9 442 résultats
19442005200040Houston : Gulf Publishing Co 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The Army Air Corps: A Rare and fine collection of the Army Air Forces in World War II. Log of Navigation. 7 issues bound as one. Bound in full blue cloth. Good binding and cover. Original pictorial wraps bound in. Clean unmarked pages. Numerous photographs maps comics. Heavily illustrated an interesting periodical. "The approved publication of the AAF Training Command." Includes: "A Camera Trip Through Army Air Forces School Hondo Texas" - a smaller photo-pamphlet; AND Log of Navigation issues: April 1944. Vol. 2 no. 4; May 1944. Vol. 2 no. 5; June 1944. Vol. 2 no. 6; July 1944. Vol. 2 no. 7; September 1944 Vol. 2 no. 9; March 1945. Vol. 3. No. 3. <br> From the former head of the U.S. Air Forces History Division. Houston : Gulf Publishing Co hardcover
9984Circa 1810. Landscape folio leaf 32.5 x 40.5 cm 1 p. On paper watermarked 'JOHN HALL 1810'. Neatly ruled to make a complex detailed table in three columns of 31 rows each. The table has a central vertical fold with the left hand side of the reverse mounted on a leaf removed from an autograph album. In poor condition with around an eighth of the total area of the paper and text lacking mostly from the bottom right-hand corner. Despite the loss the table presumably prepared for the British War Office contains a mass of valuable information. The table begins under the heading 'Staff' with seven sections divisions including 'His Majesty's first Adjutant of Cavalry' and 'War Department'. Beneath this are the three columns each subdivided into 'Names' 'Brigades' 'Strong.' 'Year of form:' and 'Are formed out of'. The first column 'Cavalry' is complete with details of 'Cuirassiers' 'Dragoons' 'Hussars' 'Uhlans' and 'Horse Artillery'. First entry: 'Garde du Corps Brandenburgh 5 troops 1740. Formerly the 13th.' Second column 'Infantry with list of 27 'Regiments of the Line' followed by three rows of 'Riflem<en>'. Loss to text of all three of the latter and to 12 of the entries on the regiments. Third column headed 'Artillery' has four rows of details relating to the artillery followed by two rows of 'Brigade Adjutants' two rows of 'Officers of the Army' three rows of 'Additional Corps' and six rows of 'Formation of Grenadiers'. Beneath this a section beginning 'Recapitulation' has been almost entirely lost'. Perhaps relevant to Prussian efforts at Waterloo. See Image. [Circa 1810.] unknown
191133748London: Adam and Charles Black 1911. First Edition. With 72 highly impressive tissue captioned colour plates by Major Lovett and 19 smaller line drawings throughout the text. Large 8vo handsomely bound in full cordovan calf the spine with raised bands separating the compartments which are decorated with gilt filleted panels black morocco lettering label gilt the upper cover with an eagle in gilt at the center all edges marbled. xiv 224 pp. A very well preserved and handsome copy the text-block clean and well preserved and with fine plates the binding handsome with slight mellowing to the spine panel and with the gilt decorations all still very bright. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SUPERB WORK ON THE INDIAN REGIMENTS. The author and artist have joined forces to create here a fine review of the armies fielded by the Empire.the history of their battles and their administration. The book is a costume designer's dream-come-true as the very impressive colourplates bring vividly to the life the men the many regimental uniforms and accouterments and the scene of Imperial India. This is also an invaluable work for anyone interested in the colonial armies and military histories at the height of the English Age of Empire.<br> Major General Sir George Fletcher Macmunn 1869-1952 KCB KCSI DSO British General scholar military historian and writer was also one of the founders of the Kipling Society. Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett 1862-1919 was of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The watercolours by Lovett illustrate the full dress and field service dress uniforms of the Indian Army. Adam and Charles Black hardcover
