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1861000615Chicago Illinois IL. Good. 1861. A wonderful archive of historically significant with detailed civil war content: 1 Two detailed Civil War diaries; 2 Ransom's first war letter home; 3 superb signed Ransom Civil War cartes des vistecdv; 4 Other photos: a tintype cdv gem photo and another hand colored cdv of his wife Louie Lucy Perham; 5 A book titled "Sacred Poems"; 6 Ransom's business card and property tag and lastly but of huge importance to genealogists; 7 Early name and address book of Dick Ransom mentioning many family members and Battery mates. Dick Ransom was from Chicago Illinois; enlisted on 8/7/1862 as a private. On 8/29/1862 he mustered into Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/24/1863. Specifics: Diary #1 1861 2.5 x 3.5 inches full year January 1st through December 31st 1861 120 pages of which approx. 250 days with entries recorded dark brown period ink very legible. Great war content and a number of remarks made in great excitement; Lincoln as President; death of Col. Ellsworth and Steven Douglas. Battle excitement and the rout of the federal army at the first battle of Bull Run at Manassas. Diary #2 1862 : 3 x 5 inches entries from Aug. 7th 1862 through Mar. 6th 1863. 29 pages brown period ink very legible. Cover reads " Dick Ransom mercantile Battery Chicago Artillary 100 Washington Street Chicago". Signed in ink in Dick Ransom's hand on first page; "Dick Ransom 100 Washington Street Chicago Ill." Also included: 3 wonderful cdv/tintype of Lucy Ransom. Dick speaks of his proposal for marriage to Lucy in his 1861 diary. First is a tintype/cdv format of Lucy backmark Chicago dated Aug 19th 1866 and signed on reverse in Dick's handin brown ink "Louie Perham 1866 Dick Ransom". Secondly mounted Gem Albuman photo of Lucy on cdv mount ca. 1865. Cdv is handcolored image of Lucy dated Jan 23rd 1868. The address book includes all of Dick's friends and family and many of Mercantile Battery mates including Sinclair Willard Gunlock and Medal of Honor winner James Dunne. 3 x 5 inches many pages of entries mouse chew on cover edges. The date of 1883 can be found on the fep. Brown ink inscriptions this book is an important genealogy record and helps to identify all the people referred to in the diaries. Here are some snippets: " January 9th "my Birthday 19 years old born at South Woodstock Vermont""march 4th Abe Lincoln President of the United States"" Mar 19th " wrote a long letter to Lucy . with a proposal for marrige which I am sure will be accepted.I am in great anxiety for an answer". tintype of Lucy included "rec'd an answer alright = O.K."" April 25th -Intense excitement about . voluteers companies forming and drilling constantly all over the North"." May 2nd - douglas was received here by republicans and Democrates unanimously " May 3 - great war excitement for some time - volunteerism all over the country - great excitement". " May 5th - volunteers drilling in the streets "" May 8th - Lucy went for me to get a flag for the volunteers ."" May 9th - great war excitement companies guarding and driling". " May 24th - war message regarding the good and efficient commanders." " may 25th - Scott and President Lincoln col. Ellsworth the Zouave huro of Chicago killed in Alexandrea yesterday for tearing down a secsession flag. " June 3rd - Stephen A Douglas died at the tremont house this A.m. at 48. The city draped very very heavily mourning. col. Ellesworth funeral yeaterday at Bryan hall". " May 4th - Douglas laid in state at Bryan Hall all day." " May 5th - Douglas still in Bryan Hall ". " May 5th - Douglas still lies in state at Bryan hall is to be burried at Cottage Grove tomorrow ". "May 7th- Douglas funeral stores all shut up largest funeral ever in Chicago ". " June 10th - War excitement continues usual small battles and skirmishes but no large ones some expected soon". " June 20th - war and rumors of war some great battles expected soon in vicinity of Washington Sucession." " June 25th - Great riot in Milwakee yesterday - Dutch Mob attacks." " June 25 - all state banks in iowa Indiana and Eastern Missiouri counterfeits so plenty now". " June 30th - went out to Cottage Grove to see the camp" " July 8 - Telegraphs forbidden by the War department to transmit any war news of the intentions of the united states "." July 16 - the federal forces are beginning to move toward Richmond knowing where they will stop Gen. Scott don't tell everydody". " July 22 - At noon good news from the war high hopes night news the entire rout of the Federal army . and retreat back to Washington". referring to the first battle of Bull Run at Manassas " July 23 - News from war not encouraging - 