Casey Brig Gen Silas (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardback. 24mo. 1862. Fair. Original cloth binding. Wear to fore edge corners. Water staining to several pages. Binding is intact with front hinge starting. All fold-outs appear to be present and intact. 183pp plus ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. . . . . 16mo, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Good- condition. Significant water staining to the rear cover along the spine, and to the upper edge of the textblock, extending an inch into the text. Text complete, including folding frontis. plate. history military civil war union army.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good plus. No DJ. Facsimile Reprint. Tipped in map in front has slight glue residue along edge. No additional markings to pages. Binding is square and tight. Boards are overall clean, minor wear to edges. Text block is lightly soiled. No dust jacket. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. As new trade paperback reprint of volume 1 undated but circa 1995 looks unread but shows minute shelfwear. no title to spine. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete 3 Volume Set. Volume I: 279 pages, with illustrations and fold-out. Ads at rear. Volume II: 279 pages, with illustrations and fold-outs. Ads at rear. Volume III: 183 pages, with illustrations and fold-outs. Ads at rear. Light wear only. All hinges strong. Published "By Authority, August 1862". Former owner's signature. Very Scarce, especially as a complete set.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 16mo, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. Union Army association copy, signed by the previous owner, an officer in what appears to be the 12th. West Virginia Volunteers. Text complete, including all folding plates. history military civil war union army.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. . . . . 16mo, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. Union Army association copy, signed by the previous owner, a Second Lieutenant in what appears to be the 12th. West Virginia Volunteers. Slight water staining to the rear cover along the spine, and to the upper edge of the last 40 pages.Text complete, including all folding plates. history military civil war union army.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 36/36 plates, 5 x 3.5", blindstamped green cloth, gilt spine lettering, 279pp including contents + 6pp ads. Covers warped, well worn, stained, corners/spine tips bumped, spotted, lacks ffep, staining in margins, plates toned with scattered spotting and staining, plate 4 torn and plate 24 chipped. Binding tight. Maybe studied "on the road" because of condition. Ink initials in the rear "W.W.H.". The following year, 1863, Brig.-Gen. Casey (who served in the Mexican War and Civil War) wrote "Infantry Tactics For Colored Troops". Volume II only.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. hardback book in fair to good condition,mottled cver panel,foldout in back,have some wrinkles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. First Edition. Most of fold outs seem never to have been folded out. Two were folded out and not folded back in correctly so they overhang the pages a bit at front page edge. Last 2 pages of advertisements have been removed as has the rear free page. Bookplate of previous owner laid in: Lewis E. C. Hinckley. On front free page is the inked name: L. Hinckley, 18th Maine Vols, LEC Hinckley, Dec. 19th, 1876. The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army during the Civil War. It suffered more casualties in an ill-fated charge during the Siege of Petersburg than any Union regiment lost in a single day of combat throughout the war. The regiment was mustered in Bangor, Maine, in 1862 as the 18th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment and consisted mostly of men and officers from the Penobscot River Valley.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume Three: School of the Battalion only of a three volume set. 32mo. Publisher's decorative dark green cloth boards with the Great Seal of the United States stamped in blind on the boards and gilt lettering and a gilt eagle emblem on the spine, and the corners of the pages are angled. Boards and spine worn, some scattered foxing, very good. Casey's highly influential book of infantry tactics used by both sides of the American Civil War; a revised edition was issued in 1863 specifically for use by African-American soldiers.…

Vol. II-III only. Complete with 36 + 29 plates, nearly all folding. 16mo, publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered on spines. First edition. Slight use to the cloth; very attractive. Each volume bears the ownership signature of a Captain , Co. D, 111 Regt. N.Y., one in in ink and the other in pencil.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volumes Two and Three only of a three volume set. 32mos. Publisher's decorative dark green cloth boards with the Great Seal of the United States stamped in blind on the boards and gilt lettering and a gilt eagle emblem on the spines. All three volumes are illustrated with engraved plates, diagrams, and charts, some of which fold out. Boards and spines worn, corners bumped, soiling to the boards of Volume Two, owner names on the front pastedown of Volume Two, and a few pages with some foxing, good or better. Casey's highly influential book of infantry tactics used by both sides of the American Civil War; a revised edition was issued in 1863 specifically for use by African-American soldiers. Includes, Volume Two: Evolutions of a Brigade and Corps D'Arm?e, and Volume Three: School of the Battalion. The owner name in Volume Two is that of Civil War Veteran Edward E. Wiggin, his address is written as China, Kennebec Co., Maine, where he is now buried. He died in 1871 at the age of 27. He wrote his name twice and beside the second instance of his name he drew a small Freemason "Square and Compasses" symbol.…

Green Embossed Cloth. Condition: Light General Cover Wear. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jackets. First Edition. THREE VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Spines lettered in gilt.American eagle blind-stamped on both covers. Volume 1 published in 1863, the other two published in 1862. Volume 1 has 279pp. + adverts and 32 plates, light water-staining bottom of first few pages; Volume 2 has 279pp. + ads sand 36 plates, some spotting on title-page; Volume 3 has 183pp. + ads and 29 plates. Many of the plates are folding. The trifold illustration in Volume 1 has been professionally repaired with archival tape and is intact. Collated complete. In Volume 1, there are 2 plate #20, but different plates, so mis-numbered. A very clean, readable set. See phots. Size: 5 1/4" x 3 1/2".…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3 volume set. v. 1. Schools of the soldier and company : instructions for skirmishers and music --V. 2. School of the battalion --V. 3. Evolutions of a brigade and corps d'armee. Bound in publisher's cloth. Chip on spine edge of vol. 2. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. 279 ; 279 ; 183 pages. 97 illustrations. Fold out diagrams. Vol. 2 & 3 printed 1862. Vol. 1 printed 1863. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Three volumes. 32mos. Publisher's decorative dark green cloth boards with the Great Seal of the United States stamped in blind on the boards and gilt lettering and a gilt eagle emblem on the spines. All three volumes are illustrated with engraved plates, diagrams, and charts, some of which fold out, including a fold-out frontispiece chart in Volume One. Owner name of Captain Hiram Rollins on front free endpaper of Volume Three. The boards and spine all show some wear, hinges on Volume One starting, a stain on the front board of Volume Two, Volume Three with an abrasion along the bottom of the spine, the outer panel of the frontispiece has torn off, scattered foxing throughout, overall good or better. Casey's highly influential book of infantry tactics used by both sides of the American Civil War; a revised edition was issued in 1863 specifically for use by African-American soldiers. Captain Hiram Rollins, of Dover, N.H., served in Company D of the Second New Hampshire regiment during the Civil War. He was injured in the battle of Bull Run by a musket ball to the arm but managed to survive, going on to be promoted to Major, then to Brevet Lieut.-Col; he passed away in Washington D.C., August 20, 1868. A complete set of an important piece of historic military instructions with a nice association.…

New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1863, 1862. Three first edition volumes in the publisher's green embossed cloth, each stamped in blind with an American eagle with eagle decoration and spine titling in gilt. Wear to corners and spine ends of volume 3. All 97 plates present, many of which are folding. Sporadic foxing / soiling commensurate with age. Owned by Capt. John Devereux (1831 -1916), of the Minnesota 3rd Infantry. …

Condition: Very Good. D. Van Nostrand New York 1862 Binding: Hardcover Crack to top half of interior hinge, bumping to crown of spine, and foxing throughout. otherwise good condition.