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1907014914Marianao Havana Cuba: Army of Cuban Pacification Headquarters 1907. Soft cover. Good. Wraps over stapled binding. Covers shows some general soiling. Interior is clean and unmarked. 73 pages. 9.5 x 6.6 inches. Placed in archival mylar wraps. Rare. Two copies located on OCLC including what may be a copy of the 1907 edition Hamilton College NY and one later edition from 1908 NYPL. A roster and directory of the U.S. Army occupying Cuba in 1907. This garrisoning of troops occurred during the Second Occupation of Cuba which lasted from fall 1906 through the spring of 1909. Includes: a full list of the various regiments & corps noting their place of station and their date of arrival in Cuba; a table describing method of travel and schedules between Havana and each garrison station; a schedule of ships leaving from Newport News Virginia to Havana between June 7 and October 22; the list of commanding officers and companies e.g. Company G 5th Infantry stationed at each of the 32 garrisons; descriptive points about each of the garrisons geographic location identity of troops and dates physical description of the barracks water supply steamship landing post office and mail schedule railway station and telegraph office; lineal relative rank and alphabetical lists of all officers. Army of Cuban Pacification, Headquarters paperback
1915AQ27136Ranikhet: Abdulla Khan photographer 1915. 24 black and white photographs mounted on twelve leaves. Sewn as issued in original publisher's printed red wrappers. Rubbed and creased a trifle bowed. An unrecorded publication comprised of 24 evocative photographs primarily group shots of members of the 1/4th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry whilst stationed at Bareilly Uttar Pradesh during the first year of the Great War. 1/4th Battalion formed in Truro made up part of the Devon and Cornwall Brigade in Wessex Division. They sailed for India late 1914 and landed in Bombay on 10th November 1914 and remained there until 1916 where they moved to Aden 1916-1917 and then finished out the war in Egypt 1917-1918. . Oblong 8vo. [Abdulla Khan, photographer] unknown
1825AQ27553London: s.n. 1825. iv 673pp 145. Contemporary gilt-tooled tree-calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed chipping to head of spine. Internally clean and crisp. A well preserved finely bound copy of this 1825 army list. Containing the names of all officers and of the British Army and Royal Marines the majority veterans of the Napoleonic Wars. . 8vo. [s.n.] unknown
1786AQ20615London: s.n. 1786. 2 22 25-136 135-213 300-376pp. Complete despite erratic pagination. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco brown morocco lettering-piece A.E.G. Rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers later armorial bookplate of Charles Bybie Lyster to FEP light toning to margins. A well preserved finely bound copy of this 1786 army list. Containing the names of all Officers of the British army in the lull between the American Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic conflict. ESTC T92001. Thirty-fourth edition. 8vo. [s.n.] unknown
1806AQ20613London: Printed by C. Roworth 1806. 4 337 337-338 338-846pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco contrasting green morocco lettering-piece A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and a trifle marked. Marbled endpapers recent bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP internally clean and crisp. A well preserved finely bound copy of this 1786 army list. Containing the names of all Officers of the British army in the lull between the American Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic conflict. Amongst the officers of the 33rd 1st Yorkshire W. Riding Regiment of Foot is listed the young Lieutenant colonel Hon. Arthur Wellesley later Duke of Wellington 1769-1852. . Fifty-fourth edition. 8vo. [Printed by C. Roworth] unknown
1846134250London.: Parker Furnivall and Parker. 1846. 4 631pp ex-library with neat stamp on title page upper portion along margins of text block lightly damp stained some browning throughout two leaves have a closed tear at gutter but still a sound copy in a very attractive modern professional half cloth binding with marbled paper covered boards. . Parker, Furnivall, and Parker. hardcover
AQ28162s.i.: s.n. s.d. c. 1875 Manuscript on paper. 98 leaves. Paper watermarked 1875. Contemporary red half-morocco red buckram boards ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers hinges exposed typed bookseller's description pasted to verso of FFEP first leaf detached. A Victorian manuscript copy in at least two unidentified hands of the general military order for several British Regiments during the campaign in Scotland 1745-46 including according to a later manuscript note to verso of FFEP those of Lieutenant Archibald Campbell of the 3rd Regiment of Dragoons who was aide-de-camp to General Bland and served under 'Butcher' Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden. Campbell's military order books have seemingly never been published; the originals are preserved at the National Army Museum NAM 1968-07-228. . Oblong 8vo. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1875] hardcover
