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New York: Privately Printed, 1934. [3], 7, [7] pages on hand-made paper; 2 mounted photographs, the first of a painted portrait of Isaac Roosevelt and the second of the sword. Folio-sized, 10-1/4 by 14 inches.

A rather odd book, presenting a survey of Franklin Roosevelt's male ancestors, with an emphasis on the Revolutionary War-era politician Isaac Roosevelt. The final page is devoted to John Bailey, who made a sword for Isaac.

It appears that the House of Peters, at one time a fine clothier, had turned to selling artifacts in the 1930s, issuing elaborate books to document collections they presumably had for sale.

In this case, your humble cataloguer believes they had in their possession a sword once owned by Isaac Roosevelt, and seeing that his great-great grandson was in the White House, sought to capitalize on this fact. It is, in any case, an uncommon book, published in an edition of just 12 copies. Two copies located on OCLC, one at the American Antiquarian Society and the second at the Harry Ransom Center. ISBN: B0016MYB6U.

Boston, MA: The Wood, Clarke Press, 1915. 33, plus 6 pages of illustrations of the sight installed on various rifles and one page and an illustration devoted to hunting. Warner and noted gunsmith Adolph O. Niedner patented this new sight design for allied rifles during the early years of the First World War. Niedner made 400 sights and Warner set out to promote it, issuing a "limited edition... privately printed and bound confidential discourse about warfare and the need for his sight... It included testimonials, excerpts from battlefield observations, and illustrations of the Warner sight installed on US and foreign rifles"--Brophy, The Springfield 1903 Rifles, p. 482-483. According to the Handbook of Ordinance Data (Nov. 15, 1918), the US Army acquired 400 of the sights, but it did not come into wide use. There were two issues of this publication, one for the 1903 Springfield rifle and this, much rarer, Canadian edition--which has fewer pages but substantially similar content. No holdings of this edition are recorded in the WorldCat library database, nor in the Library and Archives Canada. ISBN: 281AIB1025081.