Townsend General (51 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1992. North America, Mesoamerica, South America, Native Americans. The Art Institut of Chicago. 397p., Very good paperback, please allow for additional overseas postage 2/24.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Filson Club Publications Number Twenty-Four. Large format. Light wear only to original softcover wrappers.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printi. Features a Slip cover in very good condition; features black boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Features maps and illustrations. ; 184 pages As New with No dust jacket as is.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light soiling on edges of text block. Housed in shelf worn slipcase.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 235 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. x, 184p., illustrated from period images, semi-finepress treatment from Ward Ritchie, hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch black cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the paper-covered slipcase. A fine copy in every respect: sound, clean and unmarked, slipcase ditto.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st.

Hardcover. 72 p.; 19 cm. VG orig. blue boards. Endpapers toned.

Condition: New. No Jacket. Fine reprint of Townsend's account of his tour of duty from 1851-56 in California and the Columbia River country of the Northwest. B/w sketches. Slipcased, printed on fine stock. Exeptional. New/No Jacket. New old stock from our archives. Item # A1494. **SAVE MORE** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standard Shipping. …

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Hardcover with slipcase. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. x, 184. Frontis. portrait of General Townsend. Foreword by Malcolm Edwards. Includes some black & white photographs and illustrations. Index. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering printed on cover and spine. Slight dust spots to covers; clean within. In the gray slipcase, which has light wear. A worthy first-person account of Westward expansion as far north as the Columbia River, by a "careful and discreet observer," per Malcolm Edwards. Presented here in a refined Ward Ritchie publication.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Number line beginning with 1. Near fine 287 page wraps/large format paperback. Name of previous owner (3 inch by 1/2 inch) in upper fore-edge corner inside front cover. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use: primarily spotting to top edge of block and wear to fore-edge corners of covers.…

x+184pp. Large 8vo. Original cloth with gilt lettering. A fine copy in slipcase. With many illustrations.

Condition: Good. Prospectus. 4to. One folded sheet. [This is an advertisement for the book, not the book itself].

Condition: New.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1810. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative. Engraved By Miller (illustrator).

Half title, front., illus. Blue cloth; dulled. From the library of the novelist, Beryl Bainbridge. Barrister turned criminal forger; also included is the Gold Bullion Robbery trial of the same year, 1857.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. frontispiece portrait, 400pp, illus with folding maps, 15 maps and plans. The author. Major General Townshend, fought in the Mesopotamian campaign in World War I. He was taken prisoner of war in Constantinople. Red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, blind-stamped publisher's logo to front board lower corner and a little fore-edge foxing. A trifle toned to the spine otherwise a nice copy in the original cloth. A tricky volume to find without foxing tp the text block. …

Condition: Good. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 400pp, frontis, 8 folding maps, 7 plans, facsimile, light foxing on fore-edges, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, spine faded, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

30x23. 397p. Tela estampada ed. Sobrecubierta. Muy ilstr. Fotogr. Muy buen estado. LIBRO EN ESPAÑOL.

Paperback. Handbill. Small 8vo. 4pp. Foldout chart. Near fine. Four-punched at left edge (not affecting text). A bright and handsome General Order, issued 1 July 1864, whose cover page briefly notes that it concerns "the cost of clothing and camp and garrison equipage for the Army of the United States. with the allowance of clothing to each soldier during his enlistment, and his proportion for each year." The remaining numbered pages consist of a detailed chart itemizing every last item of clothing and camp equipment and their cost for every type of soldier. The wide foldout chart is titled "TABLE specifying the money value of Clothing allowed to the Army of the United States" and continues this fascinating elaboration of items and their cost to the soldier. Scarce and unusual.…

