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Department Of The Army
Technical Manual Operator's And Unit Maintenance Manual For Land Mines Army Technical Manual TM 0-1345-203-12
USGPO. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Later Printing. Softcover. Binder sized stapled booklet issued with punched 3-ring holes and marked for public release. Tellow wrappers show modest edge and corner wear. All other pages clean and binding is tight. Some very light creasing to both front rear card cover. . USGPO paperback
Référence libraire : 17456
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Department Of The Army
Technical Manual Operator's And Unit Maintenance Manual For Land Mines Army Technical Manual TM 0-1345-203-12
USGPO. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Later Printing. Softcover. Binder sized stapled booklet issued with punched 3-ring holes and marked for public release. Tellow wrappers show modest edge and corner wear. All other pages clean and binding is tight. Some very light creasing to both front rear card cover. . USGPO paperback
Référence libraire : 17457
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Department Of The Army
German Tank Maintenance In World War II No. 20-202
Department of The Army. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1954. Reprint. Pamphlet. 1982 Reprint. Clean bright and appearing new. . Department of The Army unknown
Référence libraire : 15907
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US. Army Chief Of Infantry U. S.
Army Extension Couses Special Text No. 265 Infantry In defensive Combat 1936 Edition.
Fort Benning Georgia: The Army Field Printing Plant The Infantry School. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1936. Later Printing. Softcover. Blue paper wrappers with blue cloth spine. Tightly bound and showing modest shelf and edge/corner wear with a few sains to covers. Some stamps indicating previous base ownership but retrained. . The Army Field Printing Plant, The Infantry School paperback
Référence libraire : 16021
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US. Army Chief Of Infantry U. S.
Army Extension Couses Special Text No. 266 Infantry In Offensive Combat 1936 Edition
Fort Benning Georgia: The Army Field Printing Plant The Infantry School. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1936. Later Printing. Softcover. Blue paper wrappers with blue cloth spine. Tightly bound and showing modest shelf and edge/corner wear with a few sains to covers. Some stamps indicating previous base ownership but retrained. . The Army Field Printing Plant, The Infantry School paperback
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US. Army Chief Of Infantry U. S.
Army Extension Couses Special Text No. 267 Infantry Antiaircraft Defense 1936 Edition.
Fort Benning Georgia: The Army Field Printing Plant The Infantry School. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1936. Later Printing. Softcover. Blue paper wrappers with blue cloth spine. Tightly bound and showing modest shelf and edge/corner wear with a few sains to covers. Some stamps indicating previous base ownership but retrained. . The Army Field Printing Plant, The Infantry School paperback
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US. Army Chief Of Infantry U. S.
Army Extension Couses Special Text No. 14 Tank Employment 1936 Edition.
Fort Benning Georgia: The Army Field Printing Plant The Infantry School. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1935. Later Printing. Softcover. Blue paper wrappers with blue cloth spine. Tightly bound and showing modest shelf and edge/corner wear with a few sains to covers. Some stamps indicating previous base ownership but retrained. . The Army Field Printing Plant, The Infantry School paperback
Référence libraire : 16019
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Canadian Army Headquarters
Canadian Army Manual Of Training Drill All Arms Elementary Drill
Queen's Printer. Good with no dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Softcover. Blue paper covers. General wear creasing and some ink notations . Queen's Printer paperback
Référence libraire : 15271
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(United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Examinations of Rivers and Harbors 1927-1928 Volumes 1-2
Washington: Government Printing Office 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Multiple House Documents 70th Congress 1st Session 1927-1928 bound in two volumes. Thick octavos. Each volume with numerous folding maps and charts. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Moderate soiling to the boards very good. Contains extensive surveys of rivers and harbors throughout the country including Resurrection Bay Alaska Ketchikan Creek and Saxman Harbor Alaska 2 folding maps; the Hudson River New York Hudson to New York City - 1 folding map; Raritan Bay and Raritan River New Jersey and the Delaware River New Jersey 3 folding maps; Nantucket Sound Salem Harbor Dorchester Bay and Neponset River Massachusetts 3 folding maps; San Francisco Harbor 1 folding map and many other places in California Washington Michigan Virginia Florida and elsewhere. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A scarce set with the many folding maps in fine condition. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 382028
