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1857112005London: John W. Parker & Son 1857. Rather spectacularly "choice" "extra gilt" large paper copy of the Queen's Regs. "Her Majesty has been pleased to give her approbation to the following Regulations and Orders. they are applicable to all stations at which the troops may be serving; and General officers employed on the Staff and commanding officers of regiments are responsible that they are invariably adhered to. every officer in Her Majesty's service is to provide himself with a copy of these Regulations and Orders and to make himself perfectly acquainted with them" Preface. A highly unusual presentation of this basic handbook we have never encountered another similar. Octavo 267 x 175 mm. Tables to the text. Contemporary full crimson hard-grain morocco presentation binding title gilt to the spine low flat bands with gilt dotted roll compartments elaborately gilt concentric panelling in gilt and blind to the boards fleur-de-lys cornerpieces large block of the Royal Arms to the centre of both boards all edges gilt floral roll to edges and turn-ins pale cream surface paper endpapers. A little light shelf-wear corners bumped but overall very good indeed an extremely handsome copy. hardcover
192197075Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing India 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Half bound calf leather on dark blue cloth. Banded spine with red leather title and date panels. Marked " Confidential Serial No 1830" An extremely scarce copy of this detailed account of the army operation in Waziristan. The book is fully illustrated with monochrome plates and detailed maps and plans see photographs for details. 2 full fold out maps in pocket to rear. Copy belonged to Capt. H. Schofield The Welch Regiment. Copy belonged to Capt. H. Schofield of the Welch Regiment and is dated Razwack Sept. 1923. <br/> <br/> Superintendent Government Printing India hardcover
184815976Frankfurt o. V., 1848. 156 S. Gr. 8° Groß-Oktav Kart.
13240Paris MARCILLY XVIIIème Ensemble de trois Canons, estampes en gravure en taille douce colorée à la main polychrome portant un texte en latin imprimé à l'encre noire avec illustrations se rapportant à l'iconographie et aux instructions liturgiques(collées sur carton enveloppé de papier vieux rose). Le canon central est Pliant et de forme rectangulaire horizontale (format déplié : 38 cm de haut x 61 cm de large - Format plié : 21,6 cm de large x 38 de haut), les deux autres de forme rectangulaire verticale (format : 24,8 cm de large x 33,4 cm de haut), Le canon central est composé de trois espaces scandé par un décor (décoré à la main) aux guirlandes de fleurs et Anges avec aux pieds des personnages bibliques avec leurs attibuts : MOÏSE et sa Table de la Loi, Saint-MARC assis sur un Lion avec un livre ouvert, Un Aigle avec Saint-JEAN l'évangéliste, Saint-LUC assis sur un Boeuf, Saint-PIERRE tenant ses Clefs à la Main, Saint MATTHIEU et son Ange, Saint-PAUL et son Epée, Saint-LAURENT en habit de Thuriféraire avec son brule-encens etc... avec des Anges dans la partie supérieure. Le canon dit du Dernier Evangile : le texte en latin est encadré à gauche et à droite de 2 Colonnes sculptées avec motif floral en couleurs surmontés chacune d'un Ange tenant une guirlande de feuilles verte au dessus du texte avec une Urne dorée au centre. Le canon dit du Lavabo présente le même type de mise en scène, avec au pied du texte en latin un Livre, une Croix d'or et un Brule-Encens représenté au lieu d'un Agneau Pascal blanc; l'ensemble est trés beau et les couleurs trés fraîches peintes à la main sont resplendissantes, le coin droit du canon central est fortement écorné sans que cela ne touche à aucun moment à la gravure, petites traces de coulures de cire, montrant bien que cet Autel Portatif à servi, sans date (XVIIIème) sans lieu ni nom d'Editeur ( peut être Paris Marcilly, rue saint Jacques n° 21, Imprimeur Editeur),
17280Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1569. 2 ouvrages en 1 vol. in-8, 296-[8] pp. [suivi de:] [8]-145-[7] pp. (insolation du dos, petits frottements ou épidermures, trous de vers, quelques petites taches éparses, rousseurs, N3 et N4 reliés dans le désordre
171962171Nürnberg, Christoph Riegel, 1719. Qu.-8°. Mit gest. Frontispiz u. 416 Abbildungen auf 55 Kupfertafeln. 7 Bll., 263; 400; 302; 72 S., Ldr. d. Zt. a. 3 Bünden.
159220710Leiden, Plantin für Raphelengius, 1592. 8 Bll., 1 gef. Tab., 320 SS.; 8 Bll., 480 SS. mit vielen, teils ganzseitigen Holzschnitten, 16 Bll. Index. 8°, Holzdeckelbd. d. Zt. mit blindgepr. Schweinslederbezug, 2 Schließen und Blauschnitt.
25428Vols 1-3 cover the period 27 August 1915 to 12 July 1916; Vols 4-8 the period between 31 January 1918 and 7 June 1919. On the Western Front in France with leave in Britain. It is hard to do justice to this vivid informative and well-written 250000-word account of the author's First World War service as Medical Officer In Charge attached to three regiments on the Western Front present during the Battle of the Somme Kaiserslacht and Hundred Days Offensive. It is hard to conceive of a better account of the day-to-day activities of a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps on active service during the Great War. The author is observant intelligent and diligent in his duties which involve attending to the wounded being called to certify deaths at all hours of the day or night doing the rounds of the wounded holding sick parade the supervision of field ambulances and the maintenance - and on one occasion the construction under fire - of aidposts. He discusses the conduct of the war describing in detail how he and his colleagues are informed about the forthcoming Battle of the Somme; and discusses the armaments and vehicles involved there are a number of references to the war in the air and describes as a medical man of the effects of poison gas reveals the comments made by a German officer while under interrogation following the capture of a German patrol a 'stunt' which wins the DSO for his colleague Lieut. J. J. Tynan see his 1948 obituary in the Irish Times. He pokes repeated fun at his corps commander ‘Hunter-Bunter’ i.e. Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston see Oxford DNB and describes 'our review' by Kitchener and the Prince of Connaught. The environment and everyday privations of active duty are described with occasional use of army slang and there are frequent reference to the tangled maze of trenches whose features are named to evoke life back home Edgware Road Kings Road Winchester Street Tube Station Chocolate Corner the Covered Way. Instances of German subterfuge are also described the writer not being well-disposed towards ‘the hun’ ‘bosche’ and ‘Fritz’. There is much gossip and small talk and description of pastimes sightseeing and entertainment while waiting for demobilization he purchases a piano and forms a ‘jazz band’. with mention of his activities while on leave in England. The weather is assiduously described sometimes in eloquent terms 15 March 1916: ‘A damp drizzly morning blossomed into a grand day’ and 30 March 1916: ‘The huns abused this beautiful warm morning by commencing early to shell the Rue de Bois just behind our H.Q.’. There are notes on terrain and other matters and a number of transcriptions of official documents and some statistical tables including two pages of ‘Operation Orders for Gas Beam Attack’ in June 1918. He writer’s attitude to the ‘jolly old war’ is surprisingly positive on demobilization. The eighth and last volume ends with an ‘Envoi’ summing up his feelings regarding his experiences in which he expresses regret that ‘the war is won and done’ stating that it was something he ‘would not have missed for anything’ and noting that the ‘periods of intense activity more than compensated for the monotony and boredom. It caused me to meet and to live with all sorts and conditions of men under all sorts and conditions of environment from the magnificence of the Chateau de Selincourt to the misery of the front line trenches in mud and shellfire where one had to trample over the bodies of dead comrades sometimes inevitably over even the faces of men dead but a few moments men one had seen and talked to day by day to reach a spot ahead where lay ones work the patching up of torn bodies of those still alive. At times it has been ghastly but the ugliness the sordidness the discomfort hunger gas death all these miseries fade from the memory in time from the conscious memory at any rate’. He feels that when most of the survivors have scattered those who are left in the army will soon be ‘seniors looked to for advice and direction by a younger generation who have not had the - to them - enviable experience of serving during the war just over’. His experiences have made little difference to him from a medical point of view: ‘If they are sufficiently sick or wounded to be interesting professionally they are bad enough to require