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Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. The Seventeenth Brigade Magazine - Australian Infantry Brigade Collection of articles and accounts from members of brigade. Photographs from members and welfare organisations. Cover has creasing and colour fading, pages have yellowed but is a readable copy.141p. 0.
Editore: np., 17 Australian Infantry Brigade nd. [c.1944]., 1944
Da: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
144pp. 4to. Original stiffened wrappers, light wear to extremities, slight bend in upper wrapper. Black and white prints and maps. A very good copy.
Editore: The 17 AIF, no date. (1944/5?)., 1944
Da: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo (ca 24.5x18.5cm), red card cover, 144pp. Good condition. Card cover rubbed, creased, lower spine bumped, chipped edges with small tear to left rear edge. Some flecking to lower edge of title page, pages age-toned, inside covers browned, light foxing, upper page corners bumped throughout. Interior good, clear and bright. With illustrations/photographs. Pictures available on request.
Editore: Seventeenth Australian Infantry Brigade, Sydney, 1944
Da: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Prima edizione
Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 144pp, num bw ills. Brown card. Covers rubbed and creased, moderate foxing. The 17th Brigade saw action in every theatre of WWII apart from Malaya. Size: 4to.
Editore: No publishing details but circa 1944., 1944
Da: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Large 8vo burgundy card covers cloth spine 144pp b&w photos. Covers are worn and creased, papered spine worn, pages lightly browned; a fair to good copy. Features include "Memory Lane", unit histories of the 2/2 Australian Field Regiment, the Brigade's Artillery in New Guinea, the 2/8 Australian Field Engineers, the 2/2 Coy AASC and the 2/2 Australian Field Ambulance; and articles on the Middle East, Greece and Crete, Syria and Ceylon and New Guinea.
Da: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
4to.144 pages of news illustrations and snippets about "The Seventeenth". Original card covers in Very Good condition.
Editore: Longman Rees Orme Brown and Green London + Adam Black Edinburgh, 1835
Da: Deightons, Bournemouth, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
1st edition extracted from The Review. Large 8vo. ii + 417 - 454pp including original Contents page at front. Article begins mid - page, finishes end of page. Light browning around page edges, foxing to contentspage else very clean & tight & unfoxed ready for binding in card covers. VG.
Editore: London John Weale 1837, 1837
Da: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Libro
Second Edition. (xxiii)68pp. Quarto. 28 x 22 cm. Nonpareil colored marble boards. Black leather spine and corners. Spine has six panels and five raised bands. Gilt lettering on spine. Bookplate on front pastedown paper. Frontispiece and title page are a bit foxed, otherwise the text is very clean. Slight old repaired tear on the frontispiece. Original frontispiece plate tissue. Thirty-one illustrations. Errata slip before the text. Slightly bumped corners and spine. In very good condition. Captain John Ross (1777-1856), who was a Royal Navy Officer, first wrote A Treatise On Navigation By Steam in 1828, a year before his second Arctic Expedition. He is the first naval officer to write about steam engines. This second edition was reprinted after the second Arctic expedition by a less known publisher and appears to be scarcer. Only two copies of this edition found on copac. In this work, Ross attempts to show the merits of the use of steam engines. Mid-nineteenth century inscription on title page. It would appear the motivation for reprinting the title could be the pamphlet war that Ross had with John Braithwaite regarding the boilers on the Victory. A nice copy of a very scarce Ross title.
