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DOWNEY, Thomas.
Naval Poems. Pleasures of the Naval Life, and the Battle of Trafalgar. 1813
£1,250
First edition. Downey explains that he has written "The Pleasures of Naval Life" as a corrective to the "tone of querulous despondence" that underlies so much naval literature; "The...
Quarto (350 × 260 mm). Original drab boards, paper label to the spine. Modern bookplate to the front free endpaper, which has stained through to the verso... Read more
(FIRST WORLD WAR)
Notes on the First Indian Army Corps 1928
£1,250
First Edition, print-run of 100 copies only and consequently uncommon, COPAC has BL only, OCLC lists 8 copies in American institutions. Account drawn from the War Diaries of...
Octavo. Original half morocco on bronze moiré cloth boards. 28 folding coloured lithographic maps in end-pocket. Slight rubbing, a touch of damp to the lower... Read more
ROTHWELL, John Sutton.
Narrative of the Field Operations connected with The Zulu War of 1879. 1907
£1,250
Uncommon. Print run of just 1,500 copies, the 1881 edition of 2,000 is widely believed to have been suppressed. "Most military accounts of the campaign rest squarely on the official...
Octavo. Original red embossed cloth, title gilt to spine. 7 folding maps in rear pocket, including the unlisted map of the Lines of Communication which was not issued... Read more
ABBOTT, James, Major.
Narrative of a Journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, 1856
£1,250
First published in 1843, here considerably expanded and issued in a timely fashion when Britain was confronting Russia in the Crimea. Abbott was commissioned second lieutenant in the...
2 volumes, octavo (209 × 126 mm). Contemporary purple morocco, large gilt crest of the Royal Artillery to the upper boards, panels in gilt and blind to all... Read more
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HITLER, Adolf.
My Struggle. [Mein Kampf] 1933
£1,250
First Edition in English. This expurgated translation was made by Edgar Dugdale, husband of Blanche, the staunchly Zionist niece of Alfred James Balfour. Deeply involved in the...
Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, title and NSDAP eagle and swastika gilt to upper board, in dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 15 other plates.... Read more
GRIFFITHS, Anselm John.
Observations on some Points of Seamanship; 1824
£1,250
First Edition. Uncommon, COPAC has just BL and NLW for this edition, OCLC adds just six copies. First published at the expense of the author at Cheltenham in 1824, with all his...
Octavo. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Light browning throughout, and with some mild damping toward the rear, but overall very good. Read more
BURNABY, Fred.
On Horseback through Asia Minor. 1877
£1,250
First edition. Following the success of his A Ride to Khiva, "Burnaby, again on leave, travelled through Asia Minor with his faithful servant George Radford, crossing the region from...
2 volumes octavo (210 × 136 mm) Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, neatly rebacked, red and black labels, the Signet Library copy with their gilt... Read more
MEADOWS, Thomas Taylor.
The Chinese and their Rebellions, 1856
£1,250
First Edition. Having studied Chinese at the University of Munich, Meadows was employed as Interpreter at the Canton Consulate on the day that the Treaty of Nanking was ratified, "My...
Octavo. Folding map frontispiece coloured in outline and 2 other similar maps. Some mild foxing, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy in the original mauve taupe... Read more
LAWRENCE, T. E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. 1935
£1,250
First Trade Edition. Originally published in a very limited edition in 1926 Cape published the present edition immediately following Lawrence's death. A monumental work.
Large octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full tan morocco, title and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, Eric Kennington's crossed swords... Read more
ALBERS-SCHÖNBERG, Heinrich Ernst (ed.)
Röntgen-Atlas der Kriegsverletzungen 1916
£1,250
First edition of this ground-breaking work, both in the field of medical X-ray photography and of plastic surgery, showing German soldiers wounded on the battlefields of France.
Quarto. Original green cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, green endpapers. 280 photographic illustrations, comprising 53 plates of X-rays printed mostly 4... Read more
DUNDAS, David, Colonel.
Principles of Military Movements, 1788
£1,250
First Edition. Houlding considers this to be one of the most influential books of the period, "Dundas' success was due principally to two things: first, he laid bare the extent of...
Quarto. 25 folding plates and maps at the rear. Some scattered foxing, but overall a very good copy in contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corner... Read more
JENNINGS, Hargrave.
My Marine Memorandum Book. 1847
£1,250
First edition, ?second issue, two years after the first, with cancel titles. At the age of 15 Jennings "contributed several anonymous sea-sketches" (ODNB) to the Metropolitan...
3 volumes octavo (194 × 114 mm) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red. Ex-subscription library copy - Gillies of Edinburgh, with their... Read more
CAMPBELL, John.
Lives of the British Admirals: 1817
£1,250
Best edition, down to the expedition against Algiers in 1816. Campbell's work, originally published between 1742 and 1744, was subsequently revised, expanded, and condensed in...
