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THIRD ANGLO-MARATHA WAR
Lettered on spine: Mahratta Booty: Papers & Proceedings on behalf of Army of Deccan.
London: Printed by Thomas Davison c.1826. Dividing the spoils of the Maratha Empire A remarkable sammelband of 12 exceptionally rare papers documenting the financial aftermath of the Third Anglo-Maratha War 1817-19 focused on Pune Nagpur and Mahidpur and on the campaigns against Baji Rao II and Bhima Bai Holkar. Only eight of the twelve items are institutionally recorded each by a single copy at the British Library or National Library of Scotland. Together they constitute an unusually full record of the disputes that followed Sir Thomas Hislop's Deccan campaign including the controversies surrounding his conduct at Talnar and the long bitter wrangle over the "Deccan Prize". The papers offer a detailed narrative of operations official correspondence on the suppression or disclosure of reports formal statements of service by the divisions engaged and extensive memorials and claims submitted by Hislop and his officers. Running through them is a sustained argument over entitlement: whether booty seized at Pune Nagpur and Mahidpur belonged to the forces directly engaged under Hislop or must be shared with the more distant but formally "co-operating" Bengal Army under Lord Hastings. Viewed collectively the papers illuminate both the scale of the spoils and the legalism of their distribution. Several documents analyse the enormous sums involved from the c. £200000 formally recognised as prize to the far larger amounts in treasure and arrears appropriated by the Company's government including the celebrated hauls at Nagpur Nashik Belgaum and from arrears due to the Peshwa - figures running into millions of pounds. Others reconstruct the fighting strength movements and actions of the Deccan Army providing granular detail on its pursuit of the Peshwa the capture of his forts and the Reserve Division's decisive role in the operations against Holkar. Hislop's own long memorial to the Treasury closes the group setting out his defence and the claims of his officers in the face of adverse public scrutiny and protracted litigation. These documents are unusually revealing of East India Company warfare at the moment when the Maratha confederacy collapsed. They expose the transactional reality of campaigning - the expectation of plunder the complex distinction between "prize" and "pillage" and the intense competition between presidencies for the proceeds. They also underscore why Indian service remained attractive: opportunities for promotion were rapid conditions often lethal and the prospect of prize money a powerful incentive. Provenance: ownership inscriptions of William Rothery 1775-1864 one dated June 1833 probably the Treasury's legal adviser on slave-trade matters and later a witness before the 1864 Royal Commission on Army Prize. The volume is numbered "Vol. 3" evidently once part of a larger set now dispersed. A full list of the contents is available on request. Quarto 254 x 203 mm. Contemporary dark blue diced calf spine with four low raised bands gilt decorated and lettered direct covers with blind anthemion frame gilt edge roll Spanish on Italian pattern marbled endpapers. Binding professionally refurbished and presenting handsomely a number of papers with light vertical fold internally very good. Richard H. Davis Lives of Indian Images 1999; Rosie Llewellyn-Jones The Great Uprising in India 1857-58: Untold Stories Indian and British 2007; Carolyn Steedman The Radical Soldier's Tale: John Pearman 1819-1908 2016. hardcover
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[Vietnam War] McJUNKIN, James N [with] Crace, Max D
Visions of Vietnam
Novato CA: Presidio Press 1983. First Edition. 4to. 28.5cm x 22cm. Publisher's original black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine strong and handsome in a clean bright dustjacket. A near fine copy. Internally clean. A collection of large format sketches and photographs by Crace and McJunkin depicting among other things the often jarring contrast between daily life and military duty in Vietnam during the war. Presidio Press unknown
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[PACIFISM - VIETNAM WAR] PICASSO, Pablo (artist)
March Against Death - March on Washington Nov 13-15 1969
Washington DC: New Mobilization Committee 1969. First Edition. Original illustrated poster offset printed in red and black on white stock measuring 38cm x 59cm ca 15" x 23". Mild handling a few vertical creases smoothed out with a handful of small closed tears to the margins; unbacked; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Poster issued in advance of the New Mobe's November 1969 March on Washington with the illustration printed by permission of the artist. New Mobilization Committee unknown
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Guerra, Sandra
The Black Box of Governance: Boards of Directors Revealed by Those Who Inhabit Them
Routledge 2021. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 9.01x5.98x0.59 inches. Routledge paperback
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : x-1032052244 ISBN : 1032052244 9781032052243
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[BLACK PANTHER PARTY] [YOUTH AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM]
Broadside: Fight the Government Attempt to Destroy the Black Panther Party . Mass Protest Rally Union Sq. Saturday December 13 2p.m.
New York: Youth Against War and Fascism 1970. First Edition. Original broadside with text mimeographed in black on light blue stock measuring 21.5cm x 27.75cm 8.5" x 11". A few old folds smoothed out subtle toning to lower corners; Near Fine. Youth Against War & Fascism YAWF was the youth arm of the Trotskyist Workers World Party dedicated to raising awareness for the plight of political prisoners held across the U.S. Here they draw attention to the government's attempt to destroy the Black Panther Party citing the murder of Fred Hampton 300 members of the LAPD laying seige to Panther headquarters 28 Panthers murdered by police and the ongoing trial of the Panther 21. They call for a mass protest rally in Union Square on Saturday December 13 1970 with the promise of prominent speakers from Black Liberation trade union and anti-war groups. Youth Against War and Fascism unknown
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[CIVIL WAR] DAVIS, William WH W H
The Campaign of 1861 in the Shenandoah Valley. A Paper read before the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States May 5 1893
Doylestown PA: Doylestown Publishing Company 1893. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet sewn. Printed laid-paper wrappers; 18;7pp. Wraps present but chipped with losses at margins not affecting printed text; mild soil and creasing; a complete sound and Good copy. <br /> <br /> A defense by one of his field officers of Major-General Robert Patterson who had been heavily criticized for his failure to engage Confederate forces prior to the disastrous Battle of Bull Run. Following the text of Davis' address are seven further pages of testimonials to the character of Gen. Patterson from Col. George W. Cullum; W.T. Sherman; Winfield Scott Hancock and George G. Meade. William Watts Hart Davis 1820-1910 achieved the rank of Colonel in the Pennsylvania Volunteers; according to Nevins he had "entered the Civil War with the intention of writing his unit's history" which he did publishing the generally praiseworthy History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment in 1866. The current work though present in institutional collections appears to be historically scarce in commerce; not noted at auction; not in Nevins or Dornbusch and not noted by Broadfoot. Doylestown Publishing Company unknown
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[SONG SHEETS - CIVIL WAR]
The Battle of Cedar Creek October 19th 1864
Philadelphia: J. Magee 1864. First Edition. Octavo lettersheet ca 8" x 5"; bifolium; printed in blue and red on white coated stock on top page only. Fine. <br /> <br /> A patriotic song in thirteen stanzas celebrating Sheridan's victory over Jubal Early's Confederate troops at Cedar Creek in the northern Shenandoah Valley in late 1864. This was one of the decisive battles of the War and it is described colorfully here. Though no music is included the chorus repeated with variations throughout the song - "Get out of the way says Phil to Early / You've come too late to get the Valley" etc - suggests it was meant to be sung to the popular minstrel tune "Ole Dan Tucker. J. Magee unknown
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PENINSULAR WAR - BINGHAM, Sir George Ridout
A detailed and important epistolary account of the Peninsular War between April 1809 and March 1810.