600 killed ". " July 25- breacking accounts the battle and rout of the Union army though better than at first suspected ". " Sept. 25- think of joining T.E.G. Ransoms 11th regiment at Cairo had a letter from him wants me". referring to Gen. Ransom. " Oct 6th - another letter from T.E. G. Ransom still urges me. " " Aug 7th 1862 I enlisted in the Mercantile Battery of the Artillary of the U.S. for three years unless sooner discharges"" Aug 9th I was sworn in by capt. christopher U.S. mustering officer of Chicago". " Mr Sutter pastor presented each of the young men who had enlisted with a teatament". " Aug 11th - picked up duds to go to camp tomorrow- at 9 o'clock". "Aug 12th- at 9 o'clock at our headquarters at corner of Lake and State streets at the .Mercantile Association - marched to court house and examined by surgeon and then recieved our $ 60 ". " Aug 13th - arranged our camp as best we could not being organized . was on guard . skirmishing ." " Aug 14th -rec'd news that we were accepted by the government and were to have a full battery . powder smooth Bores . the Coffeemill . orders to fill up the company to 156 men. some photographs taken ". " Aug 25 - we elected our officers and then were visited by Adjutant General Fuller.Cooley Wilson Swan Bickford ". " Aug 29 - The Battery was mustered into service by lt. Knox ". "Sept. 1st- went to town to get more photographs". " Sept 23 - lient Wilson had a sword to be presented him ". " Oct. 3- went to camp and found that the Guns and all accoutrements and ammunition had come". . guns 2 .from riffle james cannon 2 to 8 ditto rebel guns -one made in Memphis and one in orleans which had been captured". " Oct 4th Seargents knights and Whitney Thomas and Throop drew cuts for the 4 bronze guns -knight & Thomas got the U.S. & Throop 7 Whit the rebels.". " Oct 5- had a great deal of company to look at the guns ." the Mercantile Association presented Crego with a sword . the accoutrements are being distributed and guns. today there was a sword Pistols presented to Capt. Cooley by the Mercantile Association." "Oct 15th " last evening the Asociation presented the Battery a splendid set of Colors. . to ft. Wayne.after the horses for the Battery ". " Oct 26th - we drill about 4 hours daily with our horses and guns on the prarie and five blank cartriges to break in the horses - we are almost ready mow for the field and fight". We are now likely to get our Captain Cooley to resign and have Morgan in his place. we have no guard around the camp now only on the horses guns ammunitionstores & officers tents and the boys go down town when they choose". " Dec. 25th - Vicksburg measels" "jan 2nd 1863. left Yazoo country- & Walnut Hills & c bluffs - Sherman's big retreat" . " Feb 14 - Arkansas Post- Sherman deserted - then back to Youngs Point". " Mar 6th Left Youngs Point for Hospital in Memphis on steame "City of Memphis". " April 1st 1863 - Mrs. Livermore brought me my discharge from the service- to Washington Hosptal Memphis.". " April 2 - left Memphis on Bostona -- homeward bound a free man". Remarkable archive.; Manuscript; 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF DICK RANSOM ALS CDV AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA Civil War War Between the States VICKSBURG MANASSASS BULL RUN LINCOLN ILLINOIS MERCHANTILE ILLINOIS INFANTRY Zouave . unknown
105364Lucknow 70th Field Battery 1928. . Oblong 4to; 8 silver nitrate photographs from original negatives stub-mounted on thick card tissue guards final photograph with the subjects' names stamped beneath the image in gold; original burgundy cloth titles to upper board gilt patterned enpapers boards a little bowed tissue guards somewhat creased some oxidisation to the extremities of the plates otherwise very good.<br /><br /> A superb series of original photographic images recording the 70th Field Battery's participation in the 1928 Lucknow Horse Show. A rare memorial publication which if in keeping with other such objects we have encountered would have been produced in tiny numbers primarily for members of the team. In this case perhaps a dozen of fifteen souls. We have found of no other examples appearing for sale. The photographs have an almost surreal quality and show some astonishing horsemanship.<br /> Lucknow, 70th Field Battery, 1928. hardcover
