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Peter Harrington Peter Harrington london TRAVEL & EXPLORATION Peter Harrington london TRAVEL & EXPLORATION The items in this catalogue are offered for sale. The condition is guaranteed as described. Items ordered without prior inspection are understood to be sent on approval and may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt. Postage and insurance are extra. We accept all major credit cards, as well as direct payment. Deferred billing may be arranged for institutions on request. Peter Harrington “The most evocative item is a rather faded silk-square, now a dusty pink colour and a just little frayed, the purpose of which is explained in 100 Fulham Road Richard Rhodes James’s book Chindit: “Above there came the sound of planes … We produced our ‘panic maps’ (silk emergency maps of bright London SW3 6HS orange colour) and started waving them. The first few planes did not see us and we watched the parachutes floating into the hands of the Japs. Tel + 44 (0)20 7591 0220 But one sharp-eyed pilot noticed the streaks of orange in the nullah and emptied his load beside us.”” [email protected] Part of a collection of material relating to Wingate’s Chindits and their campaigns in Burma; item 29 in this catalogue. Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:00–18:00 Cover illustration from Gervasio de Artiñano y Galdácano’s La Arquitectura Naval Española; item 9 in this catalogue. Illustration, right, from Winston Churchill’s My African Journey; item 32 in this catalogue. Back cover image of ‘My lower middle-class Persian self ’ from Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana; item 23 in this catalogue. Peter Harrington Catalogue 86 1. which finally dispersed the Sitana warriors, and at the burning of Mulka a week later. He was men- ABBOTT, Henry. The Transport’s Monitor: tioned in dispatches” (ODNB) or, Guide To Masters Of Transports, Bruce 4343. Victuallers, Hired Tenders … Being a Practical Treatise on the Duties of Commanders and £1,750 [74080] Other Hired Vessels containing Useful Rules … London: J. Cawthorn, 1808 3. Octavo. Original boards, rebacked with new paper label. (ALBANIA: Special Operations Executive.) 12 folding tables, tables to the text. Somewhat rubbed, Albania Basic Handbook. London: Ministry of hinges and free endpapers repaired, light browning and Economic Warfare, 1943 occasional spotting, but a very good copy. Foolscap quarto. Original green and buff cord-tied Second and expanded edition, first published binder. 4 folding maps, 2 of them coloured, 2 folding 1805; a timely publication at a time of continued tables printed in red and black. A touch rubbed, else warfare. The demand for a logistical fleet rose 2. very good. to a peak during the French Revolutionary and First editions, comprising of four sections, all Napoleonic wars, as the need to transport troops, ADYE, John. Sitana: A Mountain Campaign equipment, and supplies in larger and larger designated secret: part I Pre-Invasion, August 1943 on the Borders of Afghanistan in 1863. London: (pp. 92): part II Post-Invasion, August 1943 (pp. numbers became a necessity to support extended Richard Bentley, 1867 operations overseas. Abbott collected together the 73); Map Section, August 1943 (2 general maps, necessary information for shipmasters to main- Octavo (218 × 137 mm). Contemporary half calf by Mor- together with roads and railways map, and admin- tain accurate accounts to stem “the peculation and rell, black morocco label, spine gilt in compartments, istrative map); and Supplement No. 1, November other misconduct [that] is so extensive”, and also marbled sides. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, 2 fold- 1943, containing lists of Albanian and Italian to offer “every possible encouragement … to mas- ing sketch-maps. A little rubbed, joints restored, some “personalities,” a local directory, and a section of light browning, a very good copy. ters of transports and victuallers … [because to] food and agriculture. This detailed report on Al- bania was produced by the Ministry of Economic afford proper information for their conduct whilst First edition, uncommon. One of the few accounts 2 volumes, octavo (216 × 156 mm). Contemporary dark Warfare at the time that the Special Operations in the service is both policy and justice” (preface). of the Ambela (previously known as Umbeyla) red half skiver, matching sand-grain linen sides, spines A contemporary notice in the Eclectic Review con- campaign of 1863 against the hostile Pushtun and Executive (SOE) had just infiltrated their liaison lettered in gilt, compartments of double gilt fillets, sidered that the book would be “extremely useful Bunerwal Wahabist sympathizers of the Ambela party—including Julian Amery, Anthony Quayle, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. 