17397'MOST SECRET'. Without date or place. British Army North Africa circa 1942. . 15pp. folio. Stapled into pink printed wraps. Title on front cover with 'MOST SECRET'. Copy number 53 in blue pencil. In fair condition on browned high-acidity paper. Front cover coming away from rusted staples. At head of first page: 'NOTE: SECURITY Attention is drawn to the fact that this document is graded "MOST SECRET". It will not be distributed below Lieutenant Colonels' commands.' Contents page divides the document into two parts: 'Equipment' and 'Organisation'. The first part discusses: Light Tanks Cruiser Tanks Infantry Tanks Armoured Cars and Scout Cars Ammunition Gunnery and Fire Control Miscellaneous Equipment. The second part consists of three appendices: 'Command Control and Rear Link A.F.Vs.' 'Report on Valentine Bridgelayer' and 'The Swabey Sight for use with 75-mm guns in Sherman Tanks'. Scarce: no other copy traced not in the Imperial War Museum collection. From the Barrie Pitt papers. 'MOST SECRET'. Without date or place. [ British Army, North Africa, circa 1942. ] paperback
2601323 June 1796. 'Entered in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts the 9th of February 1797'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p folio. Text clear and entire on worn and grubby paper with chipping to edges and slight loss to one corner with one closed tear repaired with archival tape. Embossed tax stamps at head. Good firm signature at bottom right ‘David Dundas.’ beside small seal in red wax with crumbling impression. At bottom left: ‘Signed Sealed and Delivered being first duly stampt in the Presence of us / John Landon / M King’. Downwards in left-hand margin: 'Entered in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts the 9th of February 1797 / Thos Gibbes’. Begins: ‘Know all Men by these Presents that I David Dundas Esqr. Major General of His Majestys Forces and Colonel of the Twenty Second Regiment of Foot for and in Consideration of Clothing furnished and delivered by Alexander Adair Esqr. of Pall Mall to and for the Use of the said Regiment .’. The document concerns ‘the Offreckonings or Clothing Money of Twenty Serjeants Twenty Corporals Eight Drummers Two Hundred Privates Ten Contingent Men and Eight Warrant Men’. 23 June 1796. 'Entered in the Office for Auditing the Public Accounts the 9th of February 1797'. hardcover
12894The notebook dated January to February 1944. 65pp. in narrow ruled 32 x 13 cm notebook with maroon embossed boards and cloth spine. Rankin has etched his initials into the front board. All in pencil with the first page headed 'NO I LECTURES JAN-FEB. 44 T M RANKIN. 7394616. 13 F.D.S.' and carrying a numbered list of 38 topics from 'Observation of Patient' and 'Diet of Disease' to 'Fracture of Spine' and 'Burns'. Four pages of medical notes follow. Upside-down at the other end of the volume are 59 paginated pages of further notes preceded by a list of a further 15 topics numbered 39-53 from 'Eye Drops' to 'Rheumatic Fever'. Two autograph test papers by Rankin are loosely inserted one 1p. 4to marked at 69 out of 75 and the other 3pp. foolscap 8vo at 92%. Seven black and white photographs are also loosely inserted three of them stamped on the reverse 'COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH "KENT MESSENGER" COUNTY PAPER OF KENT'. The first 11.5 x 16.5 shows a scene within a field hospital; the second same dimensions a platoon posing in five rows; the third 16 x 21cm a larger print of the second; the fourth is a 16 x 20.5cm portrait of a platoon posing in three rows; the fifth is a 13.5 x 24.5cm posed portrait of a 26 individuals in uniform including six women a padre a young girl and a man in civilian clothes posing on a stage in two rows with the girl sitting cross-legged at the front; the last photograph is a 14 x 9.5 cm postcard with a full-length image of a smiling nurse the name 'Flo' written in ink on the reverse. The notebook dated January to February 1944. hardcover
196228582Washington D.C.: G.P.O. 1962. 10 volumes 4to original beige printed wrappers; a few filing rubberstamps but in all a near fine and complete set of the Army's bibliographic survey made art the request of the Office of the Chief of Research and Development on the space programs of the USSR the U.S. the U.K. and France covering the period 1957 to 1962 from pre-Sputnik to John Glenn. Several illustrations mostly folding. In a new blue cloth clamshell box red morocco label on spine. G.P.O. unknown
