WALDSTATTEN ALFRED VON: (1872-1952) Austo-Hungarian Generalmajor of World War I who held senior positions on the Armeeoberkommando (General Staff) and exercised significant influence over Emperor Karl I of Austria and Generaloberst Arthur Arz con Straussenberg, Chief of the General Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. A good, small series of seven World War II date A.Ls.S., Frhr. v. Waldstatten, nineteen pages (total), 8vo and 4to and one written on a correspondence card, Leitersdorf, 1939-44, all to Franz Bohme ('Lieber Freund Bohme!'), in German. In a distinctive, attractive hand Waldstatten writes a series of interesting and lengthy letters to his friend, discussing military matters and the progress of the Germans in World War II, stating, in part, 'Very seldom has a letter afforded me so much pleasure as your interesting lines. I sense in them how you, as the successful commander of such first-rate, victorious troops, feel the urge to give rein to your well-justified feelings of pride and happiness. And the fact that…..you thought of your old instructor in tactics makes me extremely happy…..I do not want to be an armchair strategist, but…..on the first press reports from the front, it is as if the two sides were meeting each other in an exercise. In so doing, I thought more of outmanoeuvring the Polish army on the Vistula than of completely pinning them down so that that would lead on to the encirclement and annihilation of the Poles. I knew too little of the latest and most effective weapon of war - the fast-moving armoured division - to evaluate its powers adequately. One thing I do know - if I were still an instructor at a military establishment, I should put in a word for the impetuous, daring types who were ready for command much more strongly than I did 30 (!!) years ago…..The achievements of the army are fabulous - I feel myself once again proud to be a German, proud of the German army - at heart, all of us Austrians were equally good and genuine Germans…..There is a heap of tactical, organisational and even strategic questions which I should particularly like to put to you. But I shall not keep you from your command duties…..Let's wait for times of peace. Shall we have to wait a long while for them? Who could give an answer to that question?' (20th September 1939, just a few weeks after the outbreak of World War II), 'I congratulate you very warmly and genuinely on your high decoration….I have followed your victorious advance through France on my wall map of the war…..continually amazed at the areas said to be strong and important which could be hurried, or rushed, through! It was fantastic what was achieved in this regard…..Poland, France; will you now be denied the opportunity of gathering new laurels in England?' (20th June 1940, less than a month before the Battle of Britain commenced), 'Once again I have the occasion to congratulate you most warmly. You are actually now on the penultimate step to the highest military rank, a 'fighting General of Infantry'; this is magnificent, and I congratulate you most warmly' (28th September 1940), 'In the East, in the West, in the South - at every point of the compass you have magnificent successes to show! What more can Mars, the god of war, offer you? With the Greek gods you must already be on the best of terms! Thirty years ago, who would have surmised that you would win the laurels beside the Aegean Sea and - as I expect - in Greece as well?' (27th April 1941), 'I became an officer 50 years ago; in that profession I could serve only 26 years…..I feast on the memory of those 26 years in my real calling…..All that you have been able to take part in, with such rich success, is indeed enviable. Especially in the Balkans, you had a whole host of most interesting problems to solve. “Fortune in war remains kind only to the man who is expert at his job” is an observation whose truth has been proved over the centuries. I cannot surmise where you are stationed on the Russian front, but I know for certain that it is there that the greatest conceivable actions will take place….' (16th August 1942), 'You keep the information you give about your own activities in very general terms, and thus very much in accord with proper military practice in such matters: it allows me to make only very broad surmises about where you are operating. Perhaps one will read your name shortly in Tunis…..since you are always posted to places where something is wrong….' (19th November 1942), 'It is certainly a cause for astonishment that you have been able to stand up physically to what is already 4 ½ years of all kinds of hardship on the battlefield - of which 3 have been spent in Russia!!.....The news you have sent has naturally interested me very greatly. It's a pity that I cannot follow your operations on a map. Where may your position be? I opt for the area around Nevel or Vitebak….In any event, it looks - overall - very difficult. Without having an accurate picture of the defences, I should argue for a landing in the Bremen - Hamburg area. May you succeed in winning the greatest strategic - yes, the decisive - victory of the war!!...But - in my opinion - one cannot exclude the thought that all the great excitement is one huge American bluff!' (9th January 1944). Each of the letters are accompanied by the original envelopes, all of which are hand addressed by Waldstatten and three are also signed by him in the return address panels to the verso. A fine group of letters for their content and association. VG, 7 Franz Bohme (1885-1947) Austrian General in the Wehrmacht, Commander of the XVIII Mountain Corps in the Balkans and Commander-in-Chief in German occupied Norway during World War II.
