Search Results: Military from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

Canberra, Australia: The Board of Management of the Australian War Memorial, 1941., 1941.. Good. - Quarto, tan cloth titled in brown with a vignette of an Australian soldier in brown on the front cover. The covers are bumped, soiled & lightly spotted with some staining to the rear cover. Half-title, title, [x], 128 & [1] pages. 12 color plates, including a frontispiece, from paintings by Ivor Hele & Harold B. Herbert, & black-and-white photographic illustrations, cartoons & drawings. There is a gift inscription on the half-title. There is a paper-clip mark with a tiny piece out, some light staining & a crease to the title page. There is also a paper-clip mark to the dedication page & very light marks to the front endpaper & half-title. The top edges of the color plates are lightly stained & slightly rippled, probably from humidity. Good. <p>First edition.<p>The editors note that almost all the contents of the book are the work of men on active service… Read More

Boston, MA: World Peace Foundation, 1939.. 1939.. Very good. - Octavo, soft bound in pictorial blue & silver wraps. The binding is rubbed, especially along the joints. The corners of the wraps are creased & the head & tail of the spine are chipped. There are 2 tiny white marks to the rear wrap. xii & 143 pages. The contents are very good. <p>First edition.<p>A study of the bombing of cities from the air, with reference to its use in World War I and its potential regulation through international agreements.<p>Scarce.

NY: Da Capo Press, 1972.. 1972.. Very good. - Quarto, cloth, in dw. The dw is soiled & very lightly chipped. 319 pp. Profusely illustrated in B&W. Some light soiling, else very good. <p>Reprint of the 1947 Library of Congress publication.

Cleveland and NY: The World Publishing Company, (1955).. (1955).. Good. - 4to, gray buckram (spine & extremities faded with light stain to head of spine) titled in white with vignette in B&W on front cover, in pictorial dw (rubbed, chipped & soiled; price crossed out in ink). 349 pp. (page edges slightly darkened; staining to inner edges of endpapers with numeral crossed out in black ink on front endpaper; light staining to fore- edge & to front edges of a few pages). Profuse full-page & textual illustrations in B&W. Good. <p>First edition.<p>"This is the pictorial history of the American wars as seen by artists in uniform, a unique compilation of the work in sketch book and on canvas of the men who recorded history as they made it....Soldiers sketched as they appeared in the field, fortifications, battle arrays are here; here also are portraits and battle scenes, drawn by eyewitnesses, some after the event, but all dramatic with the firsthand knowledge of the… Read More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1961.. 1961.. Good. - Small quarto, printed gray wraps with color illustration on front wrap. The spine & extremities are darkened & there is an owner's stamp on the front wrap. v pp., 1 leaf & 88 pp. The bottom page corners in the second half of the book are lightly creased. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece & B&W full-page illustrations & vignettes. There is a small piece out of & surface tears to the right margin of the frontispiece where it has stuck to the title & been separated from it. Paper fragments remain stuck to the title. Good.

NY/Boston: W. W. Norton/Boston Publishing Company, (1988).. (1988).. Very good. - 4to, black cloth (rear cover rubbed; bottom edges of covers slightly faded) titled in gilt on spine & in blind on front cover), in dw (rubbed; staining to top edge of rear flap). 352 pp. Profuse full-page, double-page & textual illustrations in B&W & color. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>The complete history of the Vietnam War with eye-witness accounts by Morris Udall, Mary Reis Stout, Sam Davis, Walter Cronkite, Jim Quay, Al Santoli, Everett Alvarez and Jan Scruggs.

Cornwallville, NY: Hope Farm Press, 1963., 1963.. Good. - Octavo, printed green wraps. Soiled & heavily darkened with a tear to the front edge of the front wrap. viii & 80 pp. Endpapers foxed; a few rear bottom page corners creased; occasional soiling. Good. <p>Limited edition of 400 copies.<p>Dornbusch's copy, marked "working copy" on front wrap with his pencil notes in the margins.

