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1946181214Ranchi: The Catholic Press c.1946. A modern fighting force which could stand toe to toe with the Japs and slug it out to victory First edition found in eight institutional libraries only telling the story of Ramgarh's top secret Chinese-American Training Center the first training camp run by the US on foreign soil. Conceived by Stilwell following the retreat from Burma the centre drilled and equipped four crack Chinese divisions. These formed the core of Stilwell's hard-fought but successful advance through Burma in 1944. This extensively illustrated publication profiles Brigadier-General Frederick McCabe and other senior figures at the centre as well as its rigorous jungle warfare training regimen and exercises to familiarize Chinese troops with cutting-edge US weaponry. A section at the end describes visits by VIPs including Chiang Kai-Shek Mountbatten Lieutenant-General Sultan and Stilwell himself. Copies are held by the US Army War College US Army Center of Military History Marshall Center for Security Studies Wisconsin Veterans Museum Harvard University of Georgia Norwich University and SOAS. Quarto. Illustrations throughout; some text and decoration printed in brown. Notice from publisher tipped to first page. Original card wrappers front cover lettered in brown and black. With dust jacket. Loss and split at foot of spine odd mark internally; jacket flaps without price as issued losses at spine ends panels toned nicks and creasing at head where jacket oversized: a very good copy in like jacket. unknown
194450163Marseille, Groupe Philibert Géraud, 1942 1944 100 fasc. in-folio, en feuilles, ch. près de 12 pp. Nomb. illustrations
187219726<p><strong>Probably the only surviving copy of this rich account of the enlistment and service of a young volunteer soldier from the West.</strong><br />Entirely autographed and illustrated with a few compositions the author recounts in 24 chapters the war in which he took part his enlistment in the 4th company of the 3rd battalion at Le Mans his Chassepot bayonet rifle his comrades and superiors the Papal Zouaves the descendants of Charette and Stofflet his travels in the West and of course the Prussians.</p><p><em>"My aim is not to invent a novel of pure fantasy; there is no such thing as the simple statement of a fact stripped of all fabulous exaggeration. My intention is therefore to relate very imperfectly no doubt memory is so unfaithful the vicissitudes in the midst of which I lived during four months of a campaign at the height of winter and the impressions I was able to bring back. I wish to preserve in this account an entire truth a character of frankness and authenticity that removes the slightest doubt."</em></p>
38657In-8, (260 x 143 mm), broché, couverture imprimée de l'éditeur, 224 p., (1) f. d'achevé d'imprimer. Paris, Gallimard, 1945 (Paris, Chantenay imprimeur, 25 juillet 1945).
Un fort volume de format fort in folio de 169 pp. et 25 cartes dépliantes, gravées sur cuivre et coloriées; en hors texte; certaines cartes comportent des parties doublées qui proposent des variantes stratégiques. Reliure cartonnée de l'époquerecouverte d'un papier" gris armée". Les plats sont détachées et le papier décollé. Forte mouillure sur les gardes et la page de titre. Quelques rousseurs dans le texte et en marge de quelques cartes. Sinon les cartes sont bien complètes. Vérifié complet. Voir les photos. Les restaurations nécessaires seraient : nettoyage de quelques pages ; restauration du cartonnage dans l'esprit "armée"; les cartons et les couvertures papier étant à changer et à remonter. Peu fréquent.
1787PHO-1655Paris, Cuchet, 1787. 3 vol. in-8 veau marbré, dos à nerfs ornés, p. de titre et de tomaison en mar. rouge et vert, tr. rouges (reliure de l'époque). 4ff.-xxxii-478pp-3ff., 3ff.-438pp.-5ff., 2ff.-592pp-2ff., illustrée de 3 vignettes de titre, 4 planches hors texte et 5 grandes cartes dépliantes. Qqs lég. épidermures, qqs restaurations aux coiffes et nerfs, manque de cuir en bas du second plat du tome I. Ex-libris M. Trumet, avocat. Mouillures claires par endroits. Bel exemplaire.
1944117203Montrouge Atelier Robert Doisneau 1944 1 vol. en feuilles Tirage argentique d’époque, 21 x 18 cm, tampon rouge du photographe au verso. Célèbre instantanée de la Libération. Titulaire d'une accréditation pour suivre l’insurrection parisienne et l’avancée des troupes alliées, le photographe est au plus près des événements pour en saisir toute la gravité. Epreuve originale, en parfaite condition.
