captain bond (13 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pickett or Pettigrew This has been a question discussed since shortly after the end of the War for Southern Independence.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Pickett or Pettigrew? This has been a question discussed since shortly after the end of the War for Southern Independence.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Third Edition (stated on title page) (first published in 1826). Hardback copy in half bound burgundy leather, black cloth boards, 5 raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, small bookshop sticker to top corner of front pastedown, some foxing to title page, rubbing to leather edges. (23/2).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Bond, Captain C.C. J. (illustrator). Reprint. "Deals in outline with military events in Canada throughout the war; in somewhat greater detail with the history of the Army in the United Kingdom, including the raiding operations based on that country; and with the Army's part in the war against Japan. The active operations - notably those at Dieppe and Hong Kong, both of which were important and controversial - have been given more attention than any other matters." - Preface. 1957 reprint of the 1955 first edition. p xiv, 629. Index, footnotes, colour foldout maps, black and white photographic plates. Unmarked with average wear to publisher's red cloth. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A sound copy of this authoritative history. Cooke (3rd Edn) p.271. ; Sm 4to.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Bond, Captain C.C.J. (illustrator). Second Printing. pp. xv, 807. Extensive index and footnotes. Numerous fold-out colour maps and black and white photographic plates. Map endpapers. Second printing of the 1956 first edition. "Describes in detail Canada's part in the Italian campaign - the operations which began with the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and, developing into an arduous advance up the Italian peninsula, ended with the German capitulation in May 1945. Directed primarily to the general reader, and particularly to the Canadian reader who wishes to know what the Canadian Army accomplished and why its operations took the course they did." - Foreword. Gilt emblem and lettering upon publisher's red cloth. Prior owner's name and date discretely upon first blank leaf. Dust jacket not included. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important and highly informative history. Enser p.96, Cooke [3rd Edn] p. 259.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Canadians in Italy 1943-1945 - Volume II (2): Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War , Canadian Army - Italy, Canadian Army - World War 1939-1945.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Illustrated by Bond, Captain C.C. J. (illustrator). First Edition. This two-volume set includes a most distinguished provenance. Each volume bears the bookplate of Arthur C. Singleton M.D. [M.B.E.] inside its front board. Dr. Singleton [1900-1968] was affiliated with the Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. Laid inside Volume II is a two-page typed letter to Dr. Singleton, dated 1953 and signed by Brooke Claxton, Minister of Defense, in which the Minister expresses his personal appreciation to Dr. Singleton for his efforts "in preparation of this work, as well as [his] own [military] service, and [his] continued association with the armed forces medical services." The Minister goes on to explain that he is presenting this volume to Dr. Singleton in appreciation for said service. Volume I, dated 1956, includes a gift bookplate from then Minister of Defense, Ralph Campney, Q.C., upon front free endpaper. xii, 568, xvi, 537pp. Index and occasional colour and black and white plates in each volume. Colour map endpapers in Vol. I which includes nineteen maps in colour and black and white, many of which fold out. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear to maroon boards handsomely lettered and illustrated in gilt. Bindings intact. Dust jackets not included. A special set. Cooke (3e) p. 242, Enser p.93.; 4to.

Vellum. Zustand: Good. Captain R. C. Bond; et al (illustrator). First edition. Volume I & II of Colonel Wylly's history of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 1755 to 1914, with lovely folding maps and plates. Bound in paper vellum with the gilt crest of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry to the front board. Copy Number 60 of this work, originally belonging to the subscriber Captain H. B. Hibbert, who was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1913. Portrait frontispiece of Sir John Moore to Volume I. Portrait frontispiece of Lieutenant-General Archibald Browne Dyce to Volume I. 6 plates and 12 folding maps to Volume I. 17 plates and 3 folding maps to Volume II. Collated complete. A couple of the plates are in colour, and the folding maps depict the countries and battles mentioned in the text. Pocket to the rear of Volume I, containing 3 plans of the Battle of Thonhausen near Minden. Harold Carmichael Wylly (1858 1932) was a British Army colonel and military historian. Here he provides a history of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and their battles from 1755 to 1914. He also features the records of uniforms, colours and medals of the K.O.Y.L.I and the particular histories of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Battalions. Bound in paper vellum. Externally very smart except for some staining. In Volume 1 there is some historic silverfish damage to the front and rear paste downs, to the front and rear free end papers, and to the rear pocket containing 3 plans of the Battle of Thonhausen near Minden. Volume 2 has only minor silverfish damage to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with just some spots to the first and last pages. All folding maps in excellent condition. Good. book.

12mo, pp. xii, [1], 14-264; front free endpaper excised, otherwise complete with the half title; contemporary calf-backed boards; small cracks starting at the joints, but in all, very good. The preface discusses the rise and fall of English mining companies in the region. The author was himself a mining company representative, and he accounts for the commercial failure as ignorance of the English about the country in which they were working. Head was also appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1835, and was later knighted. American Imprints 29183.

Rough Notes taken during Some Rapid Journeys across The Pampas and among the Andes.Boston, Wells and Lilly, 1827, 18 x 11 cm., holandesa piel chagrín, XII + 264 págs. (Sellos de anterior poseedor. Primera edición americana de esta obra no recogida por Palau). Historia de España.