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ALFRED FREDERICK BELL WOODHOUSE, COMMANDER ROYAL NAVYBiblio.com

1911 1914 - 1915 SUPERB ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A KEENLY OBSERVANT AND DEDICATED DIARIST OF THIS BRITISH NAVAL COMMANDER'S SERVICE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR I

19110001529ASEA. Good. 1911. On offer is the original pre-World War I and early commencement of the War manuscript diary of Commander Alfred Frederick Bell "AFB" Woodhouse Royal Navy. Entries date from June - August 1911 and May 1914 - April 1915 providing a unique pre-War commentary and then leading up to the actual conflict. Woodhouse begins on HMS Fantome off north west coast of Australia surveying: ".Shifted camp to Byron Islands for 4 days. Got there by 11am. Comber went away sounding in steamboat. I first saw the camp rigged up & then went away coastlining in 2 whaler.Away coastlining again at 7am nearly finished Byron Islands by evening. Enormous number of small islands had to be put in.Coastlining longcreek about 5 miles in & then small mangrove swamp.Dozens of flies about appallingly stung.Practically no sleep last night owing to bites. Away 7am started near Beehive. Fixed one point & when turning found myself in whirlpool pass. Went down with flood. Whaler hole in side. Camp - no rum no sugar no flour no tea very little water.". Then HMS Research May 1914 off Ireland and Scotland: ".Weighed at 9.30 after the first mail had come on board & proceeded to the entrance to Wexford. Picked up tide pole & then to Blackwater Bank. Went away in motor boat with Hazlefoot but too misty to see anything. Returned at 3.30 & ship started for Larne. Then HMS King Alfred August 1914: ".After dinner joined King Alfred from Research as my war appointment.We are at present ammunitioning & getting ready as quickly as possible. Invincible in harbour. List of officers.12 Midnight War declared against Germany.My first gun crew do not appear to know much about their drill but they are enthusiastic which is something & I have an excellent gun-layer.Submarine gun crews told off & stationed.Everyone pleased we are getting away but do not know where we are to go. Azores seems popular.Received orders to proceed to Scapa Flow.Ships here are all King Edwards 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron. Drake & 2 Edgar Cyclops & a good number of scouts light cruisers & destroyer. All are painted light grey in different parts & black elsewhere so as to be difficult to take ranges on & also distinguishes them very well.We are painting our funnels & masts light grey & are chipping as much paint as possible off the ship.proceeded round west of Orkneys. At about 11.30 the Drake stopped a Russian barquentine but allowed her to proceed later. We stood by for firing practise.The Drake stopped & boarded a Norweigan steamer but let her proceed afterwards. Sighted a battle cruiser in evening. Heard that a German submarine had been sighted.Received news that German ships were in Norweigan fjords. Ordered by c-in-c to support Alsatian who is to patrol 20 miles from coast.Sighted Alsatian an enormous liner carrying as far as I could see only 8 4.7in or 6in. One shell would probably finish her.In afternoon intercepted signal from c-in-c to destroyers to attack enemies submarines which were apparently sheltering in Linza Sound Stronsea Orkney Is.Our army according to Poldhu message has held its own in Belgium but has had 2000 casualties German losses unknown but believed to be very heavy.Heard the Monarch had a torpedo fired at her which only just missed.Sighted Drake in dog watches she told us that 1 BCS had had a scrap on friday morning with a good deal of success. Light cruisers destroyers & 1 BCS raided near Heligoland & intercepted German cruisers & destroyers returning on friday early. Result 2 German L cruisers & 2 destroyers sunk 1 L cruiser & several destroyers badly damaged.At 6.30 suddenly sounded off night defence stations. Falmouth had seen a submarine following the G into harbour & had waited till her conning tower came up & then fired at her. She says she hit her twice.Superb fired twice at supposed submarine.First shots fired in earnest today.We have received orders to convoy floating dock from Pentland Firth to Cromarty.The Pathfinder & Speedy have been blown up by mines but little loss of life.Got news that the Aboukir was sunk by submarine & that the Hague & Cressy going to her assistance were also sunk. It appears that a flotilla of submarines attacked them. 21 is the first score to their submarines. Ships are not much but loss of life was heavy I believe.Ships company & officers warned by captain about spreading any information about movements of ships or anything else.Proceeding to the HMS Devonshire October 1914 ".Drove to Scabster in a motor lorry got the mail packet at 4am to go to Scapa Flow. Arrived 7am got on board at 9am The Anglia one of the LNWR steamers which is acting as a fleet .There was a big submarine scare during the day & all ships have left. Destroyers were hunting the submarines & say they got 3 but I rather doubt it.Went to a funeral in charge.Received orders to proceed on board Cyclops for passage to Devonshire in the Dryad.At 7pm the Dryad ran on to the rocks near Stromness.By 6pm I was on board the Devonshire after a week trying to get to her.I am to be tanky & prize officer & keep 4 watches.Proceeded on 24th 4pm & swept down to Heligoland way. Our aeroplanes bombed Cushaven & ships there on christmas day.Rear Admiral Pakenham hoisted his flag in Devonshire.Rendezvous with grand fleet & proceeded southward. Battle cruisers & light cruisers fought an action with German B Cruisers sinking the Blucher & severely damaging Deiflinger & Molke. We chased after them.The Lion was badly damaged by mine or torpedo as well as gun fire. The ships hit were only Lion 18 times Tiger 3 times the rest not at all.There are some dummy ships in harbour Liverpool with wooden turrets & superstructures they are very good imitations from a little distance.Left Scapa Flow & joined 3rd CS at sea. While proceeding into harbour on afternoon of 14th we passed down a whole line of submarines each one near a sailing ship painted white. We opened fire at them all but I dont think hit. They did not seem to fire at us but one cannot be sure.". Covers measure approx 7 1/4" x 4 3/4" 18cm x 12cm Cloth bound with 91 sides of entries. Covers heavily marked with some ink staining and wear some minor marking inside about fair condition. Overall G.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: ALFRED FREDERICK BELL WOODHOUSE HMS RESEARCH HMS KING ALFRED NORWAY NORWEIGAN COAST PATROL ROYAL NAVY BRITAIN BRITISH NAVY NAVAL NAVY MARINE NAUTICAL HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I WWI THE GREAT WAR HANDWRITTEN HAND WRITTEN AUTOGRAPH AUTOGRAPHS SIGNED LETTERS DOCUMENT DOCUMENTS MANUSCRIPT MANUSCRIPTS WRITERS WRITER AUTHOR HOLOGRAPH PERSONAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY . hardcover

