Crimea (40 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

English historian of the Crimean War (1809-91). On piece of paper roughly 4 1/2 inches by 1 1/4 inches. In very good condition. Remains of mounts adhering to blank verso. Reads ' be of use in making the collection. | I have the honour to be | Sirs | faithfully yours | A W Kinglake.' Image on application.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Coloured steel engraving, fine. 8½ x 6½".

Zustand: Very Good. Broadsheet newspaper, 12 pages. Tanning to the edges and the folded line across the centre, in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CRIMEA and GEORGIA.

Zustand: Molto buono (Very Good). Traduzione di Clara Coisson . 16mo. pp. 208. . Molto buono (Very Good). Timbro all frontespizio (Stamp on the first page). Prima edizione italiana (First Italian Edition). . Rilegato, sovracoperta (hard cover, dust jacket). Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Their Resettlement in the Americas - North and South and in Canada. 213 pages. Green cloth with dust jacket. Signed. Signed by Author(s).

1p., 12mo. 8 lines. On aged paper with a small hole (not affecting text) and pin marks. He thanks him for his 'kind thought' in sending 'the Danish Images', adding: 'I assure you the present was a very welcome one to me.'.

Zustand: gut. Return to the Homeland In englischer Sprache. pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 1993 paperback. Average external wear, pages yellowed with some minor creases and blemishes, binding firm.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 25 March [no year]; 12 St James's Place [London]. 3pp, 12mo. On a bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip cut from top of first leaf (not affecting text). Signed 'A W Kinglake'. The recipient is not named. Presumably writing during his period as Member of Parliament for Bridgewater, between 1857 and 1869, he begins 'My dear Sir / I shall make a pint of being present at the discussion of the Bill which threatens to make Charities liable to local assessment'. He has not considered the question enough to have arrived at a decision, but has however seen enough, 'from the number of particulars which have been printed', to assure him that 'the imposition of this liability on Public Charities would occasion great inconvenience and dissatisfaction'.…

According to Russell's entry in the Oxford DNB, while reporting on the Civil War, he was described by one American newspaper as 'the most famous newspaper correspondent the world has ever seen'. The inscription on his memorial in St Paul's Cathedral calls him ''the first and greatest of War Correspondents'. He coined the phrase 'thin red line', was instrumental in the sending of Florence Nightingale to the Crimea, and is said to have written the report that inspired Tennyson to write 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. The recipient was the proprietor of the Hotel and Restaurant Henry IV, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (which, according to an advertisement in Galignani's 'New Paris Guide for 1879', was 'The only Hotel on the Terrace. / Highly recommended, and old-established / Louis XIV. was born in this House on the 5th Sept. 1638.'). The present item is 2pp, 12mo. In fair condition, aged and worn, with thin strip of glue from mount along the gutter. Folded twice. Signed 'W H Russell'. He enquires after 'un petit apartment libre pour le lundi ou mardi en cas de besoin', at a price 'convenable à ma fortune'. He describes the specifications he requires before noting that M. de Blonetz ma dit ce que j'ai entendu avec plaisir que vous avez garde des souvenirs aimables de moi depuis cet temp terrible 70. 71'. In a postscript he expresses anxiety that 'il y aura une grande foule à St Germain le lundi pour les courses'. It may be that Russell attended the racing with the future King Edward VII: he was, as the Oxford DNB states, 'a member of the Prince of Wales's circle, though his relationship with the prince fluctuated, and he deplored the depravity and obscenity of some of his set'.…

Engraved map, 21.1 x 20.8 cm, 27 x 22 cm (sheet), original folds trimmed to the inner margin with slight loss to the border only, map spotted, but otherwise in sound condition. Map of the Port of Kerch in Crimea prepared for the 1839 edition of the French Journal "Nouvelles Annales des Voyages.", the editors for this edition (amongst others) the translator and geographer Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès and Alexander von Humboldt, founding members of the world's first geographical society, the Société de Géographie. …

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, (4),XXIII,(1),448,(6) pag., paperback. = Cambridge Library Collection. Verso title-page with stamp "damaged" (but we see no damage).