1944117203Montrouge Atelier Robert Doisneau 1944 1 vol. en feuilles Tirage argentique d’époque, 21 x 18 cm, tampon rouge du photographe au verso. Célèbre instantanée de la Libération. Titulaire d'une accréditation pour suivre l’insurrection parisienne et l’avancée des troupes alliées, le photographe est au plus près des événements pour en saisir toute la gravité. Epreuve originale, en parfaite condition.
187043472Paris, Chez Deforêt et César ; imprimerie Talons, 1870. Titre et 39 lithographies coloriés in-4.SCHÉRER (Léonce). Souvenirs de la Commune. Paris, Deforet & César, 1871. In-4 de 1 titre et 29 planches lithographiés et coloriées.Ensemble 1 vol. grand in-4, demi-chagrin rouge, dos orné à nerfs (reliure de l'époque).
114-Ao.J. 2 Blatt Radierungen, auf Bütten. 39:24,2 cm. Aus: Antonio Laferi, Speculum Romanae magnificentiae. Rom, ca. 1546-1600 (vgl. Brunet III, 765 f.).- Prachtvolle Abdrucke. Beide Blätter mit geglätteten, kaum sichtbaren Vertikkalfalten, ein Blatt mit sorgfätig restauriertem Einriß im Unterrand, sonst ausgezeichnet erhalten.
Acquaforte misure: mm 60/66 x 128/130 Incisore e disegnatore, si dedicò sporadicamente alla pittura. Il padre Francesco, scultore allievo di Giambologna, morì prematuramente ma riuscì ad avviare tutti i suoi figli a mestieri d’arte. Stefano fu il solo ad eccellere, ebbe i primi insegnamenti presso botteghe di dimenticati orefici i quali ebbero tuttavia il pregio di fargli prender dimestichezza con il bulino. Fu sostanzialmente un autodidatta. Le fonti bibliografiche affermano che egli si esercitava a disegnare figure curiosamente partendo dai piedi e a copiare le incisioni di Jacques Callot avendo come unico confronto l'incisore Remigio Cantagallina. Fu notato poi dal pittore Giovan Battista Vanni che lo prese nella sua bottega e gli diede i primi insegnamenti di pittura e del disegno. La vocazione di Della Bella fu sicuramente l'incisione e già le sue prime opere rivelano i temi a lui più cari: scene di vita contemporanea, feste, battaglie e le decorazioni. Lo studio delle incisioni e dei disegno di maestri antichi, la conoscenza e il confronto con i maestri fiorentini e fiamminghi a lui contemporanei allora presenti alla corte medicea furono furono di grande stimolo. Egli è considerato un grafico puro, grazie ai suoi numerosi viaggi tra Roma e Parigi e grazie alla protezione dei Medici maturò un proprio linguaggio grafico, in vita e per tutto il XVIII secolo fu ricercato e collezionato in Francia e in Italia. La serie Desseins de quelques conduites de troupes, Canons, et ataques de villes , composta da dodici stampe è stata realizzata intorno al 1644 circa. -La prima tavola costituisce il frontespizio: il titolo e la dedica Desseins de quelques conduites de troupes, et ataques de villes, faictes Par de la Belle. Dediées a Mon seigneur Henry du Plesseys Conte de la Roche-Guyon. Par son tres-humble serviteur Israel. Avec Privilege du Roy sono incisi entro una tenda drappeggiata e al centro. In basso, troviamo lo stemma della famiglia del Conte de la Roche-Guyon. Dietro la tenda sono appena visibili cavalieri a cavallo. -Nella stampa numero 2 sotto l'arco di una fortezza che funge da sala di guardia, vediamo al muro lo stemma del dedicante e sotto questo un soldato sdraiato a terra che dorme tra diversi oggetti lasciati a terra; un tamburo, una bandiera e diverse armi. A sinistra, completamente adombrando grazie ai potenti contrasti chiaroscurali, un soldato nella sua armatura e con il suo cappello piumato, seduto che sembra guardare lo spettatore. Sullo sfondo vengono accennate delle rovine. Inciso sul muro "Stefanus Della/Bella F.", oltre l'immagine a sinistra il numero e a destra "Israel ex. SDBella f." -Nella stampa numero 3 a destra un cannone su di un carro trainato da un cavallo, sopra il carro due uomini danno alcune indicazioni ad un soldato alle loro spalle. Al centro, vediamo una processione di cannoni trainati da diversi cavalli e soldati che stanno attraversando una pianura. A sinistra un cavaliere al galoppo. Il cielo occupa la metà della composizione ed è realizzato mediante linee parallele. Inciso oltre l'immagine il numero e "SDBella F." -Nella tavola numero 4 a partire dall'estrema destra vediamo un cannone spinto da due uomini e trainato da diversi