Revolutionary war (233 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. covers have minor wear, corners lightly bumped, binding tight, scattered notes, quarterly publication, pages 245 through 360, articles in this issue include Robert, William and Thomas Hicks of Flushing Long Island NY and Granville County, part 2 of the reports of Committees to Public Claims and part 25 of divorces and separation petitions Size: 6 x 9.…

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 32 pp., 26 cm.: Top fore-edge corner creased, one name written along top of front-wrap. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Caption title. 8vo. 5pp. Disbound. Stained. Toned. good. Concerning bounty lands, located in ceded territory northwest of the Ohio River, promised to Revolutionary soldiers by the commonwealth of Virginia. Shaw & Shoemaker, 39401.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. 192 pages. Fred Halliday "Marxist Analysis and Post-revolutionary China" / Ernest Mandel "Revolutionary Strategy in Europe - a political interview" / Jean-Paul Sartre "Socialism in One Country" / Raymond Williams "Post-war British Marxism" / Perry Anderson "The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci".…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 354 pages. 9.61x6.69x0.80 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Very Good. 12 pages, 2 illustrations, 1 colour portrait plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 5 pages, 1 portrait of Benedict Arnold. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Harper's Monthly Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 11 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: Mariner's Mirror; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 12 pages with some illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 59 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 24 pages, illustrated, 1 plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: Harper's Monthly Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 105 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 20 cms. Category: Annual Register; Printed before 1800; New Annual Register. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. Folio. Broadsides. [1]pp. Caption title. Disbound. H.R. 867 with penmanship practice in a contemporary hand to lower blank margin. Some minor foxing. Very good. These include H.R.: 867, 868, 875, 898 and 957. For the benefit of: Eli Eastman, Sarah Pemberton (John), Isaac Austin, Samuel Edgcomb and Catharine Rollins or Mosely. …

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Original black boards have some small tear, chips and flaking at spine ends. Pages of text are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Ships today or next business day. Our books are carefully described and packaged in boxes (not envelopes). A gift card and personalized message can be included upon request.***.…

8vo, Pp. 534.

13 x 8 inches. Light creasing; short split along one fold. The decedent was a private drummer. Signed (with her mark) by the widow, with wax seal and a Justice of the Peace.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. An American Revolutionary War document: A crew signed agreement for a neutral trading ship to travel to French occupied St Kitts in 1782.  MONSTER-ROL OF THE TRADING SHIP DE VRIENDSCHAP (THE FRIENDSHIP). An original printed and manuscript crew agreement (Monster-Rol) for the Imperial-flagged merchant ship De Vriendschap, led by Captain Ole Lindwed, for a voyage from Ostend to St. Kitts during the American Revolutionary War. Ostend, 4 July 1782. Large sheet approximately 340 x 210 mm. Original printed broadside completed in manuscript on both sides. The recto bearing the printed articles of agreement beneath the large engraved Imperial double-headed eagle, completed in manuscript with the details of the vessel, captain and voyage. The verso forming the crew register, recording the names, occupations, birthplaces and monthly wages of the crew, each man signing beneath his own entry, or, in one case, making his mark. Old folds as issued, light age toning and occasional edge wear, otherwise an about very good, complete example. An uncommon survival documenting the engagement of the crew of the merchant ship De Vriendschap under Captain Ole Lindwed for a voyage from Ostend to St. Kitts, dated 4 July 1782, only months after the French capture of St. Kitts during the American Revolutionary War. The document records the vessel sailing under the "Keyserlyke Vlagge" (Imperial Flag), reflecting the neutral status of the Austrian Netherlands during one of the most complex periods of eighteenth-century Atlantic commerce, and the contentious issue of neutral flags. The printed text constitutes the contractual obligations of the officers and sailors, setting out their duties aboard ship, discipline, conduct, wages, provisions and penalties. The reverse records the individual members of the crew, including their occupations, places of birth, monthly pay and receipts for advance wages. Particularly appealing is the survival of the crew's own signatures beneath their respective entries, together with the mark of one illiterate sailor, transforming what might otherwise have been an administrative record into a direct record of the individual men engaged for this wartime Atlantic voyage. The master is identified as Ole Lindwed of Mandal in Norway, while much of the crew originated from Scandinavia, including Sweden and Norway. As Britain, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic contested control of Atlantic trade, Ostend emerged as an important neutral port whose Imperial flag enabled merchants to continue commercial voyages which might otherwise have been interrupted by wartime restrictions. St. Kitts itself had become one of the principal strategic prizes in the Caribbean following its capture by French forces in February 1782. Original maritime documents connecting identifiable vessels, named masters and crew with the wartime Atlantic trade are increasingly difficult to obtain, particularly those preserving both the contractual text and a complete crew register signed by the participating officers and sailors of a voyage conducted during the closing phases of the American Revolutionary War. Signed by Author(s).…

