MiliTArY HiSTOrY

86 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) ALGHISI, M. GALASSO Delle Fortificationi ... Libri tre. [Venice:] [Grazioso Percacino], 1570.

Large folio, full limp vellum. First (and only) edition, considered one of the most beautifully engraved military fortification books of all time. Engraved architectural title page, 39 engraved illustrations of fortifications, of which 19 are double-page. [66]-406-[1]. Worm traces to lower inner margins of many leaves, occasionally resulting in marginal loss to illustrations; occasional marginalia; soiling and warping to vellum; spotting and soiling to some pages; foxing along edges of most pages; intermittent dampstaining along upper edge and inner margin of some leaves; otherwise fine. $3,000-5,000

87 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) BELICI, (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) Nuova inventione di fabricar fortezze di varie forme. Venice: Robert Meietti, 1598.

Folio, modern dark brown calf, gilt title to spine. Engraved title vignette, illustrated throughout with engraved plans, diagrams, and maps. [4]-116. Intermittent foxing; renewed endpapers; some spots to binding; marginal manuscript notations; top right corners of pp. 109 and 115 torn; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

88 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) BUSCA, GABRIELLO Delle espugnatione et difesa delle fortezze. Libre due. Turin: Heirs de Nicolo Bevilacqua, 1585.

4to, vellum, woodcut arms of Savoy on title. First edition. Illustrated with 10 double-page woodcuts of military operations, historiated initials and engraved chapter headings. Gabriello Busca was in the service of the Duke of Savoy since 1570 and was the first to discuss the proportions and functions of different parts of a military front. Soiling to boards; occasional isolated brown spotting; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000

89 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) CATANEO, (PIETRO) I Quattro Primi Libri di Architettura. Venice: Sons of Aldus, (1554).

4to, rebacked with plain paper boards with manuscript title to spine. First edition. Important work on architecture and perspective with particular interest in the planning of fortified towns and ecclesiastical and domestic buildings. Woodcut printer’s device to title page and verso of final leaf, historiated initials and numerous in-text engravings of plans, some full page. Page numbers on rectos only. [4]-54-[2]. Spotted dampstaining to some pages; minor wear to boards; occasional marginal notations; some leaves and plates trimmed, with engravings on verso extended along inner margin of recto; some pages with dark smudge in upper right corner; p. 47v with blue mark to center; p. 51 misnumbered; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000

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90 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) LORINI, BONAIUTO Le Fortificationi ... nuovamente ristampate. Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1609.

2 parts in 1 vol. Folio, full calf, gilt-stamped title to spine. Large woodcut device on title page, engraved portrait of author, engraved head-pieces, historiated initials and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams in-text. First published in 1596, this enlarged edition is the first to include a portrait of the author and a supplementary chapter treating the defense of fortifications. [12]-301 (of 303)[1]. Lacking pp. 57-58; 30-31 reinforced at inner margin; pp. 155, 185 and 297 misnumbered; wear to boards; intermittent foxing; dampstaining to numerous pages, including title and portrait; red marks and institutional stamp to title page; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

91 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) MAGGI, GIROLAMO, et al. Della Fortificatione delle Citta di M. Girolamo Maggi, e del Capitan Iacomo Castriotto ... Libri III. Venice: Rutilio Borgominiero, 1564.

Folio, modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt spine label. First edition. Woodcut head-piece and printer’s device to title page and colophon, numerous woodcut illustrations throughout, many full-page, with typographical military formations at end. [4]-140. Intermittent foxing; some browning; 1 inch repaired tear to bottom of title page; contemporary ink inscription to title page; rubbing to boards; some pages misnumbered and misbound, but complete; some pages trimmed down; otherwise fine. $1,500-2,500 92 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) SARDI, PIETRO Corona imperiale dell’architettura militare. Venice: By the Author, 1618.

2 parts in 1 vol. Folio, vellum. First edition. Part I illustrated with engraved pictorial title by Gaspar Grispoldi, woodcut head-pieces, initials, and large woodcut device. Part II with 45 half-page engraved plans, one bound in. [27]-285 (of 299)-[1]-83[1]. Lacking 6 pages and three engravings; p. 91 misnumbered; occasional soiling and staining; 1 inch tear to top edge of p. 201; bottom right corner shaved on pp. 291 and 299; upper right corner torn on p. 5, part II; small tear to top edge p. 71, part II; slight wormholing to endpapers; intermittent foxing. $800-1,200

93 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) SESTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA Piante delle citta, piazze e castelli fortificati in questo Stato di Milano con le loro dichiarazioni . . . Milan: [Frederico] Agnelli, 1707.

