Second army (24 Ergebnisse)

5½'' x 3½''. Divided back. Monochrome post card. Member of the P.B.F.A. POSTCARDS.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Wrappers. Small 8vo, 46 pp. Illustrated, centerfold spread of two pages of First Army firsts showing progress of the Army from Normandy to Paris to German territory to the contact with Soviet soldiers. About very good condition, front cover and first two pages with a diagonal wrinkle in the top right corner. From the library of Shepard Stone.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xii] 261 printed pages of text with colour frontispiece. Ink message inside dated 1974. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the the top and bottom edges, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0853141509 PHYSICS.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages; 1919 The Second Division Association. Paperback in pictorial, title lettered card stock covers. Saddle stapled binding. Contents clean and neat. Front cover had detached but is archivally mended with japanese tissue repair over the separation at the spine fold. Several small areas of chipping and loss to the front cover edges. Uncommon contemporary divisional publication recording the successes of the 2nd during WWI. Contents VG but with wear and chipping to the covers.…

ERINNERUNGEN UND BEKENNTNISSE Eine politische Autobiographie. Horst Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen und Basel, 1. Auflage 1968, ERSTAUSGABE, 387 SS. gebunfen (Hardcover, grünes Oln. 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten - Vorsatz mit eigenhändiger Widmung "Für Anerkennung Ihrer Mitarbeit für PSVD.SHEHZADA MUIR ?" als General Sekretär Pakistanischer Studentenverband Deutschlands (PSVD), datiert 20. Dez. 1968".…

Stipple engraving, from 'Contemporary Portraits', good margins, some spotting.

Sm. 4to., with coloured formation signs of twenty-six Second Army units on front wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled, staples very lightly rusting else a remarkably crisp, bright, clean copy. This humble Order of Service is surely the single document which, for every individual soldier in Dempsey's Second Army, symbolised the end of the gruelling twelve months which lasted from from the beaches of Normandy to the heath at Luneberg and brought the end of war in Europe. The front wrapper carries a striking coloured montage of badges of the major formations involved, comprising Second Army, 1 Corps, 8 Corps, 12 Corps, 30 Corps, Airborne Corps, Guards Armoured Division, 7 Armoured Division, 11 Armoured Division, 3 Infantry Division, 5 Infantry Division, 15 (Scottish) Infantry Division, 43 (Wessex) Infantry Division, 49 (West Riding) Infantry Division, 50 (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, 51 (Highland) Infantry Division, 52 (Lowland) Infantry Division, 53 (Welsh) Infantry Division, 59 (Staffordshire) Infantry Division, 6 Guards Tank Brigade, 4 Armoured Brigade, 8 Armoured Brigade, 27 Armoured Brigade, 33 Armoured Brigade, 34 Armoured Brigade, 115 Independent Infantry Brigade. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cole reproduces the wrapper in his standard reference 'Heraldry in War' (plate facing p.120).…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. 1st Printing with full printer's code number sequence to the copyright page 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Contains 336 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Slight tanning to the page margins. Very Good condition book in Fine condition price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781845967994 WORLD WAR II (Second).…

8½'' x 6'' monochrome photograph. The reverse has an attached slip of paper which states 'Not for publication before evening papers of Tuesday March 14th 1944 - Mediterranean Commander Visits Cisterno Front (passed by censor). Relaxing on the front seat of his Jeep, General Sir Harold Alexander, Mediterranean Theatre Commander, was pictured when he arrived at the Cisterno Front for an inspection tour of the Allied Fifth Army positions there. A group of Yank Rangers met General Alexander there.' Small tear to the top edge. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHOTOGRAPHS. …

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On his letterhead of coronet and letter R. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. He is sorry to refuse the Duke, 'but I could not really take the chair at a dinner in aid of the Westminster Hospital Funds', as he has 'promised Lord Cadogan to to [sic] act in that capacity in aid of [same?] Chelsea Hospital. Under these circumstances, I am sure you will excuse me.'.…

