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‎[Suite de 17 gravures figurant les batailles navales de la guerre d'indépendance américaine extraites de:/Suite of 17 engravings depicting the naval battles of the American War of Independence from:] Galerie historique de Versailles.‎

‎Paris, Charles Gavard, 1838-1849. 1838 17 feuilles grand in-folio oblong de papier vélin ( 475 x 330 mm.) de: 17 gravures sur acier dont 5 en deux états, le second sur chine contrecollée. ( taches, déchirures marginales restaurées, quelques marges jaunies ou rousseurs). Non reliées, rangées dans un cartonnage recouvert de papier à la colle..‎

‎Rare ensemble de gravures provenant de la "Galerie historique de Versailles" reproduisant des uvres de peintres célèbres consacrées aux batailles navales de la guerre d'indépendance américaine. La « Galeries historique de Versailles », monumental ouvrage rassemblant plus de 1750 planches fut publié Charles Gavard (1794-1871) entre 1838-1849. En 1836, Louis-Philippe avait accordé à ce polytechnicien les droits exclusifs sur la reproduction de chaque uvre du Musée historique de Versailles à laide dun outil de son invention, le diagraphe. Présenté aux Salons de 1833 et 1834 et à lExposition des produits de lindustrie française de 1834, ce nouveau procédé constituait une aide au dessin permettant de tracer les contours dun objet en suivant un point de mire. Il se révéla utile à plus dun titre pour la réalisation de louvrage : il permit en effet la production dun nombre considérable de gravures en un temps record et assura leur large diffusion. Bien quil fût perçu par certains comme une menace pour lart, le diagraphe ne pouvait remplacer le travail des artistes. Gavard avait ainsi confié à Luigi Calamatta et Paolo Mercuri la direction d'une équipe de 154 graveurs et 32 dessinateurs réputés, qui donnèrent toute leur force aux gravures des Galeries historiques. La qualité de reproduction des uvres est remarquable, fruit de lutilisation du Diagraphe et le Pantographe. Les planches gravées sur acier sont ensuite terminées à leau-forte et au burin par les meilleurs artistes de lépoque. Trois états des planches furent produits. Le présent ensemble provient de lédition de luxe avec les gravures sur Chine et de celle sur vélin au format in-folio. Notre ensemble réuni de célèbres batailles navales livrées par les Français contre les Anglais au cours de la guerre dindépendance Américaine : Combat de la frégate française, la belle poule contre la frégate anglaise, lAréthuse, 17 juin 1778. Combat naval de Ouessant, le 27 juillet 1778. Combat de la frégate française la Concorde contre la frégate anglaise la Minerve, 22 août 1778. Combat de la frégate française la Junon contre la frégate anglaise le Fox, 11 septembre 1778. Combat du vaisseau français le Triton contre le vaisseau anglais le Jupiter et la frégate anglaise la Médée, 20 octobre 1778. Combat de la frégate française la Minerve contre deux vaisseaux anglais et deux frégates anglaise, 7 février 1779. Combat naval de lile de la Grenade, 6 juillet 1779. Combat de la frégate française la Surveillante contre la frégate anglaise le Québec, 7 octobre 1779. Combat naval en vue de la Dominique, 17 avril 1780. Combat naval de la Praia, 16 avril 1781. Combat entre les frégates françaises la Nymphe et lAmphitrite contre le vaisseau anglais lArgo, 11 février 1783. Combat naval en vue de Gondelour, 20 juin 1783. Cinq de ces gravures sont en deux états de tirage, sur vélin et sur chine contrecollées. Rare et belle iconographie. 17 large oblong folio sheets of vellum paper (475 x 330 mm.) of: 17 engravings on steel including 5 in two states, the second on laminated China paper. (stains, marginal tears restored, some yellowed margins or foxing). Unbound, stored in a cardboard box. Rare set of engravings from the "Galerie historique de Versailles" reproducing works by famous painters dedicated to the naval battles of the American War of Independence. The Historical Galleries of Versailles, a monumental work bringing together more than 1750 plates, was published by Charles Gavard (1794-1871) between 1838 and 1849. In 1836, Louis-Philippe granted this polytechnician exclusive rights to reproduce each work in the Historical Museum of Versailles using a tool of his invention, the diagraph. Presented at the Salons of 1833 and 1834 and at the Exhibition of French Industrial Products of 1834, this new process constituted a drawing aid allowing the contours of an object to be traced by following a point of focus. It proved useful in more than one way for the production of the work: it enabled the production of a considerable number of engravings in record time and ensured their wide distribution. Although it was seen by some as a threat to art, the diagraph could not replace the work of artists. Gavard had thus entrusted Luigi Calamatta and Paolo Mercuri with the management of a team of 154 engravers and 32 renowned designers, who gave all their strength to the engravings of the Historical Galleries. The quality of reproduction of the works is remarkable, the result of the use of the Diagraph and the Pantograph. The plates engraved on steel were then finished with etching and chisel by the best artists of the time. Three states of the boards were produced. This set comes from the luxury edition with the engravings on China paper and the one on vélin in folio format. Our collection brings together famous naval battles fought by the French against the English during the American War of Independence: Combat of the French frigate, La Belle Poule against the English frigate, the Aréthuse, June 17, 1778. Naval combat of Ouessant , July 27, 1778. Combat of the French frigate the Concorde against the English frigate the Minerve, August 22, 1778. Combat of the French frigate the Junon against the English frigate the Fox, September 11, 1778. Combat of the French ship the Triton against the English ship the Jupiter and the English frigate the Médée, October 20, 1778. Combat of the French frigate Minerve against two English ships and two English frigates, February 7, 1779. Naval combat on the island of Grenada, July 6, 1779. Combat of the French frigate Surveillante against the English frigate Quebec, October 7, 1779. Naval combat in sight of Dominica, April 17, 1780. Naval combat of Praia, April 16, 1781. Combat between the French frigates Nymphe and Amphitrite against the English ship Argo, February 11, 1783. Naval combat in sight of Gondelour, June 20, 1783. Five of these engravings are in two states of print, on vellum and on laminated china paper. Rare and beautiful iconography.‎