Dover, May 26th, 1809.. 1809.. Very good. - Over 90 words penned on 8-7/8 inch high by 7-1/4 inch wide creamy white paper. In his letter addressed to Captain Trench, Colin Campbell (who would be promoted to Lieutenant that same year) reports receiving the orders to inspect the regiment and acknowledges receiving the Captain's letter reporting the march of the Warwick Militia. Signed "Colin Campbell". Folded horizontally and vertically for mailing, the letter is docketed on the verso. There is a small ink smudge to the bottom edge, else in very good condition. <p>"Dover 26th May 1809 / Sir / I have received your letter of this day by Express containing the Regiments orders for my inspecting the detachment of the 6th Infantry stationed at this place and reporting the number of Men fit for active service. - / I will make my Report to this Effect tomorrow. - / Your letter of yesterdays date reporting the march of the Warwick Militia to this place states the move for the 6th &… Read More

[London]: circa [1859]., [1859].. Good. - 18 words penned in black ink on both sides of a 4-1/2 inch high by 3-5/8 inch wide sheet of United Service Club letterhead with the club's raised insignia printed in blind at top left. Signed in the opening of the letter: "Sir Fenwick Williams regrets..." with the place and date at the foot of the note: "U.S.C. / 14th June". A strip of document tape has been mounted down the right edge of the verso, covering up 1 word of the note. Good. <p>Williams writes regretting he is unable to dine with Mrs. Ford because of a previous engagement. The note is accompanied by a newspaper obituary.<p>General Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet of Kars [1800-1883] was born in Nova Scotia. He was a renowned military leader for the British during the Victorian era, remembered for his gallant defense of the town of Kars during the Crimean War. He and other British officers inspired the poorly equipped Turkish soldiers to repel Russian… Read More

[London]: 14 February, 1896., 1896.. Fine. - Letter filling one side of a 7 inch high by 4-3/8 wide sheet of light gray letterhead with the address printed in raised lettering at the top. Signed "John Sterling". Folded twice for mailing. Near fine. <p>Sterling writes to Mrs. Richard Ford thanking her for sending him a military book about the Jameson Raid. ["It is] of great interest, & is in every way far superior to the English version of the same events published at a much later date. In military matters the Germans know apparently very well what to say & what not to say: perhaps in political matters they are not always as wise. The Transvaal is most serious in all its bearings & Rhodes, Jameson & Co have spoilt for all time a splendid hand of trumps."<p>Major-General John Barton Sterling [1840-1926] entered the army in 1861, serving in Egypt and the Sudan. He was wounded at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 and subsequently commanded the Coldstream Guards until… Read More

Washington, DC: April 9, 1925., 1925.. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling all 4 sides of a sheet of letterhead folded once to form 4 black-bordered sides, each 6-3/4 inches high by 5-1/8 inches wide. The address where Hoskins is staying is printed at the top. Signed "Reginald Hoskins". There is a light paper-clip mark to the top edge of each side & the recipient's "date answered" stamp is is on the first side at top right. Folded once for mailing. Together with a sample brochure promoting a previous Hoskins lecture tour. Also with a carbon copy of the recipient's reply. Near fine. Hoskins writes to J.B. Pond of the Pond Lecture Bureau, following up on their discussion of a possible American lecture tour. He is about to leave for London and wonders if the financial arrangements will make it feasible for him to return for an extended tour. "I know that it is not easy to foresee with any certainty what sort of a success financially can be made and you quite understood my disinclination… Read More

February 11, [1864]., [1864].. Very good. - Three-page letter penned on 3 sides of 2 sheets of approximately 7-1/4 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide paper which has been tipped onto a slightly larger piece of cream-colored card. Signed "H Percy". Folded twice for mailing. Near fine. Lord Percy writes a friendly letter to Mary Ford. After accepting an invitation from her and commenting on the weather and her case of influenza, he comments on the Prussian and Austrian forces crossing into Schleswig. "Oh the poor Danes!!" He devotes the rest of the letter to the case of Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley. Crawley was court-martialed for his role in a bungled court-martial in India in 1862. The deaths of a British soldier and his wife after their release from an Indian prison during that court case created a sensation in Victorian England. Crawley was acquitted in his own trial. His acquittal led the social reformer James Matthew Higgins to write an article for the "Cornhill Magazine" [November 1863] disputing the… Read More

Very good. - A 2 inch high by 4-1/4 inch wide slip of paper clipped from a "Birthday Book" signed "William R. Livermore" by the American engineer & surveyor under his January 11 birth date. Very good. The American engineer & surveyor William Roscoe Livermore (1843-1919) was the author of "Maneuvers for Infantry" and of a history of the Civil War.