8 volumes, octavo (240 × 146 mm). Later Navy blue half pebble-grained morocco on purplish pebble-grained boards, title gilt to spines, compartments with fouled... Read more
WARD, Harriet.
Five Years in Kaffirland; 1848
£1,250
First edition. "An account of the 'War of the Axe' written by the wife of an officer with the 91st Regiment" (Mendelssohn). The Wards travelled out on the Abercrombie Robinson,...
2 volumes, octavo (206 × 127 mm). Original red embossed cloth, title gilt to spines. Lithographed frontispiece to Volume I, wood-engraved frontispiece t Volume... Read more
[NEILL, James George Smith.]
Historical Record of the Honourable East India Company's First Madras European Regiment: 1843
£1,250
First Edition. Uncommon, six copies only on COPAC. This in effect the dedication copy of this "outstandingly good" history, the title page bearing the ownership inscription of...
Octavo. (223mm x 140mm). Engraved frontispiece and 4 other engraved plates, 4 tinted lithographic plates, 3 maps, 2 of them folding. One map torn without loss, some... Read more
DUCREST, [Charles Louis,] marquis de.
Essais sur les Machines Hydrauliques, 1777
£1,250
First edition. On hydraulics, the construction of hydraulic machines, and shipbuilding, illustrated with a fine set of technical illustrations, this work includes the general...
Octavo (198 × 122 mm). Contemporary speckled half sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco label, blue mottled paper sides, red and blue sprinkled edges. 5 folding... Read more
LAWRENCE, T. E.
Eight Letters from T.E.L. 1939
£1,250
First Edition, First Impression. One of just 50 copies printed. Necessarily rare.
Small octavo. Original grey wrappers printed in black. From the estate of Sir Michael Newton with his bookplates to the inside of the front wrapper. Some minor... Read more
LAWRENCE, T. E.
Crusader Castles. The Letters. 1937
£1,250
First US edition, first impression. Originally published in the UK in the previous year, this copy one of a limited edition of 56 copies printed to protect copyright in the US.
Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. Wrappers and contents very lightly toned. An excellent copy. Read more
[BLYTH, Stephen Cleveland]
History of the War between the United States and Tripoli, and other Barbary Powers. 1806
£1,250
First edition, uncommon; the first book published in America on the conflict with the Barbary states. The first section sets the social and religious context of the Barbary coast,...
Duodecimo (168 × 99 mm). Contemporary (perhaps publisher's) sheep-backed grey paper covered thin wooden boards. Housed in a black flat back cloth solander box.... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Ian Hamilton's March. 1900
£1,250
First edition, first printing, first issue. (Cohen) Publisher's records indicate that 5003 copies were printed. "The volume consists of 17 letters to the Morning Post, beginning with...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, black surface paper endpapers. Frontispiece portrait, 9 maps and plans to the text, folding coloured... Read more
(CRUIKSHANK, George) [COMBE, William]
Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantoes by Dr. Syntax, 1815
£1,250
First edition, with all points as called for in Abbey. A satirical life of Buonaparte, its intentions best summed up by the allegorical title page, which shows the young Corsican as...
Octavo (225 × 147 mm). Later red full crushed morocco, by Larkins, gilt panels with stylized fleur-de-lys cornerpieces to the boards, spine gilt in compartments,... Read more
SLOANE, William Milligan.
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1906
£1,250
First published in 1896. William Milligan Sloane was professor of history at Princeton University, and editor of both the Political Science Quarterly and the American Historical...
4 volumes, folio. Quarter art. vellum, sage green cloth over bevelled boards, title gilt to spines, top edge gilt, others uncut. Colour frontispieces and 276 plates,... Read more
JURIEN DE LA GRAVIÈRE, Jean Pierre Edmond, Vice-Amiral.
La Guerre de Chypre et la Bataille de Lépante. 1888
£1,250
First edition. Uncommon. The first volume contains an account of the fall of Cyprus to the forces of the Ottoman empire, the second a highly-detailed and excellently mapped study of...
2 volumes octavo (178 × 110 mm) Contemporary green quarter morocco on marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine, edges sprinkled green, marbled endpapers,... Read more
PORTER, David.
Journal of a Cruise made to the Pacific Ocean, by Captain David Porter, 1822
£1,250
Second edition, first published, and suppressed, in 1815. This is "the only complete edition, generally regarded as the best one" (Hill). Porter played a key role in American attacks...
2 volumes octavo (218 × 132 mm). contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked to style and relined, red and green morocco labels, flat spine, compartments formed by double... Read more
MOORE, Sir Jonas.
A Mathematical Compendium; 1705
£1,250
Fourth edition. Moore had been involved with the management of the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital; his notes were edited by his Ordnance second clerk, Nicholas...
Duodecimo (132 × 79 mm). Contemporary dark calf sewn on four cords, blind-panelled sides, red speckled edges. Folding plate, engravings in text, mathematical... Read more
