colonel chesney (11 Ergebnisse)

New edition. 8vo. [xx] + 251pp. Folding map. Original boards. Pictorial beige d/w. lettered in brown, spine lightly faded. ISBN 1853672882 US$12.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Fourth Revised Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Complete with original dustjacket: in decent shape, just slightly rubbed and moderately edge-worn. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition. Includes fold out map.

Zustand: Fair. 1941. Reprinted. 252 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Laminated red cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Water staining to some pages. Binding is severely weakened. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over.

Zustand: Good. 1907. 4th Edition. 251 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pull-out black and white map to page 39. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Zustand: New. In.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. American edition. Octavo, green cloth covers with yellow spine titles, 253 pages. Includes black and white illustrations, appendix, and index. Book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket ia chipped at edges, spine a bit sunned, rear panel is scuffed, with some soil. 092508C.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 2nd Edition Revised. Hardback, half leather. Unusual work written "to accompany an application for the Professorship of Military History at the Staff College" Second revised edition 1868. 28pp., bound with "The Tactical use of Fortresses" Also 1868.19pp., Binding has wear to corners and some internal blemishes together with stamp of Royal Engineers. Overall fair condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Partial maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; Bound in original green cloth with borders in blind to boards and titles in gilt to spine. Light general mottling to cloth boards; boards rubbed at corners and spine ends with mild rub through at tips and modest fray at spine ends. Both folding maps missing large prtions with only partial single page stubs remaining. Split to the rear endpage joing; front free endpage appears to have been removed - liekely to excise ownership or gift inscription/ Text complete and generally clean with only modest foxing and light soiling to endpages and light foxing to occasional pages of text. Mild damp stain to lower front corner of the middle 100 pages not affecting text; mild sliverfish pitting to the page block edges at front and top. Text complete and clean in original binding - but with faults. Good only/.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. With An Appendix Containing An account Of Recent Experiments With Norton's Projectiles By Liet.- Colonel Beamish. Fold Out Plates, Lacks Back Wrapper O/W Sound. Book.

FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. large 8vo. (two text vols plus maps bound separately). pp.xxvii+[ii]+799; xvi+778. map volume bound in typical library half red morocco over blue cloth covered boards, text volumes rebound to match. Complete as listed with 49 tinted lithographed plates to text volumes and 14 linen-backed maps separately bound. Ex-libris Leeds Library with bookplates and occasional small stamps to titles, plates, maps and illustrations etc throughout. Some soiling and marginal wear, minor damp-staining. The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris (18351837) was a major British scientific and geopolitical mission led by Francis Rawdon Chesney. Its primary objective was to determine if the Euphrates and Tigris rivers were navigable by steamships to establish a faster "overland" trade and mail route to India. Chesney explored the Euphrates twice, at first alone, on a raft, in secret and at great risk (he frequently came under fire from hostile Arabs) and later by steamer, although the second attempt was no less fraught with difficulty than the first (the Tigris was wrecked and there were numerous physical obstacles to overcome). He was sent to China before finishing this work and part of the manuscript was lost, hence only two volumes were published (four are called for on the title-page). In addition to Iraq, there is considerable information on Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Arabia (including Mecca), the Nejd, Hadramaut and Oman. Chesney's record of exploration of the Euphrates as an alternative route to India. Ironically his earlier report on the feasibility of the Suez Canal provided the basis for de Lesseps' successful project. First two text volumes only but all published as the manuscript was lost when he was subsequently sent to China. "Includes minute surveys of the history, geography, geology of the areas traversed, but does not includes a day-by-day account of the expedition" (Blackmer). His later work "Narrative of the Euphrates Expedition" (1868) concludes the overall narrative. (Atabey 234; Blackmer 337).