1820-21. Vibrant immediate and honest An outstanding series of 37 vivid candid letters by Major-General Sir George Ridout Bingham 1777-1833 transcribed by him from his original correspondence home and spanning April 1809 to January 1814 including the campaign of Talavera. They constitute a major primary source for campaigning in the Peninsula. In a reflective foreword written at Dean's Leaze in 1820-21 Bingham explains that he found his mother's preserved cache of letters on his return to England and copied them out verbatim omitting only personal matters. He stresses that he made no revisions leaving his early impressions misjudged predictions and evolving opinions intact and notes the gradual growth of his confidence in Wellington. An index closes the volume. A letter of 29 July 1809 from the field near Talavera captures the collection's immediacy: Bingham reports the ferocity of the action the heavy British casualties borne without Spanish support the army's acute want of provisions the deaths and wounds among senior officers his own collapse from exhaustion and the Spaniards' killing of wounded Frenchmen. Such unvarnished observations typify the set. The foreword and letters are printed in Gareth Glover's Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler 2005. Glover notes that all surviving transcripts - including those at the National Army Museum typescript copies presented to the United Services Institute in 1923 - derive from lost originals. He characterizes the letters as frank immediate and rich in operational detail free from retrospective shaping and attentive to landscape people officers daily routines and the brutal conduct of war. Bingham from a long-established Dorset family rose rapidly: ensign in the 69th 1793 major in the 82nd 1801 and in 1805 lieutenant-colonel of the newly raised 2/53rd. He led the battalion throughout its distinguished Peninsula service Porto to Burgos later commanding a provisional battalion through Vitoria the Pyrenees and the Nivelle. Decorated with the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword and made KCB he escorted Napoleon to St Helena and commanded there until 1819 later serving on the Irish staff during a turbulent period. He was widely regarded as a considerate and able officer. Provenance: pencilled ownership of Col. John Delalynde Mansel 1850-1915 Rifle Brigade whose grandfather Lieut.-Col. John Mansel served as Bingham's second-in-command in the Peninsula. Subsequent family marriages united the Mansel Bingham and Pleydell lines. Small quarto 230 x 185 mm. Contemporary red half roan smooth spine divided by seven pairs of gilt fillets gilt lettered "MSS. Letters from the Peninsula" sides and corners trimmed with paired gilt fillets red paper sides. 163 pages running to about 32000 words written in a neat hand. Binding professionally refurbished slight cockling to first few leaves otherwise clean and presenting smartly. Gareth Glover Wellington's Lieutenant Napoleon's Gaoler: The Peninsula Letters & St Helena Diaries of Sir George Ridout Bingham 2005; T. H. McGuffie ed. "The Bingham Manuscripts: 2nd/53rd in the Peninsular War 1809-10 and 1812-13" JSAHR Vol. 26 No 107 Autumn 1948. unknown
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War Staff Admiralty
GERMAN RIGID AIRSHIPS
Naval & Military Press Ltd 2009. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 11.65x8.27x0.87 inches. Naval & Military Press Ltd paperback
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[South Carolina] [Civil War] Sears, Jos H
The New South. Vol. 2. No. 32. Port Royal S.C. Saturday April 16 1864. Whole No. 84
Port Royal S.C.: Jos. H. Sears 1864. First edition. Self wrappers. About very good copy loss of a few words at a small hole caused by an abrasion wax seal owners name and small tear on top margin. 4 pp. Folio. 13 x 9 1/2 inches. Articles on the New Banking System; Fort Pulaski; Lists of Prisoners; Affairs in Florida; Excitement about Torpedoes; advertisements.<br /> <br /> As Chronicling America Library of Congress & University of South Carolina note:<br /> "The Port Royal New South 1862-67 holds the distinction of being one of the first occupation newspapers published in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Unlike many of its successors however the New South not only outlasted the war but served as a witness to the political and social changes transforming Beaufort County South Carolina in its aftermath.<br /> <br /> Union Army postmaster Joseph Henry Sears launched the New South on March 15 1862. Recognizing the historical importance of his endeavor he remarked "Not often has a newspaper occupied so singular a position as that filled to-day . Issued in a military command addressed mostly to soldiers at the seat of war its audience is yet not purely military." Within two weeks' time Sears was forced to suspend publication as a concession to the supply needs of Union Army troops under the command of General David Hunter. The New South returned on August 23 1862 and it remained a reliable news source for the duration of the war. Newspapers as far-flung as the Daily Evansville Indiana Journal Daily Green Mountain Freeman Montpelier Vermont and Brownville Nebraska Advertiser picked up and carried its reports on the whereabouts of military companies and ships. By September 1863 circulation rates for the New South approached 10000 copies.<br /> <br /> Several of the men who worked for the New South went on to distinguished careers. In addition to serving as editor Union Army General Adam Badeau also served on General William T. Sherman's staff. He later published a number of historical works including Military History of Ulysses S. Grant 1881 and Grant in Peace 1887. Badeau's successor Henry Jacob Winser went on to serve as United States Consul General at the Court of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 1869-81 chief of the information bureau of the Northern Pacific Railway Company assistant editor for the New-York Commercial Advertiser and managing editor for the Newark New Jersey Daily Advertiser.<br /> <br /> The details on the final days of the New South are scarce and contradictory due to gaps in the newspaper record. The newspaper apparently changed hands sometime in 1865 the same year it was moved from Port Royal to Beaufort. As late as August 1866 the Charleston South Carolina Daily News named Joseph Sears as an agent for the New South but the few surviving issues from that period only identify Lewis Thompson the former publisher for the Anti-Slavery Society of Philadelphia as proprietor. Contemporary scholarly sources have since surmised that the New South ceased in 1866 but an account of a destructive fire in Beaufort appearing in the Columbia South Carolina Daily Phoenix on March 9 1867 indicates the New South was still a viable concern. The latest issue known to exist is dated September 29 1866." Jos. H. Sears unknown
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] YOUTH AGAINST WAR & FASCISM
Broadside: What is needed in New Haven: A call for a People's Assembly to free the Panthers - NOW! SEIZE THE TIME
New York: Youth Against War & Fascism 1970. Original broadside with text and illustration offset printed in black on newsprint measuring 42cm x 58cm 16.5" x 22.75". Light toning two old folds smoothed out with several tiny nicks tears and attendant creases to extremities and a thin partial split at the intersection of the center folds; Very Good. Pictorial broadside in support of the New Haven Panthers calling for a People's Assembly to occupy the city of New Haven for "as long as it takes" and do whatever is necessary to free the Panthers. "What is needed in order to insure that we do not witness another protest followed by an execution - as in the cases of Sacco-Vanzetti the Rosenbergs et al. - is for the movement to immediately establish in New Haven a center which would become a magnet to draw thousands upon thousands of people from all over the country. By their overwhelming presence they could exert great power and influence in New Haven to see that this outrageous frameup is ended - NOW!" Issued May 1 1970 as an insert in The Partisan by Youth Against War & Fascism the youth arm of the Trotskyist Workers World Party. We do not locate any separately catalogued examples in OCLC though we do note copies held by Harvard and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Youth Against War & Fascism unknown
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(The Secretary of War).
Reports on The Control of Floods in the Rivers Systems of The Sacramento Valley and The Adjacent San Joaquin Valley Cal. Flood Control - Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems California.
Washington.: Government Printing Office. 1911. First edition. . Soft cover. . Very good copy light shelf wear extensive notes on preliminary pages. 4to. 10 large folding maps. Scarce. Government Printing Office. paperback
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[MARIPOSA INDIAN WAR] BUNNELL, Lafayette Houghton
Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 Inscribed
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell 1880. Second Edition slightly expanded and with 12 pages of advertisements added. Inscribed "To Capt. John Whytock from his comrade The Author" on front flyleaf. Octavo 20cm. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; grey and white patterned endpapers; 349148pp; 12pp publisher's advertisements at rear; black and white illustrations. Inscribed "To Capt. John Whytock from his comrade The Author" on front flyleaf. Ownership stamps of A. Taylor Smith to front endleaves. A straight copy with minor edgewear rough repair to cloth over upper spine front and rear endpapers thinly crcked at gutter but holding; mild toning: Good and sound.<br /> <br /> Bunnell 1824-1903 was a member of the Mariposa Battalion famous as the first non-indigenous group to enter Yosemite Valley where they burned Native American villages and forcibly relocated the inhabitants. Bunnell's book describes the discovery of an iconic American landmark and one episode in what is sometimes called the California genocide. This copy is inscribed by Bunnell to a fellow soldier. HOWES B954. 63938. Fleming H. Revell unknown
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WAR TIME -
Men Only. A Man's Magazine 16 Issues.
