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Contents

General
Artillery
Cavalry
Engineering
Infantry
Ordnance
Weapons
Miscellaneous

General

• Farrow, Edward Samel. Farrow's Military Encyclopedia (1885)(3 Vol.); 2321 pages, +88 plates of illus. 3000+ illus. Price 242.00 {Item No.4880} [Details] [You can use your browser back key to return to this page]
• Mahan, D.H. Advance-Guard, Out-Post and Detachment Service of Troops, with the Essential Principles of Strategy, and Grand Tactics. For the use of officers of the militia and volunteers. New York: John Wiley (1864); 305 pages, 12 plates of illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.4594}

Artillery

• War Department. Instruction for Heavy Artillery. Prepared by a Board of Officers, for the use of the Army of the United States with Service of a Gun Mounted on an Iron Carriage. New York: D.Van Nostrand (1863); 254 pages, +39 plates of illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.4572} [Details]
• War Dept. Instruction for Field Artillery (1864); 348 pages, 88 plates Price 35.00 {Item No.1131} [Complete drill instruction manual for American Civil Blackpowder Field Artillery]

Cavalry

• Denison, Jr., Lt.Colonel George T.; Modern Cavalry: Its Organization, Armament, and Employment in War (London:Thomas Bosworth 1868); 376 pages, illus. (three color plates difficult to copy) Price 37.50 {Item No.1313} [A manual on Cavalry tactics after the experience of the American Civil War] [Includes a CD with the color plates]
• Garrard, Kenner; Nolan’s System for Training Cavalry Horses (New York: D.Van Nostrand 1862); 114 pages, illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.1304}
• Gray, Alonzo Cavalry Tactics. As Illustrated by the War of the Rebellion. Together with many interesting facts important for cavalry to know. (Part I)(1910); 200 pages, illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.3070} [A large collection of quotes about American Civil War Cavalry Operations cross referenced with their original sources]

Engineering

• Cullum, Brig.-Gen.George W. Systems of Military Bridges in use by the United States Army, Those adopted by the Great European Powers, and such as are employed by British India with directions for the Preservation, Destruction, and Reestablishment of Bridges. D.Van Nostrand: New York (1863); 226 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.3068}
• Mahan, D.H. Military Engineering (Part I. Field Fortification, Military Mining, and Siege Operations)(1865); 284 pages, 100+ illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.1550} [Details]
• Mahan, D.H. An Elementary Course of Military Engineering. Part II. Permanent Fortifications. John Wiley & Son: New York (1867); 176 pages, 18 plates of illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.3072} [Details]
• Mahan, D.H. A Treatise on Field Fortification. Containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defense of permanent fortifications. New York: John Wiley (1848); 168 pages, +12 plates of illus. Price 18.00 {Item No.4575} [Details]
• Mahan, D.H. Descriptive Geometry, as applied to The Drawings of Fortification and Stereotomy. New York: John Wiley & Sons (1883); 60 pages, +12 plates of illus. Price 8.00 {Item No.4563} [New edition of 1864 book with additions including a large section on Stone cutting]
• Wheeler, J.B. The Elements of Field Fortifications. D.Van Nostrand Company: New York (1889); 95 pages,96 illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2396}

Infantry

• Casey, Brigadier General Silas; Infantry Tactics (For the Instruction, Exercise and Maneuvers of The Soldier, A Company, Line of Skirmishers, Battalion, Brigade of Corps C’Arme’e)(New York: Van Nostrand 1863); Vol.1 Schools of the Soldier and Company Instructions for Skirmishers and Music; 279 pages, 32 plates Price 30.00 {Item No.1629} Vol.2 School of the Battalion; 279 pages, 36 plates Price 30.00 {Item No.1630}
• Gilham, Major William; Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia of the United States; Charles Desilver, Phil., Penn. (1861); 743 pages, 177+illus. Price 75.00 {Item No.1632}
• Hardee, Brevet Lt.Col. W.J. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. For the exercise and manoeuvers of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen. (Vol.1) Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Co.(1861); 250 pages, 31 plates of illus. Price 28.00 {Item No.4598}
• Hardee, Brevet Lt.Col. W.J. Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics. For the exercise and manoeuvers of troops when acting as light infantry or riflemen. (Vol.2) School of the Battalion. Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Co.(1861); 232 pages, 35 plates of illus. Price 27.00 {Item No.4608}
• Scott, Major General Winfield Scott. Infantry Tactics. Or rules for the exercise and maneuver of the United States Infantry. (Vol.I) Schools of the Soldier and Company. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers (1840, 1857 edition); 244 pages, and 14 plates of illustrations Price 26.00 {Item No.4818}
• Scott, Major General Winfield Scott. Infantry Tactics. Or rules for the exercise and maneuver of the United States Infantry. (Vol.II) School of Battalion, and Instruction for Light Infantry or Rifle. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers (1840, 1861 edition)(Vol.2); 301 pages, and 24 plates of illustrations Price 35.00 {Item No.4819}
• Scott, Major General Winfield Scott. Infantry Tactics. Or rules for the exercise and maneuver of the United States Infantry. (Vol.III) Evolutions of the Line. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers (1840, 1861 edition); 209 pages, and 26 plates of illustrations Price 25.00 {Item No.4820}
• Upton, Bvt.Major General Emory; A New System of Infantry Tactics (Double and Single Rank Adapted to American Topography and Improved Firearms)(New York: D.Appleton & Co 1868); 392 pages, 109 illus. Price 40.00 {Item No.1633}
• War Department. Abstact of Infantry Tactics; Including Exercises and Manoeuvers of Light-Infantry and Rifleman; for The use of the Militia of the United States; Moss, Brother & Co.; Phil. (1830)(1861 reprint); 138 pages, 30 illus. Price 15.00 {Item No.1628}