1890000615bChicago Illinois IL. Good. 1890. Important archive of post Civil War GAR letters of the Chicago Mercantile Battery Light Infantry Chicago Illinois including two Medals of Honor winner's autographs Kretsinger and Stevens. This archive comes from the Dick Ransom estate from his former Civil War comrades specific to the GAR activities for the "Battery Boys." 1 Letter written on behalf of battery mate Dick Ransom by Gardner Willard and signed by 8 additional Chicago Mercantile Battery boys. Two of these signatures belong to Medal of Honor winners William Stevens and George Kretsinger. Other signatures include David Crego Orin Nash W. Brown Richard Powel Florus D. Meachem. Dated 1891. 2. Hand written letter in support of Dick Ransom and signed by battery mate J. H. Swan. 1891. 3. Dec. 15th 1890 carbon-type copy of a letter Ransom had sent to fellow battery comrade George Kretsinger. 4. great personal letter from fellow Battery comrade Henry C. Gray .single page ink dated Feb. 13 1888. 5. Wonderful period civil war letter from Battery Comrad to Ransom from Gardner G. Willard single sheet and dated during the civil war April 18th 1863. 6 wonderful 4 page letter from former Battery mate Chapin. Letter in ink dated Jan. 1876 being sent to Dick Ransom sharing Chapin's heart felt concern over the recent loss of Ransom's wife. 7. typed letter by Battery Mate James H. Swan in support of Dick Ransom. BIO NOTES: Dick Ransom; Residence Chicago IL; Enlisted on 8/7/1862 as a Private. On 8/29/1862 he mustered into Illinois Chicago Mercantile Light Artillery. He was discharged for disability on 3/24/1863. David R. Crego; First Lieutenant 8/29/62 through 2/6/63. Orrin Nash: 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. William L. Brown : 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. Richard Powel; On 10/5/1863 he mustered into IL Chicago Merc He was discharged for disability on 6/17/1864. Florrus D. Meachem; Served 8/29/1862 through 7/10/65. James H. Swan; Enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. George Kretsinger; Entered service at: Chicago Ill. Birth: Herkimer County N.Y. Date of issue: 20 July 1897. Citation: Carried with others by hand a cannon up to and fired it through an embrasure of the enemy's works. Medal of Honor Winner. Henry C. Gray; Enlisted on 8/15/1862 as a Private. Gardner G. Williard; Enlisted on 8/5/1862 as a Private. James H. Swan; Enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a 1st Lieutenant. Generally very good though a stain has affected a few items none touching signatures.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY MEMOIR MEMORIAL DIARY JOURNAL DIARIES JOURNALS LOG LOGS KEEPSAKE AMERICANA Civil War War Between the States VICKSBURG MANASSASS BULL RUN LINCOLN ILLINOIS MERCHANTILE ILLINOIS INFANTRY GAR GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC VETERANS . unknown
167037119Paris 1670. Fine large engraving drawn and engraved by Chauveau. Signed by the artist in the plate at lower right. With letterpress text below the image describing the scene. Extracted from Perrault Charles: Course de Testes et de Baques fait par le Roy et par les Princes en l'Année 1662."<br /> <br /> The image depicts two elegantly-costumed performers a drummer and a trumpeter both on horseback.<br /> <br /> Image size 210 x 260 mm sheet size 538 x 368 mm. On quality laid paper. A fine impression. <br /> <br /> Occasional minor spotting; creased at upper right blank corner. The festival celebrating Maria Teresa wife of King Louis XIV consisted of various entertainments including equestrian ballets processions and dramatic/musical performances with music composed largely by Lully. unknown
19150001628TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA. Good. 1915. On offer is a super original manuscript relic of World War I training taking place in Toronto Canada in 1915 handwritten by the entertaining erudite and personable John F.P. Tate of Macpherson Avenue in Toronto. Originally 14th Battery Canadian Field Artillery then transferred to Canadian Railway Overseas Construction Corps May 5th 1915. Dated January 16th through June 12th John shines as he details with a great deal of verve his experiences. He also does a good job of detailing some of old Toronto. We learn a great deal of his duties and free time activities which include training at the Exhibition Camp where he spends his time dealing with field guns riding and training horses especially to get them used to gunfire stabling and caring for the horses musketry training field manoeuvres in Humber Valley and the Old Mill brigade parade at St. Paul's and much much more. Here are some snippets: 2.26.15 "The society after some weeks deliberation felt that it could scarcely permit another day to pass without showing in some material way its recognition of my worth hence my installation as President of the stable." 3.3.15 "After this AMs gun drill I have had enough practice to enable me to do it in my sleep. Had a lecture from the crazy man on lines of fire." 4.15.15 "My liver lungs stomach and heart were one vibrating churning mass when I underwent the usual ordeal of martyrdom on the limber foot drill." 