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208 pages, illustrated, small crease to the front cover. Includes articles on preserving the British Coastline and on snow camping in Scotland. eng
8vo, 211 pages, black and white illustrations. eng
Volume 80, no. 2. 8vo, 208 pages, illustrated. Very good condition paperback. 50960. eng
224 pages, illustrated, edge wear to covers. eng
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy the dustwrapper. Fascinating study of the railway as an element in the development and well-being of rural life. Ottley, 11378.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 20 plates on 14, neat inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 15 fine plates; gray cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at edges. This wonderful early Moore is very scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy.
pp. xi, 324 + Large folding map. Illustrated with text maps. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slightly worn. Hardbound. Henderson was a renowned British army officer and one of the great military historians of all time. SHELF W28
8vo., Fourth Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and numerous plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. First published in 1944.
8vo., Fourth Edition, with 2 folding maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The separately published atlas is not present with this copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Sandler, 2909
xl, 403 pages. Six maps, including two which fold out inside back board. New edition of the 1902 first edition. "In the first place [the Battle of Adowa] may rank as a peculiar phenomenon, - for it amounts to nothing less, - that a European army of about twenty thousand men should be annihilated by a native African race. To the best of my belief there is no parallel case in modern history." - Preface to first edition. Prior owner's details written atop front free endpaper. Small address ink stamp upon half-title. Armorial bookplate upon verso of half-title. Bit of writing atop recto of back free endpaper. Prior owner's name rubber stamped in several places through book. Prior owner has written a handy map list in calligraphic hand upon title page. Average wear to publisher's red cloth-covered boards which are sunned at fore-edges and backstrip. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Hand-numbered 123 of 200. xii, 234 pages. Reprint of the 1818 first edition. Fold-out map of the principal theatre of the war at title page. Two fold-out tables. Light wear and external soiling. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, backstrip very lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled on rear panel and with very minor loss at head of backstrip.
8vo., First Edition, fore-edges spotted; cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded at head and tail else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter split at upper joint, wanting lowest inch of backstrip and moderately spotted on rear panel.
Slight foxing to top of page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping/rubbing to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with some loss to top of spine, tear to spine foot and nicks/creases to upper edge. 320pp. Includes 19 coloured plates by British artists
6 vols., 8vo., with 19 folding maps (a number coloured), 40 maps and plans (a number in the text) and 7 full-page charts in the text, some occasional light browning; original blue cloth, gilt backs, covers lightly age-worn and scuffed else a very good, bright, clean set. With all half-titles and publisher's advertisements as called for. Vol. I: 1914 (1916); Vol. II: 1915 (1917); Vol. III: 1916 (1918); Vol. IV: 1917 (1919); Vol. V: January - July 1918 (1919); Vol. VI: July - November 1918 [1920]. Doyle's famous history of the Great War in France and Flanders was the first full chronological account, and written shortly after the events described. Enser, p.54; Robbins, 14461 (recording the 1928 edition).
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers lightly spoitted; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original dark red cloth, boards framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. With trade advertisements preceding half-title, and trade ticket of the Times Book Club on rear paste-down. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper, fore-edges lightly spotted; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip gilt a little dulled (but wholly legible) else a very good, bright, clean copy. One of the most elusive Bell titles.
8vo., First Edition, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; unlettered pebble-grain cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly soiled and age-marked, sunned at two points and frayed at extremities. This is not a rebound copy, so it may well be the publisher's remainder binding [?]. Scarce in any condition, especially in the dustwrapper.
58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Enter the European V. Among the Eskimos (part II); Manitoba Maple Sugar - for centuries the Manitoba Maple has been furnishing syrup and sugar to the Indians and white men - article with photos; Athabasca Tar Sands - Great photo study of the sands before a profitable oil extraction method had been devised; Liar River Voyage; "Parthia" of the Pacific - the first vessel to fly the C.P.R. house flag saw service in the Yukon gold rush and the Aleutian campaign, and still plies the water of the Pacific - article with photos; St. Lawrence Seaway - Photo Study III; Moose Fort Journals, 1783-5 - the latest volume of the Hudson's Bay Record Society; Naturalists on the Back River (part 1 of 2); Footnotes on the Franklin Search - I - Halkett's Air Boat; Fur Trade Gossip Sheet; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Valuable compilation of vernacular accounts, and the standard reference of its type
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with a folding facsimile on blue stock and a double-page map as frontispieces, a folding map and a double-page map, and two large folding maps (one coloured in outline) in pocket at rear of second volume, some very mild occasional foxing, fore-edges dusty; original decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt backs, uncut, covers moderately soiled (boards to volume two stained with black ink), volume one neatly rebacked with original backstrip (faded) laid down else a good, firm, sound copy of a work scarce in any condition. This volume bears the neat contemporary signature of 'Frank Cooper' and the following holograph inscription: 'Maps drawn by my brother Harry, who was with Colonel Colley as Adjutant of Transport. Col. Colley, afterwards Sir G[eorge]. Pomeroy Colley, was killed in the fatal action of Majuba Hill in Natal fighting against the Boers'. Henry Brackenbury was Assistant Military Secretary to Wolseley; Cooper (as stated correctly above) was sometime Adjutant of Transport during the campaign. The official records were placed by Wolseley at Brackenbury's disposal 'without reservation' and augmented by the latter's private journal which he kept whilst serving at headquarters. The account of Captain Glover's expedition is taken entirely from letters between Wolseley and himself. The missions of Captains Butler and Dalrymple are described from their own letters. Frank Cooper's signature is dated 1874; the Battle of Majuba Hill took place on 27th February 1881 during the First South African War (this action was, incidentally, the last occasion on which British regimental colours were carried into battle). It would seem, therefore, that this was originally Frank Cooper's copy (until at least 1881) which then passed into the Brackenbury family. It was then in the library of Major-General Charles Booth Brackenbury (1831-1890) and bears his signature on the half-title of the second volume. The author's elder brother, he spent his career in the Royal Artillery culminating in his appointment as Director of Artillery Studies at Woolwich, from which position no-one did more to spread sound ideas throughout the service on tactical changes demanded by the advancement in weapons technology. On Charles's death this copy passed to his youngest son, Hereward Irenius Brackenbury and bears his engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Hereward Brackenbury was a talented engineer and director of the prominent defence contractor Hawthorn Leslie & Co. The Brackenbury family was well represented in nearly all the British wars of the nineteenth century. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT AND DESIRABLE FAMILY COPY SHOWING MULTIPLE ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE AUTHOR OF A CLASSIC VICTORIAN CAMPAIGN MEMOIR.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly tanned page edges, sunned spine, very slightly foxed and no bumping to corners. 100pp. A guide for students taking up landscape painting. With twenty-five tipped-in landscape colour plates, many full-page.
