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8vo., First Edition, with photographs and coloured illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Single-sheet chromolithographic print. With 39 numbered illustrations of military uniforms in 6 groups. Captioned at head on the stone. Plus copied leaf of text with explanatory notes. In a very good condition. ~ Extract from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Signed by Richard Knötel on the stone. Beautifully illustrated military uniforms of various armies and forces. With dense colours and excellent gloss. An authoritative manual on chromolithography in 1885 (Colour and Colour Printing, by W. D. Richmond) asserts the need for at least 9 separate stones to achieve such richness, but in fact the number of stones used was often more than 20. The print measures 24.5x31 cm overall size and 20x26.5 cm image size and is most suitable for framing.
Oblong small octavo. Pp. 111. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original printed stiff wrappers over brass fasteners; old military institutional stamps to cover. In a very good condition, excellent interior. ~ First edition. Published for the "information and guidance of all Allied personnel".
Oblong small octavo. Pp. 111. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original printed stiff wrappers over brass fasteners; faded, practically invisible old military institutional stamp and neat contemporary inscription to cover and spine. In a very good condition, excellent interior. ~ First edition. Published for the "information and guidance of all Allied personnel".
Oblong small octavo. Pp. 111. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original printed stiff wrappers over brass fasteners; old military institutional stamps, numbers and shelf ticket to cover. In good condition, fine interior. ~ First edition. Published for the "information and guidance of all Allied personnel".
Octavo. Pp. 16. Plus a set of 8 single-sheet plates of uniform and insignia loosely inserted. In fine condition. ~ 2. Jahrgang, Sonderheft 3, erratically titled as Sonderheft 2.
16 pages. Features: Funding for the Kinsmen Club's new health unit; Doukhobor women denounce Stefan Sorokin and the Fraternal Council in preference to John Lebedoff; E.C. (Terry) Whitelock - His paintings of Napoleonic era uniforms win world respect - nice photo with article; Renovating the Nelson Canadian Legion; Palm Dairy gets rid of milk bottles in favour of Pure-Pak cartons; Kootenay Cadets - with photos of Mike Molloy, Harry James, Vic Young, and others; Continuing sabotage by Doukhobor radicals; Should Nelson sell the North Shore Power Line?; Dozens of wonderful local vintage ads, our favourite being the Gala Opening of Totem Burger. Average wear. Yellowed with age. Moisture markings. Bit of writing on front cover. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Newspaper
Octavo. Pp. 122. Plus 2 chromolithograph plates of uniforms and insignia printed on one folding sheet bound at end. Plus 16 photographs. Some text figures. Title-page replaced in facsimile which is bound-in. Original illustrated stiff wrappers, spine bit rubbed. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. With handsome uniform plates and with rare photographs.
Quarto. Two double-page colour plates printed on card, title-page to each, illustration on back. Plus two 8-page booklets with instructional text and description of the figures, one in French and one in English. Placed in a plain paper folder. In fine condition. Excellent copy, practically unused. ~ First printed in 1943. Text both in French and in English. Colour plates by Clémenceau Villejuif. From the private library of noted militaria collector F. J. Smits.
Octavo. Comprising of a leporello of 12 panels with a total of 24 chromolithograph plates of uniformed officers and soldiers. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's cloth and boards, both sides richly lettered and decorated in gilt, back cover with large armorial emblem, spine partly split. In good condition, fine leporello of plates. ~ First edition. Of utmost rarity. No single institutional holding could be located. The wonderful plates are 11.5x15 cm in size, chromolithographed on thick, glossy paper, with each image captioned at bootom.
Octavo. Pp. 284. Title-page printed in red and black and with nice engraved vignette. Hardcover, bound in quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with gilt-tooled raised bands, trifle rubbed, gilt lettering direct; old stamp to title and two other pages. In about fine condition. ~ First edition. Rare. Printed in a limited edition of 150 copies only, this is copy number 23, monogrammed by the Author for authenticity. With the Author's signed dedication at head of half-title. Provenance: From the library of C. P. Mulder, renowned collector and international heraldry authority, with his charming armorial bookplate,"Nil Desperandum", to first free endpaper. For a complete catalogue of Mulder's library, from which we offer a considerable number of items, see: C. P. Mulder: "Catalogue of Works on Orders, Decorations and Medals in the Library of C. P. Mulder" (Rotterdam, 1988). See also: C. P. Mulder & A. A. Purves: "Bibliography of Orders and Decorations" (Copenhagen, 1999).
Quarto. Pp. 395. Plus 14 fine aquatint heliogravure plates, one as frontispiece, all printed on thick paper, some with tissue-guards, bound-in. Hardcover, bound contemporary three-quarters calf and marbled boards, spine with raised band between compartments, green morocco lettering-piece in gilt to second compartments, direct gilt fleurons to remainders, marbled endpapers, joints discreetly mended for split, head of spine trifle worn. In good condition, very fine interior. ~ First edition. From the library of C. P. Mulder, renowned collector and international heraldry authority, with his charming armorial bookplate,"Nil Desperandum", to first free endpaper. For a complete catalogue of Mulder's library, from which we offer a considerable number of items, see: C. P. Mulder: "Catalogue of Works on Orders, Decorations and Medals in the Library of C. P. Mulder" (Rotterdam, 1988). See also: C. P. Mulder & A. A. Purves: "Bibliography of Orders and Decorations" (Copenhagen, 1999).
Two works in one volume. Crown quarto. Pp. 160; 341-488. With 10 contemporary hand-coloured engraved plates to each book and with numerous engraved illustrations throughout. Hardcover, bound in contemporary red quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, rubbed and chafed, title embossed in gilt, marbled endpapers; some spotting, neat paper repair to inner margin of one leaf. In a very good condition. A well preserved interior of two lovely books. ~ First edition. A celebration of military life in numerous drawings, sketches, and coloured plates. Scarce.
