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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
#65588
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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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
#69019
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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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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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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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Military Engineering. (Part I.) Field Defences. 1908.
General Staff, War Office, 1908. vi+101pp., 60 illus. (some fldg.). HMSO.
1914
#66815
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From earthworks (trenches &c.) to stockades & blockhouses, defence of villages & suburbs, & more, with numerous interesting & excellent plates. This the 1914 printing, orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. See illustrations on our website.
£45
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Rifle Drill Illustrated.
Orig. printed wraps., a series of diagrams within. Aldershot: G&P. nd (c.1940)
#66705
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Excellent drawings of rifle drill: The salute; ground arms; fix bayonets, &c. VG. See illustrations on our website.
£15
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Infantry Training (Provisional). War Office. 1902.
323pp., sketches & diagrams (several fldg.). HMSO.
1902
#66223
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Issued in the year that emphasis was moved from Bn. to Company as the principal tactical unit. Orig. limp red calf covs., gilt, near fine. See illustration on our website.
£45
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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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Notes on Military Railway Engineering. Published under the Authority of the Quartermaster General. Part IV: Operating. 1942.
238pp., 27 photos., maps & diagrams (several fldg.).War Office.
1942
#65589
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Orig. green cloth, gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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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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