1942ref. 88061Atlanta: Army Press 1942. Hardcover. Good. photos 134p. Red cloth. 31cm. Cover scuffed and worn along joints and other extremities. Contents sound A pictorial history of the stateside training and organization of this segregated unit for African Americans. Separate sections are devoted to the 350th 351st and 353rd Field Artillery Regiments and the 46th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Army Press hardcover books
1950ref. 218504Japan: Camp Whittington Kagohara Japan. 1950. Ten black and white original photographs of members of the battalion attached with staples at corners to leaves of the album a colour photograph is loosely inserted 5 12pp 15.2 x 24cm cord ties corners bumped sellotape repair corners upper cover a little staining around outer margins leaves not affecting the photographs wrappers worn lower wrapper stained. Although showing signs of use and age the photographs are in good condition. Scarce. A photograph album of the 82nd Battalion's Organization Day at Camp Whittington which was located in Kagohara Saitama Prefecture. The album was compiled to mark the anniversary of the Battalion's founding which fell on 6 June 1950. This is significant because that date was just three weeks before the outbreak of the Korean War. This collection of photos thus shows up the battalion on the eve of war. The first five pages give a history of the battalion from its founding in 1917 through the Second World War when it was deployed to Australia and saw action in the Pacific to occupation of Japan where it was based at "Camp Whittington" near Kagohara in Saitama Prefecture. The cover photo shows the entrance to the base. The black and white photographs show the members of the battalion and are accompanied by a list of the members' names. One of the photographs is taken with Mt. Fuji in the background. There are also photos of the camp's main buildings and of members of the battalion with their unit's ceremonial shield. Interestingly a previous owner has inserted his own colour photo of a 82nd Battalion veteran's reunion held at Fort Hood Texas in 1995 though the only name which appears both in the album and on the 1995 photo appears to be that of John A. Skidmore. The Japanese Imperial Army established its Army Air Training School at Kagohara in 1935. After the camp was returned to the Japanese government in 1958 the base has been used by the Japanese Air Defence Force as a training school. . Camp Whittington Kagohara Japan. unknown
ref. 16769On letterhead of the Langham Hotel Portland Place London England. 'Dec 3d. 1872 5 PM'. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition aged and creased with traces of a grey paper mount on the reverse of the second leaf which also has a closed tear unobtrusively repaired with archival tape. Addressing his letter to 'Mr Edwin sic Draper Vincent Square Westminster' he apologises profusely for missing an appointment: 'Before leaving the theatre Saturday evening last I made a memorandum of the hour appointed to call at your residence to day.' At the time of the writing of the letter 5p.m. he has 'just been looking for your card and place of residence and find that I should have called at 3 1/2 PM instead of 5 1/2 as I had got it in my head'. He hopes that Draper will not think him 'ungenerous' and assures him that the visit would have given him great pleasure. In 1867 having returned to his Wisconsin farm after serving in the Union army Bates made a bet with a neighbour that he could not walk through the southern states with the Union flag owing to the bitterness and Confederate sentiments of the southerners. Having been reported on by Mark Twain Bates won his bet as everywhere he went he was greeted with kindness. 1872 saw a similar bet $1000 to Bates's $100 when he repeated his perambulations in England then considered to be harbouring Confederate sympathies. Such was the positive response that halfway through the English march he cabled back to America: 'Cancel wager. I regard this mission as something finer than a matter of money.' On letterhead of the Langham Hotel, Portland Place, London, England. 'Dec 3d. 1872 | 5 PM'. unknown
1857ref. 23016Olmutz: Franz Slawik 1857. First Edition. Twentieth century cloth backed boards with original printed green wrappers in place; untrimmed. Very good; occasional dust smudges. 8vo viii 1 - 99 1 - blank 2 - plate legend and errata pp. 8 large folding lithographic plates 7 numbered and one un-numbered and a large folding table. A work meant for the general officers of the army to familiarize them with the newest innovations in equipment and tactics of utilizing artillery in the field or embrasures. OCLC cites two locations. Franz Slawik hardcover books
1924ref. 61460Fort Shafter H.T.: 64th Artillery Coast Artillery Corps. Feb. 1924. Oblong folio. 13.25 x 10.25 in. 11 leaves unnumbered. With 11 silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized 9 x 7 in. 1 w/ identifying text w/in negative photographic reproduction of TLS sent to the unit. Gray softcovers with 7 x 5 in. silver gelatin photo mounted front cover white manuscript title lettering punch sewn w/ red silk braid at gutter margin minor chipping to gutter margin front cover partially loose minor chipping to corners still VG- exemplar. A very rare souvenir album documenting one of the continuous nighttime anti-aircraft drills executed in conjunction with the 5th Army Air Force Group in order to better train for possible enemy nighttime aerial assaults on Hawaii between the Wars. These not only offered the 5th Group pilots night flying training but also sharpened and honed the skills of the CAC groups in the 64th Artillery coordinating targeting and their searchlights hunting for possible enemy aircraft. The photos depict the entire Battery C personnel weaponry and several of night firing in conjunction with the searchlights. See: William Cahill Foundation of Pacific Air War Strategy: Interwar Hawaii Air Operations Air Power History Vol. 67 No. 3 Fall 2020 pp. 7-32. 64th Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps., paperback
19268vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 40 plates in monochrome, and 35 illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. White, p.198.