Thin 4to, full leather. Complete with engraved title page vignette, folding map, folding plan and 22 engraved fortification plans for 24 cities with hand-painted borders, each with facing letterpress key within an elaborate engraved border. Manuscript notations to front endpaper; hinges starting; foxing to some pages; offsetting from hand-painted borders to verso of some leaves; small wormhole to bottom of final leaf; occasional soiling and spotting; “Cremona” with repaired tear; manuscript notation to title page; bookseller’s sticker to foot of spine; otherwise fine. $2,000-4,000

94 (MILITARY FORTIFICATIONS) THETI, CARLO Discorsi delle fortificationi, espugnationi, & disese delle citta, & d’altri Luoghi. Venice: Franceschi Senese, 1589.

Folio, quarter vellum over plain boards. Large allegorical woodcut device to title page, historiated initials and head-pieces, engraved illustrations in-text, with some full-page. The best and most complete edition of Theti’s famous treaty, after the 1569 edition of 30 pp. only, and the 1575 edition, which contains the first two books only. [4]-49-[3], [4]-86-[2 (blank)], 70. Scattered marginalia; pages evenly browned with some dampstaining; 2 inch tear to p. 69; large brown spot to p. 25; some pages misnumbered; soiling and wear to boards; bottom 1/3 of text block starting; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000

95 GODDARD, (T.) AND J. BOOTH The Military Costume in Europe. London: 1812-[1822].

2 vols. in 1. 8vo, 3/4 leather, gilt-stamped titles to black leather spine label. Numerous hand-colored plates, some with tissue guards. First edition. Blindstamp to title page; inventory number stamped in blue to advertisement page; intermittent light foxing; soiling and light staining to some plates; wear to boards with some loss at the edges and extremities; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

96 (MILITARY) A group of two books pertaining to army tactics.

Tactical Deductions from the War of 1870-71. By A. V. Boguslawki. Leavenworth, Kansas: George A. Spooner, 1891. Artillery Tactics: United States Army, Assimilated to the Tactics of Infantry and Cavalry. New York: D. Appleton, 1878. $100-200

97 (COMMUNISM) ELECTION POSTER Vote Communist Against Hunger, Wage Cuts, Fascism and War. Newsprint broadside. One-sided. A 1934 Communist election advertisement. Text at lower center lists ten reasons to vote Communist. Bottom reads, “The Hamtramck Municipal Primary Election Will Be Held Wednesday, March 7, 1934.” Darkening and chipping to edges; 2 inch tear along lower edge; top edge pasted to board; photograph of “George Moszczynski” is a later photo pasted down. 22 x 14 inches. $100-200

98* (COMMUNISM) A group of six pamphlets.

The Case of Leon Trotsky: Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him in the Moscow Trials. By the Preliminary Commission of Inquiry. New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1937. A Paradise in this World. By Leon Trotsky. London: B. S. P., n.d. A Series of Lectures on Social Justice. By Charles E. Coughlin. Royal Oak, Michigan: The Radio League of the Little Flower, 1935. Behind the Moscow Trial. By Max Shachtman. New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1936. The Ballot and the Class Struggle. By Daniel de Leon. New York: New York Labor News Company, 1947. Weimarer historisch-genealoges taschenbuch des Leipzig (1893). Berlin: Jahrgang, 1913. Property from the University of Chicago $100-200

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99 (CRIMEAN WAR) BROADSIDE BALLAD The Fall of Sebastopol: Taken by Storm on the 8th and 9th September, 1855. Glasgow: James Lindsay, n.d. (c. 1856)

Housed in a custom cloth-backed folding case. Printed broadside, number 224. Scarce, no other copies located. The Crimean War was a popular theme for ballads throughout Britain. James Lindsay was a prolific ballad publisher who operated in Glasgow between 1850 and 1900. Slight creasing, affecting some text; some marginal fraying; minor foxing; paper thinned; otherwise fine. 9 2/3 x 7 1/2 inches. $100-200

100* (MISSILES) An archive of manuscript, typescript and printed materials, including flight-plans, memoranda, technical booklets, aerial photographs and maps, pertaining to weapons systems tests, rocket firing and N.A.S.A. technical reports, many marked confidential.