4.16.15 "That malformed swine again. Removed a ton of ice from around the stable top with a pick. Froze to death on the lake front to gratify Cliffie's whim." 4.17.15 "Won the admiration of many by the way I didn't fulfill my duty when posted as sentry on Strachan Ave gate." 6.11.15 "Busy to day. Detailed to superintend loading of hold no. 1 SS Herschell. Had six wharf rats under my guidance whose wholehearted aversion to work appealed to me more in a humorous light than an irritating one. Am beginning to be able to feel very keenly for them." There are a few rough edges and one little section is missing from the outside binding at the bottom; approx. 3/8" Some of the pages are turned up on the corners and the outside edges are gold but overall the leather book is G.; Manuscript; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF TORONTO CANADA WORLD WAR I WWI WW1 BASIC TRAINING EXHIBITION CAMP CFA CANADIAN FIELD ARTILLERY CEF CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES CANADIANA JOHN F. P. TATE HORSES FARRIER 14th BATTERY HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT 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. . hardcover
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
CSP-1750Chez le graveur Carra, Genève, 1949. Portfolio (42x30 cm).16 pages de texte avec 2 gravures originales + 17 gravures originales. En feuilles sous couverture cartonnée en excellent état protégé par un étui cartonné. L'étui est légèrement usé. Il a été tiré sur papier auvergne à la main demi-Jésus des Papeteries Favier à Lagat 210 exemplaires, dont 30 exemplaires numéroté 8 à 37 et signé par l'artiste, celui-ci porte le numéro 16, exemplaire nominatif au Capitaine d'artillerie A. Baumgartner.
1919136972London: 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd' 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd' 1919. Large quarto 366 × 268 mm 4 leaves printed rectos only each with a reproduction of ornate Honor Rolls drawn and designed by Gunner Sergeant then Staff-Sergeant P.R. Wightman between 1916 and 1919 with the battalion colours printed in red and blue. The basic units of design are large-calibre shells and the end results are stunning no pun intended!. Pictorial card covers bound with red and blue cord the battalion colours; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly foxed at the rear with minimal surface loss to silverfish at the front; cord lightly faded; an excellent copy internally fine. The front cover artwork is by the British artist Harry Payne 1858-1927. <p>Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill page 223. 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd' paperback
19302841930. Hardcover. Very Good /No Dust Jacket. Gunthorp-Warren Printing Co. Pub. 1930; very good condition bound in hard cover cloth: red cloth with gold designs and lettering; 257 pages plus Maps Photographs Portraits Supplements; Noble B. Judah Military History hardcover
184841215Washington: George S. Gideon 1848. Broadside 8" x 12-1/2." Very Good.<br /> <br /> Gideon promises that his paper "will be emphatically a National Press designed for circulation in every section of the country. The object of the paper will be to harmonize the action and promote the efficient organization of the Whig party as well as to diffuse its principles and arouse its spirit and enthusiasm." Subscription costs are printed after which Gideon signs in type from Washington in June 1848.<br /> Beneath Gideon's name is a recommendation from seven members of the Whig Executive Committee of Congress urging support for the Paper which "will prove a vehicle of useful political information and if generally circulated will contribute powerfully to the desired change in the Administration of the Government."<br /> There follows a section for persons to sign up for subscriptions with their post office addresses. Our copy has no names listed.<br /> Not located on OCLC as of August 2025. George S. Gideon unknown