London C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Blue Active Media Ltd Between 1939 - 1945. Original publisher's sewn paperback pictorial frontcover advertisement backcover 12mo: rach volume ca. 150 pages with illustrations - articles - illustrated advertisements. Fine copies. Volumes Men Only: 49 - 50 - 51 - 52 - 53 - 61 - 73 - 78 - 84 - 86 - 87 - 88 - 101 - 103 - 109 - 111. London, [C. Arthur Pearson Ltd]. Blue Active Media Ltd Between 1939 - 1945 paperback
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[VIETNAM WAR] CALDWELL, Lucy
SIN One Way Economy Class
Princeton: For The Author 1976. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's photographic card covers titled in black to spine very light wear and some slight soiling to the white rear panel a clean bright copy. 164pp. Internally clean inscribed by the author to the half title:<br /> "With all good wishes Lucy Caldwell Princeton New Jersey."<br /> The privately printed autobiographical account of Lucy Caldwell's remarkable journey to Vietnam at the height of the war to help wounded servicemen after seeing anti-military propaganda. An astonishing effort for a civilian with no military experience and one with more than its share of challenges; Caldwell's attendance upon wounded GI's was accompanied by a cloud of Shalimar perfume; which the soldiers even the ones who couldn't see quickly figured out meant that they weren't doing so well prompting one man she was attempting to comfort to groan: "Oh no I can smell her. I'm not that bad. I'm going to make it. For The Author unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] MARTIN, Ron
To Be Free!
New York: Vanguard Press 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine clean and bright in an equally bright pictorial dustjacket. A fine copy. 250pp. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf:<br /> "To Phyllis Oct 21st 1986 Ron Martin"<br /> A pretty taut and skilful novel of a soldier determined to escape from the horrors of a VC prison camp written by a marine who served in South East Asia as a direct response to the negative treatment delivered to returning US military personnel. Rather more complex than the general run of novels on this theme dealing heavily with the trauma and psychological damage caused not only by incarceration but by a hostile alienating homecoming. Vanguard Press unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] SUDDICK, Tom
Samisdat Vol IV No. 1: A Few Good Men
Berkeley CA: Samisdat Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's pale green wraps titled and decorated in black to spine and front board with a reproduction of the author's USMC telegram notifying his parents of him taking a shrapnel wound to the stomach to the rear wrap. A touch of fading here and there with soome very light shelfwear but a very good strong copy. 116pp. Internally clean. Signed by the author to the title page. One peculiarity is that the final leaf of the story "Diehard" has been typed manually and added to the volume at the rear where a printed leaf would belong with no sign of an "original" leaf being missing. Whether this was a later fix from a previous owner or something done in house due to a binding error is difficult to establish especially with "homemade" publishing. This is the first appearance of "A Few Good Men" a series of short vicious little war stories that are amongst the clearest invocations of the prevalent lunacy present in the canon. It was eventually reprinted in a book form in 1978 by Morrow/Avon this first appearance seems elusive especially signed. Samisdat Press unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] MOORE, Gene D
The Killing at Ngo Tho
New York: W.W. Norton & Co 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm. x 15cm. Publisher's green cloth spine over black paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in red and black to spine light rubbing and edgewear some inoffensive discoloration to the cloth in a strong priceclipped example of the dustjacket light shelfwear and creasing with some sunning to the spine panel. A very good strong copy. Internally clean fore-edge untrimmed. <br /> <br /> An early novel about Vietnam; written by a serving soldier dealing with the conflict that exists between decisive military action and the common civilian understanding of what that entails and the nature of its consequences. W.W. Norton & Co unknown
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[CIVIL WAR SONGSHEET] [WINNER, Septimus]
Give Us Back Our Old Commander
Philadelphia: Wm. A. Stephens n.d. c.1862. Sonsheet or lettersheet; bifolium 9" x 5-1/2" overprinted on ruled paper top page only. Hand-colored engraved portrait of Gen. George B. McLellan beside his horse above title; text in five stanzas below. Advertisement at lower margin for "Stephens' Colored Album Drolleries.photographs illustrated army ballads and envelopes." Old folds; creased at upper and lower margins with some soil and toning; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Songsheet promoting General George B. McLellan's return to command in 1862. Following his perceived tactical errors in the Seven Days Battles and the Battle of Antietam in 1862 McLellan was relieved of his command as General-in-Chief of the Union exacerbating the already strong mutual antipathy between himself and Abraham Lincoln; despite popular appeals for his reinstatement and despite being as this song argues "a perfect man" he never held another field command during the Civil War. In an effort to unseat his now bitter rival McLellan ran as a Democrat for the presidency in 1864 but lost in a landslide winning only 21 electoral votes. This song was originally composed by Septimus Winner and published as sheet music under his own imprint in 1862. Wolf notes thirteen variations on this sheet some with slightly different titles from at least six different publishers. Wolf American Song Sheets 754l. Wm. A. Stephens unknown
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[VIETNAM WAR] KOLPACOFF, Victor
The Prisoners of Quai Dong
New York: New American Library 1967. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in silver gilt to spine clean and sharp in a strong and bright example of the dustjacket slight scuffing and edgewear. A near fine copy. 214pp. Internally clean. Highly controversial upon its publication and asking a number of questions that its 1967 readers clearly weren't comfortable discovering the answers to Kolpacoff's novel deals with a nightmarish situation in which a disgraced US soldier's refusal to fight lands him in a brutal prison camp. He is offered reinstatement if he participates in the interrogation and torture of a 17 year old Vietcong prisoner in a claustrophobic jungle hut with four other men all of whom possess varying reasons and motivations for being there but who are all simply through association equally damned. Kolpacoff was never in Vietnam which seems immaterial to the main question posed by this his first novel; it is not so much what we are doing to our enemies but what are we doing to ourselves New American Library unknown
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The War Office
Manual of Map Reading Photo Reading and Field Sketching 1929
Melbourne: Modern Printing 1939. Ocatvo red cloth hardcover 160 pp. illustrated with detailed diagrams throughout. Some rubbing of hardcover and external foxing otherwise a fine copy. A reprint with amendments. This manual provides detailed field sketches and map reading instruction for candidates in the RAF in the 1920s-30s. Modern Printing unknown
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AFRICA - ANGLO-ZULU WAR
Confidential Notes regarding Zulu Headmen.
Pietermaritzburg: Printed by P. Davis & Sons 1879. Detailed intelligence issued shortly before Isandlwana First and only edition unrecorded institutionally this the only copy known. "This small pamphlet contains considerable detail on its subject: 'Compiled from information obtained from the most reliable sources and published by direction of the Lieut.-General Commanding Lord Chelmsford for the information of those under his command'" Raugh. The brief but informative notes are followed by a tabulation of the headmen detailing their father age regiment tribe principal residence and finally remarks expanding on the notes as to the number of men they command their relationships to Cetewayo and status within the Zulu political and military structure. Provenance: Pencilled inscription to the front panel of the wrappers of "Major Grenfell Deputy Assistant Adjutant General 14.1.79" this was Francis Wallace Grenfell 1841-1925 60th Rifles later field-marshal lord Grenfell and commander at Suakin and Toski in the Mahdist War. Grenfell had gone out to South Africa in 1874 and was aide-de-camp to Sir Arthur Cunnynghame commander-in-chief; he saw action at Quntana in the Xhosa War of 1878 and in the Anglo-Zulu War at Ulundi having witnessed the aftermath of the debacle at Isandlwana remarking that "officers and men behaved splendidly - dying back to back - and at the last rallying round the colours not a man of the regulars attempted to escape till all was lost" Emery p. 106. Part of lot 421 Quentin Keynes Sale Christie's 8 April 2004. Octavo pp. 6; 4 double-page tables on 5 leaves. Sewn in original printed pink paper wrappers. Some "service wear" wrappers soiled and rubbed mildly damp cockled back panel with vertical crease where once folded back and consequent soiling to the last blank page contents with pale toning and lightly rippled at the edges from atmospheric damp overall very good. Raugh 575. Frank Emery The Red Soldier: Letters from the Zulu War 1879 1977. unknown
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[CIVIL WAR] [MAPS] SCHEDLER, J
The Seat of War: Birds Eye View of Virginia Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia
New York: W. Schaus; printed by Sarony Major & Knapp 1861. Second Edition. 59 x 76cm open. 19.5x19cm closed. Tinted lithographic map backed in brown silk in black slipcase with printed paper label. Bookseller's ticket of Rev. A. O. Brickman Baltimore. Two ownership inscriptions of "J. M. Deems Maj. 1st MD Cav" and inscribed "Deems" on the slipcase. Trimmed; splits along half of one horizontal fold; minor stains and discoloration to verso not affecting image which is bright and generally Very Good. Hand-made slipcase worn with portion cut out but with manuscript ownership label intact. <br /> <br /> Uncommon Civil War map used by a distinguished Union Army officer. James Monroe Deems 1818-1901 was a composer and music educator from Baltimore who secured a commission as a major in 1861. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in spring 1863; led the First Maryland Cavalry during the Battle of Gettysburg; retired due to rheumatism in November 1863; and was brevetted Brigadier General in 1867. He likely acquired this map in Baltimore near the beginning of his military career and certainly before his promotion in 1863 given the use of "Maj." in his ownership inscriptions. <br /> <br /> The map itself is the second edition of this design by J. Schedler despite the title it is not a bird's-eye view. The more common first edition has two insets showing the Lower Mississippi Valley and the city of Richmond see Stephenson 17.3. This version has only one inset showing the eastern United States. Stephenson describes this edition as having a Washington DC bookseller's ticket; the present copy has a Baltimore bookseller's ticket instead. <br /> <br /> This copy was mounted for use in the field: it was trimmed down to the neatline the captions removed the image cut up into segments and mounted on linen. The printed label on the slipcase appears to be a portion of the original title. This may have been done by the bookseller Brickman possibly at Deems' request. <br /> <br /> Uncommon. OCLC records about 10 similarly titled maps but few listings distinguish between the first and second editions. STEPHENSON LC Civil War Maps 2nd ed 17.35. 61812. [W. Schaus; printed by Sarony, Major & Knapp] unknown
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[Civil War]
THE HERCULES OF THE UNION SLAYING THE GREAT DRAGON OF SECESSION
New York: Currier & Ives 1861. Lithograph 12" x 17". Light lower margin wear. This imprint does not have "General Scott" directly beneath the picture and preceding the caption as an almost identical version does. Very Good.<br /> <br /> "A tribute to commander of the Union forces Gen. Winfield Scott shown as the mythical Hercules slaying the many-headed dragon or hydra here symbolizing the secession of the Confederate states. At left stands Scott wielding a great club 'Liberty and Union' about to strike the beast. The hydra has seven heads each representing a prominent Southern leader. The neck of each Southerner depicted is labeled with a vice or crime associated with him" Reilly. <br /> The Southerners are Toombs Stephens Davis Beauregard Twiggs Pickens and Floyd labeled variously as Hatred and Blasphemy Lying Piracy Perjury Treason Extortion Robbery. <br /> This is the variant noted by Weitenkampf omitting the name of Scott in the title.<br /> Reilly 1861-35. Weitenkampf 131. OCLC 191119921 2- Peabody Essex Boston Athenaeum as of November 2023. Not at the AAS online site. Currier & Ives? unknown
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[Civil War]
SONG. MUNSON'S HILL! AIR - "CALL ME PET NAMES.
np 186-. Broadside 4-5/8" x 10-1/4." Woodcut of hunter with dog at head of title. Text and illustration within an ornamental border. Light extremity wear mild discoloration printed on thin paper with prior mounting remnants. Good.<br /> <br /> "Oh call us hard names call us mere tools / In the hands of the North to be made such fools / To watch night and day with fear and fright / At a heap of old sand banks mounted with pipe!" <br /> The song mocks McClellan and his Union troops for succumbing to Confederate trickery: "Those ponderous cannon shining and bright / Turned out to be pieces of old stove pipe!" Wikipedia says northerners exasperated with McClellan's performance wrote several bitterly satiric tunes about the incident.<br /> Wolf C115 and 1491. Rudolph 181. OCLC 32248473 4- NYHS Brown Wake Forest U VA as of December 2023. unknown
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Gary Sheffield
The Great War Remembered
London: Seven Oaks 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. 12x11x2. pristine in pristine case. Containing 30 facsimile documents and DVD. Seven Oaks hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 722977 ISBN : 1781771677 9781781771679
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Winston S Churchill
Great Contemporaries
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited 1937. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. Good/No D/J. 8vo - over 7 - 9" tall. Very slight fading to spine. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Some spotting to page edges. Thornton Butterworth Limited hardcover
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[War of 1812]
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTING A REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE PREPARED IN OBEDIENCE TO A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 4TH INST. IN RELATION TO THE TRANSACTIONS AT DARTMOOR PRISON IN THE MONTH OF APRIL LAST. .
Washington: Printed by William A. Davis 1816. 184pp disbound and uniformly toned. Good. Folding table. <br /> <br /> Report on a most "unfortunate event" as all parties call it the "melancholy occasion" in which British troops fired upon unarmed American prisoners of war at Dartmoor prison in April 1815. Investigations of the occurrence as well as a list of the dead and wounded are included in this Message. <br /> AI 39554 6. Printed by William A. Davis unknown
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[Civil War]
AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROSPECTIVE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF OUR COUNTRY AS AFFECTED BY THE WAR AND ITS DEBT
New Haven: Thomas J. Stafford Printer 1864. 13 1 blank pp. Stitched Very Good with light dusting.<br /> <br /> Citing "the vast resources of our country and the unparalleled ratio of increase both of population and property" the author concludes that of course the United States has the ability to liquidate its war debt. Suggestions of bankruptcy or repudiation are "absurd."<br /> Copperheads are guilty of making "the poor believe that they are oppressed by the Government for the benefit of the rich. What a responsibility rests upon those men who for base party ends by means of financial falsehoods are doing their utmost to evoke the spirit of the demon mob!"<br /> OCLC 887121042 1- Yale as of July 2024 one of a number of imprints apparently bound together as "Economic Tracts. No. 41." Not located in Sabin Bartlett or anywhere else. Thomas J. Stafford, Printer unknown
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[Civil War]
A DISGUSTED SECESH LEAVING DIXIE
New York: E. Anthony 501 Broadway 1862. CDV of a man in tattered worn clothes grimacing getting out of Dixie. The man is dark-skinned but considering the theme is probably Caucasian. Applied paper label on verso bears the imprint of Wm. Abbott & Co. Boston. Very Good.<br /> Not located on OCLC or online sites of AAS and Library of Congress. The item has however occasionally been offered on and at auction. E. Anthony, 501 Broadway unknown
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[Civil War]
COLLECTION OF TEN ILLUSTRATED PATRIOTIC POSTAL COVERS
vp 1865. Ten unused covers all oblong 3-1/8" x 5-1/2." Very Good plus one with minor wear. <br /> <br /> 1. "E PLURIBUS UNUM. THE UNION MUST AND SHALL BE PRESERVED." An eagle and shield over several uniformed soldiers standing with bayoneted rifles holding a banner above their heads. New York: Charles Magnus. Weiss M-T-38 variation with violet ink.<br /> 2. "The 'Key' to the Southern Rebellion." A soldier sits in front of a keg of whiskey with rifle in hand and head hanging with a pipe dangling from his mouth. S.C. Upham 310 Chestnut St. Printed in violet ink. Weiss C-P-T-23.<br /> 3. "Secession is nearly played out so I will go back to my H----hole" A devil with cloven feet and wearing a jester-like outfit marches with a pitchfork. New York: Union Envelope. Printed with black ink. Weiss C-D-39.<br /> 4. "JEFF. DAVIS' PASSPORT." A hand holds a card that reads "Mr. Jeff Davis and friends are permitted to leave the State of Virginia. WINFIELD SCOTT." Weiss C-P-J 6/6a variation black ink on white.<br /> 5. "For the flag our fathers gave O'er our children's head shall wave And their children's children's grave God for our native land." A crowd stands around a large flag. Printed in blue and red inks. New York: Union Envelope Depot. Weiss M-T-14.<br /> 6. "While the cat's away the mice will play." The U.S. Mint stands in the background while a dog with a collar reading Scott chases several rats carrying bags of money with names on their bodies including Yancy Floyd Cobb and a fourth. Weiss C-A-D-11.<br /> 7. Star of the Union Shield with no verse. Printed in red and blue inks. Weiss O-S-28.<br /> 8." The Father of His Country Left This to His Children" text in oval surrounded by flags <br /> bayonets and cannons. Printed in red and blue inks. Weiss F-T-99<br /> 9. "Uncle Sam's flying artillery; Rebels retreating." Soldier sitting atop a winged cannon with one rebel on a horse and another in a horse pulled wagon. Printed in red ink. Weiss C-A-H-54.<br /> 10. "PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO ALL THE INHABITANTS". A blue bell with the verse along its sound bow. Printed in blue ink. Magee 316 Chestnut St. Weiss O-B-4. unknown
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[PANORAMA - ITALIAN WAR 1859].