19461478Fairfield Ohio: published by the Army Air Forces 1946. Staple bound handbook with original printed cover ii iv 88 pp. diagrams. The rear paper cover is missing and the finals two leaves are loose and frayed complete nonetheless; otherwise it is in very good order. Originally issued 15 October 1945 this is the revised edition released 1 June 1946. It was published under the joint authority of the Commanding General Army Air Forces and the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. The handbook is marked restricted and 'shall not be carried in aircraft on combat missions or when there is reasonable chance of its falling into the hands of the enemy'. published by the Army Air Forces unknown
194243432New York: Farlag Medem-Klub 1942. 1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers 8vo 39 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as “Is it Necessary to have a Jewish Army†A leading Bundist journalist’s call for a Jewish Brigade in WW II to fight the Nazis. “Our answers are based on the firm conviction that Jewish misery and Jewish pain are part of the evil that prevails in the world today; that in a world of slavery and chains this misfortune will follow and follow the path of the Jewish masses where they will not escape from it; That in such a world Palestinian’s i.e. the Jews in Palestine and everyone else's own ‘territory’ can be the bitterest exile; and that on the other hand in a liberated world the earth under their feet will become the most beautiful and safest home where the Jewish masses will enjoy full civil and national rights as people and as Jews.The answers are filled with steel certainty that today the world stands on the threshold of liberation that the terrible sufferings will not be in vain that in pain misery and suffering a new better world is born; A world of exploiters and exploited a world of true equality and freedom.Today the eyes and hearts of the Jewish masses in the ghettos are turned to this world. To this world will turn their eyes all those who are able to take the voice of the ghetto.For this world today in the ghettos and on all the battlefields of the earth proud hosts of Jewish fighters are bleeding as Jewish parts of the great freedom army of humanity which is marching towards the new tomorrow†from the conclusion. <br> <br> Contents include:<br> • The commotion around the Jewish army<br> • Behind the ghetto walls<br> • Death diagnoses instead of help<br> • The crooked mirror<br> • Where did “unity†come from<br> • The Zionist Department Star<br> • About dual citizenship<br> • “The right to fightâ€<br> • Our answer to Hitler<br> • Flag emblem and equal rights<br> • The Jewish account of the world<br> • In the land of bitterest “exileâ€<br> • “Safety on the Volcano"<br> • There is an advice<br> • Sober warnings and reality<br> • “Shame" of the Palestinian Jewish youth<br> • About apparition<br> • Who will protect the Near East<br> • For whom the Jewish army is necessary<br> • The voice of the ghetto<br> <br> Series: Bibliotek "Unzer tsayt" No. 1. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Politics and government. Holocaust Jewish 1939-1945 Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade. <br> OCLC: 19313178/970890673. OCLC lists only 2 copies worldwide Harvard YU. Pen mark and toning to front wrapper otherwise Very Good Condition. Rare and important B holo2-163-17C-XX-ECCX-BBIMM@. New York: Farlag Medem-Klub unknown
193563461/62<p>lithograph in black with red letterings. verso: <strong>Philippine Islands with index with map showing main roads and principal points of interest</strong> pocket map with 16 pp text. VERY RARE. "Tourist" booklet with general info on Philippines and Manila including map prepared under the direction of the Engineer. Phil. Dept U.S. Army. Second edition with advertisements by American Express Magnolia Sanitary Steam Manila Yellow Taxi Brias Roxas Botica Boie Bay View Hotel and others. Condition: Very good to excellent condition.</p> Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), Manila branch Army & Navy.