immediate evacuation for hospital treatment. But by being thrown into the company of and being brought in contact professionally and otherwise with all manner of people my knowledge of human nature at least has been extended to a degree that would be impossible in even a lifetime of civilian practice’. The diary is certainly unpublished and no reference to it has been discovered let alone to the original from which it was transcribed. From the condition and appearance of the typescript and the design of the manuscript map by which it is accompanied one would guess that it is a near-contemporaneous transcript in all probability by the diarist himself who may well have destroyed the original as was the practice at the time. The author does not identify himself but internal evidence indicates that he is William John Henry M.B Ch.B graduate of Glasgow University who enlisted in December 1914. The diary begins on 27 August 2015 with Henry having completed his basic training leaving Taunton for Southampton where he embarks on the troop ship the SS Karnak bound for the western front where as a Temporary Lieutenant he serves as Medical Officer attached to the 28th Siege Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery until the beginning of 1916 when promoted to Temporary Captain he exchanges with the 6th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment he gives his ‘Reasons’ in the entry for 28 January 1916. There is a hiatus in the diary between mid-July 1916 and the beginning of 1918 presumably covering his recuperation from an injury reported in the press see below. By the time of his journey back to France on board the SS Onward in February 1918 Henry has exchanged once again this time with the 11th Battalion Rifle Brigade with which he serves until his demobilization in June 1917. On 15 January 1916 the British Medical Journal reports Henry’s promotion from Temporary Lieutenant to Temporary Captain; and on 4 January 1919 ‘Temp. Capt. W. J. Henry’ features in the same journal among the 8 November 1918 list of those mentioned in despatches. There is a report of Henry’s injury in the Roman Catholic newspaper the Tablet on 5 August 1916: ‘The following names are of wounded officers :— . ‘Captain William J. HENRY M.B. R.A.M.C. attached 6th Wilts R.’ Another report in the RAMC Journal December 1916 gives a few biographical details: ‘Captain William John Henry R.A.M.C. wounded graduated as M. B. and Ch. B. at Glasgow in 1913. He joined the R. A. M. C. as a temporary Lieutenant on 16th December 1914 and became Captain after a year’s service. He was attached to the Wiltshire Regiment.’ There is a similar report in the Glasgow Medical Journal. In 1919 the RAMC Journal contains a reference to ‘W. J. Henry MB attached 11th Battalion Rifle Brigade’. Henry’s identity as author of the diary is confirmed by the entry of 21 January 1916: ‘We had another very enjoyable musical evening with the two Mademoiselles Henry - of all names - of Jacks billet and we parted finally with the best of good wishes. He hopes to have leave soon and I do not expect I shall see him for a long time. As it turned out I ever saw him again. He was killed on the Somme in August 1916. R.I.P.’ Henry does not give much away about himself in the diary: he is a Scot on 24 October 1918 he refers to ‘we Scotsmen’ from the neighbourhood of Glasgow on 28 April 1919 he declares ‘Gartloch is near home’ and a Roman Catholic whose birthday is on 2 October. Each page of the typescript is printed on a separate leaf with a manuscript map in red and black ink on the reverse of one leaf. The numbering of the eight volumes is a typed part of the original text with vols 1-3 covering the period 27 August 1915 to 12 July 1916; and vols 4-8 between 31 January 1918 and 7 June 1919 see above. A total of 345pp 4to closely-typed and single-spaced with around 56 lines to a page. Complete but for six pages missing in vol.3. Paginated in manuscript 1-348 as follows: Vol. 1 pp.1-50: 27 August to 7 December 1915. Vol. 2 pp.51-120: 24 December 1915 to 21 April 1916. Vol. 3 pp.121-177 lacking pp.166-171: 22 April to 12 July 1916. Vol.4 pp.178-221 with unpaginated conclusion on slip cut from top of p.222: 31 January to 13 May 1918. Vol.5 pp.222-250 with two pp.233 and map in red and black on reverse of final leaf: 14 May to 15 July 1918. Vol. 6 pp.251-277: 16 July to 5 September 1918. Vol.7 pp.278-333 with two pp.333 and mispagination making leap from 322 to 324 but with no text lacking here: 22 September 1918 to 28 March 1919. Vol.8 pp.334-348: 15 April to 7 June 1919. Each page is typed on separate leaf with a blank reverse except for p.250 which has the manuscript map in red and black on the reverse of its leaf. Each of the eight sections has its leaves attached with a brass stud. As stated above six pages are lacking and damage to the first leaf has resulted in loss of a few words of text at the beginning of the first entry; a handful of leaves are detached with some creasing and in one case loss to two or three words in a corner; otherwise the paper is aged discoloured and a little worn at the edges but in fair condition with the text entirely legible. The following extracts are an arbitrary selection of the mass of interesting and informative material contained in the eight volumes. Beginning with Henry’s first arrival in France we find him thrown into the thick of it. He writes on 18 February 1916: ‘I slept none too well on this my first night in the trenches. This quietness was all the more remarkable because we had a man killed of D coy by a shot through the head. His condition was so apparent that they did not need to waken me to verify the fact but sent him straight to the shed used as a mortuary near to the cemetery about a quarter of a mile away.’ And the following day: ‘I resumed my tour of inspection and presently a whiz-bang arrived about ten yards away and in bursting it splattered me all over with mud. I wandered on to D coys mess dugout and had tea with Tanner Williams Garthwaite Whitlock and Shapland. There was a lot of quite ineffective bosche sniping going on all the time and Tanner showed me the country around through some periscopes of different sorts and I had a good look at the front of our own line as the hun sees it from a projecting bit of the front line called the “Bird-cage walk†and a massive structure of sandbags it looked.’ Nine days later 27 February he gives a long account of a visit to the soon-to-be-destroyed church at La Gorgue. Earlier in the month 11 February 1916 he gives a description of ‘our review by Lord Kitchener’: ‘K. came along accompanied by Prince Arthur of Connaught with his club foot limp General Monro of the 1st Army and General Bridges commanding the 19th Division. They walked down the line followed by a huge staff and at a greater distance still by a great fleet of motor cars. K. looked enormously Big and burly and seemed in excellent condition. Prince Arthur with his pronounced limp seemed rather hard pressed to keep up the pace for K. with his great long legs made the pace down the line an uncommonly smart one. Unfortunately one cannot see all that one might when the order is “Eyes Front†and as we were trying to look like soldiers we had to stand still much as we would have liked to turn round. We came off parade almost as soon as they had entered their cars and I changed out of the wettest of my things and spent the rest of the evening working out mess bills.’ On 2 March 1916 complains about the mess: ‘The mess here is not particularly satisfactory.’ On 16 March 1916 he evaluates his new mess-mates after stating ‘That single whiz-bang proved more important than I imagined at the time. It satisfied the hun that he had my aidpost “taped†as we call it and he could strafe it at any time he wished without further registration and this he did later in his own good time. . Turner and Gibbs are very childish and grouse about everything or about nothing at all all day long. Lefroy is variable and uncertain while Pritchard is an ex-Guards ranker and is very N.C.O. -like in every way yet he is infinitely to be preferred to the other two. Capt. Smith however is a really splendid man and he almost redeems the mess by his personality.’ On 17 March 1916 he goes off ‘with Bambridge to explore the front line. We tried one trench but it bore away to the right across the La Bassee Road and finally became full of water so we turned about and tried another bearing to the left and it took us to Port Arthur Keep a trench with sides about three feet high and mud about two feet deep. I did a sanitary inspection of Port Arthur which is a reinforced farm house in the midst of a system of trenches and parapets. We left by another and a better trench which took us into Hun Street by which we reached the front line. . Tydmarsh or Tiddles as we called him was in good humour and showed me all sorts of things through periscopes and I had a shot at a hun with a telescopic rifle being probably quite unsuccessful. Then I had a look though a telescope from a snipers post a loophole in the parapet.’ On 21 March 1916 he experiences a heavy enemy bombardment: ‘What an ass I was to write that sentence about the quietness prevailing ! ! ! I had scarcely finished it when the hun started a furious bombardment of the Cheshires to our left and of Neuf Chapelle. From 12 till 1 the air was alive with shells of every kind. Shrapnel bust in mid air with a white puff of smoke and a smokey parabolic trail followed by a most vicious bang. Heavy crumps sang their way along landing with a great cr-r-r-ump throwing up clouds of earth and smoke two to three storeys high. Universal shells containing high explosive and shrapnel mixed were bursting low in the ai with a horrible huge red flare volumes of black smoke and a deafening roar. Nothing of all this fell on our battalion front though hundreds of shells went over and the Cheshires who got it all had only 20 hit and of them only 1 killed. At one point I saw a huge felled tree trunk lifted a good six feet off the ground and fall again. Our brigadier and brigade major were going round our front line at the time and teh show began just before they left our line for the Cheshires. The retaliation of our guns to all this was feeble to a degree.’ During the same month he supervises the building of an aidpost. On 28 March: ‘About 11-15 the hun sent over about twenty whiz-bangs at H.Q. but failed to hit any of our men and of course they were about 250 yards from where the aidpost work was going on. The afternoon was bright but cold with a high wind which quickly dried up the place. No retaliation was asked for the morning shooting as they were only whiz-bangs - 77mm high velocity shrapnel and H.E. field gun shells - and anyhow we probably would not have got any as the gunners are restricted to four rounds per gun per day and they have to account strictly for these four. During the afternoon the aidpost work went well but had to be interrupted for half an hour while the hun shelled us. They gave our working party 12 whiz-bangs all to themselves and scored one direct hit on the derelict house within which the aidpost is built. One huge chunk of shell came plunging through a sheet of corrugated iron with which we had filled a great hole in the wall to protect from the weather the sandbags we were putting up inside but no one was hit. I decided that the huns could see us at work filling sandbags so I found another place where the men were better concealed.’ On 5 April 1916 after a report of an attack on Chocolate Corner: ‘I knocked my people off work and strolled along to H.Q. Here I was telephoned for by the padre to go to Tube Station to see a man who was wounded so I got my corporal Braithwaite and off we went to see the unfortunate. He had a large hole in his head caused by a snipers bullet and a large piece of brain was protruding and he showed signs of a fractured base as well. I tinkered him up and stimulated him with everything I had and got him away as quickly as possible. Then I sent my corporal home and stayed to lunch with Eldred the Padre Matthews and Hunter and Tynan came along later. We had a merry meal’. Also in April a colleague Lieutenant J. J. Tynan pulls two ‘stunts’ for the latter of which he recieves the DSO. The account of the first is given on 8 April 1916 after a description of cases he has had to deal with: ‘After lunch the C.O. told me that he wanted me and my two orderlies to wait behind after the relief tonight as Tynan was going to do a bombing stunt the same one that he was prevented doing by the presence of the large hun working party last night. Tonight he is going to kill the huns in the listening post or to capture them if possible. The listening post is an old bosche communication trench extending between their line and ours the post being about 30 yards in front of their parapet. If the working party is out again he means to bomb down the trench and kill as many as he can.’ The mission is described with Tynan throwing a ‘Mills grenade which burst and killed one hun outright.’ He carries the ‘heavy hun for more than a hundred yards then three of the scouts took him over. A great strapping hun he scaled over 14 stones and much useful information was obtained from him dead though he was. As it turned out the other hun lost himself in the fog and taking the wrong direction he came up to our parapet and was made a prisoner later in the night. . The dead hun proved to belong to the 46th Reserve Jaeger Regiment’. The second of Tynan’s ‘stunts’ for which he will win the DSO takes place on 12 April 1916 and Henry’s account is headed ‘Capture of a German Patrol’ and involves Tynan and twelve scouts. Henry reports the result of the interrogation of the German officer: ‘He expects Verdun to fall in a month and that then the French will break up and the war will finish with a huge German victory. He considered that the English were not soldiers at all but that all Germans were and Tynans suggestion that one Englishman was as good as three huns was answered by a shrug of the shoulders. Regarding the treatment of British prisoners in Germany as described in the Daily Mail he declared it to be a one-sided account and maintained that they had lots of food and football. The officer had been fighting since 1914 and wore the Iron Cross; a question as to how he had obtained it was answered by the one word “braveryâ€. What impressed Tynan most was the obvious patriotism that the man showed and his keenness as a soldier. On the whole he was very favourably impressed by his captive.’ The ‘exploit’ reaches ‘one step higher than his listening post adventure had done’ with the Divisional General sending the message ‘Well done the Wilts! Bridges Major General’. The entry for 1 June 1916 gives a good example of his duties. After holding a sick parade of only fourteen men and returning to his billet to enter up his ‘sick chart’ he ‘wandered to D coy but found no one up yet. At 9 oclock King Parsons and I held a board of inspection on the S.B.Rs. small box respirators of the battalion which took us till 9.4. We found there was not enough rubber sponge material round the goggles to make them gas-tight and not enough padding under the chin for the same purpose. Then I wandered down to H.Q. Quarter-master-sergeants C.Q.M.Ss. about the parafin soap. . After initiating the C.Q.M.Ss. into the mysteries of making the parafin soap I went off on a water hunt. I rode out past B company and about 1 1/4 miles away I found a stream that the C.O. had mentioned yesterday. I came back by Dracourt where brigade H.Q. are and got home about 12.30 after a lovely ride through a beautiful avenue of trees. . The padre Davis and I had tea by ourselves in the garden’. On 23 June 1916 without any previous hint he receives a briefing regarding the forthcoming ‘push’ which is to start the Battle of the Somme. The entry begins: ‘About 10 oclock this morning after sick parade Colonel Johnson D.A.Q.M.G. deputy assistant quarter-master general of the 19th Division came along with two huge plans in relief of the ground over which we are to fight and he gave a most interesting general outline of the whole scheme especially as it affected our division.’ The entry gives a ‘summary’ of Johnson’s ‘discourse’ in ten numbered parts including ‘5th. The artillery preparation will be phenominal sic most careful and thorough’ ‘6th. The advance is to be most carefully regulated and there is to be no going “as far as possible†- as at Loos - but only to definite objectives’ and ‘10th. That aeroplanes are to control the advance by light signals of various kinds’. He continues: ‘A good part of the rest of the day was spent in marking our lines of advance on our trench maps and in completing as far as possible my preparations. There are rumours that the bombardment is to start tomorrow. In the early afternoon there was a violent thunder-storm in the course of which we were interested to see one of our sausages behind our camp calmly break its moorings and whisk away into the clouds making as it appeared straight for the bosche lines. He later reports that it is unmanned and ‘came to earth at Senlis’ Many of our mens bivouacs were washed away by the torrents of water pouring down the hillside. The mess tent was ankle deep’. The following day he goes with Padre Davis ‘up the hill behind the camp whence we had a splendid view of the bosche lines and of a lot of our shells bursting upon them but they were only small stuff. After dinner there was a glorious sunset and as it got darker we admired the spectacle of the flashes of our guns and of the bursting shrapnel over the bosche lines. One curious feature of the configuration of the country here is that scarcely a murmur is to be heard at the camp of the noise of the guns . quite diferent from Flanders and probably due to the hills around. The bombardment proper is expected to start tomorrow. . The guns on our front are now so numerous that they say that each battery will have to deal with only about 30 yards of front - some concentration surely - and with unlimited ammunition at that!!!’ The following day 25 June 1916 ‘some of our heaviest guns started shooting 9-2 12 and 15 inch. . A terrific strafe arose which lasted for an hour. We shelled Contalmaison to pieces and then the guns turned to other targets. The hun retaliated with a lot of heavy stuff on Albert and shrapnel too. We had a splendid view of all this from the camp and the reverberating crashes of the bursting 5-9s in the town and the clouds of smoke and brick dust were colossal while any empty spaces in the air seemed to be filled with bursts of shrapnel and of high-explosive-shrapnel universal shell. It was a very noticeable fact at this time that a German aeroplane was never to be seen. Our lines were so thoroughly patrolled by our flying men that the hun did not have a chance.’ Preparations include ‘thousands of motor lorries that passed in an unending stream up and down the Albert Road’. He reports the ‘persistent rumour that the hun has evacuated his front line and is taking up his position in his second line leaving only some trench mortars and machine guns in front. If this be true then our artillery preparation will be wasted’. The five corps making up the 4th Army from north to south are these; the 10th 3rd 15th 13th and 8th. The 34th Division whih is holding our front line here has on its right the 21st Division then the 32nd then the 36th both of the 10th Corps. . An interesting point Col. Johnson mentioned on Friday was that it is known that the hun has only five spare divisions with which to reinforce his front against our pushing army. To lunch we had two friends of Major Thynnes from the 15th corps on our right but they had little to tell us that we did not already know.’ The following day he acquires ‘a Tommys tunic from Harris’ and has his ‘start sewn on the shoulder straps and also two big new pockets inside. So I now have a complete Tommys outfit boots tunic belt steel helmet and hose tops as per regulations for all officers going into action must have and wear Tommys uniform as they would stand out too prominently and offer too good a target in their own distinctive gear. The colonel had ordered me to wear my red cross armlet or brassard. . As it turned out it was a bad thing for it offered an excellent target to the hun and was the chief cause of my being knocked out later.’ He describes a ‘conference for company commanders’ called by the commanding officer who has ‘just got back from a pow-wow at Brigade himself’ outlining ‘two possible lines of attack that had been mentioned at the C.O.s conference’ ‘As usual he found the Army staff people exceedingly sanguine. They always are before a show. They were so before Loos.’ ‘If what the Army Staff looks for comes about the 34th Division will reach not only their own objectives but ours as well so slight will be the opposition after the bombardment. Then our division will act as advance-guard of General Goughs 5th Army a mixed force of cavalry and light infantry and we shall march up the Bapaume Road in columns of four and billet for the night in Pozieres. On the eve of the battle he writes: ‘We all regard the Bapaume business as a myth.’ But the colonel scoffs at all this and declares that we shall much more probably be employed in helping the 34th Division to take their objectives which are only half way to our own objective - Besantin le Petit.’ On 29 June: ‘A German artillery deserter reports that on the first day of the bombardment we put 600 gas shells into Pozieres which was full of troops and that some hundreds of these were killed. On the other hand prisoners taken in raids vary in their accounts of the effect of the bombardment. Apparently in some cases the dugouts are so deep that the occupants are quite safe. We have some grand big guns close to us here. A 12 inch gun on a railway mounting calmly lobs a 1000 lb. shell into Bapaume ten miles away and there are lots of “Grannies†- 15 inch howitzers and “Mothers†- 9-2 inch howitzers.’ On the eve of the battle he sends one of his corporals ‘to the 57th Field Ambulance to see if any instructions had arrived for I had received no orders from the A.D.M.S. about medical arrangements for the show . He came back with the information that there were to be no R.A.M.C. personnel attached to battalions this time and that the field ambulances were to clear the battle-field. What is to be done now Are the poor devils that are wounded to lie there till the field ambulance is graciously pleased to consider it safe to come and collect them No bearers!! Who is to collect the wounded Am I and my two corporals supposed to collect them without any assistance The regimental stretcher-bearers will be quite busy enough if they do first aid without carrying cases about and I am not going to let them carry stretchers into action as they would be of little use and very much in the way. I thin it is positively criminal of the A.D.M.S. Hinge.’ The night before the advance is bitterly cold: ‘We had no cover. The men lay in the trench and the officers on the grass of the steep embankment. We were all in our fighting kit with no greatcoats and in our short trousers we were bitterly cold. The dew was heavy and there was a 12 inch gun on a railway mounting beside us which fired at Bapaume every fifteen minutes with a blinding flash and a terrific roar. Apart from this gun there was a very heavy strafe on both sides all night and the huns kept asking their people for more retaliation by means of red flares all night but with little apparent result.’ Vol.3 breaks off with p.165 in the middle of the entry for 1 July 1916 and when it resumes on p.172 during the entry for the following day 2 July 1916 it is clear that the missing six pages pp.166-171 have described Henry himself getting wounded ‘All appreciation of touch and sense of position had gone from the leg and foot’. The entry for the following day 3 July 1916 begins: ‘About 1 a.m. I was put on an ambulance for the casuality sic clearing station and to my surprise I found I had a fellow passenger Springett of B coy whom I had not seen at the ambulance at Albert. He had been wounded through the leg and foot and was promised a limp for life.’ After the hiatus the last five volumes continue in similar style as the tide turns in the Allies’ favour. On 21 February 1918 Henry describes ‘the devastated area a desolate plain of shellholes old barbed wire curmbling trenches and war debris of all kinds’ in an area ‘about ten miles west of Chaulnes’: ‘All the way along there were evidences of the bosche retirement all that I had read of in the papers in England. There were trees cut in two in many cases actually felled in others cut through just enough to ensure the death of the tree. Houses had been destroyed by blowing them up or by blowing in the bases of the walls so that the house collapsed and so on.’ On 21 March 1918 at the start of the Ludendorff Offensive he reports a rumour that ‘the bosche . had broken through but that our flanks had closed in on him and we had taken 12000 prisoners’. Three days later 24 March he complains that ‘artillery support was totally absent throughout. We were crumped and crumped and crumed till we were almost deaf and nearly crazy and as jumpy as if we were on springs and all we could give in return in addition to our rifles and a very few Lewis guns were a few a very very few 18 pounder shells - with 18 pounders when he had 8 inch and 5-9s galore.’ On 28 March 1918 he reports another case of German perfidy: ‘One feature of the night was that one of our men caught by the bosche during the counter-attack on Buchoir was made by them to shout out “Stretcher-bearers†at intervals throughout the night. A patrol of the Scotties was captured while trying to reach him and one of ours out on the same errand escaped narrowly from the same fate.’On 17 May 1918 he describes the effects of poison gas: ‘I went for lunch to B coy and there saw some gassed cases and took seven of them to the A.D.S. just beyond Na Poo Corner. Their eyes were still fearfully sore inflamed and practically blind and they were a pitiful little band headed by the worst case of all people the gas sergeant of the company. Of all the diabolical inventions of this war I think mustard gas is the very worst. It can be used only in shells in which it is packed in liquid form. When the shell bursts this venomous liquid is scattered all round and if any of it falls on your person or clothing it burns its way through and if it falls on your eyes it blinds you for life. But its virulence does not end there. What of the liquid falls on to the ground sinks in a little way and then lies dormant but as soon as the warm sun comes out it evaporates slowly and the vapour that rises is only a little less damaging than the liquid itself and causes acute inflammation of the eyes and of the respiratory passages.’ On 13 June 1918: ‘more bosch planes came over and bombed Cite St. Pierre on our left and both lots of gunners were busy all night’. On 30 July 1918 there is a football match betwen officers and sergeants with the officers losing 6-1 ‘even though we had Eassom and Bennett a professional both playing but we had some extraordinarily bad players among the officers to balance that.’ And the following day ‘I went over to Chateau de la Haie about two miles away to see the Volatiles the Canadian Concert Party. They were uncommonly good and had a perfectly wonderful “girl†who not only acted the girl splendidly but did the Vesta Tilly stunt of male impersonations with surprising skill.’ As the war draws to its conclusion the tone lightens with several amusing anecdotes told of ‘Hunter-Bunter’: ‘Our corps commander Hunter Weston is probably the subject of more tales and stories than any other man in the army’. On 6 June 1919 he is present at the departure of his ‘old battalion the 11th R.B.’ saying goodbye to ‘those of my friends who were with what was left of the battalion at the end. These were the Colonel Cotton Bosvile adjutant Jelly Q.M. and the babe Cunningham otherwise Ganymede. I purchased their piano for 200 francs and it became the nucleus of a jazz band which I organised at Fonquevillers and which soon easily outshone any similar organisation in my experience.’ In the final entry he regrets having to exchange ‘that most serviceable colour called Khaki’ for civilian clothes: ‘but I am a soldier no longer my army pay has stopped and so I must conform to convention’. Interspersed between entries are a several ‘NOTES’ with three pages on the terrain in Flanders and two pages giving a detailed description of ‘the guns chiefly in use by our army in the field under nineteen headings from ‘Maxim’ to ‘15 inch Howitzer’. The notes to Vol.2 include a page about the stories told about the early part of the war by ‘Our colonel’ including one on an incident of friendly fire. ‘Colonel Barron’ also describes ‘One piece of unrecorded history’: ‘that on the Marne 15000 Ulhans got in between the left flank of our army and our general headquarters staff - General French and his brass hats and the French troops who were further to the left on the Paris side’. ‘The panic . was indescribable and that day has always been regarded by the staff as the blackest day of the war.’ After this set of notes is a page-long ‘PERSONNEL OF UNITS’ listing ‘Artillery’ and ‘Infantry’ with comments on the former i.e. ‘Lieut. Col. Pollock. sent to England as inefficient 1915’ and ‘Lieut. Hood’: ‘Wounded January by F.A. premature. Two fingers of left hand broken.’’ On 28 January 1916 Henry gives almost a whole page of ‘Reasons for my exchanging from the 28th Siege Brigade R.G.A. to the 6th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment’ beginning with ‘Colonel Barron was a super-excellent gunner but a most difficult man to live with.’ Transcribed items include an alleged ‘COPY OF A GERMAN DOCUMENT CAPTURED RECENTLY. Notice No 13875’ allegedly written by ‘W. L. O. Twiss Major / General Staff 22 March 1916 beginning: On account of all the able-bodied men having been called to the colours it remains the duty of all those left behind for the sake of the Fatherland to interest themselves in the happiness of the married women and maidens by doubling or even trebling the number of births.’ The entry for 1 April 1918 is followed by nearly two pages of ‘NOTES’ beginning with a list headed ‘On coming out of the line at Domart the battalion mustered 113 other ranks and 5 officers not counting myself. The officer casualties were as follows’. The entry for 15 July 1918 is followed by a two-page ‘COPY OF OPERATION ORDERS FOR GAS BEAM ATTACK’ ‘Secret’ from ‘J. T. Bosvile Capt. and Adjutant 11thS Bn. R. B.’ the first of the two orders beginning: ‘1. A Gas Beam Attack will be carried out tonight or the first night after on which the wind is favourable. Gas will be discharged from trucks Decauville rail head N-36-d-92 62 to N-32-d-69 60.’ and with sections on: Precautions Code Words Zero Hour Lewis Gun Fire etc. Signal Officer Rations. The two orders followed by a full-page copy of a secret document by ‘Wingate Col. A.D.M.S.’ giving a ‘Summary of Sick and Wounded Admitted to 20th Division Medical Units and Evacuated to C.C.S. during the Month of May 1918’. On the back of this page 250 are two original manuscript maps of ‘BOSCHE LINE’ in red and black the first featuring the ‘LENS-LIEVIN ROAD’ and the second the ‘Souchez River’. Vols 1-3 cover the period 27 August 1915 to 12 July 1916; Vols 4-8 the period between 31 January 1918 and 7 June 1919. On the We hardcover
18971166LEIPZIG. M. RUHL. 1897-1906. 5 TOMES IN-4 (20,5 X 25,5 X 20 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) EN FEUILLES DE (6) + 145, (4) + 187 + (1), (6) + 242, VI + 481 ET VI + 634 ET (1) PAGES, RELIURE DE L’EDITEUR A LA BRADEL PLEINE PERCALINE ROUGE, TITRE DORE SUR DOS LISSE. ILLUSTRE DE 395 PLANCHES HORS TEXTE EN COULEURS, TIREES EN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIE, DONNANT SOUS FORME DE TABLEAUX SYNOPTIQUES LES DIFFERENTS UNIFORMES DE L’ARMEE FRANCAISE DE 1690 A 1890. (COLAS. 1868). A NOTER QUE DEUX PLANCHES SONT NUMEROTEES BIS DANS LE TOME 1 : LES PLANCHES 20 ET 46. QUELQUES PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS GRAVITE, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.
1780400384War-Office 1780. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good copy in gilt-blocked leather. Generalized wear to some of the boards with edges roughly rubbed. Remains a well-preserved set overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical Description; 371 i.e. 330 86 i.e. 80 pages ; 33 cm. Notes; Spine title: Army list. Added title page: List of the officers of the several regiments and corps of militia. Subjects; Armed Forces Officers. Grande-Bretagne. Army Officiers Registres. Great Britain. Great Britain Militia Registers. Great Britain. Army. Great Britain. Army Officers Registers. Great Britain Royal Marines. Great Britain. Royal Marines Officers RegistersMilitia. Registers Lists. War-Office hardcover
1647413058London : Printed for B.A. ; Printed by the appointments of the Officers ; Printed for Laurence Chapman 1647. First Edition. Softcover. Good set of pamphlet copies; edges slightly nicked and dust-toned as with age. Remain surprisingly well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 3 pamphlets dis-bound as issued: paged and unpaged 8; 14 7 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Full titles: A Remonstrance of the representations of the army for redresse of the grievances of the kingdom : With certain remedies humbly remonstrated to the Parliament for the setling of the kingdome in peace Iune 21. 1647 --- The Declaration of the armie under his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax as it was lately presented at Saffron-Walden in Essex unto Major-Generall Skippon.and Colonell Fleetwood members of the House of Commons and Commissioners there for the Parliament. by Colonell Whaley.and Major Disborow with the names of two hundred thirty more Commission-Officers annexed; which declaration is to manifest and set forth to them they being Members of Parliament and of the Army the Armies reall love and diligent care to discharge that duty for which they were raised as will manifestly appeare in time to all that wish well to mercy peace and justice 1647 --- A Charge delivered in the name of the Army under the command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax unto the commissioners of Parliament with the Army at S. Albans June 14. 1647. : and by them sent up to the Parliament against several members of the Honorable House of Commons. Also a paper delivered to the said commissioners of Parliament June 15. from his Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax and the Army under his command of some farther humble proposals and desires to the Honorable Houses of Parliament. Printed and published by the appointment of his Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax and the officers and soldiers of the Army under his command. St. Albans June 17 1647. Signed by me John Rushworth. Subjects; Petitions Resolutions. England and Wales. Army ; Early works to 1800. Great Britain History Civil War 1642-1649 ; Early works to 1800. Great Britain Politics and government 1642-1649 ; Early works to 1800. England and Wales. Parliament Expulsion ; Early works to 1800. Impeachments England ; Early works to 1800. London : Printed for B.A. ; Printed by the appointments of the Officers ; Printed for Laurence Chapman paperback
183156822Christiania, Samfundets Forlag Johan Krohn, (1831-41). Indbundet i 18 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titelfelter. Nederst på rygge er der med tape påsat en papirsetiket. Enkelte kapitæler lidt slidte. Stempel på heftetitelbladene. Hvert hefte ca. 200 pp. Med talrige litograferede kort, planer og plancher. Indvendig ren og frisk.