cavalli su un pendio. In cima a questo, nelle vicinanze di un grande albero, due cavalieri a cavallo che controllano le truppe. In basso a sinistra un cane che alza la zampa per urinare. Nel margine inferiore numero e "SDBella F." -Nella stampa numero 5 al centro un albero e una processione di cavalieri a cavallo che attraversano un fiume verso destra. Nella stampa numero 6, per esempio, si vedono a sinistra una schermaglia militare di soldati a cavallo e un morto disteso a terra a destra. Sullo sfondo truppe di cavalleria e una battaglia in lontananza. Nel margine inferiore a sinistra il numero a destra "SDBella F." Nella tavola numero 7 a sinistra, due soldati in piedi sono colti a parlare mentre un cavallo morto, a destra, viene divorato da due lupi. Sullo sfondo una truppa di lancieri. In basso numero, "Israel ex." e "SDBella f." Nella tavola numero 9 vicino ad un cannone montato sulla sua carrozza, vediamo quattro soldati al centro che giocano a carte mentre una guardia li osserva, alle loro spalle è accennato l'accampamento. Oltre l'immagine incisi numero, "Stef. Della Bella In. et F." e "Israel ex. cum privil. Regis". Nella stampa numero 10 al centro, un soldato punta un cannone diretto da un ufficiale in piedi a destra, mentre altri tre soldati in piedi, con in mano varie armi tra cui un luccio e un moschetto, lo osservano. Inciso nell'immagine "Israel ex. cum privilegio Regis" e nel margine inferiore, numero e "Stef. Della Bella In. et F.” Nelle ultime due stampe diversi soldati che cercano di entrare nella città di Arras. Incisi oltre l'immagine solo i numeri. Impressione eccellente. Ottimo stato di conservazione. Minimi margini oltre la battuta del rame, fogli applicati su cartoncino spesso. Stato: II/III con la firma sulla tavola numero 2 e la numerazione. Bibliografia: De Vesme-Massar 246, pag. 65.
1st edition. Loose sheets as issued, in later custom clamshell box with original portfolio cover mounted on front. 4to. One of 3200 Numbered Copies. 111 plates of drawings, the first 100 relating to Buchenwald, plus 6 portraits, and 5 aquarelles in color. Captions in French, English, and Russian. 26 cm. Title page and preface in French. Boris Taslitzky began painting at the age of fifteen and attended the academie Montparnasse and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1925 and 1933. In 1933, he joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (A. É. AR) where he became general secretary of the section of Painters and Sculptors, and then in 1935, he joined the Communist Party. In 1936, during the presentation of Quatorze Juillet, by Romain Rolland , Taslitzky participated in the exhibition that brought together Picasso , Léger , Matisse , Braque , Jean Lurcat , Laurens and Pinion in the lobby of the Alhambra Theatre. Taslitzky was captured in June 1940, escaped in August and joined the Resistance. He was arrested again in November 1941, sentenced to two years in prison, and then on July 31, 1944 was deported to Buchenwald , where he manages to make some two hundred drawings showing life in the camps. "If I go to hell, I will make sketches. Besides, I have experience, I've been there and I've drawn! ... ", he later said. His mother died at Auschwitz . In 1946, Taslitzky exhibited his works which were inspired by the Resistance and Deportation, winning the Prix Blumenthal. He was later awarded the Military Cross and Military Medal and in 1997 he received the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour under the Resistance and Deportation. He was both witness and actor in the story of French Resistance and the Holocaust. SUBJECT(S) : Concentration camps -- Pictorial works. Buchenwald (Camp de) Guerre mondiale 1939-1945. Prisonniers et déportés. Camps allemands. Buchenwald. Album. Concentration camps. Pictorial works. Wear to original illustrated cover, which has been mounted on front of box, but no damage to illustration. Moving, early, and important. (holo2-125-44) xx
1758LRB010606Six volumes in-4°, reliure homogène, pleine basane, excellent état, très rares usures. Tranchefiles, coiffes, mors et charnières parfaits. Dos à nerfs orné de fleurons, pièce de titre, pièce de tomaison vert bouteille. Signet de soie. Dorures sur les champs. Tranches rouges. Provenance datée.