Editore: London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828
Da: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB ., London, Regno Unito
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. xxiii, 182 pages, 1, 68 pages (Appendix), frontispiece aquatint plate (an illustration of an armoured paddle-steamer "James Watt, Steam Packet, Propelling against a storm."). 31 text figures including engraved full-page plate. List of authors on the subject of steam: p. 174. Errata inserted after page xxiii. Somewhat foxed on frontispiece and tissue guard, otherwise exceptionally clean. Marbled edges and marbled endpapers. 23 x 28 cm. 4to. Contemporary calf bound by Henington, Ingram Court, Fenchurch St. [London] with original rose binder's label on front paste-down endpaper. Boards with gilt hand-tooled borders (light wear to spine and edges). Spine with black lettering-piece and with gilt hand-tooled decoration (rebacked sympathetically). Provenance: neat ownership inscription in ink of R.T. Creighton, dated April 1844 on title page. Also gift inscription from Lady Rivett-Carnac, 1st April 1844 (James Rivett-Carnac had distinguished career in the military, a Director/Chairman of the East India Company and Baronet in 1836. Elected Member of Parliament for Sandwich, and Governor of the Bombay Presidency in 1839). Most important association with Bert Plimer (1929-2009). Plimer (Franklin Search bookplate laid in & letters pencilled on the endpaper), born in North Berwick, Scotland. At sixteen he joined the British Army, moved to Ottawa in the 1950s, where as a photojournalist and freelance camera man and film maker, he founded Plimer Productions Limited. Bert's interest in the Arctic, particularly the NorthWest Passage began about 1975 & led to avid research, especially on the search for Franklin. Bert looked for the finest copy available & created the greatest collection of rare books on the subject. Captain John Ross (1777-1856), is the first naval officer to write about steam engines. His Treatise on Navigation, published the year before he sailed on his second voyage in search of the Northwest Passage, was much in advance of its time, and forerunner of many similar works.The natural conservatism of sailors, combined with the unreliability of early engines, had created a great prejudice against steam in the Royal Navy.In this work, Ross attempts to show the merits of the use of steam engines. Sir John Ross made two attempts between 1818 and 1833 to find the North West Passage and, like so many others, failed. He was knighted anyway. He also made one of the many attempts to find the missing Franklin expedition later. Like all early attempts to find Franklin, this was unsuccessful too. [N]o vessel, explained John Ross, a captain in the Royal Navy, can ever be constructed to sail in direct opposition to the wind. A steamer could run straight into any wind without drifting off course. Impelled by a source of energy utterly extraneous to local weather conditions, it went wherever its commander decreed. In this book, Ross suggested that stokers were so essential to the smooth running of the ship's engines he advocated that they should be: "Employed solely on their duties in the boiler room and are to be relieved every two hours and awarded a double quantity of beer or other beverage while so employed". Ross recommended stokers be regularly bred for their calling, arguing that it was a mistake to believe that ordinary seamen were able to tend the fire as well as a qualified stoker. Moreover, he argued that by keeping a better fire, a stoker would be able to apply a more steady heat on the boiler, which would result in considerable fuel savings. Ross was also influential in recommending the minimum levels of manning for steam vessels by stipulating that every steam-fitted ship would require one head-engineer, one assistant engineer, and one head foreman. With ships fitted with engines rated up to forty-horsepower, Ross calculated that three stokers would be sufficient, with an extra stoker added to the complement for every additional twenty-horsepower delivered. Scarce edition in commerce.
Editore: James Horsburgh, London, 1829
Da: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Maps. Condizione: Otherwise very good condition. A rare map of islands in the Andaman Sea, Burma, surveyed by Daniel Ross, known as the "Father of the Indian Surveys." Captain Ross was engaged in surveying the coast of China from 1806-1820. His highly accurate & trigonometrical charts were published as they were completed, and the whole were incorporated into Horsburgh's general charts. In 1823, he became the Marine Surveyor General. Clements Markham, in "A Memoir on the Indian Surveys" (1871) stated that "During the Burmese War from 1823 to 1826 the useful operations under his superintendency were interrupted." and despite a "fit of ruinous economy" in 1828, Ross resumed his good work and in 1830, again had two brigs (surveying) in the Mergui Archipelago. The map was surveyed on the heels of the First Burmese War, perhaps with thoughts of being prepared for another war, and another, which fortunately did not start again until the 1850s. The map shows the islands Hasting's, St. Matthew's and St. Luke's, now named Hastings, Zadetkalay and Zadetkyi. Other islands include Pine Tree, Russell's, Three Hill, Phipp's, Barwell's and Horse Shoe Island, mostly appearing as Kawthaung on Google maps. James Horsburgh (1762 -1836) was a Scottish hydrographer who worked for the British East India Company and charted much of South East Asia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. When he retired from the sea in 1806, he produced a Sailing Directory to the East and in 1810 was appointed as hydrographer to the East India Company where he revised the Directory, publishing editions in 1816-7, 1826-7, and 1836. After his death the Admiralty took up the Directory and released editions in 1841, 1852, 1855, and 1864. his charts eventually passed to the Admiralty Hydrographic Office who also reissued them. Sea chart backed on linen and edged in blue silk, 19 1/2 x 22". Some spotting in the lower right corner (water) but otherwise remarkable clean and fresh, including the silk ties. "Engraved by Richard Bateman" beneath the title. The British Library holds a copy (BLL01004857047) but not noted on OCLC.