ref. 51-7060Philadelphia: William Brotherhead 1861. Folio. Original gilt embossed covers with new goatskin spine by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.27.5 x 34.5cm. Ownerhip inscription of Captain H.G. Van Vered 5th U.S. Artillery .Content: Contains fac-simile letters reproductions of handwriting of the signers offering a glimpse into their personal correspondence.Illustrations: Includes 61 engravings based on original photographs and drawings of the signers' residences and portraits.Wright Howes Final Edition no. 814; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:19373779: viii 114 pages illustrations including facsimiles portraits . From the collection of Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr 1926-2014 the founder of Gale Research Detroit. Philadelphia: William Brotherhead , 1861 unknown
1874ref. 012516London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor. COPY OWNED BY REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER WITH ALS FROM AUTHOR PRESENTING THE BOOK. First edition large 4to purple cloth elaborately decorated in gilt aeg with numerous full page "illustrations of localities and scenes around Stratford Upon-Avon by the helioytype process". Disbound copy covers worn spine browned. With references in the text to Rev. Beecher's visit with his wife to Stratford on Avon in 1850 with a treatment of his observations thereof. Rev. Beecher's bookplate with his address of 82 Columbia St on the pastedown. The author James Walter a Liverpool shipowner is declared on the title page as Major of the Fourth Lancashire Artillery Volunteers an organization that he founded. The Volunteer Movement in England took hold after an invasion scare in 1859. The volunteer units were composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the regular British Army. The Lancashire Artillery that Walter founded was one of the first and the largest in the Volunteer Movement. Walter's ALS dated Chicago February 4 1883 is on letterhead of the Grand Pacific Hotel where both Walter and the famous Rev. Beecher 1813 - 1887 Congregational clergyman orator abolitionist and social reformer were hotel guests. The letter transcribed see below xxxx indicating unreadable reveals what an operator Walter was. Using both flattery of Beecher and feigned self-deprecation he tries to ingratiate himself to Beecher's favor apparently with the purpose of selling Beecher some portraits of George Washington by Shapler that were "owned by his family". He obsequiously points to the section of the book a rather pretentious grand state-of-the-art production for the time which describes Beecher's visit to Stratford on Avon "look to page 77 for your own beautiful paper". Walter also name-drops Rev. David Swing who as the most popular clergyman of Chicago of the time naturally would have been known to and by Beecher. An interesting curio of an artifact. GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL Chicago Reverend H. W. Beecher Chicago 4 Feb 1883 My Dear Sir On my arrival in New York last pairl I ried to see you but vailnly - sickness anxiety xxxxxx discouragments consequent on being utterly unknown in the mighty Babel of dollars caused my return to my name of his estate in England - I am within the last 2 months returned and find myself here in Chicago - I make another effort to shake your warm hand - a xxxx xxxx of your Star papers now for over thirty years compels it - and I want you to see the Shapler Washington portraits owned by my family which are here in the Pacific Hotel with me - they are best seen under the Electric Light in the Corridor or Drawing Room here - If you will kindly let me know any hour after 5 tomorrow Monday or Tuesday I will have been pleased xxxx xxxx - I am deeply anxious you should have been - I am a stranger as you see in America - though here in Chicago Professor Swing has been most kind to me - Do me the xxxx of accepting my "Shakespeare House" book: it will carry you to Stratford so deeply impressed on your heart and mind - and invaluable only for its illustrations - look to page 77 your own xxxx beautiful paper. Dont trouble to call on my room 395. I will call at your room anytime you let me know convenient - my room is a Den - when at home I am a horticulturalist. My xxxx friend the author of "Lorna Doone" xxxx grown Pears Plums and Apples - alas the reason for xxxxx pasts have all nigh driven us to the Worldhome - xxxxx my wife and daughters to "tidy up" English fashion - my palace is a very xxx of confusion worse confounded. Respectfully Dear Sir James Walter. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer hardcover
