The peninsular (40 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 152pp, colour photographs & illustrations. In a Near Fine Slip-case. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Pamphlet. Condición: Used - Acceptable. March, 1921 - printer code. 19 x 23" sheet folding to 9.5 x 5.75". Large illustration of furnace, cutaway of house, floorplans, halftones of parts, construction. Rubbed, damped, soiled, fair.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 202 pages, Folio. Profusely illustrated with color prints and advertisments. Minor shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges, a few small tears along edges. In mylar. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition. DJ in mylar. …

Condición: Good. Good condition. (Falkland Islands War 1982, military naval operations, armed merchant ships) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Condición: Very Good. 8 pages with some illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13 x 22 cms. Category: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 8 pages, with illustrations. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21.5 cms. Category: Army Quarterly; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21.5 cms. Category: Army Quarterly; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 7 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 9 pages, 1 portrait. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 10 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 18 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 1 page, 2 plates. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 15 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Oversized book. 86pp. Many ill.

Condición: Very Good. 20 pages, 1 colour plate. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Society for Army Historical Research; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condición: Very Good. 18 pages. Battyâs recollections of the Peninsular War provide vivid scenes of campaigning, hardship, and military character. Procter highlights the immediacy of the narrative and its value as a personal record of Britainâs long struggle against Napoleonic power on the Iberian Peninsula. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 26 cms. Category: Quarterly Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book confition is near fine. Hard cover. Signed by Author. Limited edition no.100. See photo. Text body is clean and immaculate throughout the book. Spine intact. No dust jacket. Book block is clean on all sides of the book. Ove-all an excellent and neat copy of the book. Book weight is 1.573kg. Limited edition. Rare and Scarce book. Published 1995. Peninsular City: A Social History of the City of South Perth Western Australia. Allow Time for USA Custom. "Peninsular City: A Social History of the City of South Perth" by Cecil C. Florey is a comprehensive account of the city's development and social history. The book includes appendices that reproduce Walter Murdoch's 1929 essay "On Pioneering," a piece on the Chinese gardeners of South Perth, and a statistical overview of the growth of the peninsular population. It also features a bibliography and index, making it a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of South Perth. The book is published by the City of South Perth and is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in Western Australian history. Peninsular City A Social History Of The City Of South Perth (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus, 1926. Illustrated with coloured maps, plates & four coloured plates of house flags and funnels. Inscription on the front free endpaper says E. M. Vincent, R. M. S. Mooltan, April, 1930. The book has some memorandum pages at the end which have not been filled in. Some foxing throughout. Endpapers unevenly browned. Publishers blue gilt decorated cloth, very slight bump to spine, else lovely clean bright copy. Scarce. Maps and coloured plates throughout. (ilustrador).…

Soft cover. Condición: Fair. 19pp + [12]pp adverts, photogpraphs, panoramic view of Cape Town, textured paper covers. Ihn fair condition, somewhat worn & dog eared, the panorama is missing its right hand panel. From aound 1910. UK shipping for this item will be lower than the ABE default rate.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Between 1816 and 1819 Hope held the post of Major General Commanding in North Britain (i.e. Commander-in-Chief in Scotland). On 9.5 x 4 cm slip of wove paper, presumably the valediction cut from a letter. In good condition, lightly aged, with the reverse bearing a thin strip of grey paper from mount along thin strip at head. Reads: 'John Hope / M. Genl. Commdg / in N. B.' See image.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. On piece of 8.5 x 4.5 cm laid paper cut. In fair condition, on aged paper with reverse bearing traces of glue from mount. Reads: 'M. Power / M Genl. Comm[andin]g'. Endorsed on reverse: 'M General / Sir Manley Power / K.C.B'. See Image.

The letter must have been written in 1855, as Fox Maule (later Earl of Dalhousie) was appointed Secretary of State for War on 8 February of that year, and Napier died on 16 September. 4pp, 16mo. Bifolium with black border. Loss to part of second leaf caused by removal from mount, resulting in loss of a few words of text, otherwise in good condition. Begins: 'In consequence of a letter from my Son William of your regt. [i.e. the King's Own Scottish Borderers] stating your wish to be appointed a Paymaster to the Out Pensioners, I wrote to my friend Mr Fox Maule the Secy. at War, & herewith give you the answer which I am sorry to say holds out but little prospect of success'. He proceeds to transcribe Fox Maule's letter, dated 'War Office | 8th. July', adding: 'You had better not depend much upon this, but use all other interest you may have in that quarter, as the more Irons [y]ou have in the fire the [bette]r!' He concludes 'Lady Napier [jo]ins me in best compliments to Mrs. Hamilton'. In a postscript he asks for Hamilton to give the Napiers' best regards to a 'friend', whose name has been torn away, 'at Chatham'. Napier's son Major-General William Craig Emilius Napier (1818-1903) would end his career as Governor of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, on recto of first leaf of bifolium, with recto of the second bearing remains of the red wafer. Folded twice for postage. Good firm signature, 'Vivian'. He has placed the name of Wylde's son 'on the Official List of Candidates for admission to the Royal Military Academy which will be transferred to my Successor'.…