Panorama de la guerre d'Italie. Magnifique album développé formé d'une série de grandes lithographies coloriées représentant les combats et les batailles qui ont immortalisé nos soldats en Italie précédé d'un compte-rendu de cette mémorable campagne.
Pont-à-Mousson France 1863. Size of the whole when folded and closed: 22.5 x 18 cm. Élie Haguenthal colophon: Paul Toussaint Half red cloth and hand coloured lithographed paper sides. Lithographed folding panorama showing 8 different lithographed scenes captioned in and beneath the illustrations of the Italian War of 1859 from the French-Italian perspective.The 8 scenes 5 3-leaf scenes and 3 single leaf scenes are assembled to make a single long foldout as assembled with the text: 21.5 x 395 cm; image size 19 x ca. 310 cm coloured by a contemporary hand. 5 ll. of letterpress text and the lithographed folding panorama. Second known copy of a lithographic panorama of the Italian War of 1859 also known as the Second Italian War of Independence. This war was fought in the northwest Piedmont region of Italy pitting the Second French Empire and Savoy-Piedmont-Sardinia against the Austrian Empire and it proved crucial in the process of Italian unification. The text and following hand-coloured lithographs describe and depict eight stages of the war from the departure of French troops for Italy to their return some months later and highlighting several important battles including those at Magenta and Solferino. As a result the influence of the Austrian Empire in Italy was greatly reduced.The present work is extremely rare: we have located only one other copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and it moreover differs slightly from the present one.The title-page functions as the front paste-down the text and illustration of the panorama fold out from there. The text and illustration have been printed on one side of the paper. With a French inscription in pencil at the head of the first page. The binding is somewhat foxed and browned the front board is slightly cracked the red cloth around the spine is slightly faded the back hinge is weakened some occasional staining and very slight foxing throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. WorldCat 461406796 1 copy of a later ed.: Bibliothèque Nationale de France; for the publisher Haguenthal: Dictionnaire des imprimeurs-lithographes du XIXe siècle http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/imprimeurs/node/25785. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
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Guerra PharmD RPh, Anthony; Elsevier Inc; Davis AAHCA BHS CPhT, Karen
Sexual Violence: Policies Practices and Challenges in the United States and Canada
New. unknown
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[Revolutionary War Pensions] Taliaferro, John
Broadside A Bill to amend the acts of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-eight allowing pensions to certain widows
Washington D.C. 1842. First edition. Very good closed tear at fold. 1 p. 13.5 x 8 inches. The two sections allowed widows who remarried to claim benefits as well as those whose husbands died since the 1838 bill was passed. A contemporary note on the verso states that a similar bill was passed at the 26th Congress and "if it it can ever be called up it will pass again" as it did that year on August 23 1842.<br /> <br /> John Taliaferro 1768-1853 was a member of Congress from Virginia who served numerous non- consecutive terms between 1801 and 1843 during which time he was elected as a Democratic Republican a Crawford Republican an Adams as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth-twenty seventh Congresses March 4 1835-March 3 1843 during which time he was chairman Committee on Revolutionary Pensions. A strong Anti-Jacksonian he was author of the broadside: "Supplemental account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson being a supplement to the "Coffin handbill." <br /> <br /> References: Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1915. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. New York Lewis Historical Pub.Co. 1915 Vol. 2. pp. 129-130; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress bioguide.congress./search/bio/T000027. unknown
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Ministere De La Guerre
La Guerre Documents De La Section Photgraphique De L'armee Complete in 2 Volumes
Paris: Librairie Armand Colin 1916. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 36x29.cm. Illustrated throughout. Bound in original publishers ornate blue cloth. Cloth rubbed worn on edges one hinge joint split but bindings holding. Generally both bindings in good condition. Internally pages clean throughout. A good clean set in worn but good bindings. . Cloth. Near Very Good. Oblond Quarto. Librairie Armand Colin Hardcover
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Illustrated London News [ First World War ]
The Illustrated London News 1917
Great Britain 1917. Complete volume from July 7th to December 29th 1917. Complete with all 828 pages plus 56 page Christmas number. Extensively illustrated. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth rubbed boards heavily faded. Internally pages very clean and bright throughout. A very clean copy in a good binding. Cloth. Very Good. Folio. Hardcover
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[Russo-Japanese War]
A GROUP OF CONFIDENTIAL REPORTS ISSUED BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE COMMANDER - IN - CHIEF IN INDIA CONCERNING THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR FOR USE BY HIS STAFF AND FIELD OFFICERS
Simla: Printed at the Government Central Branch Press 1906. Folio documents with original printed title wrappers bound together in contemporary half sheep and decorated paper over boards binding loosening but intact. Titles preceded by warning language in red ink such as: "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. These re-prints and translations from various foreign and other papers are issued to certain officers under the orders of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in India for the information of themselves and of their Staff or of the Officers of the units under their command as the case may be. They form an interesting study of the subjects dealt with and should prove useful in promoting thought and discussion. . ." All documents described here are in Very Good to Fine condition. <br /> <br /> 1. DIVISION OF THE CHIEF OF THE STAFF. CONTENTS. LESSONS OF THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. Folio. Original blue printed title wrappers. 157 1 blank pp.<br /> <br /> 2. SOME LESSONS FROM THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR. TRANSLATED FROM THE "REVUE DES DEUX MONDES" JANUARY 1906. WAR OFFICE 1ST MAY 1906. Folio. 23 1 blank pp.<br /> <br /> 3. SOME INFORMATION ABOUT JAPANESE TROOPS. ISSUED BY THE RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF 1904. COMMUNICATED BY THE INTELLIGENCE BRANCH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS SIMLA. 1904. PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT MONOTYPE PRESS. Folio. 60pp. Original front blue title wrapper. 60pp with folding maps and plates.<br /> <br /> 4. THE BATTLE OF THE SHA HO. THE 23RD AND 48TH JAPANESE INFANTRY AT SHOU-SHAN-PU. 60pp. Folding plates and maps.<br /> <br /> 5. OPERATIONS OF THE 8TH DIVISION SECOND JAPANESE ARMY AT THE BATTLE OF MUKDEN. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing India. 1906. Folio. Original printed yellow title wrappers. 25 1 blank pp folding maps.<br /> <br /> 6. THE OPERATIONS OF THE THIRD JAPANESE ARMY AT THE BATTLE OF MUKDEN. Folio. Original printed blue title wrappers. 11 1 blank pp plus folding maps.<br /> <br /> 7. REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF THE 5TH JAPANESE DIVISION AT THE BATTLE OF MUKDEN. Simla: Printed at the Government Monotype Office. 1905. 22 2 pp. Original printed title wrappers. Folding map and two full-page plates. <br /> <br /> 8. Untitled material probably excerpts concerning temporary railroad bridge over the Hun Ho steel girder for the bridge Japanese light railway telegraphic and telephonic communications in the field. Plates and maps. Printed at the Government Central Branch Press unknown
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Guerra, Julio J, Cotler, Sherwin B
Assertion Training : A Humanistic-Behavioral Guide to Self-Dignity
Research Press. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Research Press unknown
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XV Corps (The Great War)
A Christmas Dinner Menu - multi signed by the Sergeants
