Webber Captain (11 results)

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. former gift inscription, in sl edge rubbed, dj Square volume, many photos. Pg edges sl yellowed.; HB, lg. octavo; 155 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Little hardcover with dark blue boards and illustrated endpapers. A glass was once placed on the front cover and its impression can still be seen. Slight wear to the inner hinges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Foreword by Lt.-Col. H. M. Llewellyn. Illustrated with fabulous black and white photographs throughout. 155 pages + Index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition. The Peninsula War Journal of Captain William Webber, Royal Artillery; new edition in the Napoleonic Library, 8vo, 196pp, line drawings and maps, edited by Richard Henry Wollocombe, VG+ Copies in VG+ DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Light wear to clipped jacket edges. Previous owner details and inscription on flysheet. Mild tanning to page edges, contents all clear and legible.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages. Words and music include: "He is able to keep you" by Bandmaster A E Webber / "The Father's Care" by Adjutant Bramwell Coles / "I've Found a Friend" by Bandmaster G Marshall / "A Pardoning God" by Enoch Kent / "Fall in!" by Major C Coller / "He can save every boy and girl" by Commandant W H Cox / "All for a Child like me" by Staff-Captain S B Lister / "When the Judgment throne is set" by Alec Greig / "Living and Dying in Jesus" by Lt-Col. R Slater / "The Fight" by Captain Eric Ball / "He Pardoned Me" by Ensign Vincent Cunningham / "More like Jesus" by Bandsman W H Wright (M9)(M15).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bastogne: The First Eight Days is one of S. L. A. Marshall's most tightly focused battlefield studies - a concise, ground?level reconstruction of the opening phase of the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. It was produced for the Fighting Forces Series to give officers and enlisted men a clear, practical understanding of how American units fought under extreme pressure. The narrative follows the 101st Airborne Division, attached artillery, tank destroyer units, engineers, and scattered elements of other formations as they rushed into Bastogne to block the German breakthrough. Marshall traces the action from 18-26 December 1944, when the town was encircled and subjected to continuous attack, artillery fire, and psychological strain. A few core themes define the study: The defense succeeded not because of perfect planning but because small groups of soldiers repeatedly made quick, disciplined decisions under chaos. Coordination between infantry and artillery, especially the ability to mass fires rapidly, proved decisive in stopping German armor. Leadership at the platoon and company level mattered as much as high?level strategy; Marshall highlights how junior officers and NCOs stabilized collapsing lines and improvised defenses. The German assault forces, though powerful, were slowed by terrain, weather, and their own logistical limits, giving the Americans just enough time to hold. The arrival of clear weather and the opening of supply drops helped sustain the defenders until relief forces broke through. The book is not a sweeping history; it's a tactical autopsy, built from interviews conducted immediately after the battle. Marshall's goal was to show how real soldiers behaved in the first, most uncertain days of the siege - before Bastogne became legend. The book is loaded with charts, maps, photos, illustrations and paintings. THIS copy belonged to Richard F. Connell, in Quantico, VA in 1954, possibly a student or faculty member. Paperback edition. 217 pages. Dimensions: 4.25" by 6.5". Published by The Infantry Journal, Washington, D.C. 1st printing, 1946. B&W illustrations. B&W photographs. Orange binding. Cover defect(s): Some fading. Some creasing/wrinkling. Slight corner/edge damage. Page defect(s): Some writing. Some page yellowing. 0.5 Pound Media Shipping Rate with Multiple Product Orders. (Min Shipping Rate 1 Pound per Order). Order More and SAVE! Genre(s): Fighting Forces Series / World War 2 / Association Copy / English. (B091).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. pages browning, several 1cm tears to edges and 2cm deep 7cm long missing piece on back cover top corner and part of spine.

Booklet. Condition: Good. Booklet; very good in card covers. ; Reprint of the articles first published in the Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, c.1867. Short Summary of The Campaign in Austria of 1866 by Lieut. Colonel Cooke. + Notes on the Campaign in Bohemia in 1866 by Captain Webber. ; 56 pages.

Hardcover. Webber, John; Hodges, William (illustrator). 1st Edition. COOK, Captain James; HAWKESWORTH, John; KING, James; WEBBER, John. The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook. First Editions, with the Folio Atlas to the Third Voyage. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773; W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777; W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. First editions of the three official accounts of Captain James Cook's voyages, with the folio atlas to the third and final voyage. Nine volumes: eight quarto text volumes and one folio atlas. An imposing set recording Cook's three voyages, which transformed European knowledge of the Pacific, Australasia, the Antarctic seas, Hawaii and the northwest coast of North America. Hawkesworth's First Voyage records Cook in HMS Endeavour, including Tahiti, New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia. Cook's Second Voyage follows HMS Resolution and Adventure into the southern oceans, crossing the Antarctic Circle. The Third Voyage, completed by James King after Cook's death, records the search for a northern passage, the northwest coast of America and Hawaii. The folio atlas preserves the engraved visual record after John Webber. BINDING: Uniform, richly gilt spines, expertly restored and finished in an eighteenth-century style, with raised bands, contrasting morocco lettering pieces, numbered labels and elaborate tooling. The five volumes of the First and Second Voyages retain their earlier boards. The three volumes of the Third Voyage and the folio atlas are in sympathetic later boards bound in keeping with the period style of the set. The nine volumes have exceptional shelf presence. FIRST VOYAGE: HAWKESWORTH, John, editor. An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. First edition. Three volumes, quarto. Engraved portrait of Cook by J. K. Sherwin after Nathaniel Dance-Holland, with maps, charts and folding plates, including the frequently absent Chart of the Straits of Magellan. Provenance: Castle Goring; armorial bookplate of John Belts and ownership inscription of John F. Bullar. Condition: Some foxing, more evident in Volumes II and III, occasional offsetting, minor staining and light marginal worming in Volume II. Boards with light spotting and age-related wear. SECOND VOYAGE: COOK, Captain James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. First edition. Two volumes, quarto. With Cook portrait and maps, charts, views and portraits, including Man of Easter Island and Man of the Island of Tanna, after William Hodges. Condition: Plates and maps notably clean. Previous owner's signature and bookplate to pastedowns, with minor pencil notes. Folding map and frontispiece professionally repaired at original folds. THIRD VOYAGE: COOK, Captain James, and KING, Captain James. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London: W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. First edition. Three volumes, quarto. Cook's final voyage in HMS Resolution and Discovery, exploring the northwest coast of North America and northern Pacific in search of a passage to Europe. Cook reached Hawaii and was killed there in 1779; the narrative was completed by King. Condition: Some offsetting, otherwise clean and strongly presented. ATLAS: WEBBER, John, and others. Atlas to A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. First edition. Folio. Large-format engraved atlas to the Third Voyage, after John Webber, official artist aboard HMS Resolution, recording landscapes, portraits and coastal views. Condition: Some foxing and damp staining, with wear towards the edges of the final section; the plates remain imposing.

Etched and engraved by C. Grignion after a drawing by Webber. Image size: 10 1/4 x 7 inches. Sheet size: 22 x 15 1/2 inches. In this attractive portrait, a young, muscular man dances what was then a sacred dance called Hula. In his right hand he holds a feather covered gourd. Virtually nude, he wears only a bark cloth "malo" or loin cloth, a coral necklace and dogtooth leggings. His body is tattooed in rhythmic patterns that flow down his arms and legs. "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" (Hill). John Webber, R.A., born in London of Swiss parents was the official artist on Cook's historic and final Pacific voyage. The drawings were the source for the engravings that illustrated Cook's "A Voyage to the Pacific", which was published in 1784.