Wood captain (30 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 8vo. n.d.Slight roll to spine. Wear to extremities and joints. Soiling to boards. Prize label to fpd. Crease to one page. Slight marks to a couple of pages. Book.

Zustand: Good. Boards have little wear to boards. Pages tanned with some spotting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 381 pages +16 pages of publisher's adverts, b/w frontispiece plate, 8 further b/w plates, two maps within the text all in accordance with the list of illustrations. Original pictorial blue cloth binding blocked in yellow-buff, white and black, gilt lettering, good with some general wear and rubbing, cloth a little marked, head/tail of the spine scuffed. Contents good and tight, missing front free end paper, a little general reading wear. A good tight copy. Size: 8vo (14 x 19cm). Wood, Stanley L. (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Likely first edition, first printing, ca. 1945, with no printing dates listed. Edge wear and spotting to the covers, otherwise very good. The endpapers show a gift inscription and an owner's name. 85 b/w photo illustrations, some with added identifying notes (in pen) in the margins (in Flemish).…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Undated illustrated hardback edition in the Nelson Triumph Series, c. 1930s, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a fair dj with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj is complete but is rubbed to edges with large chip to front upper edge; orange cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions - prize plate to ffep dated 1934; slight spotting to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. A. S. Forrest (illustrator).…

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Facsimile. Dust jacket: Very slight browning to spine. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Near Fine. Book: Facsimile of the 1901 first edition. Blue cloth binding. Very slight rubbing to top page edge, otherwise excellent. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Overall book condition is Near Fine. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: vi, 311. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. 8vo hardback; oval illustrated paste on to front cover; light marks/foxing, but generally an attractive copy; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Illustrated by A S Forrest (illustrator).

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original duck-egg blue cloth effect covered boards, blocked and lettered black back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 182 + ii pp with monochrome illustrations. Spotting to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper which has different art work to the first edition and with light rubbing to the corners, not price clipped, 8s 6d. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. JOHNS, Captain W. E.…

Hard. Zustand: Very Good. Very good. Bound in recenty quarter-calf and marbled boards. Slightly foxed. The first 2 books are each illustrated with 16 wood engravings. (illustrator).

1945, paper wrappers, 48, (4) pp. + 32 pp. with photos, wrappers a bit soiled but still a very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 350pp plus adverts. Pictorial boards w light wear and bumping to head and tail of spine. Some loss of colour to a couple of spots on front panel. Complete w b & w illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Frontispiece nearly loose, o/w contents clean and tight. A good solid copy. Stanley L Wood (illustrator).…

First Edition. [Children's adventure] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 366 [17]. With six halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Stanley L. Wood. Catalogue at rear. Grey endpapers. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and pictorial designs to cover and spine. All edges green. Light toning and foxing to leaves. Light scribble marks to plate 5. Librarian's small red 'present copy' stamp to the title page. Flyleaf corner lightly creased. Some rubbing to edges. With rubbing to cover and joints, toning and marks to spine. Some wear to spine and cover extremities. Captain F.S. Brereton, later Lieutenant Colonel, was a soldier and army physician who served in the Second Boer War as well as World War I. Despite his active military life, he wrote many children's adventure books. …

Facsimile Reprint of 1976 Ed. cv + 280pp. Frontis., 2 folding maps. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, sl. rubbed brown d/w. faded to blue at spine. Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints. US$52.

, each volume of approximately 552 pages has 23 plates and frontispiece on tinted paper, as well as numerous woodcuts in text First Edition , all volumes in similar condition head and tail of spine and corners scuffed, boards and edges rubbed, gutters showing wear, inscriptions to endpapers, volume 2 lacks 5 plates vols. 3 and 4 have 3 & 8 darkened plates, a few loose pages, overall solid useful copies in good condition despite wear , half green calf with marbled paper to sides, gilt bands and title to spine Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall) Hardback ISBN.…

Softcover. Zustand: sehr gut. Cloth. 8°. XCI, 280 pp. with one plate, two folded maps. Pencil marks scribbled inside the book. good cond. in englischer Sprache (in english).