2090502113709148Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
18602502040131Thomas H. Ford 1860. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Volume 12 book 2. Quarto 30 x 24 cm. Bound in publisher's navy cloth. Rebacked with renewed spine original covers laid on newer cloth. Marbled end sheets. 399 pp. plus LXXV plates of plants reptiles insects mammals birds and fish found between the 47th and 49th parallels. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Thomas H. Ford hardcover
18902092902143900437Not Available 1890. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Not Available paperback
18902092902143800459Not Available 1890. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Not Available paperback
19192092902143901451Kinzashi Houryu-do Kanda district Tokyo 1919. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Kinzashi Houryu-do (Kanda district, Tokyo) paperback
19192092902143801436Kinzashi Houryu-do Kanda district Tokyo 1919. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 book Kinzashi Houryu-do (Kanda district, Tokyo) paperback
2n986Ullastres y Compania - Editores Barcelona 1883/1889. 631 S./740 S. mit je einer lithographierten Titel-Tafel hunderten von Textabb. lithographierten Tafeln und Tafeln im Holzschnitt original Halbleder-Prachteinbände folio etwas wasserfleckig/Vorsätze erneuert. - sonst gute Exemplare / Enthalten: Tomo I: Historia Indumentaria Armas Sistemas de Combate Institutiones Organizacion del Ejecito Espanol / Tomo III: Historia del Ejército Espanol Armas Uniformes Sistemas de Combate Instituciones Organizacion del Mismo desde los Tiempos más Remotos hasta Nuestros Dias por Francisco Barado / Text spanisch - unknown
ria9780323834735_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A hardcover
194641851Washington DC: GPO 1946. First Edition. First Printing. good. Oversized 174 maps v.1 only illus. many fold-out maps stamped "Restricted" on front board stamped "Unclassified" on title page. Stamp inside front board a few pencil notations inside front board and to a few text pages some spotting and scratches to rear board some wear to board edges. GPO unknown
59030J. Millan. London. War Office 20 July 1781. pp. iv 347 i blank iv Alterations whilst Printing 79 i blank ii Books Printed for and Sold by J. Millan. Contemporary calf gilt rebacked with old spine relaid some scuffing and light wear to the boards occasional foxing a few top corners lightly creased interleaved with unused blanks up to page 301 the odd marginal note a nice copy. Issued nearly three months before the Siege of Yorktown the last major battle in the American War of Independence. Listed in the section of Lieutenant-Generals is Charles Earl Cornwallis the English commander at Yorktown and amongst the Physicians for the Hospitals in North America is mentioned John Hunter 'the other John Hunter' MD FRS 1754-1809. [J. Millan. London.]. War Office, 20 July, 1781. hardcover
190074442Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn 1900. Extremely handsome deluxe issue of this Prussian army list. Octavo 206 x 129 mm Publisher's red hard-grain morocco title gilt to the spine with arabesque tools similar panelling to the boards with Prussian eagle centre tool all edges gilt white moiré effect endpapers. A little scuffed in places but remains attractive light toning front free endpaper slightly marked from the removal of a bookplate very good. hardcover
18189724AB1818. Berlin Amelang 1818. 21 : 125 cm. XVI 266 páginas 3 hojas con 9 mapas grabadas y plegadas. Media piel en estilo de época tejuelo. Primera edición en alemán. Los mapas muestran los sitios de guerra entre ellos Badajoz Salamanca San Sebastian Cuidad Rodrigo etc. - Titulo con pequeño sello. unknown
186944746Chicago: S.C. Griggs and Company 1869. Hardcover. Small 4to. Emerald green pebble-grain blind-embossed cloth with gilt lettering and medallion over bevel-edged boards. 339pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece tissue-guarded full page steel engravings and chromolithographed plates. Very good. Quite minor edgewear only; internally tight and near fine. A handsome first edition of this early G.A.R. Grand Army of the Republic volume and an especially choice presentation copy at that: Inner flyleaf is boldly inscribed and signed in brown ink: "Genl Mahlon D Manson / From his Comrade / Nate Kimball / 1869." Nathan Kimball 1822-98 was a brevet major general who served the Union Army with distinction during the Civil War an Indiana politician state legislator and state treasurer as well as that state's first statewide G.A.R. commander. He is listed in a "List of Members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland" on page 314. Manson 1820-95 was also a Hoosier a brigadier general who also served Indiana in Congress and as lieutenant governor. His tiny 1½" X 1/8" printed "Mahlon D. Manson" ownership slip is affixed to front pastedown. A superb and unusual copy in exceptional condition presented by one Union general to another. S.C. Griggs and Company hardcover
