british burma (12 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. Various Pagings.

Brown cloth covered spine lettered in black, printed papered boards, prior owner name and chop on the front free endpaper, endpapers browned and text block age-toned at the edges and corners bumped but a firmly bound copy. xii adverts + 618pp plus 3pp adverts. 24 x 15.5cm With an index of the Viceroy and Governor-General and a gradation list covering Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Bomboy, Burma, Central Provinces , Madras, North-West Frontier Province, Orissa, Punjab, Sind and United Provinces together with a complete list of the departments of the Government of India.

Thirty-seven photographic plates varying sizes, 16 two to a page and the rest full-page, black and white and 12 in colour, with descriptive text; illustrated stiff card wrappers with the silk cord tie, 19 x 24.5 cms, the wrappers very edge worn and stained, top corner creased and torn, head and tail of the spine missing, the title-page a little dusty, but otherwise in good condition. View book published the British department store proprietors Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co (dubbed the "Selfridges of the East"). The photographs were by the firm of Watts & Skeen who were active in Rangoon from 1887 to 1924. In addition to photography, Watts & sold Burmese art objects. Their photographic images captured a rich array of colonial-era subjects, its landscapes, architecture, people, and social fabric.

16 photogravure plates and 7 (of 8) colour plates (missing the plate to "Little Gamblers") tipped onto stiff card leaves, after watercolours by F. M. [Frances Matilda] Muriel with poems by R. C. J. [Rodway Charles John] Swinhoe, a British barrister and archaeologist, illustrated limp green buckram wrappers with silk tie, 25.5 x 32.4 cm., the wrappers a little creased and rubbed, scant spotting to a few of the photogravure plates, otherwise in good condition. Delightful album of Burmese scenes and life.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xx-v-617 pp top edge gilt 199 illustrations in the text. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks, some very occasional spotting.Attractivly bound in a contemporary 1/2 dark brown morocco the spine in compartments with gilt centerpieces within ornate tooled borders. The binding clean and tight with no splits or chips.

Very good. Exhibits wear and toning along original fold lines. Size 8 x 10 Inches. This is a 1945 British Twelfth Army Christmas card map of Burma / Myanmar superimposed over a map of Europe. The card extends the Army's 'very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year' while at the same time providing a geography lesson for family and friends back in Britain. Drawn on the same scale, Burma appears in green and extends from central England to eastern Romania and covers a significant portion of continental Europe, allowing a British audience to relate to the vastness of the country. The Twelfth Army insignia, consisting of a Chinthe on a red background with a black stripe and 'XII' written along the bottom in white letters, adorns from front of the card. The British Twelfth Army in Burma On May 28, 1945, the British Twelfth Army was reconstituted so that it could take control of Burma from the Fourteenth Army. The Fourteenth Army was them tp train for a planned amphibious invasion of Malaya, which was projected to take place in August 1945. Japanese units were still active in Burma when the Twelfth Army took over and it assumed responsibility for reconquering the remaining territories. The Twelfth Army was based in Burma until November 1, 1945, when it was redesignated as the Burma Command. Publication History This map was designed and printed at the Survey Directorate of the 63rd Reproduction Group for Twelfth Army Headquarters in 1945.