mackenzie captain (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. xi, 97pp, 40pp. Gilt titles to spine. Spine slightly sunned, with a little fraying to head and tail. Corners worn. Some marking to prelims. Lacks rear free end-paper. A good reading copy. (q14).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback, white "vellum" cloth. Useful account of the 6th Gordons in France and Flanders. 1st Edition 1921. 241pp., ills., Roll of honour, awards. Modest foxing, blemishes to front cover which also has a little fading to titling and modest rubbing to one lower corner. "With compliments J Dawson Hon. Col. 6th Gordon Highln." and bookplate of C.J.Deverell F.M. with name in ink (Note Sir Cyril Deverell was Chief of the Imperial General Staff CIGS from 1936 to 1937). Interesting association copy. Condition good+.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This informative guide to hunting provides tips and strategies for both novice and experienced hunters. Drawing on his extensive experience in the field, Cortlandt Gordon Mackenzie covers a range of topics, including firearms, game species, and hunting ethics. With its practical advice and engaging style, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the sport of hunting.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1887. First edition. viii, 309pp., black and white frontispiece portrait, colour plate showing Regimental Colours, and 11 black and white plates. All edges gilt. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. It amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders (the Duke of Albany's) to form the Queen's Own Highlanders in 1961. This is a history of the Regiment from its formation up to 1887, taken from the Orderly Room Records. It includes accounts of the Raising of the Regiment, Egyptian Campaign, Waterloo, Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, Nile Expedition, and the Soudan Campaign. There are also alphabetical lists of Services of the Officers, Services of the Warrant Officers, and an appendix containing a Roll of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who were killed in action or died of wounds or disease in Egypt and the Soudan, 1882-87. The book is bound in the original green padded leather boards with gold titling and emblems on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some wear to the titling and emblems on the spine and front board and rubbing to the leather at the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with traces of a removed diamond-shaped label on the front fixed endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xiii, 241pp White cloth binding with dark blue titles and gilt Stag decoration to the front, bevelled board edges. Foreword by Lieutenant-General Sir G. M. Harper, late of The 51st Division. 15 illustrations including the frontispiece. Clean, tight and unmarked though a few minor marks on boards as seen on scans. Minor tanning and minimal foxing at edges. See the Scans.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. viii, 309 p. 23 cm. 13 illustrations, including two in colour showing regimental colours. Green cloth hardcover with attractive gold print and gold text block edges. Corners bumped. Spine ends slightly worn. Hinges repaired internally. Ink inscription on front pastedown states "Moray Brown, Ensign 79th Highlanders Retired as Lieutenant 1884". James Moray Brown served in India with the 79th Cameron Highlanders and wrote several books on sporting topics during the late 1880s and 1890s eg. "I Was A Tiger Hunter." He has a brief bio in the alphabetical officers' listings section p. 211. News clippings pasted to front pages describe the Highlanders in Egypt and the regiment's centenary celebration.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. [Shanghai, The Author, 1931]. Oblong quarto, [ii], 32 leaves of tables (printed rectos only; 4 folding). Gilt-lettered patterned cloth lightly worn at the extremities; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. Provenance: Gordon D. Clouston, with his business card and ownership details ('Moller Line Ltd . Shanghai China 1937') on the endpapers.