Lemau de la Jaisse, Pierre.MareMagnum

Carte generale de la monarchie francoise, Contenant l'histoire militaire, Depuis Clovis premier Roy Chretien, jusqu'a la quinzieme annee accomplie du Regne de Louis XV.

In folio, mm 495x345; 18 carte eccezionalmente incise su doppia pagina comprendenti: il frontespizio, una magnifica dedicatoria allegorica al Re di Francia con i ritratti dei sovrani e 16 incisioni di cui 2 ripiegate. Bella legatura coeva in marocchino nocciola, molteplici filetti ai piatti con fleuron agli angoli, dorso riccamente decorato da fregi floreali e titolo su tassello in pelle verde, tagli dorati. Impercettibile restauro alle cuffie e agli angoli, peraltro esemplare assai fresco e di gran pregio. Prima tavola con testo entro bordura raffigurante le medaglie dei monarchi francesi dal 1310 al 1715 - seconda tavola comprendente tutti gli ordini militari e cavallereschi di Francia - terza tavola: illustra due alberi genealogici (re di Francia e famiglia Borbone) con al centro una splendida veduta di Parigi e nella parte inferiore i vessilli dello Stato Maggiore, acquarellati a mano - la quarta tavola: gli alberi genealogici e i vessilli della Gendarmeria, parzialmente acquarellati - quinta, sesta ripiegate e doppie: si trovano acquarellati da mano coeva gli stendardi della Fanteria e della Cavalleria. Al termine della prima parte tre tavole riccamente decorate che elencano: Ministri, Artiglieria, Generali e Marescialli di Francia. La seconda parte composta da 7 tavole a doppi a pagina è dedicata a 105 città di Francia, con gli stemmi acquarellati di ognuna e la relativa pianta topografica, il tutto arricchito da grandi figure allegoriche simboleggianti i punti cardinali. Chiude sontuosamente l'opera il grande privilegio reale entro cornice decorata, nella parte inferiore dell'ultima tavola. Quest'opera di araldica francese, di per sé notevole per la ricchezza tipografica degli ornamenti e dell'iconografia, è qui presentata in un esemplare superbo per la qualità della coloritura coeva e la rilegatura in marocchino. Bibliografia: Cohen, 620. Brunet, III, 970. Manca a Graesse.

