recollections of General Nelson A. Miles. The Werner Co.; 1896. 590 pages; hundreds of illustrations by Frederic Remington, among others. Excellent condition; ex-library. Among other things, this book is a very good read. $175
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| 24. Locomotives and Locomotive Building. 1886. This is a combination history and catalogue of the Rogers Locomotive Works in Paterson, New Jersey. 200 pages; dozens of illustrations of locomotives and their manufacture. Good tight condition; original binding bumped on corners. Original, 1886 edition. $200
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| 25. Zupan, James. Tools, Targets & Troopers. First edition, 1985; 176 pages. Author's copy. The only refernece to military reloading equipment in the 1870-1880 period. Many photos. Excellent condition; autographed. $65 |
26. Field, Matthew C. Prairie and Mountain Sketches. 1st edition, 1957; University of Oklahoma Press. 237 pages; illustrated. Good reading, and in excellent condition, with dust jacket. $20  |
| 27. Register of the Officers in the Prussian Army for the Year 1891. 1082 pages; folding chart. Lists every officer in the Prussian Army and their current assignments. Very good condition; spine loose. $100
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| 28. Tily, James C. Uniforms of the United States Navy. 1964. 338 pages. Covers the years 1789-1959. Hundreds of illustrations in color and black and white. Large sections on women's uniforms and insignia. Excellent, with dust jacket. $25
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| 29. Judson, Harry P. A History of The Troy Citizens Corps. 1st edition; 1884, 204 pages, index, roster. 5 full-page plates, four in full color. $75
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| 30. Loubat, J. F. The Medallic History of the United States of America, 1776-1876. 1967 reprint by Norm Flayderman. 460 pages; 170 engravings. Excellent condition, with dust jacket. Great source material. $75
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31. Meek, James B. The Art of Engraving: A Book of Instruction. 5th printing, 1975; 196 pages, hundreds of illustrations. A great how-to book. Excellent, with dust jacket. $40  |
| 32. Ordnance Memoranda #19. Proceedings of the board of officers on infantry equipment, materiel, and supplies necessary for efficient outfit for infantry troops. Also a report on the equipment for the Springfield Metcalf Rifle. First edition, 1875; fine condition. From the library of the Ordnance Office. 62 pages; 9 full page plates. $395
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| 33. Cooper, S. Brevet Capt. A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States. Philadelphia: DeSilver, 1836. Approximately 300 pages, charts, illustrations. Very good, tight condition. $150
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| 34. Chittenden, Hiram M. History of the American Fur Trade in the Far West. 2 volumes. 1954 edition by Academic Reprints. 1,029 pages. Complete with fold out map. A must for those intereste in the fur trade. Very fine condition, with dust jackets. Scarce. $150
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| 35. McClellan, George B. A Manual of Bayonet Exercises Prepared for Use fo the U. S. Army. 1861 edition. 24 plates. Fine overall condition, with some very light foxing on plates. $150
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| 36. Roberts, James A. New York in the Revolution. 252 pages listing all names of those who served in Continental and Militia regiments during the Revolution. Published by the State of New York and dated 1897. Very good condition; tight, original pictorial cover bumped at corners. $125
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| 37. Howell & Kloster. United States Army Headgear, Vol. 1:to 1854. 1st edition, 1969; Smithsonian Institution Press. 75 pages; 54 photo illustrations. Excellent condition. $50
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| 38. Steffen, Randy. The Horse Soldier. Vol. 3: 1881-1916. University of Oklahoma Press; first edition, 1978. 268 pages; 385 illustrations. A classic, in fine condition with dust jacket. $35
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| 39. Southwick's Constable's Guide for the State of New York. 3rd edition, 1906-1908. 108 pages, illustrated. Bound with a 15-page police equipment catalog. Very good condition (loose). $75
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| 40. Lenz, Ellis Christian. Muzzle Flashes. 1st edition, 1944; 811 pages. Stories about the history and collection of guns and shooting. A classic, in about mint condition, with dust jacket. $75
