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Animal Management. 1908. (Reprinted 1916).
Prepared in the Veterinary Dept. for the General Staff, War Ofice. 370pp., 4 lge. fldg. tinted litho. plates in end-pocket. HMSO.
1917
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Official Copy. Largely horses & saddlery; also mule, donkey, camel & ox. The plates depict a variety of grasses, herbage & weeds. This printing dates from March 1917. Orig. printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrip, VG with contemp. ownership inscrip. of A.W. Hodges, Capt. R.F.A. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Handbook of the French Army. 1932.
Compiled by the General Staff. xxvi+383pp., 9 plates inc. badges of rank, num. tables, diagrams & appendices. War Office.
1932
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For Official Use Only & just 800 copies printed. Contains comprehensive details of the nation's military capabilities, organisation of the various arms of the service (infantry, artillery, tank bns., overseas & colonial units, & so forth), &c. Orig. grey limp cloth. VG & rare but lacking three fldg. maps/plans from endpocket. See illustration on our website.
£40
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Military Engineering (Vol. IV) Demolitions & Mining. 1934.
279pp. followed by 86 plates (photos. & diagrams). HMSO.
1934
#67938
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Including theory of explosives, descriptions of types used, methods of firing, preparation & calculation of charges, demolitions in the field, undergound construction, military mining (offensive, defensive, &c.), mine gas & rescue work, &c., supplemented by many interesting diagrams & photos. Various amendment slips tipped-in. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Notes on Military Railway Engineering. Published under the Authority of the Quartermaster General. Part II: Engineering 1940.
195pp., 97 sketches, maps & diagrams (many fldg.) War Office.
1940
#67940
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Notes on Military Railway Engineering. Published under the Authority of the Quartermaster General. Part I- (Survey) 1940.
vi+126pp., 28 sketches, maps & diagrams (some fldg.). War Office.
1940
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Field Service Regulations Part I. Operations. 1909. (Reprinted, With Amendments, 1914.) General Staff, War Office.
302pp., 12mo. HMSO.
1914
#69012
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Orig. red cloth, gilt. Somewhat serviceworn o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Field Service Regulations Vol. II. Operations. 1920. Provisional.
Orig. blue printed wraps., 326pp. HMSO.
1920
#69014
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The first post-war revision of doctrine. Somewhat serviceworn, VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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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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Signal Training Volume IV. 1927. Construction & Maintenance of Lines.
Orig. buff printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrip, [ii]+vii+171pp., 4 fldg. plates/diagrams at end, num. figs. in text. HMSO.
1927
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Construction of air lines, cable lines (buried & otherwise), &c. VG ex-IWM. See illustration on our website.
£25
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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
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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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