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Peter Caddick-Adams
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies In Hell
Preface Publishing 2012. 1st. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First edition first impression hardback 2012 with unclipped jacket. In overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Preface Publishing hardcover
Référence libraire : 230386 ISBN : 1848093586 9781848093584
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Various
Nasze Drogi: Numer Specjalny Polsko-Angielski; English-Polish Special Issue
Somewhere In The Middle East: Social And Educational Section Polish Brigade 1941. Paperback. Good. Bilingual Polish and English edition paperback 1941 in overall good used condition with some minor signs of age handling and storage - covers tanned and rubbed with a couple of repairs. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text map and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Social And Educational Section, Polish Brigade paperback
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Juliusz L Englert and Krzysztof Barbarski
General Maczek: I Zolnierze 1 Dywizji Pancernej
Instytutu Polskiego i Muzeum im Generata Sikorskiego and Polska Fundacja Kulturalna 1992. Paperback. Fine. Paperback edition in Polish with some translations and captions in English 1992 in overall fine unread condition Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Instytutu Polskiego i Muzeum im Generata Sikorskiego and Polska Fundacja Kulturalna paperback
Référence libraire : 230452 ISBN : 0850652359 9780850652352
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Juliusz L Englert and Krzysztof Barbarski
General Stanislaw Sosabowski: Commander 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade
Instytutu Polskiego i Muzeum im Generata Sikorskiego and Polska Fundacja Kulturalna 1996. Paperback. Fine. Paperback edition in Polish with some translations and captions in English 1996 in overall fine unread condition Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Instytutu Polskiego i Muzeum im Generata Sikorskiego and Polska Fundacja Kulturalna paperback
Référence libraire : 230453 ISBN : 0850652472 9780850652475
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Juliusz L Englert and Krzysztof Barbarski
General Anders
The Polish Institute And Sikorsky Museum 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback edition in Polish with some translations and captions in English 1990 in overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age handling and storage - covers a touch rubbed to edges with light crease to front upper rh corner. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. The Polish Institute And Sikorsky Museum paperback
Référence libraire : 230451 ISBN : 0902508172 9780902508170
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F A Kingsley
The Development Of Radar Equipments For The Royal Navy 1935-45
Basingstoke: Macmillan 1995. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first impression hardback 1995 with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with slight signs of age handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed now protected; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature neat to front endpaper; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Macmillan hardcover
Référence libraire : 230484 ISBN : 0333612108 9780333612101
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M J Whitley
Destroyers Of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia
Cassell 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback edition 2002 in overall near-fine used condition with only very slight signs of age handling and storage. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions - small set of initials to front endpaper upper rh corner tip; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Cassell paperback
Référence libraire : 230514 ISBN : 0304356751 9780304356751
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John Snyder
The Camouflage Of Ships At Sea: C.B. 3098 - R Cancelled - 1943
White Ensign Models Ltd 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Comb-bound paperback reprint 2007 in overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age handling and storage. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. White Ensign Models Ltd paperback
Référence libraire : 230524
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Vernon Scott
An Experienced Shared 1939-1945
Pembroke Dock: Laleham Publications 1992. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. Signed and inscribed first edition hardback 1992 with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age handling and storage - dust jacket a rubbed to edges with a couple of small nicks now protected; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean no annotation - signed by the author to front endpaper with brief inscription dated 1994; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Laleham Publications hardcover
Référence libraire : 230566 ISBN : 0952038811 9780952038818
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Ken Macpherson and Marc Milner
Corvettes Of The Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1945
St. Catherines Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Limited 1993. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition hardback 1993 with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unread. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions; text maps large folding plans and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Vanwell Publishing Limited hardcover
Référence libraire : 230582 ISBN : 0920277837 9780920277836
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WAR OFFICE
Qatar & The Gulf States. Hofuf & Bandar Abbas.
