Hamilton, Sir IanMareMagnum
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303 pages. Hamilton had an extensive heralded career with the British military and was a prolific author. "Here, greatly daring, I have taken an Army as my theme - that mould of steel which fixes bodies and souls into another pattern from those of agriculture or commerce." - from page 24. Includes the following interesting chapters: Knowledge of Armies; Higher Organization; Organization Generally; Military Organization; Discipline; Training; Numbers; Genius; Patriotism; Application of Higher Organization; Application of Organization to the Troops; Application of Discipline, Training, Patriotism. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Long closed opening to first blank leaf. Above-average wear. Backstrip completely open at back board. Interesting small vintage Calcutta bookseller label inside back board. A worthy reading copy of this fascinating and valuable military reference. Book
68 pages. Fantastic colour ad for International Trucks inside front cover bears the heading '104 International Trucks Prove Their Stamina Off The Highway for Dowell, Incorporated. Handsome Colour Ford ad on back cover features the 1938 De Luxe and the Standard. Full-page two-colour Pontiac ad on page 5 shows a woman shifting gears on the steering column. Features: Voice off Scene, by Herbert Dalmas and Maurice Geraghty; Why (Anthony) Eden Quit, by Beverley Baxter - with photos of Mussolini and Hitler; Mr. Hepburn's Treasure Hunt - a candid review of the administration of the Ontario Succession Duty Act, by Frederick Edwards; James C. Hendy nominates Hockey's All-Stars 1937-38, with head photos of Eddie Shore, C. Thompson, A.C. Siebert, Syl Apps, P. Thompson and Gordon (Gordie) Drillon; Springs of Courage, by Garnett Radcliffe - a story of the South Seas, 'the girl back home' and a magnificent gesture; Chundra the Elephant, by Paul Annixter; Little Corporals of Finance - Banker humour by C.W. McGannon; Zeballos Gold Rush, by Charles Lugrin Shaw - with black and white photos; The Seventh (7th) Day, by Max Brand; Wheat to Flour - photo page; Full-page black and white ad for General Electric Refrigerators; The Dotted Line - Braille, by Harris Turner; Page 26 cartoon of a smiling Hitler repapering an Austria wall with Swastika wallpaper; Ethiopian Chaos - a brief report on how the Italians have failed to consolidate their conquest; Bold centerfold Dodge ad featuring skater Sonja Henie; Sir Frederick Haultain - Pioneer Statesman; Full-page black and white Plymouth ad; Lovely full-page colour photo ad for the 1938 Studebaker; Full-page black and white ad for the Nash car company; Crossword completed in pencil on page 46; Full-page black and white ad for the McLaughlin-Buick; Movie News by Ann Ross; Nice full-page black and white DeSoto car ad. Above-average wear to covers which are detached from textblock but present. Page 9 loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage issue. Book
Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
64 pages. Features: Great cover illustration by John Phillips shows lady munitions worker in pants looking at serviceman in kilt; Nice colour ad for Parker Vacumatic pens inside front cover is illustrated by Franklin Arbuckle with pastoral water pond scene; War News includes the exit of Mussolini, Marshal Badoglio's Record, and more; One-page Northern Electric ad shows fighting ship and explains their contributions to it; Wonderful half-page Pepsi ad illustrated by Frise shows kids outside shops and lovely lady; The Nazis Plan a Getaway - fascinating article on how Axis leaders plan to escape with their booty - and their lives; They Deliver the Goods - photo-illustrated article on the Services of Supply which keep fighting troops fed and equipped, with photo of Lt.-Gen. Sir W.G. Lindsell, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., in charge of Administration in the Middle-East; The Shibboleth of Von Eisenbaum (short story); "Hast Seen the White Whale?" (short nautical story); My Father and Culture (short story); Know Your Navy! - article with photos of Vice-Admiral P.W. Nelles, R.C.N., and Hon. Angus L. Macdonald, Minister of National Defense for Naval Services - explains Canada's various naval vessels; "East Block Handles That" - photo-illustrated article explains how men such as Norman Alexander Robertson, A.D.P. Heeney, Walter J. Turnbull, Dr. H.L. Keenleyside and Hume Wrong (all shown in photos) control much of Canada's important federal government policy; Home is the Sailor (short story); Little Miss Linnet - colour-illustrated poem by Phyllis Coulter; Nice one-page colour ad for GSW shows military scene and housewife in kitchen; Hollywood News; Sort article on increasing juvenile delinquency; One-page Ford Motor company shows action scene of Canada's mechanized army; Bold, Militaristic one-page ad by Hiram Walker-Dooderham & Worts shows bombs and heading "The 'Rain of Death' is deadlier because of alcohol"; One-page ad encourages readers to write letters to their loved ones fighting overseas; Canadian General Electric half-page ad says "A War Job Every Woman Can Do 'AVOID FOOD WASTE'; Woodbury Powder ad features photo of Maureen O'Hara; Nice colour Orange Crush ad; Nice one-page colour recruiting ad for the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) shows uniformed lady driving Jeep beneath caption "This is Our Battle, Too!"; Attractive half-page colour Nabisco Shredded Wheat ad features rosey-cheeked lady saying "I keep my Jim fit and on his job", above bowl of cereal with peaches; Co-ed entertaining; Very attractive half-page colour ad for Fry's Cocoa shows well-dressed mother and daughter in grocery store; Fashion illustrations; How Parents Can Help the Schoo; Tangee Lipsticks ad features lovely colour portrait of Constance Luft Huhn; 3/4-page black and white ad for Helena Rubinstein fragrances; World Sayings; Nice colour Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover; Old Dutch Cleanser colour ad on back cover shows long row of clean bathtubs; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this excellent wartime issue. Book
