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Text Book of Ballistics & Gunnery. Part I.
313pp., 4to, several photos. plates, num. diagrams & tables. HMSO.
1927
#66895
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For Official Use Only. Much about aiming, trajectories, fuzes, firing procedures, range table &c., Orig. red cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£65
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Manual of Physical Training. 1908.
Official Copy, 254pp., illus. in text, fldg. tables. HMSO.
1908
#63654
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Orig. mustard cloth, stained & worn, sound. See illustration on our website.
£15
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Infantry Training. Vol. II: War. 1926.
viii+277pp., 7 fldg. plates. HMSO.
1926
#69190
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Defence, Protection, Fighting in Close Country, &c. &c. Orig. red cloth covd. boards, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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Section Sixty-One: Selections from Letters of Henry S. Kingman, Member S.S.A.U. 61, Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps, May to October, 1917.
1st Ed., 103pp. Minneapolis: Privately Printed.
1917
#67863
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Letters from the French Front at Verdun &c., evidently arranged by his father in his absence overseas (the last page of this book records his transfer to an Italian Ambulance) & inscribed by the former at Christmas 1917. Orig. blue paper covd. boards with paper lettering label to front & blue cloth backstrip. VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution. Volume III. [1863].
1st Ed., viii (Contents listing) + 426pp., num. fldg. plates/tables. Woolwich: RA Inst.
1863
#64920
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Third volume of the Proceedings. This volume entirely dedicated to reports on gunnery & technical developments of artillery inc. such matter as Report of Ordnance Select Committee... Mantlets for the protection of artillerymen from an enemy's riflemen; Remarks on Permanent Forts & Moveable Floating Batteries; Experiments which took place at Shoeburyness... in order to test the penetrating power of the Horsfall Gun... &c. Later qtr. calf (c.1970s) with claret sp. labels & marbled paper covd. boards. VG thus. See illustration on our website.
£35
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Two Years After, or Twelve Months of Armageddon: Some Reminiscences of A Temporary Regimental Sawbones 1915-1916.
1st Ed., [v]+105pp. Printed for Private Circulation Only.
1918
#67840
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Interesting & exceptionally rare privately printed memoirs of "N.D.M." [i.e. N.D. Mackay], serving at a General Hospital in France then attached as MO to the London Scottish (1st Bn. 14th London Regt.) in Oct. 1915. Immediate recollections of service & episodes in France 1915-16 in two main sections: "A Winter in the Loos Salient" & "The Lighter Side of War," the latter in three parts, "At Home & at the Base, B.E.F.," "In & Out of the Trenches" & "In & Out of the Trenches (concluded)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front & sp., VG with ink author's initiald to ffep & neat pencil notes of errata in his hand to rear ep. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, sp. dull o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£245
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The Principles & Practice of Good Instruction. Part 1. For Officers & NCO Instructors.
Orig. dec. wraps., xvi+97pp., several diagrams. War Office. Feb.
1947
#64614
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RESTRICTED guide for instructors of the junior ranks inc. training methods &c. VG in attractive orig. printed wraps. See illustration on our website.
£20
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Somewhere in France: Personal Letters of Reginald Noel Sullivan, S.S.U. 65 of the American Ambulance Field Service.
1st Ed., [ii]+53pp., frontis. Printed for Private Circulation.
1917
#67871
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Letters from training & active service in France Aug.-Nov. 1917. Sullivan was an ambulance driver: "I assure you no one knows how badly he drives until he tries to carry a wounded man 'doucement' and in as short a time as possible over these rough roads..." Orig. card wraps. with paper label to front. Scarce. See illustration on our website.
£35
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How to Use a Rifle or Pistol. Practical Advice on Shooting with the Service Rifle, Miniature Rifles & Pistols.
Written & illustrated by the Staff of "The Regiment." 3rd Ed., enlarged, 89pp., diagrams. Temple Press. nd (c.1915).
#67611
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Commercially produced pocketbook. Inc. shooting, mapreading, signalling &c. Orig. dec. wraps., VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Manual of Elementary Drill (All Arms) 1935.
viii+98pp., 11 plates (photos. & diagrams). HMSO.
1935
#64020
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Orig. red cloth, VG with loosely inserted amendments slip. See illustration on our website.
£15
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