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Large 8vo with brown cloth. Black borders on front board, blind border on back board. Gilt lettering on backstrip. General wearing. Minimal foxing on pages. Frontispiece with no tissue guard. Foldable map within. Interior is secure, clean and clear. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Red Cl. Gilt & Dec. Sl. Wear, Good. 4to. With route map and 100 illustrations from original photographs. Some silverfish damage to edge of cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 8.5 x 5.25", half leather; marbled boards, 235pp, covers quite rubbed, extremities bumped and chipping, spine creased, hinges repaired, prelims spotted; a rather well-used copy of this SCARCE title. Second Edition.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. de Walton, John; Hiley, F.E.; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Cameron, John; Wood, Stanley L.; Brightwell, L.R.; Soper, G.; Whitaker, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue. Sutcliffe, Norman; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; Skelton, J.R.; Crombie, Charles; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley L.; Webb, Arch.; Reynolds, Warwick; Abbey, S.; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Soper, Geo.; Elcock, H.K.; Waters, D.B.; Woodville, R. Caton; Robinson, T.H.; Lloyd, S. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: A Baptism of Fire - A young British Columbia Forest Service Ranger helps to save 100 people trapped in a logging camp from forest fire; Through Arctic Seas - Part II - Wonderful photos accompany this continuation of the cruise of the Hudson Bay Company steamer Baychimo to the Western Arctic to study the Eskimos and wild life; "Kruger's Millions" - ;A diagram is found which may lead to an enormous quantity of gold hidden by President Kruger after the Boer War; How We Fought the Famine - In East Africa Captain Anthony Parsons needed meat to trade to the Angonis for flour for his "boys"; Through Spain in Disguise - Part VI - Count and Countess Malmignati sing and dance their way across Spain disguised as Arab beggars; Photo of river gardens in Siam; The Adventures of a "Sand-Hog" - Photos of brutal subterranean conditions accompany this story of the men who dig tunnels and tubes beneath the Hudson River, between New York and Jersey City; The Thief Who Lost His "Luck" - A Chinese burglar lucks out; "Crawling Cavern" - Close call for Mark Howard in the spring of 1907 while on outpost duty on the coast of Mindanao; Across Central Africa from East to West - Part I - Major Frederick G. Jackson describes his 6,000 mile trans-African trek - with nice photos; The "Phantom Bandits" - In 1923 Joe Tanko and Floyd Hall escaped from San Quentin Prison and terrorized the countryside before they were finally subdued - includes facsimile of their wanted poster; The Mystery Man of Arnhem's Land - a man goes wrong so flees to the wilds, intent on earning enough to make restitution, but ends up in a lonely grave on the Australian coast; The Hakim - A doctor in Kenya includes fortune-telling in his treatment of disease. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nostalgic ads. Bits of peripheral nibbling, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Nicolson, W.C.; Sindall, A.W.; Cleaver, Reginald; Carruthers, C.P.; Holloway, Cyril; faulks, Jack; Wood, Stanley L.; May, J.A.; Abbey, S. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part I - the story of a British officer's remarkable exploit - a journey, disguised as an Oriental, across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives as one of themselves; Two Wanderers in the Faroes - John Dickson's account of the wild nature and unsophisticated people - article with excellent photos; "Grip" and I - Count Nils Cronstedt saved a doomed thoroughbred bull-terrier which proceeded to save him on several occasions during his stay in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; The "High-Jackers" - an audacious gang of murderous bank robbers terrorize the Canadian prairies, beginning in Moosomin, SK and ending in Pipestone, MB; The Islands of the Mammoths - a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia is the world's best hunting ground for the tusks and bones of the prehistoric mammoth - article with photos; The Three Angleteers - Part III - The troubles and adventures of three bored young men who leave England to travel in Europe; With Canoe and Camera - Capt. M.H. Albert explored Northern Ontario and Quebec to photograph wild animals - article with photos; The Mystery of Diablo Canon - The adventures of Senor Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Two photos of two-room house built in the trunk of an immense California redwood; The Terror of Rampur - two hunters undertake to kill a murderous tiger in India; The Head-Hunters of the Sepik - Part I - Photo-illustrated article by Beatrice Grimshaw describing her trip up the Sepik river in New Guinea, where she met the local native peoples - who were none-too friendly; Exploring in Central Brazil - Part IV - A small English expedition sets out to explore the mighty Amazon forests and study their local peoples; Some Sensational Prison Escapes - Carl Otto and Jack Foster bust loose from Folsom Prison; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Woodville, R. Caton; Prater, E.; Cameron, John; Davis, G.H.; Abbey, S.; Soper, G.; Wood, Stanley L.; Edwards, Lionel; De Walton, John; Webb, Arch. (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: 'Twixt Sunset and Sunrise - Mining Engineer William Bartle relates a story from Mexico where, outside the large cities "no foreigner's life is worth a farthing"; The Cannibal Islands - Part II - photo-illustrated article by Clifford Collinson who has lived in the Solomon Islands for several years and, in this instalment, visits the little-known atolls of Ong-Tong-Java, with nice photos; The Disappearance of Annie Mooney - A thirty-year-old mystery is solved in a strange and unlooked-for manner - was she kidnapped by the Chinese all those years ago?; The Most Wonderful School in the World - A remarkable "sun-cure" establishment at Aigle in the Swiss mountains where children - recently hopeless cripples - learn their lessons and romp in deep snow clad only in loin-cloths and boots! - with photos; Obyada, Bad Indian - story related by a member of the Royal North-West Mounted police about a troublesome individual near Red Deer, Alberta; The Rum-Runner - the story of a sea captain's first smuggling voyage, as told in St. Pierre, headquarters of a fleet of ships engaged in the liquor-running business; Soliman the Seer - the mysterious fortune-teller of the Pyraid of Cheops; The Children of the Wilderness (Conclusion) - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated travels in little known Mongolia; A Wildfowling Adventure - a nasty little adventure on the Solway Firth; Fishing for Crocodiles - using a special hook and line; On Patrol - a quaint little experience related by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force; The MIssing Links - An Indian magician discovers a thief when the police had failed; Round the World With a Lasso - former Texas Ranger Captain George Ash tours the world giving exhibitions and training troops in the use of the lasso - article with photos; The Strangest Mutiny on Record - The Schooner Pedro Varela; Six Hundred Thousand Francs - One of the most audacious jewel robberies ever perpetrated (in Paris); and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Wood, Stanley L.; waters, D.B.; Nicolson, W.C.; Robinson, T.H.; Hiley, F.E.; Sindall, A.; De Walton, John; Edwards, Lionel; Whitaker, W.G.; Elcock, Howard K. (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Cheetah-Hunting - Lewis R. Freeman provides an interesting account of using cheetahs to hunt deer in India - article with photos; The Mad Hatter - two former partners fight it out over a woman in the boom days of the Kalgoorlie mines; Ivory-Poaching in German East Africa - Prior to WWI big game hunter J.A. Jordan set out to poach ivory from the jealously guarded herds of the colony after a German captain confiscated his possessions and left him stranded - article with amazing photos; Adventures of a Wild-Beast Trainer - The thrilling experiences of ex-lion-tamer Alexander Feely; An Errand of Mercy - the dangers and difficulty of travel in the interior of Paraguay; After Outlaws in Unknown New Guinea - pursuit of a band of native murderers who had wiped out a village - article with excellent photos; 'Big-Bang' - the story of a WWI heavy-duty trench mortar invented by a man named X____; The Brothers Alvarez - a Mexican narrative related to the author by the late British Minister to Mexico; A Canadian Lumber-Camp - Part I - A vivid photo-illustrated sketch of the strenuous winter existence of a Canadian lumber-jack; A Five Minutes' Race With Death - a mining engineer's story of a revengeful Matabele and a very narrow escape; The Bunko House - a very narrow escape in Chicago; Bob Trinder's Good Time - at story of the bad old days of San Francisco when men were 'shanghaied' aboard deep-water ships for the sake of advance-money or private vengeance; South African Snakes - their variety and characteristics; A Race With a Typhoon - the remarkable adventure of Yale graduate Dr. E.E. Severy in a remote district of Mindanao in the Philippines; Sensational 16-page photo-illustrated stock offering for the Pruden Coal Carburetor and the Powdered Coal Engineering & Equipment Company; and and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 292-382, 22-32 [ads]. Covers beginning to loosen. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine, February 1917, Cheetah-Hunting, India, Lewis R. Freeman, The Mad Hatter, Kalgoorlie, Ivory-Poaching - German East Africa, elephant hunting, J.A. Jordan, Lion-Tamer, Alexander Feely, Paraguay, New Guinea, Pygmies, Mortar, Alvarez Brot. Illustrated by Leist, Fred; Perceval, C.H.; Reynolds, Warwick; Wood,Esmond; Prater, Ernest; Bates, L.; Elcock, Howard; Pride, Sid; Webb, Arch;Austen, Winifred; Dovaston, Margaret; Pitcher, Sotheby (illustrator).…