1766AQ28034London: Printed by Mark Baskett 1766. 2 5-206pp 2. Imprint from general title page. Contemporary blind-ruled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed corners exposed upper board detached lower joint split some loss to head of spine. Early ownership inscription to general title page very occasional light spotting. An apparently unrecorded edition of the public general act renewing the terms of the previous Mutiny Act as well as the articles relating to the quartering of British Army troops in foreign territories notably the raising of troops in America: 'The officers and Soldiers of any Troops which are or shall be raised in America being mustered and in Pay shall at all Times and in all Places when joined or acting in Conjuction with Our British Forces be governed by these Rules or Articles of War and shall be subject to be tried by Courts-martial in like Manner with the Officers and Soldiers of Our British Troops'. Not in ESTC. 8vo. Printed by Mark Baskett unknown
1808AQ22763London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1808. In two parts. 2 5-221 1; 83pp 1. Contemporary gilt-ruled half-calf marbled paper boards contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate and inked ownership inscription of George Gahagan to FEP sealing wax remnants to head of title page small hole to text of leaf M1 without loss of sense scattered spotting. An apparently unrecorded edition of the January 1808 public general act renewing the terms of the previous Mutiny Act as well as the articles relating to the quartering of British Army troops in foreign territories including in the East Indies. Unrecorded by COPAC and OCLC. . 8vo. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan hardcover
1794AQ22706London: Printed by B. Millan printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 1794. viii 102pp. With a half-title. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed and marked spine dulled. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of Robert Saunders Dundas Second Viscount Melville 1771-1851 to FEP. The first edition of an anonymous history charting the rise and progress of British Army regiments throughout the conflicts of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries particularly in regard to their involvement in the Eighty Years War 1568-1648 and subsequent Anglo-Dutch hostilities. The latter half the text is devoted solely to the formation and activities of the Scots Brigade an infantry brigade that served in the army of the Dutch Republic and were instrumental in the Revolution of 1688 and the suppression of the Jacobite Risings before being amalgamated into the Dutch line regiments in 1782. ESTC records copies at six locations in the British Isles BL Manchester NLS NLW Oxford and Trinity College and a further in North America Folger Harvard and Royal Military College. ESTC T82426. First edition. 8vo. Printed by B. Millan, printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales unknown
8180Undated 1840s. English. 12mo leaf dimensions 16 x 11 cm 60 pp. Stitched notebook of thirty leaves without covers. In fair condition aged and with wear to extremities of outer leaves. On laid Italian paper with the watermark of the Italian firm G. & C. Cini. Neatly written with the body of the writing in one hand and the mottos in another. Text clear and apparently complete. Begins: '1st. Regiment of Life Guards. Peninsular Waterloo. Scarlet Facings Blue. Returned from France January 1816.' A typical entry reads '58th. the Rutlandshire Regt. of Foot. Gibraltar with the Castle and Key. Montis Insigna sic Calpe. The Sphinx with the words. Egypt Maida Salamanca Vittoria Pyrenees Nivelle Orthes Peninsula. Returned from Ceylon June 1839. Facings Black.' Lists the first 99 regiments of foot as well as the rifle brigade West India regiments Ceylon Rifle Regiment Cape Mounted Riflemen and others. Notebook ends: 'New Army List for the Jannuary sic 1841.' The entries on the first seven leaves fourteen pages are numbered in pencil to 32. Origin unknown. Undated [1840s?]. [English.] unknown
1786AQ22809Dublin: Printed for George Grierson 1786. vii 1. 248pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf tooled in gilt and blind contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and a trifle marked upper joint split lower joint starting spine dulled. Gatherings C and H browned scattered spotting. A rare survival of a Dublin-printed edition of the revised official standing orders of the British Army compiled by Adjutant General Henry Pigot 1750-1840 in order to 'remove the various Defects in Discipline which may have been introduced either through Negligence or Prejudice and confirmed by long Practice' in both English and Irish regiments. ESTC records copies at just two locations NLI and Queen's University of Belfast. ESTC T184243. 8vo. Printed for George Grierson unknown
