Edwin Herbert:Small Wars and Skirmishes: 1902-1918
- Erstausgabe 2005, ISBN: 9781901543056
Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe
Copenhagen (Copenhague), Leiden (Leide), Chez Elie Luzac, 1761. 8vo. X,(II),11-114,(4) p., 2 folding engraved tables. Calf 20.5 cm (Ref: M. van Vliet 'Elie Luzac (1721-1796', Nij… Mehr…
Copenhagen (Copenhague), Leiden (Leide), Chez Elie Luzac, 1761. 8vo. X,(II),11-114,(4) p., 2 folding engraved tables. Calf 20.5 cm (Ref: M. van Vliet 'Elie Luzac (1721-1796', Nijmegen 2005, p. 153-54 & 571)) (Details: Back gilt, and with 5 raised bands. Brown morocco shield in the second compartment. Edges of the boards gilt, edges of the book dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Title in red and black. 2 folding maps depicting an imaginary landscape, with (1, 47x24 cm) 'Plan de la marche d'un convoy' and (2, 35x24) 'Plan de l'attaque d'un convoy') (Condition: Boards somewhat scratched and stained. Wee wormhole at the bottom of the back. Both pastdownes detached. Red ink stain on the front flyleaf. Edges of the first table thumbed, it also suffers from 3 tears of 6 cm on the folds) (Note: KVK, The Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog, presents only a small number of copies of this title. Most copies are catalogued anonymously. The Staatsbibliothek Berlin records a copy, and attributes it to one 'Johann Friedrich Maas'. The 'Kongelige Bibliotek Dänemark' calls the author 'Maase,v.d.' Worldcat. records 9 copies, 7 anonymous and 2 ascribed to one 'v.d. Maase'. A passage in a letter of the Danish publisher J.F. Hansen to the German author Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg, dated 'Slesvig, d. 27 Jul. 1763' sheds light on this matter: 'Bei dem Manuale ist mir beigefallen, ob Ew. Hochwolgeb. es nicht für ratsam, schicklich u. fast für notwendig erkenen, dass ich das teutsche Msct. H.M. v. Maas vorher praesentire, u. gleichsam seine Genehmigung zum Druck bei ihm suche. Sie wird mir nicht entgehen: eine Folge aber, welche bei H. Major zwar nicht eintreffen, aber bei dergleichen sonst gar leicht sich begeben kan, ist: dass der Autor, wenn sein Werk ohne sein Vorwissen veranstaltet wird, einige Veränderungen mit demselben entweder vornemen, oder Zusätze dazu macht u. alsdenn zieht der gleichsam stillschweigende Verleger den kürtzern, ja irre ich mich nicht, so deucht mir mal gehört zu haben, dass H.M. bei einer etwarigen Übersetzung, noch einige Anmerckungen demselben beifügen wollte. Desto besser!' The note which accompanies this passage reveals more: 'Wie bisher unbekannt war, scheint Gerstenberg eine Übersetzung folgenden Werks geplant zu haben: 'Manuel militaire. Ou cayers détachés sur toutes les différentes parties de l'art de guerre. Cayer 1-2'. Verfasser war Johan Frederik Maas (1713-1790), seit 1759 dänischer Major'. (R. Whittmann, 'Zur Verlegertypologie der Goethezeit. Unveröffentlichte Verlegerbriefe an Heinrich Wilhelm Gerstenberg' in 'Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik', 8/1, 1976, p. 99-130) § His plan is, the author of the 'Manuel militaire' tells us in the preface, 'de donner, sur toutes les Opérations militaires, de petits volumes détachés', to produce small volumes. He plans to produce slim and handy volumes, not only 'pour la commodité des Acheteurs', but also because the art of warefare reaches more perfection every day, and every now and then new discoveries influence warefare. He begins the series with the 'Convoy': 'la manière de les conduire, de les assûrer, de les attaquer & de les défendre'. This is explained in theory and in practice. Maas describes e.g. elaborately the skirmishes around the Dutch town of Bergen op Zoom between the French troops and the Dutch forces at the end of the War of Austrian succession in 1747 and 1748. (See Wikipedia s.v. Het beleg van Bergen op Zoom) The author is full of optimism about his project, 'S'il est gouté, les autres le suivront de près'. (p. IX & X). A second volume 'sur les fourrages' followed in 1763. Then it stops. The series did not catch on, and a German translation of the first part was never published. This translation would probably have been published by the Leiden publisher Elie Luzac in cooperation with the firm of Weidmann. Nothing came of it. To confuse matters, M. van Vliet refers in her dissertation on Elie Luzac to 'Johann Friedrich Maas' not as an officer but as a Copenhagen publisher. Luzac had certainly, as Maas, high expectations concerning the Manual. From an auction list of 1801 (Luzac died in 1796) we learn that there were still 586 with tables and 599 copies without tables available, and 112 copies of volume 2 of the series were still gathering dust. (Vliet, M. van, 'Elie Luzac (1721-1796), Boekverkoper van de Verlichting', Nijmegen 2005, p. 153/4 and p. 571) This huge number contrasts sharply with the small number of copies on library shelves. The lot probably did not find a buyer, and the remainder must have been destroyed. We found an advertisement for this book in the 'Rotterdamsche Courant' of the first of january 1785, and repeated on the 8th. Luzac announces that it might be wise, considering the turbulent times, (naval war with the English, an immanent war with Prusia, and domestic troubles, violent riots between the patriot militias and the orangist mobs) for officers and those interested in the military to buy this book. The price is 1 guilder and 15 stuivers. As we saw, it was of no avail) (Collation: A-8 (A5 plus A6) ; B-G8, H2; (A second leaf A6 has been inserted after the preliminary pages between the regular A5 and the not signed A6; this inserted A6 gives on the recto side a list of authors, and on the verso the table of contents and a list corrigenda; most copies we saw had the second leaf A6, which is not paginated, at the end after H-2)) (Photographs on request), 0, Chicago, IL, USA: Time Inc., 1940. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 100 pages. Cover: Eamon de Valera. Contents: National Affairs: President (Franklin D. Roosevelt) & Peace, The Congress: (Lester P.) Barlow's Bomb - Liquid oxygen-carbon formula bomb called glmite; World War: Diplomatic Front - Brenner Pass Parley; Northern Theatre: One War Ends - Russia and Finland (inc. map of treaty concessions); Foreign News: Post-Mortem on Peace; Great Britain: Assassination at a Lecture - Sir Michael O'Dwyer; Primose Prince Passes (Sri Kanteerava Narasimharaja Wadiyar); Eire (Ireland): Prime Minister of Freedom - President Eamon de Valera; Japan-Russia: Sakhalin Island Skirmish; Sport: Wonder Girl Bullfighter - Conchita Cintron; The Press: Contempt of Court - St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Education: Church v. College - College of the City of New York; Hillbilly's School System - Blanford Barnard Dougherty; Argentine Art (2 pages colour); and Banking: The Name of (J.P.) Morgan. Full page colour vintage advertisement with Dionne Quintuplets promoting Unisteel Turret Top Body by Fisher. Full page colour vintage print advertising including Packard 120, American Airlines, Old Angus Scotch Whiskey, and Lincoln-Zephyr V-12. Span ad on back cover. Binding sound. Small mailing stamp bottom right back cover. Contents clean and unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy.., Time Inc., 1940, 2.5, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1861. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo. Volume I. 250 pages. Illustrated with 31 plates. Rebound copy. Later burgundy cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Newer end sheets. Title page is starting to detach. Light foxing and spotting to the first 60-70 pages. Small edge chip page 45. Contents contain music in back. Volume I only. First published under the direction of Jefferson Davis United States Secretary of War in 1855., J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1861, 2, Many illustrations with valuable prints.tlanta Campaign, in the American Civil War, an important series of battles in Georgia (MaySeptember 1864) that eventually cut off a main Confederate supply centre and influenced the Federal presidential election of 1864. By the end of 1863, with Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, firmly under the control of the North, Atlanta, an important Confederate railroad, supply, and manufacturing centre and a gateway to the lower South, became the logical point for Union forces to attack in their western campaign. The Union commander, General William Sherman, also believed a sustained campaign deep into Confederate territory would bring the entire war to an end. Southern defenders were under the strategic direction of General Joseph E. Johnston, until he was replaced by Lieutenant General John Bell Hood in July. The Atlanta Campaign itself consisted of nine individual battles as well as nearly five months of unbroken skirmishes and small actions. The fighting foreshadowed Sherman's March to the Sea later in the year and introduced many Southern civilians to the horrors and ravages of "total war," working to undermine Confederate morale. After a series of seesaw battles, Sherman forced Confederate evacuation of Atlanta (August 31September 1). This Union victory presented President Abraham Lincoln with the key to reelection in the fall of 1864. It also greatly complicated the Confederate position near the Southern capital of Richmond, Virginia, as troops there now had to contend with Union forces to the north and south., Harpers, 1864, 0, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1866. First edition of Tenney's important history of the American Civil War. Large octavo, original cloth, illustrated with steel plate portraits and maps, one folding. In good condition. Small ownership inscription. Tenney's important military and naval history of the American Civil War presents in one volume not only the principal battles by land and sea, but every important skirmish. The plans and objects of the various battles are clearly stated, and the progress of the armies, step by step, in their execution, is described and illustrated with distinct topographical maps, chiefly obtained from official sources. The manner of raising, organizing, and equipping the armies and fleets is stated in detail; also the sanitary measures for their preservation, including hospitals and charitable organizations; the improvements in weapons and forts and floating batteries of military and naval warfare; the treatment of prisoners, and the action relative to those military questions arising between combatants., D. Appleton & Company, 1866, 0, London: Mandrake Press LTD., 1930. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. The first trade edition of D. H. Lawrence's essay defending his controversial novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', one of the few works published by the Mandrake Press. The first expanded trade edition of this work, previously published as 'My Skirmish With Jolly Roger'.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K. In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. A touch of fading to the spine and extremities. Dustwrapper with light edgewear, resulting in a couple of small chips. Spine of dustwrapper is discoloured, with a couple of marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine, Mandrake Press LTD., 1930, 4.5, Claiborne County, MS, 1845. Folio manuscript broadside, 8" x 13", in a neat, legible hand. With a detailed plat drawing at head. Lightly tanned and worn. Small corner tear costing a couple of letters. A few expert tape repairs to fold splits [no text loss]. Good+. The document shows several tracts along Kennison's Bayou, which is likely what is now known as Kennison Creek, running between Bayou Pierre River and Big Black River. Kennison's Creek was the site of a Civil War skirmish on May 3, 1863, between Grant's Union forces and Bowen's Confederate forces. The 1850 Federal Census for District #3 of Claiborne, Mississippi, lists James A. Hutchinson as a planter aged 53, born in Georgia; and Wm. Dotson as a planter aged 55, born in South Carolina. Dotson, Hutchinson, Turpin and Shelby were all listed in the 1850 Federal Slave Schedules as owning slaves, with Hutchinson and Turpin each owning more than thirty such. Shelby and Dotson are also listed in the Civil War Soldiers & Sailors Database as having served with the 1st Regiment, Mississippi, during the War., 1845, 0, Foundry, 2003-07-01. Hardcover. Used:Good., Foundry, 2003-07-01, 0<