1874ref. 012516London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor. COPY OWNED BY REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER WITH ALS FROM AUTHOR PRESENTING THE BOOK. First edition large 4to purple cloth elaborately decorated in gilt aeg with numerous full page "illustrations of localities and scenes around Stratford Upon-Avon by the helioytype process". Disbound copy covers worn spine browned. With references in the text to Rev. Beecher's visit with his wife to Stratford on Avon in 1850 with a treatment of his observations thereof. Rev. Beecher's bookplate with his address of 82 Columbia St on the pastedown. The author James Walter a Liverpool shipowner is declared on the title page as Major of the Fourth Lancashire Artillery Volunteers an organization that he founded. The Volunteer Movement in England took hold after an invasion scare in 1859. The volunteer units were composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the regular British Army. The Lancashire Artillery that Walter founded was one of the first and the largest in the Volunteer Movement. Walter's ALS dated Chicago February 4 1883 is on letterhead of the Grand Pacific Hotel where both Walter and the famous Rev. Beecher 1813 - 1887 Congregational clergyman orator abolitionist and social reformer were hotel guests. The letter transcribed see below xxxx indicating unreadable reveals what an operator Walter was. Using both flattery of Beecher and feigned self-deprecation he tries to ingratiate himself to Beecher's favor apparently with the purpose of selling Beecher some portraits of George Washington by Shapler that were "owned by his family". He obsequiously points to the section of the book a rather pretentious grand state-of-the-art production for the time which describes Beecher's visit to Stratford on Avon "look to page 77 for your own beautiful paper". Walter also name-drops Rev. David Swing who as the most popular clergyman of Chicago of the time naturally would have been known to and by Beecher. An interesting curio of an artifact. GRAND PACIFIC HOTEL Chicago Reverend H. W. Beecher Chicago 4 Feb 1883 My Dear Sir On my arrival in New York last pairl I ried to see you but vailnly - sickness anxiety xxxxxx discouragments consequent on being utterly unknown in the mighty Babel of dollars caused my return to my name of his estate in England - I am within the last 2 months returned and find myself here in Chicago - I make another effort to shake your warm hand - a xxxx xxxx of your Star papers now for over thirty years compels it - and I want you to see the Shapler Washington portraits owned by my family which are here in the Pacific Hotel with me - they are best seen under the Electric Light in the Corridor or Drawing Room here - If you will kindly let me know any hour after 5 tomorrow Monday or Tuesday I will have been pleased xxxx xxxx - I am deeply anxious you should have been - I am a stranger as you see in America - though here in Chicago Professor Swing has been most kind to me - Do me the xxxx of accepting my "Shakespeare House" book: it will carry you to Stratford so deeply impressed on your heart and mind - and invaluable only for its illustrations - look to page 77 your own xxxx beautiful paper. Dont trouble to call on my room 395. I will call at your room anytime you let me know convenient - my room is a Den - when at home I am a horticulturalist. My xxxx friend the author of "Lorna Doone" xxxx grown Pears Plums and Apples - alas the reason for xxxxx pasts have all nigh driven us to the Worldhome - xxxxx my wife and daughters to "tidy up" English fashion - my palace is a very xxx of confusion worse confounded. Respectfully Dear Sir James Walter. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer hardcover books
1917ref. 011710Beccles: William Clowes And Sons Limited 1917. Hawks copy with his bookplate. Book measures 18.5x12.5.cm. viii. 1661pp. 7 plates including frontis. Bound in original publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed minor wear loss on corners light rippling to back board. Binding in good clean condition. Internally contect very slightly loose. Pages in very good clean condition. A nice copy. . Cloth. Near Very Good. 8vo. William Clowes And Sons, Limited Hardcover
1897ref. 61737Bucuresci: Institutul de Arte Grafice Carol Göbl. 1897. Titelblatt und 30 (von 31) gefalteten Tafeln. Unpag. Quart. Rücken etwas eingerissen, kleines Signaturschild auf Vorderdeckel, 1 Tafel aufgrund der Faltung etwas gerändert Halbleinen mit Deckelschild.
1816ref. 15821Bound in 11 orig. blue boards. (Vol. 1 in second printing). With ab. 15 engraved plates.
1816ref. 15821Bound in 11 orig. blue boards. Vol. 1 in second printing. With ab. 15 engraved plates. hardcover
1797ref. 59582No place but Copenhagen 1797. Folio 33 x 22 cm. In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Stamp and two labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Written in fine legible hand on good paper. Fine and clean. 172 ff. Volume 1 out of presumably 3 of a manuscript on artillery in German. hardcover
1797ref. 59582[No place, but Copenhagen], 1797. Folio (33 x 22 cm). In contemporary half calf with five raised bands. Stamp and two labels pasted on to pasted down front end-paper. Written in fine legible hand on good paper. Fine and clean. 172 ff.
1840ref. 58478Paris, Corréard Jeune, 1840. Folio. (45 x 30,5 cm.). Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. (4) pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates (double-folio).
