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1807: FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND.
The Polish Campaign.
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007. 4to., pp.144, pictorial hardcover, colour maps and illustrations; near-fine.
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A DORSET SOLDIER: The Autobiography of Sgt William Lawrence 1790-1869.
Tunbridge Wells: Spellmount, 1995. 8vo., pp.176, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and maps; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY REVIEWED AND ILLUSTRATED FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. [Set of Three Volumes:]
Volume I. Siege of Delhi - Defence of the Residency at Lucknow - The Story of Cawnpore - Havelock’s Campaign. Volume II. Havelock’s Succour of the Lucknow Residency - The Second Defence - Relief by Sir Colin Campbell - Outram’s Defence of the Alum Bagh - Siege and Capture of Lucknow. Volume III. The Campaign in Central India - The Rebellion in Rohilcund - Mutiny in Western Behar - Siege and Relief of Arrah - Suppression of Mutiny in Behar - The Final Campaign in Oudh - Pursuit of Tantia Topee.
New Delhi/Chennai: Asian Educational Services, 2006. Facsimile reprint, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xxxii,507;xvi,415,8,32(adverts);xlii,651,4(adverts), uncut, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispieces and plates, folding maps and plans in pockets at rear of volumes; very good.
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A HISTORY OF THE MILITARY TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH NATION IN INDOSTAN FROM THE YEAR MDCCXLV.
To Which is Prefixed a Dissertation o the Establishments Made by Mahomedan Conquerors in Indostan. With: A COLLECTION OF MAPS AND PLANS TO ACCOMPANY THE HISTORY OF THE MILITARY TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH NATION IN INDOSTAN FROM THE YEAR MDCCXLV, Being Volume III of the New Edition of that Work, Now Republished Under the Patronage of the Supreme Government of India, and of the Governments of Madras and Bombay..
London: F. Wingrave, Successor to Mr Nourse in The Strand; (Volume II:) reprinted by Pharoah and Co.;(Volume III:) Madras: Lithographed for and republished by Pharoah and Co, 1861. Three volumes, of which Volume I is the fourth, revised edition, two volumes of text plus further volume of maps and plates, 8vo., pp.436,cxvi (Index);740,(xv), rebacked with new endpapers, brown cloth, gilt; ex library, with stamps to plates, adhesive plastic reinforcement and repair to many of the maps, and to edges of boards, a good working set, sold with all faults.
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A RECORD OF D245 BATTERY, 1914-1919.
London: Renwick of Otley, 1931. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),182, textured blue cloth, gilt, b/w plates and figures, large folding map to rear of volume; b/w sellotape repair stain to inner margin between prelims, mostly erased (but still visible) scribbles to rear endpapers, paper repair to reverse of map, foxing to endpapers, a few marks to front board, rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good.
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A STORY OF JUDGESPORE, 1858.
London: Army and Navy Co-Operative Society, Ltd, 1858. 8vo., pp.52, half navy leather, cloth boards, unlettered spine with title in gilt to front board; toning to free endpapers, light wear to edges of leather, with a couple of small holes to rear inner margin, light partial sunning to cloth over front board, internally fine and fresh, a very good copy.
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AIRCRAFT OF THE FIGHTING POWERS, Volume VII.
Harborough Publishing Company Limited, 1946. 4to., pp.v,70, blue cloth, gilt, colour frontispiece, b/w plates including numerous folding plates; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly worn to extremities, with chipping, small closed tears, and light loss. Now in a protective cover.
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ANGLO-SAXON RIDDLES OF THE EXETER BOOK.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1963. 8vo.,pp. xx,70, red cloth, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly soiled to extremities, with light wear to corners and head of spine.
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ARMOURED CRUSADER: MAJOR-GENERAL SIR PERCY HOBART.
London: Hutchinson. First edition, 8vo., pp.xix,348, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 30 further b/w illustrations and 3 maps; slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which just has one small chip to rear upper edge and is now in a protective cover.