51-3853Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster General1888. Sq. Folio. 42.5 x 37 cm 16½x15" original pebbled brown cloth lettered in gilt fine. . 6 pp. Triple-columned. 12 chromolithographic plates and 13 black and white plates. Compiled by direction of the Secretary of War under the Supervision of the Quartermaster General and Inspector General. Wonderful chromolithographs depicting groups of soldiers in full uniform in army settings. Engraved by G.H. Buek & Co. after paintings by Henry Alexander Odgen. The black and white plates depict helmets caps badges sword belts epaulettes and other accessories.OCLC Number: 10868987 Philadelphia: Depot of the Quartermaster General,1888 hardcover
186988097Washington DC: United States War Department Office of the Chief of Engineers 1869. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Fair. RARE SURVIVING COPY IN PRIVATE HANDS. The format for the binding is approximately 18.5 inches by 23.5 inches. The format for the interior pages is approximately 17 inches by 23 inches. This is an oversized book and if sent outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. This has been rebound with swirled cover and endpapers and leather at spine and corners. Front cover has faded title information. Edges of most sheets reinforced with library tape approximately one half-inch wide on top fore-edge and bottom. Several sheets at the start have insect damage which tails off at the Petersburg map. No insect damage to any map images. Bottoms of each sheet show signs of water staining but all sheets are separate. The photoliths were produced by the N.Y. Lithographing Engraving & Printing Co. Julius Bien Supt. The contents include the title page and two-page maps of Richmond Appomattox Court House The Wilderness Spottsylvania Court House Totopotomoy Petersburg and Five Forks Bermuda Hundred Jetersville and Sailor's Creek Highbridge and Farmville Harper's Ferry Fredericksburg North Anna Chancellorsville Cold Harbor The Gettysburg regions presented in two two-page maps divided top and bottom and Antietam. Many of the maps have red and blue lines indicating the positions of the opposing troops during part of the battle. All maps indicated on the title page are present as well as a map of Harper's Ferry which is not in the collation in Phillips Atlas # 3688. Note at the bottom of the title page: In addition to the Surveys and Maps made previous to and during the Operations extended and detailed surveys were made upon the cessation of hostilities in the several theatres of operations and the Maps partially prepared by order of Lieut.Gen'l U. S. Grant Commanding the Armies of the United States. These Surveys and Maps were executed under the direction of Bvt. Brig. Gen'l N. Michler Major of Engineers and B Bvt. Leiut. Col. P. S. Michie Capt. of Eng'ers. The Maps were subsequently prepared for publication by f Bvt. Brig. Gen'l N. Michler by directions of the Chief of the Corps of Engineers under the authority of the Hon. Secretary of War. The Surveys and Maps relating to the Baattle-fields of the Wilderness Spottsylvania Court House North Anna and Totopotomoy were made by authority of the Hon. Secretary of War under the orders of Brig. & BvtMaj. Gen'l A. A. Humphreys Chief of Engineers and under the direction of Bvt. Brig. Gen'l N. Michler Major of Engineers in 1867. This is the definitive atlas of the course of the Civil War in the East separate from specific maps of the Gettysburg Campaign with maps of the major battlefields in the Virginia from Gettysburg to the end of the war. In addition to maps of those later battles there are also maps of pre-Gettysburg battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville. United States War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers hardcover
1801PHO-1645Paris, Maradan, 1801. 3 volumes in-8, demi-basane brune, dos lisse orné, tranches jonquille (Reliure de l'époque). Édition originale, illustrée de 3 portraits, de 4 (sur 6) planches gravées dépliantes, de 2 grandes cartes dépliantes des États-Unis et de 4 tableaux, timbres, déchirures sans manque aux cartes, petites rousseurs
Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. Hand-numbered copy #34 of 1,000. [8], 188 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. "Illustrates the infantry badges of the Canadian Expeditionary Force of 1914-1919, backed by short sketches of the battalions they represented. Not only a unique reference work for the serious badge collector, but will also serve those who would begin a study of the Canadian Units that made the name of Canada second to none on the bloody battlefields of Flanders a half century ago." - John C. Newlands, Librarian/Curator - Royal Canadian Military Institute. "The format is simple, precise and packed with information of the type the reader wants. The photography is excellent and the text complete and easy to digest. Will become a standard reference book from this time on, and deservedly so." - Edward Denby, The "Musket and Doubloon", Antique Arms Dealer, Toronto. Bookplate of prior owner inside front board, otherwise contents clean, bright and unmarked. Light wear to decorated green cloth-covered boards. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this essential reference. COOKE (3E) p.196. Book
95266Isle Nostre Dame Paris chez Michel Mettaier imprimeur ordinaire du Roy 1648. . First edition; 4to 22 x 17.5cm; 3 folding plates each approx. 35 x 26 cm 2 engraved portraits woodcut initials and decorations throughout the text engraved armorial book-stamp to last leaf verso displaying motto 'light in darKines lumiere dans les tenebres'; one integral blank leaf title page stained and browned some marginal staining and browning throughout creasing to corners one small wormhole affecting 4 leaves; side-stitched contemporary marbled wrappers worn and soiled with extensive loss to upper wrapper; 14 39 1pp.<br /> A curious and rare anonymous English Civil War pamphlet published in Paris by Michel Mettaier sometimes spelt Mettayer in 1648 following the capture of Charles I by parliamentarian forces the previous year. <br /><br />The first part of the work consists of three large folding plates depicting the House of Lords the House of Commons and the Convocation of Canterbury with explicatory notes explaining the history and function of these bodies in the English parliamentary system. The latter part of the book contains an original address to Henrietta Maria Queen of England illustrated with facing engraved portraits of the Queen and the Prince of Wales and signed simply 'le bon et loyal svbiet'. It introduces a short statement in both English and French allegedly translated from an original Latin version which purports to be the words of Liudolf c.930-957 an Ottonian Duke of Swabia and grandson of the German king Henry the Fowler 919-936. The text claims that Liudolf did not die in 957 but rather feigned his death to take exile in Mantua in the hope that his descendants would one day regain his power and prestige. The tale was likely intended by the royalist author to offer hope to the exiled queen and her son who were soon to become widow and orphan to the executed king.<br /><br />Rare. We can trace only 5 copies in institutional collections worldwide: 3 in the UK British Library Durham University and the University of Leeds and 2 in France BnF and Bibliotheque Saint-Genevieve.<br /> Isle Nostre Dame, Paris, chez Michel Mettaier, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, 1648. unknown
53037<p>London Printed for Ph. Smith 1643. TITLE CONTINUED: As it was presented to the honourable House of Commons on the 15. of May. 1643. PAMPHLET 1643. Small 4to approximately 180 x 130 mm 7 x 5 inches 8 pages padded out with plain paper at front and rear finely bound in full crushed morocco by Mudie their name at foot of first blank page gilt lettered label to spine gilt rule to edges of covers Fairfax coat of arms to upper cover gilt dentelles turn ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt large Fairfax of Cameron bookplate to first pastedown. Pale age-browning to pages with occasional dark spot offset from dentelles to edges of first and final endpapers otherwise a very good copy in fine binding. See: Sotheby's sale catalogue "The Fairfax Library and Archive London 1993" Lot 174 listing this copy; ESTC R42944 listing 5 copies in UK and 1 USA; not listed in George Thomason Civil War Pamphlets 164-1661. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.</p> London, Printed for Ph. Smith, 1643.