Libreria Spalavera · Verbania, IT2 640,00 €

RUSSIAN NAVY - APOSTOLI, Nikolai Nikolaevich (photo).Biblio.com

Russkii voennyi flot. Illyustrirovannaya istoriya so vremen Petra Velikogo do nastoyashchego vremeni. 1689-1905.

1905189053St. Petersburg: Typolithography Evg. Tile 1905. Rare illustrated chronicle of the Imperial Russian Navy First edition just one institutional copy traced at Stanford. This excellent pictorial history comprises images of ships battle scenes and portraits. Published at the time of the Russo-Japanese War the front cover incorporates an image of the cruiser Varyag celebrated for the stoicism of her crew at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay 1904. At the time of publication Apostoli 1861-1937 a captain in the Russian Navy was already established as a photographer and captured many images of the fleet his work being published in a number of manuals and reference books. From 1905 to 1910 he was successively staff officer at Kronstadt then head of the communications service of the Baltic Fleet. Following the Revolution he managed the photo laboratory of the Baltic Fleet Political Directorate Pubalt although in 1919 he was arrested by the Petrograd Cheka for attempting to cross the Finnish border and sent to Vologda for "community service". Released in 1920 he was stationed in Petrograd later in the decade teaching photography at the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School now the Saint Petersburg Naval Institute. He also had a reputation as a camera designer developing twin-lens and underwater cameras and wrote a number of books including A Guide to the Study of Practical Photography for Naval Officers and Tourists 1893. Landscape quarto. Illustrated throughout from engravings and photographs red decorative borders to each page. Original reddish-brown pictorial pebble-grain cloth back cover with publisher's name in blind within blind-stamped borders. Contemporary Russian bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. Front cover dulled spine ends chafed some edge wear corners rubbed through ink stain to back cover internally some finger soiling and general light signs of handling closed tear into images of one leaf another closed tear across final leaf the latter repaired with opaque tape: just about very good. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni2 250,00 £GB≈ 2 569,05 €

Burney, James (Captain in the Royal Navy)Biblio.com

History of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. First two volumes. 1803 to 1806

180631885London: Printed by Luke Hansford & Sons near Lincoln's-Inn Fields 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Folios. Dark cloth covered boards with black leather spines and corners. Raised bands gilt decorations and gilt lettered titles on the spines. Reddish marbled end papers. Later bindings with reddish marbled end sheets and newer blank end sheets. A couple of tiny worm holes bottom edges in the text of volume 2. The first worm hole ends in the contents section. The second worm hole the size of a tiny pin head extends to page 80 lower margin. Another small worm hole located bottom edges of the appendix in back of volume 2. Volume 1 unaffected. Interior contents are clean both volumes. Small tear bottom corner of the Trinidad map volume 2. Leather sections are rubbed on the corners outer joints and spine of volume 2. Binding cords and thin cracks are visible in the hinges but the covers are very secure and the text blocks sturdy. Collation as follows: Volume I: Commencing with the earliest Discovery of the South Sea by Europeans; and terminating with the Voyage of Francis Drake in 1579: 1 xii 8 pages contents errata directions for binder 391 pages. Illustrated with folding frontispiece titled "Chart of the Discoveries made in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean" and 4 more folding plans. Volume II - "From the Year 1579 to the Year 1620": 2 vi 10 pages contents errata 482 pages. Volume II illustrated with floding plates in text illustrations and the frontispiece. There is a binder's error in placement of the illustrations. The current frontispiece is supposed to face page 385. The instructions for placement of the original frontispiece now faces page 1. This set was expanded to five volumes with additional volumes published in 1813 1816 and 1817. James Burney 1750-1821 was an English Rear Admiral. He accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages. Reference Howes B 1002; Sabin 9387. Printed by Luke Hansford & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields hardcover

Americana Books ABAA · États-Unis3 000,00 $US≈ 2 538,30 €

United States NavyABAA

LETTER BOOK AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FOR THE U.S.S. TENNESSEE

