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PRINCE OF WALES' OWN (WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT).MareMagnum

1st Battalion The Prince of Wales' Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) illustrated.. With a brief Account of the Services of the Regiment. Mian-Mir and Dalhousie, Punjab, India, 1906. [First and Sole? Edition.] SOME DAMAGE NOTWITHSTANDING, A RARE SURVIVAL

Oblong roy. 4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, text and captions in red, blue and black, 34 splendid large plates in photo-collotype and full-page musical score in blue; original red cloth, upper board ruled and blocked with regimental badge in gilt, expertly recased, BUT WITH SOME AGE- OR DAMP-DAMAGE TO 22 OF THE LATER PLATES (mercifully restricted mainly to upper blank margins and only materially affecting around ten plates); nevertheless a valuable record and a very scarce work. An unusually lavish production for a single battalion, this work is distinguished by the quality of the plates, which (damage apart) varies from very good to magnificent. The photographs are superbly executed by F. Bremner, photographer, variously of Lahore, Simla & Quetta, and their rendering as collotypes preserves the quite extraordinary detail of faces, uniforms and equipment. The plates include fine portraits of Major-General Frederick Walter Kitchener (Commanding 3rd (Lahore) Division) and Colonel J.C. Yale (commanding 1st Battalion), together with close-ups of the Colours and mess plate. The main body of plates is devoted, of course, to group studies. These include the officers (individually captioned), the battalion on parade, the Colour and colour sergeants (individually captioned), the NCOs (individually captioned), corporals, companies A-H (each company photographed separately), and a fine series of the battalion's various support units, trades and sports teams. An unusual composition is the plate 'Regimental Types' and depicting eight members of the battalion in a variety of uniforms including officer's full dress and OR's marching order. In addition to the plates, there is a detailed account of the battalion's service from Tournay (1794) to its arrival at Lahore Cantonment in 1906, together with pages devoted to regimental marchess. Not the least importance of this work must be as a superbly detailed record of the appearance of a regular battalion of line infantry of the period - crucially, the last phase of Edwardian opulence and before the irreversible changes brought about by the Great War. EXTREMELY SCARCE. IT IS UNCLEAR HOW MANY OF THESE REMARKABLE PORTFOLIOS WERE PRODUCED; CERTAINLY NOT MANY, AND EVEN FEWER CAN HAVE SURVIVED. Sutcliife p.103; not recorded by White (1965).

PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY [MAJOR 6TH REGT UNITED STATES INFANTRY]Biblio.com

EXPLORATORY TRAVELS THROUGH THE WESTERN TERRITORIES OF NORTH AMERICA: COMPRISING A VOYAGE FROM ST. LOUIS ON THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE SOURCE OF THAT RIVER AND A JOURNEY THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF LOUISIANA AND THE NORTH-EASTERN PROVINCES OF NEW SPAIN PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1805 1806 1807 BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

181149912London: Printed for Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1811. 1811. First edition. First English edition. Substantially reorganized from the 1810 Philadelphia edition. 4to. Quarter polished brown calf and marbled paper over boards marbled front and rear endpapers all edges marbled iii - xx 436 pp. two engraved maps one folding footnotes appendix. Pike's personal journal of the earliest U.S. government expedition to the southwest including one of the first descriptions of Texas in English. Pike explored the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers and reported on the Spanish settlements in New Mexico as well as his account of his expedition to the upper Mississippi in Minnesota. The maps are of the Mississippi and New Mexico and were "the first of this entire region to display knowledge derived from actual exploration and are of outstanding historic interest." Wheat Trans-Mississippi West Maps II pp. 20-21. "The Louisiana Purchase was one of Thomas Jefferson's crowning achievements and in the following four years he commissioned a number of expeditions to explore the largely unknown territory. In 1804 Lewis and Clark ventured westward from St. Louis; Sibley Dunbar and Freeman explored the Spanish border region in Texas; and in 1806 Pike went to explore the southernmost border region north of New Spain. His orders were to explore the Arkansas and Red Rivers but by February of 1807 he had reached the upper reaches of the Rio Grande having missed the Red River entirely: "Spanish authorities learned of his presence and sent a force to arrest him and his men. They were taken to Santa Fe and then sent on to Chihuahua. Pike's maps and papers were confiscated but he managed to retain his diary and journals by secreting them in the gun barrels of his men. Apparently he was able to convince the Spaniards that he had entered New Spain by accident as he was escorted by armed guard through Texas via San Antonio to the Sabine where he was released. He arrived at Natchioches in June 1807 having thus had the opportunity to examine New Mexico and Texas in some detail at the expense of the Spanish government." Jenkins. "In the hierarchy of significant westward expeditions that of Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike 1779-1813 ranks right below that of Lewis and Clark. While his was not the first official reconnaissance of the west he provided 'the earliest official geographical image of the trans-Mississippi West'. Pike's map and journal provided the first authentic information about the Upper Mississippi. On the Conejos River an effluent of the Rio Grande well into Spanish territory Pike boldly constructed a fort. It was at this fort that he was arrested and taken first to Santa Fe and then to Chihuahua for a meeting with Don Nemesio Salcedo the governor of New Spain. The authorities confiscated among other documents a manuscript map of the Santa Fe Trail. While in custody of the Spanish Pike learned 'just how many and what kind of troops the Spanish had on hand to defend the northern provinces' according to William Goetzmann 'and he was well informed on the character and personalities of all the Spanish military leaders. No more successful espionage operation has ever been conducted in recorded American history.' Pike returned from captivity without his sketch maps making the creation of his own map more difficult. He had managed to smuggle traverse tables in the rifle barrels that he and his men were allowed to take with them after being released. These tables enabled him to reconstruct parts of the upper Arkansas and to his credit his map is the first to accurately delineate the Arkansas and its tributaries. Nevertheless large sections of 'A Chart of the Internal Part of Louisiana' 1810 were based on Alexander von Humboldt's map. It is paradoxical that Pike who had actually explored the internal part of Louisiana relied on the cartography of Humboldt who had never been there" Cohen. "Pike has been suspected of complicity with the Aaron Burr conspiracy to establish an empire in the Southwest carved from the Spanish provinces of northern Mexico and the western United States but no firm evidence supports those charges. He remained however outspoken in his resistance to the democratization of the army during the Thomas Jefferson administration. Pike published the journals of his explorations in 1810 supplemented with his correspondence with General Wilkinson his speeches to the Indians and detailed descriptions of the land through which he traveled as An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana. Appearing as it did four years before the publication of the journals of Lewis and Clark Pike's book provided the American public with its first written description of the trans-Mississippi West. He was killed in action at the storming of York now Toronto Canada on April 27 1813 when the enemies' powder magazine exploded" Handbook of Texas Online. The publication of Pike's reports of the area now occupied by Texas Arkansas and New Mexico encountered similar difficulties to those of Lewis and Clark of their expedition and did not appear in print until three years after Pike's return. However they were well received and the favorable reports of Texas as "one of the richest most prolific and best watered countries in North America" did much to encourage further exploration and expansion." Covers lightly rubbed leather label on the spine is chipped with the loss of four letters former owner's neat bookplate on front pastedown sheet half title not preserved else a very good clean sound copy. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811. hardcover

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