Condición: fine. ~~ The Journal of Lieutenant John Charles Philip von Krafft, 1776-1784 & the Letter-book of Captain Alexander McDonald, 1775-1779. Includes index. Accounts of the Revolutionary War by officer's serving with the British Army. ~ Gephart V2: 13194. The author, after attempting to obtain an appointment in the American army, entered the British army, serving in two Hessian regiments from 1778 to 1783. & Gephart 13912. Letter-book of Captain Alexander McDonald, of the Royal Highland Emigrants, 1775-1799. Pp203-498. tall8vo., 23cm, first edition, xii,515p., with 6 lithographed sketch maps, (3 folded) in Krafft part, in the original green pebbled cloth, gilt spine title and borders with gilt shamrock decoration, a fine bright copy.…

16 pp. Text triple column. Unopened. Wood engraving to front wrapper. 8vo. 11-3/8" x 8-1/4" Per Johannsen, "Date of story, from 1776 to the end of the war. A wreck on the Atlantic. Georgia and New York City. General Greene takes part as one of the characters. Battle of Long Island." Uncommon in the trade, especially in this nice condition. Age-toning, some minor edge rash. Corner clip. A VG copy. Printed self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve Later edition from this series, 1st published in the Dime Library, 1862.…

No Binding. Condición: Good. One sheet of chain-laid paper, folded into four pages, with a partially printed form on the first three pages and handwritten entries and responses. Tape to old folds. Presented on June 24, 1820. William Curtis, age 63, swears that he is a veteran who fought in the Revolutionary War and petitions to continue receiving his pension. According to his statement, "I entered in as a soldier in Capt. Edward Hull's Company, 5th Regiment of the Virginia line on the Continental establishment commanded by Colonel Daniel Morgan at Northumberland County in Virginia int he month of August 1777 during the war, after which I was commanded by Capt. Samuel Booker in the spring of 1780. I was at the taking of Stony Point under General Wayne after which I was at the siege of Charlestown 1780 under General Lincoln in which siege I was captured." Curtis is illiterate and signs with his mark, witnessed by the clerk, Benjamin Ferris. Seal of the Court on page 3 and the deposition is attested and signed by the clerk as well. The recorder, Peter A. Jay, is the oldest son of Founding Father John Jay.…

Hardcover book. Previous owner signature of Elisha Shaw. This could be Elisha Shaw, 6 Mar 1758 - 6 Aug 1839, son of Elisha Shaw Sr and Susannah Clark, who relocated to Bath Maine in 1761. He is buried in Union Cemetery, Leeds, Maine. According to Find a Grave, Susannah was "famed for shooting a bear, as it was carrying off one of the family's sheep." Also from FaG - "Elisha was a sergeant in Capt. Benjamin Lemont's co., Col. John Allen's regt. He enlisted Oct. 2, 1777 and was discharged Dec. 31, 1777; service, 3 mos. 10 days, including 12 days (240 miles) travel home. The regiment was raised for defense of Machias. He was also an ensign in Capt. Jordan Parker's co., Col. Samuel McCobb's regt. He enlisted May 15, 1781 and was discharged Dec. 1, 1781; service, 6 mos. 15 days. Elisha was married to Lucy Lombard." Light scattered foxing, period full leather worn with front board detached. The first couple pages are the Courts in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Includes extensive lists of government officials, educational and religious institutions, postal rates, duties, laws, etc. Drake 3613; Evans 35487. 12mo, (20) 172pp. First 20 pages of the months of the year, etc. are interleaved with blank pages, presumably for notes.…

An early appeal under the landmark pension act of March 18, 1818, the first federal legislation extending lifetime pensions to needy Revolutionary War veterans who had not been disabled in service. Benjamin Wilcox, a former lieutenant in the Rhode Island Continental Line, had applied almost immediately after the law's passage, submitting his claim before a Newport judge in late March. Nearly five months later, having received no response, he wrote directly to Secretary of War John C. Calhoun: "To my great disappointment [I] have heard nothing of it since. If lack of evidence has been the cause, I think I should have heard so. But this was deemed hardly possible by my friends after having given in one of two commissions that I have the honour to have held & such other evidence of services, poverty & inability to obtain a livelihood, from old age & weakness as the law appeared to require." The new program attracted far more applicants than anticipated, forcing Congress to tighten eligibility requirements in 1820. Calhoun himself reported to Congress in 1823 that the War Department had not kept count of pension applications until August 1818, the very month Wilcox wrote demanding to know what had become of his claim. . Old folds, light toning and minor marginal wear. Very good. Manuscript letter, one page on a folded sheet, signed in Wilcox?s name by Thomas Williams as agent. 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches.…

Hardcover. 1st edition. x, 305 p.; 18 cm. (Evans 36455) Good rubbed sheep, - ffep, pages toned. Lib bookplate.

