Williams, Captain S.H.MareMagnum
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308 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Many reproductions of photos. A very heavily-worn former library copy with the usual markings. Reading copy only. Offered as is. Book
186 pages. Undated. Meet General Custer and the troopers of his Fighting Seventh Cavalry as they match their strength and wits against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Contents well-yellowed. Average wear to book. Dust jacket well-worn with several small tears but remains quite functional. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with title in gilt and colours, and 2 fine full-page coloured plates of colours; de luxe binding of full navy roan, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt doublures, blue silk endpapers, a near fine copy. The de luxe binding is very scarce.
pp. x, 648 + Engraved Portrait Frontis and full page plates and maps. Damp stained. Age stained. Blind embossed XLib stamp on title page. XLib bookplate of State Teachers College, Millersville from the library of Sanders P. McComsey. Inner hinges taped. Some signatures loose. Numerous pencil notations. 4to. Original full green cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold and black. Front board decorated with a portrait of Custer on horseback. Remnants of library call letters on spine. Binding worn. Extremities worn with some loss. Hardbound. A poor-ish copy of a scarce and valuable book. LOC W16
pp. (1) [Recommendations], 282, 6 [Recommendations of military men]. Illustrated with drawings. Very foxed. Damp stain. Early pencil ownerships. 12mo. 185 mm. Original cloth binding, worn and soiled. Paper spine label perished. Hardbound. Fair. 'Prepared by Brevet Captain S. Cooper. Under The Supervision of Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding the Army of the United States.' First edition. S&S/AI 36933. PAIMP 25
First edition, 8vo, viii, 107, [1]pp., frontis., bookplate to front endpaper, orig. publishers red cloth, decorated in gilt and blind.
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's lightly soiled slip-case.
8 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous plates, illustrations in the text and maps throughout; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in the dustwrapper. VOLUMES ONE TO FOUR ARE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLES. Vol. 1: 1816-1850 (1973); Vol. 2: 1851-1871 (1975); Vol. 3: 1872-1898 (1982); Vol. 4: 1899-1913 (1986); Vol. 5: 1914-1919 Egypt, Palestine & Syria (1994); Vol. 6: 1917-1918 Mesopotamia (1995); Vol. 7: Curragh Incident & Western Front 1914 (1996); Vol. 8: Western Front 1915-1918; Epilogue 1919-1939 (1997). Anglesey's monumental work, now unlikely ever to be surpassed, is the defiinitive history of the final phase of the British cavalry.
Second edition, revised, and corrected, with additions, small 8vo, [8], 128pp., 3 folding engraved plates, the large folding plate showing the horses bit is a little creased with several closed tears to folds but is complete, early ownership signatures to endpapers: Henry Wells; William Lawson (1808); William Lawson Digby (1812), cont. full calf, joint slight cracked, but overall a very good copy. Includes chapters on: The method of preparing horses to be mounted; teaching horses to stand fire, noises, alarms, fights, &c.?preventing their lying down in water?to stand quiet to be shot off from?to disregard dead horses?to swim, &c.; Several remarks and hints on shoeing, feeding, management of horses, &c.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 5 coloured plates, 7 sepia-tinted plates and a full-page chart in the text, small book-label on front wrapper verso; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Useful and well-illustrated account of 'The Galloping Third'. White, p.17.
8vo., Second Edition, with 57 engraved plates, and numerous diagrams and tables in the text, some light and inoffensive spotting, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original rose cloth, leather label lettered and framed in gilt mounted on upper boards, backstrip and joints mildly sunned else a very good, crisp, clean copy in contemporary binding. This copy was formerly in the library of Ralph Gillingham of Manor Farm, Pilsdon near Bridport in Dorset, and bears his holograph signature on front free endpaper. Loosely inserted is a holograph letter dated 1915 from a member of the Hannams family (successors of the Gillinghams at Pilsdon) confirming the gift of this copy to Major (later Lt.-Col.) Sir William Colfox . Sir William Philip Colfox, 1st Baronet (1888-1966), educated at Eton and Woolwich, served during the Great War as Major in the Royal Field Artillery. Wounded in 1917, he was awarded the MC and taught classics and mathematics at Eton for the remainder of the conflict. After the war he entered politics as MP first for Dorset North and then Dorset West. In 1920 he served as Minister for Pensions. During WWII he ran the Home Guard in West Dorset and continued to teach classics and mathematics at Colfox School in Bridport. A lovely copy in wholly unrestored contemporary state. De Ros's detailed manual was first published in 1835. Third and fourth issues are dated 1844 and 1853. All editions are scarce. No edition is listed in NUC; BLPC records only the third and fourth editions.
Small octavo. Pp. 23. Set in Gothic type. In the original printed self-wrappers, stapled as issued; faded stamp ("Inspecteur der Cavalerie"), staples rusty. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Extremely rare. Only a single copy is located worldwide (Both OCLC and KVK), that in Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage.
186pp.+ 1 planche dépliante, 2e éd., reliure moderne toile, bel état
8vo., First Edition, with 43 plates on 16 and 10 maps (several full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Smith, p.95; Sutcliffe, p.128.
in-12, 280 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, carte, -, broche, couverture illustree Tres bel exemplaire non coupe. [CA26/0] Évocation des missions en Russie et en Allemagne avant la Grande Guerre, puis du poste de représentant auprès du Maréchal Haig.
Second, best, and last edition of this comprehensive guide to military strategy. A how-to guide for all ranks of soldier, from private to general. With three folding plates, showing typographical diagrams of military formations. Cockle 588. 4to. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript on spine. Binding lightly soiled but surprisingly unworn. A little minor, faint, old staining in margins of the first few leaves, but otherwise very fresh internally. A very good copy of a rare book.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Smith p.78, 80; Sutcliffe, p.126.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Smith p.78, 80; Sutcliffe, p.126.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
PARIS, Charles Lavauzelle, 1901- 15 ème année - In 8 - Reliure demi-chagrin fauve - 1856 pages, y compris table des matières - Bel exemplaire.
54 pages. Features: The Making of Glynn Porteous' prize-winning diorama 'At the Well'; Toy Soldiers; Where Are They Now?; Large-Scale Figures; The Work of Soren Brunoe; Fraser's Advance Corps; Painting Techniques; Steps in Preparing Metal Miniatures for Painting; The Confederate Cavalry; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
54 pages. Features: The Fall of Wake Atoll; U.S. Civil War Cavalry; The Legend of Camerone; The Myths and Reality of the French Foreign Legion; Uniforms of the Continental Army; Propaganda in Hitler's Germany; The Work of Mike Leonard; How to Determine when a particular uniform was worn by Napoleon's hussar regiments; An overview of the uniforms of Russian Guard cavalry in the Napoleonic era; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Octavo. Pp. 249, 14 publisher's catalogue. Hardcover, bound in contemporary cloth and marbled boards, old shelf tickets; old military institutional stamps to half-title and title. Foxed, else in a very good condition. ~ First edition.
8vo., First Edition, with 20 plates on 8; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Invaluable reference with over 350 classified tables on the French cavalry of the Peninsular War
Maloine, 1986. In-4 relié toile bleue éditeur, vignette en couleurs sur le plat supérieur, 294 pp., abondamment illustré en noir et blanc.