183156822Christiania Samfundets Forlag Johan Krohn 1831-41. Indbundet i 18 samtidige hldrbd. Rygforgyldning. Forgyldte titelfelter. Nederst på rygge er der med tape påsat en papirsetiket. Enkelte kapitæler lidt slidte. Stempel på heftetitelbladene. Hvert hefte ca. 200 pp. Med talrige litograferede kort planer og plancher. Indvendig ren og frisk. <br/><br/><em>Rækken her har alle heftetitelblade men savner titelblade til bindene. Der foreligger 2 litograferede titelblade i hefte 9 og 10 men uden årstal og uden hefte- eller bindbetegnelse."Det eldste av de norske militære tidsskriftene er Norsk militært tidsskrift NMT. Forordet i det første nummeret er datert 31. desember 1830 og tidsskriftet het den gang Militairt Tidsskrift . Det ble utgitt av en Forening til udgivelse af et militairt tidsskrift opprette 4. april 1930. I 1834 ble tidsskriftet overtatt av Christiana Militaire Samfund og fra 1842 ble navnet endret til Norsk Militairt Tidsskrift." </em> unknown
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1818327855Paris: Depot Topographique Militaire 1818. Case map. Engraving with outline hand coloring. Dissected and laid on linen with red silk selvedge total size 60 by 50 inches. Marbled paper slipcase with paper label and some wear. Map in very good condition with some stains library stamp below title otherwise in very good condition. St. Petersburg: Depot Topographique Militaire 1818.<br/> <br/> Official large scale map of Russia in French spurred by the invasion plans. The French invasion of Russia also known as the Russian campaign the Second Polish War and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of compelling the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom. The War Depot was the military cartography and archives office of the French army since Louis XIV. Its role was amplified under the Revolution and the Empire. Created by Marquis de Louvois in 1688 the War Depot was responsible for collecting and preserving historical archives military memoirs plans and maps having them engraved and published. This is a good example of their work.<br/> <br/> Depot Topographique Militaire unknown
005854London: Copyright Camera Press Ltd. Photograph. This signed photograph shows then-Lieutenant General Bernard Montgomery in the turret of his Grant command tank at El Alamein 5 November 1942. Imperial War Museum This image is signed and dated in two lines of blue ink at the upper left Montgomery of Alamein 22-5-72. First used in North Africa in 1942 Grant tanks earned the nickname Egypts last hope in the defensive victory at Alam Halfa Montgomerys first in command of the Eighth Army. <br /> <br />The print measures 8 x 10 inches 20.3 x 25.4 cm. The verso bears the ink stamp copyright of Camera Press Ltd. of London. The original typed Camera Press caption is titled World Famous Soldier to Retire: MONTY IN THE WESTERN DESERT and reads This picture shows General Sir Bernard Montgomery as he was in 1942 watching the progress of the famous battle of El Alamein turning point in the struggle for North Africa. Note the black beret with its two badges. Camera Press parenthetically credits IWM at the end of the caption and IWM holds this image in its archives attributing the photograph to Major Geoffrey Keating of the No. 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit. <br /> <br />Condition of the image is very good the image distinct and unfaded with trivial wear confined to extremities and minimal surface scratches visible only under raking light. This photograph is housed in a removable archival mylar sleeve within a rigid crimson cloth folder. <br /> <br />Nearly two and a half millennia after Thucydides discussed the unpredictable role of chance in war Bernard Law Montgomery 1886-1976 and the Eighth Army found one another in North Africa. In July 1942 British troops checked Rommels forces in the First Battle of El Alamein but Allied momentum then stalled. Churchill flew to Cairo on 1 August to assess command replacing Middle East Commander-in-Chief Claude Auchinleck with General Harold Alexander and appointing General Gott to command the Eighth Army. However Gott was killed on 7 August flying back to Cairo. Churchill acceded to General Bernard Montgomery in Gotts stead. Montgomery seized command two days earlier than authorized by his C-in-C and began a historic transformation of a beaten body of men into the legendary Eighth Army that fought its way from Alamein to Tunisia between August 1942 and May 1943. ODNB <br /> <br />North Africa and the Eighth Army proved the perfect milieu for Montgomerys messianic vitality and vanity. By May 1943 Rommel was beaten the Germans expelled from North Africa and Montgomerys C-in-C Harold Alexander sent Churchill the message: the Tunisian campaign is over We are masters of the North African shores. THoF p.780 Montgomery went on to command the Eighth Army in Sicily and Italy and would later say with characteristic modesty It went from Alamein half way up Italy without losing a battle or even a serious action and without ever withdrawing a yard. Montgomery was recalled to England in December 1943 to become commander-in-chief of Allied ground forces during the D-day landings. After the war he rose to Chief of the Imperial General Staff and was elevated to Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Arrogant outspoken and politically inept Montgomery seldom missed either controversy or opportunity for self-promotion. During the war he was often criticized by Allied commanders for his caution and slowness to strike. Montgomerys uncharitable accusations in his postwar memoirs lost him the friendship of President Eisenhower and forced Montgomery to publicly apologize to a fellow Field Marshal whom - ironically - he accused of being too slow to fight. Montgomery earned further criticism for declaring support for Apartheid and praising communist Chinese leadership. Irrespective of his political and diplomatic limitations Monty remains iconic in his beret widely regarded as the outstanding British field commander of the twentieth century ODNB and the most readily recognized and widely lauded British military leader of the Second World War. <br/><br/> Copyright Camera Press Ltd. unknown
191555931NP: n.p. 1915. First separate edition "taken from the Southern Bivouac" published in the September 1885 issue. 16mo. 38 pp. In an effort to impede the Union army's advance into Arkansas General T.C. Hindman met its troops in battle. Jones attached to the Army of Tennessee at the time of the battle consulted the reports available for the battle and here reconstructs the action from the confusing and contradictory writings of the leading participants; the fight lasted all day but the Confederates withdrew when night fell. Not in Nevins Nicholson or Dornbusch the latter noting the "Southern Bivouac" printing. OCLC locates one copy Arkansas-Fayetteville; we sold a third copy about ten years ago. Original printed gray wrappers stapled. Very good. 2492. <br/><br/> n.p. unknown books
1839298234London: Richard Bentley 1839. Boards. Good-. 313 pp. Vol. 1. Lacks title on spine raised band leather spine is worn leather covers in good shape. Bookplate of the Duke of Roxburghe frontis piece plate has water stain on bottom corner slightly affecting the corner image.volume 2 287 pp leather covers smudged Richard Bentley hardcover
