United States Navy. Uniform and Dress

Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States. From the Original Text and Drawings in the Navy Department. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Granbo and New York: Horstmann Bros. & Allen, 1852

Folio (14 1/2  x 11 1/2  in.; 368 x 305 mm). 13 chromolithographed and 2 lithographed plates after J. Goldsborough Bruff by C. Schuessele and P. S. Duval; some soiling and staining, mostly in margins.  Publisher's blind-panelled maroon cloth, front cover gilt-lettered, rear cover gilt with central eagle vignette, plain endpapers and edges; rebacked in maroon buckram; lightly worn at extremities.

Robert W. Chambers (bookplate; signature on front free endpaper dated 1909) — James S. Copley Library (sale, Sotheby's New York, 15 October 2010, lot 711)

see Colas and Lipperheide for later editions

First edition. Scarce.  This is the only copy of this work to have appeared at auction since 1981. A typographic label of Horstmann Bros. & Allen, Importers and Dealers in Military & Fancy Goods, of Maiden Lane, New York City, is mounted on the title-page above the imprint.