London: War Office 1957. 2 maps 62 x 72.5 cm printed recto verso in colour on one single sheet of rayon artificial silk marked "Restricted " in red. Published by the War Office in 1957 the present map shows large swathes of what are now the United Arab Emirates on a scale of 1:1000000. To the recto is a map entitled 'Hofuf' which shows the Persian Gulf Qatar Peninsula Bahrain Island part of the north-eastern coast of Saudi Arabia and a small part of Oman. To the verso is a map entitled 'Bandar Abbas' showing the Persian Gulf the Straights of Hormuz the Gulf of Oman and bordering countries. Both maps had first been produced by the War Office in 1945 and were revised only slightly for use here. Some light trivial fraying and small fold mark to upper margin not affecting map generally an excellent copy. During the Second World War the British War Office began to produce Escape and Evasion maps for its soldiers and personnel printed on Rayon acetate. Because of the silky nature of this material however which was chosen for its durability and portability they came to be known as silk maps. The War Office and later the Department of Defence continued to produce these throughout the twentieth century covering many regions across the world. The maps take the standard form of British Escape and Evasion maps with relief represented by hachures altitude tints and spot heights which height given in metres. Among the significant features shown are borders highways important roads railway tracks airports rivers bodies of water and telegraph lines. These are identified in keys alongside both maps where relevant information such as "fresh water" is emphasised. Alongside these keys there are other helpful resources for military personnel in the area whether by design or due to an emergency landing. These include a glossary of Romanised Arabic terms and diagrams placing the region shown in its wider geographical context. In 1932 Said bin Taimur became the Sultan of Muscat of Oman his Sultanate stretching down the entirety of Oman's eastern coast. His reign was supported by the British Government which maintained significant control over his land installing its ministers in his government. British interest the area was mainly motivated by the promise of oil with the Iraq Petroleum Company IPC being 23% British-owned and over the following decades the Sultan and the Company searched the deserts in the hope of striking a new and lucrative deposit. After failing to discover any significant resources within his direct domain however Said bin Taimur with the backing of the IPC raised an army to occupy the Imamate of Oman where he hoped to find oil at last. Thus in 1954 the Jebel Adkhdar War or Oman War broke out as the local Omanis and their leader Imam Ghalib ALhinai fought against the combined forces of the Sultanate and the British Army to protect their land from the would-be occupiers. Eventually Arab states including Egypt Saudi Arabia and Iraq came to the support of the Imamate but the war nevertheless stretched on until 1959 when a final effort by. The British SAS brought the conflict to a decisive end. The treatise and agreements signed in the aftermath of the war were heavily weighted towards British interests giving them trading rights the islands of Kuria Muria and extensive power over the Sultanate's ministries. The Sultanate was thus transformed into a de facto British colony. The present map produced in the very middle of the conflict shows much of the theatre of the Jebel Adkhdar War. It is not entirely clear however why the cities of Hofuf and Bandar Abbas both of which are indeed shown on their respective maps are selected as the titles for each. Neither seems to have played a role in the war and in fact the latter was a small fishing port of about 17000 people during the late 1950s. They are by no means the only cities to be shown with a wealth of toponyms covering the maps and so it remains a mystery why they have been singled out as titles. [London]: War Office, 1957. unknown
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[Civil War]
INSTRUCTIONS. COUNTERSIGN SIGNALS. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
Washington 1861. 4to 8-1/2" x 10-3/4." Caption title as issued. 6 2 pp. Old vertical fold. Very Good plus. Page 7 has the following manuscript "Note- - This Circular is in so far confidential that the Officer receiving it will not make its contents public; nor will he reveal them unless in the discharge of Signal duty to others than officers actually in the Service of the United States." <br /> with The oversized envelope of Office of the Signal Officer "Official Business" addressed to Lt. Col. Connor & Major Hyde of the 7th Maine Infantry.<br /> <br /> This scarce General Order No. 29 issued "By command of Major General McClellan" lists elaborately detailed "Countersign and Countersign Signals for the week ending October 24 1861"; "Day Countersign Signals"; "Night Countersign Signals";"Countersign Signals by Sound"; and General Instructions. <br /> OCLC 43312441 4- Duke Huntington DLC NYHS as of May 2023. unknown
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[Department War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and order of St John of Jerusalem]
The Royal Air Force School for Prisoners of War Stalag Luft VI Germany
Oxford: Department of War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem 1944. Octavo illustrated printed wrappers 16 pp. unpaginated. Some spotting otherwise a near-fine copy. A scarce copy. This prospectus was ordered by the British Red Cross and St. John War Organisation. They supplied materials and books to R.A.F. Sergeant James W. Lambert for him to design and produce the illuminated report which constitutes this booklet. In 1944 there were more than one thousand students attending lectures at the school. These 'Barbed-Wire Universities' as they were called back then were formed by the Red Cross Educational Section to provide educational facilities for flying personel interned in Germany. In 1944 three separate Air Force Camps were moved to create one large camp called Stalag Luft VI. These schools prepared the men in re-entering civilian life by enabling them to improve their qualifications and learn skills they could use after their release. Department of War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem unknown
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PENINSULAR WAR
De La Romana's Division. An Enlightened Army.
2009. Madrid 2009. First edition in English inscribed by the chairman of a foundation who enabled this very rare publication. This division which broke away from Napoleonic command fought the French Empire. This involved stints in Hamburg Denmark and Sweden. unknown
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Armitstead, KA, Chujo, Y, Corradini, P, Fischer, M, Goldbeck-Wood, G, Guerra, G, Halperin, A, Kausch, H-H, Keller, A, Kennedy, J
Macromolecules: Synthesis Order and Advanced Properties Advances in Polymer Science 100
Springer 1992. 422 pp. Hardcover ex library else text clean and binding tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Springer hardcover
Référence libraire : ZB1113446 ISBN : 3540544909 9783540544906
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[CIVIL WAR IN WALES]
The Heads of the present Greevances of the County of Glamorgan Declaring the Cause of their late rising and taking up of Armes. Published for the satisfaction of all other Counties of England and Wales who groane under the same or like burthens of Oppression and Tyrannie. Now exercised by that Arbitrarie Power and Authoritie pretended to be derived from the two Houses of Parliament throughout all His Majesties dominions by those who stile themselves Committees contrary to Justice and the known Lawes of the Land.