191134464Cincinnati / Chattanooga: Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing 1911. First editions. Cloth. Very good or better copies with all but four volumes with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedowns shelf stickers on foot of backstrips their stamp on title pages otherwise crisp and clean. Illus. 8vo. Most are presentations copies illustrated with frontis engravings color reproductions of the Society badge and include photographs engravings minutes addresses banquet letters constitution by-laws and list of members. The Burial of General Rosecrans Arlington National Cemetary May 17 1902 is the very scarce first edition nearly the complete stock of this original edition was destroyed by a fire at Robert Clarke the publisher just as distribution started. It was subsequently reprinted with a note explaining the reasons for the reissue. The 37th volume includes the scarce accompanying pamphlet: "The Battles of Chattanooga" address of Major W. J. Colburn at the dedication of the New York Monument in Point Park Lookout Mountain Tennessee on Nov. 15 1910. Lacking only the 2nd 7th 19th 23rd 26th and 29th reunions. Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing hardcover
191134464Cincinnati / Chattanooga: Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing 1911. First editions. Cloth. Very good or better copies with all but four volumes with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedowns shelf stickers on foot of backstrips their stamp on title pages otherwise crisp and clean. Illus. 8vo. Most are presentations copies illustrated with frontis engravings color reproductions of the Society badge and include photographs engravings minutes addresses banquet letters constitution by-laws and list of members. The Burial of General Rosecrans Arlington National Cemetary May 17 1902 is the very scarce first edition nearly the complete stock of this original edition was destroyed by a fire at Robert Clarke the publisher just as distribution started. It was subsequently reprinted with a note explaining the reasons for the reissue. The 37th volume includes the scarce accompanying pamphlet: "The Battles of Chattanooga" address of Major W. J. Colburn at the dedication of the New York Monument in Point Park Lookout Mountain Tennessee on Nov. 15 1910. Lacking only the 2nd 19th 23rd 26th and 29th reunions. Robert Clarke / MacGowan-Cooke Printing hardcover books
1961373411London: The Society for army Historical Research 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Fine set in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 181 issues 6 special issues 17 bulletins 2 indexes. Contents; Journals: v. XXXIX: n. 160: Dec. 1961 ; v. XLI: n. 165: Mar. 1963 ; v. XLI n. 168: Dec. 1963 ; v. XLIII n. 174: June 1965 ; v. XLIV: n. 178: June 1966 ; v. XLIV: n. 179: Sep. 1966 ; v. XLV: n. 181: Spring 1967 ; v. XLV: n. 184: Winter 1967 ; v. XLVI: n. 185: Spring 1968 ; v. XLVI n. 188: Winter 1968 ; v. XLVII: n. 189: Spring 1969 ; v. XLVII: n. 190: Summer 1969 ; v. XLVIII n. 195: Autumn 1970 ; v. XLIX: n. 200 Winter 1971 ; v. L: n. 201: Spring 1972 ; v. L.: No. 204: Winter 1972 ; v. LI: n. 205: Spring 1973 ; v. LII: n. 211: Autumn 1974 ; v. LIII: n. 216: Winter 1975 ; v. LIV: n. 217: Spring 1976 ; v LIV:n. 219: Autumn 1976 ; v. LIV: n. 220: Winter 1976 ; v. LV: n. 222: Summer 1977 ; v. LVII: n. 229: Spring 1979 ; v. LVII n. 230: Summer 1979 ; v. LVII: n. 231: Autumn 1979 ; v. LVII: n. 232: Winter 1979 ; v. LVIII: n. 233: Spring 1980 ; v. LVIII: n. 234: Summer 1980 ; v. LVIII: n. 235: Autumn 1980 ; v. LVIII: n. 236: Winter 1980 ; v. LVIV: n. 237: Spring 1981 ; v. LIX: n. 238: Summer 1981 ; v. LIX: n. 239: Autumn 1981 ; v. LIX: n. 240: Winter 1981 ; v. LX: n. 241: Spring 1982 ; v. LX: n. 242: Summer 1982 ; v. LX: n. 243: Autumn 1982 ; v. LX: n. 244: Winter 1982 ; v. LXI: n. 245: Spring 1983 ; v. LXI n. 246: Summer 1983 ; v. LXI: n. 247: Autumn 1983 ; v. LXI: n. 248: Winter 1983/4 ; v. LXII: n. 249: Spring 1984 ; v. LXII: n. 250: Summer 1984 ; v. LXII: n. 251: Autumn 1984 ; v. LXII: n. 252: Winter 1984 ; v. LXIII: n. 253: Spring 1985 ; v. LXIII: n. 254: Summer 1985 ; v. LXIII: n. 255: Autumn 1985 ; v. LXIII: n. 256: Winter 1985 ; v. LXIV: n. 257: Spring 1986 ; v. LXIV: n. 258: Summer 1986 ; v. LXIV: n. 259: Autumn 1986 ; v. LXIV: n. 260: Winter 1986 ; v. LXV: n. 261: Spring 1987 ; v. LXV: n. 262: Summer 1987 ; v. LXV: n. 263: Autumn 1987 ; v. LXV: n. 264: Winter 1987 ; v. LXVI: n. 265: Spring 1988 ; v. LXVI: n. 266: Summer 1988 ; v. LXVI: n. 267: Autumn 1988 ; v. LXVI: n. 268: Winter 1988 ; v. LXVII: n. 269: Spring 1989 ; v. LXVII: n. 270: Summer 1989 ; v. LXVII: n. 271: Autumn 1989 ; v. LXVII: n. 272: Winter 1989 ; v. LXVIII: n. 273: Spring 1990 ; v. LXVIII: n. 274: Summer 1990 ; v. LXVIII: n. 275: Autumn 1990 ; v. LXVIII: n. 276: Winter 1990 ; v. LXIX: n. 277: Spring 1991 ; v. LXIX: n. 278: Summer 1991 ; v. LXIX: n. 279: Autumn 1991 ; v. LXIX: n. 280: Winter 1991 ; v. LXX: n. 281: Spring 1992 ; v. LXX: n. 282: Summer 1992 ; v. LXX: n. 282: Autumn 1992 ; v. LXX: n. 284: Winter 1992 ; v. LXXI: n. 285: Spring 1993 ; v. LXXI: n. 286: Summer 1993 ; v. LXXI: n. 287: Autumn 1993 ; v. LXXI: n. 288: Winter 1993 ; v. LXXII: n. 289: Spring 1994 ; v. LXXII: n. 290: Summer 1994 ; v. LXXII: n. 291: Autumn 1994 ; v. LXXII: n. 292: Winter 1994 ; v. LXXIII: n. 293: Spring 1995 ; v. LXXIII: n. 294: Summer 1995 ; v. LXXIII: n. 295: Autumn 1995 ; v. LXXIII: n. 296: Winter 1995 ; v. LXXIV: n. 297: Spring 1996 ; v. LXXIV: n. 298: Summer 1996 ; v. LXXIV: n. 299: Autumn 1996 ; v. LXXIV: n. 300: Winter 1996 ; v. LXXV: n. 301: Spring 1997 ; v. LXXV: n. 302: Summer 1997 ; v. LXXV: n. 303: Autumn 1997 ; v. LXXV: n. 304: Winter 1997 ; v. LXXVI: n. 305: Spring 1998 ; v. LXXVI: n. 306: Summer 1998 ; v. LXXVI: n. 307: Autumn 1998 ; v. 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97688Calcutta Superintendent of Government Printing 1921. Tall 8vo. Contemporary half calf green cloth sides gold-stamped red spine labels. Size 10 x 6.5 inches In good condition. Some minor rubbing on edges two small nicks on spine labels. Corners a little bumped a few minor marks on cloth boards. Military inscription on front endpaper. Inside some foxing else generally clean & tight. X 187 Pages 1 pp. With frontispiece 31 plates 7 maps 3 in pocket on inside of back board and 8 panoramas mostly folding. First edition of the British-Indian army s official account of the 1919-20 Waziristan campaign marked "Confidential" on the title-page. The operations followed unrest that arose in the aftermath of the Third Anglo-Afghan War; they were conducted in the mountainous region of Waziristan now in Pakistan by British and Indian forces against the fiercely independent Waziri and Mahsud tribesmen that inhabited it. Since the 1870s the British government agencies were assiduous in compiling internally published histories of their military frontier operations with the intention of providing a "valuable guide" to such British commanders and policy makers as "might have future dealings with these turbulent neighbours" as the Punjab Government phrased it in 1866. Calcutta Superintendent of Government Printing 1921 hardcover
184022540Strasbourg Levrault Editeur 1840 In-8, maroquin rouge long grain, plats orns d'un large encadrement d'une roulette dore entre deux paires de filets dors, dos sans nerfs orn de roulettes dores, filet dor sur les coupes; encadrements intrieurs orns d'une roulette dore, doublures et gardes de papier bleu, tranches dores (reliure de l'poque).Cet annuaire national rpertorie les noms des grads appartenant lOrdre de la Lgion dhonneur, classs par corps darme suivant un ordre hirarchique, puis par dcoration: respectivement Grandcroix, Grand-Officier, Commandeur, Officier ou Chevalier. Une description dtaille des uniformes prcde chaque corps. En fin douvrage se trouve une table alphabtique des grades, corps darmes et divisions. Bel exemplaire en reliure de l'poque, trs frais.
