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Very minor wear to corners else fine ; Reprint of 1951 English edition with addition of the Supplement that was originally published in Greek in Athena 57 (1953). ; 162 pages; Includes a Chronological and Alphabetical list of the hoplite generals. A prosopography alphabetically listing all the Athenians who held the important post of hoplite general, accompanied by a monograph examining all known references to Athenian generals in the Hellenistic period.
Minor shelfwear else fine. ; Reprint of 1951 English edition with addition of the Supplement that was originally published in Greek in Athena 57 (1953). ; 162 pages; Includes a Chronological and Alphabetical list of the hoplite generals. A prosopography alphabetically listing all the Athenians who held the important post of hoplite general, accompanied by a monograph examining all known references to Athenian generals in the Hellenistic period.
Scholar's name to ffep. Small chip to cloth at base of spine. ; Reprint of 1951 English edition with addition of the Supplement that was originally published in Greek in Athena 57 (1953). ; 162 pages; Includes a Chronological and Alphabetical list of the hoplite generals. A prosopography alphabetically listing all the Athenians who held the important post of hoplite general, accompanied by a monograph examining all known references to Athenian generals in the Hellenistic period.
Coruña, Imp. La Gutenberg, 1901, 21 x 15’5 cm., retrato – 8 h. – 89 págs. – 1 h.
48 pages. Features: Nice colour photo ad for Oldsmobile cars inside front cover; Fargo truck ad; Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 2 - The New Army - particle with photos; Interesting comments on the war from London by Beverley Baxter; Road's End (fiction); The Pertinacious Pole - a short story about hockey involving a Polish fellow; White Gold - The grand business success skiiing has brought to the Laurentians - article with photos; The Stowaway (fiction); Moving Quebec to Idaho - article and photos of movie "Northwest Passage"; Frank Cyril James - new Principal at McGill University - photo and article; Wings of Hazard (fiction) part 2 of 5); Dodge car ad; Plymouth car ad; Ontario Premier M.F. Hepburn is pictured in a war solidarity ad sponsored by the Automotive Industries of Canada; Red Horner, Syl Apps and Gordie Drillon are featured in an Alka-Seltzer ad; Dodge Truck ad; Army Grub, New Style - interesting article and photos on cooking for the Canadian Army; colour ad inside back cover by the Department of Fisheries encourages Canadians to eat fish. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Please note: page 6/7 missing - It appears to have been an ad. A worthy vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Copiously illustrated with incredible black and white photographs. The inside story of the disastrous British Columbia floods of 1948 which inundated thousands of acres of fertile farmland, left hundreds of persons homeless, and wrought ruin and devastation throughout the province. Compiled from the works of newspapermen who spent almost three weeks in the Fraser, Columbia, Kootenay and Okanagan Valleys to bring first-hand accounts of the disaster to the public. "Most of the pictures, the climax to a hundred dangers traversed by each photographer, are self-explanatory. They show NATURE'S FURY from every angle." - from Foreward. Sections are devoted to the following locales: Barnston Island; Agassiz; Nicomen Island; Chilliwack; Hatzic; The Haztic Break; Matsqui; The Lower Mainland; Queensborough; Pitt Meadows; Kootenays; The Mission Gauge; Mission; Fort Langley and Glen Valley; Trail; Sumas; and Hope. Above average wear. Bit of ink writing upon page 50 else unmarked. A rare and scarcely believable account. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 174pp. A tribute to the more than two million men who served 18 or 24 months in Britain's Armed Services between January 1949 and December 1962. It tells why these men were in various parts of the world and what they did there and it recounts numerous stories from individuals who served their country in this way, whether in the RAF, the Royal Navy or the Army.
Madrid, 1849, 20,5 x 13 cm., cubiertas en papel de época, 1 hoja blanca + págs. 193 a 202. (Separata de La Revista Militar).
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps, small label on front free endpaper; sand cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted at backstrip. Enser, p.76.
British Archaeological Reports BAR International Series 630; 170 pages; Two main areas of inquiry: first is concerned with the major historical source pertaining to Republican castrametation, namely the description of a Roman army camp given by the Greek historian Polybius. Second is concerned with the only significant body of published archaeological evidence of Republican camps which exists in the present day. The body of evidence derives largely from excavations which have taken place in Spain.
Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). Pencilling to a few pages. Small sticker stain to front wrap. Minor wear and light browning to wraps. ; This selection of passages from Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum, reissued now after many years out of print, consists of the following chapters: V-VI, XII-XIII, XV-XVI, XX-XXVI, XXVII-XXXI, XXXIX-XLI, XLIII-LV, LXIII-LXIV, LXXIII, LXXX-XCII.4, XCV-CII.4, CXI-CXIV. These are arranged in three main narrative sections: the Numidian Civil War and the appeal to Rome; limited intervention; and outright war. There is a substantial introduction on both Africa and Rome, giving the history and context of the war. Linking passages fill in between the selected passages of the Latin text. Finally, there are detailed notes on the text and a vocabulary. ; 148 pages
Xxvi, 120 pp. Latin Text with Dutch introduction and notes. ; Griekse En Latijnse Schrijvers Met Aantekeningen XVIII; 120 pages
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With striking cover artwork by Iain Wyllie.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With striking cover artwork by Iain Wyllie.
M., Juan Fernández, 1866, 21’5 x 15 cm., 15 págs.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 62 pages of plates, neat WLA veteran's signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in red, backstrip lettered in red, an unusually bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The standard contemporary account published for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A41a; Gretton, 39.
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [4], [vii], 255 p., ills., 45 plates. Best reference study on classic and contemporary Turkish painters of Turkish Republic and Ottoman Empire. Osmanli Imparatorlugu ve Türkiye Cumhuriyeti devirlerinde Türk ressamlari. Hayatlari ve eserleri.
M., Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1898, 16,5 x 12 cm., cartoné original, 312 figuras intercaladas, 544 págs. + 5 láminas plegadas. (Publicado por el Batallón de Telégrafos).
104 pages. Features: Cornland takes the rest cure; They built a new home - Thome Johnson and Jean Claney were married in Broken Bow, Custer County, NE twenty years ago; Desert ranching is not for tenderfeet - the JHJ ranch in the Sacramento Valley; How to rebuild blackland soil (Texas); Amazing chemical - Maleic Hydrazide; Ladino packs a protein punch; Are you going to buy hybrid chicks? and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with 71 plates on 32, 10 maps (6 double-page) in the text, and endpaper maps, small inscription on front free endpaper verso; red cloth, Pegasus blocked in blue on upper board, gilt back, case a little shaken else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with short closed tear at headband. The best modern account of the epic action, and the basis of Richard Attenborough's immensely successful film (1977) starring Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Olivier, James Caan and a host of others. Enser, pp.13, 87.
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
2 cols., 8vo., printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1905.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome plates; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
First edition, 8vo, 72pp., coloured frontis., and 2 further coloured plates, orig. publishers pebble cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt and detached, spine split, in need of recasing. Rare, not listed by JISC. Provenance: Ink signature of Lieut.-Colonel Hubert Arthur Oldfield Hanley; bookplate of Ernest J. Martin.
Oblong quarto, First Edition, with 64 fine large plates, one or two plates with short closed tears neatly repaired; pictorial boards, blue cloth back, covers mildly age-worn and soiled as usual, neatly recased, a very good, bright copy. Well-chosen selection of plates emphasising both the traditional and the innovative elements of each service in the context of the Great War. SCARCE.