1981réf. 2090202120809738Not Available 1981. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
1945réf. 78-1065BFrankfurt: Otto Lembeck 1945. 1945. 60p. Combat history. Roll of Honor KIA. Rosters at printing by Company. Group Photos. Large Wraps. Tear at foot of spine. Very Good copy. Paperback. Very Good. Book. Frankfurt: Otto Lembeck, 1945. Paperback
1994réf. L3 box774 b2Prison-Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Ball's Bluff Prisoner Lieut. WM. C. Harris of Col. Baker's California Regiment. Second Printing by BookCrafters Inc. in 1994 from the 1862 Edition by George W. Childs. Hardcover 175 pp. BookCrafters, Inc. hardcover
1900réf. 304367New York 1900. 2 pp. illuminated manuscript on vellum signed by Captain Morton B. Steele and Benj. H. Plattt Secretary. Reversed calf. Fine. 2 pp. illuminated manuscript on vellum signed by Captain Morton B. Steele and Benj. H. Plattt Secretary. "At a meeting of Company F Seventh Regiment N.C. N.Y. held April fifth nineteen hundred it was unanimously Resolved that the officers and members of the Sixth Company tender their sincere thanks to Edward Kemp. Esq. for the delightful entertainments which they owe to his kind and generous thoughtfulness ." The Seventh Regiment Armory is now more commonly called the Park Avenue Armory. unknown
1892réf. 6205Chicago: Women's Temperance Publishing Association 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo 672 pages embossed cloth hinges cracked edgeworn The "Old Thirteenth" was raised at Dixon Illinois in May 1861. It took 25 years after the War before the comrades organized to collect letters and diaries and oral accounts for this work. Plates portraits maps. Women's Temperance Publishing Association hardcover
réf. 3727709New York: Published for the Seventh Regiment Athletic Association by F.M. Crossett Co. “F” 156 Fifth Avenue 1896. 4 60pp. Program. 9½ x 6¾ inches. Color illustrated wrappers; stapled. Half tone illustrations from photographs; ads. Vertical center crease; rubbing to spine with some separation to wrappers at the head; still very good. Unrecorded 1896 program for New York’s Seventh Regiment’s annual annual athletic games competition held at the regiment’s Park Avenue armory. The illustrated program comprises a roster of the officers of the Seventh Regiment Athletic Association and the event’s floor committee; an outline of the regiment’s training practices; the order of the 30 track and field events; a floor-plan or map of the armory’s indoor parade floor indicating starting points and finish lines ; record times for each event; and a complete list of the officers and soldiers entered in each event and the regimental company to which each belonged. Half tone illustrations depict the Seventh Regiment Athletic Association’s officers the regimental line and its colors training exercises the Park Avenue Armory and the baseball teams of both the regiment and United States Military Academy West Point. Competitive events included runs some handicapped of various distances ranging from 75 yards to 1000 yards hurdle races an eight-lap relay race a shot putting event safety bicycle races and a running high jump competition. Less formally athletic events included a “Roman Chariot” race “Four men and driver the latter to appear in fancy costume” a sack race a potato race and a three-legged race. New York’s Seventh Regiment was comprised of members of New York’s social élite. The regiment was formed before the American Civil War assuming its present name in 1847 as the Seventh Regiment of Infantry National Guard New York State Militia. The color cover illustration depicts the regiment’s unit insignia comprising a circular blue garter inscribed with the motto “Pro Patria et Gloria” For Country and Glory the number “7” the initials “NG” National Guard on a field of red and a winged helmet hanging below. No copies in OCLC. unknown
1909réf. 40921Memphis Tennessee: E. H. Clarke & Brother. Very Good. 1909. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Small grey cloth hardcover with gold writting on the title. Corners and bottom of spine are worn some markins on the cover. Pages are slightly aged and there are a couple small feded pencilings inside the cover. Otherwise the interior is excellent condition. Book has been glassine wrapped for protection. ; 5 3/4" x 8"; 189 pages . E. H. Clarke & Brother hardcover
1982réf. 2091502135501166Railway 15th Regiment Comrades Association 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 343p Box size: 16x22cm Railway 15th Regiment Comrades Association paperback
1940réf. 77-1757Np C. 1940. 1940. 6 printed organization charts of the SS Kavallerie regiment. In paper covered boards. Green cloth spine. Rubber stamp of "SS Kavallerie Regiment Abt Dienstvorschrifte" inside. Label on front: "Nur fur den Dienstgebrauch Marschlangen Dies ist ein geheimer Gegenstand im Sinne des §88 Reichs-Straf-Gesetzbuchs Fassung vom 24. April 1934. Missbrauch wird nach den Bestimmungen dieses Gesetzes bestraft sofern nicht andere Strafbestimmungen in Frage kommen." For Official Use Only. March Lengths. In accordance with §88 of the Reich Criminal Code edition from 24 Apr 1934 this is a secret subject-matter. Abuse will be punished according to the provisions of this law unless other penal provisions apply.Very Good Copy. Hardcover. Very Good. Np, C. 1940. Hardcover
