Sandys, CeliaMareMagnum
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No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, light foxing to page edges, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 233pp. Witten by his granddaughter, this is an account of Winston Churchill in the Boer War. Illustrated.
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages and minor bumping to upper rear corner. 376pp. An attempt to understand the Afrikaner philosophy, being a plan from the radical Right, as it was set up in apartheid times in South Africa and how its roots came from the ancient Calvinist and Huguenot societies.
in-8, 313 p., carte, broché, couv. ill. Bel exemplaire [AZ-15]
in-8°, 245 pp, broche, couv. Bel exemplaire [CA30-5]
Ex-library copy with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to front end paper and title page only. The book would otherwise be classed as 'near fine'. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of handling and storage. 208pp. A fascinating narrative brings to life the war between the Boers of South Africa's Transvaal and the British Army and it heralded the end of the Empire. With over 200 colour and black & white photographs. Scarce in the UK.
Un très fort volume de format in 8° de 908 pp.; reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile brun clair; titres brun foncé au dos. Bel état. Voir photo. Une saga consacrée à l'histoire de l'Afrique du Sud et à la "Guerre des Boers".
pp. xi, 286. XLib. Presentation page exercised. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding. Spine faded. WWI 2
Paris Au Bureau de la Revue des Deux Mondes 1852, In-8 broché, 200 pages. Bon LES COTES DE CHINE. LES MARIANNES ET LES LOU-TCHOU, SOUVENIRS D'UNE STATION DANS LES MERS DE L'INDOCHINE par le Capitaine de Vaisseau JURIEN de LA GRAVIERE. Avec carte des Cotes de Chine dépliante gravée par M. JACOBS - LE BONACCHINO, SCENES DE LA VIE SICILIENNE par Paul de MUSSET - lLA COLONIE DU CAP SOUS LA DOMINATION ANGLAISE. L'EMIGRATION ET LA GUERRE DES BOERS ET DES CAFRES par Xavier RAYMOND - LA POESIE ANGLAISE DEPUIS BYRON. ELIZABETH BROWNING. J. EDMUND READE. HENRI TAYLOR par J. MILSAND - LES CARTONS DE M. P. CHEVANARD par Gustave PLANCHE - SOUVENIRS DES ALPES par Alfred de MUSSET.
in-4°, 556 pages, portrait en frontispice et une carte dépliante in-fine, broché, couv. Bon état. [FRA-1] Mémoires sur la guerre des Boers.
174 pages including index. History abounds with smaller battles eminently suitable for reconstruction because of the relatively low numbers of troops and the compactness of the terrain. This book lists 15 such affrays, and the troops who took part include the legions of Julius Caesar; English archers and French Knights; Cavaliers and Roundheads; American militia; Napoleonic French and their British opponents; Federals and 'Rebs'; General Custer and Chief Sitting Bull; Boers; ANZACs at Gallipoli; British Commandos and UN infantry in Korea. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
Paris, P. Ollendorff, senza data (circa 1920), in-8, brossura editoriale, pp. 529. Con ampio indice bibliografico specifico per capitolo. Allentato, dorso con fenditure e minime mancanze.
Gr. In-8, 556-6p. Illustré d'un carte dépliante et de 37 planches photographiques hors texte. Important document sur la guerre des Boers. très bel exemplaire.
279p., (8)[Publisher's catalogue] + Plus frontis and full page photographs. Title page printed in red and black. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding, lettered in red. Front cover design of two Africanders with rifles. Very slightly worn. Nice copy. First Edition? AFRICA/2
Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Book shows general wear, marking and scuffing to back cover. Front cover is fairly well preserved with light edge and corner wear. Hinges are both worn to intact binding mesh and loose. Page block still quite solid, with no marking of any kind to interior/text. Title page reads "Five comprehevsive books in one volume": The Industrial Age; The World's Science and Invention; Marvelous Peculiarities and Noteworthy Facts of All Nations and Countries of the World; Amazing Wonders of Nature; and Things We All Should Know. "Nearly" 400 photographic illustrations. A fine example of the boyish exuberance of the beginning of the industrial age, when the triumphant White Man and his Noble God were destined to rule the known world and all its native wonders as toys for the expansion of empire, no mind to the rape of the earth and any non-Christians who happen to live there. Cut the giant forests to build ships! We grow great like a virus!
Bruxelles, Hoste, 1902. Deux volumes in-8 reliés demi chagrin, à coins, dos à nerfsornés de fleurons, pagination continue, 2288 pages, illustré de nombreux dessins (dont caricatures) et de reproductions photographiques. Réunion de 142 livraisons de 32 pages. Très bon état.