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ARMY DRILL MADE EASY.
A Handbook on Dismounted Drill for Everyone, with an A.B.C. of The Army.
London: Temple Press Ltd. 12mo., pp.90,(iv)adverts, pictorial paper wrappers, b/w illustrations; spine of wrappers present but largely torn along upper joint, with 3 further tears, remnant of brown paper cover and handwritten ownership bookplate to reverse of front wrapper, else very good.
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BLOODY CLASH AT SADZOT.
Hitler’s Final Strike for Antwerp.
Saint Louis: Zeus Publishers, 1981. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxvi,309, quarter black leatherette, gilt, yellow cloth boards, b/w illustrations; light bumping to upper margin and corner of front board, a very good clean copy, in photocopied dust-jacket.
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BLOODY GOOD.
Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 8vo., pp.xvi,335, black hardcover, red gilt, b/w illustrations; owner’s inscription to front board --------- (Craig Taylor, University of York - relevant? seems that he’s professor of medieval history) ----------, fine with vg unclipped dust-jacket with very slight rubbing to tail of spine.
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BRITISH BARRACKS 1600-1914.
Their Architecture and Role in Society.
English Heritage/The Stationery Office, 1998. 4to., pp.xviii,222, black cloth, gilt, owner’s handwritten catalogue no.s to upper margin of front free endpaper, slight bruising to lower corners of boards, else fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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BUDDHA'S WARRIORS.
The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet.
New York: Penguin Group, 2004. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,433, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; pen mark to bottom edge, otherwise near-fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has light sunning to spine and margins.
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CANADA AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
The Disruption of the First British Empire.
New York: The Macmillan Company. First edition, 8vo., pp.xii,497, uncut, navy cloth, gilt; dampstaining to lower corner of front board and lower/fore- margins of rear board, else fresh and very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, now in protective cover, which has slight wear to extremities, 3 x 2cms torn area (with slight loss) to rear cover, else vg.
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CAVALRY TRAINING (HORSED) 1937.
London: H.M.S.O, 1937. 12mo., pp.xii(adverts),217,(xxxviii) b/w diagrams, yellow cloth-covered softback with thick card covers, front cover lettered in black; light marking to cloth, toning to edges of text block, a very good copy.
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CHURCHILL'S SECRET AGENT, CODENAME 'JAY BEE'.
Ashburton, Devon: Blaketon-Hall, 1983. 8vo., pp.205, black hardcover lettered in silver; signed by author to half title, with loose ALS, ownership autograph and small sellotape marks to front free endpaper, a little light scoring to margins, light marking to boards, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which has closed tear to foot of spine, and slight rubbing/chipping to edges.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF LIEUT.-GENERAL THE HON. SIR GEORGE CATHCART, K.C.B., RELATIVE TO THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN KAFFRARIA,
Until the Termination of the Kafir War, and to his Measures for the Future Maintenance of Peace on that Frontier, and the Protection and Welfare of the People of South Africa.
London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition, 8vo., pp.xiii,401, uncut, textured brown cloth, gilt, 2 folding colour maps, further b/w maps; a few leaves roughly cut, with closed tear to p.143/4, occasional fingermarking/surface soil, marking to cloth, rubbing to extremities, with light wear to corners, a near-very good copy.
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CRUSADE IN EUROPE.
London: William Heinemann Limited, 1948. First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,582, red cloth, gilt, top edges red, b/w plates and maps, endpaper maps in colour as well as four further colour maps within; sunning to spine, else very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly worn to extremities, good+ and now in a protective cover.
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DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SERVICE
With Sir Gerald Graham’s Field Force at Suakin.
London: John Murray, 1886. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,343, uncut, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 3 further b/w plates plus b/w plan; foxing to foe-edges, spine darkened, with darkening also to margins of boards, light marking to cloth, a couple of small spots of wear to cloth at extremities, a good copy. No dust-jacket.
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