moore major a t (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Interesting reference on tactics. 1st Edition 1907. 66pp., two maps, operation orders. RE Library gilt logo to cover and other numbers, some wear and a few blemishes to covers, still good condition, green boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Original printed blue paper covered boards with blue cloth spine 15x22cm. 162pp (numbered (i)-vi, (7)-162) + 1 b/w folding map bound in + (1)pp Corrections laid in. Printed in July 1912 by W. and J. Mackay and Co, Chatham, in a run of 500 copies as indicated to the copyright page. Covers good only, rubbed along the edges, boards tanned and foxed, with small areas of loss to the spine cloth. Interiors good or better, lightly tanned, cropped to the top corner of the blank ffep (leaving only the first initial of a previous owner's name), archival tape reinforcement to the hinges of the final section, map neatly folded with stub tear, Corrections leaf worn along the edges with a little loss (not affecting content). The final blank has neatly pencilled contact details for Mr Simpson, Manager of high end retailer and importer M.S. Hathaway and Co in Jubbulpore, and a list of hotels in Lahore and Karachi. Worldcat and Library Hub locate only 1 copy of this edition between them at the British Library (OCLC 221021751), with an online search locating another at the Australian War Memorial. They also record a 3rd edition (1930) but not the 1st. The first edition was prepared by Royal Engineers Institute Secretary Major A.T. Moore (1904), with this 2nd edition updated to March 1912 by Major E.C. Ogilvie. The Corrections leaf is dated September 1922. It originated as a pamphlet describing Foreign Stations for Royal Engineers, and was broadened during the drafting process to be relevant to other branches of the Army, and to civilian officials in Indian Government Departments (the material specific to the Royal Engineers was subsequently published separately). In two Parts, this covers Outfit etc, and General Description. Part I (Outfit) includes kit (plain clothes, underclothing, house linen, bedding, hats, boots, uniform, furniture, plate and crockery, saddlery and harness, weapons, shooting and fishing gear, boxes, miscellaneous), passages out and home (including packing), procedures on arrival (including up-country journey), servants, horses and dogs, bicycles and motor cars, post and telegraphs, amusements and sport (games, races, yachting and boating, fishing, hunting, pig-sticking, shooting), health, and hints for ladies and children (clothes, housekeeping, insects, furniture, occupation, exercise, leave, travelling, clothing and care of children). Part II (General Description) covers geography, climate, rail roads and canals, population and administration, military organisation and native army, history, languages (including exams), races castes and characteristics, religions, and descriptive books. Appendices cover coins weights and measures, shooting hints and list of big game, and vocabulary. The map, titled "Indian Empire", shows Military Commands and Stations and railways.

Hardback. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback. Very substantial volume of the Royal Engineers Occasional Papers for 1903, Volume XXIX. Includes Astrographic Chart etc by H.Turner 16pp., 5 folding plates. Also Light Railway Delhi Coronation Durbar 1903 by H.Hepper, 54pp., 9 plates (including detailed map with some colour, engine plans, Ksmir Gate sidings etc, one repaired tear to plate. Together with Chile-Argentine Bondary Commission 1902-1903 Col. Sir T.Holdich 8pp., 6 plates (including folding coloured map). Other papers. 251pp., plates, folding maps etc. Some edges quite dusty. binding has a few gaps, still tight, and Royal Artillery Library stamp, Woolwich, else very good green boards. Very heavy additional postage likely.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition of Setting the Course: The First Year, Major Policy Statements by President Richard Nixon, with a White House TLS and bookplate inscribed to the Hon. John D.J. Moore, United States Ambassador to Ireland. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xix, 500pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Solid text block, appears mostly unread. In the publisher's price clipped dust jacket, light chipping at top edge of spine, shelf wear, a very good example. White House bookplate hand-signed by President Richard Nixon affixed to the front free endpaper. Includes additional TLS on White House stationery signed by President Nixon. Both signatures with light finger smudge. An excellent association copy. Ambassador John D.J. Moore (1910-1988) was the longest serving American ambassador to Ireland in history, serving from 1969-1975. Moore famously accompanied Vice President Richard Nixon to South America in 1958 and the Soviet Union in 1959. Both trips produced international headlines, with Nixon's limousine being attacked in Caracas, Venezuela (May 13, 1958) and a conversation between Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev over the merits of capitalism being dubbed the Kitchen Debate (July 24, 1959). Signed.