Privately printed. XV CORPS SERGEANTS - Sergeants mess Christmas dinner menu 1918 multi signed Mouvaux: Privately printed 1918 A Christmas day 1918 menu with a black and white staff photograph dated 1919 The Menu: A4 sized piece of woven paper that has been folded in 2 places to create a leaflet on the front has been illustrated by one of the staff a design by hand of the menu and this has been printed complete with the XV Corps emblem on each side of the front cover are illustrations initialled by the same artist also printed; in pencil one of the soldiers has signed his name at the top 'H Broadbridge' and I think it is more likely that he was an attendee at the dinner and the original owner of this menu; on the reverse in the centre is the menu that has been tipped in on either side are the hand signed signatures of attending Sergeants the waiters chef and senior officers there are 27 in total; overall this remarkable survivor is in good to very good condition there are browning marks along the folded lines and a few spotting marks; it is fragile as can be expected; it is nothing short of astonishing that this menu has survived. The photograph: A5 in size and in black and white; on the reverse there is a contemporary inscription that reads "XV Corps W.O Sergeants Mess Mouvaux Nr Tourcoing France January 1919" so this staff photo would have been taken only a week or two after their Christmas feast; it is likely that most if not all of the Sergeants pictured would have been at the dinner; overall in very good condition with some handling marks on the reverse of the photo. A scarce survivor that is somehow still with its accompanying photo of the band of Sergeants that would have attended the Christmas Dinner in 1918 in Mouvaux and signed this menu. On the front of the menu are two wonderful illustrations drawn to signify the end of the war with the ink still yet to dry on the armistice agreement. On one side the illustration shows a Sergeant crouched behind a rock with the caption "The observation post something!!! Xmas 1917" and then on the other is a Sergeant sweetly puffing on his cigarette dreaming of a turkey with the caption "Something good Xmas 1918". A reflection of the mood in the Sergeants mess at that time. XV Corps was formed in April 1916 and was an amalgamation of divisions and specialist companies such as a signals team and a mortar battery unit. Its aim was to support the army in critical battles across the western front where needed. The corps was large in numbers and so had these two dozen sergeants in charge of the men. They would see action in the battle of the Somme Lys Ypres and the final advance in Flanders with many shown in the photo and attending this dinner decorated heroes. A truly remarkable menu and photo from the final moments of the great war signed by the sergeants of XV Corps. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1918. Privately printed paperback
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War Department
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS RELATIVE TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MILITARY AND NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND FOR THE PAYMENT OF MILITARY PENSIONS. 18TH MAY 1796. COMMITTED TO A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE ON FRIDAY NEXT. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Philadelphia: Francis Childs 1796. 12pp stitched. Toning chip to upper blank corner of a leaf. Page 3 misnumbered page 4 as issued. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Secretary Wolcott issues a detailed "ESTIMATE of the expenses of the Department of War for the year 1796; - and the probable expenses of the Naval Department in the same year."<br /> ESTC 21892. Evans 31400. Francis Childs? unknown
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[Civil War Lithograph] Queen, James
VOLUNTEER REFRESHMENT SALOON SUPPORTED GRATUITOUSLY BY THE CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA PA
Philadelphia: Lith & Printed by W. Boell 311 Walnut St. Pub. by B. S. Brown 1861. Elephant folio broadside lithograph 22-1/4" x 19-1/2." Uncolored. Matted. Closed tear visible at blank upper margin. The matting conceals blank margin chipping and blank corners taped to the lower mat. Good. <br /> <br /> This print depicts the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon located at the southwest corner of Swanson and Washington Avenues in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. "A rather important print published by subscription probably his only one" Peters. <br /> Here is the Library of Congress description: "This print depicts the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon located at the southwest corner of Swanson and Washington Avenues in Philadelphia during the American Civil War. The saloon was a volunteer relief agency supported by the citizens of Philadelphia which provided meals hospital care and washing sleeping and writing facilities to military personnel refugees and freedmen throughout the war. The print shows soldiers cheered by civilian onlookers marching out from the main building to embark on cars of the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad for transport to the battlefields to the south. The flag in the upper left-hand corner proclaims "Union For Ever" indicating the main initial war aim of the North and of President Abraham Lincoln: to preserve the Union by forcibly preventing the secession of the Southern states. Below the main illustration are views of the soldiers eating in the enormous dining hall and of meals being prepared. The illustration is by lithographer William Boell also seen as William Buell. Born in France around 1832 Boell worked in New York from 1854 until about 1859. He then moved to Philadelphia where he established his own firm and was active until the 1880s. His work included book illustrations advertisements church views bird's eye views and political cartoons." <br /> Library of Congress Control Number 2021670445. Peters America on Stone 113. OCLC 1424678337 1- QA IDM TEST WMS 2 as of June 2025. 14 Rosenbach 277 "Of great interest is the Philadelphia & Baltimore Railroad train being loaded with troops in front of the canteen. Peters 98--9 Phillips 474.". Lith & Printed by W. Boell 311 Walnut St. Pub. by B. S. Brown unknown
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[Civil War] [Union Army] [Kentucky] Stith Stumpff
April 14th 1864 Letter from Stith Stumpff in Camp Near Shelbyville Tennessee. Writes to Mother is in good health discusses march from Nashville to Chattanooga huge Union force bearing upon Richmond hoping to take Richmond and end the War and sends respects to family and friends back home
Shelbyville Tennessee: n/a 1864. Letter. Good. Letter. Paper sheet measures 8" x 10". Folded three times. 4 pages of written content. A few spots and toning to the paper. Good condition. Transcription of contents is slightly difficult with several misspelled words. Letter reads:<br /> <br /> Camp Near Shelbyville Tennessee april the 14th 1864 <br /> Dear Mother i recived your kind letter of the 3th a was truly glad to here from you all once more and to here you all was well this letter leaves me in good health and i hope When this letter reachs you it may find you all enjoying the same grate Bessing i have no news to Write at present every thing is quiet in front our regiment started from nashville last Saturday morning for Chattanooga We are going to stay at Shelbyville un till morning then i supose we will march in the Direction of chattanooga the buoys are all well and in good spirits their is no rebel army nearer than richmond their will be the next big fight and i hope the last one during this war We have got one hundred thousand troops in front ready to march in the direction of richmond if our men should have luck to take richmond i think the War would close soon after words Whether it closes or not i am coming home just as soon as my time it out if uncle Sam give us our furlow time i will be at home some time in June if not i will be their in September if i have the luck to get out safe mother tell the old man to put in a good crop of corn and i will be their to help him gather it tell uncle nathan graves i have not forgoton him tell him i would like to here how he is geting a long also give my love to him mother i have received your minature at last Witch you sent by gery paddock i think it favers you very mutch tell nancy mays i have not herd from Will for some time i saw colonel Wharton at nashville a few days a go. he said the Buoys were all well and was campt near chattanooga tenn mother tell me haydon i think he is two work brickel slce i Would here oftener from him give all mr haydons my love and respets and keep a dieu family portion for your self give aunt lucy ana family my love and respets I now must close for the preasant this So no more i remain your son un till Death signed Stith Stumpff addressed To mary Stumpff Direct your next letter to chattanooga Tennesee in care of lieutenant Keen lieutenant keen commands our company at preasant our old officers are plaid out So fare the well for a while." Ancestry dot com record found for Stith Stumpff age 18 birth date about 1844 enlistment date into the Union Army October 4 1862. Stith Stumpff enlisted at Lebanon Kentucky as a Private in the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry other U.S. archive records indicate the Kentucky Fourth through Sixth Cavalry. The Fifth Kentucky Cavalry fought in the Atlanta Campaign summer of 1864. n/a unknown
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[RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR - TWO NEWSPAPER MAPS].
旅順包圍攻撃圖. 日露戰爭經過圖. Ryojun hōi kōgekizu. Nichiro Sensō keikazu. Pictorial Map of Seizure of Port Arthur AND Russo-Japanese War Development Map.
大阪. Osaka.: 大阪毎日新聞社. Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha. Meiji 37 1904. Two black and white newspaper maps issued in the Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha one pictorial with accompanying text and adverts printed on newsprint folded. 39.5 x 55cm Very good condition. This pictorial map of Port Arthur and Dalian was published on 4 July 1904 by the Osaka Mainichi Shinbun as a supplement. It shows Port Arthur encircled by Japanese naval vessels while Dalian is depicted as being occupied by Japanese troops. On the reverse there is an essay on the war accompanied by illustrations of Russian generals and a list of wounded soldiers who had been transported to the rear.<br><br>A second map detailing developments in the Russo-Japanese War was published by the same newspaper just days later on 8 August 1904. This map provides the dates of various battles along with a chronology of the movements of the Russian Vladivostok fleet and Japanese attacks on Port Arthur. These two maps are rare examples of the kind of information made available to the general public on a day-to-day basis during the war. . 大阪毎日新聞社. [Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha]. unknown
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[RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR - MAP OF MANCHURIA AND KOREA].
最新日露戰局地圖全. Saishin Nichiro senkyoku chizu zen. The Most Recent Situation Map of the Russo-Japanese War.
