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18711359788Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1871. Hardcover. Quarto 2 5-296 pages. In Good condition. Bound in contemporary three-quarter leather and marbled boards with gilt titling to spine. Boards show moderate wear to marbled paper with several tears and wear to spine edges and corners. Text block has light age-toning to marbled edges. Plates intact and present as indicated. Ex-library copy with usual markings including a bookplate to front pastedown institutional stamps to several pages and call number written in pencil. Marbled end papers. MF consignment. 1359788. Special Collections. Government Printing Office hardcover
184735018February 6th 1847. 1847. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling almost 3 sides of a sheet of light gray paper folded once to form 4 sides approximately 7-1/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The letter has been mounted on a lightly larger sheet of cream-colored stiff paper. Signed "Anglesey" There are a few small ink smudges to the 2nd & 3rd sides. Very good. <p>The letter is addressed to Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Murchison and concerns a publication which Murchison is proposing and how it would be funded. "Some Estimate of the probable cost of money and of time is called for from General Colby and when it is received you shall again hear from me." The reference is probably to General Thomas Frederic Colby a leading geographer who had been director of the Ordnance Survey.<p>Henry Paget 1st Marquess of Anglesey 1768-1854 was a British army officer and politician. After serving as Member of Parliament for Carnarvon and then for Milborne Port he took part in the Flanders Campaign. During the Peninsula War he commanded the cavalry for Sir John Moore's army in Spain and at the Battle of Sahagun virtually destroyed a regiment of French cavalry. He led the charge of the heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's column at the Battle of Waterloo losing part of one of his legs to a cannonball at the end of the battle. In later life he served as Master-General of Ordnance from 1846 to 1852.<p>The Scottish geologist Sir Roderick sometimes as here spelled "Rhoderick" Impey Murchison 1st Baronet 1792-1871 was the first to describe and investigate the Silurian system. During the last decade of his life he chiefly investigated the Highlands of Scotland. Murchison was one of the founders and a president of the Royal Geographical Society and served on the Royal Commission on the British Museum. In 1855 he was appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey and director of the Royal School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street London. February 6th, 1847. unknown
63-9475London UK: Harrison And Sons 1855. Folio. Blue Wraps 196 pp. Letterpress Charts Good with tears along edges portions of spine missing else VG. First Edition.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US Chile and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War Tempus 2007. Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren. London, UK: Harrison And Sons, 1855. paperback
63-9474London UK: British House of Commons 1855. Folio. Oblong. String Binding no boards 65 pp. Letterpress Some Pages Uncut Good with minor tears along edges stamps on some pages else VG. First Edition.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US Chile and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War Tempus 2007. Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren. London, UK: British House of Commons, 1855. hardcover
63-9490London UK: British House of Commons 1855. Folio. Blue Wraps 360 pp. Letterpress Charts Good with tears portions of spine missing minor damp stain inside cover else VG. Some pages uncut. First Edition.Receipt to Hugh Small from Crispin's Day Antiquarian and Out of Print Military Books Specialist Bookseller loosely laid in.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US Chile and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War Tempus 2007. Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren. London, UK: British House of Commons, 1855. paperback
63-9476London UK: Harrison And Sons 1855. Folio. Blue Wraps 245 pp. Letterpress Charts Good with tears portions of spine missing else VG. First Edition.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US Chile and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War Tempus 2007. Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren. London, UK: Harrison And Sons, 1855. paperback