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GOUGH HUBERT: (1870-1963) British General of World War I, Commander of the British Fifth Army 1916-18. An interesting war date A.L.S., H. P. Gough, four pages, 8vo, Blair Atholl, Perthshire, 22nd August 1918, to Walter [Congreve]. Gough enquires as to his correspondent's health and remarks 'Conan Doyle complains that he can't get in touch with you, so I said I would try & stir you up, which I am now endeavoring to do!!', further asking 'Have you any reports from your 3 or 4 Divn. Commanders of their operations in the March battle? It would be most interesting & useful to get them' and continuing 'I got a most illuminating map from G.H.Q. the other day, giving position every evening & Divns. engaged. I find Byng had 19 Divn. to hold 26 ¼ miles before the battle opened. That equals 1 Divn. to 1 1/3 miles. We…..had 1 Divn. To 2 ¾ miles - viz - less than half the men per yard. He was only attacked by 18 Divn. on 18000 yds of front, lost the whole position the first day, to a depth of 7000 yds in one place & 5000 x everywhere!! That fact is a commentary of L.G.'s statement that he never gave a yard!'. Gough concludes 'If we had had the same number of men per yard as the III Army, we would have had over 30 Divns.!! It would have been a very different show'. A letter of good military content. Some extremely light, very minor age wear, otherwise VG Walter Congreve(1862-1927) English General of World War I, Victoria Cross winner for his actions at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa, on 15th December 1899. Congreve's 18th Brigade of the British Expeditionary Force participated in the historic Christmas Day truce of 1914 while stationed near Neuve Chapelle. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish Author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle had described the famous Christmas Day truce of 1914 as 'one human episode amid the atrocities which have stained the memory of war'. The March Battle which Gough refers to in the present letter is more commonly known as the Spring Offensive (or the Ludendorff Offensive) and was a series of German attacks along the Western Front beginning on 21st March 1918. The four offensives marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914. By the end of April 1918 the danger of a German breakthrough, which they had seen as their last chance of victory in World War I, had passed. The German Army had suffered heavy casualties and the remaining ground they occupied was of dubious value. In August 1918 the Allies began their Hundred Days Offensive which resulted in the Germans retreating, the collapse of the Hindenburg Line and the capitulation of the German Empire.
Of exploration interest, Raymond E Priestley, Antarctic Adventure - Scotts Northern Party, with fold-out map, 1914, together with John Hunt, The Ascent of Everest, pub. Hodder & Stoughton 1953, Sir Vivian Fuchs & Sir Edmund Hillary The Crossing of the Antarctic, pub. Cassell 1958, F Spencer Chapman, The Jungle is Neutral, Chatto & Windus 1950, and Chris Bonnington, Annapurna South Face, pub. Cassell 1971 (5)
Collection of six vellum indentures/deeds, 18th and 19th century, relating to Staffordshire (Stonefield, Eccleshall), including an Assignment and Ratification of a Bankrupt's Real Estate dated 1794. Together with Malvern Chase, W. S. Symonds, second edition, Tewkesbury: William North, 1881, rebound incorporating original upper board; Memoirs of Marshal Ney, second edition, London: Bull & Churton, 1834, Vol.II only, full leather binding with folding map frontispiece; The Poetical Works of Milton, Rev. H. C. Beeching, Oxford University Press, 1916, quarter vellum binding
SAXTON, CHRISTOPHER - Lancashire, Lancastriae. (London), 1579, a hand-coloured map engraving, oak-framed and glazed 39.5cm x 48.5cm CONDITION REPORT: Upon inspection the paper is slightly rippled, the map is hand coloured, there is some slight foxing and some discolouration leading to the belief that we think the map is original. The frame does look like it's been purposely aged and if the map is original it is in a later frame.