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium, folded once. In good condition. 29 lines of text. He thanks her for her kindness, 'in the midst of your great sorrow', in writing to inform the Robertses of her husband's death. 'We have often talked of you both, and wondered where you were living.' He had thought it was 'somewhere in the valley of the Thames, at least I thought you told me so when last I met you both walking in Regent Street - some 10 years ago'. After a brief comment on Tierney's ill health, he recalls how 'He, Alfred Torrens, and I sat next to each other at Mills School. Torrens died a few weeks ago, and now I am the only one left.' He ends by sending his and his wife's condolences, and in a postscript signed 'R' asks to be informed 'should you come to London'. In his 1914 biography, Walter Jerrold writes that between 1842 and 1845 Roberts was 'pupil of a Mr. Mills at Hampton'.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 113 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Fold-out. This was printed by M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne. Some page markings (ink scribbles presumed by a child). Cover has wear and soiling. Dornbusch 746. Introduction by General John A. Lejeune. The 2nd Engineer Battalion is an engineering battalion in the United States Army which can trace its lineage back to 1861. 2d Battalion of Engineers expanded, reorganized, and redesignated 1 July-1 August 1916 as the 2d Regiment of Engineers. 2d Regiment of Engineers expanded 21 May-20 June 1917 to form the 2d, 4th, and 5th Regiments of Engineers (4th and 5th Regiments of Engineers-hereafter separate lineages). 2d Regiment of Engineers redesignated 29 August 1917 as the 2d Engineers. Assigned in September 1917 to the 2d Division (later redesignated as the 2nd Infantry Division (United States)). The Regiment participated in Mexican Expedition: Mexico 1916-1917 and World War I: Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine 1918; Ile de France 1918. General Lejeune wrote in the Introduction that "In the last battle of the war, it [the Regiment] threw two foot-bridges across the Meuse in the face of withering machine guns and heavy artillery fire, thereby enabling the advanced battalions of the Division to cross the river and seize the highest on the east bank. Battery Rathbone (1905-1948) was part of the harbor defenses of San Francisco. Battery Rathbone was a reinforced concrete, Endicott Period 6 inch coastal gun battery on Fort Barry, Marin County, California. The battery was named in G.O. 194, 27 Dec 1904 after Lt. Samuel B. Rathbone, U.S. Artillery, who died of wounds received in action at Queenstown Heights, Canada, in 1812. Battery construction started in 1904 and transferred to the Coast Artillery for use 8 Jun 1905. The east half of the Battery was renamed in G.O. 13, 22 Mar 1922, for Brig. Gen. James F. McIndoe, who died 6 Feb 1919. Battery deactivated in 1948. The following appeared on 28 October 1920 in The Columbus Ledger: A Columbus Boy's Distinguished Military Service. Hundreds of Columbus people recall him pleasantly-- plain Will Mitchell then, now Colonel William A. Mitchell of the United States army. It was only natural that the young man's thoughts should turn toward a military career, as his older brother, Colonel Americus Mitchell, was then an officer in the United States army. A local sponsor became greatly interested in him and was of substantial assistance in obtaining his appointment to the West Point Military Academy from the Fourth Georgia district. His army record subsequently was one of steady advancement. During the world War Colonel Mitchell organized the 20th Engineers (a forestry regiment) containing about 27,000 men, and shipped it to Europe, going over himself with the last detachment of the regiment. This was, perhaps, the largest regiment ever organized. Shortly after he reached France Colonel Mitchell was placed in command of the 2nd Engineers, this regiment constituting the Engineer regiment of the 2nd Division. He served with this regiment from Chateau Thierry to the armistice, and later on became corps engineer of the 8th corps. Those familiar with world-war history of course know of the famous Second Division, and his regiment constituted one of the most efficient parts of this great division. For his services he was awarded several medals by the French (one of them the second highest honor given by the French government) and the distinguished service medal by the United States. Colonel Mitchell then became an instructor at Fort Leavenworth. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original tawny brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. When Belgium capitulated, and he was held in camps in Germany and France. On 10 January 1941, he was repatriated to Belgium. After release in German-occupied Belgium, he met his former colleague sergeant-pilot Léon Divoy, and they briefly planned to build an aircraft with which to escape to England. Contains Sir William Rothenstein frontispiece drawing of Michael Donnet, sketched in 1943, (xi), 108 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Touch of foxing to the text block edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Number 152 of 997 flown cover SIGNED 'Mike Donnet' and Cadet 'Leon Divoy' to the front cover. 13.6.75 Belgium post marked stamp, reverse signed by W. S. O. Randle, Royal Air Forces Escaping Society, + 2 other stamps 'Municipal Airport 14 June, 1975 Southend-on-Sea' and 'Royal Air Forces Escaping Society, 16.6.1975', one cachet insert. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Housed in Fine condition marble paper covered open-fronted slip case. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 253pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers. Solid text block, faint discoloration to covers, light wear to gilt, spine ends and corners bumped. With engraved frontispiece portrait and tissue guard and 6 folded facsimile letters, light offsetting to text. (Graff 4552) Signed "William Lamb / from the author July '82" on the front free endpaper. Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois, serving from 1853-1869. An ardent abolitionist, Washburne was a leader among the Radical Republicans in Congress. During the Civil War, he was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant was elected president in 1868, Washburne briefly served as Secretary of State, then was appointed Minister to France. In retirement, Washburne wrote a memoir of his time spent in France, titled Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. The work was published shortly before his death in 1887. First edition of Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois by Elihu B. Washburne, inscribed to Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Army officer and Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. (illustrator). Signed.…