1647. London: n.p. 1647. Small 4to. Disbound pp. 2 6; a little toned a few stains to title light dampstaining to outer margin of A1-2 but overall a very good and crisp copy.First and only edition very rare of this denunciation of the abuses of the Parliamentarian County Committees in Wales issued at the height of the Civil War.By the summer of 1647 one surviving copy is dated in manuscript ""1 July"" the war had dragged on for nearly five years. Parliament was steadily gaining the advantage largely through the network of County Committees manned with loyal supporters. These officials collected the taxes that sustained the war effort requisitioned horses and supplies for the army and carried out Parliament's decrees. Their growing power - together with the ever-heavier burden of taxation to maintain the army - provoked widespread resentment and in turn revived support for the Royalist cause.This pamphlet sets out the grievances against the Parliamentarian committees in Glamorgan South Wales and denounces their exactions and abuses. The rising it encourages was less an expression of loyalty to Charles I than a reaction to Parliament's oppressive rule. Indeed it contains no Royalist propaganda and no expressions of loyalty to Charles. Instead it reads as a near-anarchic denunciation of arbitrary power itself of its arrogance remoteness and disregard for the people.ESTC R201640 recording only five copies BL National Library of Wales Cardiff Central Library Oxford Folger. unknown
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RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR - LYNCH, George & Frederick Palmer
In Many Wars.
Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Company 1904. Signed by 39 of the 49 correspondents First edition of this remarkable collection of 49 war correspondent's tales with the signature of 39 of the correspondents on rice paper pasted beneath their submission. The idea for the book was conceived of by a group of war correspondents waiting to be sent to the front line with the Japanese Army at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1904. Each correspondent offered a short article recounting their most exciting war story to date and the entire proceeds of the final collection were donated to Teikoku Gunjin Yengokwai an organisation which provided aid to those serving in the army and navy. Amongst the correspondents whose signatures are included are William Levington Comfort William Dinwiddie William Henry Donald James H. "Jimmy" Hare Melton Prior Sydney Smith and Jack London. Writing at the time for the Hearst Press Jack London contributed "A Camera and a Journey" p. 123 which was also published the same year in the San Francisco Examiner under the title: "How Jack London Got in and out of jail in Japan". In the article London recounts his misadventure taking snapshots in Moji which led to his arrest for unauthorized photography a 5 yen fine and the subsequent confiscation of his camera. Octavo. Frontispiece and six plates. Original silk covered card wrappers with white silk cord ties titles to front cover in gilt large illustration printed to silk to front cover blue coated endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at spine ends small tear to cloth at join of spine and rear cover cloth lightly soiled dampstain to rear cover and endpaper front cover illustration and gilt crisp and fresh; an exceptionally bright copy of this fragile production. BAL 11883; Anne Nishimura Morse A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery 2005. hardcover
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SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR - ESPOSITO, Vincent J, Brigadier-General (ed).
The West Point Atlas of American Wars.
New York: Frederick A. Praeger 1964. A remarkable copy of this classic work first published in 1959. Inscribed on the front free endpaper; "To His Royal Highness Prince Brigadier Abdul Wali on the occasion of your visit to The United States Military Academy D. V. Bennett Major General USA 11 March 1968". The set was presented as a memento to the Sandhurst-trained deputy commander of the Afghan army also the son-in-law of King Zahir Shah on his visit to North America in 1968-9 and subsequently liberated by a Russian soldier as a souvenir of the "Russian invasion of"/"intervention in" Afghanistan in 1979 with his inscription beneath; "Found on entry to the army headquarters by Chief Lieutenant Breusenko Kabul December 1979 our translation". An evocative vestige from this endlessly troubled region during the period often referred to as the Soviet Union's Vietnam War. 2 vols landscape folio. Text printed in blue numerous maps in grey with dispositions in red and blue. Original grey buckram-backed black cloth boards title in gilt on false black spine labels and debossed to front boards together with the West Point arms embossed in gilt. A little rubbed spine panels flaked to the point of illegibility front endpapers a little soiled the text-block of the second volume burst at the bottom edge and the boards split by the penetration of a stray round overall in sound "relic" condition. hardcover
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Edited By Michael Snape and Edward Madigan
The Clergy in Khaki: New Perspectives on British Army Chaplaincy in the First World War Ashgate Studies in First World War History
Farnham: Ashgate 2013. First Edition. Cloth. Like New/Like New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book Ashgate hardcover
Référence libraire : 053679 ISBN : 1409430006 9781409430001
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[NEW LEFT] [VIETNAM WAR] [MCGOVERN, George]