933 pages. The Commission was appointed in 1945 to "inquire into and report upon the provincial education system, and without derogating from the generality thereof, including courses of study, text books, examinations, financing, and the general system and scheme of elementary and secondary schools involving public schools, separate schools, schools for the training of teachers and all other schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education, as well as the selection and training of teachers, inspectors, and other officials of such schools, and the system of provincial and local school administration." - from page vi. Includes the following sections: The Educational Scene; Aims of Education; Proposed Reorganization of Elementary and Secondary Education; The Pupil's Growth and Progress; Programmes for the Schools of the Reorganized Educational System; Social, Spiritual, and other Aspects of Education; Centralization and Decentralization in Administration; Development and Present Status of Local School Administration; Local School Administration Under Other Jurisdictions; Local Education Authorities in the proposed Reorganization; Other Aspects of the Local Administration of Education; The Supervisor of Education; The Central Education Authority; Exceptional Children; History of the French Language in teh Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations on the Teaching and Use of the French Language; Origin and Development of Separate Schools in Ontario; Roman Catholic Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; Protestant and Coloured Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; The Teaching Staff of the Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations with Respect to the Professional Preparation of Teachers; Conditions of Service of Teaching Personnel; Community Programmes of Adult Education and Recreation; School Site, Plant, and Equipment; Other Educative Agencies; The Development of Methods of Financing Education in Ontario; Our Proposed Method of Financing the Educational Programme; Divergence of Opinion Within the Commission; Conclusion; Minority Report and Memoranda; Appendices. Navy boards. Well-preserved with very light wear and soiling externally. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Binding sound. A superior copy of this landmark work. Book
Hardcover Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Hardcover with no dust jacke t. Book in clean and neat condition. Audience: General/trade.
8vo., on laid paper, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some very light and occasional age-browning; most attractively bound in contemporary panelled calf, back with five raised bands, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, covers mildly age-worn else a very good, clean copy with broad margins. With nineteenth century record in MS of members of the Crowther family on rear endpaper.
16mo., some light and unobtrusive age-browning; most attractively bound in black full grained calf, sides with triple Oxford frame in gilt, back with five flat bands tooled and ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with an arabesque, all edges gilt, doublures ruled in gilt, chocolate endpapers, covers very lightly age-scuffed else a remarkably bright, clean copy. Reeves was a Patentee of the Office of King's Printer. The Psalter is separately titled; both Prayers and Psalter are unpaginated. The text is occasionally cropped close at top but always without loss. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF LADY SOPHIA TOWER (NEE CUST/BROWNLOW) AND BEARS HER HOLOGRAPH MAIDEN SIGNATURE ON BLANK PRELIMINARY RECTO, AND THE FINE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF CHRISTOPHER & LADY SOPHIA TOWER ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Lady Tower was born Sophia Cust/Brownlow on 14 April 1811, the daughter of John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow and Sophia Hume. She married Christopher Theron Tower on 10 February 1836. Lady Tower died on 21 December 1882 at the age of 71. A CHARMING EXAMPLE OF NNETEENTH CENTURY PERSONAL COMMON PRAYER WITH BOTH MAIDEN AND MARRIED OWNERSHIP MARKS. A LOVELY COPY WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE AND WHOLLY UNRESTORED PERIOD BINDING
Very Good French Original wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 17.5 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 64 p. Chippings on extremities and spine, stains on back wrapper, clean interior, overall a good copy. First and only edition of this extremely rare administrative report of Diyarbakir Province after the first census of the Republican Turkey. The 1927 Turkey census was held on 28 October 1927 and became the first census in the history of the Turkish Republic. This book contains administrative results reported according to the results of this census across Diyarbakir Province. The Vilayet of Diyarbakir was created in 1867. In 1867 or 1868, Mamuret-ul-Aziz and the Kurdistan Eyalet merged with and joined the Vilayet of Diyarbakir. In 1879-80 Mamuret-ul-Aziz was separated again from the Vilayet of Diyarbakir, and turned into the Vilayet of Mamuret-ul-Aziz. It was one of the six Armenian Vilayets of the Empire. Not in Özege., Not in OCLC., Not in the National Library of Turkey.