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(United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Two Volumes: 1. Examination and Survey of Sacramento River: from Sacramento to Red Bluff; and survey from Feather River to Chico Landing and 2. Flood Control: Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems California
Washington: Government Printing Office 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Two volumes. 62d Congress 1st Session 1911. 1. Portfolio House Document No. 76: 19pp. stapled and 31 large folding maps numbered 0-30. Complete as issued in cloth portfolio with cloth tie. Light soiling to the portfolio box and topedge of the folded maps very good. 2. Octavo House Document No. 81: 55pp. and 10 large folding maps and charts numbered 1-10. Complete as issued in cloth also very good. Each volume with a shelf numbered spine. A topographical and engineering survey and report prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A handsome set scarce in the trade. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 381165
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(United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Intracoastal Waterway. Boston Mass. to Beaufort N.C. Section
Washington: Government Printing Office 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. House Document No. 391 62d Congress 2d Session 1911-1912. Octavo. 278pp. 10 large folding maps and 1 chart. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Light soiling to the boards about near fine. An extensive survey of the upper or northern section of the proposed continuous inland waterway from Boston to the Rio Grande. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A nice copy scarce in the trade with the folding maps in fine condition. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 381334
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
Reservoirs at the Headwaters of the Allegheny Monongahela and Ohio rivers and their Tributaries
Washington: Government Printing Office 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. House Document No. 1289 62d Congress 3d Session 1912-1913. Octavo. 40pp. and numerous folding charts. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Light soiling to the boards very good. A detailed report on the necessity of establishing a system of impounding reservoirs at the headwaters of the Allegheny Monongahela and Ohio rivers prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A nice copy scarce in the trade with the folding charts in fine condition. Government Printing Office hardcover
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(MORROW, Jay J., United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Three Volumes: Railway Routes in Alaska: Report of Alaska Railroad Commission House Document 1346; Maps and Profiles 1346 part 2; Construction of Railroads in Alaska House Report 92 and 92 part 2
Washington: Government Printing Office 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Three volumes. House Documents No. 1346 and No. 1346 part 2 62d Congress 3d Session 1912-1913 and House Reports No. 92 and No. 92 part 2 63d Congress 1st Session 1913. Complete as issued in one cloth bound volume and one cloth box; and one cloth bound volume. Octavos. Bound volume: 172pp. folding maps; box: 16 folding maps and 3 folding diagrams; bound volume: 19 6pp. 1 folding map and 1 folding chart. Moderate soiling to the cloth boards a very good set. An extensive topographical survey of the Alaska Territory conduced by Major Jay J. Morrow of the US Army Corps of Engineers. A scarce complete set of the two-volume House Document with the folding maps in fine condition and the additional one-volume House Report bound with 48 other reports. Government Printing Office hardcover
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(REES, Thomas Henry, George Arthur Zinn. United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Chicago Harbor and Adjacent Waterways
Washington: Government Printing Office 1913. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. House Document No. 237 63d Congress 1d Session 1913. Octavo cloth box. 1 bound text 285pp. in linen cloth wrappers and 34 loose folding maps A 1-33. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth box with broken cloth tie. Moderate soiling to the box very good or better. A detailed examination and survey of the Chicago harbor Chicago river Calumet harbor Grand Calumet and Little Calumet rivers Lake Calumet and river and the Lake shore from the mouth of the Chicago river to the city of Gary Indiana. With reports by Thomas Rees and George Zinn. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A scarce complete portfolio. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 381604
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(United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Examinations of Rivers and Harbors 1916-1917 Volumes 1-2
Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Multiple House Documents 64tn Congress 2d Session 1916-1917 bound in two volumes. Thick octavos. Each volume contains numerous folding maps and charts. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Moderate soiling to the boards very good. Contains extensive surveys of rivers and harbors throughout the country including the Savannah Harbor GA. with 4 folding maps and charts Grays Harbor Bar Wash. 10 folding maps the Merrimack River Mass. and N.H. 11 folding maps and many other rivers harbors and waterways. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A scarce complete set with the many folding maps in fine condition. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 381796