1885WRCAM40471Various places including Japan 1885. 133 sheets mounted on stubs; twenty-eight mounted photographs most 7 x 9 3/4 inches. Letter book: Folio. Original half black morocco and cloth stamped in blind on cover spine gilt. Corners rubbed. Spine heavily worn and chipped hinges weak. Light soiling to some letters some chipped at edges. In a very legible hand. About very good. In a blue cloth clamshell case leather label. Album: Oblong folio. Original gilt-stamped cloth. Spine faded and perishing hinges cracked some edge and corner wear. Photos mounted on thick card stock. Several photos reproduced in pencil in a child's hand on the blank verso of card mounts. Mounts occasionally chipped photos generally fine. Good overall. Manuscript and photographic records of the U.S.S. Tennessee launched in July 1865. Originally named the U.S.S. Madawaska she was renamed Tennessee in 1869 and at the same time timbered up to the necessary height to allow a spar deck to be installed. She was also fitted with new more powerful engines at this time though she also bore a full complement of sails. Her duties included service as flagship of the Asiatic Squadron under Rear Admiral William Reynolds with Captain William W. Low in command. By 1879 she was flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron under Rear Admiral Robert W. Wyman with Captain David B. Harmony in command. These items pertain to both of these notable periods of service. The letter book contains compiled correspondences sent to Capt. William W. Low by the U.S. Naval Department and by Rear Admiral William Reynolds commander of the Asiatic Fleet stationed in Japan. The correspondences cover the period from June 1875 through June 1876 the duration of Low's time as captain of the Tennessee and generally contain orders or reports concerning the ship's maneuvers. The photograph album which was published by Hatton & Hart in New York bears the cover title "Scenes on Board a Man-of-War. U.S.S. Flag-Ship Tennessee" with an image of the ship stamped in gilt. It contains photos of the ship itself; of officers and the crew including Rear Admiral James E. Jouett and Captain O.F. Stanton; and of a few exercises aboard the ship. The album is dated circa 1885 when the Tennessee was flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis3 000,00 $US≈ 2 538,30 €

MARTANEZ MARINA, FRANCISCOBiblio.com

TEORÃƒÂA DE LAS CORTES ÃƒÂ“ GRANDES JUNTAS NACIONALES DE LOS REYNOS DE LEÃƒÂ“N Y CASTILLA. MONUMENTOS DE SU CONSTITUCIÃƒÂ“N POLÃƒÂTICA Y DE LA SOBERANÃƒÂA DEL PUEBLO. CON ALGUNAS OBSERVACIONES SOBRE LA LEY FUNDAMENTAL DE LA MONARQUÃƒÂA ESPAÃƒÂ‘OLA SANCIONADA POR LAS CORTES GENERALES Y EXTRAORDINARIAS Y PROMULGADAS EN CÃƒÂDIZ ÃƒÂ 19 DE MARZO DE 1812. POR EL CIUDADANO. I: PRIMERA PARTE. II: SEGUNDA PARTE. III: APENDICE.

181330902MADRID: Imprenta de Fermín Villalpando 1813. Primera edición.- Folio menor.- Plena pasta española de época lomera con doble tejuelo florones y ruedas doradas.- I: XCVI de Portada y Prólogo.- 1 hoja Tabla.- 311 páginas.- II: 1 hoja Portada.- 490 páginas.- 2 hojas Indice.- III: Apendices.- 4 hojas.- Portada y Tabla de Documentos.- 206 páginas.- 1 hoja blanca.- 107 páginas. Errores en Palau en la descripción de la obra. Ligeros amarronamientos de papel en algunas hojas por lo demás muy buen ejemplar. Obra fundamental para el estudio de las cortes españolas y la de 1812 en particular. Mereciendo una segunda edición en 1820 y traducción al francés en 1822 y 1824. El sacerdote y escritor Francisco Martínez Mariana nació en Oviedo en 1754 y murió en Zaragoza en 1833. Estudió en las universidades de Oviedo Alcalá de Henares y Toledo siendo en esta última biblioteca rector pertenecían a las Academias de Historia y de la Lengua figurando en su ""Catalogo de Autoridades"" siendo en dos ocasiones 1801 y 1816 Director de la Academia de la Historia. Debido a sus pensamientos e ideas liberales sufrió persecución en 1814 y 1823. Publicándose años más tarde 1861 su obra póstuma en defensa de su ""Teoría de la Cortes"" bajo el título de: Defensa del autor contra las censuras dadas por el tribunal de la Inquisición en sus dos obras Teoría de las Cortes Ensayo histórico crítico sobre la antigua legislación de España. Uno de sus biógrafos al hacer la crítica de su Teoría de las Cortes dice de él: "" Si en lo político los libros de Martínez Marina y muy especialmente su Teoría de las Cortes deben considerarse como uno de los guías preciados de la renovación social que llevaban consigo las doctrinas inspiradoras de las Cortes de Cádiz en lo Económico Martínez Marina figura entre los individuos más notables de la escuela colectivista española en la cual figuran autores de tanta nombría como Luis Vives el Padre Mariana Martínez de Mata Campomanes etc. . . "". Palau 155246 - No en Aguilar Piñal Imprenta de Fermín Villalpando hardcover

