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Verlag: Frederick A. Stokes January 1927, 1927
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Verlag: US Department of the Army
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Good. Good condition. Volume 35. Number 10. In polypropylene bag. (US army, military history, periodicals) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Verlag: Frederick A Stokes Company, New York
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Fading to spine. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners. Front pastdown is a map. Inscription to front free end page dated 1925. Light foxing throughout though text remains bright and clear…. Photographic illustrations throughout including frontis of Algiers. Index, 262 pages. Africa. AFR/6182.
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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First Edition. Account of the military career of Gordon-Duff, including the Boer War years and his tragic death in action early in WW1. Dustjacket a little loose otherwise VG in VG- jacket.
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Manual de nudos, ayustes y trabajos con cabos
Perry, Gordon; Judkins, Steve; Figueras Blanch, Manuel, (col.); Puya Canomanuel, Cristina, (tr.)
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Zustand: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Encuadernación: Rústica Aunque este libro ha sido escrito e ilustrado de manera específica para la comunidad náutica, su contenido puede estar destinado a un público más amplio. En lo que respecta a la realización de nudos y trabajos de cabullería, la obra consta de tres partes principales…. La primera, \"Nociones sobre cabos\", proporciona a aquellos que comienzan su aprendizaje sobre cabos, nudos y trabajos de cabullería, varios capítulos que tratan sobre materiales y confección, cuidado y empleo, terminología que se utiliza y herramientas en el comercio, y culmina con un resumen sobre cómo tomar vueltas, poleas y aparejos. Posteriormente, para el principiante que desee confeccionar nudos se muestra una progresión gradual que va desde la estructura de los nudos elementales hasta el modo de realizar los nudos más indispensables que se utilizan a bordo. La parte siguiente, dedicada a una selección de nudos, cotes, vueltas, gazas y ayustes, con diferentes usos a bordo, está encaminada a revisar y fomentar el conocimiento del lector sobre los nudos prácticos y cuenta con un capítulo muy completo que trata sobre ayustes, ligadas y forrado. La última parte del libro puede clasificarse como \"Realización avanzada de nudos\", y explica el modo de hacer nudos como el cabeza de turco y la piña de estrella, y cómo realizar algunos de los proyectos prácticos con cabos y amarras que siempre hubiésemos deseado saber hacer, como cordones, esterillas, defensas, sondalezas y un surtido de trabajos con cabos decorativos y tradicionales. Conviene dedicar especial atención al \"Contramaestre\" pues dispone de más de un consejo que os ayudará en vuestro aprendizaje. Para ver el índice completo puedes descargarte el archivo adjunto en PDF. Gordon Perry y Steve Judkins han desarrollado su vida profesional en la Royal Navy y hoy se dedican a la divulgación de nudos y cabullería. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.
Controversial History & Educational Theories of Captain Alden Partridge (Marching with Spartans: The Life and Works of Alden Partridge)
Annis, Franklin Craig (Author)/ Gordon, Col. Thomas J. (Foreword)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Printed for Franklin C. Annis, 2025
Serie: Buch 1 von 1 - Marching with Spartans: The Life and Works of Alden Partridge
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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 446 pages. 6.00x1.12x9.00 inches. In Stock.
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Verlag: John F Shaw, London
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. New edition. Embossed green boards turned spine but otherwise vg. Prize label for 1908 inside cover. Browned eps, slight foxing to some pages and page edges but generally a nice clean copy. Col fronitis and two other colour plates. Covid 19 - Please see "More Information" for current shipping… terms.
Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888
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Verlag: The Technical Press, 1947
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Very Good. 8th edition, 5th printing. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings/damage, 578pp with illustrations and fold-out plans.
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Verlag: Corgi, UK, 1959
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In den WarenkorbMass Market Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Classic medical account. pp189.ads,map,illus. Fine unread condition; where was it stored.
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Verlag: London, T. Werner Laurie Ltd., ca1923 1st edition, 1923
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In den WarenkorbHardback, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, blind embossed on front. In good condition. Some fading to boards, spine heavily faded with nicks to cloth at ends. Some tanning to endpapers. No penned inscriptions. Some occasional minor light foxing spots else pages and plates clean and tight. 262pp. Map… to front endpaper. With 32 B&W photographs, mostly full-page.