63-9478London UK: Harrison And Sons 1855. Folio. Blue Wraps 729 pp. Letterpress Charts Good with tears portions of spine missing else VG. First Edition.Receipt to Hugh Small from Crispin's Day Antiquarian and Out of Print Military Books Specialist Bookseller loosely laid in.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US Chile and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War Tempus 2007. Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren. London, UK: Harrison And Sons, 1855. paperback
63-9477London UK: Harrison And Sons 1855. Folio. Blue Wraps 516 pp. Letterpress Charts Good with tears portions of spine missing else VG. First Edition.PROVENANCE: Collection of Books from the Library of Hugh Small author of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel.Hugh Small as a child lived above his surgeon father's consulting rooms in Harley Street almost opposite Florence Nightingale's first hospital. He graduated from Durham University in 1966 with honors in physics and psychology and worked in the US Chile and France before becoming a partner in a multinational management consultancy based in London. He is also the author of The Crimean War Tempus 2007. Hugh is widowed with two daughters and four grandchildren. London, UK: Harrison And Sons, 1855. paperback
181763937Concord NH: Isaac Hill 1817. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Full leather. Fair. No dust jacket. Cover worn and corners bumped. Substantial page foxing and some discoloration. 330 p. Includes index. No plates present. Published by Order of the War Department. Isaac Hill hardcover
195431165Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Very Good. Oberammergau Germany: Intelligence and Military Police School 1954. Quarto; stiff illustrated covers with hundreds of pages of reports bound in. Includes charts and graphs of Soviet governmental and military organization. Additional monographs laid in include Armed Forces Talk's four-part Communism Series and three issues of the U.S. Constabulary School's Department of Geopolitics series covering German History up to the rise of the Nazi Party the United Nations and International Relations. Staining to rear cover; pages toned but largely unmarked; a Very Good copy.<br /> <br /> Binder prepared by the United States Army for training Cold War-era officers and staff on USSR history ideology and military capabilities. The trove of documents here covers nearly everything an early Cold War American military or intelligence officer would need to know at the time: a history of Marxist ideology and its development in the 19th-century; details on the physical geography of the USSR; an ethnography of Central Asia detailing the Turkomen Kazakhs and Tatars; as well as extended analyses on who the power players in the Communist Party were and what the capabilities of their rifle and artillery division might be. <br /> <br /> Logistics psychological warfare and the role of Communism in the Middle East are also covered with detailed but succinct chapters on each. An impressive array of information highlighting the early Cold War Western perspective. No copies in retail and three holdings found in OCLC at the US Army War College Georgetown University and the University of Iowa. Intelligence and Military Police School unknown
Second edition, revised and enlarged, viii, 240pp., mounted frontispiece photograph of a Armstrong gun, 8 plates (6 of which are fold-outs), numerous illustrs., within the text, occasional spotting, printed endpapers stained and rubbed, orig. cloth, head of spine defective, hinges tender. John Thomas Hyde (1832-1892) was Professor of fortification and artillery, Royal Indian Military College, Addiscombe. A rare and early photographic illustrated book not listed in Gernsheim; Copac records just two copies (British Library & Glasgow University).
053667c.1945. nice set; Formerly classified. Released in 1945. Insignia of First Army removed from front cover of each volume at that time. . Very Good. Hardcover. First. c.1945 hardcover
12269Hanoï-Haïphong, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 1931. 2 volumes in-folio, 232 pp., 306 pp., reliure moderne plein cuir et 1 volume d'atlas contenant les planches, richement illustrés de plans et cartes in-texte et de très nombreuses reproductions photographiques hors texte. Les couvertures sont illustrées d'un tirailleur indochinois.Très bon état.
19741193821974 Ermanno Albertelli editore - 1974 - Fort in-4, cartonnage toilé bleu sous jaquette illustré en N&B de l'éditeur - 519 p. - Très riche iconographie in et hors texte en N&B - Ouvrage en italien
13054Paris-Limoges, Henri-Charles Lavauzelle, Editeur Militaire, 1895. 2 volumes (Texte et Atlas) in-4. 1 volume de texte, VII-555 pp., enrichi de 31 gravures in et hors texte, reliure moderne plein cuir bordeaux, quelques rousseurs éparses. 1 volume d'atlas, reliure moderne plein cuir, complet de ses 20 cartes et 3 plans, quelques rousseurs éparses. L'ensemble en très bon état.