1920réf. 151344London: R.A. War Commemoration Fund 1920. Pp. xxiv408 title page printed in red & black collotype frontispiece portrait of H.M. King George V with 1 cm. closed tear into margin from centre of fore-edge 12 hand-tipped and 13 coloured plates plus 9 sepia and 16 black & white plates text illustrations decorative bordered endpapers The Victoria Cross section printed in red & black roll of Honour 1914-1919 a poem by Anita Dudley some representative artillerymen biographies and collotype portrait with guard and 6 black & white plates of portraits; roy. 4to; navy cloth lettered and decorated in gilt the boards heavily faded more so on upper board spine browned edges worn fore-corners lightly frayed; t.e.g. others uncut; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown endpapers offset scattered foxing throughout occasionally heavy unidentified former owner's armorial bookplate on upper pastedown; R.A. War Commemoration Fund/G. Bell and Sons Ltd. London 1920. First edition. White p. 29. R.A. War Commemoration Fund unknown
1809réf. 66435London: printed for Richard Phillips Bridge Street Blackfriars 1809. First edition 8vo pp. 2 ii 288 16 Phillips catalog; folding frontispiece map 2 other folding maps; original blue paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; front endpapers and frontispiece dampstained spine worn with small chips out label chipped with loss of one letter; a good sound and but for the initial dampstains clean copy. On the front pastedown is armorial bookplate for Robert Montgomery / Convoy. Wikipedia notes that "The Walcheren Campaign was an unsuccessful British expedition to the Netherlands in 1809 intended to open another front in the Austrian Empire's struggle with France during the War of the Fifth Coalition. printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars unknown
réf. 20204Hamilton Lanarkshire Scotland. Declaration dated 13 July 1813. On both sides of a piece of vellum roughly 21 x 15.5 cm. An unusual survival aged and discoloured in the fashion customary with vellum. On the front is a design of an armorial shield encircled in draperies in ink and colours blue red yellow beneath which are the words 'Burgess Ticket for Captain Kennedy 1 Regt Royal Lanarkshire Local Militia 1813'. On the reverse all in the hand of the signatory: 'At Hamilton the thirteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirteen The which day in presence of William Hamilton and John Torrance Esqrs Baillies of the Burgh of Hamilton with Consent of the remaining Members of the Town Councill thereof Captain James Kennedy 1st Regt Royal Lanarkshire Local Militia was duly admitted Burgess of said Burgh with Liberty to him to Enjoy the whole Priviledges and Immunities thereto belonging as amply in all respoects as any Burgess does or can Enjoy who accepted thereof and Gave his Oath de fideli Extracted by A Hamilton Clk'. See Image. Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Declaration dated 13 July 1813. hardcover
réf. 8933Letter One: 'Camp Sebastopol. January 24th. 1856.' Letter Two: 'Camp 49 Regt Sebastopol. March 31st.'. Letter One: 12mo 4 pp. Bifolium. 75 lines of text. Clear and complete. Good on lightly-aged paper. Expresses regret at 'Morten Edens melancholy death so young & so clever as he was'. 'There is great talk of Peace. We hardly know if to believe it - few will be sorry should the news prove to be true as I think most of us have had enough fighting. Apparently refers to his sweetheart under a cypher. She has not written to him but 'London gaieties have little time for correspondence'. 'The weather here is something awful - cold & wet fogs & sleet. The place is a sea of mud up to your knees without exaggeration.' His father has sent him food and clothing. The officers are 'getting up a school for the men as the weather is too bad for drill' but 'there is no scarcity of work' with the roads requiring constant repair and 'the Minie Rifle Instruction' going on daily. 'There was a good deal of firing on Sunday night down by the Tchernaya - and we rather expected an attack however it all ended in Smoke.' The docks which he considers 'the most splendidly finished' he has ever seen 'built up of that beautiful red & blue granite' have 'all been blown up'. Letter Two: 12mo 4 pp. Bifolium. 