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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover, red cloth. Limited edition, 600 copies. Light wear to extremities, otherwise very good, no dust jacket. Tipped-in folding map. 8vo. 161 pp.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(-). Color plates, folding map. 4to, maroon cloth, bottom of spine and edge of corners rubbed, back corner bumped, small area of light soiling to top of back cover. Oakland: Biobooks, 1952. One of 600 copies. Author was a Lt. Colonel in the Mormon Battalion. He writes of his service during the Mexican War.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. 306 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature on the ffep. Bound in brown cloth with black titles on the spine. Lightly worn on the corners. Black and white dustjacket in good condition with white and brown titles. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. Lightly faded on the spine. SCARCE. NPC. VG/G+. Book.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First edition, published in London in 1840. With an illustration to the title page by William Swainson, engraved by E. Finden SC, showing the beetle 'Erodiscus Corallipes Hope'. There are also a few illustrations within the text. ***Very good in original full leather boards. The spine of the book has five compartments with raised bands. Gilt titles and gilt decorative rules to the spine and edges of the boards, mostly worn away with handling. Gilt tooled edges to the boards. Edges of boards quite worn and rubbed. Spine rubbed. Corners rubbed. Slight loss to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine, with slight splitting at the bottom of the spine. Marbled front and rear endpapers. With a small Foyles label to the front pastedown. Some light foxing to the title page but contents clean. No inscriptions. The first hundred or so pages are lightly bumped at the top corner. Some pages are also bumped lightly at the bottom corner. ***406 pages. 165 mm x 110 mm. ***Contents: There is an interesting note from the publisher at the fore of the book 'Those paragraphs in this volume with the initials W.E.Sh. are written by Mr. Shuckard, and where several of these follow each other they are affixed to the last only; but the system of classification is exclusively Mr. Swainson's. Robert Street, Chelsea, Nov. 1840'. PART I: On the Annulosa generally. Chapter I. On the Annulose Animals in general, with a short Account of the three aberrant Classes of Annelides, Vermes, and Cirrhipedes. ***PART II: On the Winged Insects. Chapter I. On the Ptilota, or four-winged Insects in general, the Characters of the five Orders, and their mutual Relations to other Animals - The Metamorphoses of Insects, Chapter II. The Lepidopters, Chapter III. The Hemiptera, Chapter IV. The Hymenoptera, Chapter V. The Coleoptera generally, Chapter VI. The Lamellicornes, Chapter VII. The Predatores, Chapter VIII. The Capricornes, Chapter IX. The Monilicornes, Chapter X. On the Malacodermes, Chapter XI. On the Neuroptera. ***PART III: On the Apterous Insects. Chapter I. On the Aptera generally, Chapter II. On the Diptera, Arachnidae, Myriapoda, Crustacea and Suctoria. ***'William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 Oct 1789 - 6 Dec 1855, was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist. Swainson was at times quite critical of the works of others and, later in life, others in turn became quite critical of him. Apart from the common and scientific names of many species, it is for the quality of his illustrations that he is best remembered. His friend William Elford Leach, head of zoology at the British Museum, encouraged him to experiment with lithography for his book Zoological Illustrations (1820-23). Swainson became the first illustrator and naturalist to use lithography, which was a relatively cheap means of reproduction and did not require an engraver. He began publishing many illustrated works, mostly serially.' [Wiki] ***Of interest to collectors of antiquarian books on entomology. A scarce book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. George Cooke [48 hand coloured plates] (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Tall octavo. 164pp. Color frontispiece. Illustrated. Map endpapers. Pebble grain cloth gilt. Faint spotting on the boards and slight, scattered foxing, else near fine in about very good dust jacket with some rubbing and very shallow nicks and tears. A notable Hawaiian ranch history. Very uncommon.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. x, [4], 165, [5] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Foreword by Joseph A. Sullivan. This edition is based on the 1878 First Edition, published by Putnam. Notes. Chapters on New Mexico, The Insurrection in New Mexico, The Infantry March to the Pacific, California, and Final Conquest of California. There is a fold-out sketch map at the end of the book (measuring 18 inches by 9-1/2 inches), showing part of the march and wagon road of Lt. Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846--1847. This is volume XXXIII of the publisher's California Relations series. Later edition cited as Howes C728, Flake 2498. Philip St. George Cooke (June 13, 1809 - March 20, 1895) was a career United States Army cavalry officer who served as a Union General in the American Civil War. He is noted for his authorship of an Army cavalry manual, and is sometimes called the "Father of the U.S. Cavalry." His service in the Civil War was significant. During the Mexican-American War he led the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to California, establishing what became known as Cooke's Wagon Road, later to become the southern route to California during the California Gold Rush. He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel for his service in California. In command of 2nd U.S. Dragoons, he defeated the Apache in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico in 1854, was in the 1855 Battle of Ash Hollow against the Sioux, and was sent to keep the peace in Bleeding Kansas in 1856-1857. Cooke took part in the Utah expedition of 1857-58, and he was promoted to colonel and assigned command of the 2nd U.S. Dragoons. This is a first-hand narrative by the leader of the Mormon Battalion. George Cooke took command at Santa Fe with orders from General Kearney to open a wagon route to the Pacific by the Gila River Route. This involved a march of 1100 miles through unknown wilderness without road or trail. The Mormon Battalion, the only religion-based unit in United States military history, served from July 1846 - July 1847 during the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. The battalion was a volunteer unit of between 534 and 559. Latter-day Saint men, led by Mormon company officers commanded by regular U.S. Army officers. During its service, the battalion made a grueling march of nearly 2,100 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Diego, California. This remains one of the longest single military marches in U.S. history. Arriving in Santa Fe in October, General Kearny had dispatched Captain (brevet promotion to Lieutenant Colonel) Philip St. George Cooke, West Point class of 1827, to assume command of the battalion. His assignment was to march them to California and to build a wagon road along the way. In Santa Fe 91 sick men and all but a few of the women and children were sent to Pueblo, in present-day Colorado. Three separate detachments left the battalion and went to Pueblo to winter. For the next four months, Cooke led the battalion across some of the most arduous terrain in North America. Most of the Mormon soldiers soon learned to respect and follow him. The group acquired another guide in New Mexico - adventurer and mountain man Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, who as an infant had traveled with his mother Sacagawea across the continent with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The Mormon Battalion arrived in San Diego on January 29, 1847 after a march of some 1,900 miles from Iowa. For the next five months until their discharge on July 16, 1847 in Los Angeles, the battalion trained and also performed occupation duties in several locations in southern California. The most significant service the battalion provided in California was as a reliable unit under Cooke to reinforce General Kearny's one company of army troops. The construction of Fort Moore in Los Angeles was one measure Cooke employed to protect military control under Kearny. Some 22 Mormon men died from disease or other natural causes during their service. About 80 of the men reenlisted for another six months of service. …