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| 41. Whelan, Townsend. Amateur Gunsmithing. Published by the NRA. 1st edition, 1924. 173 pages; illustrated. How to do it the right way. Excellent. $35
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| 42. Howell, Edgar M. United States Army Headgear, vol. 2, 1855-1902. 109 pages; 63 photo illusatrations. First edition; Smithsonian Institute Press. 1975. Mint condition. $55 |
| 43. Bormann, Major Gen. The Shrapnel Shell in England and in Belgium. Brussels, 1862; 208 pages, tables. Basically an advertisement for the shrapnel shell and why it should be adopted. Printed for the Navy Department of the United States. Fine condition (needs rebacking). Rare. $175
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44. Laframboise, Leon W. History of the Artillery, Cavalry and Infantry Branch of Service Insignia. 1st ed; 1976. 194 pages; hundreds of insignia photos. Excellent condition. $165  |
| 45. Illustrated Catalogue of Arms and Military Goods. Schuyler, Hartley & Graham. Norm Flayderman, 1961. High quality reprint of this rare Civil War period catalogue. 168 pages; hundreds of illustrations of swords, insignia, guns, uniforms, etc. Excellent condition; dust jacket tattered. $50
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| 46. Stone, J. C. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor. 694 pages; 873 illustrations of armor, guns, and edged weapons. Invaluable reference. 1961 reprint, excellent condition, with dust jacket: $100 As above, original 1934 edition, in extra fine condition. Rare. $295
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| 47. Original, circa 1935 Sporting Ammunition Catalogue of the Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. 119 pages; hundreds of photos of cartridges, powder cans, traps and reloading supplies, some in color. Fine condition; one small hole in title page. $100
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| 48. Uniform of the Army of the United States, 1777-1889. First Edition. Authorized by the Secretary of War and illustrated by H. A. Ogden with 44 full color plates. Half of book written regulations and half color plates. Plates are excellent. Binding loose. Printed almost 120 years ago and rarely offered for sale. $1100
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| 49. US Government Ordnance Memoranda No. 21. Ammunition, Fuses, Primers, Military Pyrotechny, etc. GPO, 1878. 122 pages; 25 full page plates. Great source material. Excellent condition; no foxing. A rare book. $350
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| 50. Albaugh, William A. Confederate Edged Weapons. New York: Harper Brothers, 1960. First edition. 198 pages; 126 illustrations. About mint condition, with dust jacket. $100
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| 51. Crane & Kieley. United States Naval Academy, the First Hundred Years. McGraw Hill, 1945. An illustrated history of the school and its graduates. Hundreds of photos; 53 pages of text. Fine condition. $25
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| 52. Garland, Hamilton. The Book of the American Indian. 1st edition, 1923. Illustrated by Frederic Remington and published by Harper & Brothers. 274 pages; full page color illustrations. Complete with dust cover in about mint condition, and retaining its original storage box. In very good condition; rare in this condition. $395
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53. Barber, Edward W. The Crack Shot. New York: G. E. Woodward; 1873. 342 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts of the breechloading rifles of the period. Excellent-plus condition. $150
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54. Williams, Harry T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Grey. Lousiana State University Press; 1st edition, 2nd printing, 1955. 345 pages. Photos. A very good bio. Very fine, with dust jacket. $65  |
| 55. Mansfield, Edward D. The Life and Services of General Winfield Scott. First edition; Barnes & Co., 1852. 538 pages; illustrated with full page woodcuts. Fine, tight condition, with some minor foxing. $
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| 56. White, H. P. and Munhall, Burton D. Center Fire Metric Pistol & Revolver Cartridges. Infantry Journal Press; 1948. First edition. 97 pages; hundreds of drawings. Prime reference from the H. P. White laboratory. Autographed by both authors. Excellent condition. $150
