Field officer (44 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Very Good. 1 page, 1 colour plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 1 page, 1 plate, some foxing. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Very Good. 1 page, 1 plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condizione: Good. Mass market paperback. 12mo. 7'' x 4¼''. Contains 391 pp with monochrome archive photographs grouped together to the centre pages and in Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITISH IMPERIAL EMPIRE.

On the lower part of a letter, cut to form a rectangle, 11.5 x 18 cm. In good condition, with traces of stub from mounting along one edge, and a thin strip of paper, with Burgoyne's name in manuscript neatly laid down beneath the signature. Reads 'I have the honor to be | Your Excellency's | Most Obedient | Humble Servant | [signed] J. F. Burgoyne | Lt Genl.' Reverse reads ' Order of Nistan Medjidge, which His Majesty the Sultan has been graciously pleased to confer upon me, & I take the liberty of requesting your Excellency to be ', Addressed at foot of page to 'His Exy | The Lord Stratford de Redcliffe GCB | &c &c &c'.…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back original publisher's brick red cloth covers, black stamping. 8vo. 4¾" x 7¼" 220 pp + appendix. Seven halftone illustrations, six maps, produced on war economy paper. To a sergeant of the black watch, small, active, tireless, and courageous, recalling for a young soldier the figure of Alan Breck Stewart, on the black night of a German raid in the trenches at Ypres. In Very Good clean and tidy condition, spine not faded, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Condizione: Fine. First edition hard back publisher's original scarlet buckram cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine. 8vo 8½" x 5¾" 96 pp. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper. Nr. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with general light soiling to ivory paper covers, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second). …

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. A 10 x 3 cm slip of paper, cut from the end of a letter in response to a request for an autograph. In good condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'Yours Sincerely / Percy Scott'. Beneath this, in contemporary hand, in pencil: 'Admiral Sir Percy Scott (Terrible)'.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original striking red scarlet cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 410 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Very near fine condition book in Very Good condition Osbert Lancaster illustrated dust wrapper with light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, spine slightly faded, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Sudan].…

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 410 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition Osbert Lancaster illustrated dust wrapper with crease lines to corners and edges, spine slightly faded, not price clipped 30s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITISH IMPERIAL EMPIRE.…

5½'' x 3½''. Divided back. Monochrome post card. Member of the P.B.F.A. POSTCARDS.

Condizione: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [vii] 272 printed pages of text with 40 monochrome photographs to the centre pages, 6 maps throughout. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with small crinkle of the paper to the top of the spine, not price clipped, £19.99. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 075094238X BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, with that of the engraver Charles John Smith FSA (1803-1838), the brother of the recipient. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, on first leaf of bifolium, the second leaf carrying a thin strip of tape from the mount. Folded twice. Addressed to 'Wm. James Smith Esqr:' and signed 'Combermere.' (the addressed and signature being somewhat smudged and merged). He informs him that Lady Comberemere will send him 'the correspondence of the late Mrs: Cathne: Stapleton with the Grenville family, as soon as Lady Delamere (to whom it was lent) returns it.' He concludes with the statement: 'The enclosed is quite correct.' Catherine Stapleton's correspondence is now in the British Library. …

Condizione: Near Fine. Second printing. 106 pp., adv [2] + plate. Illus. with b/w diagrams with one folding cloth plate. 12mo. A gift from D. Van Nostrand to the Commandery with his blind emboss on free front end paper . Rear pocket with 25 x 12.5 inch cloth plan/map. Contents: I. Discipline; II. Route-marching; II. Camps; V. Advanced posts, entrenchments, &c; V. Field sketching, with and without instruments; VI. Tactics. First published in 1855. Front hinge partly split else a very good copy, the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown, shelf sticker on foot of backstrip, their stamp on title, small tear to rear endpaper. Folding cloth plate near fine. Limp red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. …

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, scarlet lining papers. 8vo. 9¼'' x 6''. Contains (xliv), 267 pp with map, monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped, 50s. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Sudan].…

5½'' x 3½''. Divided back. Colour post card. Member of the P.B.F.A. POSTCARDS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good - (Book condition). All contained in one volume: The Rural And Domestic Life Of Germany: With Characteristic Sketches Of Its Cities And Scenery, Collected In A General Tour, And During A Residence In The Country In The Years 1840,41 and 42 by William Howitt (1843); Austria - Vienna, Prague, Etc. Etc. by J. G. Kohl (1844); Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey To, And Residence In That City, In The Years 1836, 7, and 8 by the late Lieut. Col. Sir Alexander Burnes (1843); The Last Year In China, To The Peace Of Nanking: As Sketched In Letters to His Friends, by a Field Officer, Actively Employed In That Country (1843); Appendix (1842) with a copy of the British Treaty with China (ceding Hong Kong to the UK) & 2 pages of advertisements. -- Bound in full buckram with decorative motifs embossed to covers. Wear to covers and spine (head of spine chipped). Dampstains. One page loose. Tear and owner's name to front free end page. Bottom corners bumped. Considering its age in very good condition. Text clean. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. …