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(United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Examinations of Rivers and Harbors 1915-1916 Volumes 1-4
Washington: Government Printing Office 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Four volumes. Multiple House Documents 64tn Congress 1st Session 1915-1916 bound in a four volume set. Thick octavos. Each volume contains numerous folding maps and charts. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Moderate soiling to the boards very good. Contains extensive surveys of rivers and harbors throughout the country including the Connecticut River between Hartford and Holyoke Mass. with 9 folding maps and charts Brunswick Harbor GA. with 5 folding maps the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors California multiple House documents with folding maps and charts the Missouri River from Kansas City to the mouth with 17 folding maps and charts and many black and white halftone photographs San Diego Harbor 1 folding map and many other rivers harbors and waterways. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A scarce complete set with the many folding maps in fine condition. Government Printing Office hardcover
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(United States Army Corps of Engineers)
Examinations of Rivers and Harbors 1914-1915
Washington: Government Printing Office 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Multiple House Documents 63d Congress 3d Session 1914-1915 bound in one volume. Thick octavo with numerous folding maps and charts. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Moderate soiling to the boards very good. Contains extensive surveys of many rivers and harbors throughout the country including Trent River N.C. with 5 large folding maps the Inland Waterway between Norfolk Va. to Beaufort Inlet N.C. one folding map and many other rivers and waterways. Prepared under the direction of the Secretary of War by the US Army Corps of Engineers. A nice copy scarce in the trade with the folding maps and charts in fine condition. Government Printing Office hardcover
Référence libraire : 381756
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British Army
AFV: All Friendly Vehicles. Know Your Own A.F.V.s
AMEP/HMSO. New with no dust jacket. 1993. Reprint. Softcover. Unpaginated booklet describing and showing a dozen allied wartime vehicles to educate troops and avoid confusion. Originally printed in 1942 for dissemination to officers only. This edition has been reprinted by Australian Military Equipment Profiles in 1993. Terrific for reinactors and modellers as well as vehicle enthusiasts alike! . AMEP/HMSO paperback
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British Army
AFV: All Friendly Vehicles. Know Your Own A.F.V.s
AMEP/HMSO. New with no dust jacket. 1993. Reprint. Softcover. Unpaginated booklet describing and showing a dozen allied wartime vehicles to educate troops and avoid confusion. Originally printed in 1942 for dissemination to officers only. This edition has been reprinted by Australian Military Equipment Profiles in 1993. Terrific for reinactors and modellers as well as vehicle enthusiasts alike! . AMEP/HMSO paperback
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Bailey, Jennifer L. & US. Army Center of Military History. U. S.
Philippine Islands The U.S. Army Campaigns Of World War II Series
USGPO. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Booklet. 0160358795 . 50th Aniversary Commemorative booklet in near new condition showing a trace of shelf wear only. . USGPO unknown
Référence libraire : 11915 ISBN : 0160358795 9780160358791
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US Department of the Army
Technical Manual: Aviation Unit And Intermediate Maintenance Repair Parts And Special Tools For Helicopter Utility Tactical Transport UH-60A EH-60A UH-60L TM 1-1520-237-23P-3
USGPO. New with no dust jacket. 1998. Later Printing. Softcover. Looseleaf punched maintenance manual on the US UH-60 Helicopter New copy still shrink wrapped. Light edge wear only from storage. . USGPO paperback
Référence libraire : 10519
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The editors of the Army Times
American Heroes of Asian Wars
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small rubberstamp on the front fly else fine in a bit rubbed very good plus price-clipped dustwrapper. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
Référence libraire : 58250
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British Army of the Rhine
A Manual for Road Users in Germany Belgium & Holland
Ministry of Defense. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. Later Printing. Booklet. Bumped corner otherwise VG; B/w & color Illustrations; 59 pages . Ministry of Defense unknown
Référence libraire : 3494
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Army War College
Notes on Training for Rifle Fire in Trench Warfare
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Référence libraire : B9789357099806 ISBN : 9357099808 9789357099806
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Army Information Branch, ASF., United States Army A. S.