Fourteen items from the papers of Sir Noel Galway Holmes, all but the last relating to his three decades of service in the British Army, with reports and recommendations by superior officers from 1920 to 1939. (Two more items, relating to Churchill and the Second World War, are offered separately.) Considering Holmes's central position in Churchill's war entourage, and his pivotal role in the logistical management of the Second World War, it is unaccountable that he should not have been accorded a proper biographical account, other than an obituary in the Daily Telegraph, 29 December 1982, and entry in Who Was Who. In Sir Ronald M. Weeks's 'Organisation and Equipment for War' (CUP, 1950) he is referred to in glowing terms: 'We were fortunate in having as D.Q.M.G. (Movements) [NGH's official title was 'Deputy-Quarter-Master-General for Movements'] an Irishman, Major-General Sir Noel Holmes, who held the job throughout the war. Blessed with a sense of humour, a strong constitution (he was an International Rugby footballer), the power of leadership and good judgment, he played no small part in the achievement of victory.' NHG's career was highly distinguished, as his decorations suggest. He joined the army in 1910, served in France during the First World War, and in India between the wars. His Second World War activities were, as the two items offered separately indicate, of vital importance. At the end of the war he spent a few months as commander of Aldershot before retiring from the army in 1946. Some items worn and aged, but complete and legible, in fair overall condition. The fourteen items are placed in what is clearly the envelope in which NGH received the details of his knighthood in the New Years' Honours List of 1946, with stamp of the Lord Chamberlain, St James's Palace, and printed address of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St. James's Palace, addressed to 'Major General Noel G. Holmes / C.B., C.B.E., M.C., / The Garden House / Kelmead Road / Fleet / Hants'. ONE: [CV, 1910-1939] 'Army Form B. 199A.', giving NGH's personal details (birth, education, ethnicity (Officer: Irish; Officer's Father: Irish; Officer's Mother: Irish), training, and, most prominently, 'Particulars of Service, Records of Movements, Appointments, Promotions, Etc.' from 1 April 1910, when he 'Joined Special Reserve Connaught Rangers' in 'W. Ireland' to 13 February 1939, when he 'Assumed Offg. Command Tull. Brigade Area vice Bdr. Dening (on leave)' in Jullundur. 2pp, folio and 1p, 4to. The great length of the 'Particulars of Service' has led someone to annotate with exclamation mark, at the end of the folio part, '(Continued on attached)!' TWO: Copy of NGH's 'Annual Confidential Report' ('Army Form B. 194') dated from Cologne, 10 August 1920. Signature illegible. Positive report. 1p, folio. THREE: Copy of NGH's 'Annual Confidential Report' ('Army Form B. 194') by 'W. C. G. Henneker, Major Genl. Commdg. British Troops in Upper Silesia', dated 13 September 1921. 2pp, folio. 'I cannot praise Major Holmes sufficiently for the manner in which he carries out his work and I am extremely fortunate in getting him as my A.A. & Q.M.G. I have just recommended him for the Staff College. Apart from his efficiency in his work he is reliable and his advice is sound. I am much indebted to him.' FOUR: Copy of NGH's 'Annual Confidential Report' ('Army Form B. 194.') by Brigadier Hereward Wake, dated 12 September 1931. 2pp, folio. 