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400 Famous Cartoons from the Daily Mail, The Evening News, Sunday Dispatch
London: Associated Newspaper Ltd, 1944. Special autographed limited edition, in green buckram hardback with gilt titles. All page edges green. This is one of a limited run of 500. Caricatures and cartoons indicate published circa 1944 / 1945. Unpaginated approximately 186 pages. In a very good condition, appears almost unread. Signed to the title page by 5 of the illustrators - Illingworth, Neb, Harold Gittins, Moon & Lee. 160 x 230 mm (6¼ x 9 inches).
Book ID: 3025More details Price: £75.00 -
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 -
À Paris sous la botte des Nazis.
Book ID: 3615More details Price: £75.00 -
Angst. Vertaling van M. W. Vos.
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1966More details Price: £75.00 -
Army and Navy Drolleries
London: Frederick Warne and Co. and New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, 1876. First edition. Hardback. Seccombe is referred to as Captain (in later editions he becomes Major or Lieutenant Colonel) on the front of the red cloth boards. With alphabetical descriptions and illustrations from designs by the author. Printed in colours by Kronheim. Complete with 25 full-page colour plates, including frontis. Boards are darkened, and rubbed at edges. The gilt design and lettering has been slightly rubbed away. Internally, one or two of the blank pages in between illustrations has a small closed tear, not affecting any text or illustration pages. Text 27pp + 2pp adverts. 270 x 230 mm (10¾ x 9 inches).
Book ID: 3826More details Price: £250.00 -
Atlas van LXIII platen behoorende bij de handleiding tot de kennis der Burgerlijke en Militaire Bouwkunst. Bouwkundige Leercursus, ten gebruike der Koninklijke Mlitaire Akademie. 3de herziene druk.
Breda: Broese & Comp, 1863. Hardback marbled boards with buckram spine. [2] + 13 text pp. 63 double page lithographed plates - with more than 852 illustrations by Franciscus Josephus Ensinck (1806 - 1883). This is the plate volume only, showing military and civil architecture. Library stamp of Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs (KIVI) to title page, and location label to spine. Overall in very good condition. Heavy book. Small folio: 390 x 270 mm (15¼ x10¾ inches).
Book ID: 3848More details Price: £260.00 -
Autograph Letter Signed by The Duke of Wellington regarding his hearing problem
Book ID: 3589More details Price: £750.00 -
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 -
Das Dritte Reich im Spiegel der Weltpresse: Historische Documente über Den Kampf des Nationalsozialismus Gegen die Ausländische Lügenhetze
Leipzig: Armanen, 1934. 1st Editions. Soft covers (No dust wrapper). The wrapper looks as if it was once integral but has been removed - presumably to make anonymous an undesirable publication. This act is perhaps as interesting as the books itself. Details in pencil to the front cover. A little foxing to the paper edges. Library discard stamp to the title page - otherwise clean and tidy glossy pages throughout. An analysis of foreign press reports about the Nazi Party, its policies and its leaders. Numerous political cartoons. Published on behalf of the NSDAP. Bomer was the head of the Press department of the Foreign policy department of the Nazi party. 173, [i] pp. 230 by 160mm (9 by 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 3641More details Price: £120.00 -
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 -
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).Book ID: 2039More details Price: £15.00 -
Khwab O Khayal or "Visions of the Past" Official Text-Book for the Examination of Civil and Military Officers by the Higher Standard Hindustani
Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press, 1911. First Edition. Hardback. Colonial British officers and civil servants who lived in India during this period were expected to learn to speak the Indian languages in order to communicate directly with their staff and men. Hindustani was the considered 'lingua franca', spoken as it was over much of the area which, at that time, constituted British India. 220 x 135 mm (8¾ x 5¼ inches). Higher Standard Hindustani examinations remained, virtually unchanged, until 1947.
Condition: Binding is tight and square. The paper covering the spine is split at the bottom. Boards are soiled but somewhat stained. The book has definitely been used as there are small / light pencil annotations to some pages.
Book ID: 2337More details Price: £80.00 -
La France Maritime.
Book ID: 2274More details Price: £275.00 -
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