A Pocket Guide to New Caledonia. Revised Edition
Washington DC: War and Navy Departments GPO 1944. Pamphlet. 59p. glossary native and French and watered-down sociology illustrated with black and aqua-green line drawings and two line maps nicely composed item in 5.5x4 inch decorated blue wraps. Staples a little rusty with a touch of migration find an indistinct rubberstamp to cover the ownership of Navy Education Service else unmarked; mild edgewear to covers the text or at least its terminal leaves have sustained a light upper-corner bump not at all a bad copy: generally sound otherwise unmarked and clean. Describable as "good". GPO 581251. War and Navy Departments, GPO unknown
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Special Service Division, Services of Supply, United States Army
A Pocket Guide to Australia
Washington DC: War and Navy Departments GPO 1942. Pamphlet. 48p. illustrated with black and bluish-grey line drawings and two line maps nicely composed item in 5.5x4 inch decorated oxblood wraps nice copy its staples still shiny new with just a touch of edgewear. Find a sloppily-impressed rubberstamp on preparers' credit-page the ownership of "War Education Program Training Division" USN else unmarked and entirely sound and cleanly. And surprisingly a jolly good read. GPO 483077. War and Navy Departments, GPO unknown
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RITA [Resisters Inside the Army]; [Jean Paul Sartre]
Act: the RITA's newsletter. Vol. 1 no. 3
Paris: RITA 196-. Newsletter. 8x10.75 inch sheet printed both sides fold-creased. Advice for US soldiers in Europe thinking of deserting or otherwise resisting the war in Vietnam. Includes a photo of GI resister Dick Perrin being interviewed by Stokely Carmichael. The contact address is Jean Paul Sartre BP 130 Paris 14 France he allowed his PO box to be used by the organization and had his secretary deliver the incoming letters to the activists who published the newsletter. RITA unknown
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US Army, United States Government
Army Doctrine Publication ADP 3-0 Operational October 2017
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Référence libraire : 1978090277.G ISBN : 1978090277 9781978090279
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Spain. Servicio Historico Militar
Guerra de minas en España 1936-1939. Contribución al estudio de esta modalidad de nuestra guerra de liberación
Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército 1948. Paperback. 134p. wraps with clerical edges somewhat worn and toned has a ragged three inch closed tear along the wrap in all other respects very good condition 7.5x10.5 inches illus. nine folded color maps in rear pocket as called for. Servicio Geográfico del Ejército paperback
Référence libraire : 202159
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[US Army Soldier Support Center]
Management of stress in army operations
Baltimore: US Army Adjutant General Publications Center / Headquarters of the Army 1983. 75p. sketch illus. staplebound 11x8.5 inch wraps. Staples have a touch of rust. FM field manual 26-2. Unclear if early or earliest issue; it has been reprinted by University Press of the Pacific and is in print now. US Army Adjutant General Publications Center / Headquarters of the Army unknown
Référence libraire : 142271
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Smith Chief warrant officer Garry L. U. S. army retired edited by Ed. Y. Hall
The Search for MIAs
Spartanburg: The Honoribus Press 1992. Paperback. 174p. publisher's ads snapshot photoillustration; wraps somewhat edgeworn. With a chapter on ID-ing gulf war victims. The Honoribus Press paperback
Référence libraire : 63992 ISBN : 0962216631 9780962216633
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Wells Petry Melissa Major US. Army preface by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer U. S.
Exclusion: homosexuals and right to serve
Washington: Regenery Gateway 1993. Hardcover. xiii 237p. very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Right-wing view. Regenery Gateway hardcover
Référence libraire : 32991 ISBN : 0895265044 9780895265043
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US First Army.
First United States Army Report of Operations. 23 February 1945- 8 May 1945. Restricted. Comptete set
GPO 1946. 1946. 3 Vols. Includes Annexes 1-14. Photos. Folding maps. Much statistical information. Very heavy. Oversize. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Fine Set. Hardcover. Fine. GPO, 1946. Hardcover
Référence libraire : 62-189E
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Headquarters Department of The Army
ATP 3-05.1 Unconventional Warfare: September 2013
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
Référence libraire : B9781975927356 ISBN : 1975927354 9781975927356
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US Army.
18th Medical Command
Unkn. C. 1967 1946. Vietnam Era cover for Photographs or documents. Maroon velvet cloth with unit insignia on front. Near Fine Copy. Binder. Near Fine. Unkn. C. 1967 Hardcover
Référence libraire : 84-1109
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US Army, United States Government
Army Doctrine Publication ADP 3-0 FM 3-0 Unified Land Operations October 2011
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Référence libraire : 1470000008.G ISBN : 1470000008 9781470000004
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Alessandro Gavazzi (1809-1899), Italian political and church reformer during the Risorgimento, a chaplain in Garibaldi's army:
Alessandro Gavazzi chaplain in Garibaldi's army during the Risorgimento. Autograph Note Signed 'Alessandro Gavazzi' to 'John Ledgett Esq' in English regarding a meeting.
