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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . Dampstained. War Department Navaer 13-1-501. (Military History, Field manuals, Reference, survival guide).

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The confidential first edition dated March 1919, prepared for the British Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (a second declassified edition made available to the public without the map appeared in 1920, retitled "Tanganyika (German East Africa)" and renumbered No. 113). Original grey printed card wraps 14x22cm. vi, 117pp, complete with the colour folding map in a back pocket. Very good, lightly bumped and creased to the corners, tanned to the spine, blue crayon number to the front. Map spotted, neatly folded with short closed fold tears. Chapters describe physical and human geography, political history (starting with Portuguese influence through to Arab rule, British and German interests, and native opposition), social and political conditions, and economy, with Treaty extracts in the Appendices. No authors are indicated, but it was a collective effort, with the series edited by George Walter Prothero, Director of the Historical Section, which had been established purposely by the Foreign Office. Histories were voluntarily contributed by experts, geography by Naval Intelligence Division staff, and economics by the Foreign Office War Trade Intelligence Department. The map is by the Geographical Section General Staff of the War Office: "General Map of German East Africa", GSGS No. 2814, War Office, July 1916. 80x78cm, 1/2M, bounded by Lake Victoria (N), the Swahili coast from Lamu to Pekavi with Zanzibar about midway (E), the border with Portuguese East Africa (S), and Lake Tanganyika (W). Features include railways, roads (mostly fit for light wheeled traffic), important tracks and routes, marshes, mission stations, and international boundaries. This edition appears to be very rare, with Worldcat and Library Hub locating copies at the British Museum and British Library only (OCLC 558925343).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A scarce strategic manual of Belgium's geography, originally hidden from the public or press, written during the final year of the First World War. A Manual of Belgium and the Adjoining Territories, a scarce strategic manual used as a geographical study of Belgium during the First World War, written anonymously by Naval Staff Intelligence Division. Published by the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs in 1918, the final year of the First World War.In the publisher's original blue cloth.Particularly focused towards the geography of Belgium, including distribution of population, history, agriculture, manufacturing, communications and trade, the manual has been published to state facts that will better aid planning for resolving the Western Front. The book was in property of the government, and originally hidden from the press and publicThis manual would have been accompanied by an atlas of the region, including Verdun and Metz. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally, smart, with minimal marks to boards. Slight fading to the spine. Rubbing to joints, with a minor lift to cloth to head of front joint, and bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Offsetting to free end papers, and the odd spot to pastedowns. Education committee stamps to end papers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with minor age toning. Very Good. Unknown (illustrator). book.…

8vo., First Edition; dark blue cloth, boards framed in blind, expertly rebacked to style, a very good, crisp, clean copy. 'Sold from an institution with its library markings on front free endpaper. 'This book is the property of HM Government. Its contents are not to be communicated either directly or indirectly to the Press, or to any person not holding an official position in HM Service. Attention is drawn to the Penalties attaching to any Infraction of the Official Secrets Act'. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Not recorded by Enser.…

Hardcover. 422 p. Includes: index, bibliography. Occasional footnotes. "For Official Use Only. " Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual library markings. Bookplate. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine scuffed. Does not have accompanying Atlas with maps.

Hardback. Greece. 3 vols. 524, 430 & 587pp, 346 maps & diagrams & 398 plates 1944-5. *Vol. 1. Physical geography, History, Administration & Peoples. Vol. 2. Economic geography, Ports, & Communications. Vol. 3. Regional geography. Greece 15: Although by now inevitably, somewhat out of date, these volumes maintain much of their original value & are a mine of information on the physical & economic value of the country. Ex-library set., covers marked, contents good.…

No place or printer. June 1917. 8vo. Original blue cloth with fold-over flap and press stud for closing, lettered in gilt, this being Copy 414; pp. 551, three sketch maps; flap with one marginal fold, inside of flap a little foxed, otherwise very clean, stamp Sold by H. M. Stationery Office at head of title-page.Scarce first edition of this top-secret handbook, a treasure trove of well-researched information on all aspects of the country, compiled by the anonymous spy-masters of the British Empire (probably with information provided by Meinertzhagen, among others). This book contains a very detailed and comprehensive survey of all that was known at the time about the topography, peoples, administration, military forces, colonial influences, customs, climate, religions, railways, transport, agriculture, natural resources, and industry of Abyssinia in 1917. Among the appendices is a useful bibliography, rating books for good cartographic material and 'first-rate importance'. This is followed by an assessment of the strength, armament and tactics of the Abyssinian Imperial Army, partly based on observations made during the civil war of October 1916. At the end of the volume is an over 170-pages long introduction to the local languages with parallel vocabularies and phrases in in English, Amharic, Tigrinya, Galla and Somali. In 1922 appeared a second volume which is even rarer.…

First Edition. I.D. 1215. 8vo. Original black cloth, gilt lettering to spine; light wear to extremities, several tiny scuffs and stains to boards, small area of shiny tape residue to spine, a few short tears to hinges (not affecting stability of binding), otherwise near very good. Interior exceptionally clean and fresh. 723 pp. Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June, A scarce wartime handbook on Greater Syria, therefore covering present-day Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Prepared by the Naval Staff Intelligence Department it includes an impressive range of information on everything from Military History to Agriculture. This copy, as with others we have seen, does not include the fourteen pages of illustrations apparently found in some examples. The note at the start of the handbook states it was something of a work in progress, originally intended as a two-volume publication (with a second vol. dedicated to 'Routes and Communications'), but stalled due to "the occupation of the country and the signing of the Armistice" (p.[5]). Scarce. LibraryHub locates five examples in the UK, at the University of Birmingham, BL, KCL, Oxford and UCL. OCLC adds no further examples, with no holding libraries in North America.…