Titles of reports include, Theoretical Investigation of Sight-Line Variation During Non-Coplanar NearCollision Attacks of a Fighter Against a Bomber, (marked confidential), A Procedure for Checking Sighting Data in Air-to-Ground Rocket Firing, Progress Report on Theoretical Studies of Flexible Gun fighter and Bomber in Horizontal Coplanar Opposition, Analysis of Aiming Errors of the Armament Control System, The Mathematical Theory of Airborne Fire Control, Camera Assessment of Fighter Plane Gunfights, and others. (List of titles available upon request)

Maps, aerial photographs and research memorandum pertaining to “Project Rand,” suggest research for the U. S. military and are contemporary with the Cuban Missile crisis. The owner of the archive, was an accomplished mathematician, who worked in conjunction with Northwestern University’s Aerial Measurements Laboratory and N.A.S.A. on projects such as computerizing and testing naval jets during the 1950s and 1960s.

Property from the Estate of Marjorie Jeanne Wiley, Evanston, Illinois $600-800 101 TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL A collection of approximately 350 documents (mostly cyclostyle copies of originals), and other items from the U.S. and foreign prosecutor cases for the indictment of the leaders of the Empire of Japan at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (May 5, 1946 - November 2, 1948), most commonly known as the Tokyo War Crimes Trial, from the archive of Calhoun Phelps, Head of the Documents Division.

The collection comprises: Approximately 55 documents, bound and single-sheet, for the use of the U.S. prosecuting team, including: 27 page Planning Memorandum distributed to the delegations at the beginning of the London Conference of June, 1945, marked “Secret,” a 68 page transcript of the trial proceedings, an 8 page unpublished script for a propaganda film entitled “Glorious Japan,” 19 pages of typed conference declarations from Potsdam, Moscow, Cairo and others, a 22 page document entitled, “Japanese Constitution, and the Functions of the Various Offices Held by Defendants,” affidavits from witnesses, rules of procedure for the Tribunal, numerous extensive telephone directories, one of which is hand-written and lists the names and addresses of local merchants and citizens who have copiers available to the documents division, a 9 page list of names of Japanese and Puppets exercising Civilian Control in Occupied China, a 27 page full translation of the Records of Japanese Home Ministry and Personnel list of the Greater JAPANASIA Prosperity Alliance, a 14 page Chronological List of Incidents, extracts from the testimonies of Captain Richard Huizenga and British Corporal John C. Slaughter, and numerous other inventories, memoranda from the prosecution and various U.S. and foreign departments, correspondences, and directories. Together approximately 350 pages, mainly 4to; photographs, including a panorama of the 26 defendants; full newspapers and newspaper clippings pertaining to the trials and the incidents leading up to them; tourist books; official passes; a few printed items and memorabilia. 2 vols. Folio, tipped onto sheets of plain paper scrap books. Tears, dampstaining, and general wear to many of the documents.

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East was one of the most important trials of the twentieth-century. Its proceedings and vast collection of documents remain invaluable primary resources. In addition to the primary resources, the collection includes information regarding all of the conventions and organizations of the Allied powers following World War II, including the Potsdam Conference, the London Conference, the Moscow Convention and the Cairo Conference.

The present collection is the most extensive archive of documents from the trial to be offered to the public, with other collections housed mainly in national archives and universities. Phelps, as Head of the Documents Division, had complete access to tribunal case files. $1,000-2,000

102 WATARI GROUP INFORMATION DEPT. The Philippine Expeditionary Force. Translation. Printed in Japanese Characters. Manila: Manila News Print Office, 1943.