88 Newman Street London . 4 February 1850s . 1p. 12mo. In fair condition on aged paper. Reads: 'Dear Sir I returned yesterday only from a long journey. I hope to see you in he present week in the City.' In 1850 Gavazzi began a course of political and religious sermons in London; first at the Princess's Court Rooms Great Castle Street Oxford Street and then from 1854 in an open chapel at King's Cross. In 1859 he returned to Italy to take up a post as chaplain for Giuseppe Garibaldi serving in that role during the Expedition of the Thousand to Sicily in 1860. 88 Newman Street [ London ]. 4 February [ 1850s ]. unknown
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William Collins, auditor to Earl of Salisbury, Irish Army in the 1640s, etc. ("auditor Collins"):
Manuscript; Salisbury; New Sarum "Com Wiltess" County of Wiltshire. Ancient Rents of the principal impropriations of the Dean & Chapter of Sarum Salisbury.
1630s or 1640s. Five pages cr.8vo poor condition including one bifolium chipped with small loss of text. On p.4 of the bifilium there is a signed statement in William Collins's hand the auditor: 'Theise are the Auntient Rentes of the principall Impropriations of the Deane & Chapter of Sarum i.e. Salisbury according to the survey 26 H. 8 i.e. of the 26th year of Henry VIII = 1534-5. What sume they are improved appeareth not but neither are the values of Bedwym Bedwyn Okborne Ogbourne & Uphaven Upavon expressed.Wm Collins Auditor'. About 70 Prebends Tithes and Rectories are listed with their rents not in Collins' hand some crossed out others added in Collins hand. The first in the list is "Lavington Prebend ye yearly rente is xxxixpounds ." Mere . Warmister Prebend etc rentes given. Places concluding Rectorie include Homington Cricklade those concluding Tithes include New Forest Windsor Forest. The list is therefore of the churches in Wiltshire that belonged to the dean and chapter of Salisbury showing the amount of annual rent the incumbents had to pay in order to hold them according to a survey carried out in 1534-5. William Collins was the Earl of Salisbury's auditor who seems to have been active from the 1620s to the 1640s. The hand certainly fits this period. It might be dated to the 1640s perhaps in the context of an attempt by Parliament to assess the income of the Salisbury dean and chapter after disestablishment in 1646. 1630s or 1640s[?] unknown
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British Army: Edwardian physical training booklet [ HMSO.; Harrison and Sons, London ]: H. M. S. O.
British Army: Edwardian physical training booklet. Table Card containing Tables of Exercises for the Physical Training of Recruits and the Physical Exercise of Trained Soldiers
'Army Form A 2025' dated 'March 1908.' 150000 copies printed by 'H & S' i.e. Harrison & Sons London in '5/08' i.e. May 1908. . Printed on both sides of a 15 x 135 cm strip of paper concertina-folded to make 30pp. with each page on a 15 x 9 cm panel. A scarce survival on aged and worn paper. No illustrations but detailed entries in small print. One side carries 10pp of 'Cavalry and Artillery Recruits' Physical Training Tables' 4pp of 'Trained Solders' Physical Exercise Tables' and the title. The other side carries 14pp of 'Infantry Recruits/ Physical Training Tables' and one page of 'Abbreviations etc.' No other copy traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC although the Dutch National Military Museum does hold a copy of a 'Provisional' item with the same title dated to April 1907. 'Army Form A 2025', dated 'March, 1908.' [ 150,000 copies printed by 'H & S' (i.e. Harrison & Sons, London) in '5/08' (i.e. May unknown
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[British Expeditionary Force (BEF.), France, 1939; 1 British Corps; British Army]: B. E.
Christmas Card from the British Expeditionary Force France 1939. Lithographed Christmas Card with 'B.E.F.' and Spearhead Badge of 1 British Corps and illustration by 'L. D. C.' of White Cliffs of Dover France military convoy army camp.
British Expeditionary Force France. Christmas 1939. A nice piece of Second World War ephemera of which no other copy has been traced. 1 British Corps formed part of the B.E.F. travelling to France in September 1939 and withdrawing from Dunkirk at the 'Darkest Hour' in May 1940. In good condition lightly aged and worn. Lithographed in black on the four sides of a 9.5 x 15 cm bifolium. Two parallel diagonal red lines printed at top left of front cover which also carries the Spearhead badge of 1 British Corps at centre above 'B.E.F.' in a scroll with 'Christmas – 1939' at bottom left. Printed on the verso of the first leaf are the words: 'â€A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!†FROM 'Gordon' here in manuscript'. The recto of the second leaf carries a full-page illustration with 'â€Christmas Greetings†at top left and the initials of the artist 'L.D.C.' in small letters at bottom left. The illustration is a simple line drawing depicting the White Cliffs of Dover at bottom left a French scene with moored warship at bottom right an army camp at top right a convoy of army trucks with planes above rising diagonally at centre. Printed in miniature on the back cover is the Grenade badge of the Grenadier Guards. The Imperial War Museum website states that the Spearhead design of the 1 British Corps badge was 'symbolic of the fact that First Corps at Aldershot was the only Corps in permanent existence before the War and was therefore the spearhead of the British Army'. British Expeditionary Force [France]. Christmas 1939. unknown
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General John Hope 4th Earl of Hopetoun Lord Niddry 1765 1823 Scottish politician and British Army officer Robert Saunders D
General John Hope 4th Earl of Hopetoun Scottish politician and soldier. Autograph Letter Signed 'Hopetoun' to Viscount Melville respecting the fitting up of a part of the Old Palace at Linlithgow for the county meetings.