'He is a first rate staff officer, with exceptional energy & ability and he has a detailed knowledge of his profession. Fit and active in mind and body. I consider he is much above the average of his rank well fitted for command, and that his early promotion (he has held a Brevet Majority since 1919) would be of advantage to the service. / He would make a useful instructor at The Staff College'. FIVE: 'Certified true Copy' of NGH's 'Annual Confidential Report' ('Army Form B. 194.'). Report by NGH's 'Immediate Commander' Lt C. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, 253pp, [2pp ads]. Publisher's original brown cloth, border stamped in blind on covers, title stamped in gilt on spine. Brown endpapers. Solid binding, scattered discoloration to cloth, gilt tarnished on spine, faint foxing to top edge of text block, spine ends and upper corners bumped, slight bow to front cover. A few smudge marks to text pages, later ownership inscription written in ink on title page. Contains an engraved frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and six folded facsimile letters, light offsetting to text. Handwritten letter by the author to Col. Lamb attached to front flyleaf. In addition to commenting on the book, Washburne writes: ".I shall always guard the most agreeable souvenirs of my visit to the Old Dominion and of the many marked courtesies I received at your hand. / Should you ever visit Chicago, I shall expect the pleasure of entertaining you at my house. / I am, very truly yours, E.B. Washburne." (Graff 4552). Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of Illinois, serving from 1853-1869. An ardent abolitionist, Washburne was a leader among the Radical Republicans in Congress. During the Civil War, he was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. When Grant was elected president in 1868, Washburne briefly served as Secretary of State, then was appointed Minister to France. In retirement, Washburne wrote a memoir of his time spent in France, titled Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877. The work was published shortly before his death in 1887. First edition of Sketch of Edward Coles, Second Governor of Illinois by Elihu B. Washburne, with a signed presentation letter from the author to Colonel William Lamb, Confederate Army officer and Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. (illustrator). Signed. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, vi, [2], 372pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. The second printing, lacking the "first edition" statement on the title page. Illustrated endpapers. Some wear to tips of the spine, solid text block. Includes the bookplate of "Wedemeyer" on the front free endpaper. In the publisher's dust jacket, $4.00 on the front flap, wear to tips, light sunning to the spine, a very good example. Signed on the half title: "To General A.C. Wedemeyer / with much admiration / Bruce Catton." General Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897-1989) was a United States Army officer who served as deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Army in the European Theater under General Eisenhower. In 1944 he was appointed commander of U.S. forces in China, replacing General Joseph Stilwell, and became chief of staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, overseeing operations against Japan and managing the China-Burma-India theater. He retired from the Army in 1951 as a four-star general. The second printing of Mr. Lincoln's Army, inscribed by the author, Bruce Catton, to General A.C. Wedemeyer. (illustrator). Signed.…