Small Collection Of Ephemera, Documents And Maps. To Include Antiquarian Documents, Arthur Preston's County Map And Guide Norfolk, Bartholomew's Revised 'Half-Inch' Contoured Maps, Johnston's Readyfold Coloured Touring Map, 'What You Require !' Geographia Road Map Morecambe And The Lake District - Maurice D Wright Etc.
Railway Interest comprising (1) Original Printed Copy of the Annual General Meeting of The GWR at Paddington Station, London For the Year Ended 1933 Sir Robert Horne in the Chair.(2) British Railways, London Midland Region 2 comprises working instructions for AC electrified lines 3 -05- 1975 ICI limited rules for gravity shunting, working instructions for Bury electrics 1 -05-1984 ' for Manchester Sheffield Wath' 1954, notice 980G New signalling at Camden in Euston 09 1965, notice 798G signalling Manchester London Road,04-1969. Availability of Staff passes 01-07-1965 and finally official abbreviations for the Manchester North area. (3) London and North Eastern Railway no 4. Signal engineers diagram of Claydon (Suffolk) includes all signalling arrangements and locking table, pencil date 02-1958. (4) British Railways London Midland Region 3. Comprising local instructions for Manchester South control 08-1953, map of Manchester North control area 07-1959, station working book for Preston 14-05-1984, sectional appendix, Northern section 12-1997 and section appendix Southern section 04-1980. (5) London and North Eastern Railway 2. Comprising rule book 1933 (1945 re print). extracts from rule book (given to clerks etc 01-01-1933). Telegraph code book 01-07-1939, working over instructions Southern Scottish staff over the North Eastern area 04-04-1936. Appendix to the rule book 01-03-1937, multi journey envelope, proof copies, working timetable 25 September 1939, section C and 03 July to the 24th September 1939, section A, Green Weekly no 35, week ending Saturday 6th October 1923 and standing instructions for the GE section, 22-07-1926 and finally appendix to Southern Area working timetable 17-10-1927 And Railway Ephemera 1881 - 1887. 25 items including waybills, correspondence and invoices etc. Traffic Notice No. 28 dated 9th April 1881. From a railway enthusiast's private collection.
Railway Interest comprising (1) An original file containing various Signalling Principles dated 1988. (2) Original hard back L B & S C R Regulations for Train Signalling together with instructions and information for the guidance of Signalmen, revised June 1917. (3) An Original Guide To The Investigation of Derailments. 4th edition 1982. (4) A Collection of Original Operating Instructions including British Rail Passenger Map 1988, Regulations for Train Signalling on Double Lines of Railway by the Absolute and Permissive Block System, Mond Division Shunting Rules, Eastern Region Supplementary Notices of Signalling Alterations 1983, Trip Notices etc. (5) Railway Ephemera ( 17 ) Items In Total, Various Operating Instructions etc, to include Signal Box operating instructions; Great Western Railway Shunting Instructions etc. Interesting Lot. Please See Photo.(6) Drawing On Brown Paper Acton Grange - Winwick Junction Showing Sidings Etc. Together With, Programme Of Diesel Multiple Units 1967 And The Railway Signalman. Also With Light Railway Order Downham - Stoke Ferry October 1931.
Railway Interest comprising (1) Original Re Signalling Notices - Windsor Link Stages 1 and 2. (2) Folder of Working Instructions ( 8 ) Items, Good Various Lot. Please See Photo. Includes Instructions respecting the cleaning, trimming and lighting of oil signal lamps, Coronation Scot Train Euston to Glasgow .London Midland and Scottish Railway Company Supplementary Operating Instructions, Instructions to signal men at Rose hill Junction Box, High Harrington. (3) Railway Ephemera 1881-1889. 25 Items to include invoices, correspondence, waybills etc. Traffic notice No79 dated 28th November 1885. From a railway enthusiast's private collection. (4) Southern Railway, comprises signalling instructions for electrified line =- 2 copies, 08-06-1925, route map, regulations for train signalling 3 -02-1930 re print. January 1949. (5) Railway No. 33 Ephemera 1881 - 1887 25 items to include waybills, correspondence, invoices, excess receipts etc. Traffic Notice No. 105 August 1892. From a railway enthusiast's private collection. (6) Railway 34 Ephemera 1881 - 1887 25 items to include waybills, correspondence, invoices etc. Traffic notice No 13 February 24th 1883. From a railway enthusiast's private collection.