67 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair on aged paper with 6 cm vertical closed tear through both leaves. Containing an interesting description of 'Spring horse races' which took place 'in the Valley of the Tchernaya' as a result of an armistice. The allied armies crowded the banks on one side of the river and on the other 'the Russians let loose for the occasion'. There was much bartering - 'Knifes sic Pipes Tobacco Money and various other articles . thrown across the river attached to a stone or enveloped in mud. The river is not more than 2 or 3 yards wide at some places so that we could have plenty of conversation with our Enemies without breaking the "General order". The French were allowed by their Chiefs to cross and they appeared to get on capitally with the Russian Officers'. The French fired 101 guns in a general salute to the heir to their emperor and the British returned the salute with the same number. Regarding the outcome of 'the conferences' hears that 'you people in England are very pugilistic and are determined to have war if you can'. Considers that the British Army 'was never in better condition for a campaign' and thinks it 'a pitty to stop just now'. Gibson was still alive in 1864 when he married Georgina Eliza daughter of William Clarke. Note: "The 49th was at the battles of Alma Inkerman and Sevastopol during which three Victoria Crosses were awarded to members of the Regiment." Letter One: 'Camp Sebastopol. January 24th. 1856.' Letter Two: 'Camp 49 Regt Sebastopol. March 31st.' hardcover
réf. 16670'Blooming Press Mooltan'. 1882. March lasting from 3 January to 18 March 1883. Printed on one side of piece of 50 x 32 cm wove paper. In good condition lightly aged and worn with strip of blue paper from stub adhering to blank reverse. A total of 75 entries in two tables 66 in the first and 9 in the second both arranged in eight columns as follows: 'Probable Date of arrival. 1883.' the only entry in this column is 'January' beside the first march 'No. of March' 'Stations' 'Distance Miles' 'No. of Route' 'Rivers' 'Villages' 'Remarks'. Beneath the table: 'Abbreviations - D. B. dak-bungalow; P. O. Post-Office R. S. railway-station; T. S. telegraph-station.' In large letters at bottom right: 'J. D. P. T. M.' Slug centred at foot: 'Blooming Press Mooltan sic'. The tables are filled with information. For example the first entry in the second table: 'No. of Marches 1 Stations. Gunesh Ghat Distance Miles 13 No of Route. 103 Rivers. Ramgunga bridge of boats Villages. Moradabad 2 1/2 Ramgunga 2 3/4 Remarks. en-camping ground right bank of Kosila road heavy water procurable'. And the last entry in the second column: 'No. of Marches 9 Stations. Shahjahanpur Distance Miles 13 3/8 No. of Route. 107 Rivers. Gurra bridged Villages. Buntara 6 Gurra 9. Remarks. Small cantomnent & civil Station water abundant.' Among the remarks for the fifty-second march in the first column to Koomrala is 'snipe shooting good'. From the papers of Colonel Edmund Alexander Grubbe 1857-c.1923 who describes the march in his journal. No item printed by the Blooming Press of Mooltan traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat. The name of the press may be a joke 'blooming' being slang for 'bloody' as in Kipling's 'When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre'. 'Blooming Press Mooltan'. [1882.] March lasting from 3 January to 18 March 1883. unknown
réf. 6a5681958-1974. leichte Gebrauchsspuren. - Die Aufnahmen zeigen: Manöver Grundausbildung / Funkwagen / Panzer / an Ehrenmal der Marine Laboe Flugabwehrkanone / Flugabwehr mit dem MG / Flußüberquerung im Großmanöver / Einsatz und Ausbildung in den USA / Boden-Luft-FK. SAM HAWK mit Ladefahrzeug / Raketenschule / Big-Air-Force Base Texas / einige wenige private Aufnahmen / Interessante umfangreiche Fotodokumentation - unknown
1899réf. 97079UK: Devonport 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth boards with gilt device to front board and titles to spine. Number 83 of a limited edition of 83. This copy belonged to Capt. H. Schofield The Welch Regiment. The volume has contemporay newspaer clippings attached to the prelims of the obituary of the author Captain Lomax killed at the battle of Osfontein in 1898. Devonport hardcover
1866réf. 378788Vicksburg Mississippi 1866. 8pp. comprised of two bifolium. 4to. Old folds tape repairs few short tears and nicks. 8pp. comprised of two bifolium. 4to. The 5th Regiment Heavy Artillery was organized from the 1st Mississippi Heavy Artillery African Descent. It was designated the 4th Heavy Artillery March 11 1864 and 5th Heavy Artillery April 26 1864. They were attached to 1st Division USCT Vicksburg Miss. through February 1865. It served garrison duty at Vicksburg Miss. until May 1866. Their expeditions included from Vicksburg to Rodney and Fayette September 29-October 3 1864; and expedition from Vicksburg to Yazoo City November 23-December 4 1864. The regiment was officially mustered out May 20 1866. unknown
1867réf. 17356Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. Good. 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt title on spine. xi 333pp . Pictorial frontispiece. Violet endpapers. Interior of text is tight clean and intact. Binder's ticket on lower rear pastedown: "Bound by Burn - 37 & 38 Kirby St". Scattered light foxing & edges are lightly rubbed. Inscription by the original owner dated 1867. India Asia ; 8vo; 333 pages . Edmonston and Douglas hardcover