1929900917AG1929. Kaltnadelradierung, Blattmaß: 42 x 32 cm. Bildmaß: 30 x 21 cm.
40456Paris.Durand.1762.E.O.3 vols.in-12 en veau raciné. 359, 383 et 407 pages. BE.Tranches marbrées.
1998043682Langley AFB VA: Headquarters Air Combat Command 1998. 1st . Paper Back. Near Fine/No Jackets. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 3 vol.set w/chapt.pag.; SCslg.blk.plastic comb-binding w/no title on spine; blue w/blk.; stains on foredge; sml.staincover vol.3; cleantight pgs. Vol.I: Final Environmental Impact Statement. Vol.II: Public Hearing Transcripts and Responses to Comments. Vol.III: Comment Letters and Responses to Comments. <br/> <br/> Headquarters, Air Combat Command unknown
17930010165France. Fair with no dust jacket. 1793. Ephemera. On offer is a fine example of a military certificate of good conduct issued by one of the French Revolutionary armies. The certificate is dated 25 Prairial Year 2 French revolutionary calendar corresponding to June 15th 1793. The recipient is a soldier who is serving in the 1st Battalion. The certificate commends his service and valour. The certificate is signed by several officers. One signature reads simply Commandant en Chef or Commander in Chief. At that time the Commander in Chief of the Army of the Alps was the famed French General François Christophe Kellermann. Kellerman was a life-long soldier entering the Royal Army at age 15 and later rising to command revolutionary troops and then serving under Napoleon as one of his Marshals. In 1797 the Army of the Alps was merged into The Army of Italy and was one of Napoleons first commands. The Army of the Alps was reconstituted in the French Army during WWII. The folded certificate was then sealed with a red wax seal which is still present. For a historian this is an outstanding document that connects the owner to one of the great Generals of the Napoleonic Wars and to an Army that fought extensively in the Napoleonic Wars. Dating from mid-1793 this certificate measures 8.5 inches by 12.0 inches. The document was originally folded into four panels 8 inches by 3 inches and then folded in half. It has been unfolded and affixed to sheet of heavy paper likely dating from the same time period. There are wear marks along the fold lines and on the edges. The handwriting is fairly legible being written in a copperplate script. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1 pages; Signed by Author . unknown
19422508200063Special Services Division; Services of Supply; United State Army 1942. Paperback. Very Good. WWII Era Army Guides to Pacific Theater Nations: Notably including China 12 volumes. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Includes: A Pocket Guide to: 1. Hawaii 1944; 2. Burma 1943; 3. New Guinea 1943; 4. Japan 1960; 5. Japan 1950 ; 6. China 1942; 7. Meet the Marianas 1944; 8. New Zealand 1942; 9. Australia 2 copies 1942; 10. Korea 20-180 1962; 11 Viet-Nam Vietnam 1962. "Imagine being a young American soldier who has never left home before and finding yourself in a faraway country. Millions of US servicemen and women experienced this culture shock when they were stationed overseas during World War II. To assist in making the transition easier the United States military issued pocket guides which taught soldiers about the customs geography language and other cultural details of each country. Additionally these details were instrumental for the war effort. By learning about the terrain language and customs soldiers were better equipped to recognize and win against an enemy combatant. Knowing basic phrases could be the difference between life and death. Each guide was designed to fit in a soldier's back pocket and could be read during down time." - National World War II Museum. The China Pocket Guide includes 'How to Spot a Jap.' A series of cartoon panels illustrated by Milton Caniff. Special Services Division; Services of Supply; United State Army paperback
1934189891934. Photograph album 1934-1940 documenting the service of a U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Benning Georgia; Fort Williams Maine; and additional locations across the northeastern United States Many photos captioned with names of fellow soldiers friends and placenames. This Album has relevance to the study of interwar military life mechanization and training practices prior to American entry into the Second World War. The images include multiple views of tanks such as the Mark VIII Renault Ford 3-ton and Christie models reflecting the transitional development of armored warfare during the interwar period. Scenes at Doughboy Stadium at Fort Benning evoke the continued presence of World War I memory within military culture while the broader sequence of photographs captures routine service camaraderie and movement across training posts. Captioned images identify fellow soldiers and locations and autograph pages at the beginning of the album preserve personal inscriptions humor and social connections within the unit. Additional photographs include landscapes from New York Vermont and Maine as well as personal images of acquaintances situating the soldier's experience within both military and civilian contexts.