184736655New Orleans: N/A 1847. N/A. Letter. Good. Letter. Approximately 8" x 10". Multiple folds. 4 pages with 3 pages of contents. Addresses and a pencil note written on the back page. 4 small circle corner stains on the first two pages. Overall condition is good or better.<br /> <br /> U.S. Army Paymaster John B. Butler is writing his daughter Harriet on January 17th 1847. From New Orleans he writes ".the wants of the Army imperatively demand that I shall return immediately. I leave tomorrow in the Steam Ship Alabama for the Army in Mexico. I shall go by Brazos Santiago the Rio Grande Camargo Monterey Mier Seraluo &c." He ads "There are many troops arriving from Penna among them I have met Several from Pittsburgh. They are now all embarking on board of ships provided with three months provisions. Their destination is not known but is supposed to be and Vera Cruz.I think Vera Cruz & the castle at that place will be assailed conjunctively by forces on land & by sea. May the God of battles protect our friends."<br /> <br /> Butler urges his daughter to give his kind regards to friends at her school. After initially closing the letter Butler writes a lengthy post script. New intelligence has been provided ".Genl Scott has returned from Carmgo and the Rio Grande and is now at the Brazos awaiting arrival of the troops that have been and that now being shipped at this place. This confirms the belief that Vera Cruz is his destination and the General's first demonstration will be against the fort and fortifications at that place."<br /> <br /> Butler urges his daughter to look at the map to find Vera Cruz and about the strong fort and castle. writing of strife and battle he writes his daughter "War always produces a wanton waste of blood & treasury - Every victory must have its victims; & contending armies are indiscriminate so there is no knowing who may fall."<br /> <br /> The last page has addresses and the letter is addressed to "Miss H. E. Butler Care Rev. C. C. Beatty Steubenville Ohio. N/A unknown
184731761Brazos Island Texas 1847. Document. Very good. 2 8" x 10" sheets of paper. The first document signed at the bottom by Capt. A B Eaton from Brazos Island is dated December 15th 1847 and is addressed to Major Thos. B Eastland q.m. The document reads "Major - I respectfully require of the Quartermaster's Department the necessary transportation receipts in bulk for the Subs Stores herewith invoiced as required by Par 1088 Army Regulations. - Respectfully Your Obt Servt A B Eaton Capt .sp" The second document signed by Eaton on December 17th 1847 is also addressed to Eastland and has the same exact content as the first letter not a copy as the date is different and the writing has variation. A collection of Thomas B. Eastland's papers is held by the California Historical Society. <br /> <br /> From the Confederate Veteran February 1911 "Eastland Family" "Thomas B. Eastland came to Nashville where he was engaged in business until about 1840 when he went to New Orleans to engage in the cotton brokerage business and where he continued until the breaking out of the Mexican War during which he served under General Zachary Taylor as major." Thomas B. Eastland's diary titled To California Through Texas and Mexico: The Diary of Thomas B. Eastland and Joseph G. Eastland His Son was published by the California Historical Society in 1939 and is 59 pages long.<br /> <br /> From wikipedia: in 1846 ".it Brazos Island was the first military objective of the US Navy in support of General Zachary Taylor's invasion of Mexico. Control over this important seaport was said by Harvard historian Leroy Graf to be the primary reason for the US invasion of Mexico. From Padre Island NS Historic Research Study Chapter 3 "After the outbreak of hostilities Brazos Island became the primary staging area for the continuing campaign. Volunteers from throughout Texas and the Mississippi Valley converged on the Island and headed inland for camps at Point Isabel and along the Rio Grande."<br /> <br /> Amos Beebe Eaton the signer of these documents 1806-1877 was a career officer in the United States Army. He was General Zachary Taylor's Chief Commissary of Subsidence during the Mexican War. He was a graduate of West Point in 1826 and was made Brevet Major General of the Union Army in 1865 appointed by Andrew Johnson. unknown