Broadside: "6 Million Victims. The Children of Vietnam: Based on Hospital Records One-Fourth of the Wounded Civilians in South Vietnam are Children Under 12
N.p.: S.i. 1972. Original photographic broadside offset printed in black on white stock measuring 21.5cm x 35.5cm. Mild handling and scattered dust-soil with a few faint creases and short tears to extremities; Very Good. Anti-war broadside drawing attention to the attrocities perpetrated on Vietnamese children by American servicemen during the war. Upper half reproduces a photograph of two children bloodied and bearing facial burns; the lower half features a quote by U.S. Presidential nominee George S. McGovern: "In the name of Humanity and all that is decent let us end the bombardment of Indochina: Let us bring our prisoners and troops home: Before we lose the sould of our nation." Not found in OCLC. S.i. unknown
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[WAR RESISTERS INTERNATIONAL] MUKAI, Kou
What Is Non-Violent Direct Action Wrapper Title
Osaka: War Resisters International Japan Group 1975. Oblong 12mo. Staple-bound mimeographed wrappers; 42pp. Fine. ".digest of the first part of an article entitled 'A Note on Contemporary Violence' which first appeared in Japanese in the collection Anakizumu to Gendai Anarchism and Our Times. Translation by Wat Tyler of the Libero International Editorial Collective . an English-Language magazine focussing on issues concerning anarchism in Asia also published in Osaka" from inside front cover. OCLC 2 copies Swarthmore IISH. War Resisters International Japan Group unknown
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Mexican-American War [Battle of Cerro-Gordo]
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY PUEBLA AUG. 6 1847. GENERAL ORDERS - NO. 249. SOME DISCREPANCIES NO DOUBT ACCIDENTAL EXISTING BETWEEN CERTAIN REPORTS OF SUB-COMMANDERS IN THE BATTLE OF CERRO-GORDO AND COL. RILEY ONE OF THOSE COMMANDERS CONCEIVING THAT NEGLECT OR INJURY HAS THEREBY RESULTED TO A PART OF HIS BRIGADE AS WELL AS TO HIMSELF THAT OFFICER HAS DEMANDED A COURT OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE THE WHOLE SUBJECT SO FAR AS RESPECTS ANY ALLEGED NEGLECT TO HIMSELF OR ANY PART OF THE BRIGADE
Puebla Mexico 1847. 5-1/4" x 8". 4pp. Signed in ink by H.L. Scott A.A.A.G. "By command of Major-General Scott." Disbound spine reinforced else Very Good.<br /> <br /> This is the report of the Court of Inquiry whose President was Gideon Pillow; its Recorder was Robert Anderson. The Court concludes that the "movements of Col. Riley's brigade had an important influence in the achievement of that brilliant victory that Col. Riley had an active participation in them and that his conduct and that of his command should be suitably noticed in the Official Report of his superiors. unknown
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General Staff, War Office
MILITARY ENGINEERING PART V.: MISCELLANEOUS.
London: H.M.S.O. 1914. . 8vo. pp.vi97 67 plates publisher’s red cloth gilt; label to front board a very good copy. Includes: Camps and Bivouacs Tuts Quality of Water Military Roads Boring for water etc. London: H.M.S.O., 1914. hardcover
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The War Office
CAVALRY TRAINING HORSED 1937.
London: H.M.S.O. 1937. . 12mo. pp.xiiadverts217xxxviii b/w diagrams yellow cloth-covered softback with thick card covers front cover lettered in black; light marking to cloth toning to edges of text block a very good copy. London: H.M.S.O., 1937. hardcover
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[Civil War Newspaper]
THE NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1861: "THE REBELLION. CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORTED DEATH OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. THE FLAGS OF THE REBELS FLYING AT HALF-STAFF./ INTENSE EXCITEMENT AT WASHINGTON./ A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT OF THE HOSTILE ARMIES EXPECTED./ A GREAT BATTLE PROBABLY TO-DAY./ THE UNION ARMY PREPARED FOR THE CONFLICT.
New York 1861. Elephant folio 15-3/4" x 22". 8pp. Caption title as issued printed in six columns. Disbound light wear and several short closed tears at outer margins Very Good. <br /> <br /> A Civil War illustration of wishful thinking: "Your correspondent has this moment - half-past five o'clock P.M. - received a special despatch from a reliable source dated Louisville Kentucky Sept. 5 couched in the following language which confirms the announcement of the death of Jeff. Davis first made in this correspondence on Tuesday last:- 'Positive advices received here this morning on Davis' death.' A special messenger from Fortress Monroe who arrived here to-day announces that flags have been flying at half-mast along the rebel lines for several days and information was received at the fortress that it was in consequence of the death of Jeff Davis."<br /> A source from Richmond stated that Davis had a serious illness and "little hope was entertained of his recovery." This is then followed by a biographical sketch of the provisional Vice President Alexander H. Stephens under the heading "THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY." Much other war news is printed. unknown
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WAR DEPARTMENT
REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS TO ASCERTAIN THE MOST PRACTICABLE AND ECONOMICAL ROUTE FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR IN 1853-5 ACCORDING TO ACTS OF CONGRESS OF MARCH 3 1853 MAY 31 1854 AND AUGUST 5 1854. VOLUME XII. BOOK II.