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| 57. Solc Vaclou. Swords and Daggers of Indonesia. Approximately 75 pages; 33 full page photo plates. Pictorial cover. Complete with slip case. Excellent overall condition, and the only reference on the subject in English. $100
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| 58. History of the 78th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 1st ed, 1905; 267 pages, illustrated, roster. A fighting regiment , which took part in the battles of Stone River, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge, among others. Excellent condition. SOLD
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59. Thrapp, Dan L. Al Sieber, Chief of Scouts. 1st edition, 1964; 432 pages, photos. Great bio of a frontier hero. Very fine, with dust jacket. $150  |
| 60. Baker, Clyde. Modern Gunsmithing. Samworth; 1933. 2nd edition. 527 pages 210 illustrations. About mint condition, with dust jacket. $45
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| 61. Armies of Today. First edition, Harper & Brothers, 1893. Descriptions of all major European armies. 438 pages, illustrated. Very good condition; both hinges broken, so only $50
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62. Unruh, John D., Jr. The Plains Across. University of Illinois Press: 1st edition, 3rd printing, 1979. 565 pages; full page illustrations. A very in-depth study of the great migration of the 1840s and 1850s. Extremely interesting read. Very fine condition. $60  |
| 63. Zogbaum, Rufus F. Horse, Foot and Dragoons. Harper Brothers, 1888. With French, British, German, and US Cavalry in the field. 176 pages; 75 illustrations. Very good condition, slightly shaken. A very interesting read. $150
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| 64. Howe, James. The Modern Gunsmith. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1934. 2 volumes; first edition. Volume 1 autographed by author. Each volume contains 424 pages and hundreds of photos. Fine condition, with small amount of foxing. Special value, $80
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| 65. Hardin, A. N., Jr. The American Bayonet. 1st ed, 1864; 234 pages. Several hundred photo illustrations. A super reference book in about mint condition (lacks dj). $100
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| 66. Wagner, Edward. Cut and Thrust Weapons. 1967; 491 pages. Hundreds of color plates of swords of all European countries. Great reference, in excellent overall condition (no dust jacket). SOLD
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| 70. U. S. Government. The Autumn Maneuvers of 1898: Austria, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and Switzerland. Government Printing Office, 1899. 147 pages. Firsthand accounts. Library binding; fine condition. $40
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| 72. Lord, Francis. Civil War Collectors Encyclopedia. 1st edition, 1982. 360 pages; hundreds of illustrations, covering everything from artillery to uniforms. Excellent, with dust jacket. $30
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| 74. Dodge, Grenville, Maj. Gen and Ellis, William A. History of Norwich University: Her History, Her Graduates, Her Honor Roll. 3 vols; 2,000 pages. Hundreds of illustrations. Fine overall condition; first edition, 1911. Great biographical reference. $150
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| 78. U. S. Cartridge Co. Where to Hunt American Game. 1st edition, 1898; excellent condition. 288 pages, hundreds of illustrations. Broken down by states. Pictorial cover. $125
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| 82. Lyon, G. F., Capt. The Private Journal of Capt. G. F. Lyon of HMS Hecla During the Recent Voyage of Discovery Under Captain Parry, 1821-1823. 297 pages; illustrated. Firsthand account of an early arctic exploration, published 1970 by the Imprint Society. Originally published 1824. About mint, complete with slipcase. $25
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| 85. Macintyre, D., Maj. Gen. Hindu Koh. 1st edition, 1889, London. Wanderings and wild sport on and beyond the Himalayas. A classic. 464 pages, illustrated. Pictorial cover. Very good, tight condition. $350
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| 88. Wagner, Arthur L. The Service of Security and Information. First edition, 1893; 265 pages. 15 full page plates. A very early military intelligence manual. Excellent $100
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| 90. Lewis, Waverly P. US Military Headgear 1770-1880. First printing, 1960. Signed by author. 76 pages; 67 photo illustrations. Excellent condition, with dust jacket. Rarely offered. $75
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