1804AQ28031London: C. Roworth 1804. iv vi 133pp 7. With three folded leaves of blank forms for annual and other returns. Contemporary gilt-tooled diced calf contrasting black morocco lettering-piece to upper board. Rubbed joints starting spine sunned. Marbled endpapers short tear to gutter of first form else internally clean and crisp. An edition of the regulations of the British Army published during the Napoleonic Wars respecting inter alia the duties of officers and guards in garrison and in camp regimental hospitals instructions for coast duty and regulations to be observed by troops embarked on board transports for service abroad. . 8vo. [C. Roworth] unknown
1813AQ24113London: Printed for the War-Office by T. Egerton 1813. xii 284pp. With 13 engraved folding plates of cavalry formations. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf marbled boards contrasting black morocco lettering-piece marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers armorial bookplate of William Markham to FEP with his pencilled ownership inscription to verso of FFEP scattered foxing. William Thomas Markham 1830-1886 British Army officer sometime Lieutenant Rifle Brigade Lieutenant and Captain Coldstream Guards. During the Crimean War 1854-1856 he fought at the Battle of the Alma the Siege of Sevastopol and with the expedition to Kertch. . Seventh edition. 12mo. Printed for the War-Office by T. Egerton hardcover
19211124London: HMSO for the War Office 1921. Octavo original lettered cloth 234 pp with 33 maps and diagrams some folding and 22 pages of HMSO publications bound in. Some mild discolouration of the cloth yet a very good copy. This manual was intended for the use of candidates for commissions in the regular navy cadets of the Royal Military Academy of the Royal Military College and of the Royal Air Force Cadet College and for the instructions of officers and non-commissioned officers. HMSO for the War Office unknown
AQ11379s.i. Portugal: s.n. 1815 In two volumes. 47pp 3 the remainder blank; 12 blank leaves with alphabetized tabs 35ff 41ff the remainder blank with some newspaper clippings relating to WW1 tipped in at end. A printed broadside 'Instructions to Cashiers of Military Chests' is pasted to the FEP of each volume. Contemporary reverse calf with attractive black morocco gilt lettering-pieces to upper board of each volume marbled endpapers. Rubbed and marked with some loss to calf at edges and bumping to corners. A fascinating pair of early nineteenth-century manuscripts albeit sparsely filled consisting of the details of substantial payments made on behalf of the British Army in Portugal and corresponding transfers between military chests and pay offices in Almeida and Lisbon during the tumultuous months of 1815 which saw Napoleon's return from exile in Elba the Hundred days rule and the final defeat of his French army at the Battle of Waterloo. The day book records money received and paid out and in some cases the circumstances such as receipts and instructions from various pay offices and military figures including 'Mr Commissary General Murray' and 'Ac Comm'y Gn. St Remy' - with the vast majority of the payments made to Portuguese individuals - whilst the ledger the corresponding folios of which are referenced to each payment in the day book in red ink contains double-entry debit and credit accounts. As the printed instructions notes the day book therefore includes 'every Circumstance relating to the Military Chest which may be in the least Degree important at the Time or which the Day of its Occurrence' whilst the ledger 'consists of a General Cash Account and of as many other separate Accounts as there are Species of Coin Bullion or Paper Money to be accounted for'. . Folio. [s.n., 1815] unknown
13265Without place or date. Circa 1850. On one side of a piece of 15.5 x 11 cm laid paper. In fair condition on lightly-aged and creased paper. The list gives the weights of nine items Saddle; Horse Shoes & Nails; Velisse; Sword & Belts; Carbine; Ammunition 20 rounds; Cloak; Sheep Skin & Shabracque; Wallets ranging in weight from 27 lbs to 4 1/2 lbs and totalling 7 st 3 lbs. Apparently very scarce. No record found. Without place or date. [Circa 1850.] unknown
1720AQ30320London: Printed for J. Roberts.and A. Dodd 1720. 2 8pp. Modern marbled paper boards. Leaves dust-soiled. The second edition printed in the same year as the first of the first formal listing of the terms and prices applying to the purchase of infantry and cavalry commissions. The practice of purchasing commissions began during the reign of Charles II and continued until abolished in 1871 as a part of the Cardwell Reforms. The highest 'tariff' for a commission recorded here is that of a colonelcy in Lord Irwin's Regiment for the staggering sum of £9000. ESTC N40105. Second edition. Folio. Printed for J. Roberts...and A. Dodd hardcover