東京. Tokyo.: 電報新聞社. Denpō Tsūshinsha. Fifth Edition. Meiji 37 1904. Colour folding map with four inset maps 78.2 x 54.5cm folds into light card covers measuring 21 x 14cm. Very good copy. This the fifth edition of this map was published on 7th June 1904 reflecting the high level of public interest in receiving up-to-date information on the war particularly while the siege of Port Arthur continued without a decisive Japanese victory. The map includes four inset maps among them detailed views of Port Arthur and Vladivostok. It also records distances between key ports in Japan Korea and China. . 電報新聞社. [Denpō Tsūshinsha]. unknown
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[SECOND ANGLO-DUTCH WAR - BATTLE OF VAaGEN - VOC].
Zee-Journael ofte autentijcq verhael uyt d'annotatien vande heeren haer hooghmogende volmachtighde inde vloot der doorluchtighste Geunieerde Republijcque en andere schriften aengaende al het gepasseerde 't zedert 't vertreck vande vloot uyt Spanjaerts-Gat naer de Noort tot het weder-keeren voor Goeree met alle voorvallen in zee ontmoetingen gevecht in Noorwegen tempeesten en wat in 't generael ende wat in 't particulier voorgevallen en geschiet is van den 13. Juni tot den 6. Octob. 1665.
Amsterdam 1665. 4to. Jacob Venckel Modern marbled boards. 2 69 pp. Rare pamphlet written by an anonymous author discussing the fascinating Battle of Vågen the main port area of neutral Bergen in Norway in August 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War 1665-1667 including its background and aftermath. The Second Anglo-Dutch war was a war at sea caused by conflicts in colonial territories of the Dutch Republic and England. This naval war consisted mainly of protecting their own merchant ships capturing enemy ships and trying to sink mutual warships. The Battle of Vågen was an important naval battle between a rich treasure fleet of the Dutch East India Company VOC and an English flotilla of warships. Twice a year the Dutch VOC sent a treasure fleet from the East Indies to the Dutch Republic with money and goods. On 24 December 1664 one of the richest-laden fleets in Dutch history departed from Batavia for the homeland with a cargo estimated to be worth millions. This fleet was intended to support the Dutch Republic financially and therefore should not fall into enemy hands. Since the tensions with England were already high in 1664 an experienced officer the rear admiral Pieter de Bitter ca. 1620-1666 was appointed to command this fleet.The present pamphlet gives an account of the events before and after the Battle of Vågen and also in broad lines of the battle itself including all kinds of correspondence and notes from high-ranking figures. The dating in the title is incorrect as the story took place from August 1 to August 20 which is why the title has been corrected by hand in the present copy. The present edition is one of two both printed in 1665 but with a different imprint the present one with the publisher and place of publication and the other with only the year and the alignment of the text. However they were both likely printed by the same printer. The present edition is very rare. We've not been able to find other copies in sales records and only a few in institutions. A highly interesting pamphlet on one of the most important and fascinating 17th-century sea battles in Dutch naval history and in the history of the Dutch VOC.The date "13. Juny" has been crossed out on the title page and replaced by "1. Augusti" in manuscript. The work is slightly browned throughout a small hole in the lower margin of the title-page and an ink drop in the lower margin of page 65. Otherwise in very good condition.l Knuttel 9102; STCN 842169458 8 copies incl. 1 incomplete; Tiele 5265; USTC 1802668 9 copies incl. 1 incomplete; WorldCat 85201870 747664026 4 copies; cf. for Venckel: H.F. Wijnman De Amsterdamsche boekverkooper Jacob Vinckel 1627-1680 in: Vondel-kroniek 5 1934 p. 192. hardcover
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[Civil War]
A GROUP OF THIRTEEN DOCUMENTS SEVERAL OF THEM ENTIRELY IN MANUSCRIPT OTHERS PRINTED AND COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT CONCERNING CIVIL WAR PROMOTIONS APPOINTMENTS TRANSFERS REQUISITIONS RECEIPTS FOR ORDINANCE COMMISSARIES QUARTERMASTER STORES
vp 1866. All in Very Good condition. unknown
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[Civil War]
DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE DOCUMENT SIGNED AT HARPER'S FERRY 22 JULY 1862 ENDORSED WITH SIGNATURE OF COMMANDER OF HARPERS FERRY COLONEL DIXON S. MILES: "I CERTIFY ON HONOR THAT JOSEPH A. BENNETT A PRIVATE OF CAPTAIN ALBERT HUNTER'S COMPANY C OF THE THIRD REGIMENT OF P.H. POTOMAC HOME BRIGADE VOLUNTEERS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND BORN IN ADAMS COUNTY STATE OF PENNA. AGED 40 YEARS ; 5 FEET 10 INCHES HIGH: DARK COMPLEXION BLUE EYES DARK HAIR AND BY OCCUPATION A LABORER HAVING JOINED THE COMPANY ON ITS ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION AT FAIRFIELD PA AND ENROLLED IN IT AT THE MUSTER INTO THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES AT FREDERICK MD ON THE NINTH DAY OF SEPT. 1861. . . TO SERVE IN THE REGIMENT FOR THE TERM OF THREE YEARS. . . IS NOW ENTITLED TO A DISCHARGE BY REASON OF SURGEON'S CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY. . . GIVEN IN DUPLICATE AT HARPERS FERRY VA THIS 22ND DAY OF JULY 1862. signed ALBERT HUNTER CAPT. COMMANDING COMPANY.
n.p. 186. Broadside 8" x 10". Printed document completed in ink manuscript. Old folds clean. Signed at end by Capt. Albert Hunter; endorsed on verso "Deduct $2 85/100 from fare to Balto - Discharged D.S. Miles Col. 2d Inf." Very Good. <br /> <br /> Dixon Stansbury Miles 1804-1862 was a veteran or the Indian Wars and the Mexican War. Promoted to Captain in 1836 he fought in the Seminole Wars in Florida from 1839-1852. He was promoted to Major in the Mexican War for "gallant and distinguished conduct" in the defense of Fort Brown Texas. He fought at Monterrey and the Siege of Veracruz after which he was appointed Brevet Lieut. Col. for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the several conflicts at Monterrey Mexico." During the Civil War he was given command of the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry where his garrison held Confederate General Lee's supply line through the Shenandoah Valley. Despite a gallant war record he ended his life in infamy. He was killed in battle in September 1862 after having foolishly positioned his troops. Wikipedia writes "Some historians have concluded that Miles was struck by artillery deliberately fired by his own men but there is no conclusive proof. The resulting surrender of 12419 men was the largest number of U.S. soldiers surrendered until the Battle of Bataan in World War II. The court of inquiry into the surrender denounced Miles for "incapacity amounting to almost imbecility."<br /> Albert Maxwell Hunter 1833-1911 of Adams County Pennsylvania enlisted with Co. B 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry on 9 September 1861 as a bugler. He was elected second lieutenant of Company C quickly promoted to first lieutenant and then to captain at the end of three years' service. He was discharged 3 July 1865 He settled in Gettysburg after the war.<br /> Joseph A. Bennett c.1822-1918 was born in Adams County Pennsylvania. He was mustered in Co. C 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry later unit referred to as 3rd as a wagoner on 9 September 1861 and was discharged as a private after ten months and 13 days on 22 July 1862 due to a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability. He reenlisted 25 July 1863 in Gettysburg as a private with Warren's Independent Cavalry Militia Company but discharged 15 September 1864 to enlist the following day with Co. I 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry 160th Pennsylvania a volunteer cavalry unit. He was honorably discharged 21 June 1865. He was a farmer and laborer. unknown
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[England and the American Civil War]
