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DUPUGET, Edme-Jean-Antoine.
Essay sur l'Usage de l'Artillerie dans la Guerre de Campagne et dans celle des Sieges. 1767
£6,250
A handsome and highly interesting manuscript. The first published edition was issued by Arckstée & Merkus in Amsterdam in 1771, credited to "un Officier du Corps," the author...
Small quarto (203 × 163mm), manuscript, [vi], 294pp., [iv], 47pp. Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco label, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The World Crisis. 1923–31
£6,000
First Editions, first impressions except for vol. I, stated "Second Edition" but more correctly second impression; signed and dated by Churchill in the month of issue on the second...
5 volumes in 6, octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spines gilt, titles to upper boards blindstamped. Illustrated throughout with maps and charts, many of them... Read more
(COSWAY STYLE BINDING) JACKSON, Catherine Charlotte, Lady.
The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe. 1883
£6,000
First edition. The popular historian Lady Jackson was widely read in standard authorities (and even unpublished papers), and her narrative style – bumptious and with "a great...
2 volumes, octavo (190 × 132 mm). Finely bound by Bayntun, mid twentieth century, in rich brown crushed morocco, spines gilt in compartments between five raised... Read more
PURCHAS, Samuel.
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes 1905–7
£6,000
Limited Edition, one of 100 copies only on handmade paper for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, an exact reprint of the best 1625 edition with modernised orthography, references to...
20 volumes, octavo. Publisher's quarter vellum, spines lettered and decorated gilt, gilt medallions to front covers, blue cloth sides, top edges gilt, others uncut.... Read more
(LIBRARY OF AMERICA)
Collection of American Literature and History. 1982–2001
£6,000
A selection of American fiction - James Baldwin, Charles Brockden Brown, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Carson McCullers, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton,...
30 volumes, octavo. Finely bound for Aspreys in dark blue full morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, decorative endpapers, all... Read more
CLERK, John.
An Essay on Naval Tactics, 1790 & 1797
£5,750
True first edition of Clerk's celebrated Essay, which is distinguished as "one of the first British accounts of tactics, as opposed to a work in French translation, and for its...
Quarto (270 × 205 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, red morocco label, gilt ruled compartments to spine, red sprinkled edges. Without the half title to part I, but... Read more
RAMSAY, David.
The History of the American Revolution. 1789
£5,500
First edition. A superb copy of this, "almost the first and very probably the most accomplished of the many histories of the American Revolution and making of the Federal...
2 volumes, octavo (210 × 124 mm). Contemporary, probably Philadelphia, marbled sheep, red morocco lettering pieces, and black morocco roundel numbering pieces,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Arms and the Covenant. 1938
£5,000
First Edition, first impression. This copy inscribed to Admiral Sir Dudley Pound on the front free endpaper; "To 1SL [First Sea Lord] from WSC, 28.3.40." Churchill began to write...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine within triple fillet gilt, double fillet panel in blind to the upper board. Frontispiece portrait. Spine sunned, the... Read more
PATTON, Philip.
Strictures on Naval Discipline, and the Conduct of a Ship of War. [c.1807]
£5,000
Extremely uncommon collection of the clear- and far-sighted memoranda on naval discipline of a long-serving sailor described by Lord Keith as this "deep-thinking and hard-fighting...
5 pamphlets in one quarto volume (288 × 230 mm), pp. iv, 179; 11; [ii], 32; 23; [ii], 10. Original boards, rebacked in calf. Small hand-drawn illustration to the... Read more
FOOTE, Shelby.
The Civil War. A Narrative. 1958-74
£5,000
First editions. Signed by the author on publisher's blank of volume I. A superb work of narrative history, uncommon signed, here handsomely presented. Originally a novelist, Foote...
3 volumes, octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in black morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough. 1934–9
£5,000
Limited Presentation Edition. Volume I, Second Impression of the New Edition, revised, 1939; Volume II, Second Impression, 1934; Volumes III & IV, First Editions, 1936 and 1938...
Large octavo., 4 vols. Original purple cloth, titles gilt to spines, in dust jackets. Profusely illustrated with plates, portrait, maps and facsimiles. Endpapers a... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The Second World War. 1948–54
£4,750
First editions, first impressions. Inscribed by Winston Churchill to Geoffrey Lloyd, 1955, on the front free endpaper of volume VI. Geoffrey Lloyd was Minister of Fuel and Power...
6 volumes, octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spines gilt, top edges stained red. With the dust jackets. With diagrams and tables throughout the text. Some... Read more
PRESCOTT, William H.
The Works. [1904]
£4,750
The Aztec edition, limited to 250 numbered sets. A stunning set beautifully bound and well illustrated. Includes his History of the Conquest of Mexico, History of Ferdinand and...