194016803JLos Angeles: Republic Pictures 1940. Original Black & White Photo Keybook for the Motion Picture Serial Drums of Fu Manchu with Captions & Hand-Inked Notes plus double sided photo manual. Republic Archive Key Book containing 12 2-Hole Punch in left margin 8 x 10" original action stills mounted in a Wilson-Jones brown stiff board binder. Binder includes its original label on cover. Every still but one has hand-inked numbers or letters at bottom right. “Drums of Fu Manchu 1940 is a 15-chapter Republic serial film based on the character created by Sax Rohmer. Though using the title of the ninth novel in the series it actually is based on numerous elements from throughout the series to that point cherry-picked by the writers. It starred Henry Brandon William Royle and Robert Kellard. It was directed by the successful serial team constituee by William Witney and John English and is often considered one of the best serial films ever made. The story of the serial is Fu Manchu attempts to conquer the world by acquiring the sceptre of Genghis Khan which will unite the people of Asia under his rule. Allan Parker allies himself with the traditional British literary nemeses of Fu Manchu Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his associate Dr. Flinders Petrie after his father is kidnapped and killed by Fu Manchu's dacoits.†Republic Pictures unknown
19372111902160200506Nippon Battery Co. Ltd. 1937. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nippon Battery Co., Ltd. paperback
14763Beau dessin représentant Bonaparte au siège de Toulon en 1793. Encre et lavis d'encre. en feuille Bon 43,5 x 36 cm
Footnotes, Glossary of Creole terms referring to Voudoun, References, Index. Black and white photographic plates. Diagrams. Voudoun is the religion, primarily African in origin, of the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Republic of Haiti. This work "Delineates this cult as an experienced and comprehended initiation into the mysteries of man's harmony within himself and with the cosmic process." - Editor's Foreword. Average wear to publisher's blue cloth decorated with gilt upon front board. Unnmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating reference. Book
12219Without place and date 1960s. The account describes events in April and May 1945. 13pp. foolscap 8vo. Paginated 1 to 13 and signed at the end 'Ernie Wilmott'. On seven leaves stapled into grey covers with the title 'The Last Month' typed on the front cover. In good condition in worn wraps. The account commences: 'There had been gun fire from the west and the south for the last three days. Friday the 13th April 1945 the usual officials did not come to fetch the men but a little later than usual the Gaschwyz sic column was called so we assembled and left for work about 20 of us. There was a lot of activity in the station yard German military vehicles were coming and going and a contingent of unarmed Russian fatigue men were on parade.' A typically vivid passage reads: 'In the morning of the 24th April I heard chaps reporting prisoners passing through and our guards not interfering a lot of Indians were going through without any guards. Chaps with kit got up early because of being cold. I got up after seven and went outside and saw the Indians going through. A column of Russian prisoners appeared with guards and were halted just outside. The German guards were standing about in groups talking to each other and taking no notice of the prisoners some of whom were already making off. A man got up on a cart and addressed us he said he couldn't advise us to go he couldn't advise us to stay the German commandant had said that if we stayed he would do his best to obtain food for us there was a horse dying in the next village and he had the first refusal of it if it expired and we should have it.' The account ends on Wilmott's return: 'At London I bid my comrades of the last 2 years goodbye and got on a train at Paddington. It was a noisy journey ex P.O.W.'s one side of the compartment civilians the other we all talked at once. At Bristol I had to catch a bus home and suddenly realised I had to pay the fare it was more than 3 years since I had paid a fare anywhere.' The covering Autograph Letter Signed by Batt is signed 'Jack' on letterhead of 1 Churstonville Court 1 Overbury Avenue Beckenham Kent. 1p. 4to. Undated and with recipient's name not given. 'The writer Ernie Willmott sic spoke 4 Languages and was learning Russian whilst POW in Germany. As he spoke German he was chosen as Camp Leader of our working Camp at Gaschwitz-Leipzig. Our Common path of experience starts at Campo 53 Page 69 - from there we were together unitl the war ended or shared similar experiences.' In a postscript he adds that Wilmott 'was not in Campo 66 at Capua but in hospital at Caserta'. Also present is a Typed Letter Signed to Batt from 'Charles'. On letterhead of 99 South Eden Park Road Beckenham Kent. 21 June 1974. 1p. 8vo. The 'article on Sidi Nsir' brings back 'many memories' and he is enclosing 'The Story of 46 Division'. Without place and date (1960s?). The account describes events in April and May 1945. paperback
