colonel william b (17 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+ (in mylar). B&W Photographs (illustratore). First Printing. Immaculate and tight, appears unread; dust jacket lightly edge-worn. 534 pp. w/index Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Authors. Hard Cover.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 2011. Book is a FINE soft cover. 270 pages. Inscribed by author. Selling quality books for 40 years. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1986 Printing of 1971 First. Historical survey "which recounts the various activities of the Army Medical Department from June 1959 to June 1969", and clearly tells the story of "General Leonard D. Heaton's inspiring leadership that enabled the Medical Department to meet the great challenges of this tumultuous decade". This copy is "AS NEW" condition with only blemish being a stamp on the ffep "Surplus-2 Library of Congress Duplicate". Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Half-leather cover with marbled boards shows minor wear and rubbing. marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages tanned and clean. Includes: The Glenmutchkin Railway, Vanderdecken's Message Home, The Floating Beacon, Colonna the Painter, Napoleon, A Legend of Gibraltar, The Iron Shroud, Lazaro's Legacy, A Story without a Tail, Faustus and Queen Elizabeth, How I Became a Yeoman, Devereux Hall, The Metempsychosis, and College Theatricals.,

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine/hardcover. Nice condition.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Sixth Edition. 1899 the sixth edition. Size octavo, 204 pages plus publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Condition good, corners and edges rubbed, it appears that there was once a frontispiece that has been cut out at some point, spine a little faded, spotting to end-papers other pages are toned otherwise clean throughout. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condizione: Good. Good condition. (Medicine, Dentistry, Textbook, Dental Emergencies) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

hardcover with dustjacket. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition; no number line. No names or markings. The book is in fine condition. Dustjacket has some dings to the corners and the spine giving in near fine condition. Endsheet maps drawn by Robert J. McKinley. ; 5 3/4"-8 1/2"; 313 pages.

Softcover. Condizione: Very good. First Separate Edition. Small octavo, 59pp. A very good copy in the publisher's grey wraps. Bound into early 20th-century card covers. A few small chips to the extremities, but overall a crisp, fresh, bright copy. This is an uncommon pamphlet, with about a dozen copies in worldwide library holdings.

No pagination, textured cloth, illustrations, some browning of paper, o/w very good. First edition. Roster. Pictorial history- many photo illustrations with captions. B-24's; part of 8th Air Force.

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. First edition of Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois by Elihu B. Washburne, inscribed to Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Army officer and Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. (illustratore). First Edition. Octavo, 253pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers. Solid text block, faint discoloration to covers, light wear to gilt, spine ends and corners bumped. With engraved frontispiece portrait and tissue guard and 6 folded facsimile letters, light offsetting to text. (Graff 4552) Signed "William Lamb / from the author July '82" on the front free endpaper. Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois, serving from 1853-1869. An ardent abolitionist, Washburne was a leader among the Radical Republicans in Congress. During the Civil War, he was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant was elected president in 1868, Washburne briefly served as Secretary of State, then was appointed Minister to France. In retirement, Washburne wrote a memoir of his time spent in France, titled Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. The work was published shortly before his death in 1887. Signed.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Illustrated by Evison, G. Henry; Robinson, Wyndham P.; Wigfull, W.E.;Somerfield, Thomas; Peddie, Tom; Holmes, Fred; Burton, H.M. (illustratore). First Edition. Pages 303-396 plus 28 pages of ads, many wonderfully illustrated. Numerous black and white illustrations and photos in text. Features: Saved by Two Inches - How a big-horn sheep brought a veteran hunter to the verge of destruction in Montana; Gun-Running with Mexican Outlaw Emiliano Zapata - article with great photos; A Terrible Trip - Gold Searching in German New Guinea; Twenty Years in Newfoundland (Part II) - article with nice photos; Fishermen's Luck - a story from New Zealand involving T. Colthart, H. Hewlett and D.G. FitzGibbon; Across the Andes and Down the Amazon - the story of an adventurous journey (part II); The Well of Skulls - a story from Hyderabad; The Lake of Life - the Idiong secret society in Africa; The King Who Met His Match - a story from Sierra Leone; Trapped in a Tank (cover illustration); Captured by the Monkey-Men - an explorer's tale from the Orinoco River; The Smugglers of Gibraltar; Pete the Pup - an adventurous dog in New Mexico. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Minor chipping to back strip. Three inch opening between front cover and base of spine. Overall a pleasing copy of this wonderful vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Barr, William; Dunn, H.H.; Nicholls, G. HeatonGrenfell, Wilfred T.; Fagan, D.W.O.; Pratt, A.E.; Burton, Colonel R.G.; Talbot, P. Amaury; Blake, Harry M.; Guinand, W.B.; Villepion, Guy De; Barracliffe, Captain James The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine f.

