Great Britain: c. 1830. Graphite on paper, 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches; bearing artist's initials "E D" in lower right corner; within UV glazed frame. This pencil study of an English sailor from the 1830s (probably a coastal fisherman) illustrates the working dress worn during cold and wet weather.....
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2017. Don Troiani. 1st Paperback Edition. PB. Publisher's Synopsis: In this collection, renowned artist Don Troiani teams up with leading artifact historian James L. Kochan to present the American Revolution as it has existed only in our imaginations: in living color. From Bunker Hill to Yorktown, from Washington.....
Paris: 1824. Louis-Leopold Boilly. [COSTUME]. FAMOUS 1824 BOUILLY CARICATURE OF “LES MOUSTACHES”. Colored lithograph by Delpech after drawing by Boilly, published in Paris, 1824; 10 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. (view), conservation-matted with UV glazing within 18 ¼ x 16 ¼ in. frame (not examined outside of frame). Louis-Leopold Boilly.....
Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Heavily illustrated with color and BW images on 312 pages. "Insignia of Independence is a heavily illustrated magnum opus that reconstructs the appearance of the armies of the American Revolution in painstaking detail. The two leading authorities on 18th-century Anglo-American military material.....
Shepherdstown, WV: James L. Kochan, 2002. First. Paperback. Catalog of an exhibition of naval artwork, manuscripts,naval weaponry and related artifacts from the Age of Fighting Sail.
Frederick, MD: The Mars & Neptune Trust, 2012. First. PBK.
Folio (13 ½ x 1- inches), correctly issued without title page, 29 line etchings on India paper tipped down on heavier, gilt-edged, paper stock, with tissue cover sheets to each plate as issued; printed index of plates leaf; bound with quarter leather and marbled boards, front board and spine now missing. Contents.....
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Newburgh, NY: Uriah C. Lewis, 1819. First. Paper wrappers. [WEST POINT]. An Expose of Facts, Concerning Recent Transactions, Relating to the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy, at West-Point, New-York. Newburgh, NY: Printed by Uriah C. Lewis, 1819. 1st ed. vii,68pp. [bound with] RAGLAND, Thomas. Defence before.....
London: Newman & Co., 1849. Ashley, Alfred. First. [1840S BRITISH INFANTRY UNIFORMS]. THE DAYS WHEN WE HAD TAILS ON US. WITH FOURTEEN COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS. DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH INFANTRY. Np. [London: Newman & Co., Bishopsgate, 1849]. First Edition. Original calf binding with title on spine and edging.....
Great Britain: c. 1906. Simkin, Richard. [UNIFORMS AND MEDALS]. Queen Victoria’s British Army by Richard Simkin. Large scrapbook in oblong, folio format, containing numerous prints of British Army regiments and their uniforms by military artist Richard Simkin from his famous series, ranging from the 1880s to 1905. The chromolithograph prints.....
London: Peter Davies, 1940-1967. Lawson, C. C. P. First. A HISTORY OF THE UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH ARMY (5-VOL. SET) BY C. C. P. LAWSON. London: Peter Davies (vols.1-2), Norman Military Publications (vols. 3-4), and Kaye & Ward (vol. 5), 1940-1967. Hardcovers. First editions in quarto (10 x 7 ¼.....
London: Rudolph Ackerman, 1803-1806. Pyne, William. First. [British Costume and the Trades]. Pyne, William Henry. Microcosm: Or, a Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. of Great Britain, in a Series of Above a Thousand Groups of Small Figures for the Embellishment of Landscape…, 1st edition (1803-6). Contemporary (period).....
Paris: Mame, 1922. "JOB" (Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville). First. [French Drummer Boys at War]. Tambour Battant! Memoires d’un Vieux Tambour (1792-1918). Paris : Mame, nd. [1922]. Numerous full-page plates and vignettes in full color, as well as BW illustrations, by the incomparable JOB, with text by Louis Sonolet. Octavo.....
"JOB" (Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville). First edition. [JOB COLOR UNIFORM PLATES]. La Tour D’Auvergne: Premier Grenadier de France. Paris : Boivin & Cie, 1905. Artwork by ‘JOB’ (whose full name was Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville) and text by “Montorgueil” (Octave Lebesque), who collaborated together on several children’s books on.....
Paris: Libraire de René Colas, 1933. [COLAS: COSTUME BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Colas, René. Bibliographie Général du Costume et de la Mode. Description des suites, recueils, séries, revues et livres Français et Etrangers relatifs au costume civil, militaire et religieux, aux modes, aux coiffures et aux divers accessoires de l'habillement. Hardcover. 1933. Quarto.....
London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-1772. [COSTUME]. A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, particularly Old English Dresses, in English and French. London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-72. 479 (of 480) plates. 4 volumes. Large quarto with original 1/2 vellum binding with marbled boards (some chipping and loss to the.....
London: Longman and Hurt, 1814. First. [COSTUME]. Walker, George. The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated by a Series of Forty Engravings, Being Fac-Similes of Original Drawings. With Descriptions in English and French. Published by Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurt, London, 1814. Descriptive of the Peculiar Dress, Occupation, and Manners.....
A fascinating notebook kept by an itinerant tailor who specialized in catering to the county gentry and their liveried servants, as well as military officers in dispersed garrisons. Hardbound with black morocco-finished leather boards, 4 ½ x 3 ¼ inches, closing with a brass clasp. The notebook begins with a......
[probably Philadelphia]: Quartermaster General, US Army, 1833. 16 x 10 1/8 folio sheet, encapsulated in mylar. Manuscript list with all of the types and forms of enlisted garments to be procured for the United States Army in 1833 and the costs to be assigned for each [not filled in]. Above.....