Hopetoun House. 23 May 1819. 3pp. 4to. In good condition lightly-aged on two leaves each neatly cut out of a windowpane mount. Headed 'Private'. Docketted by the recipient: 'Respecting. the fitting up a part of the Old Palace at Linlithgow for the County Meeting'. He describes the applications he has made to the Lords of the Treasury and the Prince Regent and a correspondence between the Keeper of the Palace and the Secretary of State. 'Your Lordship is aware that the Building is a complete Ruin; & of no use whatever it its present state to any one .'. Hopetoun House. 23 May 1819. unknown
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Sir George Thomas Napier (1784-1855), distinguished British army officer who served in the Peninsular War and commanded the army
Sir George Thomas Napier distinguished soldier. Autograph Letter Signed 'Geo. Napier' to 'Captn. Hamilton' regarding his request for a position and quoting from a letter from Secretary at War Fox Maule.
Geneva. 11 July 1855. The letter must have been written in 1855 as Fox Maule later Earl of Dalhousie was appointed Secretary of State for War on 8 February of that year and Napier died on 16 September. 4pp 16mo. Bifolium with black border. Loss to part of second leaf caused by removal from mount resulting in loss of a few words of text otherwise in good condition. Begins: 'In consequence of a letter from my Son William of your regt. i.e. the King's Own Scottish Borderers stating your wish to be appointed a Paymaster to the Out Pensioners I wrote to my friend Mr Fox Maule the Secy. at War & herewith give you the answer which I am sorry to say holds out but little prospect of success'. He proceeds to transcribe Fox Maule's letter dated 'War Office 8th. July' adding: 'You had better not depend much upon this but use all other interest you may have in that quarter as the more Irons you have in the fire the better!' He concludes 'Lady Napier joins me in best compliments to Mrs. Hamilton'. In a postscript he asks for Hamilton to give the Napiers' best regards to a 'friend' whose name has been torn away 'at Chatham'. Napier's son Major-General William Craig Emilius Napier 1818-1903 would end his career as Governor of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Geneva. 11 July [1855]. unknown
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Sir George Nugent 1st Baronet 1757 1849 Field Marshal in the British Army and Governor of Jamaica Nathaniel Wallich born Nat
Sir George Nugent Field Marshal and Governor of Jamaica. Autograph Letter Signed 'G. Nugent' congratulating the botanist Nathaniel Wallich on gaining financial independence through the post of Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens Calcutta
Westhorpe Westhorpe House Little Marlow Buckinghamshire . 23 June 1848. 3pp. 16mo. Bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged worn and creased. See both men's entries in the Oxford DNB. Nugent is delighted to learn of Wallich's 'appointment to the Superintendence of the Botanical Gardens at Calcutta' and is pleased that the post has made Wallich independent: 'I give myself Credit for having confirmed you in the Situation for it was highly favorable to the Company's Interests & I believe the Directors are sensible of it . What a Pleasure it must be to you to see alll your children provided for in such honorable Employment - It is a just Reward for all your Labours & you are fortunate in having adopted England as your Country where you can attend to their Interests'. He thanks him for sending a newspaper 'which reminds me of old Times though I have no longer any Tie in India'. He ends by offering to return any of the documents Wallich has sent him. Westhorpe [ Westhorpe House, Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire ]. 23 June 1848. unknown
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General Sir Dighton Probyn [ General Sir Dighton Macnaghten Probyn ] (1833-1924), British army officer and recipient of the Vict
General Sir Dighton Probyn. Autograph Letter in the third person as 'Comptroller & Treasurer of the Prince of Wales' Household' inviting Sir Robert Herbert to visit the Prince and his wife at Sandringham and giving transport details.