‎The Two-Ocean War‎

‎Little brown and company 1989 611 pages in-8. 1989. broché. 611 pages. With illustrations. A short history of the United States Navy in the second world war‎

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‎The Civil War in France. Address of the General Council of the International Working-Men's Association. - [MARX' SEMINAL DEFENSE OF THE PARIS COMMUNE]‎

‎High Holborn, for the Council by Edward Truelove, 1871. Small 8vo. Near contemporary quarter cloth with silver lettering to front board. Binding with signs of use, but overall good. One closed marginal tear and title-page with a few brownspots, otherwise very nice and clean. 35 pp.‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition (with the names of Lucraft and Odger still present under ""The General Council"") of one of Marx' most important works, his seminal defense of the Paris Commune and exposition of the struggle of the Communards, written for all proletarians of the world. While living in London, Marx had joined the International Working Men's Association in 1864 - ""a society founded largely by members of Britain's growing trade unions and designed to foster international working class solidarity and mutual assistance. Marx accepted the International's invitation to represent Germany and became the most active member of its governing General Council, which met every Tuesday evening, first at 18 Greek Street in Soho and later in Holborn. In this role, Marx had his first sustained contact with the British working class and wrote some of his most memorable works, notably ""The Civil War in France"". A polemical response to the destruction of the Paris Commune by the French government in 1871, it brought Marx notoriety in London as 'the red terror doctor', a reputation that helped ensure the rejection of his application for British citizenship several years later. Despite his considerable influence within the International, it was never ideologically homogenous... (homas C. Jones: ""Karl Marx' London"").The work was highly controversial, but extremely influential. Even though most of the Council members of the International sanctioned the Address, it caused a rift internally, and some of the English members of the General Council were enraged to be seen to endorse it. Thus, for the second printing of the work, the names of Lucraft and Odger, who had now withdrawn from the Council, were removed from the list of members of ""The General Council"" at the end of the pamphlet. ""[Marx] defended the Commune in a bitterly eloquent pamphlet, ""The Civil War in France"", whose immediate effect was further to identify the International with the Commune, by then in such wide disrepute that some of the English members of the General Council refused to endorse it."" (Saul K. Padover, preface to Vol. II of the Karl Marx Library, pp. XLVII-XLVIII).""Written by Karl Marx as an address to the General Council of the International, with the aim of distributing to workers of all countries a clear understanding of the character and world-wide significance of the heroic struggle of the Communards and their historical experience to learn from. The book was widely circulated by 1872 it was translated into several languages and published throughout Europe and the United States."" (The Karl Marx Archive)Marx concluded ""The Civil War in France"" with these impassioned words, which were to resound with workers all over the world: ""Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priests will not avail to redeem them.""The address, which was delivered on May 30, 1871, two days after the defeat of the Paris Commune, was to have an astounding effect on working men all over the world and on the organization of power of the proletarians. It appeared in three editions in 1871, was almost immediately translated into numerous languages and is now considered one of the most important works that Marx ever wrote. "" ""The Civil War in France"", one of Marx's most important works, was written as an address by the General Council of the International to all Association members in Europe and the United States.From the earliest days of the Paris Commune Marx made a point of collecting and studying all available information about its activities. He made clippings from all available French, English and German newspapers of the time. Newspapers from Paris reached London with great difficulty. Marx had at his disposal only individual issues of Paris newspapers that supported the Commune. He had to use English and French bourgeois newspapers published in London, including ones of Bonapartist leanings, but succeeded in giving an objective picture of the developments in Paris. ...Marx also drew valuable information from the letters of active participants and prominent figures of the Paris Commune, such as Leo Frankel, Eugene Varlin, Auguste Serraillier, Yelisaveta Tornanovskaya, as well as from the letters of Paul Lafargue, Pyotr Lavrov and others.Originally he intended to write an address to the workers of Paris, as he declared at the meeting of the General Council on March 28, 1871. His motion was unanimously approved. The further developments in Paris led him, however, to the conclusion that an appeal should be addressed to proletarians of the world. At the General Council meeting on April 18, Marx suggested to issue ""an address to the International generally about the general tendency of the struggle."" Marx was entrusted with drafting the address. He started his work after April 18 and continued throughout May. Originally he wrote the First and Second drafts of ""The Civil War in France"" as preparatory variants for the work, and then set about making up the final text of the address.He did most of the work on the First and Second drafts and the final version roughly between May 6 and 30. On May 30, 1871, two days after the last barricade had fallen in Paris, the General Council unanimously approved the text of ""The Civil War in France"", which Marx had read out.""The Civil War in France"" was first published in London on about June 13, 1871 in English, as a pamphlet of 35 pages in 1,000 copies. Since the first edition quickly sold out, the second English edition of 2,000 copies was published at a lower price, for sale to workers. In this edition [i.e., MECW], Marx corrected some of the misprints occurring in the first edition, and the section ""Notes"" was supplemented with another document. Changes were made in the list of General Council members who signed the Address: the names of Lucraft and Odger were deleted, as they had expressed disagreement with the Address in the bourgeois press and had withdrawn from the General Council, and the names of the new members of the General Council were added. In August 1871, the third English edition of ""The Civil War in France"" came out, in which Marx eliminated the inaccuracies of the previous editions.In 1871-72, ""The Civil War"" in France was translated into French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Flemish, Serbo-Croat, Danish and Polish, and published in the periodical press and as separate pamphlets in various European countries and the USA. It was repeatedly published in subsequent years....In 1891, when preparing a jubilee German edition of ""The Civil War in France"" to mark the 20th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Engels once again edited the text of his translation. He also wrote an introduction to this edition, emphasising the historical significance of the experience of the Paris Commune, and its theoretical generalisation by Marx in ""The Civil War in France"", and also giving additional information on the activities of the Communards from among the Blanquists and Proudhonists. Engels included in this edition the First and Second addresses of the General Council of the International Working Men's Association on the Franco-Prussian war, which were published in subsequent editions in different languages also together with ""The Civil War France"". (Notes on the Publication of ""The Civil War in France"" from MECW Volume 22). Only very few copies of the book from 1871 on OCLC are not explicitly stated to be 2nd or 3rd editions, and we have not been able to find a single copy for sale at auctions within the last 50 years. ‎