1st edition. Poor paperback copy. Lacks of wrappers, and spine worn. Scattered foxing throughout. Text remains clear. Physical description: 82 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Army Recruiting. Great Britain. Army Organization. Great Britain. Army Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Great Britain Defenses. Genre: History. 1 Kg.…

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.…

1st edition. Poor paperback copy. Lacks of wrappers, and spine worn. Scattered foxing throughout. Text remains clear. Physical description: 82 pages; 21 cm. Subjects: Great Britain. Army Recruiting. Great Britain. Army Organization. Great Britain. Army Recruiting, enlistment, etc. Great Britain Defenses. Genre: History. 1 Kg.…

Condizione: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black and red decorated olive green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains (xv)-blank, 252 pp. Pencil name to the front free end paper 'Mrs Burbridge', spotting to the text block edges and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NORTH AFRICA [Egypt].…

8½'' x 6'' monochrome photograph. The reverse has an attached slip of paper which states 'Not for publication before evening papers of Tuesday March 14th 1944 - Mediterranean Commander Visits Cisterno Front (passed by censor). Relaxing on the front seat of his Jeep, General Sir Harold Alexander, Mediterranean Theatre Commander, was pictured when he arrived at the Cisterno Front for an inspection tour of the Allied Fifth Army positions there. A group of Yank Rangers met General Alexander there.' Small tear to the top edge. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHOTOGRAPHS. …

One page, fold marks, good condition. Page headed "Memo", continues: "In case of any disputed point requires the decision of the Umpires the Major General commanding will sound the 'cease fire' and the troops will halt until again ordered to advance. When the 'cease fire' followed by the 'assembly' is sounded, the corps will fall in, the Brigades be masses, and the Bands resume their places for the march past.". …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Original blindstamped cloth publisher's binding. Some foxing and general age toning to text blocks, but most text clean and free from foxing. This book includes 4 separate works, each with its own title page and each published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia with an 1843 publication date: "The Rural & Domestic Life of Germany with Characteristic sketches of its cities and scenery" by William Howitt printed in double columns (197 p.); "The Military Operations at Cabul which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British army, January 1842" & "Rough Notes of the Imprisonment in Afghanistan" by Vincent Eyer (80 p.) ; "Cabool: a Personal Narrative of a Journey to and a residence in that city in the years 1836, 7 and 8" by Sir Alexander Burnes (96 pages); "The Last Year in China to the Peace of Nanking" by A Field Officer (64 p.). This compilation of works appears to be a response to Americans' desire to know more about foreign lands, in particular China and Afghanistan. Covers are fair, the spine is split and the outer hinges are partially cracked, yet the contents and innter hinges are still tight. The text is generally clean, but there is a little age toning to the pages, and places where there is dampstaining to the margins & age spots. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195, 80, 64, 96 pages.…

Condizione: Fine. June 28, 1854., 1854. Fine. - Over 75 words penned on three sides of 7 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide stationery with an attached leaf. A crest with the letter R beneath a crown is embossed in blue at the top for the first page. Field Marshal FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan writes to a "Mr. Fullom[?]" expressing his vexation that the recipient was unable to receive his pension "I cannot tell you how vexed I am that Lord Derby's Govt should have gone out, without having been able to bestow upon you the pension which you so richly deserved." He states that they should hope that the government will soon be restored so that "then your claims will receive their due." Signed "Raglan". Folded several times, else fine. The British Military Officer Field Marshall FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan (1788-1855) served in the Peninsular War and subsequently as Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington during the Waterloo Campaign. He served as a Tory member of Parliament for Truro and then as Master-General of Ordnance. In 1854, he commanded the British troops sent to Crimea to defend Constantinople and to besiege the Russian port of Sevastopol. Though he was successful at the Battle of the Alma, his failure to clearly transmit orders resulted in the disastrous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava. Though he had success at the Battle of Inkerman, he suffered from dysentery and depression following his failure at the allied assault on Sevastopol and died within the month.…

Paper, 11.5 x 8cm, fold mark and sl.foxed, text clear, as follows: "Lord Napier of Magdala hopes to meet the schoolboy some day." See image.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, water-marked silk end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xii] 403 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine and across the op of the rear cover, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'For John Badock (Royal Signals), a comrade-in-arms - From Tony Farrar-Hockley'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0246640596 MILITARY (Armed Warfare).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good - (Book condition). All contained in one volume: The Rural And Domestic Life Of Germany: With Characteristic Sketches Of Its Cities And Scenery, Collected In A General Tour, And During A Residence In The Country In The Years 1840,41 and 42 by William Howitt (1843); Austria - Vienna, Prague, Etc. Etc. by J. G. Kohl (1844); Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey To, And Residence In That City, In The Years 1836, 7, and 8 by the late Lieut. Col. Sir Alexander Burnes (1843); The Last Year In China, To The Peace Of Nanking: As Sketched In Letters to His Friends, by a Field Officer, Actively Employed In That Country (1843); Appendix (1842) with a copy of the British Treaty with China (ceding Hong Kong to the UK) & 2 pages of advertisements. -- Bound in full buckram with decorative motifs embossed to covers. Wear to covers and spine (head of spine chipped). Dampstains. One page loose. Tear and owner's name to front free end page. Bottom corners bumped. Considering its age in very good condition. Text clean. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book. …