Spiral bound. Condition: Good. viii, 80 pages. Footnotes. Figures. Recommendations. Appendices. Endnotes. Bibliography. Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004-2007, and is currently a political pundit on TV. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. In 2008, Townsend joined CNN as a contributor, but later switched over to CBS where she is now a national security analyst for them. Townsend is president of the Counter Extremism Project. Lieutenant General Donald L. Kerrick became the Deputy National Security Advisor to the President of the United States in July 2000. Prior to becoming the Deputy National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Kerrick served as the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 1999 to July 2000. He served at the White House as the Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 1997 to August 1999. In 1995 and 1996, Lieutenant General Kerrick served as the Director for Operations for the Defense Intelligence Agency where he directed the Defense HUMINT Service and the Defense Attache System. In 1994 and 1995, he served on the White House's national Security Council as Director of European Affairs, where he was responsible for developing and managing United States policy in Europe, including the former Yugoslavia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States is quickly losing its leadership position in science and technology (S&T). We are seeing this in our schools, our research institutes, in the intelligence community, and in our National Laboratories. Thus, it is imperative that a set of new and strategic grand challenges be identified and pursued to re-establish and assure the nation's global S&T leadership in the 21st century. In addition, turning the tide to address this crisis will require formidable leadership in key Cabinet and White House positions and steadfast emphasis on science as a catalyst to the economic recovery, competitiveness, and security. Most importantly, the new administration must devise a national S&T strategy that brings all of the nation's laboratories together in collaboration with industry and academe to tackle the nation's dominant challenges, particularly those pertinent to national security. This report of the Stimson Center's Task Force on "Leveraging the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories for 21st Century Security" addresses one critical aspect of our nation's S&T future: transformation of our nuclear weapons Laboratories. In early 2008, the Stimson Center convened a bipartisan Task Force comprised of counterterrorism, nonproliferation, intelligence, military, business, and scientific experts to provide the incoming administration with a roadmap to more effectively leverage the existing capabilities at the nation's nuclear weapons Laboratories and Nevada Test Site (NTS) to meet an array of emerging vital national security challenges. The strategy has two key purposes: to ensure retention of core nuclear weapons competencies at the weapons Laboratories and NTS, and to expand their S&T capabilities to service a wider array of 21st century national security needs. Presumed First Edition, First printing [May be a pre-print as there is no reference cover illustration.].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 2 vols.: 384; 387-784 p. 41 cm. B&w photos & drawings. Colour plates. Grey cloth with gold lettering. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. Coners and spine ends worn. Light scuffing to cloth. Ink signatures on front free endpapers. Embracing perfect photographic and descriptive representations of the people and the islands lately acquired from Spain, including Hawaii and the Philippines; also their material resources and productions, homes of the people, their customes and general appearance, with many hundred views of landscapes, rivers, valleys, hills and mountains, so complete as to practically transfer the islands and their people to the pictured page. With a special consideration of the conditions that prevailed before the declaration of war, by Senators Proctor, Thurston, Money, and numerous prominent writers and correspondents, and a comparison with conditions as they now exist.…

Second edition. 12mo. Stiff printed wrappers, bound into a quarter cloth and boards binder, 64 pp., illustrated, plates, tables, map. A promotional booklet published by the Missouri Pacific Railway to encourage settlement in Nebraska. Information is provided on the history of the state, climate, rainfall, lakes, springs, rivers of Nebraska, population, soil meteorology, churches and schools, grasses, crops, stock raising, sugar beet culture, horticulture, apple crop, poultry and eggs, dairy, tobacco, etc. Distances from Lincoln, Nebraska to any point in the state are provided. The altitudes for towns and cities are given. An interesting population map of Nebraska by counties is of interest. Large folded map of Nebraska affixed to rear cover is in fine condition. A rare railroad promotional housed in a cloth clam shell case with titles stamped in gold on the spine. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. TWO VOLUME SET Large Oversize Folios marbled edges, some wear with loose bindings Color and black and white photos, illustrations, and maps. Size: Folio. Townsend, Walter B.; Fout, Fred. W.; Dotter, Geo. E. (illustrator).