WASHINGTON: THOMAS H. FORD PRINTER 1860. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Brown blind stamped boards with black spine. Rubbed edges with spine possibly reinforced no title on cover. Original owner name in fancy cursive at front endpaper. Secure binding with nice clean pages generally light scattered foxing to moderate in places and tiny micro paint flicks at the rear board. Scarce government exploration book with some pictures in color. Second Volume "BOOK II ONLY" Large tome about 11-3/4 x 9 with 399 pp. plus LXXV plates. Illustrated. RARE! . THOMAS H. FORD, PRINTER Hardcover
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[War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production]
The Bulletin of the Airplane Engineering Department U.S.A. Volume 1 number 3 for August 1918
Dayton Ohio: Published by the War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production 1918. Folio original printed wrappers 114 pp diagrams throughout. Cover a little marked spine chipped but binding sound nonetheless; overall a very good copy. Confidential publication with registration number 2876. Published by the War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production unknown
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[War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production]
The Bulletin of the Airplane Engineering Department U.S.A. Volume 2 number 3 for December 1918
Dayton Ohio: Published by the War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production 1918. Folio original printed wrappers 156 pp. diagrams throughout; Cover a little marked spine chipped but binding sound nonetheless; a very good copy overall. Confidential publication with registration number 3729. Published by the War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production unknown
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[War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production]
The Bulletin of the Airplane Engineering Department U.S.A. Volume 1 number 2 for July 1918
Dayton Ohio: Published by the War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production 1918. Folio original printed wrappers 154 pp diagrams throughout; Cover a little marked spine chipped but binding sound nonetheless; a very good copy overall. Confidential publication with registration number 1684. Published by the War Department Bureau of Aircraft Production unknown
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Edmund Blunden
Undertones of War
London: Richard Cobden-Sanderson 1928. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with fading to spine. Two inch split to head of spine/spine edge of rear board with some rubbing. Rubbing to cloth on edge of spine/spine edge of front board. Foxing to page edges with some darkening to end papers. Richard Cobden-Sanderson hardcover
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Haskell, Barbara/ Castro, Mark A (Contributor)/ Porchini, Dafne Cruz (Contributor)/ Mello, Renato Gonzalez (Contributor)/ Guerre
Vida Americana – Mexican Muralists Remake American Art 1925–1945
Yale Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 255 pages. 12.25x10.00x1.00 inches. Yale Univ Pr hardcover
Référence libraire : __0300246692 ISBN : 0300246692 9780300246698
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[Civil War]: [Battle of Gettysburg]: [Siege of Vicksburg]
NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. SATURDAY JULY 4 1863
New York 1863. Elephant folio 8pp. Disbound and lightly worn. Each page printed in six columns. Upper blank corners of last page with remnants of old matting. Very Good. <br /> <br /> Exciting material on the "Rebel Invasion" and "The Fighting at Gettysburg" is printed with "The Rebels still Desperately Contesting" the Siege at Vicksburg. General Order No. 5 prohibiting Copperhead "Secret Societies" is also printed; as is material on "Colored Enlistments. unknown
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Johnson, Robert Underwood [Editor]; Buel, Clarence Clough [Editor];
The Opening Battles v. 1 Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
Castle BooksUS 2010-03-31. hardcover. Good/Good. 7x2x10. Type: Book Priced for the Complete Four Volume Set. Castle Books,US hardcover
Référence libraire : 059864 ISBN : 0890095698 9780890095690
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Paget, Henry, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854). British army officer and politician Cavalry officer in the Peninsula War and
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY BRITISH CAVALRY COMMANDER HENRY PAGET 1ST MARQUESS OF ANGELSEY.