Quarto (31x25 cm). Unpaginated. Pp. (4), (1) verso blank, (1) verso blank. Plus 5 lithographic plates with several images to each. Half-title present. Original printed wrappers with large armorial emblem, margin of cover and first leaf soiled, thread stiching defective. In good condition. ~ Braunschweig, am 25sten April 1834. Published 1893.
Quarto. Pp. 40. Plus 5 hand-coloured collotype plates, printed on thick card, tipped-in. With (full-page) line-drawn illustrations to text. In the original stiff wrappers, bound into full cloth hardcover. In mint condition. A superb copy. ~ Le passepoil, Bulletin périodique illustré de la Société d'Études des Uniformes. Numeros hors abonnement, numero 2, aout 1931. Published under the directorship of E. L. Bucquoy. With a fine set of plates. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. Richly hand-coloured. Rare. No other copies found on KVK nor OCLC worldwide.
Royal quarto. Pp. 271. Profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's full cloth with pictorial dust-jacket, placed in original pictorial slipcase. In a very good condition, fine book. ~ First edition.
P., Le livre chez vous, 2002. In-4 relié toile verte avec jaquette, 502 pp., abondamment illustré. Excellent état.
Quarto. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated throughout. Hardcover, bound in the original publisher's pictorial boards. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ First edition. Prepared by the International Professional Commission of IPA. This particular copy comes from the bequest of renowned uniform historian and researcher Dr. Pieter Roelse and includes, loosely inserted, a number of newspaper and magazine photographs related to the book's subject, as well as correspondence with different sections of IPA regarding the subject of uniforms and insignia regulations.
Quarto (31x24 cm). Pp. 50, (2). Plus 2 colour plates after paintings. Many tinted photogravure images. Hand-drawn emblematic illustration to each of the 7 Chasseurs by Jacques Touchet. Original stiff wrappers, armorial emblem embossed in colour on cover; wraps bit shabby, spine trifle worn. In a very good condition. ~ First edition. Printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, this is copy number 385. Dedicated on title-page to "Monsieur de Jong, consul général de Hollande, Saigon", dated 1947. A letter from the same to the same is loosely inserted. Scarce.
Royal quarto. Pp. 254, (i). Plus etched frontispiece; 22 wood-engraved portraits; and 3 chromolithographed plates, all printed on fine thick paper, each with protective tissue guard. Numerous charming engraved head- and tail-pieces. Hardcover, bound in contemporary handsome red calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands between compartments, gilt lettering-piece, green vellum French corners, handsome marbled endpapers. Preliminaries and blanks at beginning and end foxed. In fine condition. ~ First edition. With attractive, albeit unidentified, old engraved armorial bookplate to first paste-down.
Almost two inches thick. Some of the many topics include: Blood feud between Iraq and Iran; Uniforms for white collar industries; Shelly Duvall; Helmut Schmidt; Pierre Trudeau and Canada's Arctic Oil; Lindsay Wagner; Urban Cowboy; Strike by PSAC; Anne Murray; Politically incorrect lawn jockeys; Burt Reynolds; William Pollock and Drake International; France's Nuclear Gamble; Rita Moreno; Vietnamese Boat People; CDC - Canada Development Company is now majority-owned by private shareholders; El Asnam Earthquake; Brian Peckford - Confederation's Bad Boy; Carter vs. Reagan campaign; Tennessee Williams; Monique Leyrac; Big Government Squeezes Big Oil; Trudeau's National Energy Policy (NEP); Sterling Lyon; Michaele Jordana; Reza Pahlavi assumes the mantle of Shah in exile; Reagan Beats Carter; Single parent poverty; Problems with the Dall Sheep in the Kluane Lake area of the Yukon; Lockeport Nova Scotia has lost three fish plants but the people remain strong; Melody Anderson; The Global Struggle for Human Rights; Discovering Saturn; Susan Jacks; Lynn Johnston; Roy McMurtry and RCMP wrongdoing; The West Goes Wild over federal energy policy; Douglas Christie and the Western Canadian Concept; Sharon Timmins; Nick Taylor; John Fraser views China; The Pain Threshold; Mood Drugs - cure or curse; Cherie Lunghi; Farewell to Jules Leger; Devastating earthquake in southern Italy; Search for an industrial strategy for Canada; Viktor Beleko lands his Soviet Union Foxbat aircraft in Japan; Two Hungarians defect to Canada; Soviet tanks roll into Poland; Joni Mitchell dons black face to play a pimp; John Lennon killed - cover photo; Brooke Shields; Poles in search of food; The Kent Commission looks at the concentration of Newspaper ownership; Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout and illustrated inner wrappers; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
Single-sheet chromolithographic print. With 48 numbered illustrations of military uniforms in 6 groups. Captioned at head on the stone. Plus copied leaf of text with explanatory notes. In a very good condition. ~ Extract from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Signed by Richard Knötel on the stone. Beautifully illustrated military uniforms of various armies and forces. With dense colours and excellent gloss. An authoritative manual on chromolithography in 1885 (Colour and Colour Printing, by W. D. Richmond) asserts the need for at least 9 separate stones to achieve such richness, but in fact the number of stones used was often more than 20. The print measures 24.5x31 cm overall size and 20x26.5 cm image size and is most suitable for framing.
Crown quarto. Pp. 72. Complete with a total of 100 colour cigarette cards. Plus 4 colour plates tipped-in. Text illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover, original illustrated quarter cloth. In a very good condition. (Inner front hinge neatly strengthened; a smudge or two.) Nice, well preserved copy. ~ First edition. Text both in English and Afrikaans.
Sm. 4to., Second Impression, with 8 full-page coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Men at Arms 96. First published in 1979.