Leather Bound. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 31 p.; 70 p. 21 cm. Quarter leather with marbled boards. Spine label reads "Tracts." Rebound with new endpapers. Spine worn and boards rubbed. . Reverse of p. 31 in first tract is noticeably dark, and the leaves of this section bear more thumbing and staining than the rest of the text, which is only darkened on the first and last pages. The first tract is also shorter than the rest of the text block and bound slightly askew, but cut with the rest of the pages, and there is a tear in the centre of the block at the spine from the thread of its original binding. A few typos are corrected by hand in the first document. Williams' narrative, the second document, has lost its half-title and title-page. Title continues: "Captain William's Narrative; in which is contained particulars relative to the execution of Mustapha Cawn; and observations on the speeches of General Burgoyne, Colonel Fullarton, Mr. Fox, Mr. Burke, and, Mr. Francis; addressed to The Officers of the British Army." This volume contains two related books. The first letter pertains to Pitt's India Act of 1784. The second is by Captain Williams, who put Mustapha Cawn to death without a trial, exactly the type of behaviour Pitt was trying to overcome with legislation in the British Parliament. The resulting Narrative is Williams' defense of his actions.…

A Narrative. Reprint. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original green cloth in glacine dust-jacket as issued. xvi, 247pp. Chippenham, Printed by Antony Rowe, Nice quality, limited edition reprint of this scarce Peninsular War item. This copy number 135 of 300.

London, Gale & Polden, Ltd. - Sans date (circa 1914) - In-12, broché, couverutre illustrée - 114 p. - Illustrations in et hors texte en N&B - Ouvrage en anglais Bon état - Frottements sur la couverture - Petit accroc au dos - Petites rousseurs sur les tranches.

2. Antwerpen, De Sleutel, 1945, in-8°, 48 pp + 80 foto-ills., genaaid, orig. omslag. Foto-illustraties van de V-I en V-II aanvallen op Antwerpen. Tekst in het Nederlands. (Photo illustrations of the results of German attacks with cruise missiles and rockets (VI & VII) at the end of WWII). Text in Dutch.…

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 201, [1]; mounted photographic frontispiece, 100 illustrations from photographs on 50 plates (1 plate loose, but present), and a folding map printed in color; original pictorial red cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; front hinge cracked at the half-title, light wear and minor sunning; generally a good, clean copy, with interesting associations. Inscribed by the author on the front free flyleaf "To Colonel H. Appleton who kindly placed the invaluable assistance of his pioneer experiences at my disposal, from the author, Jany. 1st, 1910," and with a tipped in one-and-a-half-page letter from Wood dated January 2, 1910 on Long Clawson Manor stationery, addressed to Appleton and presenting this book to him: "I am sending you through Messrs. Cox & Co. as some slight recognition of your kindness . I have now got the acquaintancy of the Lincolnshire Yoemanry & am hunting from here. This is a little house I have taken." Furthermore, on 9 pages of the introduction and in the appendices are rather extensive notes by Appleton on rifles and ammunition, field glasses, clothing, camp furniture, provisions, etc. "As regards provisions - In Kashmir one has to get all one's flour to last till arrival at Kashgar or Yarkand - unless one has arranged the autumn before to have a few hundred pounds sent on ahead to Gilget - It may not be procurable there - Mutton and milk obtainable on Pamirs & generally everywhere ahead - At Kashgar a few supplies such as sugar, flour obtainable and a few Russian tinned things." "Rifles & gun cases to have slip-on solid leather covers. I had mine made at the Cawnpore Harness & Saddlery Mills." Czech, Asia, p. 231.…