[London]: 20th August, 1867.. 1867.. Good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling a 4-3/4 inch high by 3-7/8 inch wide sheet of gray paper, which has been mounted on a slightly larger piece of cream-colored card. Signed "W H Sykes". The paper is lightly stained & creased from the mounting. Folded twice for mailing. Good. <p>Sykes writes to a Mr. J. Robinson about serving on a committee: "I am glad that the subject of India is to be taken up by the [-------] [------ ]. I shall be happy to act in the proposed committee, but on Thursday I leave London & shall not be able to attend the first meeting."<p>Colonel William Henry Sykes [1790-1872] was an English naturalist who served with the British military in India. He was a pioneer of the Victorian statistical movement and a founder of the Royal Statistical Society. He was actively involved in the Siege of Bhurtpur [1805] and the battles of Kirkee and Poonah. After traveling in Europe for four years, he returned… Read More

[London ]: July 12, 1874., 1874.. Good. - Letter penned in black ink and filling both sides of a cream-colored 7 inch high by 5 inch wide sheet of letterhead with his address printed in red raised lettering at the top of the recto. Signed "Fred.[?] Hamilton". The left edge of the letter is reinforced with linen tape. Hamilton's name & the title of his book have been noted in another hand below his signature. Folded once for mailing. Together with a newspaper cutting of his obituary. Good. <p>General Hamilton writes to Mrs. Ford: "I leave a copy of the morning's (which you can return at your convenience) containing a review of my book. I hope you have recovered from the heat of yesterday". The book, published in London by John Murray in 1874, is "The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards. From Documents in the State Paper Office, War Office, Horse Guards, Contemporary History, Regimental Records, Etc.".<p>General Sir Frederick… Read More

November 16th, 1859.. 1859.. Very good. - Five lines in German elegantly penned in black ink on a sheet of his personalized letterhead, 10 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide, with his name & crest printed in blind at top left. Boldly signed "Schlik". The letter is addressed in Schlik's hand on the verso with a perfect example of his seal in black. Folded 4 times for mailing. Fine. <p>Franz Joseph von Schlik of Bassano and Weisskirchen [1789-1862] was an Earl and a general in the Austrian Empire's army. He was one of the most successful Austrian generals during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. After the revolution he was promoted to cavalry general and received the Order of the Iron Crown and the Military Order of Maria Theresa for his victories. From 1854 he was Galicia and Bukovina's major general and commanded the 4th legion against the Russian Empire. In June 1859 he commanded the 2nd Italian army in the Battle of Solferino. After the Treaty of Villafranca he resigned… Read More

February 6th, 1847.. 1847.. Very good. - Letter penned in black ink & filling almost 3 sides of a sheet of light gray paper folded once to form 4 sides approximately 7-1/4 inches high by 4-5/8 inches wide. The letter has been mounted on a lightly larger sheet of cream-colored stiff paper. Signed "Anglesey" There are a few small ink smudges to the 2nd & 3rd sides. Very good. <p>The letter is addressed to Scottish geologist Sir Roderick Murchison and concerns a publication which Murchison is proposing and how it would be funded. "Some Estimate of the probable cost of money and of time is called for from General Colby, and when it is received you shall again hear from me." The reference is probably to General Thomas Frederic Colby, a leading geographer who had been director of the Ordnance Survey.<p>Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey [1768-1854] was a British army officer and politician. After serving as Member of Parliament for Carnarvon and then for Milborne… Read More

[France?]. July 20, 1918., 1918.. Very good. - Octavo, 7 inch high by 4-1/2 inch wide. Approximately 173 words penned on three of the four sides of a folded sheet of personalized letterhead. The letterhead from his family home of Brockhurst, Grange Road, Guernsey was used elsewhere as is indicated by the identification having a line crossed through it. Dugmore is most probably writing from France. He writes to the American lecture manager James B. Pond that "I am to return under the instructions of the comparatively new Ministry of Information as soon as I have gathered the material I want. This will include the results of a visit to the front both with the British & American forces in France, a probable visit to the Grand Fleet, visits to the largest munitions works & ship yards. So I hope to be ready to return in September. That is to say leaving here about the middle of that month. The plan to go to the west coast California etc. will be first rate....By the way I have been a Major… Read More

London: The Holland Press, (1957).. (1957).. Very good. - Large square octavo, red cloth titled in gilt, in a price-clipped dw. Bumped; dw lightly soiled with head of dw spine chipped. xl, errata page, 267 & [1] pp. Illustrated with 13 B&W plates & 2 B&W tail pieces. Very good. <p>Reprint of the 1900 edition.

(France): Commission Internationale pour L'Enseignement de L'Histoire, circa [1957].. [1957].. Fair. - Quarto, printed cream wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled with the extremities darkened; the wraps are detached at the head & tail of the spine & there is a tear to the front wrap. 69 pages, mechanically reproduced & printed on one side only. The page edges are very slightly darkened. Good. <p>From the library of military bibliographer Charles E. Dornbusch with his signature along the top of the front wrap. The text is in French.<p>Scarce.