Text Box: To order an item, copy the information and paste it in an email to The Personal Navigator. Include your Visa or MasterCard information , or request PayPal®. You may also call us at either number listed below and give us your order. We also take checks and money orders. This page is provided by The Personal Navigator, Sam Coulbourn, who spends his days and nights pawing through stacks of books and papers to find antique and curious items that he hopes will delight you. Address: 7 Mill Lane, Rockport, MA, 01966 USA. E-mail: persnav@shore.net. Tel. (978) 546-7138. Pictures at top of each page show (left) an old Afghan lady and (right) a depiction of the British line at Balaklava. See Crimean War: Memoirs of the Brave: A Brief Account of the Battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman ©2010. All rights reserved. Revised Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

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Text Box: The Personal Navigator Antique Books, Maps, Papers &c. Text Box: We offer plenty of links to our various categories in our Site Map. If you like handwritten trips into the past, with old postcards, journals, diaries, autograph books and such, visit our American Originals. Be sure to look at our catalogue, NEWSPAPERS IN HISTORY. We have some fascinating papers where you can see perhaps a tiny mention of something that you know turned out to be a major historical event! When you are ready to order, simply call or email us! —The Personal Navigator Our latest acquisitions…. Added Monday, June 29, 2010: Little Princesses, The, First Edition; Book Club Edition by Crawford, Marion 1950 New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Marion Crawford was Governess to Britain's Royal Family for 17 years. She describes the private lives of young Princess Elizabeth, Britain's future Queen, and her younger sister, Princess Margaret Rose. Includes many photos (16 pp.) of early lives of Princesses and their family up to one of the young Queen with nearly one-year-old Prince Charles. Montage of photos of royal scenes, wartime London on endpapers. 314 pp.+ 16 photo pages. 14 x 21 cm. Red cloth on board, very good. On first half-title page is affixed Canadian three-cent stamp showing King George VI. Dustjacket illustration shows framed pictures of princesses, photo of author on back; has minor chips and edgewear, interior corners clipped, fair. (4946) $30.00. Biography Crimean War: Memoirs of the Brave: A Brief Account of the Battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman with Biographies of the Killed and a List of the Wounded, by James Gibson, Late of Sidney Sussex College 1855 London, England: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. This little book about Crimean War is dedicated to Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Secretary at War. This edition includes letter from "our Most Gracious Queen" noting accounts of Miss Nightingale and Mrs. Bracebridge, and expressing her sympathy to families of those lost and wounded. Letter is dated Christmas, 1854, from Windsor. Brief accounts of battles of Alma, first Allied victory; Balaklava, second victory  with great disaster to British troops; and Inkerman, called "the soldier's battle". Memoirs of officers killed include Major-General Henry William Adams; Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward William Pakenham (nephew of Sir Edward Pakenham who fell before New Orleans); Memoirs of some 200 officers killed provide excellent biographical data and relate units men belonged to, family connection, peerage, and more. Also list of officers wounded; chronology of incidents of the war. 148 pp. 8.2 x 12.3 cm. 16mo. Attractive purple moiré silk on board with crest and crossed flags of France and Great Britain, and title. Covers warped, cloth missing from spine, edges frayed, dampstain on end papers. Gilt-edged pages. Fair. (7293) $195.00. History/Biography Walter Kendall Architect--Architecture sketches and drawings collection and Detailed Photo History of Property at Rockport, MA 1957-58 1958 Rockport, MA: Kendall & Young, Architects. Loose-leaf notebook filled with drawings, sketches and notes, "Architecture collected by W.J. Kendall". Includes photos by famous architects, Church of St. Vincent Ferrer by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Architect; Choir Screen, Reredos of St. Thomas Church, New York, by B.G. Goodhue, Architect; many more. Sixteen page album of color photographs of project moving two homes together near ocean in Rockport, Massachusetts by Kendall and Young, 1957-58. 24 x 28 cm. Cloth covered loose-leaf notebook, lightly soiled, good; Photo album of 16 heavy card pages with photos pasted on. Good. (8034) $120.00. American Originals/Ephemera

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Combat History of the Super Sixth: Sixth Armored Division in the European Theatre of Operations 18 July 1944 -- 8 May 1945, containing 103 photographs with statement by Commanding General, Major General Robert W. Grow, US Army. Compiled by William E. Rutledge, Jr.   ca. 1947. Yadkinville, NC: Ripple Publishing Co.  Original post World War II History of the Sixth Armored Division under Major General Robert W. Grow. This unofficial history, prepared by members of Division G2 and G3, traces formation of division at Fort Knox in 1942 to embarkation for Europe, then landing at Normandy and fighting across Brittany (18 July to 17 Sept., 1944) , then Seille River campaign (17 Sept. to 7 Nov. 1944), then Saar Campaign (8 Nov. to 24 Dec. 1944), Ardennes Campaign (25 Dec. 1944 to 26 Jan. 1945), Dasburg-Prum River Campaign (27 Jan. to 8 Mar. 1945) and finally the Germany Campaign (10 Mar. to 16 Apr. 1945.  Division took part in liberation of 3000 prisoners at notorious Navy concentration camp at Buchenwald.  Action ceased at 090001 May 1945 with unconditional surrender of German High Command. Photo of Commanding General with General George S. Patton, Commander Third Army. Colored maps, black and white photos, many detailed notes and statistics of Division. This History was out of print for 25 years, and recently it has been published anew.  This is original, post-war edition. . 176 pp. 21.7 x 28.2 cm. Paper booklet, spine torn top 4 cm, cover shows Division insignia and map of English Channel and western France, in color. Very good. (7998) $120.00. World War II/History

History of 6th Armored Division as they rolled across France and Germany to beat the Nazis