EIGHT PAMPHLETS REFLECTING BRITISH OPINION ON THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1864. 1. Bemis George: PRECEDENTS OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY IN REPLY TO THE SPEECH OF SIR ROUNDELL PALMER ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF ENGLAND IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS MAY 13 1864. Boston: Little Brown. 1864. viii 83 1 blank pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. Clean text. Good. <br /> <br /> England's reception and fitting out of Confederate privateers is inconsistent with its professed neutrality. The U.S. a neutral in earlier European wars prohibited such collaboration in American ports. <br /> FIRST EDITION. Sabin 4626. Bartlett 394. II DAB 174. Not in Harv. Law Cat. Marke.<br /> <br /> 2. Cordner Rev. John: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES: AN ADDRESS ON THE AMERICAN CONFLICT DELIVERED AT MONTREAL ON THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER 22 1864. Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers spine wear. ix 1 blank 30 pp. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> Published by the antislavery Union and Emancipation Society the pamphlet demonstrates that "the supposed hostile designs of the United States upon Canada" is merely an attempt to turn British sentiment against the Union. The rear wrapper is a two-column list of the officers of the Society including a two-column list of more than one hundred fifty Vice Presidents.<br /> Sabin 16762 Montreal printing only. Not in Bartlett.<br /> <br /> 3. Free Man's Aid Society: THE FRIENDS OF THE FREED-MEN. London: 1864. 7 1 pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> This rare pamphlet was written by John Curwen Secretary to the Free Man's Aid Society. He lauds the abolitionists- - British and American-- who aid the Union cause recognizing "instinctively that this must become an anti-slavery war." They have enlisted in fighting regiments organized the education of freedmen at Port Royal. The pamphlet describes the freedmen's schools the freed children's eagerness to learn and the observations of the teachers some of whom were women. <br /> OCLC 644153331 1- U Manchester as of August 2025.<br /> <br /> 4. Massie James W.: THE CASE STATED: THE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE. Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society. 1863. 8pp. Disbound. Good.<br /> <br /> England's Union and Emancipation Society was committed to the abolition of Slavery. "What darker or more dreary calamity could threaten any nation or people on earth than the successful establishment of a Republic whose corner-stone shall be 'that the negro is not equal to the white man and that slavery- subordination to the superior race- is his natural and normal condition'."<br /> Bartlett 3040. Sabin 46186 note. Not in LCP or Dumond.<br /> <br /> 5. Owls-Glass pseud.: REBEL BRAG AND BRITISH BLUSTER; A RECORD OF UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES BAFFLED SCHEMES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES WITH ECHOES OF VERY INSIGNIFICANT THUNDER VERY PLEASANT TO READ AND INSTRUCTIVE TO ALL WHO ARE CAPABLE OF LEARNING. New York: American News Co. 1865. Original printed wrappers the rear wrapper advertising 'The Martyr's Monument.' vi 7-111 1 blank pp. Clean text. Disbound else Very Good.<br /> <br /> Sabin and the Library Company suggest Richard Grant White as the author. The book "a curious study" of British elite opinion is a commentary on articles from British intellectuals which had supported the Confederacy. The author's close examination of British public opinion is a scathing condemnation of British turpitude. <br /> These were "undeniably able and dextrous writers and politicians who to please the public for whom they wrote and spoke opposed ridiculed and contemned our people and our government during the tremendous struggle for the worthy and honorable existence of our country. It would not be very easy for us to forget these efforts of our inimical kinsfolk or indeed desirable that we should lose sight of so instructive a warning. . ." <br /> Sabin 68317. LCP 11149. Bartlett 4012.<br /> <br /> 6. Potter Thomas Bayley: UNION AND EMANCIPATION SOCIETY. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT A CONVERSAZIONE HELD IN THE MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM ON MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 1 1864 TO RECEIVE THE REPORT OF THE REV. DR. MASSIE RESPECTING HIS ANTI-SLAVERY MISSION TO THE AMERICAN CLERGY AND CHURCHES. Manchester: Alexander Ireland. 1864. 33 3 pp. Disbound without wraps Clean text. Good.<br /> <br /> Potter was the President of the Society a British organization based in Manchester and supporting the North in its war against Slavery. The pamphlet reports on "a very interesting conversazione" concerning Dr. Massie's trip to America. <br /> He met with President Lincoln "a man of integrity whose word is to be believed whenever he speaks. I came away with the conviction that he is the friend of the negro and the man of colour and that he has a firm resolution that whatever power he has shall be constitutionally exerted for the emancipation of every slave in the United States." Massie also met with Seward "again and again" and with Chase and other civil and military leaders all of whom favorably impressed him.<br /> "The day is not far off when the coloured regiments of America will be the safeguard of her negro freedom and the security for all the freedom that belongs to men of whatever colour" <br /> Not in LCP Bartlett Dumond Monaghan or Sabin. OCLC notes about fifteen institutional holdings.<br /> <br /> 7. Siemms F. D.: AMERICA. THE WAR: PAST PRESENT AND PROBABLE FUTURE. BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE CONCERT HALL LIVERPOOL. BY F. D. SIEMMS A NATIVE OF LIVERPOOL WHO SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES TO A VERY RECENT PERIOD BEING AN EMBODIMENT OF HIS EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS DURING A PERIOD OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS AS AN OFFICER OF ARTILLERY. Liverpool 1864. 24pp. Disbound with wrapper remnants along spine. Good.<br /> <br /> Siemms says "Without any previous intention of being a soldier either in the army of the North or South yet I found myself one fine day an officer in the army of the Southern Confederacy." He gives some details of his unit's movements and briefly discusses different engagements while noting his frustration at the North's exaggeration in reporting its successes. His war experience was brief: "My military life ended" when he was taken prisoner "at Bull's run" and held as a prisoner until the British flag brought his release. <br /> Presenting himself as something of an expert he says "the negroes are far better off than a certain class of poor people in many European countries." He says 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is filled with exaggeration and "downright untruths." He exposes "the false pretence that the North was fighting for liberty" and says the press has greatly exaggerated the North's progress in the field.<br /> Frederick David Samson Siemms 1844-1907 was born in England but it is unclear how he ended up in the United States or fighting for the Confederate Army. His military records show that he enlisted on May 13 1861 at the age of 17 years for a period of 12 months as a private with 1st Artillery Virginia Confederate with Capt. Johnson H. Sands' Company Co. B Henrico Artillery Virginia Light Artillery. His occupation was dentist and optician. Company muster rolls show he was discharged on July 20 1862. Military records of Frederick D. Siemms Fold3 website; Soldier and Sailor's Database at National Park Service website; The Commercial Gazette of London June 4 1890 Page 6. <br /> OCLC 4844821 1- U Rochester as of March 2025. Not in Bartlett or Sabin.<br /> <br /> 8. Smith Goldwin: ENGLAND AND AMERICA: A LECTURE DELIVERED BY GOLDWIN SMITH BEFORE THE BOSTON FRATERNITY DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES. . . Manchester: A. Ireland and Co. 1865. x 36 pp. Disbound original printed front wrapper. "With Thomas B. Potters Complts" written on front wrapper. Good.<br /> <br /> An odd combination of sympathies Smith supported the Union opposed imperialism and woman suffrage and disliked Jews. His lecture was first published in The Atlantic and was also printed in Boston. <br /> Sabin 82678. Bartlett 4507. Little, Brown and Company unknown
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[Civil War Lithograph] Currier & Ives
JOHN BULL MAKES A DISCOVERY
New York: Currier & Ives 1863. Folio lithograph broadside oblong 18" x 13-1/4." A few vertical folds with a closed tear along the end of one fold no loss; expertly repaired on verso with archival tape. Light spotting and wear Good.<br /> <br /> John Bull representing Great Britain holds a large clump of cotton in one hand. He grabs a kneeling slave by the hair i.e. "wool" with his other hand exclaiming "Well yes! it is certain that Cotton is more useful to me than Wool!" Two other black men stand in the back left; one covers his face crying. A man in a wide-brimmed hat with a goatee stands to the back right smiling at the scene. A large bail of cotton stands to the right of Bull.<br /> "Racist cartoon reflecting the Northern fear that Britain's economic ties with Southern cotton growers would cause the British government to relinquish its abolitionist stance in order to support the Confederacy. Depicts a plump John Bull representing Great Britain centered between a kneeling enslaved African American man and a bale of cotton in a storage shed. Bull touches the hair of the African American man with his right hand and holds a piece of the cotton from the bale in the other. He declares 'it is certain that Cotton is more useful to me than Wool!!/ In the left background two African American men stand and cry. In the right background a Southern white man plantation owner looks on and smiles" LCP description on line.<br /> Conningham 3257. Weitenkampf 133. Reilly 1861-40. OCLC 191119968 2 191908779 1 as of August 2025. Currier & Ives unknown
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Derek Howse
Radar At Sea: The Royal Navy In World War 2
Annapolis Maryland: Naval Institute Press 1993. Hardback. Fine/Fine. First American edition hardback 1993 with unclipped jacket. In overall fine unread condition. Binding tight and appears almost unopened. Internally clean no annotation or inscriptions - small set of initials to front endpaper upper right-hand corner; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Naval Institute Press hardcover
Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 250654 ISBN : 155750704X 9781557507044
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