32 pages. Features: Photo of General Georges Catroux; Six photos of Home Guard members protecting Buckingham Palace; Illustrations show how wireless communication provides the eyes for a field battery; Four charming photos of Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, and the Queen; Photo at Kirkuk pre-refinery which pipelines oil to a Haifa refinery; Photos of oil wells in Iraq - the focal point of the Nazi "Drang Nach Osten"; Photos of and related to the 620-mile pipeline to Haifa; Map of South America with article entitled "Nazi Threat to U.S. and Panama - Lufthansa Air Lines in Latin America; Article entitled "The Attitude of the Vichy"; Photos of Dakar entitled "Germany's Infiltration to Dakar - It's Menace to America"; Six photos from Addis Ababa where Imperial forces enter and the Union Jack is hoisted; Six photos entitled "The Return of Haile Selassie - The Negus Welcomed by His People" includes a photo of Miss Banichyzgu Kidani, the only woman soldier in the forces of the Negus; Photos of new bombing raid damage in London - The Queen's Hall, Lambeth Palace, Salvation Army HQ, St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, St. Olave's, St. James's Palace, and the Old Bailey; Two pages of photos from enemy sources include: German soldiers exercising in Africa to the sound of an accordion, German troops resting after capturing El Agheila, Libya, British POWs waiting at an African airport; General Von Kleist saluting panzer unit in Belgrade, Photo of hundreds (thousands?) of Yugoslavian soldiers crowded into German POW camp, swastika flag hoisted over the Acropolis, and General Tsolakoglu signing final capitulation; Photo of ship the 'Zamzam', reported sunk; Photo of German POWs in the western desert receiving food; Two photos of booty taken when the British captured Kismayu; Seven photos from Canada beneath caption "Nazi Prisoners in Canadian Camps - Dodges Used for Escaping" - includes photos of mail checking, improvised tool and weapon, etc.; Photo of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore arriving in Egypt; Photo of destroyed parish church of St. Peter and Paul, Bromley, Kent; Photo of Mr. Kenneth Riddle, President of the Oxford Union; Photo of five British POWs released from camp in Italian Somaliland; Photo of massive celebration for Portuguese Prime Minister; Photo of De Gaulle with Longmore in Cairo; Photo of Viscount Gort with Sir Clive Liddell whom he succeeds at Gibraltar; Photo of U.S. battleship "Washington" which is nearing completion; Photo of the King and Queen inspecting bomb damage at Westminster Abbey; Photos of personalities of the week include: General Sir R.H. Haining, Maj.-Gen. H.C.B. Wemyss, Lieut.-Gen. Sir H.R. Pownall, Brig. Viscount Bridgeman, General Dentz, Miss Agnes Keyser, The Duke of Aosta, Queen of Croatia, The Duke of Spoleto, The Duke of Hamilton, Mr. Ivone Kirkpatrick, E.M.B. Ingram, Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Pulteney, Grig.-Gen. Sir C. Champion De Crespigny and The Earl of Suffolk; Dunlop one-page ad shows bombs being loaded into the belly of a plane; and more. Staples removed. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy of this informative WWII issue. Book
Pages 537-564. Features: Cover photo-portrait of the King with General Henri Giraud (in 1940); Burial of Lieut.-Commander E. Esmonde, V.C.; King welcomes fighter pilots back after daylight sweep over northern France; Photo of dozens of gas producer units to be fitted into lorries to save petrol; Photo of Australia's Dr. H.V. Evatt with Churchill; Photo of U.S. Admiral H.R. Stark in London; Photo of POW German Generals Von Ravenstein, Arthur Schmidt, and I.P. de Villiers at South African port; Photo of A.T.A. platoon marching; Seven photos of Madagascar plus one-page relief map indicating its strategic importance and why it has been occupied by British forces; Photos of bomb damage in York, Norwich, and Hazebrouck Railway Station; Photos of King and Queen surveying Bath bomb damage; The Spring Air Offensive - article with maps of Burma and Mandalay vicinity; Six interesting photos of Mandalay and Lashio; Fascinating two-page map illustrates "The Riddle of the Middle East as viewed from Berchtesgaden" - a map looking towards the oilfields; Wonderful photos of Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife meeting Gandhi and Nehru - scenes at Calcutta, including photo of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek wearing Sari presented to her by the Birla family; Air photos of Grim aftermath of R.A.F. attacks in Rostock and Augsburg; Dramatic centerfold action illustration of Beaufighter long-range fighter downing enemy aircraft; Polish troops march in Edinburgh; Photos of Royal Artillery Mountain Battery excercises in Wales; One page of illustrations of Luftwaffe Developments - Germany's new fighters and bombers; Nine great photos explain how $millions in gold was recovered from mine-infested waters - salvage ship 'Claymore' recovers booty from sunken liner 'Niagara'; Photos of thirteen personalities of the week include W.P. Pycraft, Rear-Admiral H.J. Ruser-Larsen, Mr. Patrick Munro, M.P., Third Officer Agnes McLennan Traynor, Mr. Thorvald Stauning, Brig.