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, (12),486,(4) pag., portrait, paperback. = Cambridge Library Collection. William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is today credited with having shaped the image and role of the modern war correspondent. His dispatches for The Times during the Crimean War were so influential that they led to military reforms and the fall of the Aberdeen Government. Moreover, his unflinching accounts of the appalling and insanitary conditions endured by ill-provisioned troops helped inspire the work of Florence Nightingale. He was not afraid to highlight poor leadership and planning, and was quick to praise the heroism of the 'common' soldier. Wearing military-style clothes, he obtained his information through his easy relationships with junior officers, helped by his fondness for brandy and cigars. This volume, published in 1856, includes his last Crimean dispatches, concluding with poignant descriptions of visits by the soldiers to the battlefields to erect memorials to their fallen comrades. Fine copy.…

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, (4),XII,321,(5) pag., paperback. = Cambridge Library Collection. The journalist William Howard Russell (1820-1907) is sometimes regarded as being the first war correspondent, and his reports from the conflict in the Crimea are also credited with being a cause of reforms made to the British military system. This 1865 book began as a review in The Times of the five-volume work of General Eduard Todleben (or Totleben), the military engineer and Russian Army General, whose work in creating and continually adapting the land defences of Sevastopol in 1854-5 made him a hero and enabled the fortress to hold out against British bombardment for a whole year. Russell added extracts from the original book to his review, and enlarged his commentary on the Russian text, producing a thorough and accurate synthesis, but always highlighting the central importance of the Russian work to any student of the history of the Sevastopol siege. Fine copy.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with traces of paper from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded twice. From the Cullum papers, Simpson being a neighbour of the family. Having 'just come in from a longish walk', he is sorry to have missed Lady Cullum. He wishes he 'knew which of the two ways you name would be most agreeable to you, for us to dine with you; but since you kindly leave it to me, I say Friday, on which Evening we will have the pleasure of being at Hardwick at 7 o'Clock.' He reports that the 'two Miss Lockharts' are 'quite taken' with her, and 'loud in their praises of Lady Cullum'. He gives the names of the party he has 'made up' for the following Thursday: 'Herveys 3, Wynches 2, Col. Wollaston, and Mr. Barton - You and Miss Bird and ourselves make up the twelve.' He is 'not afraid of a Fox, well fed on good poultry, worrying Dot!' He does not think Dot can catch the fox, 'so believe he and Pater may try their best in great safety'. He ends with the remembrances of his two daughters to Lady Cullum and Miss Bird.…

Milano, Francesco Pagnoni, fine sec. XIX. Incisione in acciaio (mm. 130 x 190 all'impressione di lastra). Raffigura la prima battaglia di terra della guerra di Crimea (1854-56), combattuta nei pressi del fiume Alma: l'esercito anglo-francese, a sostegno dell'Impero Ottomano, contro l'armata russa del generale Menshikov, che perse ben 6000 uomini. Alla guerra partecipò anche il Corpo di Spedizione Sardo in Oriente, col generale La Marmora.…

Zustand: Good. in-8 pp. 168, brossura editoriale (piccolo restauro al piede del dorso). Prima edizione, stampata in contemporanea con l'edizione milanese (Turati). Trascrizione completa, comprensiva di tutti i documenti e protocolli, del Trattato di Parigi firmato il 30 marzo 1856, che pose fine alla guerra di Crimea  e sancì la sconfitta della Russia contro l'alleanza composta da Francia, Regno Unito, Impero Ottomano e Regno di Sardegna. Bell'esemplare, con minimi segni del tempo, nella sua brossura originale. Manca al Manno. Book.…

Full leather. Zustand: Very good. Fourth Edition. Octavo, vi, [2], 312pp. Full brown tree calf, gilt floral border on covers. Title stamped in gilt over red leather spine label, raised bands with decorative gilt compartments. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers with turn-ins stamped in blind and gilt-hatched board edges. Board edges, spine and joints rubbed, spine tips lightly chipped. Joints partly split, but boards holding firmly. Faint foxing to flyleaves and title page. No marks or notations to text. Bound by R. Ingalton Drake of Eton. Complete with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard, three additional portraits with tissue guards, and five full-page maps. Inscription on front flyleaf: "John Baskervyle-Glegg: from Hubert Brinton. / School Work. Division xxij / Summer Half. 1892. Eton." Printed sheet attached to verso of front free endpaper containing a list of mathematics instructors and their students at Eton College during the summer of 1892. An attractive example of this military campaign history, written by an artillery officer who served in the Crimean War. Hubert Brinton (1863-1941) was an Assistant Master of Classics at Eton College from 1887-1924. The recipient of this book, John Baskervyle-Glegg (1876-1954) of Withington Hall, Cheshire, was educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford. He served as a lieutenant in the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry and was Justice of the Peace of Cheshire. Fourth edition of The War in the Crimea by General Sir Edward Hamley. (illustrator).…

Pp. 111. With one large folding lithographed map of Crimea including a small map of the French, English and Turkish armies outside Sevastopol. Modern half cloth on marbled boards. Bookplate. Translated into Swedish by K.A. Lindstr??m. (Included in "Europas br?§nnande fr??gor").