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. First edition of Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois by Elihu B. Washburne, with a signed presentation letter from the author to Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Army officer and Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. (illustratore). First Edition. Octavo, 253pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers. Solid binding, scattered discoloration to cloth, gilt tarnished on spine, faint foxing to top edge of text block, spine ends and upper corners bumped, slight bow to front cover. A few smudge marks to text pages, later ownership inscription written in ink on title page. Contains an engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and six folded facsimile letters, light offsetting to text. Handwritten letter by the author to Col. Lamb attached to front flyleaf. In addition to commenting on the book, Washburne writes: ".I shall always guard the most agreeable souvenirs of my visit to the Old Dominion and of the many marked courtesies I received at your hand. / Should you ever visit Chicago, I shall expect the pleasure of entertaining you at my house. / I am, very truly yours, E.B. Washburne." (Graff 4552). Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois, serving from 1853-1869. An ardent abolitionist, Washburne was a leader among the Radical Republicans in Congress. During the Civil War, he was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant was elected president in 1868, Washburne briefly served as Secretary of State, then was appointed Minister to France. In retirement, Washburne wrote a memoir of his time spent in France, titled Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. The work was published shortly before his death in 1887. Signed.

Oblong 4to. (8 x 10 inches). First edition. *I-*IV [A4] B-M4 **I-IV. 56 ff. [1-112]. 112 pp. 56 copper engraved plates, 50 each with 12 cyphers; 6 other engraved plates with text in French and English. Coronets Frontispiece, Title, English Advertisement, French Advertisement, 50 Leaves of Cyphers. Frontispiece reads: "A book of cyphers composed by Col. Parsons. Imprimatur Carlisle. E. M. 1703." Priced bound at 12 shillings. 18 leaves with extensive contemporary ink manuscript penmanship editions on versos. Bound to style in quarter 18th-century morocco over 18th-century marble paper boards Extensively annotated first edition, Parsons's enigmatic cypher book draws on heraldy, cryptography, and typography, and led a craze for monogrammatic systems of which many imitators followed. "Such cyphers were extremely popular on both sides of the Atlantic during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. For inspiration in preparing clients' personal designs, engravers typically relied on guides by designers, such as William Parsons's New Book of Cyphers." - DDW Parsons's New Book of Cyphers was at the forefront of a publishing craze for cyphers in the 1700s; it was the fourth such book to be printed and dozens of nearly identical ones followed. Samuel Sympson released books with the exact same title as the present in 1739 and 1750. Phillip Barraud, meanwhile, had the good taste in 1782 to change Parsons's title by one word to "A New Book of Single Cyphers." Cyphers were used to create heraldic devices and monogrammatic signatures, to embroider on clothing, use as trademarks or store signs, or to incorporate into bookplates, as many book collectors have and continue to do. Cyphers differ from monograms in that the individual aspects of a cypher system can be exchanged without affecting the overall system; the letterforms in monograms must be redesigned each time. The cypher system, with its internal algorithmic rules and capacity for change, can easily encrypt secret messages, and has done so from mysterious medieval codices like the Voynich Manuscript to the communiques of British generals during the American Revolution to the blockchain and "crypto" today. Cyphers were so faddish in the 1700s, that people kept albums full of printed cyphers they had collected from their family, friends, and celebrities of the period. Cyphers, in other words, were treated something like autographs, something like business cards, something like keepsakes, and they were devices people and their families identified with strongly. The 600 engraved cyphers across 56 plates in this first edition of Parson's book each show how to interlink two separate letters within Parsons's larger system of encipherment. Parsons gives instructions in both French and English on how to use them to compose longer texts. Parsons comments severely in his preliminary "Advertisement" preface that the earlier works on the subject contained only half the required number of cyphers necessary to complete their alphabets. By extrapolating from Parsons's text and his supplied two-letter cypher building-blocks, one could create cyphers of any length that would maintain a consistent, coherent design and be able to be deciphered if one knew the system. This book of cyphers seems oriented toward a striving merchant class, not an aristocracy born into their family's symbols from the beginning of their lives. Anyone with access to pen and paper could make a cypher of their initials using this book. This interpretation is bolstered by the early-19th century ink manuscript editions found in the book. Numerous pages of repetitive handwriting exercises express upright moral sentiments: "By a commendable deportment we gain reputation." "Compassionate men never prove extortioners." "A flattering companion is a dangerous enemy." "Brave spirits promote the public good." These didactic lines were copied out of Fisher's The American Instructor: or, Young Man's Best Companion . . . How to Qualify Any Pers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 209 pages. Index. Nine black and white plates. Twelve black and white figures. Fold-out two-colour plan of Jerusalem at back. Published posthumously. A detailed investigation of the question of the validity of the traditional sites of the Holy Sepulchre and of Golgotha. Average wear and soiling to dark yellow exterior. All lettering and gilt decorations clearly legible/visible upon backstrip and front board. Binding intact. Prior owner's signature atop title page, otherwise unmarked. A sound copy.

Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spines, black paper end papers. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains printed pages of text with 15 folding maps and plans, 5 in colour. Spines uniformly sun faded to light brown, one volume with worming to the front gutter, surface damp soiling to the covers of three volumes, contents not affected, Page 241 to volume II with a little paper mould to the margin, hinges firm and tight to all seven volumes, without any foxing. Member of the P.B.F.A. INDIA (Bharat Ganarajya).