February 6th 1847. 1847. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling almost 3 sides of a sheet of light gray paper folded once to form 4 sides approximately 7-1/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The letter has been mounted on a lightly larger sheet of cream-colored stiff paper. Signed "Anglesey" There are a few small ink smudges to the 2nd & 3rd sides. Very good. <p>The letter is addressed to Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Murchison and concerns a publication which Murchison is proposing and how it would be funded. "Some Estimate of the probable cost of money and of time is called for from General Colby and when it is received you shall again hear from me." The reference is probably to General Thomas Frederic Colby a leading geographer who had been director of the Ordnance Survey.<p>Henry Paget 1st Marquess of Anglesey 1768-1854 was a British army officer and politician. After serving as Member of Parliament for Carnarvon and then for Milborne Port he took part in the Flanders Campaign. During the Peninsula War he commanded the cavalry for Sir John Moore's army in Spain and at the Battle of Sahagun virtually destroyed a regiment of French cavalry. He led the charge of the heavy cavalry against Comte d'Erlon's column at the Battle of Waterloo losing part of one of his legs to a cannonball at the end of the battle. In later life he served as Master-General of Ordnance from 1846 to 1852.<p>The Scottish geologist Sir Roderick sometimes as here spelled "Rhoderick" Impey Murchison 1st Baronet 1792-1871 was the first to describe and investigate the Silurian system. During the last decade of his life he chiefly investigated the Highlands of Scotland. Murchison was one of the founders and a president of the Royal Geographical Society and served on the Royal Commission on the British Museum. In 1855 he was appointed director-general of the British Geological Survey and director of the Royal School of Mines and the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street London. February 6th, 1847. unknown
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SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR
Showa 23-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashincho :Hokushi sensen hen in Japanese: A photograph album in memory of soldiers at the front lines during the China-Japan Conflict of 1937-1938.
Tokyo: Nakatogawa Hiroyuki March 20 1938. First edition of this uncommon Japanese propaganda piece recording the opening campaigns of the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In his award-winning study of the conflict - China's War with Japan 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival 2013 - Rana Mitter Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford opens his prologue by saying "In the spring of 1939 Europe was still albeit uneasily at peace. But some seven thousand kilometres to the east the Second World War was already well under way". Just three copies on WorldCat Manchukuo collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library Stanford and Princeton. Following Japan's successes in the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-5 tensions had intensified seeming to peak with the conquest of Manchuria in 1931 and the creation of the puppet state of Manchukuo but continuing to rise steadily through the 30s. After a number of provocations in the summer of 1937. Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist forces joined with the warlords of Hunan and Szechwan provinces to fight the Japanese. Chiang believed that by attacking Japanese naval installations and troops in and around Shanghai he would force the foreign powers to ally with China to fight against Japan to protect their considerable investments in southern China. For three months the Nationalist Chinese armies held out in the face of an intense bombardment by Japan's Taiwan-based 'planes and ships on the Huangpu River but were eventually forced to retreat to Nanking under constant harrying attacks from Japanese reinforcements. The images in this "souvenir" album show the Japanese advance through Eastern and Coastal China; the build up of materiel; the destruction of Nanking; Japanese troops on the march celebrating victories; the aftermath of the destructive bombardments. Landscape quarto. Illustrated title on yellow-tinted paper 7 colour plates numerous illustrations from photographs some on tinted paper stock all leaves with tissue guards folding colour map pictorial endpapers. Original dark red textured paper-covered boards green silk ties die-cut image of the Great Wall to the front board together with title gilt to the front board. Minor edge-wear spotting to the tissue-guards overall very good indeed. See: Dorothy Perkins Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion pp. 127-135 hardcover
Référence libraire : 114232
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[OTTOMAN-MAMLUK WAR].
Omnia que gesta sunt in Oriente inter Sophi & Maximum Turcarum & Suldanum & quemadmodum dux Turcarum caepit Alepum & Damascum & Hierusalem cum omnibus circumiacentibus oppidis & quorum maximus Turcarum voluit audire unam missam apud sanctum sepulchrum Iesu Christi.
Basel: Pamphilus Gengenbach 1518. 19th-century pink wrappers. 4to. With woodcut illustration on title-page. Rare 16th-century news pamphlet on the Ottoman-Mamluk War 1516-1517. The booklet relates the events from June 1516 to July 1517 followed by an account of Sultan Selim's visit to Jerusalem. During the Ottoma-Mamluk war the Ottoman Sultan Selim I known as "the Grim" conquered Syria and defeated the Mamluk Sultan in the Battle of Ridaniya. He subsequently captured and sacked Cairo thereby placing the holy cities Mecca and Medina under Ottoman rule which marked the beginning of Ottoman power in Arabia.With two bookplates some browning otherwise in very good condition.l Göllner 115; USTC 679549; VD 16 O 738. Pamphilus Gengenbach, unknown
Référence libraire : G4TESVVUF9FD
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[SPANISH CIVIL WAR] [CNT - FIA] INTERNATIONAL WORKINGMENS ASSOCIATION