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Verlag: Ward Lock & Co. , presumed 1st., London, 1927
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Very good/ fair jacket: Book is straight, clean, and unmarked; jacket solid. Book has light foxing near endpapers and foxing on fore-edge; jacket has been reinforced long ago with stiff paper pasted inside, lightly soiled but whole; in archival clear protector. Hardcover, 8vo, 247 pp… plus 12 plates inc. frontis., pictorial endpapers. Amid the lurking beasts of India, tigers to termites and all between. . .
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, April [Apr.] 1923, Vol L, No. 300: Search for the Grosvenor Treasure
Lane, Rose Wilder; 'Gulbrandsen'; Dawson, E.B.; Casserly, Lieut.-Col. Gordon; Walmsley, Leo; Wills, Archie; 'Traverse'; Miller, T.S.; Ward, E.D.; Butt-Thompson, Captain F.W.
Verlag: The International News Company, New York, 1923
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In den WarenkorbSingle Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Pages 442-528 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: A Soldier of Fortune - a story smuggled in bits from a French prison (part 1); A Woman in Unknown Albania - Part I - Mrs. Rose Wilder Lane describes her adventures among the remote northern moun…tains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish - article with photos; The Election at Rodeo - an account of the happenings at a town in Argentina on the occasion of the Presidential election of 1914; The Search for the Grosvenor Treasure - an account of the wreck of the Grosvenor on the lonely coast of Pondoland, South Africa, and operations of seekers of her sunken treasure of precious metals and stones - with photos; The Terror of the Terai - the story of one of the most remarkable elephant hunts on record - a twelve days' chase after a man-killing 'rogue'; Photo of a Venetian funeral; Three Asses in the Pyrenees - the humourous travels of a huband and wife with their donkey (part 4); Across the Pacific in a Chinese Junk - Captain George Ward and his voyage from Amoy, China to Victoria, British Columbia - article with photos, one of which includes Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford aboard the vessel; Forgotten - the terrible experience of a young surveyor off the coast of Trinidad; The Witching of the M'Bumbo - a tale of native witchcraft and trial by ordeal in Nigeria; Our Unlucky Day - an account of a series of disasters which struck a steamer, the S.S. Z_____ in the Gulf of Mexico; The Village of the Greeks - visit to a tiny hamlet in the Sicilian Mountains - with photos; The Gower Affair - a story of black magic at Porto Lokkoh on the West Coast of Africa. Above-average wear. Front cover loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Elcock, Howard; Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G.; De Walton, John; Wigfull, W.E.; Prater, E.; Pears, Charles; Holloway, W.H.; Cleaver, Reginald; Hiley, Francis G.; Soper, G. (illustrator).
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The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, October [Oct.] 1922, Vol. 49, No. 294: Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa
Vivian, Herbert; Taylor, Merlin Moore; Walmsley, Lieut. Leo; Carline, Richard; Casserly, Lieut.-Col. Gordon; Hendrickson, W.E.; Darling, Eugene; Steele, Harwood; De Belabre, Baron; Harvey, K.H.; Pound, Reginald
Verlag: The International New Company, New York, 1922
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In den WarenkorbSingle Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in B…ritish New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Hossack, J.W.; Webb, Arch; Brock, R.H.; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; Prater, E.; Holloway, W.H.; Brock, H.M.; Soper, G. (illustrator).
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Verlag: Col. Jack Mohr, USA, 1975
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In den WarenkorbPamphlet. Zustand: Good. Reprint. 32 photocopied pages. Undated - possibly circa 1975. "It is the proclaimed aim of world communism and its traitors within the ranks of Christendom, to demoralize the Christian world, and thus destroy all opposition to communism." - page 2. Author was an American soldier who served with distincti…on in WWII and Korea, where he was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the communists after a pre-war coup. (per an online reference available upon request.) Extensive pencil underlining and marginalia. Average wear. Author Not listed in Singerman.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Communism Judaism Christianity Conspiracy Psychopolitics.
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In den WarenkorbScenes in Camp & Jungle. Second edition. 4 tinted lithograph plates (incl. title) & 7 other plates after pen & ink sketches. 8vo. Original purple pictorial cloth, gilt, (by Burn & Co., with their ticket), spine lightly sunned. xviii, 351pp. Edinburgh, The lithographs are after "vivid sketches" by Col. Baigrie. The first edition…appeared in the previous year.
