Lt Col Sir John (11 results)

Condition: New. 2004 N & M Press reprint of 1819 original Edition . SB. iv + 74pp +5 plates & tables.Published Price £11.50 The Peninsula War was notable for several sieges and stormings, most famously those of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. Both these actions are discussed in this rare and concise book by an officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. May attributes the rapid fall of both fortresses to British artillery tactics, which carefully concentrated on battering a breach in the defences, and the superiority of British iron cannon to their brass equivalents. Illustrated by a plan of attack during an artillery siege, and tables showing the results of test comparisons between brass and iron ordnance.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint of the 1810 edition. Includes various diagrams, 74pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Bound in green limp wraps, with white titles and Regimental Badge to front wraps, this Two Volume Facsimile Reprint circa 2013 (First Edition was 1928) is VG plus. Volume One, XV11/519pp with frontis potrait of the author, Biographical Note, Preface, 15 Chapters with margin and footnotes. Volume Two, (V1)/546pp+28 maps bound in at end: originally separate volume. With 11 Chapters, and 5 Appendices. Margin and footnotes as Volume One. Condition VG plus. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Original pictorial gilt brown cloth, profusely illustrated by Lt Col Batty, full page plates, this maybe the first illustrated edition of a work that was first issued in 1832 in London and later in New York and a work not sympathetic to the actions of Mr. Christian the full title was in fact The Mutiny and the Piractical Seizure of the HMS Bounty. a near fine bright copy, rare thus. Lt Col Batty (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[6]; 174; v-xxxii. Publisher's paper wraps. Some spotting and occasional soiling to pages. Lean to the binding. Neat ownership to upper. Textblock and covers well thumbed to corners, some soiling and wear to the covers with splits along the edges of the spine. Very good.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 92 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 92.

8vo., First Edition, with 6 folding maps on japon (a number coloured in outline), half-title and title faintly spotted, wanting front free endpaper; red ribbed cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, joints faintly rubbed else a remarkably bright, fresh copy. Separately issued version of the Crimean chapters in Bladensburg's larger history published in the previous year. Sutcliffe, p.6; Turan 486; White, p.43.…

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 92.

See the entries for Custance and Holmes in the Oxford DNB. According to the latter: 'On his retirement in November 1910, Holmes published What is and What Might Be (1911), a condemnation of the existing education system, which stressed competition rather than co-operation, emphasized visible results, and demanded the mechanical obedience of the child. The book attracted wide public attention. [.] Shortly before his retirement, he became involved in the furore over the so-called 'HolmesMorant circular', a highly confidential memorandum which he had issued in January 1910 to inspectors'. The two letters are in fair condition, lightly aged and ruckled; Holmes's letter with light water tide mark around edges. Both with postage folds. ONE: Custance to Sandeman. ALS. 8 August 1911. 3pp, 16mo. Bifolium. Thirty-four lines. Addressed to 'My dear Sandeman' and signed 'Reginald Custance'. The information about 'Homer Lee's book [Lee (1851-1923) was an American engraver and inventor] is interesting, not to say amusing'. Reference to 'Gen. Chaffee's introduction' and Lee's apparent service in the American army and 'Chinese service'. 'A great number of people on this side were taken in by him. Personally I always thought he presented a very exaggerated view.' Turning to 'the Holmes pamphlet', which was given to Custance by 'an American Admiral', he discusses the 'very much amplified edition' titled 'What is and what might be', and how to acquire it. Ends: 'A friend of mie tells me that the ideal school is a [real?] one.' TWO: Holmes to Sandeman. ALS. 19 August [1911]. 2pp, 16mo. Addressed to 'Lt. Col. J. G. Sandeman M. V. O.' and signed 'E. G. A. Holmes'. 'My pamphlet on Sompting School [the school Holmes had set up in East Sussex] is not on sale; but I have written to the Printers and asked them to send you 4 copies.' He cannot spare more than four, as 'the stock is running very low, and half of it belongs to a friend of mine who paid back the whole cost to the printers'. With two cuttings: Custance's Who's Who entry, and a brief advertisement for Holmes's book.…

Condition: Good. A Collection of original printings of obituaries. tributes and biographies of f Sir William Harcourt, (1827-1904) and his son Lewis Vernon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt (1863-1922).Mounted on 4 ledger sheets, 31 x 42cm. .Provenance: Lt.-Col. Herbert Alexander St. John-Mildmay was born on 20 July 1836.1 He was the son of Captain George William St. John-Mildmay and Mary Baillie. He married Susan Margaret Stackpole Motley, daughter of the American writere and diplomat the Hon. John Lothrop Motley (1814 -1877) , on 7 May 1884.1 He died on 21 October 1922 at age 86. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Rifle Brigade. He was appointed Member, Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.).…