Zustand: Fine. First edition full black crushed cape levant morocco by Zaehnsdorf, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and third, cannon design to the front cover in gilt with orange and red onlay, all page edges gilt, gilt crown lines and silk headbands, ruled gilt board edges, wide gilt turn-ins, stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, England', brown, cream and beige marble end sheets. 4to. 10'' x 7¼''. Hand written number 154 of 265 (numbers 251-265 were not for sale) Limited Edition copies SIGNED by the author 'Montgomery of Alamein' to the limitation leaf. Contains 584 printed pages of text with colour plates, maps and battle plans throughout. Fine condition book in publisher's original clamshell, fleece lined cream cloth covered case with later title labels to the spine, with small handling marks to the case. Heavy volume weighing 2.5 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).…

7½'' x 4½'' No. 979 of 1000 Limited Edition British East African Campaign | 19 January - 27 November 1941 Flown Cover flown cover SIGNED to the front cover 'Eric Wilson V.C.' Certification signed by Group Captain W. S. O. Randle to the rear + three cachet inserts + 5'' x 3'' white card SIGNED 'Eric Wilson V.C. | Somaliland Camel Corps'. Most unusual for E. C. T. Wilson to have added 'Somaliland Camel Corps' underneath his autograph. Two Certificates of Authenticity (one for each signature) also enclosed. The formal citation for Wilson's VC, published in the London Gazette in October 1940 when he was still presumed dead, reads: 'The KING has been pleased to approve of the award of The Victoria Cross to: Lieutenant (acting Captain) Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, The East Surrey Regiment (attached Somaliland Camel Corps). For most conspicuous gallantry on active service in Somaliland. Captain Wilson was in command of machine-gun posts manned by Somali soldiers in the key position of Observation Hill, a defended post in the defensive organisation of the Tug Argan Gap in British Somaliland. Member of the P.B.F.A. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.…

Manuscript in ink, two pages, smallish 4to, with integral blank leaf. A good letter to a fellow army officer, apparently one especially concerned in the treatment of the sick. Duras was born a Frenchman, but came to England in the early 1660s to serve the Duke of York; he inherited the title Earl of Feversham from his father-in-law (d. 1677). He was a competent soldier (he commande the royal forces at Sedgemoor that defeated Monmouth), but this attractive letter shows that he had not really mastered the English language: 'I desire you to lett me have a liste of the officiers of every bataillons that have been at bruxelles, comanded to take care of the sick men, for the king is pleased to lett them have a gratuity to recompense them towards their expense, and how good is to those that does their duty.'.…

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. Each of the two letters is 1p, 4to, with the Prince's letter on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium, and the Earl's signed autograph copy of his reply on the recto of the second leaf of the same bifolium. Both leaves are discoloured and damaged, with wear and loss from infestation, but the two signatures and the area around them are good and clear. The document has been folded twice for postage. Strip of white tape along gutter of blank reverse of second leaf from mount. ONE (Frederick's ALS): Fifteen lines. Reads: 'My Dear Lord / I trust that You will excuse my troubling You with this Letter in favor of a young man to whose Father I am under very particular Obligations, He is Son to my fri[end] [.] Adam, and having been as I understand irregularly promoted in the East Indies to the Command of the Carysfort Frigate, has been of course Superceded by the Admiralty and obliged to return home. Were it possible for You my dear Lord to promote Him to the Rank of Master and Commander I should feel myself highly gratified, and am [convinced?] that the Young Man will not disgrace my recommendation as He has always given great Satisfaction to the Officers under whom He has served, and particularly distinguished Himself [a]s a Volunteer in assisting to quell the Mutiny at the Cape / Believe me ever My Dear Lord / Yours most sincerely / Frederick'. TWO (Spencer's Signed Autograph Copy of his reply): Twelve lines. Addressed to 'H. A. Hs. The Duke of York.' and 'sgd. / Spencer'. Reads: 'Sir / I am very much concerned that it is not in my power in this Instance to obey your Royal Highness's Commands by giving a Commission of Master & [Commander] [.] Adam; that Gentleman not being at present by the Rules of the Navy qualified even to receive a Lieutenant's Commission, previous to which it is an invariable Custom that he should pass an Examination before the Navy Board, which, as I am informed, he has not yet had an opportunity of doing. / When he shall have gone through that necessary Ceremony, I shall be very happy to give him a Commission of Lieutenant on an early opportunity, but before he can with propriety obtain the Rank of Commander he must serve at least for a time in the Capacity of a Lieutenant. / I have the Honour to be / Sir / your Royal Highness's / most dutiful / & obedient Servant / sgd. / Spencer'. …