In -folio, pp. (12), 240, (4), (20), 22, con due copie di un foglio sciolto a supplemento (“Facilità, che si accorderanno per gl’infrascritti generi, che altrimenti sortendo dalle Porte della Città di Milano dovrebbero pagare l’intiero Dazio, tanto girando per lo Stato, quanto sortendo dal medemo”). Cartonato coevo, emblema asburgico al frontespizio. Tentativo di riordinare il sistema daziario e doganale dello Stato milanese, sulla scia delle riforme di Pompeo Neri. This is an attempt to rearrange the custom system of Milan environment, according to reforms and statements of Pompeo Neri.
Paperback No expedite shipping. Pls. allow 4 - 6 weeks delivery being a newly release book from publishers. Ships from publishers directly.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original engraved map on the silk handkerchief made in Yildiz Palace for the 'Iane Sergisi' [i.e. Exhibition of the Social Assistance] in the period of Sultan Abdülhamid II. In its decorative frame. Frame size: 53,5x53,5 cm; map size: 38x38 cm. In Ottoman script. Scale: 1/600.000. Several minimal splits, minor foxing, and slight stains on cloth. Otherwise in good condition. A rare and decorative 1897 silk handkerchief map of the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, which was the only war in which the Ottoman army was victorious during the reign of Abdulhamid 2, is a fine example of Ottoman / Turkish cartographic textiles made in Ottoman court (Yildiz Palace textile workshops). This beautiful map depicts an attractive war scene from the 1313 Greek War on the upper half, and it's engraved a map of Balkan & Greek lands on its lower half. War painting has 'Melona' signature in Ottoman script. The map shows Thessaloniki [i.e. Salonica] Bay on the west; Yanya [i.e. Ioanna] Vilayat on the east; lands of Greece, Galos Bay, Uzi Strait on the south and Dimetoka and Avalonia areas in the Serefiye, Ergiri sanjaks on the north in its period. Written on the map, "Baht-i himâye-yi feyzvâne-i cenâb-i hilâfetpenâhide evlad-i süheda ve mecrûhin-i asakir-i sâhâne", [i.e. It was printed for the "Iane Sergisi" (i.e. The Social Help Exhibition) in the high memory of our soldiers who were martyred and veterans in the Greek War under the patronage of the Sultan.]. The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War and known in Greece as the Black '97 (Mauro '97), or the Unfortunate War (Atychis polemos), was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek majority long-desired union with Greece. Despite the Ottoman victory on the field, an autonomous Cretan State under Ottoman suzerainty was established the following year (as a result of the intervention of the Great Powers after the war), with Prince George of Greece and Denmark as its first High Commissioner. This was the first war effort in which the military and political personnel of Greece were put to test since the Greek War of Independence in 1821. For the Ottoman Empire, this was also the first war effort in which the reorganized military personnel were put to test. The Ottoman army was under the guidance of a German military mission led by Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, who had reorganized it after the defeat in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878). The conflict proved Greece was wholly unprepared for war. Plans, fortifications and weapons were non-existent, the mass of the officer corps was unsuited to its tasks, and training was inadequate. As a result, the numerically superior, better organized, equipped and led Ottoman forces pushed the Greek forces south out of Thessaly. Almost all of the aids made to the families or disabled people of those who were martyred in the 1897 Ottoman-Greek War (such as printing this map) were made within the framework of the donations of "Evlâd-i Süheda and Malûlîn-i Guzât-i Asâkir-i Sahane". People and citizens of all classes and beliefs, including members of the Ottoman court, ministers, bureaucrats, civil servants, merchants and tradesmen, participated in this aid campaign at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. Not in OCLC.
188 pages. "To Torchy Peden with Best Wishes, Ray Smythe, July 1 1935" written boldly upon front free endpaper. A newspaperman's close-up of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) - subtitle. "Offers the first constructive close-up of the people who are administering the National Housing Act, and the banking, industrial and employment problems with which this group is dealing so effectively." - from dust jacket. Binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
75 pages of detailed text plus dozens of fold-out engineering drawings plus construction program. Somewhat above-average external wear but contents clean and sound. No markings noticed. Binding intact. A wonderfully historic item. Book
Signed by Steadman and Clark upon front free endpaper. 270 pages. "In 1983, when Sally Ride became the first American woman to enter space, there was no question of whether she could handle the physical stress of the flight, because in 1961 a secret study found thirteen women were physically fit and properly motivated to become astronauts. Bernice Steadman was one of the twenty-five women invited, and one of the thirteen to pass that early strenuous physical. But then she was only allowed to watch, not to participate, as American men first flew into space." - from dust jacket. "A window into the life of a very remarkable lady. Bernice fought the battle of gender discrimination with grace, determination and, above all, ability." - Jerri Truhill, Pilot, Mercury 13. Appears unread. A superb copy. Book