IWMA Boletin de Informacion / I.W.M.A. Bulletin of Information. Special Edition June 1 1937
Barcelona: IWMA 1937. Folio 33.5cm.; staplebound self-wrappers printed mimeograph; 14 leaves printed rectos only. Minor wear from handling light toning to extremities else Very Good and sound. Special issue of the Bulletin issued by the IMWA most likely in conjunction with the anarcho-syndicalist Civil War-era libertarian movement headed by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and the Federación Anarchista Ibérica. Contents comprised of a single article "Events in Catalonia: Developments in Antifascist Spain Since July 19th 1936. IWMA unknown
Référence libraire : 33100
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[WORLD WAR I]
The America Published on the High Seas Vol. IV nos. 1-7 June 11- 17 1919
N.p.: U.S.S. America 1919. First Edition. 7 bifolium volumes bound in one; octavos 23cm.; disbound from larger volume with paper remnants to spine; No. 1 with splitting at previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning other issues Very Good and sound overall. Exceedingly scarce periodical which first began publicatoin in March 1919 aboard the U.S.S. America captained by A.M. Procter which served as an American troop transport vessel during World War I after being seized from the Germans in 1917. 4-pp. issues were published daily during the week-long trips between the United States and Europe and included ship-board gossip and events as well national news. The first issue mentions esteemed passenger Prince Aage of Denmark 1887-1940 who had served during the War and would join the French Foreign Legion in 1922 receiving the Legion d'honneur for his seventeen years of service. Additionally includes baseball scores and advertises ship-board boxing matches for any passengers interested. OCLC locates two locations as of January 2017 at the Huntington and Emory. U.S.S. America] unknown
Référence libraire : 32468
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Illustrated London News [ First World War ]
The Illustrated London News 1915
London 1915. Book measures 16 x 11 1/2 inches. July 3rd to December 25th 1915 856 pages illustrated throughout. Bound in cloth. Cloth rubbed scuffed corners of boards worn with loss hinge joibnts split. Although the binding is worn and the top board is becoming loose it's still holding together. Internally pages are clean and bright throughout. Some of the contents of this volume. After the Days work in Flanders. German Battle-Ship '' Pommern '' in the Baltic. The Pigeon-Express. The Waste of War in Serbia's Capital. The Serbian Campaign. . Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. hardcover
Référence libraire : 097442
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WAR DEPARTMENT
TM9-1275 WAR DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL MANUAL ORDNANCE MAINTENANCE U. S. RIFLES CAL. .30
WASHINGTON: WAR DEPARTMENT 1947. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nice condition with light cover wear. About 8-1/2 x 5-1/4 with 104 pages. . WAR DEPARTMENT Paperback
Référence libraire : 111024609
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WAR OFFICE
Notes on Map Reading 1929 Reprinted with Amendments Nos. 1 to 4 1939.
1940. London His Majesty's Stationary Office 1940. 8vo. Publisher's printed wrappers; pp. 95 with 20 mostly folding plates several in colour and maps illustrations in the text; wrappers a little foxed; otherwise good; provenance: H.M Stationery Office stamp to front cover and title.Second edition of a naturally highly illustrated book made necessary by the outbreak of Word War II. It had appeared first eleven years before under the title Manual of Map Reading Photo Reading and Field Sketching. The introduction states that 'these notes will be used in connection with examinations for certificates of education' p. 3. unknown
Référence libraire : 2086881
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Foot, M R D(in association with the Imperial War Museum)
Art and War: 20th Century Warfare As Depicted by War Artists
London U.K.: Headline Books In association with The Imperial War Museum 1990. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Author's Note by M.R.D. Foot dated 2 February 1990 at London. Chapters: 1 - War Artists 2 - The Great War 1914-1918 3 - The War against the Axis 1939-1945 4 - Aftermath. 212 pp. plus: Acknowledgements Notes List of Colour Illustrations List of Black and White Illustrations Index. Grey cloth covered boards have as-new gilt text on spine glossy paper textblock. Spine ends show wear slight foxing. Unclipped L 25.00 net in UK only DJ has edge wear at spine ends. Heavy book may occasion extra shipping costs unless shipped within Canada in a flat-rate box. Bookseller's Inventory # 231922. <br/> <br/> Headline Books (In association with The Imperial War Museum) hardcover
Référence libraire : 001922 ISBN : 0747202869 9780747202868
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War Office August 1914 General Staff
FIELD SERVICE POCKET BOOK 1914 Reprinted with Amendments 1916.
The Naval & Military Press pp. 352 . Hardback. New. The Naval & Military Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 6103235713 ISBN : 1847342590 9781847342591
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Office April 1941 War Office April 1941
Notes on German Preparations for the Invasion of the United Kingdom
The Naval & Military Press pp. 240 . Hardback. New. The Naval & Military Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 6103907443 ISBN : 1847343767 9781847343765
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War Office 10August 1914 General Staff
INFANTRY TRAINING 4 - COMPANY ORGANIZATION 1914
The Naval & Military Press pp. 320 . Hardback. New. The Naval & Military Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 6104074690 ISBN : 1847343600 9781847343604
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SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR
Ammunition Manufacturing Report No. 23. Construction Progress
First Report.