An interesting intimate letter from the Duke of York, credited with having done more to reform the British Army than any other man, to the future Prime Minister Grenville, who at the time was Paymaster General of the Forces. Of particular note is the Duke's desire to go to war, 'for I am sure we never have had for these two Centuries so favourable an opportunity of humbling France'. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and worn, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to reverse of second leaf. Folded three times. Sixty-one lines of text. After explaining that he delayed writing in order that his letter arrive after that of General Bude, he states that he has been at Allerton for a week and likes the place 'exceedingly. Indeed it in every respect surpasses my expectations it is a sweet spot and [?] in a beautiful Country, the House is good though not large, and with very trifling Alterations, will become very Comfortable, I have the advantage of having a very good neighbourhood'. The previous day 'five Companies of the Welsh [sic] fusiliers passed through here upon their March to Chatham Barracks. I desired them to halt and gave a breakfast to both Officers and Men, and had the Officers afterwards to dinner.' He assesses the division, commending the commanding officer as 'a very sensible steady Officer', and finding the officers a 'very young and really a wonderfull [sic] good body'. The second division are to pass through on the following day, 'and I intend to ask them likewise'. He continues: 'You can not expect news from me here, who am above two hundred miles from the Capital I trust and hope however still that we shall have war, for I am sure we never have had for these two Centuries so favourable an opportunity of humbling France'. He is concerned that it is 'quite an Age' since he heard from Grenville, and begins to be afraid that he has 'not yet recovered Your Sea Expedition'. (The Oxford DNB states that Grenville 'went to The Hague and to Paris in 1787 to advise the cabinet on a conflict in the United Provinces between the Orange and patriot parties which threatened the European equilibrium'.) He discusses a house in Whitehall he is thinking of buying, 'which will suit me in every respect, it is belonging to Sir Harry Featherstone [i.e. Sir Henry Fetherstonhaugh (1754-1846], and is at present occupied by Lord Amherst'. He has had 'Lake' contact 'Sir Harry' about it, and considers it would suit his purposes, 'being in a manner upon the parade, and so near to St James's, Queen's House, Carlton House &c secondly its size having a Sufficient number of apartments to see Company'. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…

609 x 456 mm. Morris Jeppson's hand-annotated blueprint of the "Little Boy" atomic bomb. Jeppson designates parts of the bomb and writes, in part: "During the flight I removed 3 green electrical plugs and replaced them with red coded plugs. This allowed a detonation voltage to go from fusing to the explosive that fired the projectile of U235 into the target of U235 when the bomb reached about 1500 feet above Hiroshima". - Signed "Morris Jeppson / Weapon Test Officer / Enola Gay Mission / HIROSHIMA 6 Aug. 1945". - Jeppson served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Unusual Secret Original paper "Second Army Barrage Map June 1917" Shows very detailed step by step barrage with c.10 lines, timed and with types of artillery noted, Red, blue and black line noted. Front shows 23rd Division on left with 47th, 41st & 19th Divisional boundreis from left to right, also conversion table. As the images show the barrage lines and printed details are facing Hollebeke, though the trenches and locations are reversed? An interesting map of a key area of the Third Ypres battlefront in the desirable 1:10,000 scale. Minor blemishes, folded with some contemporary writing on reverse side. Uncommon.…