Major william henry (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. pp. 268.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Volume 6 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1849) contains records gathered by William Strachey (1572?-1621) about Virginia. Editor(s): Major, Richard Henry. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series. Num Pages: 274 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350. . 2010. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without Text leaf.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volume 6 (1849) is the first published edition of a collection of manuscript records gathered by William Strachey (1572 -1621), the first Secretary of the English colony of Virginia. It includes Strachey's own account of a shipwreck, which is believed by some scholars to have inspired passages in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and a list of words in Powhatan which is the only source of information about that language apart from the account of Captain John Smith.…

Zustand: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 305 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with decorations. Black and white and colour illustrations with black and white photographic plates throughout. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, boards slightly loose. Staining to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Staining to both boards. Fraying to cloth to spine edges.…

William Henry Major, Folkestone. 1912. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Quarto. Green cloth boards illustrated in black with gilt type to upper and black type to spine. Wonderful b/w and colour illustrations and plates and with colour frontis. Boards are rubbed and browned. End papers browned. Two adverts have been torn out at the rear but are still present. A lovely copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. "It is thought by the author that at a time when public interest is awake to the importance of producing a superior saddle horse in America, and, in particular, increasing the number of desirable mounts available for the cavalry, a resume of the qualities peculiar to the Arabian horse may be pertinent and of scientific value." - Preface. "I desire, as a horse lover from my earlest days and as a close student and observer of the horse, to express my delight with the scholarly as well as popular preparation of this splendid volume." - Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. xxvii, [5], 218 pages. Index. Bibliography. Lovely color and black and white plates. Reprint of the 1929 first edition. Unmarked with moderate wear to original tan cloth decorated in gilt. Binding intact. No dust jacket. A sound copy of this classic work which is sure to please lovers of the breed.; Folio.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition of this illustrated guide to butchering from British butcher William Henry Major. First edition. Very scarce. Illustrated with ten plates and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed guide to butchering, written for those who would like to know more about better-handling their meat and game. With chapters on trade and thrift, displaying meat, and useful hints, amongst others. Written by William Henry Major, an English butcher who was the son of prominent butcher John Grayling Major. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the extremities and the endpapers. With the previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 96pp. Green paper covered boards, black cloth spine. Complete with frontispiece portrait and four illustrated plates. Front hinge starting, binding threads still sound. Wear to corners, slight bow to front cover. A nice copy of Harrison's presidential campaign biography. (Sabin 30585) (Howes H246) (Thomson 151) (Miles 133). First edition of The Life of Major-General William Henry Harrison, published in 1840. (illustrator).…

179pp., foolscap 8vo, and contains 332 general orders by 'W. H. Poyntz | Major and Chief Constable'. The volume is entirely in manuscript, but is not in Poyntz's handwriting. It comprises 168 paginated pages, followed by an eleven-page index giving a one-line summary of the 'Purport' of each order. The volume is a ruled notebook, in original quarter binding of black cloth spine and marbled boards, with the words 'GENERAL ORDERS' printed on a label on the cover, with 'Rochford' written in manuscript beneath. Complete and entirely legible, on aged and worn paper, with a few loose leaves, and shaken in heavily worn binding. A detailed and informative volume, casting a fascinating light on Victorian provincial policing, he entries reflecting the exacting standards of the chief constable. Subjects include procedure, punishments, pay, registrations and promotions, leave, uniform ('Belts to be worn with Tunics and Great Coats', 'Winter and Summer Gloves'), 'Parade in Uniform Boots', 'the length of the Constables hair', drinking on duty, 'Gambling and raffling in Public and Beer Houses', transcriptions of letters from the Home Office, the giving of testimony, 'disused Mine Shafts', 'Boiler explosions'. The most significant entry relates to the murder of Inspector Thomas Simmonds: 'General Order 284 | 28th. January 1885 | The Chief Constable has much gratification in promoting P.C. 107 Alfred Marden to a 1st. Class and at the same time a "Merit" Class Constable for gallant and meritorious Conduct in having on the 20th. instant at Hornchurch within the Liberty of Havering atte Bower after his Superior Officer (Inspector Simmons) had been struck down by a shot from a revolver fired by one of three armed Burglars, whom they were about to search, Continued the pursuit of two of these men by himself, notwithstanding that while so doing two shots were discharged at him | The Conduct of this young Office reflects high credit on himself, and through him, on the Essex Constabulary'. General Order 314 (18 July 1885) reads: 'The Chief Constable directs that Superintendents and Officers in charge of Petty Sessions are to be very particular watching the manner that Constables give evidence when in the Witness Box. | Nothing looks worse than its being given in an indistinct and hesitating manner, and where such is apparent, instruction and practice should be afforded the officer. | A Constable must stand straight up at "attention" and not "fiddle about" with his hands in a nervous sort of manner. | As putting on the right hand glove after taking the oath seems rather to unsettle some officers, and as difficulty seems frequently to arise in replacing it, that part of General Order No. 166, dated 15th October 1883, relating thereto, is hereby Cancelled'. An example of 'Punishments' is issued 'for the information of Divisions' as General Order 291 (23 February 1885): 'P.C. 92. G. Hurrell (1st. Class) is for having been found partially undressed and asleep in a hut while on duty at 2 A.M. on the 10th. instant, and for making a false preort against his Inspector dismissed from the Force | P.C. 175 N. Paye (1st. Class) 128 A. Whalley (2nd. Class) and 138, A. Sweeting (3rd. Class) are for not using proper diligence to return to their Station at Greys, when sent to London on duty thereby missing the train and remaining away all night each fined half a days pay, viz: Paye 1s\11d Whalley 1s/8d, and Sweeting 1s/7d | This not being the first Case of the kind that has occurred, the Chief Constable wishes it to be clearly understood that any similar neglect of duty will be severely dealt with.' Born in Dublin, Poyntz joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry in 1853 and reached the rank of Major, serving in Hong Kong, China, Japan and Woolwich. Chief Constable of Nottingham, 1872-1881; and Chief Constable of Essex, 1881-1887. For information on his career at Essex see Chapter 5 ('Major Poyntz makes Changes, 1881-87') of Maureen Scollan's 'Sworn to Serve: Pol. …

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. Reads: 'My dear Sir, | I shall feel much pleasure in joining Your party tomorrow evening, with my nephew C. Cazalet, who conveyed to me the wish you had expressed to see us at your lodgings, before your not came. | I am Your's sincerely | de Bode'. See John H. Harland, 'Baron de Bode and his Capstan', in The Mariner's Mirror, vol.99, 2013.…