A hand-coloured map engraving, The Road From London to Shrewsbury Continued To Welshpool com Montgom in North Wales by John Ogilby; circa 1679; 33cm x 43.5cm; oak-framed and glazed CONDITION REPORT: Looks in good general overall condition with no major problems noted. The glass is cracked on the very right hand side where it meets the gold inner mount. There is what appears some minor spotting on the surface but otherwise loops to be in very good honest original condition. We think that this is a genuine 17th Century Ogilby. It does have a Graves Gallery Fine Art Dealer paper label verso, 12 Christ Church Passage, New Street, Birmingham. We think it is authentic.
Various. A carton incl. The Times Atlas, 1897. Condition Report. The carton includes random volumes, novels etc.Atlas - Worn condition. End papers at front lacking. Marked title page. Some foxing and browning. as images and loose Bartholomew map of united states.Not collated but binding seems intact.
TYTLER P. F. History of Scotland. 7 vols. Calf, nice gilt backs. Edinburgh, 1845. Condition Report. Generally good condition. Nice bright spines. Very slight wear to edges and raised bands on calf. Boards have slight marking and dust staining. Marbled fore edge and end papers with private library labels for John C. Black. Some light foxing to blank end papers, mainly Vol. 7 and Vol. 4.Map of Bannockburn present in Vol. 1. Small tear to top right margin where bound in.text in all volumes generally clean. Bindings sound.
(WEST THOMAS). A Guide to the Lakes. Eng. frontis & fldg. eng. map. Qtr. calf, tending to split. 1789; also Britton, A Topographical & Historical Description of the County of Lancaster, fldg. eng. map & eng. plates, as found cond., n.d. & Edward Baines, History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 2 vols., 1824 & 1825. (4).
Ephemera, a mixed selection of items early 1900's onwards inc. Godalming & Shalford Property Auction Catalogue 1909, 'A Portrait & Autographs' album, published in 1891 with 136 pages showing images of famous people with facsimile autographs, hotel menu's, 2 Papua New Guinea First Day Covers 1952, 5 pages of Greater London Fund for the Blind proof progression sheets for Christmas stamps, an early handcut envelope with matching folding card, an early O.S. map of Reading with some hand-colouring etc (mixed condition, fair/gd) (35+)
Collectables, posters, a varied selection of advertising and tourist posters from the 1970s onwards, inc. from central/South America (8, several Mexico), North America (12), inc. 7 from the 'Nut Tree Calif 95688', Caribbean (2), UK inc. OS maps (5), ships (3), RSC theatre, Crucible theatre, montage of Irish pub fronts, UK map of beacons lit for Queens Silver Jubilee etc. All rolled, range of sizes. (good/vg) (35+)
Photographs, East Africa, a large collection of unpublished black & white photographs showing images from the 1950's/60's (possibly slightly later re-prints), mostly in annotated packets including village life, East African rites, ceremonies, fishing & many others. Photographed by anthropologist for research purposes. Sold with fold-out Air H.Q. map of the area dated 1945. (gd/vg)
Postcards, Advertising, a collection of approx. 50 UK product advertising cards inc. Non-Slip Stone Co Halifax (17 inc. street scenes and exhibition stand), Oliver Typewriter Co (several), Pax White City Rubber Pads, Mas de la Ville (wine trade list), Map of London for Patent Steam Carpet Beating Co etc (mixed condition, fair/gd)
Postcards, Advertising, a mixed selection of approx. 60 UK product advertising cards inc. Sutton Seeds Reading (10), Price's Candles (set 12), Sainsbury's Pure Tea (set 6) Cinderella, also Ripolin Paint (2), Erasmic Soap, Crawford's Cream Crackers War Map of China etc (mixed condition, fair/gd)
Postcards, Foreign, a mix of approx. 245 world wide Foreign cards inc. Europe (stamp, coin and map cards), Gruss Aus style, Medan Station interior, Helgoland, German Art cards, Japanese Art cards, Chemins de Fer de L'Etat, British Guiana, Australia 1901 QV Commonwealth one Empire, sold with 25 Foreign Royalty etc (mixed condition, fair/gd)
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