158 photographic illus- for the persons for whom it is chiefly compiled … valley in Swat, which remains a contested area to David Smiley, and Neil “Billy” McLean—into the trations on 103 plates, numerous other illustration plans as the greater part of them are justly supposed to this day. As Adye remarks in his preface: “the cam- country. Roundell Palmer, Lord Selbourne, who and charts, folding map at rear of each volume. A little rubbed at extremities, spines slightly dulled, a scatter of be incapable … of passing their accounts, through paign … though short, was a very interesting one, succeeded Hugh Dalton as Minister for Economic foxing, short tear to map in volume I neatly repaired, a public offices, unless furnished with the neces- Warfare in 1942, estimated that economic warfare both in its military aspects, and more especially very good set. sary forms of the set vouchers … [these] were so as having occurred in a part of the country never took up “about a fifth of his time”; it was essen- much dispersed, that the collection, into a single before entered by British troops.” Adye was as- tially a cover for the management of the activities First English edition, first impression, first pub- volume, of all that was necessary, reflects credit sistant adjutant-general of artillery throughout the of SOE. Suggestions for amendments were to be lished in Norwegian in the same year. “An ac- on the assiduity, as well as the judgement, of the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny, where he sent to the splendidly anonymous Box 99, Western count of Amundsen’s legendary dash to the Pole, compiler … we think well of the book.” The British was involved in the fighting at Cawnpore. “From Central District Office, New Oxford Street, WC1. in which he gained priority over Robert Falcon Critic considered that he had “fully succeeded” in May 1859 Adye commanded the artillery in the Ma- Uncommon: COPAC locates four copies (BL, Ox- Scott’s British Expedition by a month … His suc- his objects. dras presidency. He was deputy adjutant-general ford, LSE and IWM) to which OCLC adds NYPL cess over Scott was due to highly disciplined of artillery in India from March 1863 until 1868, and University of Wisconsin. dogsled teams, more accomplished skiers, a Extremely uncommon: COPAC locates only one and implemented the amalgamation of the three shorter distance to the Pole, better clothing and copy of the third edition of the same year; not on £750 [71684] East India Company regiments of artillery with equipment, well-planned supply depots en route, OCLC; not in NMM. With the ownership inscrip- the Royal Artillery, which required patience and including more nutritious food with plenty of B tion of John Brown of Leith dated 23 January 1808 4. tact. In November 1863 he joined the commander- vitamins, fortunate weather, and a modicum of to both pastedowns. in-chief, Sir Hugh Rose, at Lahore, and was sent AMUNDSEN, Roald. The South Pole. An Ac- luck” (Books on Ice). The English edition contains £875 [76269] by him to the Ambela valley, where the progress count of the Norwegian Expedition in the 10 photographic plates not found in the Norwe- of General Chamberlain’s expedition against the “Fram” 1910–1912. Translated from the Nor- gian original. Sitana fanatics was blocked. Adye, accompanied wegian by A. G. Chater … London: John Murray, Books on Ice 7.1; Howgego IV, A13; Spence 16. by Major F. S. Roberts, was to report on the situa- 1912 tion. He was present at the action of 15 December £1,750 [76808] 2 3 Peter Harrington Catalogue 86 maps, illustrations to the text. Neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, a little rubbed overall, top corner of rear cover cracked, now restored, maps lightly dampstained at the lower fore-corner, text lightly browned, overall very good. First edition. This copy with Edward Lear’s own- ership inscription to the title page, dated in the year of publication, the same year as his own book on the islands was published. Lear first travelled out to the Ionian Islands in 1854 with his friend Franklin Lushington, who had been made a judge at the supreme court of justice there, and wintered there several times, subsequently based on Corfu. The beauties of the islands were much to his taste, the life attached to the British garrison less so: “a more disorganised fiddlefaddle Poodly-pumpkin 5. half-title. Near contemporary ownership inscription of revolutionary, anticlerical measures, and in Sep- place never was … at the Palace they are active— Frederick Mackenzie to the title page, engraved armo- tember 1798 the Maltese rebelled against them and dancing & rushing about pauselessly & continu- ANDERSON, Aeneas. A Journal of the Forces rial bookplate of George Noble to front pastedown. drove them back into the fort of Medina. Nelson ally” (letter to Holman Hunt quoted in Noakes, which sailed from the Downs, in April 1800. Noble served in the Navy during the Napoleonic wars established a blockade and landed troops to assist Edward Lear, p. 150).