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1968736216PN. New. 1968. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1994436704PN. New. 1994. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
200163006Vancouver WA: Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust 2001. 4to. xii 250 24 4 pp. With photos plat maps maps diagrams illustrations charts. Blue-printed softcovers slight soiling front cover still a VG copy from the library of Tom Koenninger 1932-2010 former editor managing editor journalist for The Columbian newspaper and board member on the Vancouver National Historic Trust. First edition of this exceedingly scarce first installment of the Historic Structures Report of West Barracks Buildings at the Vancouver National Historic Trust. From the early 1850’s until 1880 Fort Vancouver and Vancouver Barracks featured such officers as General’s Grant and Sheridan posted to the Barracks was a key logistics site during the Indian Wars of the 1870’s and was a center of military activity in the Pacific Northwest. From 1879-1913 the 14th Infantry and other units overseeing the entire Pacific Northwest were stationed at Vancouver responding to racial riots in Seattle against the Chinese-Americans and African-Americans labor strikes riots the Wobblies unrest in Idaho and served as staging area for the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection. The Army Medical center served personnel from 1880-1941 the Barracks housed the Spruce Production Division 1917-1919 during World War I and later the CCC from 1933-1942. No copies in Worldcat. Vancouver National Historic Reserve Trust, paperback
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1971742370PN. New. 1971. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1970739946PN. New. 1970. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1970739744PN. New. 1970. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
20111353374PN. New. 2011. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1971741907PN. New. 1971. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
13129One of the six items on R.A.M.C. letterhead Delhi Barracks Tidworth Salisbury Plain Wiltshire; dated 20 February 1918. Four of the others also 1918 and the sixth 1904. Henry Wentworth Windsor Aubrey was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Dorset Regiment Militia on 21 April 1875 and resigned his commission three years later. He qualified as a Doctor in 1885 and practiced in Clifton where he was a keen cricketer and golfer. During the First World War he served in the RAMC reaching the rank of Temporary Captain Home on 1 December 1917. The six items including Item Four a typescript of Item Three are in very good condition on lightly-aged paper. Aubrey's six poems all apparently unpublished are written in an effective Kiplingesque style with occasional minor corrections to the text by him. ONE: Titled 'The Yellow Peril. Dedicated to the German Emperor'. In autograph and signed 'H W Aubrey May 21/04'. 5pp. 4to. Thirteen six-line stanzas. First stanza: 'Soldier of Christ on thy watch-house Tower Look far to the shrouded East! Mine eyes are dark with the darkening hour Tell to me what thou see'st. "I see a cloud like a man's right hand Its shadow falls o'er The Eastern Land."' TWO: 'A Mess Waiter. sub-titled in autograph 'RAMC Barracks Delhi Tidworth'. Typed. Signed 'HWA Feb 8/18'. 1p. foolscap 8vo. 36 lines in nine four-line stanzas. First stanza: 'I'll sing a panegyric on a waiter of the mess. He's earned the title given him - Well! rather more than less. You'll be as near the mark to put the cart before the horse The "Mess" before the waiter. But that is rude of course.' THREE: Untitled autograph poem on 'Brimstone Bottom'. Signed 'HWA Feb. 20/18'. On Tidworth letterhead. 2pp. 8vo. Forty-eight lines in six eight-line stanzas. First stanza: 'I've travelled North I've travelled South I've travelled the East and West Peered down the belching crater's mouth And dared the great Sahara's drouth. The rigors of malarial pest In Afric's swamps have wracked my breast. Whate'er these ills - Be sure it's got ''em That damnèd spot called Brimstone Bottom.' FOUR: Typed version of Item Three. Signed in type 'HWA Feb 20th 18.' 