On letterhead of Sandringham Norfolk. 15 November 1884. 4pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged and a little smudged. He 'writes by direction of The Prince and Princess of Wales to invite him to pay their Royal Highnesses a visit at Sandringham from Saturday next the 22nd. Inst. to remain till Monday the 24th. He gives details of the best train to catch to 'Wolferton the Station for Sandringham' where there will be 'conveyances to take Sir Robert and the other Guests travelling by the same Train from the Station to the House'. On letterhead of Sandringham, Norfolk. 15 November 1884. unknown
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Lord Raglan [ FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan; Lord FitzRoy Somerset ] (1788-1855), British army officer, commander during th
Lord Raglan British commander during the Crimean War. Autograph Signature 'Fitzroy Somerset' as frank on front of envelope addressed by him to Lt-Col. Richard Jones of the Royal Horse Artillery.
'Dover December twenty six 1845'. On one side of 7.5 x 12 cm piece of paper cut from front panel of envelope. Postmarked 'Shooters Hill Penny Post'. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. Laid out in the customary fashion all in his hand and reading: 'Dover December twenty six 1845 Lt. Colonel Richd Jones R Horse Artillery Woolwich Kent Fitzroy Somerset'. 'Dover December twenty six 1845'. unknown
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Thomas Garth 1744 1829 British Army officer chief Equerry to George III and alleged lover of his daughter Princess Sophia by
Thomas Garth Equerry to George III and alleged lover of the King's daughter Princess Sophia. Autograph Letter in the third person to 'Mr Ford' discussing the king's forthcoming movements.
'The Kings Mews Tuesday August 13th 1799'. 1p 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Reads 'Major General Garth presents his Compliments to Mr Ford and informs Him that Their Majesties and Princesses stop to breakfast at Hartford Bridge – and once afterwards for five Minutes at Stoney Cross – The Compton Arms – between Rumsey & Kingwood.' Postscript: 'The Majr Genl: supposes Mr Ford is acquainted that The King leaves Windsor 17th next.' Ford – the son of Queen Charlotte's physician James Ford – was clearly enquiring with regard to the king's itinerary for security purposes. According to his entry in the History of Parliament 'In 1792 he was appointed magistrate of Shadwell police court. He was subsequently employed by the Home Office to collect information on radical agitators and manage French agents. … At the time of his death he was acting magistrate for the Home Office.' See his entry and those of Garth and Princess Sophia in the Oxford DNB. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter 1923-1981 whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' 1969 suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'. 'The Kings Mews Tuesday August 13th, 1799'. unknown
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Sir William Napier [General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier] (1785-1860), Irish soldier in British Army and military historia
General Sir William Napier Irish soldier historian of the Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed 'W N' to 'Macdonald' declining to ask for rank of Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath with resentment towards Admiral Sir William Parker.
'Rotterdam Dec 13' on paper with watermark date 1830. 4pp 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition on lightly-aged paper with minor traces of tape from mount adhering along one edge. Endorsed 'Genl. Wm. Napier'. On wove paper with watermark 'CANSELL 1830'. The letter - written with energy and some resentment - refers to Admiral Sir William Parker 1781-1866 who was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1815. It is headed 'Private & Confidential' and begins: 'My dear Macdonald In reflection I decided not to ask for the rank you suggested because I thought it might be considered a personal favor & not an act which conferred personal dignity on one of the King's Agents & I detest asking for favors especially from persons unwilling to grant them.' He continues: 'Lord Palmeston ought to see & judge himself whether or not the public service is benefitted by such rank being conferred my own belief is that when An Agent goes amongst these Military Nations where Military rank is alone considered the higher the rank of the Agent the easier he can do his duty.' Nevertheless Napier will not ask '& without asking nothing is given in England'. He continues: 'I think I was ill used in not having the 2d Order of the Bath given to me when it was given to Adl. Parker. We were colleagues on the same station he a New Admiral I a Brigadier General with fuller powers than he had for when two Ministers like Asses sent our fleet to Sea where it remained at a great expense from near 2 to the Nation I alone had the Power to call it into the Tagus & did call it into the Tagus on my own responsiblity which act was approved of by the Ministry. However they gave Parker the Bath & not me but I certainly shall not ask for it. Nor have I ever nor shall I ever complain of not having it & say to to you & to you alone in strict Confidence'. 'Rotterdam Dec 13' [on paper with watermark date 1830]. unknown
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Field Marshal William Harcourt (1743-1830), 3rd Earl Harcourt, army officer, Master of the Horse to Queen Charlotte, Colonel of
Field Marshal William Harcourt 3rd Earl Harcourt. Autograph Signature 'Harcourt' to a secretarial letter to 'Mr Simpson' soliciting his vote for Captain Sir Murray Maxwell's candidacy in the Westminster election.
