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A Dictionary of The Battle of Britain
Wellington: Halsgrove, 2009. First Edition copy of this very limited signed book (exact limitation is unknown). With the signatures of the author and ten surviving pilots who flew in The Battle of Britain. This book was originally created to raise funds for 'The Battle of Britain Memorial Trust'. Hardback.
160 pp. 310 x 220mm (12¼ x 8¾ inches).'The Few' were 2,353 young men from Great Britain and 574 from overseas (pilots and other aircrew) who were officially recognised as having taken part in The Battle of Britain. 544 lost their lives during the battle.
Condition: In a very good unclipped dust jacket; internally in an as new condition.
Book ID: 2293More details Price: £120.00 -
An Historical Account of the Campaign in the Netherlands in 1815, under his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher comprising the Battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo; and a detailed narrative of the political events connected with those memorable conflicts, down to the surrender of Paris, and the departure of Bonaparte for St Helena
Book ID: 3426More details Price: £3,500.00 -
Angst Vertaling van M. W. Vos
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1966More details Price: £75.00 -
Beschryving der stad Bergen op den Zoom. Verrykt met een omstandig bericht van het beleg dier vesting door de Franschen in den Jaare 1747. Kunnende dienen tot een supplement op de Vaderlandsche Historie door J. Wagenaar.
Amsterdam: Arend Fokke Simonsz, 1780. First edition. Original stiff card boards, flaking spine and rubbing to the edges. Discreet library stamp to the front end paper and title page. Previous owners annotation to the top edge of the title page. With Siege map & 9 other folding engravings relating to the French siege and the bombardment of the city. Lacks one folding plate (plate 32). Clean and tidy inside. (III)+90+(2) pp
Book ID: 3276More details Price: £450.00 -
British Naval Biography Comprising the Lives of the Most Distinguished Admirals, from Howard to Codrington: With an outline of the Naval History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: Scott, Webster and Geary, 1840. Second Edition. Attractive full leather binding with blind stamped boards and gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Frontis engraving of Admiral Codrington. Engraved title page with a vignette of the Battle of the Nile by Davenport. Second title. X, 665 pp. - 135 by 850mm (5¼ by 33½ inches).
Condition: There is a touch of rubbing to the edges of the binding, and a touch of darkening to the page edges. Otherwise in excellent condition.
Book ID: 2256More details Price: £60.00 -
Cold Steel: A Practical Treatise on the Sabre Based on the Old English Backsword Play of the Eighteenth Century Combined with the Method of the Modern Italian School also Various Other Weapons of the Present Day.
London: William Clowes and Sons Limited, 1889. First edition. Original burgundy boards with titles and decoration of a sabre to the front board. Alfred Hutton FSA (10 March 1839 – 18 December 1910) was a Victorian officer of the King's Dragoon Guards, writer, antiquarian and swordsman. He originated the first English revival of historical fencing, and after retiring from the army, went on to teach stage fencing.
Condition: Slight fading to the spine. chipping to the top edge. The front and rear hinges are loose to the boards, and the end papers cracking. Still holding though. Internally in very good condition with a touch of darkening only.
Book ID: 2172More details Price: £300.00 -
Dictionnaire Historique des Sièges et des Batailles mémorables de l'histoire ancienne ou Anecdotes Militaires de tous les peuples du monde 3 volumes. Complete.
Book ID: 2376More details Price: £210.00 -
England's Battles By Sea And Land A complete record of the Naval and Military Conflicts of the British Nation with their Labours, Triumphs, and Disasters.
London, New York and Melbourne: Ward, Lock, and Co, 1888. First Edition. Two volumes. Red half leather with cloth boards; gilt stamped title to leather spine label. Boards are rubbed and worn to corners and somewhat split at spine on both volumes. Presentation bookplate to front of each volume dated 1895 from The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. With a frontispiece in each volume and several b/w illustrations throughout. Inside the books are in a good condition with virtually no foxing. iv, 704, 698 pp. 255 x 180 mm (10 x 7 inches).
Book ID: 3220More details Price: £60.00 -
Gejaad door de Stukas
Book ID: 3267More details Price: £75.00 -
Hard To Believe Too Old At Sixteen
Durham: The Memoir Club, 1999. Hardback in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed to the title page, and inscribed by the author to 'My Mentor Douglas' to the front endpaper. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust jacket.
The author's own telling of his thirty four years in the Coldstream Guards, (retiring as Major Quartermaster). Later he became Staff Superintendent at the House of Lords. Full of anecdotes - including some involving Margaret Thatcher, and members of the British Royal Family. With b/w and colour photos, and cartoons by Bill Tidy. 240 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).Book ID: 3296More details Price: £30.00 -
Histoire de La Cavalerie Belge, au service de l'Autriche, de la France, des Pays-Bas et pendant les premières années de Notre Nationalité
Book ID: 3141More details Price: £110.00 -
It Was Wartime Then
Salisbury: Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd, 1986. Memoir. Owners bookplate to the front end paper, signed by the author on the title page, some fading to the spine, illustrated with b/w photographs throughout. 111. pp
220 by 140mm (8¾ by 5½ inches).Condition: Very good
Book ID: 2039More details Price: £15.00 -
La France Maritime
Book ID: 2274More details Price: £275.00 -
Le IIIe Reich et les Juifs Essai d'une Documentation
Book ID: 2270More details Price: £200.00 -
Les Cuirassiers de Lyon en 1914.
Lyon: Librairie H. Lardanchet, 1926. First edition. Soft covers. Some pages uncut. Book covers and contents clean. 370 pages - 7 b/w plates. 200 x 150 mm (7¾ x 6 inches). Première édition. Couvertures souples. Certaines pages non coupées. Couvertures et contenu du livre propres. 370 pages - 7 planches. 200 x 150 mm
Book ID: 3692More details Price: £30.00 -
Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène ou Journal, avec Suite au Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène
Book ID: 2729More details Price: £280.00 -
Merchant Ships 1940. compiled, drawn and edited by Lieut.Commander E.C. Talbot-Booth. assisted by E.B.R. Sargent.
London: Sampson Low Marston & Co, 1940. First edition Thus. The Merchant Navy companion volume to "Janes Fighting Ships." One of the scarce wartime issue copies. In fact, the first issued during the war. Coloured Frontis of the "Red Duster" Funnel recognition charts and flags of the world (all in black and white). Merchant ships of each nation, with data and a black and white silhouette drawing in many case. Orignial blue cloth in excellent condition but for a small stain to the front board. The wartime issue also included "war losses" with lists of the ships lost during the conflict. Very heavy book (over 3 kg) so additional shipping may be required. 230 by 320mm (9 by 12½ inches).
Book ID: 3497More details Price: £125.00 -
Our Veterans of 1854: In Camp, and Before the Enemy
Book ID: 3430More details Price: £300.00 -
Radio Oranje / Luisterdienst transcripts
Book ID: 3648More details Price: £320.00 -
Secret Despatches from Arabia. Published by Permission of the Foreign Office
London: 1939. Nice copy of this numbered limited first edition from The Golden Cockerel Press. Cream boards with quarter Niger leather spine and gilt titles by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The black leather is in excellent condition, but the cream boards are a little rubbed on the corners, and slightly soiled. Still attractive though. The end papers have stains where tape has been used (it seems to hold a previous cover). Otherwise the book is in very good clean condition. #458 / 1000 copies. Printed on Arnold's mould made paper. Top edge gilt. Frontis photograph of Lawrence. 173, [2], pp. 255 x 195 mm (10 x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3311More details Price: £300.00