réf. P12332Lower Bullingham Hereford: Special Air Service Regiment n.d. Pp. 94; demy 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers perforated with plastic binder upper wrapper protected by plastic cover sheet; an in-house photocopied manual; privately published by the Special Air Service Regiment Lower Bullingham Hereford n.d. Marked Private and Confidential. This SAS Bodyguard Training Manual from 22 SAS Stirling Lines is only available to those who undertake the course. This is usually people like The Royal Protection Squad and bodyguards of visiting Foreign Governments or VIP's. The course costs 'a33500vat as at March 2010. In 2009 a member of the regiment died on active service abroad. The MOD in their infinite wisdom refused to pay his army pension to his dependants on the grounds they were never married. This despite the fact they had two young kids and lived together as man and wife in Army married quarters for 12 years! The Families Officer of the Regiment is fighting the case. As you can imagine some of the lads still serving didn't take this too well and decided to take matters into their own hands. Some copies of The Bodyguard Training Manual were "acquired" and are being sold off with the money going direct to the dependants! Special Air Service Regiment unknown
1916réf. 152495London: Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co. Ltd 1916. In four volumes. Volume I: 1702-1914. Pp. xviii468 18 plates 2 coloured frontispiece tissue guard browned and creased text maps title page printed in fs24 red & blackfs26 ; Volumes II & III: 1914-1919. Introduction by Major-General Sir John R. Longley. Pp. xvi262x302 4 plates 2 folding 35 maps 10 folding; Volume IV: 1920-1952. Pp. 284last colophon frontispiece 8 plates text plus endpaper maps; top edge of free endpapers marked appendix Honours and awards index; Volumes I-III: cr. 4to; half black leather spines lettered in gilt gilt insignia to upper boards the leather worn and beginning to perish joints worn and with splits and chips particularly to head of spines the cloth soiled; t.e.g; endpapers browned and hinges cracked plus some water staining to top edge of several leaves towards end and lower endpapers of Volume I; Volume IV: demy 8vo; maize cloth spine lettered in gilt title on red ground; dust wrapper worn and with several splits and chips to edges; book label of David Levine Sydney on upper pastedown volumes 1-III and verso of upper free endpaper volume IV some foxing and browning to each of the four volumes occasionally heavy; Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co. Ltd./Medici Society London 1916-1957 First editions. White p. 84; Sutcliffe 1/pp. 193/4. Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co. Ltd unknown
1940réf. 53679N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1940. 1940. TEXAS WORLD WAR II. First edition. Stapled 6" x 9" brown printed wrappers with titles and unit insignia printed in black on the front and rear cover n. p. 39 pp. numerous illustrations from photographs. Camp Hulen was a military training camp near Palacios Texas operating from 1925 until 1946. At one time it supported the largest concentration of troops for field training in the U. S. military. In 1940 the War Department leased Camp Hulen from the Texas National Guard for antiaircraft training of National Guard units. At its peak the camp had facilities for 12000 military personnel. It continued as a training facility until 1944. The 197th Coast Artillery was one of these units. The oldest antiaircraft National Guard unit in the U.S. it was part of the New Hampshire National Guard. During World War II it was stationed in Australia as part of the defense against a feared Japanese invasion. This souvenir brochure shows group images of the various batteries making up the unit and its commanding officer. There are photographs of training exercises camp scenes recreation and social events including scenes from nearby Cuero and Palacious. Among the numerous images is a double page panoramic view of Camp Hulen in 1940. Also included is a history of the regiment and its unit. Very scarce with WorldCat locating only the copies at the United States War College and Yale. Faint evidence of a vertical crease to the front cover and minor wear to the top corner else a near fine copy of a scarce item. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1940). unknown