St. Leonard's. 10 June 1818. 1p. 4to. Bifolium. Addressed with postmarks on reverse of second leaf to 'Mr. Simpson Clothiere St. Martin's Lane London.' In fair condition on aged paper. Docketted with Harcourt's dates. The letter reads: 'Sir Captain Sir Murray Maxwell having signified his intention of offering himself as a Candidate for Westminster at the ensuing Election; I shall be much obliged to you if you will give him Your Vote upon that occasion.' In the 1818 general election Maxwell 1775-1831 was defeated by less than 400 votes losing to Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir Francis Burdett. The campaign ruined him financially and his health was permanently undermined after he was struck in the back in Covent Garden by a paving stone thrown from a mob opposed to his candidacy. St. Leonard's. 10 June 1818. hardcover
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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge [ Lord Hardinge ] (1785-1856), Field Marshall in the British Army and Conservative politic
Field Marshall Henry Hardinge 1st Viscount Hardinge army officer and politician. Autograph Letter Signed 'Hardinge' congratulating 'Colonel Abbott' Sir Frederick Abbott on his knighthood.
Great Stanhope Street London . 6 June 1854. 2pp. 12mo. With postmarked frank again signed 'Hardinge' addressed to 'Colonel Abbott C. B. Addiscombe'. In good condition lightly aged and worn. He is pleased that Abbott is 'to receive a mark of distinction from the Queen which combines the satisfaction which your Services have given at Addiscombe Abbott had become lieutenant-governor of Addiscombe Seminary in 1851 with those which you so efficiently & ably performed in the field in India'. He hopes to shake him at the hand 'at the Levée'. Great Stanhope Street [ London ]. 6 June 1854. unknown
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General Sir Kenneth Anderson [General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC] (1891-1959), commander of British First Army du
General Sir Kenneth Anderson commander of British First Army during Operation Torch. Autograph Letter Signed 'Kenneth Anderson' discussing Kenya the 'severe crisis' in Britain conscription. With ANS from recipient Brigadier H. H. Dempsey
Dun Eaglais Kippen Stirlingshire Scotland. 14 February 1947. Dempsey's note dated 10 August 1960. Dempsey's obituary in The Times explains how 'In April 1945 he was appointed Brigadier I/C Administration East Africa Command' holding the position into the following year and retiring in December 1947 on account of ill health. For a full account of Dempsey's military career see his entry in Catholic Who's Who vol.35 1952. In an eight-line Autograph Note Signed at the end of Anderson's letter Dempsey states that Anderson 'had been my personal & immediate superior as G.O.C. in C. East Africa Command when I was his Brigadier I/C Administration. He became Governor of Gibraltar and has been dead some time now having himself got a coronary thrombosis.' The present item is an Air Mail letter. 4pp. 12mo. Bifolium on blue paper. Addressed to 'Brigadier M. C. sic Demspey CBE No 87 General Hospital Nairobi Kenya Colony'. Anderson has confused Dempsey with the more illustrious General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey 1896-1969.Anderson begins by condoling with Dempsey on 'a return of your thrombosis': 'it is no use going on kicking against the pricks and you must I fear face the need for a quiet life'. He next describes the weather in Scotland 'our 21st day of hard frost & snow'. A report on his wife's trip to the metropolis turns into an attack on the postwar Labour government: 'Kathleen is in London trying to buy clothes by candle & torch light and shivering in her hotel. I fear this country is in for a very severe crisis made worse by the theories & idealisms of the Govt which fiddles while Rome does not burn.' After more domestic news he reports: 'I saw Brown and also Fisher while in London at the end of last month. The War Office continues hopeful about all their grand schemes for Kenya: but it will be a miracle if they get 1/10th of the present estimated cost. And on the same lines I dont see how the country can carry a large Army and 18 months conscription. We are so hard pressed economically that I think it is fanstastic to try & carry such a Burden.' Dun Eaglais, Kippen, Stirlingshire [Scotland]. 14 February 1947. Dempsey's note dated 10 August 1960. hardcover
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