Features/Photos include: Full-page photo of the German Imperial Family; Boer War drawings, including some from the Boer side; Photo of Wepener, Orange Free State, Lately Besieged by the Boers. Average wear. Unmarked. Some moisture exposure. Sound copy. Book
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: The Prince of Wales inspecting the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, Honour Roll with 16 photos, Some of our losses at Rensburg and Spion Kop, With General Buller's Column at Frere (8 photos), British Boers - Dutchmen in Yorkshire, The Hampshire Imperial Yeomanry, Boers looting a wrecked British Store-Train, The Battlefield of Colenso, Field Telegraphy, General French's Advance on Colesberg, Sir Redvers Buller's Transport Wagons Crossing the Veldt (centerfold), 2-page illustration of a Ladies' Fan-Race (laid in), one-page photos of Major-General N.G. Lyttelton and Major-General E.R.P. Woodgate (laid in). Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
72 pages. Features: Cover photo of George Meany; The Five Warring Tribes of South Africa - photo-illustrated article by James Michener discusses the Afrikaners, English, Asiatics, 'Coloureds' (of mixed heredity) and the black Bantu; Photo-illustrated article on Prince Sihanouk, head of a Cambodian government-in-exile in China; George Meany's Way isn't President Nixon's; In the Matter of H. Bruce Franklin - the very model of a modern militant radical and - until this month - a tenured professor of English at genteel Stanford University; One-page ad for Gold Key Lake Estates; Ad for the Garrard Zero 100 turntable features inset photo of Emile Berliner; Charming centerfold illustrated ad for Health-tex clothing; Fashion photos featuring ruffles and Taffeta; Geometric Mansion - photos of a Richard Meier designed modern mansion; Lovely color fashion photos; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 maps in red and black (one folding); handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Sold from an institution with its small blind stamp on title. Published in The Pioneer Histories series. Hosken, p.212.
100 Pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Features: The Crusader's Ghost a tale from Manorbier, a village in Pembrokeshire; The Ice-Harvest of Norway - *fascinating* article and many descriptive photos explain how large blocks of ice are produced and transported to London for sale; Twenty Dreadful Days - Captain W.H. Derard's vessel, the "Siddartha" was dismasted in the Atlantic; Through the Land of Witchcraft - Part 3 - "Ju-Ju" in remote bush districts of West Africa; How We Saved the Team - an Australian teamster saves his runaway bullocks as they hang over a precipice; Paid in Full - Captain G.D. Haigh was captured and mistreated by Boers but he escaped and brought justice to his former captors; Our Trip to the Cedars of Lebanon - *magnificently* photo-illustrated article; The Hunted Hunters - While chasing a French-Canadian lumberman/murderer the pursuers are hunted by wolves!; Stopping a Runaway Engine; Across the Congo - Part 4 - photo-illustrated article describing the 3,500 mile journey of Marguerite Roby from Boma to Elizabethville; The "Beast-Man" - John Tornow vowed a vendetta against the entire human race in the Chehalis County area of Washington state; A Wanderer in Sicily - wonderful travel article with many great photos; School-Teaching in the West - wild times at a mixed composition school at Beaver Creek near Fort Benton, USA. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 290-380 pages plus 36 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Sunken Submarine - the experience which befell the U.S. submarine "Diver" which shot its men from its torpedo tubes! (per cover illustration); The Fetish Man's Downfall - a tale from Accra in 1899 involving prisoner Yao Dwirra; Building a Transcontinental Telephone Line - marvelously photo-illustrated article about the engineering and scientific wonders of the first phone line connecting New York to San Francisco; "Black Tom" - an exciting story from the early days of the Pennsylvania oil-fields; "On the Wing" - extraordinary adventure with a big rattlesnake in southern Mississippi; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth (part V) - incredible tales of a party working its way through hostile svages and the forces of nature; The Train-Robbers - the tragic story of a hold-up on the Northern Pacific Railroad and the long man-hunt which followed, 1892-1894; Wicks's Ordeal - the terrible menace which a man-eating tiger constitutes to a community; Two Girls on a Ranch (part II) - two young ladies try to win fortune by running a ranch in the wilds of Arizona; The Secret Post Office - an amusing echo of the Boer War showing how the well-known 'slimness' and fertility of resource of the Boers were for once turned against them; Concerning Camels - some amusing stories; A South Pacific Piracy - an account of the tragic voyage of the brig "Moa," of Auckland, New Zealand in 1870; The beacon of the Gulf - photo-illustrated article on Bird Rock, which lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; Photo of a 'home-made' train run on the only railway in British North Borneo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, double-page facsimile and 2 large folding maps on japon; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presention. The original South African edition, published by Constable, was published a year before the standard trade edition.