Folio, original printed boards, red cloth spine, decorative endpapers. Propaganda book of photographs published by the Japanese Watari Group as a pictorial account of the Japanese military campaign in the Philippines. Captions in Japanese. Wear to boards; hinges reinforced; some soiling to leaves; spine split and cloth fraying; otherwise sound. $100-200 103 (WWII POSTERS) BEN SHAHN A group of two WWII propaganda posters issued by the Office of War Information signed by the artist Ben Shahn, including We French Workers Warn You...Defeat Means Slavery, Starvation, Death, (U.S. Government Printing Office), and This is Nazi Brutality, (U.S. Office of War Information). Size of largest 28 x 40 inches. $400-600

104 (WWII POSTERS) OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION A group of nine WWII propaganda posters issued by the Office of War Information, comprising Help stop fuel waste, (O.W.I. No. 12); “We consider peace a catastrophe for human cvilization” Mussolini. What do you say America? (O.W.I. unnumbered); I’ll carry mine too! Trucks and tires must last till victory, (O.W.I. No.28); Give War Bonds for Christmas, (O.W.I. for U.S. Treasury Department); Is your trip necessary? Needless travel interferes with the war effort, (O.W.I. No. 74); Use it up-Wear it out-Make it do! Our labor and our goods are fighting, (O.W.I. No.39); War shipments mean less fuel for all. Dress warmly indoors. Avoid colds, (O.W.I. No. 29); We have just begun to fight, (O.W.I. No. 62); They did their part (Five Sullivan brothers), (O.W.I. No. 42). Size of largest 28 x 40 inches. $200-400

105 (WWII POSTERS) OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION A group of 24 WWII propaganda posters, most of which are issued by the Office of War Information, comprising: Oh, Boy! That’s the Girl! The Salvation Armie Lassie, Keep Her on the Job, (Sackett & Wilhelms Corporation); Ours. . . To Fight For. Freedom From Want, (O.W.I. No. 45); 7th War Loan, Now. . All Together, (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); United We Are Strong. United We Will Win, (O.W.I. No. 64); FDR Quotation, (O.W.I. No. 13); “Strong in the strength of the Lord we who fight in the people’s cause will never stop until that cause is won,” (O.W.I. No. 8); Ours to Fight For. . . Freedom From Fear, (O.W.I. No 46); United We Win, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Bowl Them Over. More Production, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Americans All. (FDR Quotation), (U.S. Government Printing Office); They’ve got more important places to go than you! . . . Save Rubber. Check Your Tires Now, (O.W.I. No. 21); Armed Forces Insignia, (U.S. Government Printing Office); “Just meet those schedules, will you?” (U.S. Army Poster No. 152); A Careless Word. . . A Needless Loss, (O.W.I. Poster No. 36); She’s a Swell Plane - Give Us More! More Production, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Give War Bonds. The Present with a Future, (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); Target No.1 New York City. Protect It. Enroll Now at Your Local C.D.V.O. This is Nazi Brutality, (O.W.I. No. 11); Back the Attack! Buy War Bonds, Ours. . . To Fight For. Freedom From Want, (O.W.I. No. 45); This Man May Die If You Talk Too Much, (O.W.I. No. 6); Do With Less - So They’ll Have Enough! (O.W.I. No 37); Someone Talked! (O.W.I. No. 18); A Careless Word. . . A Needless Sinking, (O.W.I. No. 24); Careless Talk. . . Got There First, (O.W.I. unnumbered). Size of largest 28 x 39 1/2 inches. $600-800

106 (WWI POSTERS) RED CROSS A group of nine Red Cross posters, comprising: Over Here Too, Red Cross Will Help; The American of Tomorrow; The Red Cross Fosters Community Health; I Summon You to the Comradeship (FDR); “The First Three!” Give till it Hurts ~ they gave till they died; Fourth Red Cross Roll Call; Still the Greatest Mother in the World; Answer the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call; The Red Cross Sees a Man Through; Red Cross Christmas Roll Call, Dec. 16-23rd; The Greatest Mother in the World; and With your boy. . . When he needs her most. Red Cross Week. Size of largest 28 1/2 x 41 inches. $400-600

