![Item #121024 The Anglo-Boer War. No. 6. Scooping! Sweeping! Fighting! [cover title]. Boer War,...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121024_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606530666)
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, [1901]. 'Being a brief account of the operations of the three Columns under the command of Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, Col. Hickie, and Col. Williams ... in the south-western portion of the Transvaal, May to October, 1901, inclusive' (drop sub-title). In 1939, Herman..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. Guest accurately describes the two and a half hour fight as 'one of the most sustained and determined attacks of the war'. 'The Boers lost eleven killed, 35 wounded, and 10 taken prisoner. The British lost 61 killed or mortally..... More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer, Publisher, Stationer, Bookseller, etc. 1902. 'The operations against the Boers in the neighbourhood of Klerksdorp, which were begun on Sunday night, March 23rd, 1902, were very cleverly conceived and executed.... The object of the operations was to form a long line of mounted men with the..... More
Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 'Mining Record' Office, 31 July 1901 (second edition)/ June 1901 (the date 31 May appears at the end of the section on the 'Second British Occupation' in the second edition). 'Second Edition' appears on the front wrapper, page [5] is 'Some Press Notices'..... More
![Item #121030 Speech by the Right Honourable R. Seddon, Premier [sic] of New Zealand. [Hon....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121030_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606533590)
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The position of prime minister in New Zealand was known as premier until 1907. Robert Seddon (1845-1906) was premier from 1893; he died in office. He 'attracted much publicity for his outspokenness about the South African war: he visited South..... More
![Item #121029 Klipdrift. Capture of Lord Methuen [drop title]. Boer War, Lieutenant General Lord...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/121029_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1606530670)
[Klerksdorp, Printed and Published by H.M. Guest, 1902]. 'In the Battle of Tweebosch or De Klipdrift on 7 March 1902, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey defeated a British column under the command of Lieutenant General Lord Methuen during the final months of the Second Boer War........ More
Klerksdorp, H.M. Guest, Printer and Publisher, Bookseller, Stationer, etc. 1902. The 1st Scottish Horse was one of two volunteer Scottish regiments raised in South Africa during the war; it saw considerable action in the Western Transvaal, especially in the battles at Moedwil, Vlakfontein, and Braakenlaagte. Preambles to these self-titled poems..... More
Samuel Albert White (1870-1954) is well-known as an ornithologist and conservationist, but 'During the South African War he had two tours of duty and was temporarily promoted captain, a title he used thereafter' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). There are five studio portraits and one taken outdoors, with White astride a...... More
South Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2001. More
After his conquest of Italy, Napoleon appointed his sister Elisa as ruler of a client state in the north-western part of the peninsula. In this official letter, stamped 'Secret' and written soon after the departure of Napoleon on his ill-fated Russian campaign, Elisa informs the French Minister of War of..... More
Petersham, Walla Walla Press, 2012 (reprint)/ 2012. Initialled in ink by both authors. More
Adelaide, [The Author], 1971. The author was chaplain to a succession of eight commando squadrons during World War 2. More
London, Folio Society, 1987 (second printing)/ 1985. More
London, Faber and Faber, 1980. More
London, The British Australasian, 1918. Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890-1923) was a member of the distinguished and talented Boyd family of artists, writers and architects. 'In 1915 Boyd joined the Australian Imperial Force, becoming a sergeant in the Electrical and Mechanical Mining Company, but was badly gassed at Ypres and invalided..... More
(Swanbourne, Burridge, 1980s, a facsimile edition)/ 1919. More
London, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, 1855 [first series]. The plates in the text do not count in the pagination, but as we included the lithographic title leaf in the preliminaries total to make up the required number of pages, we suspect this rebound copy is possibly lacking a half-title or..... More
Melbourne, The Trustees of the Services Canteen Trust Fund, 1955. Melbourne neurosurgeon and anatomist Keith Bradley was selected by the Trustees for this study; from 2nd January 1951, he spent three years studying the subject, including one year abroad. More
Canberra, Army History Unit, 2010. Australian Army Campaigns Series, Number 6. More
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1988. More
Marlborough, Crowood Press, 2003. Not least, the lethal Mignet Flying Flea. More
Jordan, Australian Embassy, 2021. This book 'celebrates the long-standing and friendly ties between our two nations from Jordan's beginnings over a hundred years ago up to the present day' (from the foreword by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, David Hurley AC DSC). Text in English and Arabic. More
[Melbourne, Gordon and Gotch, circa 1919]. Primarily a picture book; there is one introductory page of text, and a two-page prose piece, 'The March Past' at the rear. Trove correctly attributes authorship of this work to Roy Bridges. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
[Melbourne, Gordon and Gotch, circa 1919]. Primarily a picture book; there is one introductory page of text, and a two-page prose piece, 'The March Past' at the rear. Trove correctly attributes authorship of this work to Roy Bridges. Not in Dornbusch; not in Fielding and O'Neill. More
