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THE LATER THIRTY YEARS WAR. From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.ix,307, glazed hardcover, occasional b/w illustrations, b/w tables; a couple of light marks to rear board else a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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BATTLES OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR: From White Mountains to Nordlingen, 1618-1635.
Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.ix,335, navy cloth, silver lettering, occasional b/w illustrations, b/w tables; internally clean, light rubbing to boards, glue outline where sticker has been removed from rear board, very slight bowing to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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ROBERT PARKER AND COMTE DE MERODE-WESTERLOO: The Marlborough Wars.
Military Memoirs.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1968. 8vo.,pp. xxiv,276, orange cloth, gilt, b/w plates and maps; light soiling to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good price clipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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IAN FLEMING AND SOE'S OPERATION POSTMASTER.
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. 8vo., pp.x,255, red hardcover, gilt lettered in silver, b/w plates; near-fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE WAR THE INFANTRY KNEW 1914-1919: A Chronicle of Service in France and Belgium With the Second Battalion His Majesty’s Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers: founded on personal records, recollections and reflections, assembled, edited and partly written by, One of their Medical Officers.
London: P.S. King & Son Ltd, 1938. First edition, limited to 500 copies, 8vo., pp.xvi,613,(27), red cloth, gilt, b/w facsimiles of hand-drawn sketch-maps to rear of volume; foxing to prelims, light foxing to edges, some marking and light splash-marks to cloth, with foxing to spine and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MUSKETRY (’303 and ‘22 Cartridges). Elementary Training, Visual Training, Judging Distance, Fore Discipline, Range Practices, Field Practices.
London: John Murray, 1915. Square 12mo., pp. xxviii,260, brown cloth, black lettering, b/w illustrations, fold-outs and tables, advertisement pages to endpapers, light toning and soiling to margins, rubbed to extremities, lightly creased to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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MY BALKAN LOG.
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1921. First edition, 8vo., pp.vii,311, cloth, gilt, b/w plates; edges foxed, boards heavily dampstained, spine lightly rolled, internally clean, a good working copy only.
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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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RADETZKY.
Imperial Victor and Military Genius.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. 8vo., pp.xiv,(x)maps,262, black hardcover lettered in silver, 28 b/w plates, b/w maps; slight rubbing to extremities, else near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, with barcode sticker to rear of jacket.
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HISTORY OF THE QUEEN’S ROYAL REGIMENT, Vol. VII (1905-1923). In Two Volumes (text volume and volume of maps).
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd, 1905. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo., pp.xvi,308;14 folding maps in colour, pictorial bevelled blue cloth, gilt, marbled endpapers, monochrome frontispieces and plates; foxing to edges and to early leaves, rubbing to extremities, darkening to spines, else very good.
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SOPWITH SCOUT 7309.
London: Cassell, 1968. First edition, 8vo., pp.(x),177, blue hardcover lettered in silver, b/w plates; very good, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is a little rubbed to extremities, with light creasing at headband, else very good.
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THE CONFEDERATE ARMY 1861-65 (4): Virginia & Arkansas. Men-at-Arms, 435.
Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2006. 8vo.,pp. 48, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations; a very good copy.
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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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FAMOUS REGIMENTS OF THE BRITISH ARMY.
A Pictorial Guide and Celebration.
Stroud: The History Press, 2009. Three volumes, small 4to., pp.192;208;208, hardcover, gilt, colour and b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jackets.
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RIFLE GREEN IN THE PENINSULA, Volumes I, II, III and IV [Set of Four Volumes].
An Account of the 95th Foot in the Peninsular Campaign of 1808-14.
Leicester: Bugle Horn Publications, 2012. Four volumes, 8vo., pp.224;287;283;413, green faux-leather lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; a fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets.
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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 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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THE HERTFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY: An Illustrated History 1794-1920.
Welwyn: Hart Books, 1994. First edition, 4to.,pp. ix,240, paperback, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; signed by the author, rubbing to extremities, small knock to front hinge of spine, light creasing to front lower corner, otherwise very good.
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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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ZEN AND CONFUCIUS IN THE ART OF SWORDSMANSHIP. The Tengu-geijutsu-ron of Chozan Shissai.
London/Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. First English edition, 8vo., pp.xvii,118, ochre hardcover, gilt, 6 b/w illustrations; slight marking to boards, a very good copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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