Colonel c w thompson (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Maroon cloth , half leather binding, with gilt lettering and emblem. There is a previous owners name written inside the front cover. Contains black & white illustrations and maps some in colour. Seller Ref:M13483.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first edition of this fascinating account of the Dragoons, a cavalry regiment in the British Army active from 1688 and renamed in honour of Princess Charlotte in 1788. The first edition. A single publication on the story of the regiment, divided into two sections and published in honour of The Princess Royal. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. The first work The Story of the Regiment (1688-1882), by Colonel C. W. Thompson. The second, With The Regiment in South Africa (1900-1902), by Major N. D. H. Campbell; Capt. W. S. Whetherly; Capt. J. E. D. Holland. With continuous pagination. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, nineteen leaves of plates and an additional folding map to the first work and a further five plates and maps to the second, with numerous further in-text photographic vignettes. Collated complete against the record for a copy held in The London Library. A detailed account of the creation and deloyment history of this military regiment of the British Army, present at key military engagements from the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 to the Battle of Diamon d Hill during the Second Boer War in June, 1900. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. With minor bumping to cloth at extremities and joints. The occasional mark to boards. Slight offsetting to end paper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Gentle cockling to pages in places. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (ilustrador). book.…

Single Issue Magazine. Condición: Good. First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Ning Wo Pays His Debt - The Chinese servant of a Chief of Police in a Malay state settles a score with an enemy who killed his brother; My Sea-Trip - Peter Carden's amusing experience as a 'horseman' aboard a cargo-steamer; Photo of a Mariamma goddess in India, used to ward off epidemics; Photo and brief write-up of a marine fruit market in Bangkok, the "Venice of the East"; Passages With Pachyderms - exciting encounters with these great beasts, as told by Captain C. Lestock Reid; Dead Man's Treasure - A consulting engineer for the Cyclops M. and M. Company of Montida USA makes strange discoveries on a prospecting trip; Through Spain in Disguise - Part III - A continuation of the adventures and misadventures of Count and Countess Malmignati who travelled through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars, singing and dancing for a living; Zaki and Zomo - The Dog and Pony who both lost their lives while serving Captain J.F.J. Fitzpatrick in battle against the Germans; On Foot Through South America - G.C. Thompson and his two young sons travlled all over South America in search of work for four years; The Tale of the Toheroa - The curious shellfish found only in New Zealand - with photos; On the Trail of the "Thirstland Trekkers" - Part I - Colonel Deneys Reitz describes his exploration of mysterious terra incognita in what was formerly known as German South-West Africa - with many interesting photos; Timothy Murphy's "Donkey" - Great story about a logging donkey-engine at Calfton's logging outfit on Myrtle Island on the British Columbia Coast; The Mine Under the Creek - A brush with death when a mine floods in the Gulf country of Australia; The Chrissie C. Thomey's" Last Voyage - A gallant old Arctic schooner is lost through a most unlikely mischance - with photo; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" - Part V - The amazing voyage of several young men from Shanghai to Copenhagen - article with nice photos. 84 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Holloway, Cyril; Illingworth, L.G.; Goss, G.W.; Leigh, Conrad; Cleaver, Reginald; Prater, Ernest; Potts, Leonard; Vedder, S.H.; Soper, G.; York, W.G. (ilustrador).…

4to. Portrait frontispiece and numerous other plates and illustrations, maps and plans including one coloured plate of the standard, a folding map of South Africa, and one folding panorama. One gathering loose, but otherwise very good in the original plum cloth. 168pp. Liverpool, Hackett p.191. A very good copy of a scarce history, the greater part of which concerns the Boer War. Tipped onto the title page is the menu for the "Black Horse Veterans" Annual Dinner, 1929 with pencilled signatures of members of the Regiment, a number of signatures also to the front free endpaper.…