<br /> <br /> Photograph album containing 149 black and white silver gelatin photographs most measuring approx 2.5 x 3.5 inches with a few larger prints including examples measuring approximately 7 x 5 inches. The photographs are mounted in a suede-bound "Service Album" measuring approximately 11 x 7 inches with many images captioned in manuscript identifying individuals and locations. The content includes military equipment soldiers group portraits training environments and personal snapshots reflecting both formal and informal aspects of Army life during the late 1930s. The 149 photographs are mounted in the album with minimal losses; pages generally well preserved. Light wear consistent with handling; overall very good condition. A cohesive visual record of U.S. Army service and evolving military technology in the years immediately preceding World War II. unknown
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispieces, 9 maps in the text, and front and rear endpaper maps in the second volume; cloth (black/red respectively), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly chafed and soiled at backstrips. A PRESENTATION SET SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE OF FIRST VOLUME. Comprises: The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1957); Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. (1959). By common consent the greatest CIGS in the history of the British Army, Alanbrooke occupied a unique position at the heart of Britain's efforts in WWII. Scarcely a man to pull punches, he provides a blow-by-blow account of how the war was waged and won, sparing no-one from politicians to generals of virtually every Allied nation. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE. Enser, pp.199, 474 respectively.
Single sheet, a near fine copy. Signed simply 'Wavell' in the writer's usual manner, the letter is written to Geoffrey Moore, founder of the Buccaneers Cricket Club, and demonstrates the soldier's keen and continuing interest in the sport. It is noteworthy that Wavell was particularly proud of his membership of the MCC at Lords. The letter declines Moore's invitation to attend the annual dinner, but carries Wavell's best wishes for the Club for the coming year during which he hopes to see tham in action. Field-Marshal Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished soldiers. Following considerable success against the Italians in North Africa, his career reached its peak with his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, South West Pacific, ABDA (American, British, Dutch and Australian) Command in 1942 and subsequently as an outstanding Viceroy and Governor General of India from 1943-1947. He was recognised also as a scholar, compiling the well-known anthology of poetry 'Other Mens's Flowers' (1944). The bulk of Wavell's papers are now housed in the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, London. Founded in 1930, The Buccaneers is one of the oldest and most famous 'wandering' clubs in English cricket (a 'wandering' club has no fixed home ground but plays consistently as an 'away' team relying on the hospitality of the 'home' clubs against which it competes). The Club's history has been written twice, by Clifford Bax in 1956 and more recently by Howard Spencer. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY WAVELL ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
175219079Frankfurt, Fleischer, 1752. 4 Bll., 460 S., 13 Bll. (Register). 1 Kupfer-Frontisp. 8°. Pp. der Zeit (Rückengelenke mit Einrissen, bestoßen und stark fleckig bzw. gebräunt). [4 Warenabbildungen]
1862048556Washington: Government Printing Office 1862. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Two Parts in One. A Good copy in embossed brown cloth with damping/soiling to the endpapers worst at the rear endpapers. Mild margin damping within but no paper adhesion. The two parts are separately paginated at 217 and 96 pages followed by 12 pages of musical notation of bugle signals. Owner's name of a "B.F. Sheets Lieut 92nd Ill. Vol. Mtd. Inf.ty." <br/> <br/> Government Printing Office hardcover