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Verlag: Mostly 1914-45, 1914
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Good. Hundreds of b&w photos, some pertaining to Canadian military, others personal, as well as some negatives. Not organized, most unidentified. About 127 photos are identified. Also one letter to Col. R. G. Whitelaw, Commandant, Officers' Training Centre, Brockville, Ont. from Gerald Clark of the Montreal Standard, Fe…b. 1942; inside is an article called "Battle of the Ticks" about the Training Centre, asking Whitelaw for comments. Whitelaw was colonel of the Royal Canadian Regiment but most of these photos do not pertain to the R.C.R. Most relevant, identified items as follows: 1) Two cards of Col. R. Gordon Whitelaw, The Royal Canadian Regiment. 2) Empty envelope addressed to Major Robert Gordon Whitelaw, the R.C.R., Headquarters, Military District No. 1, London, Ont. 3) Letter to Col. R. G. Whitelaw, Commandant, Officers' Training Centre, Brockville, Ont. From Gerald Clark of the Montreal Standard. Includes article called "Battle of the Ticks" about the Training Centre, and asks Whitelaw to comment. In envelope. Feb. 1942. 4) Photo postcard of man with horse addressed to Whitelaw with Christmas wishes for 1925. 5) Three 22 x 22 cm photos of cottage on beach. 6) Two 11 cm photos of woman and dog on porch "Bayview" initialed H.P. 7) Two 20 x 25 cm military group photos in front of same building, stamped C. O. Gustafson's Studio, Sherbrooke, Que. Sheet labelling names in both back row and front row may refer to one of these photos. "Militia Staff Course, Lennoxville, PQ, 1931." 8) Three 17 x 26 cm photos of military group in front of same wall map 2 are identical, other includes one extra man and a woman. Stamped Canadian Army Photo. 9) Five 9 x 14 cm photo post cards featuring Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Camberley, England. 10) Ten 10 8 x 12 cm photos, 1 labeled May 21st 1934, Singoosh Lake - Singush Lake, Manitoba? 11) Five 7 x 10 cm photos of generators burning. Site not identified. 12) One 11 x 16 cm photo of King and Queen in Canada somewhere accompanied by Mountie and others Royal Visit of 1939 2 more photos of K&Q. 13) 9 x 14 cm group photo, Canadian Warfare School, First Course, Aug.-Oct. 1921, Rockliffe, Ottawa. 14) Envelope with over 80 6x6 cm photos, all identified on rear in pencil, of tour around USA emphasis on US Civil War battlegrounds, etc. 15) 12 cm photo of Shirley Sybil Davison, 2 yrs, 9 mths old.16) 10 cm photo of couple on S. S. Hamonic, June 14, 1918. She is "Etta." He is in uniform. Hamonicwas a passenger vessel designed for service on theGreat Lakes.It was launched in 1909, and served until it burned in a catastrophic fire atSarnia, Ontario on July 17, 1945. 17) 9 x 14 cm photo postcard of Winter Garden, Regent Palace Hotel, Piccadilly Circus. 18) 13 x 18 cm photo of YMCA "Tea Car" with crowd, as well as five 11 x 13 cm photos of same. Vehicle says "Iron Duke Directly from the Battle of Britain." Y.M.C.A's "Iron Duke" mobile tea canteen was on tour around Canada and the US in 1941. It was named after the Duke of Wellington and the "Iron Duke" warship put of out commission by Germany in WWII. The tea canteen volunteers would serve tea and sandwiches in areas that were bombed by the Luftwaffe. The vehicle was damaged while being used in London during the Blitz. The two women in one photo are likely Mrs. Robin Gurdon and Mrs. Lionel Gibbs. Their tour was part of a morale-building exercise overseas and drummed up support for the allies. 19) Six 12 x 17 cm photos of military parade, King Street, Brockville, Ontario same viewpoint, different parts of parade city identified by way of Beacock Motor Cars, Capitol Theatre and Victoria Hall in background.