1945162601London: Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee G-2 Division SHAEF Rear APO 413 July 1945. Intel from Operation Paperclip Classified as RESTRICTED this rare detailed study collates the latest intelligence gathered on the rocket drive for the Me163 the assisted take off ATO units for several conventional aircraft and the rockets for the Henschel Hs293 and Hs117 radio-guided bombs the Blohm and Voss BV143 rocket-assisted glide bomb and the Enzian - a name familiar to devotees of Thomas Pynchon - a surface-to-air antiaircraft missile. Scarce with just a single copy traced at the National Aerospace Library Farnborough. CIOS was established from SHAEF's G-2 Intelligence Division as part of Operation Paperclip it was tasked with seeking out and assessing caches of scientific and technological secrets hidden test sites and underground factories with the aim of co-opting Nazi German weapon technologies for the coming Cold War with the Soviet Union. The author a chemical engineering graduate from Texas Tech was a member of the US Navy's Naval Technical Mission in Europe activated in January 1945 to assist in this task. Stiff had been working on jet propulsion with the navy's Bureau of Aeronautics since 1941 and after the war he continued in rocketry becoming an executive for the Aerojet Engineering Corporation responsible for the engines for the Titan Gemini Viking and Voyager projects and for the main engine on the Apollo Command Service Module. This copy numbered 150 of an unstated edition was sent to the MSL in Maribyrnong Victoria Australia established in 1922 to assist commercial munitions producers in overcoming any technical difficulties arising and to ensure conformity of specifications. National Aerospace Library only on Library Hub and WorldCat copy in the Imperial War Museum LBY 15 / 696. Wire-stitched in the original buff printed card wrappers. 28 plates paginated in the text 2 of them folding power unit schematics tables to the text. Reproduced typescript. Ink stamps of the Munitions Supply Laboratories Technical Information Section to the front panel of the wrappers together with inked accession numbers and to the title page very slightly rubbed but overall very good indeed. unknown
1810012296Northampton: Printed By Dicey & Sutton 1810. The Northampton Mercury. 1810/1811 1810. 13th 20th 27th Saturday January 6th 13th 20th 27th February 3rd 10th 17th 24th March 3rd 10th 17th 24th 31st April 7th 14th 21st 28th May 5th 12th 19th 26th June 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28th August 4th 11th 18th 25th September 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th October 6th 13th 20th 27th November 3rd 10th 17th 24th December 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th. 1811 Saturday January 5th 12th 19th 26th February 2nd 9th 16th 23rdMarch 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th April 6th 13th 20th 27th May 4th 11th 18th 25th June 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th July 6th 13th 20th 27th August 3rd 10th 17th 24th 31st September 7th 14th 21st 28th October 5th 12th 19th 26th November 2nd 9th 16th 23rd 30th December 7th 14th 21st 28th. 2 full years. Book measures 56.5x41.cm. Each issue has 4pp. Bound in leather backed boards. Binding heavily worn top board stained. Internally first 5 issues are heavily stained otherwise light spotting browning heavier in places. Generally pages in good condition . Near Very Good. Folio. Printed By Dicey & Sutton hardcover
1915182990Miranshah: c.1915. The greatest military operations on the frontier since the Frontier Campaign of 1897 A striking sketch outlining the defence of Miranshah British India's key defence in Waziristan against Khostwal attacks on 25 and 26 March 1915. It was likely produced as a debriefing aid showing the locations of enemy sangars and the movements of British Indian regiments. The outbreak of the First World War forced the British military to divert its attention from the North-West Frontier providing ample opportunities for tribal raids from across the border. In early 1915 the Afghan Khostwals launched an attack on the Tochi Valley at Spina Khaisora. They were repelled by Major Gerald Scott of the 27th Punjabis but regrouped with a lashkar army of over 7000 men to attack again at Miranshah. The invasion came on 25 March 1915 this time faced by Brigadier General Vere Bonamy Fane 1863-1924 and his Bannu Moveable Column. They were supported by Scott and his North Waziristan Militia in a covert position in the hills. The column was split into three "forces" A B and C and a cavalry division. Force A 10th Jats made a frontal attack with cavalry protecting their right flank while the 29th Mountain Battery fired on the enemy fortifications. Meanwhile Force C Scott's militia launched a surprise attack from the rear: "Major Scott as per plan marched with his three hundred sepoys towards the south-west and from there he was able to march for another four hours and finally occupied the high ground behind the invading marauders. From his vantage point he ordered fire on the tribesmen who were taken by a surprise and swiftly started leaving the arena in a disorderly manner Miranshah was saved by the North Waziristan Militia" Cheema p. 53. Scott was awarded the DSO Fane was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire Subedar Major Nand Ram 10th Jats received the Order of British India Class II and twelve Indian servicemen received the Indian Distinguished Service Medal including nine men of the North Waziristan Militia. To create a blueprint a panoramic photograph was first traced over with translucent paper. Then details and annotations were added before the paper was treated and the image was transferred onto sheets through light exposure. Landscape blueprint 220 x 1350 mm on 2 joined sheets title stencilled in white. Mounted framed and glazed frame size 399 x 1550 mm. Dark paste stains to central joint where the two halves are attached light vertical creasing from being sometime rolled 30 mm closed tear to left edge with abrasions a few small areas of colour loss: a very good example. Aamir Mushtaq Cheema An Illustrated History of North Waziristan Militia & Tochi Scouts 1895-2012 2018. unknown