Librería Ripoll · Espagne2 500,00 €

SOPHIE MOUCHEZ et al TO Amedee Ernest Barthelemy Mouchez, Admiral of the French Navy and Great AstronomerBiblio.com

1840s-1890s LARGE ARCHIVE OF 47 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TO THE FAMED ASTRONOMER ADMIRAL INVENTOR AND AUTHOR ERNEST MOUCHEZ FROM HIS SISTER CABINET MINISTERS FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES

1846NNJT77/81France. Very Good. 1846. Manuscript. On offer is an outstanding archive of forty-seven 47 letters from the personal files of famed Admiral of the French Navy and Great Astronomer Amédée Ernest Barthélemy Mouchez. The archive dates 1846 through 1891 and is made up of a few letters from his sister a letter to his mother and then the balance from colleagues notables and friends; a number are on stationery of the Republic of France; Sociedad Cientifica "Antonio Alzate" Mexico; Ecole Normale Superieure Laboratoire de Chime; Senat and some French Ministerial Office letterheads. This fascinating archive touches upon many of Mouchez' career highlights as the letters deal with a number of different areas - Mouchez' work in China matters of the Observatory Mexico personal communications of friends and colleagues etc. Mouchez had a spectacular career embarking on a career in the French Navy as an ensign in 1843. This was a period of relative international maritime peace and much of the navy's activities were dedicated to exploration and discovery. Mouchez was initially occupied with hydrographic studies along the coasts of Korea China and South America penetrating 320 km up the Paraguay River and exploring the Abrolhos Islands. He improved the practice of surveying at sea adapting terrestrial instruments for naval use and was especially concerned with the problems of determining longitude. He developed the use of the theodolite and meridian telescope to improve the error in establishing longitude. Attaining the rank of Captain in 1868 he embarked on a series of expeditions to chart the coast of Algeria. At the conclusion of his project in 1873 he was elected to the Bureau des Longitudes and in the following year was sponsored by the Académie des Sciences to observe the transit of Venus from St. Paul Island in the Indian Ocean. On December 9 he made a sequence of superb photographic plates of the event. In 1875 the Académie elected him a member of the astronomy section and in 1878 he was promoted to rear admiral and awarded the role of director of the Paris Observatory. The observatory had fallen into disrepair and disrepute since the chaos of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Mouchez set about a programme of reconstruction but failed to persuade the government to fund a new observatory outside the centre of Paris. In 1887 he collaborated with Sir David Gill to host an international astronomical conference in Paris. The principal outcome of the conference was a multi-national project to compile and index a photographic atlas of the heavens the Carte du Ciel. The project consumed massive effort over several decades before it was rendered obsolete by modern astronomical methods. He is also credited with founding Mountsouris Observatory and he is the author of six books on astronomy navigation nautical instruction etc. A grand boulevard in Le Havre and a village in Algeria are named for Mouchez. This is a great archive of intersecting and diverse worlds being astronomy France and her Navy Algeria militaria geography cartography and South America. VG.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; CLIMATE CLIMATOLOGY METEOROLOGICAL WEATHER ASTRONOMY ASTRONOMER NAVY NAVAL MARITIME MONTSOURIS HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL OBSERVATORY ORRERIES SCIENCE NAUTICAL NAVIGATION MAPS CARTOGRAPHY ALGERIA AFRICA antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel; Signed by Autograph . unknown

Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc. · Canada2 855,99 $US≈ 2 416,45 €

Desegregation of the US Navy U SBiblio.com

Black Sailors Aboard USS Leyte During Early Desegregation of the U.S. Navy Photo Album Documents the Death of the Navy's First Black Aviator