Ordnance

• Barnes, Lt-Commander J.S. Submarine Warfare. Offensive and Defensive. Including a discussion of the Offensive Torpedo System, its effects upon Iron-clad ship systems and influence upon future naval wars. D.Van Nostrand: New York (1869); 233 pages, 19+ plates of illustrations Price 25.00 {Item No.3077} [Very good book on the early Water Mine Warfare]
• Benton, Brevet-Col.J.G. Ordnance and Gunnery. New York: D.Van Nostrand (1867)(3rd Edition); 585 pages, 172 illus. Price 59.00 {Item No.4574} [Details]
• Deane, John; Deanes’ Manual of the History and Science of Fire-Arms; Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts; London (1858); 291 pages, illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2343}
• King, W.R.; Torpedoes: Their Invention and Use From their first application to the Art of War to the Present Time; W.R.King; Washington (1866); 98 pages, 22 very large plates Price 20.00 [Difficult to copy and the copy is not in the best shape][A very detailed book on American Civil War water and land mines] {Item No.1791}
• McLean, Dr.James Henry; Dr.J.H.Mclean’s Peace Makers; Baker & Godwin, New York (1880); 200 pages, many illus. Price 20.00 {Item No.2186} [An example of how to make a beautiful ordnance PR book which is filled with of totally fictitious weapons.]
• Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867. Volume V. Report on the Munitions of War. by Charles B.Norton and W.J.Valentine. Washington: Government Printing Office (1868); 213 pages, 68 illus. Price 22.00 {Item No.5330} [This contains 10 chapters on Ordnance at the Exposition, covering many items]
• The Ordnance Manual for Use of the Officers of the United States Army (3rd edition) Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott & Co. (1862); 559 pages, 33 plates of illus. Price 60.00 {Item No.4265} [Difficult to Photocopy]

Weapons

• Berriman, Captain M.W.; The Militiaman’s Manual and Sword-Play without a Master, Rapier and Broad-Sword Exercises(New York: D.Van Nostrand 1864); 107 pages, illus. Price 10.00 {Item No.2214} [Some pages are difficult to copy]
• Busk, Hans. The Rifle: and how to use it. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge (1862)(7th Edition); 255 pages, many illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.3979}
• Walker, Arthur; The Rifle its Theory and Practice; J.B.Nichols and Sons, London (1864); 311 pages, 125+illus. Price 30.00 {Item No.2345}
• Ordnance Doc.No.1769 Handbook of the Gatling Gun, Caliber.30. Models of 1895, 1900, and 1903. Metallic Carriage and Limber and Casemate Mount (1 June 1905, rev.to 11 April 1910); 30 pages, 7 plates of illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.2929}[Note: We also sell our Research Packet: No.5 Gatling Gun; [Operating instructions] 6 References, 60 pages, 51 illus. (8/17/01) Price 10.00 {Item No.8005-3} ; which contains all of the manuals, articles and extracts in the Military/Info Collection on the subject, including the above manual]
• War Department, Adopted by. Rifle Musket, Model 1863. Washington: Government Printing Office (1863); 25 pages, 46 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.4834} [Rules for the Management and Cleaning of the Rifle Musket, Model 1863, for the Use of Soldiers, with Descriptive Plates. Springfield Armory, April 28, 1863]
• War Department, Adopted by. Rifle Musket, Model 1855. Washington: Government Printing Office (1862); 31 pages, 57 illus. Price 4.00 {Item No.4835} [Rules for the Management and Cleaning of the Rifle Musket, Model 1855 for the Use of Soldiers, by E.S.Alllen, Master Armorer, with descriptive plates]
• War Department, Officers of the Ordnance Department. Reports of Experiments with Small Arms for Military Service. Washington, D.C.: A.O.P. Nicholson (1856); 153 pages, illus. Price 16.00 {Item No.4828} [On tests of the Minie ball and other types of small arms ammunition]

Miscellaneous

• Espanet, O.. Notes on the Supply of an Army and Sharpe, Henry G. The Art of Supplying Armies in the Field as Exemplified During the Civil War (1899); 239 pages Price 25.00 {Item No.1816}
• Farrow, Edward Samel. Mountain Scouting (1881); 248 pages, illus. Price 25.00 {Item No.1631}
• Myers, Albert J. A Manual of Signals (1879); 559 pages, 64 illus. Price 60.00 {Item No.1413} [Details]  [An excellent collection of information in signalling techniques used before radio]
• Totten, Charles A.L.; Strategos (1880); Vo1.I Text and Appendices, 179 pages; Vol.II Plates, Tables and Statisitics, 70 pages, illus. Price for set 25.00 {Item No.2141} [Full Title: Strategos: A series of American Games of War Based upon Military Principles and Designed for the Assistance both of Beginners and Advanced Students in prosecuting the whole study of Tactics, Grand Tactics, Strategy, Military History, and the various operations of war illustrated with numberous diagrams to which is appended a collection of studies upon Military Statistics as applied to war on field or map.] [Our copy is not in perfect condition]
• Tripler, Charles S.  Manual of The Medical Officer of the Army of the United States. Part I. Recruiting and the Inspection of Recruits. Cincinnati: Wrightson & Co. (1858); 117 pages  Price 12.00  {Item No.3820}[Army War College]
• War Department. Circular. The Practical Use of Meteorological Reports and Weather Maps (1871); 79 pages, illus.  Price 10.00 {Item No.7540} [Office of the Chief Signal Officer]