22 volumes, octavo (210 × 138 mm). Finely bound in contemporary blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, boards and turn-ins ornately... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War. 1933
£4,750
First Cheap Edition. With a new introduction. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill Oct. 21 1934".
Octavo. Original mauve cloth, titles to spine in black. Housed in a quarter black morocco drop down box. With maps and plans. Hinges cracked, contents a little... Read more
(KELMSCOTT PRESS) GUILELMUS, Archbishop of Tyre, & William Caxton [trans].
The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and the Conquest of Iherusalem. 1893
£4,750
First Kelmscott edition, one of 300 copies. Morris himself declared Caxton's history to be "a delightful book to read".
Large quarto. Original limp vellum, gilt titles stamped to spine, gold silk ties. Borders 5a and 6; side, corner, half, and three-quarter borders; six- and eight-line... Read more
LEE, Guy Carleton; Francis Newton Thorpe, eds.
The History of North America. 1903–7
£4,750
Library Edition, number 701. "There is no comprehensive history of America from the discovery to the present time." - Professor Hart (Harvard University) 1896. This scholarly work,...
20 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, double morocco labels in terracotta and brown, decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers,... Read more
JESSE, John Heneage.
English Historical Memoirs. 1901
£4,750
A good collected edition of the popular historical writings of John Heneage Jesse (c. 1809–1874). The first of these, Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reigns of the...
30 volumes, octavo. Bound in red half calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, white cloth boards with gilt Tudor rose design, marbled endpapers top edge gilt.... Read more
(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) CHURCHILL, Randolph S., & Martin Gilbert.
Winston S. Churchill. 1966–94
£4,500
All First Editions. A complete set comprising eight volumes of the Life with thirteen supplementary volumes and the two pendant volumes of War Papers. The supplementary volumes...
23 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt. All with the dust jackets. Illustrated throughout. Some slight rubbing to jackets and minor wear to... Read more
HUME, David & Tobias Smollett.
The History of England, 1787
£4,500
A very handsome set in fine condition. Hume's History was first published in 1754-62, Smollett's continuation in 1758.
Together 13 volumes, octavo (Hume 221 × 140 mm; Smollett 208 × 127 mm). Uniformly bound in contemporary tree calf, smooth spines with red and green labels,... Read more
COUSIN, Louis.
Histoire de Constantinople depuis le regne de l'ancien Justin, jusqu'à la fin de l'Empire. 1672–74
£4,500
First edition, a fine set of this abridged French translation of the Greek Corpus Byzantinae Historiae, by the French scholar Louis Cousin (1627–1707). The work was a...
8 vols., quarto (238 × 180 mm). Near-contemporary dark blue morocco, covers with triple fillet border in blind, spines in six compartments with raised bands,... Read more
(SAXE, Maurice, Comte de) D’ESPAGNAC, Jean-Baptiste Joseph d'Amarzit de Sahuguet, Baron.
Histoire de Maurice, Comte de Saxe, 1775
£4,500
New Edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. Saxe is widely recognised as "... the greatest European general and military intellectual between the times of Marlborough and...
Quarto. (282 × 218 mm), 3 vols., two text volumes and a plate atlas. Engraved portrait frontispiece after the Rigaud portrait and 45 double-page and folding... Read more
JAMES, William.
The Naval History of Great Britain, 1837
£4,250
A wonderful set, handsome on the shelf, and immensely enhanced by the addition of a wealth of visual material drawn from contemporary sources such as the Naval Chronicle, Brenton's...
6 volumes bound in 13, octavo (222 × 142 mm). Early twentieth-century navy blue three-quarter morocco, matching linen boards, title gilt direct to spines, raised... Read more
CARLYLE, Thomas.
The Collected Works. 1887–93
£3,950
34 volumes, octavo (219 × 140 mm). Finely bound for Hatchards in dark purplish-brown half morocco, spines lettered in gilt in two compartments and dated at foot, attractive gilt...
34 volumes, octavo (219 × 140 mm). Finely bound for Hatchards in dark purplish-brown half morocco, spines lettered in gilt in two compartments and dated at foot,... Read more
RICH, Captain E. T.
Views of the Bazar Valley Field Force, 1908, [1908]
£3,875
From the time of the end of the Tirah campaign in 1897-8 the Zakka Khel Afridis had "...remained the persistent enemies of tranquility and progress. Numerous raids in British...
Landscape quarto. Album leaves loose, housed in a blue cloth drop-back box, title - "Photographs" - from the original album mounted on the upper panel. 93 gelatine... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Marlborough. 1949
£3,750
Second Edition 2nd Impression With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper on the first volume, "To Sir Edwin Chapman Andrews / from / Winston S....
2 volumes, octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spines gilt, armorial to upper boards gilt. With the dust jackets. With 2 photogravure frontispieces, 14... Read more
