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;) | 1976 (5 May) Sale of Militaria at the Imperial War Museum Stanley Gibbons Auctions 29pp + 24 plates + PR. Some pen notations. Sections of postage stamps and campaign covers, paper money and medals. | £6.00 |
;) ;) | ANON Musketry Regulations, Part II, Rifle Ranges and Musketry Appliances His Majesty's Stationery Office, London (1910) vi + 88pp + 51 plates + 15pp publishers catalogue. 1st ed., fine in original cloth. | £24.00 |
;) | BRACKENBURY Major Henry The Nearest Guard : A History of Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, From their Institution in 1509 to the Year 1892 London. Harrison & Sons (1892) vi + 242pp + plates. 1st ltd. ed., no. 21 of 200 copies. Fine and clean copy in original badly faded and worn pictorial cloth. | £50.00 |
;) ;) ;) | BRADFORD William Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain, made during the Campaign, and on the Route of the British Army, in 1808 and 1809. Engraved and Coloured from the Drawings by the Rev. William Bradford, bound with, Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal Printed for John Booth, by William Savage., London (1809) Folio, [2], 38, [1] leaves, 8p., complete with 53 hand-coloured aquatint views and costume plates. Very clean in modern half calf. A very fine copy. Abbey Travel 135 | £1,200.00 |
;) | BRERETON Captain F.S. With Rifle and Bayonet. A Story of the Boer War Blackie and Son (1905 (circa)) 352pp + plates and publisher's catalogue. Mostly clean in original pictorial cloth | £14.00 |
;) | BRERETON Captain F.S. A Hero of Sedan - A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War Blackie & Son, London (1910) 384pp + plates and publisher's catalogue. Clean in pictorial cloth. | £36.00 |
;) | BRINK J.N. Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-of-War at Ceylon. H.A.U.M., Amsterdam - Cape Town (1904) [1] + 220pp + photo plates and frontispiece. 1st ed., very fine in very fine original green blindstamped cloth with photo image tipped on front board. Description of Ceylon and the Boer prisoner of war camps. | £150.00 |
;) | BRITISH JOINT COMMUNICATIONS BOARD British Joint Operating Signals British Joint Communications Publication (1950) 196pp. Clean in original boards. Amendments inserted for 1951. | £16.00 |
;) ;) | BROUGHTON U.H.R. The dress of the first regiment of Life Guards in three centuries. Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd., London (1925) xi + 36 large pp + 80 plates. 1st ltd. ed., no. 81 of 300 copies. Very fine in original full calf binding, fine apart from mark on back board. Top edge gilt. 10 x 12.5" Includes many tipped in colour plates. | £160.00 |
;) | COLLEY Nick The Battle of Jutland Forces Postal History Society (2006) 31pp. 1st ed., fine in paper covers. Small National PS h/s on cover. | £8.00 |
;) ;) | DEAN B. Catalogue of European Court Swords and Hunting Swords. - Including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs, and Reubell collections. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1929) vi + 86 large pp + 99 plates + coloured frontispiece. 1st ltd. ed. of 900 copies. A fine clean copy in original boards with cloth spine. Boards worn at corners. 10 x 13" An important study with fine photo illustrations. | £175.00 |
;) | DEAN H.R. The Royal New Zealand Air Force in South-east Asia 1941-42 War Historical Branch Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington , New Zealand (1952) 32 large pp. 1st ed., clean in card covers. | £15.00 |
;) | DIXON Anthony The Army & Navy Club 1837 - 2008 Army and Navy Club (2009) 297pp. 1st ed., very fine in fine original pictorial boards. | £6.00 |
;) ;) ;) | DORIS Charles de Bourges Amours de Napoleon - et des Princes et Princesses de sa Famille. B. Renault, Paris (1838) 2 vols. 148 + 140pp. Some light tone spots hardly detract. Fine in original quarter calf with marbled boards. Includes 4 line engravings besides the two frontispieces. Rare - I can trace only two copies of this edition in libraries and none for sale. | £130.00 |
;) | FEATHERSTONE Donald Colonial Small Wars, 1837-1901 David & Charles (1973) 223pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £15.00 |
;) | GANDAR DOWER K.C. The First to be Freed: The record of British Military administration in Eritrea and Somalia, 1941-1943 HMSO (1944) 72pp. 1st ed., clean in paper covers. | £7.00 |
;) | HODGES Lieutenant Colonel Robin British Army Badges Lt Col and Mrs Robin Hodges (2005) xii + 540pp. 1st ed., fine in fine D/W. | £75.00 |
;) | HORT Richard The days when we had tails on us London: J & D A Darling (1850) viii + 24pp + 13 plates + 2pp adverts + tipped in 4pp publisher's advert. 2nd ed., minor toning on page edges otherwise clean in pictorial card covers. Thirteen satirical colour plates plus the cover illustration making the fourteen colour illustrations listed | £140.00 |
;) ;) ;) | JENKINS James The Martial Achievements Of Great Britain And Her Allies; From 1799 To 1815 London: Printed for Js. Jenkins (1815) Complete with a total of 52 hand-coloured aquatint plates (including frontispiece), title vignette and dedication to the Duke of Wellington plus original receipt dated 1814. Bound in original full calf and with the bookplate of Henry Rogers, whose name appears on the receipt. A few tone spots but mostly very clean. | £2,400.00 |
;) ;) ;) | LEPAN Armee Francaise composee et lithographiee Paris, Lemiere Editeur, Galerie d'Orleans (1870 (circa)) 18 coloured views + title page. 1st ed., a few marks on margins otherwise clean in worn original cloth. 8 x 6" Very scarce | £150.00 |
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