Torino, [Vincenzo Bona Editore], 1884, Leggeri segni del tempo, nel complesso bell'esemplare. Il ricordo della spedizione é diviso in tre parti; Parte Prima: Cenni storici sugli Avvenimenti della guerra d'Oriente negli anni 1853-54-55-56; Parte Seconda: Atti della Società dei Reduci dalla Crimea: Parte Terza: Resoconto della Contabilità dal 15 agosto a tutto il 1883 coi rispettivi moduli dei registri esistenti persso la Società. cm 27x38. piena tela moderna, applicato al piatto l'originale brossura figurata, pp. [4] 133 [2] di indice, con numerose figure intercalate nel testo, e, f.t., 8 grandi tavole in litografia più volte ripiegate raffiguranti scene dell'accampamento e piano della battaglia, oltre a numerose tabelle con rendiconti, e l'elenco dei caduti con relativa località di provenienza. Leggeri segni del tempo, nel complesso bell'esemplare. piena tela moderna, applicato al piatto l'originale brossura figurata. …

Wrench was the son of a clergyman, and well connected, being presented to the Prince of Wales and staying at Chatsworth in his old age. His obituary in the British Medical Journal (27 April 1812), describes how he went out to the Crimea in 1854. 'He had been gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 34th Regiment in November, and joined it on its arrival in the Crimea. He served during the terrible winter of that year, and was present at the capture of the quarries, the successful assault on the Redan of June 18th, and the final capture of Sebastopol on September 8th, 1855. He was mentioned in despatches, and received the Crimean medal and clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.' Wrench's own account of his experiences in the Crimea (Item One below) entirely unpublished is a personal one, vividly-written and full of detail. It does not appear to be present in the collection of his family papers at Nottingham University Library. ONE: Manuscript consisting of 'Events in 1855' (4pp) and '1856 (12pp), making a total of 16pp., 8vo, on twelve leaves, attached with a stud. In good condition, on aged and dogeared paper. The first page of the 1855 manuscript is headed '12 [sic] Pages in this Year', but comprises four numbered pages. The beginning of account sets the scene and gives an indication of the level of detail: 'The 1st Janry found me doing duty with the 28th Foot or Slashers in the 3rd. Divt of the army before Sebastopol having landed at Balaclava from the Ship "Queen of the South" on the 20th. Nov. 1854. On the 6th July I was ordered to do duty with the 50th. Foot but as I did not wish to move (the weather being very bad and my tent being as comfortable, or rather as little uncomfortable as it could be made) except to join my own Regt. the 34th. to which I had been gazetted on the 1st. of December 1854. I applied to be sent to it and was ordered to join which I did on 9th of Janry.' The account is made up from diary entries, and is none the less vivid and interesting for that: 'On the following morning a wounded Russian named Alexo was brought into our Hospital and we amputated his leg he did really well and was eventually exchanged at Odessa. Poor Jordan's death threw a great damp on the Regiment as he was the first Officer we had had killed. On the 9th. of April being Easter Monday the 2nd. Bombardment took place. It was a fearfully wet windy day so that no one was able to go out to see what damage was done. On the 10th. I was on trenches and the noise was terrific, but nothing to what I have since heard. I had a very narrow escape from a round shot which hopped over the parapet close to where I was.' In June, 'after 68 hours bombardment an assault was made on the Quarries by ourselves [.] I did not go down till about 8 with Robinson Scott & Peel and 100 men. We were marching about the Trenches half the night and were finally sent to the middle ravine just below Mamelon. The scene there was most horrible the ground being strewn with dead & wounded. English French & Russians. One poor Russian boy was dragged up by two Zouaves but fainted just opposite to where we were lying. I got a light and found he was shot through the belly and that nothing could be done for him. I gave him some water and he lie [sic] by me some time but died before morning. I got an amulet off his neck & his cap pouch which I sent home'. The 1856 account begins in dramatic style: 'The first entry in this Diary relates to the explosion which took place within the British Lines during the Siege of Sebastopol. | Feb 3rd. I was not many hundred yards from this explosion when it took place & will here relate now (Janry 1900) my recollection of it. It took place in Novr. or Decr. 1855. I had just come in from a ride & had given my horse to my Batman when I noticed a vast cloud of smoke shoot up from the Right Siege train an open air arsenal about 500 yds from my house - a tremendous noise of explosion followed & knowing that there would be a rain of missiles from above to fall immediately I jumped under my doorway - hoping the strong lintel would protect me [.] a shower of fragments fell around me rattling on my iron roof - and wounding many men in the Regiment - 70 men were killed by the explosion some over half a mile off. The artillery horses were passing in front of my door to water & stampeded hurting several men in their rush. Both my horse and my dog bolted. I got the horse back in a few hours - but my dog taken [sic] a few weeks before out of Sebastopol returned to her old home and was found there weeks afterwards (I brought her to England) My house that I had just finished building myself did not sustain much damage. [.]' The account continues, packed with incident. At one point he writes: 'I had written the above in 1859 and continue it forty one years after November 4 1900. The events & fights of May 1856 being written so legibly in my brain that I can read much of what we did & said. Alas all the actors except myself are passed away. My notice has been called to the excursion by reading an Illustrated article in a magazine named "Travel" in which Dr. Hy. Lansell has been describing a tour taken last year over the same ground - so little altered from what I saw in 1856 that his description would do for mine'. The diary concludes in fine style. On 2 May 1856 he goes to Yalta, where he finds 'the daughters of the English Clerk of the Works of Prince W's Palace were keeping the Hotel, a very rough primitive structure low stone built rooms with a long rough wooden verandah overlooking the lovely Bay - We enjoyed an excellent dinner of Turbot & Oyster Sauce, & a bottle of excellent local wine like Hock - as we returned we went over the Emperor's Villa Orianda [.] One day when I remember seeing for the first time a Persian (horizontal) Water Wheel in a very pretty village embosomed in Walnut Trees where also I bought an embroidered linen neck scarf which I still possess - On another occasion I accompanied Best & C.…

