Rawling W (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover in dust jacket. Clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- virtually as new.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914 -1918 '. In 1910, a British officer inspected Canadian artillery units who were training at Petawawa. He deemed them ready. He didn't realize that his sense of tactics was as old as the Napoleonic wars. Read more about : Mount Sorrel, Verdun front, flame-throwers, eighteen-pounder, Amiens, Vimy Ridge, Canal de l'Escaut Line, and Lieutenant F.G, Newton. Cond : Paper wrapper is army green with buckskun coloured lettering. Training photo on cover as inset. Bright, tight, square, and clean. No names, no marks. Collectible military reference ! QUote (p. 125) : " After the Somme the communicators of the corps had worked out an efficient system of forward communications relying on the telephone. A division would have about four miles of trench available for burying - seven feet deep - twenty-five pairs of cable, six for the infantry, eighteen for the artillery, and one for the signal service. The Brigade Signal Section was responsible for ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 650 pp, index, photos, maps, mapped endpapers.

Couverture rigide toile. Condition: Très bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Jaquette en très bon état. Fort in-8. 1130 pages. Volume 1 seulement. Documentation de qualité. Illustrations. Cartes dépliantes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near fin ex-library in VG DJs. No rear pockets. Most of usual. Shipping at cost - heavy set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Three volumes. Volume I is subtitled: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867-1939. Volume II part 1 is subtitled The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939-1943. Volume II part 2 is subtitled: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1943-1945. All in very good condition. This set is very heavy and will require additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Three volumes set , still stiff to open, in gossy dust jackets. 771 pp; 797 pp; 1096 pp.

3vols. 8vo, 771pp, 797pp, 1096pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good hardback set in like dust jackets. . First volume inscribed by S. F. Wise; Second volume inscribed by editor, Norman Hillmer.

Hardcover. Important volume of the RGS journal including important content on Australia, Antarctica and New Guinea: Canning's Expeditions in Western Australia, The Flowing Wells of Central Australia by J. W. Gregory (2 articles); Maps: Sketch Map of Northeastern Australia, Sketch-map of the Murray and Darling rivers; Exploration in Dutch New Guinea by C. G. Rawling; Antarctic Nature by Otto Nordenskjold; Sketch-map of the Northern Peninsula of West Antarctic; the Mackay-Little Expedition in Southern New Guinea; and A Forgotten Navigator: Captain Sir John Hayes and his Voyage of 1793 by Ida Lee. 8vo, viii, 701pp, maps. Original dark blue gilt cloth covers very slightly toned w/ a couple of light marks. Internally, excellent.

Hardcover. Important volume of the RGS journal including important content on Australia, Antarctica and New Guinea, such as: Canning's Expeditions in Western Australia, The Flowing Wells of Central Australia by J. W. Gregory (2 articles); Maps: Sketch Map of Northeastern Australia, Sketch-map of the Murray and Darling rivers; Exploration in Dutch New Guinea by C. G. Rawling; Antarctic Nature by Otto Nordenskjold; Sketch-map of the Northern Peninsula of West Antarctic; the Mackay-Little Expedition in Southern New Guinea; and A Forgotten Navigator: Captain Sir John Hayes and his Voyage of 1793 by Ida Lee. 8vo, viii, 701pp, maps. Very bright orig. dark blue cloth with gilt RGS insignia at front cover and gilt title. Tiny tear at base of front hinges. Some very occasional marginal foxing o/w an extremely nice copy.