Search Results: Military & Maritime from Quagga Books

Jonathan Ball. An account of the war as it appeared to the professional and amateur war correspondents, describing not only pitched battles but the human drama of everyday campaigning. A number of photographs. 170 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good-. Some edge-wear. 2cm closed tear to top edge. Some mild foxing to verso. Binding: Hardcover.

Singerly & Myers. Inscribed by A L Russell, Adj. General, Pennsylvania (see page 28). State of the militia during Civil War years. Lacks spine. Front board loose and rear board lacks areas of cloth covering. 4cm closed tears to prelims. Age-toning throughout. Pages firmly bound.

Office Du Livre for the National Trust. Inscribed by the author, dated 1975, on the front free end page. The collection of arms and armour at Waddesdon Manor was largely formed by Miss Alice de Rothschild. Covering the period from late 15 to the early 19th century. Finely decorated swords, daggers, firearms and powder-flasks of the 16th and 17 centuries. Included is a catalogue of 16th and 17th cenutry cutlery and miscellaneous base-metalwork in the collection. Tipped in colour plates. 531 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. This is a heavy item and will incur additional shipping overseas. 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good+. Some light edge-ware to extremities. Small discolouration mark on rear cover. Sunning to spine. Binding: Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt device and lettering.

Michael Stevenson, 2010. Signed by the author (1910) who traced the routes of the Border War in Angola.

MacDonald and Jane's. Led by Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck, his handful of Askaris superbly engaged the nearly 250 000 Allied troops for four years. They outsmarted Jan Smuts and even Meinertzhagen who was the organizer of the effecient British intelligent service was no match for the quick-moving enemy. Map as end papers. A couple of b&w photographs. Some thumbing. 353 Pages. 1st edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair. Edge-wear to extremities. Some open and closed tears to top edge. Toning and some creasing. Binding: Hardcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Rubicon-Pers. Text: Afrikaans. Insight into the accounts of battles and leaders. Over 200 illustrations and photographs. 192 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jcakget: Good+. Some sunning to spine. Some mild edge-wear. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear.

Constantia Classics Publications. A definitive work by the author. This is No. 357 of the limited edition of 1500 copies of the Standard Edition. From the jacket flap. "A history and record of all known tribute medals awarded by grateful towns and villages throughout the British isles and the Dominions to their volunteer soldiers returning home from the Boer War." An important reference work to an unusual aspect of Boer War Numismatics. Some light foxing on the front end papers. Previous owner's details on front fixed end paper. Full page colour photographs of the medals with some b&w photographs. 240 Pages. Contents clean and binding tight. Limited 1st Edition. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good++. Some light foxing on the verso. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards.

Nongquai. 29 wartime cartoons by W. G. Austin "for South African Soldiers - and Others." Published in this format by arrangement with the editor of The Nongqai. The South African Services Journal. 32 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair to poor. Binding: Card wraps. Staplebound. Sunning. Splitting to the wraps at the spine, edge wear and a 3cm tear through all the pages of the bottom edge. Two small pink marks on rear cover.

Oorlogsmuseum van die Boererepublieke. Text: Afrikaans. Inscribed by one of the authors, Johan Hattingh to the title page. Based on the author's dissertation for which he received the degree of Magister Artium. Numerous illustrations. Some mild edge-wear to a few of the fore-edges. 159 pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Some light edge-wear. Sunning to spine.

Nominal rolls of the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Canadian contingents and Strathcona's Horse with casualities to date and also R.M.C. graduates with the army in South Africa. 127 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Some light edge-wear.

J. Schofield, 1785. Containing an authentic account of the most remarkable transactions, in which the Enemy's Motions, Works, Approaches, Firings, &c. are Particularly described.Off-setting to the title page from the engraved frontis. Includes a map and one folding engraving. Bound in later half leather with marbled boards.

Clan Line Steamers, 1924. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covers in good condition with a sunned spine.

Bok Books International. The story of a cover-up. The author's search for the true facts leaving him convinced that after eighty years the British Government still had something to hide. Many interesting photographs and documents from the period. 160 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Some light edge-wear. Sunning to spine. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear.

Edinburgh University Press, 1890. A publication describing a trial trip made by the Dunottar Castle. With numerous monochrome illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper.

T and A Constable. A charming record of The Dunottar Castle's trial trip round Scotland. She was the 21st ship built for the 'Castle' Company and one of the vessels engaged in the South African Royal mail Service. Name of previous owner in pencil on the title page. Numerous illustrations. Foxing to front and rear prelims, with some mild scattered foxing/discolouration marks to a few pages. Long split to front and rear end papers. 94 Pages. 1st Edition. Condition: Fair. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards. Edge-wear, fraying to all the spine edges. Some soiling to the boards.

De Boer Maritiem. Text: Dutch. The three volumes are richly illustrated and contain enlightening appendices. A standard work that makes an important contribution to Dutch-Indonesian history. Vol 1: The origins of this marine service up to the end of the century. Vol 2: The history of the government navy up to about 1925, a period characterized by consolidation and development. Vol 3: Covers the history of the Government navy from 1926 to 1949. A turbulent period that includes the war years and the transfer of sovereignty. Contents clean and binding sound. Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Good. Some edge-wear with a few closed tears. Binding: Hardcover. Light blue boards with gilt to spine.

Uys Publishers. The bloodiest and bitterly contested battle ever fought by South Africans during the First World War. 298 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust jacket: Good. Some edge-wear and sunning. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear.

Unversity of Natal Press. From the rear cover: "A narrative of political manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, of treachery and heroism, of strife and of a lots cause defended with evangelical zeal." 273 Pages. Contents clean and binding firm. 3rd Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Softcover. Some mild edge-wear.

Sentrum vir Internasionale Politiek, 1975. Some foxing to the outer edges of text. Text is clean and clear. Cover is covered in clear plastic with subsequent tape marks. Slight fading to the spine area. Text is in Afrikaans.

Voortrekkerpers Beperk. Text: Afrikaans. Name of previous owner on front fep. 312 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Some light edge-wear. Tiny nicks to the upper and lower spine edges. Light sunning to spine.