‎Hitler's Army: Soldiers Nazis and War in the Third Reich: Soldiers Nazis and War in the Third Reich (Revised) (Oxford Paperbacks)‎

‎Oxford University Press U.S.A 1992 256 pages 13 3x20 1x1 9cm. 1992. Broché. 256 pages.‎

‎South African War through the Stereoscope. Vol. I-II.‎

‎Washington, Underwood & Underwood, 1900 - 1901. 72 stereoscope card (177 x 90 mm) housed in the original book-like slipcase. Slipcase with wear. Cards fine and clean. ‎

‎Fine collection of 72 stereoscope cards depicting primarily war scenes from the South African War (Anglo-Boer war). Most of the images deal with the action on the north-eastern frontier of the Cape between November 1899 and February 1900 including scenes from Hanover, Naauwpoort, Dordrecht or Arundel and Rensburg (South of Colesburg). U & U photographers were also present on the march to Kimberley, at the surrender of General Cronje at Paardeberg, at the occupation of Bloemfontein, on the march through the Free State towards Johannesburg and the triumphant entry into Pretoria. Images of the Natal campaign (siege of Ladysmith), battlegrounds of Colenso and Spioenkop are also included. “War correspondents and news photographers descended upon South Africa at the start of the Anglo-Boer war, among them the photographers of Underwood & Underwood. These photographers were not news photographers after sensational, gory war images, nor were they part of any pro-British or anti-Boer propaganda campaign. They stayed away from conflict zones but still captured other military related activity with their primary market, namely the American middle class in mind. Underwood and Underwood produced sets of images in boxes made to look like a single, or a pair of books entitled: “The South African War through the Stereoscope”. These boxes were then filled with Anglo-Boer war stereo photographs pasted onto curved cardboard. More titles were added as the war progressed. Later described as the leaders in armchair travel photography, Underwood & Underwood was founded by two brothers in 1881 in Ottawa, Kansas. The brothers were Elmer Underwood (born Fulton County, Illinois 1859 - died St. Petersburg, Florida during 1947) and Bert Elias Underwood (born in Oxford, Illinois 1862 - died Tucson, Arizona during 1943). The company moved its main office from Ottawa, Kansas to New York City 10 years later. During the late 19th and early 20th century, Underwood and Underwood (To be referred to as U & U from this point onwards) responded to the increasing demand of their primary market, namely the middle-class American’s visual curiosity on the expanding world. The Underwoods hired their own photographers, some of whom were Americans. Unfortunately, none of their names have been recorded on the Anglo-Boer war stereo cards or on the photographs themselves. It is thought that some photographs may also have been bought from South African based photographers by U & U. This would however have been an absolute exception and not the rule. The Anglo-Boer war images sold door to door in America would have formed but a small fraction of the wide variety of images and themes on offer by U & U.” (Carol Hardijzer, Anglo-Boer War - Stereo Photographs produced by Underwood & Underwood).‎