Edition : First Edition. , Contemporary decorative full calf. Gilt borders and ornamentation on top and bottom cover. Gilt title on top cover. Gilt dentelles on top and bottom cover. Textured Pink pasted and free endpapers. , Large Oblong Folio (430x790mm)This book shows scenes from the Crimean War and is interesting both from the point of view of military history (as it shows plans of battles fought, depictions of the fortifications, camps etc.), and for large tables depicting landscapes and scenes of the theater of war. The Crimean War (October 1853 ? February 1856) was a conflict in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. The immediate cause involved the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Catholics, while Russia promoted those of the Orthodox Christians. The longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire, and the unwillingness of Britain and France to allow Russia to gain territory and power at Ottoman expense The Sardininan-Piedmont (the predecessor to modern day Italy) contribution to the allies in the Crimea was part of the Prime Minister?s, Camillo Cavour, diplomatic plan to secure French support for the notion of a united Italy, the success of which resulted in the Austro-French war of 1859., Size : Large Oblong Folio , Illustrated with twenty five lithographs; A beautiful frontispiece depicting a military procession, 10 maps (4 are large fold-out maps), 7 colour panoramas (3 are large fold-outs), and 7 lithographs showing military scenes and diagrams of forts and inventions. All plates have embossed stamp of the Sardinian Office of the Minister of War, ?Real Corpo di Stato Maggiore.? A fine example of this fascinating work in superbly decorative contemporary full gilt calf. Plates are crisp with occasional very mild browning.…

YURY A. MESHKOV (Yury Meshkov, Yuriy Meshkov, 1945) pro-Russian separatist president of Crimea Farbiges Original-Paßfoto, rückseitig mit Empfehlung eigenhändig signiert (auch vorhanden : Brief mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift Krim, 25.3.1994 1 S. 4° mit gedrucktem Briefkopf mit Staatswappen - an Gunther Uthmann in Hannover mit Erfüllung seines Wunsches und der Mitteilung, daß er als erster Präsident der jungen, demokratischen Krim-Republik wirtschaftliche Kontakte mit den Deutschen wünscht. Euro 75,-).…