-Gen. H.H. George, Staff Sergeant J.L. Lockhard, and General MacArthur with Mr. Curtin in Canberra; Fascinating one page of illustrations introduce stereoscopic television pictures - a notable British achievement; Eight high-resolution photos illustrated the world's diamond trade, now centred in London as experts from the low countries help the Allies; Classy B.S.A. colour back cover ad shows Egyptian scene with caption "The ever-turning wheel", by F. Matania; more nice vintage ads. This copy was never stapled. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this vintage issue. Book
88 pages. Songs include: Squonk; The Carpet Crawl; Robbery Assault and Battery; Afterglow; Firth of Fifth; I Know What I Like; The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; The Musical Box; Supper's Ready; Cinema Show. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy of this timeless Genesis compilation. Book
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Wonderful two-page colour ad for Chrysler's "Motion-Design" automobile styling; The Struggle for the Border, by Bruce Hutchison - Part 1; Does Worry Cause Cancer?; We Just Had to Be Alone - story by Morley Callaghan; Jim Flynn's Private Army - The Cowichan Commandos - they serve as enemy for the Duncan Reserves - article with great photos; The Best Ten-cent Ride in the World - the 12-minute Vancouver Ferry - article with photos; I Grew Up With Saskatchewan - Marjorie Wilkins Campbell looks back fondly on her prairie childhood - article with photos; The Tourist Who'll Never Go Home - Harold Metcalf will never come home from London; Vintage colour Chevrolet ad; Nice 1955 Dodge ad. Three-inch opening to bottom edge of front cover. Center page holding by one staple. Moderate overall wear. A quality copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Nice CNE cover illustration; Colour International Crawler ad inside front cover; Unusual Molson ad presents small projects for around the house; Mackenzie King as I Knew Him - article with photos, including a full-page colour portrait; Unwanted Guest - story by Paul Ernst, illustrated by Mike Mitchell; The Murdered Midas of Lake Shore -a Maclean's flashback to the murder of gold discoverer Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, the Bahamas; Two Million Dollars on the Dotted Line - S. Hume Crawford and W.E.N. (Bill) Bell sell lots of life insurance - article with photo; That Glamorous Goldeye - Manitoba's famous Winnipeg Goldeye fish has turned up again - 750 miles away in Alberta!; Danny Kaye; Just Call Me the Gadget King - Bernie Abbott sells gizmos at the CNE; Full-page Len Norris illustration "On the Midway" humourously illustrates the CNE; The Strange Death of Sam Fletcher - story by John Clare - illustrated by Jack Bush; Shes' the Only One of Her Kind - Speaker Nancy Hodges rules the B.C. Legislature with a gracious gavel - photos with story; Great full-page colour ad for movie 'The Black Rose' which stars Tyrone Power and Orson Welles; 1950 Plymouth ad; Sam Snead appears in Prest-o-lite battery ad; Colour ad for Canada Dry; Celeste Holm is featured in a colour ad for Avon Cosmetics; Nice colour ad inside back cover for the Watchmakers of Switzerland. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Nice colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover features a Model L-195 Roadliner; Full-page Parker Pen ad; Editorial - The CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) is not Canadian and not National; London Letter - Belgrade laughs at the Kremlin; How Social Credit Took B.C. - The astonishing story of how a group of rank amateurs suddenly found themselves forming a government - article with photos; Warrior - Sgt. George Thomas (Tommy) Prince, grandson of an Indian chief, won ten ribbons fighting Germans, Italians and Chinese, but now he must fight to prove a man's colour doesn't count on the warpath - article with great photos; Got two hours for dinner? - Le Bastogne restaurant in Quebec City - article with colour photos; Rhymes in a Ten-cent Scribbler - Edna Jaques is Canada's best-sellling poet - article with photos; Glen Dobbs - The Roughriding Mayor of Dobberville - a lanky and amiable American quarterback has set Saskatchewan on its ear; Guns are for Men - story by L. Johanne Stemo - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Eva von Gencsy - the ballet star with the dishpan hands - article with photos; Put it Back, Lady! - how store detectives in the bustling supermarkets catch hundreds of food pilferers each year; Full-page Canadian Army recruiting ad; Nice colour ad for Aylmer canned peaches; Great Prest-o-lite battery ad features black and white photo of Detroit Red Wing star Red Kelly; Nice vintage colour La-Z-boy ad; Chevrolet ad; Colour Ford ad inside back cover; Massey-Harris colour ad on back cover shows their test track for power farming. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Seattle's Public Utilities Department and the Railroads - major article; Southern Pacific announces fast excess-fare train between New Orleans and San Francisco; Promotion for T.B. Degnan of the Great Northern Railway Co.; No Time To Lose - Editorial discusses how representatives of eight Puget Sound cities oppose tolls being charged through the Panama Canal to vessels flying the U.S. flag and engaged in U.S. coastwise traffic; Handsome New Union Passenger Station for Aberdeen, WA - article with artist's rendering of the future station; Foreign Capital in Railways of the United States - major article by Harvard Professor of Economics William Z. Ripley; Business biography of J.E. Dalrymple, recently elected vice-president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co.; Railway News in Brief; Battery Truck Crane the Latest Invention in Freight Handling - major article with wonderful illustration of a mobile electric crane invented by General Electric of Schenectady, NY to be used for loading rail cars (who knew Elon Musk was so old!); How Should Tacoma Prepare for the Opening of the Panama Canal? - major article with excellent photo of the busy Tacoma waterfront; Statement Concerning Panama Canal by George S. Dearborn, president of the American-Hawaiian S.S. Co.; British View of Panama Canal; High Honor for W.D. Wells of the Alaska-Pacific Steamship Co.; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Repair bill for the White Star liner Olympic; Submarine Motor Salvage Boat invented by Mr. E.H. Crossley; New Steamer Solduck will be an All-steel Modern Vessel - major article including diagram of its outboard profile; Article on Steam Cannery Tender for the Northwestern Fisheries Company - article with diagram of the outboard profile of this vessel; Pacific Coast Casualties; Steamboat Fairhaven Sinks in Harbor; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
80 pages. Features: Karsh cover photo-portrait of Jean Sibelius; One-page Canadian General Electric radio ad shows the Models C122, C602, C352, C400 and C751; Moffat appliance ad features photo of Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, his wife and dog, plus photos of their kitchen and home; Where the Yanks Rule a Part of Canada - Americans at their Newfoundland base can flout our courts, even seize our citizens - and it's all quite legal; How Karsh Photographed Europe's Great; Ordeal By Snow (fiction); Taming the mighty Ottawa River with the Des Joachims dam project - article with photo; Is There a Killer in the Crowd? - Canada has at least 300 who have not been caught; Fortune in a Million Figures - Rose Starkman came to Canada in 1937 with $20, married Hy Marx, and they now sell $1 Million annually of Rose Marx Braz, the only Canadian brassiere sold in bulk in the U.S.; Stop This Fire Death Sacrifice! - firey death of 139 on pleasure steamer Noronic at Toronto's Pier 9; My Papooses Got Pyjamas - life in a Red Cross outpost at Armstrong, 100 miles north of Fort William; Beauty and the Brakeman (fiction); A Firsthand account on the new Britain under Socialism, by John W. Vandercook; TCA (Trans-Canada-Airlines) one-page ad with piggy bank; How to Retire and Like It; Nice colour Coke ad shows youth lunch scene and ice chest stocked with Coke; Bold one-page colour ad for Champion spark plugs features dog with ear muffs; Plymouth car ad; Westinghouse radio colour ad features the Rideau; Kleenex ad features Little Lulu and Tubby; Half-page Eveready battery ad features policeman Joseph Moreau of St. Lambert, Quebec; Photo of load of diesel from Moose Jaw Refineries crossing into the U.S.; Great back cover colour ad for B.C. Apples; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
1951C94874Tervuren, Musée du Congo belge 1951 Ouvrage complet en 2 tomes, tome I: vii + 121pp. avec 68 figures dans le texte, tome II: 40 planches et 5 cartes hors-texte (en feuilles, papier de la planche no.1 légèrement bruni), 33cm., dans la série "Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Tervuren. Nouvelle série in-4, Sciences de l'homme. Ethnographie" volume 1, dédicace (par ?) sur la couv. de tome 2, brochures originales (dos du t.2 peu abimé aux bouts), bon état, texte et intérieur en très bon état, C94874