Dated Eagle Pass, Texas, November 14, 1916. From Fred Hetzel of the 14th U.S. Cavalry to his friend George Allen of Minneapolis, keeping in touch, describing his recent army life. "I like the Cavalry fine, George, and have advanced very well. I am taking an exam for a non-commissioned officer.you have heard about the trouble I suppose.I ride 120 miles every 5 days along the river from one ranch to another keeping a lookout for smugglers and cattle rustlers. I have been in a few scrapes along the line and was shot in the knee last May but have since recovered. The country hare is very wild, you don't see a ranch but about once in every 30 miles of hard travel.I have shot plenty of game such as deer - duck - antelope and never run out of chow.the weather here is fine, it never rains and we never wear an overcoat.I remain as ever Pvt. Fred Hetzel, Troop G, 14th U.S. Cav. Eagle Pass, Texas. Two conjugate leaves, 4 pages, folded for mailing. With the original mailing envelope - on the back is printed "Troop G, 14th U.S. Cavalry". The letter in Very Good condition; the envelope a bit soiled, a patch of off-setting on the front from some paper laid on, the postmark complete. Both the letter and envelope written in pencil.…

Sheets. Condición: Very Good. In-folio. Four-page newspaper, somewhat stained and worn, but intact and quite legible. It contains various bits of news from that time, but most importantly, excerpts of the September 30, 1780 London Gazette with news from Sir Henry Clinton and Lieutenant General Earl Cornwallis of the progress of the American Revolutionary War and General Washington's troop movements in New York State. "Letter from Sir Clinton to Lord George Germain, dated New York, August 14th 1780; "Letter from Sir Clinton to Lord George Germain, dated Long Island, August 20th 1780; "Letter from Lt. General Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton, dated South Carolina, June 30th, 1780; "Letter from Lt. General Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton, dated South Carolina, July 14th, 1780; "Letter from Lt. General Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton, dated South Carolina, July 15th, 1780; "Letter from Lt. General Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton, dated South Carolina, August 6th, 1780; "News from ships Blonde & Galatea in New York; "News from French troops in Rhode Island. A total of more than 3 columns of reporting on the American Revolutionary War in 1780. The Morning Post was a conservative daily newspaper published in London from 1772 to 1937. General Sir Henry Clinton (1730-1795) was a British army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1772 and 1795. He is best known for his service as a general during the American War of Independence. First arriving in Boston in May 1775, from 1778 to 1782 he was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America. Lt. General Earl Cornwallis (1738-1805) joined the army in 1757, seeing action in the Seven Years' War. He saw military action in 1776 in the American War of Independence. Active in the advance forces of many campaigns, in 1780 he inflicted an embarrassing defeat on the American army at the Battle of Camden. Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown in October 1781 after an extended campaign through the Southern states, marked by disagreements between him and his superior, General Sir Henry Clinton. Lord George Germain, (1716-1785) was a British soldier and politician who was Secretary of State for America during the American War of Independence.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with traces of mount, and red wax seal, adhering to the reverse of the second leaf, which is franked (the franker's name and signature illegible) to 'Sir John Phippart [sic] | &c &c | No 8 New Burlington St'. Slight loss to one corner of second leaf, from breaking open of seal, with damage to one word of text. The recipient is the naval writer John Philippart (c.1784-1874), and the address is in fact that of the publishing house of Colburn and Bentley, publishers of the Naval and Military Gazette of which Philippart was the editor. The letter, which concerns a contribution to that journal by Dundas, begins: 'Dear Sir | I shall send in a few days another conclusion to your journal which I think you will deem better worth insertion than my foregoing one. It contains the battle of Fuentes and some matter immediately succeeding'. Dundas hopes that Philippart will find room for the piece in the number for March, and explains that it will take at least as much space 'as the Artle you mention to be in the Jany No and which has not come to hand'. In a postscript he asks, 'If it is not a secre[t,] Pay who is [binded?] whose opinion in my respects coincide with mine?'.…

Condición: Very good condition. Finely printed chromolithographed 12 page calendar with Revolutionary War depictions, which includes a cover illustration of George Washington at Valley Forge 1778, and a view from Garrison's North Redoubt on the Hudson River looking towards West Point. The view is captioned, "West Point -- with its Fortifications & c. 1780". A full page of text printed on the verso describes West Point in 1780. The calendar was created as a trade souvenir to be distributed at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Each month in this lavishly illustrated and gilt decorated calendar with titled illustration has a b&w verso of text or woodcut illustration of buildings at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876. Kronheim & Co. was founded by the German born lithographer and wood engraver Joseph Martin Kronheim, who is noted for working with George Baxter, the English printed credited with the invention of commercially viable color printing. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4". 13pp, string bound. Lavishly printed with gilt highlights, the colors fresh and intense. OCLC: 341180480 records one copy at University of Massachusetts, Boston.…