4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Evidently incomplete: the first part only of a long letter. Begins: 'My dear Maclean | I have it not in my heart to put forward an excuse for very long silence, beyond an amount of employment the like of which I have never had thrown upon me before, for many years.' He hopes to see him, but leaves that night 'for the North on a tour of inspection'. He describes his movements: 'I go first to Keir near Dumblane [sic] for a couple of days from thence to Fort George where I may be detained by my duties for two days, and from there back to Keir from which point I shall visit the Depôts, and Depôt Battns. within reach.' After discussing possible arrangements for a visit he writes: 'I am ordered to hasten back from the North to inspect the Depot Battns. just formed in England and in Jersey before the Winter is farther advanced'. He 'took Mr. Rolston to the Horse Guards. - I found that no influence or interest could obtain the enrolment of his name on the list of Candidates for a Commission by purchase, he being passed the age of 18 before he made his application. The Gentleman to whom I presented him, is a very old friend of mine. As I told him how much interested I was in behalf of your Young friend he suggested that Mrs. Rolston should apply for a Commission by purchase in a Colonial Corps of which there are 5'. He lists the corps, observing of the West Indies that it is a place 'in which you and I passed so many Years of our life', and 'not always unhealthy'. 'By a sacrifice of a little money an exchange could be effected without much difficulty into a Regt. of the Line'. The final page concludes: 'However your Young friend did not deem it advisable to make application for an appt. to any of these Corps'.…

circa 35,5 x 52,5 cm. 1 Blatt verso weiß Blick über das Meer mit Schiffen auf den Woronzow-Palast bei Alupka unweit Jalta auf der Halbinsel Krim. Vorne rechts ein grosses Segelschiff mit Kanonen, dem sich ein kleinerer Dampfer nähert. - In den Rändern etwas fleckig. Darstellung sauber.

Technic: Lithography, colorit: original colored, condition: Stains outer margins, size (in cm): 12 x 18 cm, View of the administrative centre of the city of Sevastopol on the Black Sea, on the Crimean peninsula.Published by Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co., London, 1855 in "The Seat of the War in the East".…

Soft cover. Very good. Exhibits light wear along original fold lines. Exhibits some foxing. Blank on verso. Size 11.5 x 16.25 Inches. This is an 1855 Henry Bill view of the siege of Sevastopol (Sebastopol) during the Crimean War. Overlooking the city from the east. The defensive walls are apparent, along with the siege works constructed by French, British, Sardinian, and Ottoman armies (the Allies). Allied troops appear in the foreground lobbing artillery shells at the besieged Russians. The Russians, from the walls, return the fire. Russia's Black Sea Fleet engages the allied navies in the bay. Two wounded soldiers spill blood in the foreground. Thirty-four locations, including several forts, batteries, a signal station, a hospital, and magazine, are numerically identified and correspond with an index included below the view. The Siege of Sevastopol The siege of Sebastopol, the final battle of the Crimean War, took place from October 1854 until September 1855. Sevastopol is remembered as one of the great sieges. The city housed Russia's Black Sea Fleet, which posed a threat to the entire Mediterranean. The great author Leo Tolstoy was then a 26-year-old artillery officer in the Russian army and survived the 11-month siege. He later immortalized the events in his Sebastopol Sketches . The Crimean War The Crimean War, fought from October 1853 to February 1856, was an armed conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman, British, French, and Sardinian forces. The root cause of the war has never been fully understood, but the stated impetus was to defend the rights of Christians in the Holy Land, with the Catholic interests supported by the French and the Greek Orthodox Church by the Russians. The more likely root was British and French concerns about Russian expansion into the Bosporus and Mediterranean at the cost of the declining Ottoman empire. Hostilities erupted in July 1853 when Russia invaded two Ottoman suzerainties known collectively as the Danubian Principalities, labeled here as Wallachia and Moldavia. The Ottomans immediately responded, fighting a defensive campaign that halted the Russian advance at Silistra, which the Russians besieged. Alarmed by the possibility of an Ottoman collapse, the British and French entered the war, sending troops and supplies to Gallipoli. They did not arrive at Silistra until after the Russians had withdrawn. By this time, public opinion in Britain and France, where discontent at the seemingly wasted effort and expense of sending armies to the Balkans, turned against the war. Hoping to finish the war quickly, the allies invaded the Crimean Peninsula in September, hoping to seize the Russian naval port of Sevastopol, thereby limiting Russian ability to wage war in the Black Sea arena. The supposedly 'quick and easy' siege lasted for eleven months. Russia finally sued for peace in March 1856 and in the subsequent Treaty of Paris, Russia lost its Black Sea ports, Wallachia and Moldavia gained a modicum of independence, and Christians in the Holy Land were given a degree of equality. Publication History and Census This view was lithographed by Thomas Sinclair and published by Henry Bill in 1855. We have identified examples in the institutional collections at Dartmouth College and Brown University. …