1929réf. 152983Frome Somerset: Butler & Turner 1929. Foreword by General Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien. In two volumes. Pp. xxxii764 frontispiece 1 folding and 43 full page plates 2 folding plus 35 full page text maps indices; cr. 4to; qr. purple cloth green cloth boards lettered ruled and decorated in gilt spines lightly faded boards lightly flecked and marked; upper hinges very slightly starting some light foxing surface damage to lower portion of lower free endpaper and lower pastedown in Volume II; Butler & Turner Frome Somerset 1929. White p. 101; Sutcliffe 1/p. 278. From the library of Lieut. Colonel H. F. N. Jourdain C.M.G. late The Connaught Rangers with his armorial bookplate on upper pastedowns and with presentation inscription to him 'by the Sherwood Foresters as some slight acknowledgement of his assistance in the compilation of this History.' Loosely inserted are two small autograph letters signed on embossed 'Upton Lodge Upper Hale Farnham Surrey' letterhead dated 15.3.33 3pp. and 21.3.33 2pp. addressed to 'Dear Jourdain' from Brigadier-General J. W. G. Roy concerning their contribution to the book and about the sending of this copy. Both men are acknowledged in the author's preface. Butler & Turner unknown
réf. 01110085Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Press This unit was part of the 14th Army Corps and fought extensively with Shermans army. It fought in the Army of the Cumberland from Perryville on they were with Sherman in the Atlanta Campaign on his famous march in Georgia and through the Carolina Campaign. Gilt and red titles on blindstamped deep blue cloth. 166pp. Owner's handstamp name on rear free end paper otherwise unmarked. An especially nice example of this scarce history. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo. The Ohio Valley Press Hardcover
réf. 12219Without place and date 1960s. The account describes events in April and May 1945. 13pp. foolscap 8vo. Paginated 1 to 13 and signed at the end 'Ernie Wilmott'. On seven leaves stapled into grey covers with the title 'The Last Month' typed on the front cover. In good condition in worn wraps. The account commences: 'There had been gun fire from the west and the south for the last three days. Friday the 13th April 1945 the usual officials did not come to fetch the men but a little later than usual the Gaschwyz sic column was called so we assembled and left for work about 20 of us. There was a lot of activity in the station yard German military vehicles were coming and going and a contingent of unarmed Russian fatigue men were on parade.' A typically vivid passage reads: 'In the morning of the 24th April I heard chaps reporting prisoners passing through and our guards not interfering a lot of Indians were going through without any guards. Chaps with kit got up early because of being cold. I got up after seven and went outside and saw the Indians going through. A column of Russian prisoners appeared with guards and were halted just outside. The German guards were standing about in groups talking to each other and taking no notice of the prisoners some of whom were already making off. A man got up on a cart and addressed us he said he couldn't advise us to go he couldn't advise us to stay the German commandant had said that if we stayed he would do his best to obtain food for us there was a horse dying in the next village and he had the first refusal of it if it expired and we should have it.' The account ends on Wilmott's return: 'At London I bid my comrades of the last 2 years goodbye and got on a train at Paddington. It was a noisy journey ex P.O.W.'s one side of the compartment civilians the other we all talked at once. At Bristol I had to catch a bus home and suddenly realised I had to pay the fare it was more than 3 years since I had paid a fare anywhere.' The covering Autograph Letter Signed by Batt is signed 'Jack' on letterhead of 1 Churstonville Court 1 Overbury Avenue Beckenham Kent. 1p. 4to. Undated and with recipient's name not given. 'The writer Ernie Willmott sic spoke 4 Languages and was learning Russian whilst POW in Germany. As he spoke German he was chosen as Camp Leader of our working Camp at Gaschwitz-Leipzig. Our Common path of experience starts at Campo 53 Page 69 - from there we were together unitl the war ended or shared similar experiences.' In a postscript he adds that Wilmott 'was not in Campo 66 at Capua but in hospital at Caserta'. Also present is a Typed Letter Signed to Batt from 'Charles'. On letterhead of 99 South Eden Park Road Beckenham Kent. 21 June 1974. 1p. 8vo. The 'article on Sidi Nsir' brings back 'many memories' and he is enclosing 'The Story of 46 Division'. Without place and date (1960s?). The account describes events in April and May 1945. paperback
1854réf. 266London: Richard Bentley 1854. First. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards were rebacked at some point but retained gilt stamped illustrated spine. Cloth is sunned to brown though and there is some dampstaining along the top edges. Front board illustrated with gilt stamped image of an ibex. Interior is clean save for previous owner's name on the the title page and a book plate on the inside front board. all 8 lithographs and folding map present and well preserved. All woodcut illustrations are intact as well. Richard Bentley hardcover