1819AQ34054London: Printed and sold by William Clowes 1819. 72pp. With six terminal engraved diagrams and two leaves of sheet music for bugle. Bound with: Regulations and Instructions for the infantry sword exercise. London. Printed by William Clowes 1807. 63pp. With half-title and large folding diagram. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf marbled paper boards contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked surface wear to boards lower joint starting. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Francis Freemantle to FEP. Early inked ownership inscriptions to head of FFEP and title page manuscript copy of title text to front blank fly-leaf in the same hand scattered spotting. The new edition of the British Army light infantry manual bound together with a detailed set of contemporary regulations and instructions for the infantry sword exercise. The original author of the work denoted in the preface as simply 'a German officer of distinction' is in fact the Prussian-born Lieutenant Colonel Francis de Rottenburg who laid down these regulations for the Royal American Regiment. The terminal diagrams include several reference sheets depicting ideal formations of advancement retreat and skirmish as well as two leaves of sheet music titled 'Signals of the Bugle Horn in the Movements of Light Troops'. Preceding the second bound work is a large folding diagram illustrating in full the three positions two motions and seven guard movements of infantry sword technique. . New edition. Printed and sold by William Clowes hardcover
1801AQ22787London: War Office printed; and sold by J. Walter 1801. xvi 103pp 1. With an engraved folding frontispiece. Contemporary powder blue paper boards later rebacked in red cloth. Board rubbed and marked. Inked ownership inscription of Lt. Col. William Woodforde to head of title page small hole to lower corner of leaf C1. An early nineteenth-century revised edition of the official British Army drill manual initially issued by royal command under the supervision of Adjutant General Sir William Fawcett 1728-1804 and presumably reissued in response to the nascent threat of war on the Continent. . 8vo. War Office, printed; and sold by J. Walter hardcover
1924AQ34478London: Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationary Office by Harrison & Sons 1924. 366pp. With 138 engraved and photographic plates of which many folded and a tipped-in errata slip to title. Original publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed and marked with bumping to corners spine sunned a trifle cocked. Armorial bookplate of William Scott Curtis to FEP ink-stamp reading 'NOT TO BE PUBLISHED' to head of title. Browning to endpapers light scattered spotting. The sole edition of a detailed army textbook providing a comprehensive instruction in the use assembly and construction of modern artillery equipment up to 1914 alongside information on gun carriages and mountings introduced during the First World War a guide to mounting anti-aircraft guns theoretical studies on recoil and sighting and instructions on the operation of railway guns. OCLC records copies at just five locations Australian Defence Force Calgary Canadian Museum of History Halifax Citadel Kansas; COPAC adds no further. . First edition. 8vo. Printed under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationary Office by Harrison & Sons hardcover
1873AQ31561London: Printed by C. Roworth & Sons.For Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1873. lxxxii 362 28pp. With a terminal advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Extremities rubbed chipped creased and heavily sunned. Scattered spotting. A Victorian register preserved in original unsophisticated state of officers of the British Army militia yeomanry and volunteers. . 12mo. Printed by C. Roworth & Sons...For Her Majesty's Stationery Office unknown
1861AQ23778London: s.n. 1861. 306 14pp. With a terminal advertisement catalogue. Original publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt. Rubbed spine sunned. Endpapers browned. An unsophisticated copy of the army list for April 1861 containing the names of all the officers in active service within Britain. . 12mo. [s.n.] hardcover
1804AQ30687London: Printed for T. Egerton 1804. 18pp 2. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Extremities marked and worn substantial loss to spine. Early martial inked ownership inscription to head of title page scattered spotting. A tactical manual issued during the most acute stage of the Napoleonic invasion scare on the exercise of British Army infantry in combat. . 8vo. Printed for T. Egerton hardcover
1805AQ27804London: Printed by T. Curson Hansard for Richard Phillips 1805. 59pp 1. Stitched in original publisher's printed salmon pink wrappers. Housed in modern marbled paper slipcase. Chipping to wrapper edges neat paper repair to spine. Shaved at head with occasional loss of text marginal fire damage to leaves A5-B2 closed tear to leaf B4 softening to corners. An apparently unrecorded register of British Army officers printed at the height of the War of the Third Coalition including India regiments the militia of England Royal African Corps and the corps of New South Wales. . 12mo. Printed [by T. Curson Hansard] for Richard Phillips unknown