1904129228Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Company 1904. Signed by 39 of the 49 correspondents First edition of this remarkable collection of 49 war correspondent's tales with the signature of 39 of the correspondents on rice paper pasted beneath their submission. The idea for the book was conceived of by a group of war correspondents waiting to be sent to the front line with the Japanese Army at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1904. Each correspondent offered a short article recounting their most exciting war story to date and the entire proceeds of the final collection were donated to Teikoku Gunjin Yengokwai an organisation which provided aid to those serving in the army and navy. Amongst the correspondents whose signatures are included are William Levington Comfort William Dinwiddie William Henry Donald James H. "Jimmy" Hare Melton Prior Sydney Smith and Jack London. Writing at the time for the Hearst Press Jack London contributed "A Camera and a Journey" p. 123 which was also published the same year in the San Francisco Examiner under the title: "How Jack London Got in and out of jail in Japan". In the article London recounts his misadventure taking snapshots in Moji which led to his arrest for unauthorized photography a 5 yen fine and the subsequent confiscation of his camera. Octavo. Frontispiece and six plates. Original silk covered card wrappers with white silk cord ties titles to front cover in gilt large illustration printed to silk to front cover blue coated endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at spine ends small tear to cloth at join of spine and rear cover cloth lightly soiled dampstain to rear cover and endpaper front cover illustration and gilt crisp and fresh; an exceptionally bright copy of this fragile production. BAL 11883; Anne Nishimura Morse A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery 2005. hardcover
1964128934New York: Frederick A. Praeger 1964. A remarkable copy of this classic work first published in 1959. Inscribed on the front free endpaper; "To His Royal Highness Prince Brigadier Abdul Wali on the occasion of your visit to The United States Military Academy D. V. Bennett Major General USA 11 March 1968". The set was presented as a memento to the Sandhurst-trained deputy commander of the Afghan army also the son-in-law of King Zahir Shah on his visit to North America in 1968-9 and subsequently liberated by a Russian soldier as a souvenir of the "Russian invasion of"/"intervention in" Afghanistan in 1979 with his inscription beneath; "Found on entry to the army headquarters by Chief Lieutenant Breusenko Kabul December 1979 our translation". An evocative vestige from this endlessly troubled region during the period often referred to as the Soviet Union's Vietnam War. 2 vols landscape folio. Text printed in blue numerous maps in grey with dispositions in red and blue. Original grey buckram-backed black cloth boards title in gilt on false black spine labels and debossed to front boards together with the West Point arms embossed in gilt. A little rubbed spine panels flaked to the point of illegibility front endpapers a little soiled the text-block of the second volume burst at the bottom edge and the boards split by the penetration of a stray round overall in sound "relic" condition. hardcover
1937SPANISHC002314Left Review London. 1937. First edition. Royal octavo. 24 pages. Wrappers. A publication arising from a letter signed by twelve European writers prominent in Europe including Aragon W.H. Auden Nancy Cunard Heinrich Mann Pablo Neruda Ramon Sender Tristan Tzara etc. The letter was addressed to the writers of England Scotland Ireland and Wales and asked whether they were for or against the government of Republican Spain. Somehow Ezra Pound got involved he was neutral in a combative kind of way: ''Spain is an emotional luxury to a gang of sap-headed dilettantes''. The majority of responses were in favour and these include messages from Samuel Beckett ''�Up the Republic!'' - almost the shortest contribution Kay Boyle Thomas Burke Cyril Connolly Aleister Crowley C. Day Lewis Liam O'Flaherty Ford Madox Ford David Gascoyne Victor Gollancz Laurence Housman Aldous Huxley C.L.R. James Arthur Koestler John Lehmann Rose Macaulay ''AGAINST FRANCO'' - the shortest contribution Hugh Macdiarmid Louis MacNeice John Middleton Murry Sylvia Pankhurst V.S. Pritchett Herbert Read Olaf Stapledon Sylvia Townsend Warner Clough Williams-Ellis etc etc. In the neutral camp were Vera Brittain Robert Byron T.S. Eliot H.G. Wells V. Sackville-West etc. Only five messages are in the ''Against'' section including ones from Edmund Blunden Arthur Machen and Evelyn Waugh. The following year a similar exercise was carried out in America where 418 writers gave their opinions. This pamphlet has also been the inspiration for questionnaires on the Vietnam War and even the Falklands War.Foxing mostly light on almost every page. Covers lightly stained. Spine starting to split. Good. Left Review, London. unknown