Zustand: Fair. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co.; Devonport: A. H. Swiss, 1887. 1st edition. 8vo hardcover. viii+309pp. Illustrations. Poor book. Binding copy. Backstrip partially missing. Front hinge, endpage and pages 199-202 detached. Bookplate on front pastedown. (Great Britain, Regimental Histories) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. White cloth binding with dark blue titles and gilt decoration to the front with bevelled board edges. Illustrated with fifteen photographs, including frontispiece. Presentation copy "In Memory of Lieut. F.L. Farquharson." A few small scuff marks to front cover. Three rows of tiny dots across otherwise blank back cover. Spotting to top edge of text block. Light tanning to inside pages, but no ownership marks or foxing. 254 pages. P2.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Holloway, Cyril; Sutcliffe, Norman; Tennant, Dudley; Wigfull, W.E.; Wightman, W.E.; De Walton, John; Sindall, A.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Holloway, Cyril; Sindall, A.W. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Tingley; Callan, Les; Coughlin, Bing; Flessel, Creig (illustrator). First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Silent Cities - Photo-illustrated article on Canadian military cemeteries abroad; Our Air Heroes - excerpt from play "Target for Peace" which was broadcast on the CBC; Photo of the 48th Highlanders of Canada pipe band playing in Italy; Top Priority on Homes for Heroes is Legion Demand; How the Town of Renfrew Solved its Housing Problem - article with photo; Education for Citizenship - Lieut. - Col. the Hon. Wilfred Bovey flays those who would throw away Canadian democracy for the way of the Russians; Photo and brief write-up of 93-year-old Sgt. Daniel Byrd Hoskins Power of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, who explains the secret to his long life; Canada's Veterans in the U.S.A.; The Second V.C. of the R.C.A.F. - The Late Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski; Photo of Bailey Bridge inventor Sir Donald Bailey in Ottawa; Update Colonel Percy J. Philpott, Adviser to the Deputy Minister concerning Veterans of both wars; Review of book "Detour" which describes the life of Prisoners-of-war in Germany; Article on Legion Policies and Activities; Monthly notes on the great humanitarian work of the Dominion Service Bureau of the Canadian Legion; The World in Review - Part 12 - September 11 to October 10, 1946; The Small Holdings Plan; Photo of Victoria Legion's undefeated lacrosse team; Photo of the Jewish legionaires' basketball team of the Fredric Kisch Branch in Montreal; The Canadian Army at War - The Canadians in Britain, 1939-1944, 3rd part; Nice one-page cartoon-illustrated ad for Dawes Black Horse Brewery features hunter being chased by bear; Nostalgic colour ad inside back cover for Blue Top Brewing of Kitchener, Ontario features illustration and floor-plan diagram of an economical home. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Front cover partially faded with mild undulations. Contents moderately toned with age. A sound vintage copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this collection of records from the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, colourfully illustrated throughout. A fascinating collection of historical records concerning the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, which was raised in 1793 and served in numerous important British conflicts including the Peninsular Campaign, Gibraltar, the Crimean Campaign, the Nile Expedition, and more.Written by Captain T.A. Mackenzie, Lieutenant and Adjutant J.S. Ewart, an Lieutenant C. Findlay.Illustrated with twelve photogravure plates, two of which are in bright colour. Collated and complete.The photogravure plates are by the London Typographic Etching Company, taken from engravings and photographs lent by the Officers' and Sergeants' Messes.The first edition of this work.Containing a gift inscription to the front blank, dated Sept. 10th 1889. In the publisher's original decorative cloth. Externally, very smart, with just a touch of shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. A small mark to the rear board and a small split to the cloth at the extremity on the rear board. Containing a gift inscription to the front blank, dated Sept. 10th 1889.Internally, front hinge is starting, remaining binding is firm. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.

59 + [1]pp., 8vo. Stitched and disbound. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. The author is not named on the title-page, but the text ends, p.59, with the signature in type of 'CHARLES LARKIN.' The final page carries a list of 'Errata'. Drop-head title, p.3: 'To The Auditory who heard the Speech of Captain Gordon, delivered in Brunswick Place Chapel, on Wednesday evening, March 2, 1831, This Letter is respectfully inscribed.' The Reformation Society, 'of which Captain Gordon styles himself the honorary secretary', is attacked as a 'society for the support of a tottering system of fraud, falsehood, fanaticism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and oppression'. The only copy on COPAC at Durham (there is a second impression held at Durham and two other locations).

1831, London, John Murray, two volumes, first London edition (it first appeared in the US in 1829), ppxi + 413 + (i); vii + 377 + (i), woodcuts in text, full contemporary calf, gilt decorations in compartments, red labels, all edges marbled. Mackenzie 1803-1848, joined the American navy aged 11 as a midshipman, serving on various ships, in 1825 was promoted to Lieutenant, soon afterwards being granted extended leave. He then travelled extensively in Europe, reading widely, becoming friends with Washington Irving and Henry Longfellow, the former securing John Murray as his English publisher. Alberich 1036; Robertson, Los Curiosos pp.187. Some foxing on preliminary leaves, reback with original spines laid down.