Army List, Signed (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Detailed original list with index. 905pp., neat name inscribed, binding poor, contents good, hence price 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 54 PAGES, ROSTER, CHRONOLOGY, Like New softcover. SIGNED by the Author. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Original Army list for October 1842 with much useful detail. 96pp., pink covers slightly worn, inscription to cover by Lord Glenlynon. 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by the author on the back of the title page, original cloth. back joint little worn, pp578 + adverts. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. PRESENTATION COPY TO BVT. LT. COL. GEORGE ARMISTEAD, COMMANDER OF FORT MCHENRY DURING THE BATTLE OF BALTIMORE, FROM JOSEPH H. REES, CAPT. OF ORDNANCE AT THE BALTIMORE ARSENAL. Philadelphia: Printed by G. Palmer; November, 1813. First edition. Octavo in 8s and 4s (8 7/16" x 5 1/16", 213mm x 130mm). [Full collation available.] With 3 engraved plates and 5 hand-colored folding engraved maps. Bound in contemporary half red roan over marbled boards and cloth ties. Gilt fillets to the corner-pieces. On the spine, seven transverse gilt fillets. Title gilt (MILITARY ATLAS.) in the second panel. Ties perished. Rubbed generally, with some wear and splits at the edges of the boards. Moderately tanned and offset throughout, with some spotting. Presentation inscription on the verso of ?1: "G. Armistead Lt Coln/ presented by/ his friend/ Jos H Rees/ Capt. U. S. Ordnance/ 1814" John Melish (1771-1822) was born in Scotland and emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia in 1811. There he established himself as a cartographer-printer-publisher in the mold of the Dutch masters, and became the great mapmaker of the expanding United States. Crucial to his success was the pocket military atlas (compare the 1776 "Holster Atlas" of Sayer and Bennet) that combined not only large folding maps but considerable descriptions of the places depicted, their strategic roles ("The Seat of War in North America") as well as the military personnel crucial to the ongoing War of 1812. Indeed, so emblematic of the period was his "Seat of War" that a friend's suggestion that he make a corresponding maps of the "Seat of Peace" led to the first domestically-made coast-to-coast wall map of America in 1816. The present copy was presented to Lt. Col. George Armistead (1780-1818), whose brevet was the command of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore 12-15 September 1814. Crucial to the War of 1812, Fort McHenry's withstanding the bombardment of the Royal Navy inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Defence of Fort M'Henry, whose words were set to music as The Star-Spangled Banner, the United States National Anthem. Col. Armistead was responsible for the creation of the "flag so large that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance" about which Scott Key wrote, and which now has pride of place in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Capt. Joseph Rees is known through correspondence (with George Bomford, who would go on to be Chief of Ordnance) relating to ordnance the provision of armaments which had been set up as a department in May of 1812. He was stationed at the Baltimore Arsenal, in which capacity he will have come to call Col. Armistead "his friend." The hand-writing is not Rees's but Armistead's, distinguished by the "Gr." abbreviating his given name. Armistead material is extremely uncommon (indeed, the auction record of an autograph letter calls it "among the rarest of all early American patriot's signatures"), to say nothing of the relevance of our volume to his famed command. From the collection of Charles J. Tanenbaum (2009), whose Pine Tree Foundation supports pre-school and after-school literary programs K-12, as well as fellowships for conservation and bibliography (their sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 July 2021, lot 44). Howes M 492; Phillips, Atlases 1346; Sabin 47432 ("scarce"); Streeter I.81.