Nanping Manchukuo: Kwantung Army Showa 13 January-October 1938. An historically significant and fascinating album chronicling the progress of the construction of factories at Ningpo near Fuzhou for the manufacture mixing drying and separation of smokeless yellow and brown gunpowder for the Imperial Japanese Kwantung Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Following their stunning victory in the Russo-Japanese War Japan obtained control of the Kwantung Leased Area in the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria which was occupied by the Kwantung Garrison in 1919 the Kwantung Army. A hotbed of the aggressive expansionist nationalist Imperial Way Faction the Kwantung Army was implicated in a number of attempted coup d'états in Japan and the manipulation of events in Manchuria culminating in the Mukden Incident and invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Presented with a fait accompli on this scale the Japanese Government had little choice but to back up the KA providing reinforcements for the Pacification of Manchuria resulting in the creation of the Japanese province of Manchukuo under the puppet emperor Puyi but in fact ruled over by the local army commander. As over 150000 Japanese settlers surged into Manchuria during the 1930s the Kwantung Army expanded its sphere of operations and by the time of World War II would constitute a force of close to a million and a half men. This remarkable album documents Japanese efforts immensely to increase their munitions production for the Sino-Japanese War 1937-45. The project documented here was a vital part of the second five-year plan drawing on the vast mineral resources of the region. The photographs are without exception clear and sharp evidently the work of a trained photographer who has shot the various buildings from different directions angles and heights - employing the water-tower to offer an over-view - and has carefully docketed captioned and mounted the images in the album in such ways as to produce a comprehensive view of development across the site over time a sort of improvised time-lapse montage. Beginning in February 1938 the photos depict the stages of construction of the bleaching factory the powder pellet factories warehouses military barracks the drying factories fuse construction and storage facilities the mortar shell assembly area as well as the mixing factory with the powder mixing vats. The album follows the progress of the development from the pouring of the foundations through the erection of the scaffolding and the specific construction methods of the full range of brick concrete and timber buildings even down to the creation of the protective earthen berms around the facilities especially the drying factories and storage warehouses. Other parts of the facility shown are the workers' dining hall the silk bag manufacturing plant powder storage areas fire station the power substation hospital and the front gate of the main factory guarded by Japanese soldiers and a military police station. The rapid development of this installation at Ningpo is indicative of the scope of Japan's expansionist ambitions and of the efficiency of her military-industrial complex. The album represents an invaluable historical resource visually compelling heavily documented and comprehensively indexed to this pivotal point in Asian and in world history as this local conflict folded into that which was to envelop the whole globe. Landscape folio 268 x 335 mm. Tipped in at the beginning are 5 leaves of ruled ledger paper with a detailed manuscript index page numbers lettered in red followed by 30 leaves mostly of thick black card stock with a few of lighter black paper interposed with 323 mounted original silver-gelatin photos 115 x 153 mm many mounted on rice-paper hinges as sequential overlays to show the progress of construction work some of these have become detached; almost all have neatly calligraphic captions in Japanese on the page often there are inked annotations and/or date stamps in margins of images themselves or on verso of the hinge-mounted photos; 62 of the photos are mounted side by side or joined together to form double-width panoramic images. Loosely inserted schedule for the Officers for the No. 9 Buntan Division with 18 officers and 23 NCOs overseeing the construction for the Artillery also a small commemorative booklet dated 1931 for Japanese Navy with a few pencil annotations and sketchy diagrams. Contemporary black leather-grain embossed cloth album with cord-tie at spine hand lettered paper title and date label mounted on front cover. Slightly rubbed with some more significant edgewear one leaf neatly cut in half - evidently purposely to use as reference - both parts present and complete a few photos a little dog-eared some detached with occasional minor creasing but remains very good. hardcover
Référence libraire : 98082
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Guerra Lillian
Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution Redemption and Resistance 1959-1971 Envisioning Cuba
University of North Carolina Press pp. 488 Reprint edition . Papeback. New. University of North Carolina Press unknown
Référence libraire : 6133474971 ISBN : 1469618869 9781469618869
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[WW2] WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Take Care! Idle Hands Work For Hitler
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1942. Original poster offset lithographed in three colors on off-white stock measuring 51.25cm x 72.5cm 20.25" x 28.5". Professionally linen-backed with old fold lines faintly visible; a bright Fine example. War Production Board WPB poster depicting the black and white image of a male industrial worker his injured left arm hanging in a sling. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor industry in the U.S. rapidly transformed into maximum war production. The WPB established in January 1942 was created with the mission to procure materials and direct war production during WWII. The current poster is one of numerous examples used to spur American workers towards maximum production during wartime. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown
Référence libraire : 25213
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Office August 19 War Office August 1943
New Notes on the German Army. No.1 Armoured and Motorized Divisions. No.2 Chemical Warfare and Smoke No.3 Engineers.
The Naval & Military Press pp. 124 . Hardback. New. The Naval & Military Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 6103235741 ISBN : 1847342574 9781847342577
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Office June 1924 War Office June 1924
Small Arms Training 1924 Volume 1
The Naval & Military Press pp. 452 . Hardback. New. The Naval & Military Press hardcover
Référence libraire : 6102486585 ISBN : 1847343597 9781847343598
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