1866am3wafH. Martin, Wien, 1866. Wien 1866-70. Mappenwerk mit 68 lithographischen Tafeln, teils als Chromolithographien, Nr. 146 von 250 Exemplaren. Gedruckt in der K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. Erster großzügig illustrierter Katalog zur kaiserlichen Waffensammlung im 1848 neugebauten Arsenal, dem heutigen Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum in Wien. Mit Zeichnungen von J. G. Jahrnbauer, C. Mangold, C. Poschinger, J. Schönberg, Schumann und J. Wopalensky. Ganzleder, Einbanddeckel mit reichgeprägter Dekoration, Lederrücken mit goldgepr. Rückentitel und Rückendekoration. 52,7 x 37,5 cm, 5 echte Bünde, roter Farbschnitt. Einband gering angeschmutzt, etwas berieben, leicht bestoßen, Schnitt sehr wenig angeschmutzt, Seiten wenig lichtrandig, teils sehr leicht angeschmutzt, bzw. stockfleckig, keine Beschädigungen, keine Anstreichungen, altersentsprechend ausgesprochen guter Zustand. (Quirin von Leitner war Kustos der Sammlung und hat eine historisch-wissenschaftliche Aufstellung der Objekte durchgeführt, statt einer romantisch-malerischen Präsentation. Für vorliegendes Mappenwerk wurde er 1870 mit dem Ritterkreuz des Franz-Joseph-Ordens ausgezeichnet.) über 2000 gr. Folio [5 Warenabbildungen] Leder
1945229161945. WWII Lt. Colonel Henry L. Hively U.S. Army Air Forces correspondence and war archive 1945 comprising medals letters documents photographs negatives and ephemera including Panama Canal Zone tourist booklet wartime train-journey photo strips through France namely Grenoble and Valence aerial transport photographs and extensive emotional correspondence from Oakland and San Francisco at the end of World War II. Archive includes 4 letters 5 envelopes two foreign currency bills a Panama tour guide a donation certificate six medals and ribbons and over 30 very small photographs. This substantial personal archive documents the long U.S. Army career of Lt. Colonel Henry L. Hively 1915-2010 beginning with his formative early-career service tied to the U.S. Army's border militarization and expeditionary presence in Mexico during the opening decades of the twentieth century when American forces pursued Pancho Villa and asserted federal authority along the U.S.-Mexico border. That experience-rooted in mobile warfare logistics and hemispheric military infrastructure-prefigures the global operational networks that would later define American power during World War II. Hively's career thus bridges early twentieth-century expeditionary service in Mexico with his later World War II service across the European and Pacific theaters and the immediate postwar demobilization period.<br /> The archive is anchored by an extraordinary run of intimate 1945 letters from Hively's girlfriend Mrs. Dorothy "Dottie" Rishel a civilian hospital worker at Green's Eye Hospital in San Francisco and later Oakland. Her correspondence chronicles daily life wartime anxiety women's labor Bay Area domestic arrangements and-most critically-the immediate civilian reaction to the atomic bomb and the end of the war. On August 10 1945 Rishel wrote: "I'm so confused over the state of affairs regarding the war and probable termination of it I don't know what to say. Without reservation Hank what's your personal opinion of this atomic bomb Its destructive power absolutely floors me." Only one day later as news of Japan's surrender became imminent she added "Allow me to say 'Happy V-J Day to you.' The war will absolutely be over tomorrow so the radio says. Golly I'm so thrilled I can't even concentrate on anything." These letters provide rare real-time reactions from a young working woman confronting the moral and emotional consequences of nuclear warfare.<br /> <br /> Materially the archive includes Hively's medals-among them a boxed Army of Occupation Medal ribbon bars and a boxed U.S. Air Medal-alongside his wartime photographic portrait labeled "Henry L. Hively 2nd Lt. Sig C." The photographic material consists of mostly very small vernacular silver-gelatin prints about 1' x 1" in rows of about 5 with a few larger images and a few negatives. several stamped on the verso "March 1945" showing Hively with other U.S. soldiers during the final months of the war including soldiers disembarking from U.S. Army aircraft traveling by rail through Europe gathering around Army jeeps and socializing outdoors. One image records a street-level view of a building in Grenoble France situating the archive geographically within southeastern France during the Allied occupation period. Additional prints show European landscapes rivers military encampments and aircraft on runways. Also present is the USO pamphlet Panama in Your Pocket: What to Do Where to Go While on the Isthmus reflecting the Pacific transit network anchored by the Canal Zone alongside foreign currency from France and England and photographic negatives documenting off-duty military life. A later handwritten note identifying "Ret Lt. Col. Henry L. Hively 1915-2010 - 94 yrs old" aligns with his published obituary confirming his long military career and postwar administrative service. The correspondence between Hively and Rishel forms the emotional core of the archive documenting female wartime labor emotional resilience and the uncertainty of demobilization. Rishel's account-"The work here in the hospital is absolutely fascinating. this hospital has been doing an awful lot of experimental work on cornea transplantation"-captures women's medical labor during WWII while her September 21 1945 letter reflects anxiety surrounding separation and discharge: "they have decided to send all eligible officers to their separation centers sometime in the next two months." Together these materials articulate the psychological and social transition from global war to fragile peace. Letters well preserved and legible with expected toning and folds; envelopes present with postmarks and Army Postal Service stamps. Photographs and negatives crisp some very good and a few over exposed. Medals well kept in original boxes with ribbons and devices. Overall very good condition. unknown