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Verlag: [N.p., 1889
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In den WarenkorbBlack ink on ruled notebook paper, 127 ff. / 254 pp., 30 to 32 lines per page, approx. 75,000 words, closely written on recto and verso. 1 vols. 8vo. A detailed and digressive retrospective account of the early years of the long service of Col. Alexander Gordon Duff (1828-1904) in Burma, composed in his retirement in the spring…of 1889. Duff notes that he is reviewing his diaries while writing this account. Duff was a former officer of the Madras Native Infantry, and there is a great deal of whining about his misery while appointed to the Arrakan Hill Road, with detailed gossip on the failings of his superiors, including quite a damning verdict on Col. (later Sir) Arthur Phayre, who filled appointments "with the scum of the province". He writes bluntly of the local military administration: ". the inefficiency of the instruments employed. Prominent in this respect was the Pegu Light Infantry which was simply instead of a disciplined body a disorganised rabble." While rebellions inspired by the Mutiny were a constant fear, he was not concerned about the reliability of the native Police under his own supervision, but rather the possibility of contagion in districts with unreliable appointees. Later, as he is more settled in his post, there is considerable detail of the work of the assistant commissioner in rural Burma, practical tasks such as regulation of fisheries and tax collection, the usefulness of knowing short cuts in river traffic, occasional mentions of shooting pheasant, peafowl and deer for the pot, as well as dealings with itinerant snake charmers, wild elephants, recurring fears of cholera, and a number of unusual incidents. The memoir begins at the end of 1856, "I do not think there is much to tell of my last year at Tonghoo" [modern Taungoo]. He had been ordered down to Rangoon to await transport at the end of a year of "foreign service". Upon his arrival in Rangoon, he shared lodgings with Quartermaster General Col. Farren, "in those days living in Burma was anything but luxurious, food was indifferent, butcher's meat was hardly to be had, green vegetables there were none, potatoes were a costly luxury". Yet he did not want to return to India. "I had got my name sent up to Sir Archibald Bogle, then Commissioner of Moulmein, as a student of Burmese and desirous of joining the Commission". He was offered a job on the Arrakan Hill Road by Lieut. Forlong, who assured him there is no fever in the hills. This was a lie but "believing as I did in the lies he told me brought me all such good fortune as I ever experiened, and was in fact the turning point in my career." 25 January 1857, a special messenger arrives with telegram from Forlong to Executive Engineer Ingram, that Duff was wanted by Sir Archibald Bogle at Moulmein; when he arrives at Kyaukpyu, he learns that the position has been filled and experiences deep disappointment. "I little dreamed that I should see it as Deputy Commissioner . where after more than 27 years wanderings my career in that service finally ended." May 1857, released from road service; in Rangoon, meets [Henry Tristram] O'Reilly who had been Deputy Commissioner at Tonghoo, now Magistrate at Rangoon, "if I could pass the examination in Burmese he would give me the very first appointment that fell vacant." When word reached Rangoon of the terrible events of the Mutiny, all European soldiers were ordered to return. Duff received an appointment as an Extra Assistant Commissioner, with promise of the first promotion to Assistant Commissioner. Arrived at Prome (now Pyay) 4 July 1857, "matters had settled down a good deal though dacoity was still unpleasantly prevalent. There were no Europeans in the place except the officials who consisted of the Deputy Commissioner Major Grant Allan, the Asst. Capt. [A.R.] MacMahon, the Extra Asst., myself, the Civil Surgeon . besides these there were two American missionaries of the lowest style of that class, i.e., men who while themselves destitute of any education themselves professed to be converting the heathen" "When I arrived at Thayetmyo I found that the Police had just captured a man who was believed to be Nga Kyay the Murderer of Captain Latter" [in 1853]. November 1857, sent from Prome to the village of "Nyu Thein Kyoung", in the center of the subdivision: "a military officer ought to be in charge of such a post" An account of the loud noises heard early in the morning of 27 December 1857, and a visit to Quen-Gouk [modern Gyogon?], "the most northerly village of my jurisdiction" and the paddy field where the Quenggouk meteorite landed; it was dug out in fragments. "The paddy field was perfectly dry and the ground as hard as iron." On 24 August 1858, while he is trying a case, an earthquake occurred, of magnitude sufficient to bring down the pagoda of Prome. "Burma has been pre-eminently the land of mock princes - pinchbeck Perkin Warbecks - and however preposterous the story such an imposter tells ." As the local magistrate, he summoned one such Buffalo Prince and gave him a stern talking to; not long after, another Embryo Prince led a revolt in another province governed by an incompetent Phayre appointee and only the prompt arrival of the Magistrate of Rangoon, O'Reilly, with a force of 35 jail guards quelled the disturbance. Summary of his work 1858: "I find that in criminal matters I tried 652 persons, recorded the depositions of 869 witnesses and passed orders on 1784 petitions. In civil matters I tried 121 suits and passed orders on 1081 petitions, all the above business being transacted in the Burmese language. Besides this I had to keep a variety of accounts and wrote 449 official letters in English." 1859 opens with an account of the crimes and arrest of an outlaw named Shoay Goungalay, "who was a very daring Dacoit leader." In August 1859 isoffered an appointment from Hopkinson, Commissioner of Moulmein as Superintendent of Forests in that division; already knew [Dietrich] Brandis then head of Forest Dep.
