Major Edwin Sherman (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. (Enlarged Monumental Edition). 258 pp.; (i)-x, appendix; (i)-xx, supplement; (i)-vii, postscipt; (i)-viii, addenda to the appendix. 8vo; blue cloth lettered in gilt; portrait frontis; illustrated with photographs and other reproductions. Ex-Pacific Union Club library with their bookplate on front pastedown. As was the clubs wont, a 1935 newspaper article is pasted in on the verso of second blank, Bancroft & The West, Fremont told of Secretary's Orders for California. Also affixed to the front pastedown is an old bookseller's catalog entry for the book, and the bookseller's label of Fred M. DeWitt, Oakland, Cal. Laid in is a copy of the quarterly, Noticias del Puerto de Monterey, with a 7 page article on William P. Toler, a 20 year old midshipman aboard the USS Savannah. EX-PACIFIC UNION CLUB LIBRARY, with their bookplate on front pastedown. As was the clubs wont, a 1935 newspaper article is pasted in on the verso of second blank, Bancroft & The West, Fremont told of Secretary's Orders for California. Also affixed to the front pastedown is an old bookseller's catalog entry for the book, and the bookseller's label of Fred M. DeWitt, Oakland, Cal. Laid in is a copy of the quarterly, Noticias del Puerto de Monterey, with a 7 page article on William P. Toler, a 20 year old midshipman aboard the USS Savannah.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library book with all of the usual marks and stamps. There is a bit of penciling to the text, else clean. All pages are tight to the binding. No edition stated. There is a gift inscription on the second page from Mrs. Addie A. Sherman, wife of major Edwin A Sherman, the author dated 1922. 257 p. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Included is a bold John D. Sloat ink signature on his United States Navy pay stub dated 1859; Blue cloth, gilt titles, pale green botanical endpapers/pastedown, frontis portrait, & many black & white photo illustrations; A near fine copy with historical society ownership inside front cover; 258 pages, + Appendix, + Testimonials and Opinions, + Supplement. Size: 6.5"x10".…

First Edition. First Edition. Very Good condition.

First Edition. History of the Joint Anniversary Celebration at Monterey, Cal. of the 110th Anniversary of American Independence and the 40th Anniversary of the taking possession of California. 8vo. 29, (1) pp. Text in double column. Portrait plate of Major Edwin A. Sherman, 'Orator of the Day;' 5 illustrations (including three on wrapper covers. Dark brown blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering; original blue wrappers bound in. Offsetting from endpaper adhesive to ffep and rfep; front hinge cracked and holding; a very good copy At the conclusion of the Celebration veterans of the Mexican American War, led by Sherman, passed a resolution to establish '.the Sloat Monument Association for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument in this place to the memory of the illustrious Rear-Admiral John Drake Sloat.' (Cowan pg. 282) [and] The Raising of the American Flag and Taking Possession of California by Commodore John Drake Sloat, U.S. Navy at Monterey, July 7, 1846 (SIGNED). Photo Engravers: Bolton & Strong, San Francisco: Carruth & Carruth, Printers, Oakland. c. 1902. Dimensions: 16 1/2" x 13 1/2" in elaborate gold frame (image 12" x 7 7/8"). This scarce photo-engraved print, 'the first sketch ever made of this grand historic event' (the raising of the American flag at Monterey) was drawn under Major Edwin Allen Sherman's direction. It depicts the moment when California effectively became part of the United States and includes a view of the old Customs House, the landing party and the war ships 'Savannah,' 'Levant' and 'Cyane,' which composed Commodore Sloat's squadron. Sherman, Secretary of the Sloat Monument Association, commissioned marine artist W.A. Coulter to create this image, which is SIGNED by the artist in the print. Signed 'Edwin A. Sherman' at center bottom. Some twenty-four years after first proposed by Major Sherman, a monument to the memory of Rear-Admiral Sloat was finally dedicated on the Presidio in Monterey in 1910.…