1950215431950. African American sailors aboard the USS Leyte CV-32 photo album compiled circa 1950-1951 documents daily life labor and camaraderie among Black enlisted men serving during the opening phase of the Korean War and in the early implementation of military desegregation under Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981. Created while the carrier was deployed in Atlantic and Caribbean waters and later in support of Korean War operations the album offers sustained visual evidence of African American naval presence during a transitional period when the U.S. Navy was moving unevenly from segregation toward formal integration. Of particular historical significance is the inclusion of the 15 December 1950 Christmas edition of 32's News containing an obituary and photograph of Ensign Jesse L. Brown who was killed in action on 4 December 1950 near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea when his F4U-4 Corsair was struck by enemy fire making the album an immediate shipboard witness to the death of the Navy's first Black aviator. The archive supports research in African American military history Korean War studies naval integration and the social worlds of Black servicemen abroad. Photo Album with approximately 100 black-and-white silver gelatin photographs ranging from 2.75 x 1.75 inches to 10 x 8 inches most mounted recto and verso on 22 black paper album leaves with several images unmounted accompanied by loose and mounted ephemeral materials including mimeographed wartime reports clippings and shipboard newspapers. Notable among these are the 14 October 1950 issue of Daily Press News and the 15 December 1950 issue of 32's News Vol. 1 No. 5. Identified sailors include Harvey Thomas James Kincaid Leo Bowser "Lippy Connor" "Stockson" "Boby Mitchell" and James G. Watson the latter represented by photographs captioned "Watson" and accompanied by 1949-1951 W-2 forms documenting his service at Naval Air Station Quonset Point and aboard USS Leyte. A large-format photograph captioned "The GTMO Four" depicts four African American sailors in dress whites at Guantánamo Bay while other images captioned "Mindoro" situate the crew in the Philippines during operational deployment. The album interweaves formal portraits group military images and informal scenes of athletic recreation swimming nightlife and cross-cultural encounters with Filipino civilians as well as studio portraits labeled "School Days" and images of family members and sweethearts grounding naval service within networks of kinship and memory. Interior views of barracks communal meals and experimental aircraft armament work-contextualized by a mimeographed article describing the so-called "mercy bomb" perfected aboard Leyte-further illuminate the technical and social dimensions of shipboard life. Produced at a moment when Black servicemen were asserting dignity and professional competence within historically exclusionary institutions the archive offers unusually cohesive visual testimony to African American presence in a modernizing desegregating Navy at the outset of a global Cold War conflict. Photographs exhibit minor fading light corner wear and typical album mounting abrasions; mimeographed documents show toning creasing and several edge tears. Overall very good condition. A substantial and visually integrated record of African American naval service during the Korean War's opening year anchored by contemporaneous memorialization of Jesse L. Brown and richly documenting everyday Black military life at sea and abroad. unknown

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis2 850,00 $US≈ 2 411,38 €

Rees Mina The Navy Mathematical Computing Advisory PanelABAA

A Symposium on Commercially Available General-Purpose Electronic Digital Computers of Moderate Price

19522294Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Technical Services 1952. First Edition. Near Fine. Near Fine copy in original orange paper wraps with spine lighly sunned. Internally about Fine. Quarto measuring 7.75 x 10 inches and collating 2 41 pages: complete. Rare surviving copy of the first survey of electronic digital computers in the U.S. organized by pioneering mathematician Mina Rees. The only first edition on the market this is a title that has never before sold at auction and is listed by OCLC at only 10 institutions. In her introduction to the survey Rees notes that "Until recently all commercially available general-purpose digital computers were large and cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Within the past year however a number of manufacturers have smaller more compact usually slower automatic computers for sale at less than one hundred thousand dollars." Because this change opened the door to a wider variety of businesses and firms accessing computers Rees points to the symposium as being timely and necessary. In this space and this historic moment scientists mathematicians manufacturers and government agencies could consider how to continue improving and reducing cost on the machines; and they could consider their wide applicability across fields. Rees herself a luminary who became the first woman president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is featured in this survey among other notables including Albert Auerbach and Richard E Sprague. The papers include work the MINIAC the Elecom and the Circle Computer. These were the first of their kind as was the symposium itself. Complete with over 20 black and white photos charts and diagrams it is an important and rare piece documenting computers' shift into the necessary and ubiquitous technology they are today. Origins of Cyberspace 853. Near Fine. [U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services] unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis2 850,00 $US≈ 2 411,38 €

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