1p. foolscap 8vo. FIVE: 'A Delhi Mess Drinking Song.' Mimeographed typescript. Signed in type 'H.WA Mar. 2/18.' Forty lines in seven stanzas. First stanza: 'Come! Pass around the stately Port But snakes alive don't swill it. They'll find you if you swallow aught Some Brimstone Bottom billet.' SIX: 'Arma Virumque Cano Stirring appeal to the Delhi Mess by Capt Jones O.C. Digging.' subtitled in autograph 'Transln. "Of Jones & his Tools I sing"'. Typed. 32 lines arranged in eight four-line stanzas with the first stanza repeated after each successive one as a chorus. First stanza: 'Dig! Brothers! Dig! Our food is running low Your Country calls on you to dig. Yes! Calls you to a man Dig! Brothers! Thus your Patriotism show By taters only we escape the Hun's eternal ban.' One of the six items on R.A.M.C. letterhead, Delhi Barracks, Tidworth, Salisbury Plain [Wiltshire]; dated 20 February 1918. Four unknown
14993Printed heading Lieut.-Colonel H.M. Lazelle Acting Inspector General Headquarters Department of the Columbia Office Acting Inspector General . 25 Jan. 1887. Three pages 12mo bifolium small closed tear not affecting text some staining but text clear and complete.He acknowledges receipt of his "favor" and books which are "doubly valued since he through whose friendship they were sent is gone. I was inexpressibly shocked to learn of his death. . I admired him very much - a man of great character a noble heart and a lion like nature - well worthy of your great ancestors - He was to me in every way a most fascinating man -." He has received a photograph of him which dispappointed him since "it was not a full face view as I want a painting from it." He requests a full face photograph. Note: For some details of his life on the Frontier see "Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce ." By William Frederick Zimmer fn. 73 and elsewhere no doubt. [Printed heading] Lieut.-Colonel H.M. Lazelle, Acting Inspector General | Headquarters Department of the Columbia, | Office Acti unknown
183359198Kiel 6. Novbr. 1833. Paper size 50 x 76 cm. Manuscripts elevation Caserne-defensive pen and ink with watercolour on thick paper. Drawn by C. Krag a Danish military officer. A fine and well-preserved elevation of the large building. With scale. unknown
187554097Melbourne: By Authority : George Skinner 1875. Very Good. small octavo. original boards 140pp. music appends. indexes Part I consists of Regulations under the Orders in Council of 1874; Part II is a compilation from the "Queen's regulations and orders for the army" with considerable alterations and modifications to meet local and existing conditions ; Part III treats of such minor details and minutiae as are nowhere laid down in H.M. regulations or field exercise but are based upon the usages of the Service and the "Custom of war" . Last 2 pages addenda are not in Ferguson nor in the Victorian State Library copy. Original leather boards rather worn o/w nice clean copy. RARE By Authority : George Skinner hardcover
26461Watermark 1794. Four pages folio fold markssl. aged text clear and complete. Title: " A General Statement of Barracks to be erected of those which have been executed what remains for consideration with a State of the number of Regiments of Cavalry and Troops during the last Peace and a Distribution of Barracks for the same. First page: Listing under categories "A. Cavalry Barracks in the first Distribution" and "B. Barracks ordered subsequent thereto" places towns and numbers of troops e.g. Sheffield 186 and Manchester 372. Second page: Listing of "Barracks that have been erected or are building" and "Barracks ordered but postponed" with numbers of Cavalry and Infantry. Third page: "Numbers of Regiments of Cavalry stationed in Great Britain at the last Peace upon which the original Distribution was made" AND "Distribution of the 15 Regiments of Cavalry in the Barracks" columns Regiments; No. of Troops; Places . Remarks including "to be Erected". See partial Image limited by scanner. [Watermark 1794] unknown
185157804Bruxelles Simonau et Toovey 1851. Large folio. 54 x 36 cm. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. Stamps on title-page. Lithographed title-page. 6 pp. and 8 lithographed plates 2 of which are in colour views of La Caserne du Petit Chateau. A marginal dampstain to 1 plate.Bound in is an autographed manuscript by a Danish engineer-officer describing the "Caserne du petit chateau i Bruxelles opførte i Aaret 1852". Folio. 26 x 225 cm. 24 pp. Handwritten in black ink on paper. With construction-figures in the text and tables with building costs. MS dated Copenhagen 1855. unknown