1840ref. 58478Paris Corréard Jeune 1840. Folio. 45 x 305 cm. Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper board. 4 pp. and 18 folded lithographed plates double-folio. hardcover
1919ref. 136972London: 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd' 1919. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. London 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd' 1919. Large quarto 366 × 268 mm 4 leaves printed rectos only each with a reproduction of ornate Honor Rolls drawn and designed by Gunner Sergeant then Staff-Sergeant P.R. Wightman between 1916 and 1919 with the battalion colours printed in red and blue. The basic units of design are large-calibre shells and the end results are stunning no pun intended!. Pictorial card covers bound with red and blue cord the battalion colours; covers lightly rubbed at the extremities and lightly foxed at the rear with minimal surface loss to silverfish at the front; cord lightly faded; an excellent copy internally fine. The front cover artwork is by the British artist Harry Payne 1858-1927. Not in Dornbusch; Fielding and O'Neill page 223. 'Published for the 18th Battery AIF by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd' paperback
1851ref. RO80104575DUMAINE J.. 1851. In-4. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Rousseurs. 355 pages + XI planches de plans et dessins en noir et blanc. Titre, tomaison et fleurons dorés sur demi-chagrin marrron. Etiquette de code sur la coiffe en-tête et tampons de bibliothèque sur la page de titre et dans quelques marges.. . . . Classification Dewey : 358-Artillerie. Forces aériennes et spatiales
ref. RO80107324LIBRAIRIE CHARLES. Non daté. In-4. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. Ouvrages rarissimes de 225 et 237 pages. Nombreuses planches d'illustrations et photos en noir et blanc et de cartes en couleurs (certaines dépliantes). Culs-de-lampe. Dos renforcé par une bande, avec code de bibliothèque sur la coiffe en-tête. Tampons de bibliothèque sur la page de titre et dans quelques marges. Un accroc au centre du dos du 1er Tome.. . . . Classification Dewey : 358-Artillerie. Forces aériennes et spatiales
ref. MAR4Sept volumes reliés. Illustrations de MICH et E. MONTAUT.
1846ref. tt4055Paris, chez J. Dumaine, libraire de l'Empereur, rue et passage Dauphine, 30, Paris, J. Dumaine Reliure 1846 "Trois volumes in-4 (22,5 x 27,5 cm.), reliés demi-chagrin rouge, fleurons, titre, auteur et tomaison dorés aux dos à 5 nerfs, tranches supérieures mouchetées, couvertures conservées, complet des planches: vol. I (10 planches) / vol. II (11 planches) / vol. III (57 planches), l'auteur du tome III ""Histoire des progrès de l'artillerie"" est différent, il s'agit de Favé (colonel d'artillerie, l'un de ses aides de camp) ; trace d'insolation sur la partie supérieure du tome III, mors antérieurs des tomes I et II mangés par les vers, coins frottés, rares traces aux plats, autres galeries de vers au chagrin du tome I (coiffes, dos, mors postérieur), légère rousseurs, en l'état. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
ref. 224700Toulouse, Charles Letrait, Impr. Dulaurier, 1978-1979; 5 vol. in-4, broché, couvertures imp. sur papiers de couleurs. petit accroc sans gravité au dos du tome 3, légère usure d'usage.
1919ref. 129513Adelaide: W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Adelaide W.K. Thomas and Co. Printers 1919. Octavo 247 pages with 2 full-page illustrations plus a frontispiece a small folding plate with before-and-after aerial views and 4 folding maps. Tan stippled cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth a little flecked with minor loss to the head of the spine slight loss to the foot and light wear to the corners; front flyleaf laid down on the pastedown with ownership details - see below - still legible in reverse; two small pieces of clear tape on the pastedowns; textblock reinserted in the binding with minor blemishes to the inner hinges and the frontispiece and title leaf a little out of alignment; one leaf pages 15/16 listing those killed in action chipped and creased on all margins possibly detached at some stage; minor signs of age and use; overall a decent copy. The ink ownership details of a member of the brigade 32988 Gunner Charles Francis John Davidson are written on the original flyleaf see page 96 for his details in the nominal roll: 'Joined - 11/9/17 Wounded - 2/11/17 Ypres Transferred to Corps Educational School - 7/1/19'. An unusual approach has been adopted for this history: apart from a few preliminaries a chronology of movements of the Brigade 10 pages the Roll of Honour and list of Honours and Awards totally 16 pages the bulk of the book is devoted to biographical information about every member of the unit 217 pages. The book's imminent publication was advertised in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' 17 September 1919. Dornbusch 308; Fielding and O'Neill page 223; Trigellis-Smith 305. W.K. Thomas and Co., Printers hardcover
ref. 1291021st Field Artillery Brigade A.I.F 1919. 8vo 247pp. Black & white folding maps. A very good hardback copy with bump to top edge. With inscription from Corporal V.C. Reid of the 1st Field Artillery Brigade to an S.L. Reid. 1st Field Artillery Brigade, A.I.F, 1919 hardcover