107 (WWI AND WWII POSTERS) A group of 20 posters issued during WWI and WWII by the U.S. government, comprising: We Clear the Way for Your Fighting Dollars. Buy 4th Liberty Loan U.S. Government Bonds; Remember Belgium. Buy Bonds, Fourth Liberty Loan; Ring It Again. Buy U.S. Gov’t Bonds. Third Liberty Loan; Save Your Cans. Help Pass the Ammunition, (War Production Board); . . .Remember Me? I’m Still Fighting You! (Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Palau); Must Children Die and Mothers Plead in Vain? Buy More Liberty Bonds; YMCA: Workers, Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle; Save Freedom of Speech. Buy War Bonds, (O.W.I. No. 44); 1946 Resolution - That Every American Buy and Hold U.S. Savings Bonds, (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); Halt the Hun! Buy U.S. Government Bonds. Third Liberty Loan; “Good Bye, Dad, I’m Off To Fight For Old Glory, You Buy U.S. Gov’t Bonds.” Third Liberty Loan; Give It Your Best! (Flag) (U.S. Government Printing Office); The Spirit of War Camp Community Service; YMCA (Pershing Quotation); YMCA: Your Boy in the Movies! See Him in Uniform in The Red Triangle; Keep ‘Em Smiling! Help War Camp Community Service, (United War Work Campaign); See Him Through. Help Us To Help the Boys, (United War Work Campaign); Airacobra. Poison to the Axis. . . And a Fighter the Army Air Forces Praise, (U.S. Army); Hun or Home? Buy More Liberty Bonds; and For Every Fighter a Woman Worker, (United War Work Campaign). Size of largest 28 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches. $600-800 108 (WWI AND WWII POSTERS) A group of 16 posters issued by the U.S. government, comprising: Let ‘Em Have It. Buy Extra Bonds, (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); Buy War Bonds, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Back the Attack! Buy War Bonds 3rd War Loan, (U.S. Government Printing Office); This Man is Your Friend (Russian). He Fights for Freedom, (U.S. Government Printing Office); This Man is Your Friend (Russian). He Fights for Freedom, (U.S. Government Printing Office); This Man is Your Friend (Australian). He Fights for Freedom, (U.S. Government Printing Office); This Man is Your Friend (Ethiopian). He Fights for Freedom, (U.S. Government Printing Office); This Man is Your Friend (Dutch Sailor). He Fights for Freedom, (U.S. Government Printing Office); The United Nations Fight For Freedom, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Keep Him Flying! Buy War Bonds, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Advance of the 288th Field Artillery Observation BN; Your Country Needs You Now! Enlist Today, (O.W.I. No. 79); Serve Those Who Served. Nurses Are Needed in VA Hospitals, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Stamp Out Black Markets...With Your Ration Stamps, (U.S. Government Printing Office); War Stamps and Bonds (4 Historic and Patriotic Scenes), (U.S. Government Printing Office); Keep ‘Em Flying! Air Crews Are Vital For Victory, (U.S. Army Recruiting & Induction Station); and Right Is Might, (U.S. Army Recruiting & Induction Station).

13 inch tear along center fold of Stamp Out Black Markets . . .With Your Ration Stamps, poster; otherwise fine. Size of largest 25 x 38 inches. $200-400 109 (WWI AND WWII POSTERS) A group of 16 posters issued by the U.S. government, comprising: Give War Bonds: The Present with a Future, (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); For Freedom’s Sake, Buy War Bonds, (U.S. Government Printing Office); The Most You Can Save is the Least You Can Do. Buy War Bonds or Stamps Every Day, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Be a Seabee; Join the “Can Do” Boys of the Navy, (Navy Recruiting Station); Defend Your Country, Enlist Now in the United States Army, (U.S. Army); Even a Little Can Help A Lot - Now. Buy U.S. War Stamps & Bonds, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Join the Club: A Stamp a Day for a Man Who’s Away, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Dimes For Invasion! Keep ‘Em Coming, Buddy, (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); Battle Route of the XII Corps, (Corp Engineers); United States Army Decorations, (U.S. Army Recruiting Service); They’re Fighting Harder Than Ever. Are You Buying More War Bonds Than Ever? (Official U.S. Treasury Poster); Doing All You Can, Brother? (U.S. Government Printing Office); Just Be Sure You Put At Least 10% of it in War Bonds! Top That 10%! (U.S. Government Printing Office); Your Metal Keeps ‘Em Shooting, (U.S. Government Printing Office); Till We Meet Again. Buy War Bonds; and War Stamps and Bonds (4 Historic and Patriotic Scenes). Size of largest 28 x 40 inches. $200-400

110 (WWII POSTERS) A group of 12 WWII-era flags for overhead display. 13 x 8 inches each. $50-100