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1914277147.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1911273981.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1910394378.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 3 plates; original printed wrappers, covers lightly soiled else a good, clean copy. Includes short bibliography and several trade advertisements.
1959WRCLIT55994New York: Dutton 1959. xiii410pp. Cloth. Black & white photographs. Footnotes. Index. Light offsetting to endpapers caused by laid or in the case of the rear endsheets pasted in newspaper review clippings fore-corners a bit bumped otherwise a very good copy in somewhat used pictorial dust jacket with tears and internal mends to spine crown and fore-tips. First U.S. edition. Inscribed by the author to Lefty i.e. Wilmarth S. Lewis and Annie Burr on the front free endpaper and with Lewis's small bookplate bearing a small release stamp on the front pastedown. Dutton hardcover books
1870313390Woolwich 1870. 10 ink and watercolor drawings of elevations and plans of fortifications signed in a lettering hand; with 9 lithographs of classical fortifications &c. some signed or initialled by Kitchener with additions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Leather and cloth over boards upper cover stamped in gilt. Upper corners perished. Internally clean and fresh. 10 ink and watercolor drawings of elevations and plans of fortifications signed in a lettering hand; with 9 lithographs of classical fortifications &c. some signed or initialled by Kitchener with additions. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Highly competent album of drawings of fortifications mines and elevations by the young Kitchener while a student at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich.<br/><br/>Kitchener 1850-1916 born in Ireland to English parents and raised in Switzerland spent "an undistinguished two years" at the Royal Military Academy. When he progressed to the School of Military Engineering Chatham he began to distinguish himself. He worked with the Palestine Exploration Fund and on the survey of Cyprus and gained a reputation as a man who knew the Near East. "In 1884 he acted as an intelligence officer for the relief expedition sent to the Sudan to rescue Charles George Gordon; he continually pressed Wolseley the commander of the expedition to push forward more rapidly. Despite the expedition's failure to save Gordon Kitchener emerged with credit and some fame." He was named sirdar or commander of the Egyptian army in 1892 and instituted needed reforms. Under his leadership Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated the Mahdist armies in the Sudan in 1898 avenging Gordon's death and reconquering the country. Kitchener's administrative talents came to the fore in the South African War where superior transportation and the policy of destroying farms and interning Boer civilians in concentration camps prevailed against the guerrilla tactics of the Boer forces. In his role as secretary of state for war in 1914 his advocacy of preparations for a long and global conflict defined British policy.<br/><br/>A choice item from early in the career of this larger than life and still controversial figure. unknown books
1994100546Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 1994. Hardcover. 72p. profusely illustrated with color photographs of Morales' Los Angeles 'holiday art' very good first edition in pictorial boards. Folk art and artists. Assemblages created in the Los Angeles artist's front yard for Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas etc. University Press of Mississippi hardcover books
0954797205.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1396196935.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
43576Sir Charles Moore 1844-1916 Army Officer Engineer and Administrator saying that he has "probably heard that I am to replace you at Souakin. I am very sorry you should leave & would never have accepted the billet had my not doing so been of the least service to you. The way it came about was on my arrival at Suez old West came on board with a telegram stating H.M. Govt wanted to know if I would accept Souakin & if so to wire to Wolff. I asked about you but could find out nothing and I felt sure you had resigned so I wired yes and wet to Alexandria & saw Wolff he then told me and I said that changed the matter but he said if I now refused there was another waiting for the post. I went up to Cairo and saw Gen Stephenson and he told me the same & that I could do you no good and would do myself much harm by refusing. He also said what I hope was the case that he was sure you would see it in the same light. I came home & saw DAG on the subject & Sir R. Thomson and found out an R.A. officer had accepted if I refused the billet and would be appted at once. I hope you think I have done right and I know you will never doubt how much rather I would like it if you could remain supposing you wish to do so." 4 sides 8vo. Junior United Service Club London 18th August In 1874 aged 24 Kitchener was assigned by the