Condición: Fine. June 28, 1854., 1854. Fine. - Over 75 words penned on three sides of 7 inch high by 4-3/8 inch wide stationery with an attached leaf. A crest with the letter R beneath a crown is embossed in blue at the top for the first page. Field Marshal FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan writes to a "Mr. Fullom[?]" expressing his vexation that the recipient was unable to receive his pension "I cannot tell you how vexed I am that Lord Derby's Govt should have gone out, without having been able to bestow upon you the pension which you so richly deserved." He states that they should hope that the government will soon be restored so that "then your claims will receive their due." Signed "Raglan". Folded several times, else fine. The British Military Officer Field Marshall FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Lord Raglan (1788-1855) served in the Peninsular War and subsequently as Military Secretary to the Duke of Wellington during the Waterloo Campaign. He served as a Tory member of Parliament for Truro and then as Master-General of Ordnance. In 1854, he commanded the British troops sent to Crimea to defend Constantinople and to besiege the Russian port of Sevastopol. Though he was successful at the Battle of the Alma, his failure to clearly transmit orders resulted in the disastrous "Charge of the Light Brigade" during the Battle of Balaclava. Though he had success at the Battle of Inkerman, he suffered from dysentery and depression following his failure at the allied assault on Sevastopol and died within the month.…

1p., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, on aged paper. Addressed on reverse of second leaf to 'Mr. Danl. Flexney | Westborne Place | Bayswater | near London', with two postmarks in red ink, one round and the other oval (the second in two parts), both giving year 1818. Docketed and with the following note above the text of the letter: 'From Lieut Col George Napier | To Mr. Danl. Flexney, written with his left hand after the loss of his right Arm in battle in the Peninsular.' The letter reads: 'Sir, | I take the liberty of asking you if by chance any box or parcel was left at your house, in which papers might be put, as I have lost some Bonds, or mislaid them. I had them before I left Bays Water, but where I put them or what is become of them I am quite ignorant, & merely write in case you may recollect my ever having mentioned them to you; I am glad to hear Mrs. Flexney is better & sincerely wishing her a good recovery I | remain Sir | Your Obedt. Servt. | Geo. Napier'.…

He receives the briefest of obituaries in the Gentleman's Magazine, July 1840: 'May 10. At Exeter, aged 81, Col. Thomas Abernethie, K.H. on the retired list of the Royal Marines.' 3pp, 4to. Bifolium. On aged and discoloured paper, with the usual damage to the second leaf from the breaking of the seal. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with postmark, to 'Messrs Cox & Son / 20 Bartletts Buildings / Holborn / London'. Signed 'Thos. Abernethie' and docketed 'Maj: Abernethie / 16 March 1811'. Begins: 'Gentlemen / I have requested a Cap. Falcon of the Navy to purchase for me a Qr cask of Madeira - should he [?] and to draw upon you per the Amt. which you will please to honor -'. He continues: 'Lord Wellington is in full pursuit of the French - but I scarcely think he will follow them further than the confines of Portugal - should they escape thither - we have no certain intelligence of the Armies till we receive it in an official shape from England - Cap. Cox is well - we rode together yesterday to see the palace of Queluse [sic] about 8 miles from Lisbon - a very charming spot -'.…

4to. pp. 316; illustrations, 3 folding plans. Publisher's cloth. Bound without the preliminary adverts but with each of the monthly contents pages. Only one annual volume is listed on Worldcat, that for 1924 held by the National Railway Museum, York. A scarce company magazine containing company news, general articles on railways, especially in India, profiles of executives and administrators and a few stories, poems and reports of sports and entertainment.…

4to. pp. 354; illustrations, large coloured folding map. Publisher's cloth. Bound without the preliminary adverts but with each of the monthly contents pages. Only one annual volume is listed on Worldcat, that for 1924 held by the National Railway Museum, York. A scarce company magazine containing company news, general articles on railways, especially in India, profiles of executives and administrators and a few stories, poems and reports of sports and entertainment.…

4to. pp. 470; illustrations, 3 folding plans. Publisher's cloth. Bound with some of the preliminary adverts and with each of the monthly contents pages. Only one annual volume is listed on Worldcat, that for 1924 held by the National Railway Museum, York. A scarce company magazine containing company news, general articles on railways, especially in India, profiles of executives and administrators and a few stories, poems and reports of sports and entertainment.…