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GOR009742803Paperback. Very Good. paperback
0764931989-11-1Pomegranate. Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Pomegranate unknown
Features: Title page illustration of a tank stuck in Palestine; Wonderful two-page photo spread illustrates "Men's Work and Women's Work - In England, Ireland, France, and Palestine; The Reappearance of the Zeppelin (article); The Power of the Press - A Complete Journalist (article); Occupied by the Germans - The Aaland Islands (article); Page of six photos regarding Hong King's new Tai Tam Tuk dam and reservoir; Article by G.K. Chesterton includes photos of Sir George Alexander, John Dillon, and Canon Scott Holland; Five photos of the wrecked stained glass of Rheims Cathedral, and related salvage work; Six photos entitle 'Underground on the British Front' illustrate activites in subterranean tunnels and rooms; The New Air Force and Its Future - article; Before and after aerial photos of Merckem in Flanders which was destroyed by shells; Fantastic page of illustrations and text presents some ingenius food substitutes used by 'our ill-fed foes'; Centrefold illustration of British mine-sweeper protecting a neutral cargo ship from a drifting surface mine; Four wonderful half-page photos of the terrain of the Palestine Campaign - a land of wadis, sands and foliage; Fabulous one-page photo of the Mayor of Jerusalem coming out to surrender the city to General Allenby - meeting the first British outposts; Wonderful one-page ad for Beecham's Pills features lady fortune-teller with big hair, crystal ball and playing cards; Nice two-colour back cover ad for Greys cigarettes features illustration of two mounted soldiers circa 1742 in Mitre or Grenadier cap; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
187619014London: John Murray 1876. 1876. First British printing. 8vo. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard. x 252 pp. 32 pp. ads. Illustrated with five plates by Whymper including frontispiece. Original decorated gilt stamped maroon cloth binding. From the library of the Imperial Ethiopian Consulate to the Netherland The Hague so stamped second front endpaper. Shallow chipping at spinal extremities small surface cloth tear top of front spinal gutter wear at the tips. Front hinge cracked but holding bookplates front pastedown. A good copy of a scarce title. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. London: John Murray, 1876. hardcover
1876022539London: John Murray 1876. First . Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. Quite worn with spine cloth 1/2 missing the resr loose. Library plates on the front cover Mudie's Select Library Museum Street London verso Thorold Mechanics' Institute Library & emboss stamp on title page rear end paper and verso of cover due date slip and pocket both clean/no ink writing. 5 illustration plates by Whymper and 252 text pages includes the 32 page publishers catalog in the rear dated: January 1876. A good candidate of this highly scarce first printing for rebinding. NOTE: Friends this is NOT a common reprint. <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
5635SLND 1 feuille in-folio manuscrite à l'encre brune recto-verso (335 X 220 mm.) signée Henry, La Fayette et Carle. (traces de plis). Chemise de paier d'époque.
AQ19472s.i.: s.n. 1722-5 Manuscript on paper. 48 leaves. Original marbled paper wrappers. Heavily worn detached with loss and dog-earring. Soiled. An early eighteenth-century manuscript roll and day book of the 'First Regiment' that is the Grenadier Guards the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army for the period of 24th November 1722 and 18th October 1725 a time of relative peace. The manuscript completed in numerous hands commences with a list of senior regimental officers of the 'ten company' 'that march’d into the Tower' that is the Tower of London and instruction as to the daily roll call: 'The Role of each Company to be called every night and morning and a Return maid to the Commanding officer of the Companyyt. The sergts. Bring in Account of what Beding the have received and to Give a Receipt for the same'. The remainder of the extensive manuscript is comprised of a daily register of those officers on guard at each garrison across England. The First Regiment raised in 1656 spent the War of the Spanish Succession 1702-1713 serving with the Duke of Marlborough's army in on the Continent including notably action at Blenheim 1704. The regiment returned to Europe during the War of the Austrian Succession 1740-48 and later the Seven Years' War thus marking the period of 1722-25 as a comparatively peaceful time in its illustrious history. . Folio. [s.n., 1722-5] unknown