Palestine Exploration Fund to a mapping-survey of the Holy Land. By then an officer in the Royal Engineers Kitchener joined fellow officer Claude R. Conder; between 1874 and 1877 they surveyed Palestine returning to England only briefly in 1875 after an attack by locals at Safed in Galilee. Conder and Kitchener's expedition became known as the Survey of Western Palestine because it was largely confined to the area west of the Jordan River. In 1878 having completed the survey of western Palestine Kitchener was sent to Cyprus to undertake a survey of that newly acquired British protectorate. He became vice-consul in Anatolia in 1879. Sutherland was also in the Royal Engineers and worked under Kitchener in Cyprus for 6 years ending in 1886. Kitchener became Governor of the Egyptian Provinces of Eastern Sudan and Red Sea Littoral which in practice consisted of little more than the Port of Suakin in September 1886 He was created Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and of Broome in the County of Kent on June 29th 1914. Unusually provision was made for the title to be passed on to his brother and nephew since Kitchener was not married and had no children. unknown
40875starting "will be able to come and if so perhaps you could bring a shorthand-writer to take down what Togo and Nogi say to be published subsequently in your paper. I am telling them to address the boys as to what Bushido is and what it has done for them in Japan." the postscript says that if he has "any difficulty but about a short hand writer I could provide one from here" signed with an initial 'K' 1 side 4to. no place no date but Bushid are regulations for samurai attitudes behavior and lifestyle. It is loosely analogous to the European concept of chivalry. There are multiple Bushido types which evolved significantly through history. Contemporary forms of bushido are still used in the social and economic organization of Japan. Bushido is best used as an overarching term for all the codes practices philosophies and principles of samurai culture. Marshal-Admiral the Marquis T g Heihachir 1848-1934 served as admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. In 1911 T g returned to England for the first time in over 30 years to attend the coronation of King George V the Coronation Fleet Review at Portsmouth to attend naval alumni dinners and visit dockyards on the Clyde and in Newcastle. Count Nogi Maresuke1849-1912 was a Japanese General in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. Nogi is significant to Scouting in Japan as in 1911 he went to England in attendance on Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito for the coronation of King George V. The General as the "Defender of Port Arthur" was introduced to General Robert Baden-Powell the "Defender of Mafeking" by Lord Kitchener whose expression "Once a Scout always a Scout" remains to this day. Although the first page is missing this letter is from a collection of letters to Sir Robert BADEN POWELL 1857-1941 Defender of Mafeking & Founder of the Boy Scouts and as it referring to addressing scouts it has to be to him. unknown
190050277- Photographie 4 x 7, 5 cm. Notice biographique collée au dos.
190050969- Photographie 4 x 7, 5 cm. Notice biographique collée au dos.
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1996VG283621996 ix, 174 p., num. figs, 4to, paperbound. Library stamps and number on spine. Scarce.Contributions are divided in four main chapters: Biodiversity and Biogeography, Conservation, Ecology & Vertebrates and Human Welfare.
1991VZ322581991 London, Christopher Helm, 1991 : In-8 Raisin, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. édition originale, xxi, 280 pp., 20 photos couleurs hors-texte, très nombreuses figures et tableaux in-texte, Jaquette Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais.
1994Q-1555426298Jossey-Bass 1994-03-08. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Jossey-Bass hardcover
61452511John Wiley & Sons pp. 352 1st Edition . Hardback. New. John Wiley & Sons hardcover
19992-0805823093Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 318 pages. 10.50x7.50x1.25 inches. Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc hardcover
A9781138012400Paperback / softback. New. paperback
125839796X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
197433311London : Archon 1974. Second Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. A particularly well preserved copy; tight bright clean and surprisingly sharp cornered. Abundantly illustrated with explanatory charts figures and tables. ; 463 pages; Description: 463 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Charities --England --London --History --Social conditions. London : Archon hardcover
1258670097.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
A summary account of Egyptian history from the building of the Great Pyramid to the overthrow of the dynasty of Mohammed Ali by General Neguib and his military junta. 299 paginated pages. Index. Dust jacket has wear around edges with small tears and loss. Green cloth covers. Slight stains to base of front cover.