Single sheet of lined paper, 9.5 x 7.5 in., 2 pp., approx. 220 words. A manuscript copy, in a clerical hand, signed [secretarial] by E.D. Townsend. Blind embossed stamp of the Capitol building and "Congress P & P" in upper left corner, docketed on the second page. Old fold lines, short separation along one fold. General Order No. 171 consisted of five parts, regulating the care and disposition of officer's horses. The first section requires that a departing officer turn in his horse for remuneration for not more than he paid for it. The second section states that he cannot sell a horse provided for him and the third and fourth refer to orders to transport horses at the public expense. Finally, officers who apply for transfers can not transport their horse from one department to another. The published versions of the General Orders were nearly all issued by Assistant A.G. Townsend, Adjutant Generals Office of the War Dept. in Washington, DC. Edward Davis Townsend (1817-1893) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated from West Point in 1837. He served in the artillery during the Seminole War, and then on the northern frontier. Townsend joined the Adjutant General's Department in 1852, serving first on the Pacific coast, then in Washington DC during the Civil War. Townsend was charged with gathering and organizing many of the government documents into an official record of the war, a project that lasted well beyond his lifetime, taking some forty years to complete. [see his obituary in the New York Times, May 12, 1893, and Alan & Barbara Aimone's book "A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War," (Shippensburg, PA: 1993)].…

First edition. First Edition. 12mo. Original Three-quarter Leather with marbled Boards. No General Pagination, each case individually paginated. A record of 62 court-martial orders for the year 1873, with a 2-page Index, and a brief synopses of each case. Most noteworthy is General Court-Martial Orders No. 32 records the case against a group of Modoc Indian captives, including Captain Jack, Schonchis, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Barncho, alias One Eyed Jim, and Sloluck, alias Cok, for "Murder, in violation of the laws of war." The charges were that when the Modoc met with the Peace Commission, under flag of truce, "and treacherously disregarding the obligations imposed by said truce under the laws of war, willfully, feloniously, and of malice aforethought, kill and murder said Brigadier General Canby. All this at or near the Lava Beds, so-called, situated near Tule Lake, in the State of California, on or about the 11th day of April, 1873." the same charges were also made for the killing of Eleazur Thomas. Additionally, separate charges were made for the attempted murder of Commissioner A. B. Meacham, as well as the arttempted murder of L. S. Dyer. All were found guilty and were sentenced "To be hanged by the neck until dead, at such time and place as the proper authority shall direct.". Subsequently, and contained herein, General Court-Martial Orders No. 34. states that President U. S. Grant has modified the sentences of Barncho, alias One Eyed Jim, Sloluck, alias Cok, changing their sentence to life in prison, in Alcatraz, instead of death by hanging. Captain Jack, Schonchis, Black Jim, and Boston Charley were all hung at Fort Klamath on October 3, 1873. The other 60 cases involve theft, embezzlement, assault, desertion, intoxication, and various violations of the standards of military conduct. An interesting look at military discipline in the decade following the Civil War. General Canby was the highest-ranking officer ever killed in the Indian Wars. Moderate general rubbing to edges, corners, and boards. Very good.…

16mo. Self-cover. 8pp. Near fine. Binding traces at gutter (not affecting text). This lengthy and fascinating General Order chronicles the Fort Snelling court martial trial of Captain James Starkey of the 1st Minnesota Mounted Rangers, charged with "Making false muster," "Willingly signing muster rolls containing false musters," "Making false return to his superior officer of the state of his Company" and "Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman." Each charge is elaborated in great detail. Starkey was found guilty of most of the charges and sentenced "To be cashiered, and to be forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit under the Government of the United States" -- this latter sentence commuted by President Lincoln, who always believed in giving someone a second chance. Signed in type at the conclusion by Townsend as Assistant Adjutant General. General Orders were usually made in modest quantities for distribution to the various army commands, where the company clerks would collect them (hence the occasional file holes). A great many were destroyed during the course of the war, and original examples of most survive in surprisingly few copies.…