Search results for: 'patches'
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(WELLINGTON, Arthur, Duke of) GURWOOD, John (ed.) The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington,London : 1837-8
The New Edition, complete with the index and the volume of General Orders. Indispensable for the study of Wellington's campaigns, and perhaps the only source for the occasional glimpse of the man. This is a particularly handsome set, bound by Francis Bedford, "considered the leading English bookbinder of his time, surpassed only by the best French binders"... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 127262
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![Selections from the Letters, Despatches, and other State Papers preserved in the Bombay Secretariat. Home Series Vol. I [& II].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/111543.jpg)
FORREST, G.W. (ed.) Selections from the Letters, Despatches, and other State Papers preserved in the Bombay Secretariat. Home Series Vol. I [& II].Bombay : 1887
First edition. Uncommon. Some of the first fruits of Forrest's archival work which was to lead to the establishment of the Imperial Record Office in Calcutta, in 1884 " he was seconded to examine the records preserved in the Bombay secretariat - a task which bore fruit in a Maratha (1885) and a home (1887) series of state papers. In April 1888, after... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 111543
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(WELLINGTON, Arthur, Duke of.) GURWOOD, John (ed.) The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington,London : 1844
"New and Enlarged Edition", much preferred and genuinely uncommon. A great deal of extra material has been added to the coverage of the wars in India and Europe, "extracts from the Instructions for the movements of the Army, and from the General Orders, circulated by the Quarter Master General and Adjutant General, in the Peninsula, France, and the... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 112657
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(NAPOLEON.) Copies of the Original Letters and Despatches of the Generals, Ministers, Grand Officers of State, &c. at Paris, to the Emperor Napoleon, at Dresden;London : 1814
First edition of this interesting collection of primary source material, reprinting documents and letters covering diplomacy, military service, private letters, and correspondence and bulletins from Napoleon's Minister of Police, published following Napoleon's impressive victory over the combined forces of Austria, Russia and Prussia at Dresden (26-27... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 139504
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(NELSON, Horatio.) NICOLAS, Sir Nicholas Harris (ed.) The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson.London : 1845-6
Second edition of the first volume, with additional letters and notes, first editions of other volumes. The essential starting point for any attempt to understand either the mercurial personality or instinctive tactical genius of Nelson, never superseded. "This is the standard work of reference for Nelson's correspondence and is the principal source... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 106758
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BIDDLECOMBE, George. Naval Tactics and Trials of Sailing; illustrated by Diagrams of Several Evolutions.London : 1850
First edition. This copy from the library of the earl of Ellenborough with heirloom stamp to the front pastedown. Sir George Biddlecombe, (1807-1878), naval officer and hydrographer, joined the merchant navy at the age of 16, "he was an officer in the East India Company's navy in 1825-8. Passing as a second master in the Royal Navy in May 1828, he was... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 102412
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ALEXANDER, Sir James Edward. Original watercolour view of the coast of Jamaica with the Blue Mountains in the background and two fishing boats in the foreground.Jamaica : 1831
A highly evocative watercolour view of the Jamaican coastline with the famed Blue Mountains, the longest mountain range of the island, in the background.
Sir James Alexander, the artist, noted the grandeur of this very scene in the published version of his travels: "After a week's run we sighted afar off the dim outline of part of St. Domingo,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 98688
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MITFORD, Reginald Colville William Revely, Major. To Caubul with the Cavalry Brigade.London : 1881
Second edition, same year as the first. Uncommon account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Mitford "served with the 14th Regt. Bengal Cavalry (Lancers) throughout the period it was employed in the war, taking part in the advance on and occupation of Kabul, the action of Charasiab, and the operations around Kabul and the Defence of Sherpur in Dec., 1879,... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 133279
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STUART, Sir Charles, General. Letter Book of correspondence with Admiral Duckworth during the retaking of Minorca, 1798-9.Mahon : 1798-9
It is rare indeed that British Military History throws up a general who seriously could be considered as an exemplar of Sun Tzu's Sage Commander. And it is perhaps not particularly surprising, in view of the generally sanguinary tendencies of the historians of the British Army, that his greatest feat "being bloodless, has been absolutely forgotten"... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 120807
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OUTRAM, Sir James. Lieut-General Sir James Outram's Campaign in India, 1857-1858;London : 1860
First UK edition, greatly improved and expanded from the unprocurable Calcutta edition of 1858, and "printed for presentation to personal friends of Sir James Outram, who begs that it may be regarded as a private communication, and not a publication" (title page). It remains uncommon: five copies traced in British and Irish institutional libraries (Aberdeen,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 116085
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BECKE, A. F. The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Cateau, Wednesday, 26th August 1914.Woolwich : January 1919
First edition, first impression, 2nd Corps commander Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien's copy, with his ownership inscription in blue pencil to the front board and his annotations to some 20 pages, of this extremely detailed stage-by-stage account of the first major action of the British Expedition Force (BEF) in the First World War, the action on which Smith-Dorrien's... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 120865
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FITZCLARENCE, George Augustus Frederick. Journal of a Route Across India, Through Egypt, to England.London : 1819
First and only edition, "very scarce, copies having been bought up by the noble author" (Willis and Sotheran, cited after Abbey). As his surname indicates, FitzClarence (1794-1842) was the eldest of the ten children born to the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV, by the actress Dorothy Jordan; hence he was nephew to the Prince Regent, to whom this... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 120562
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BEYNON, W. G. L. With Kelly to Chitral.London : 1896
First edition of what The Times called this "very racy account of the little campaign" to lift the siege of Chitral on the North-West Frontier in March-April 1895. Beynon (1866-1955) was a lieutenant with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles and a staff officer attached to Colonel Kelly's relief force who "probably saw as much campaigning on the North-West Frontier... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140456
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JACKSON, John. Journey from India, towards England, in the year 1797;London : 1799
First edition of the intriguing and elusive narrative. Jackson (d. 1807) "was evidently a man of substance" (ODNB) and went to India on private business - his book is dedicated to the East India Company - visiting Ceylon and Malabar. On the way home he took a country ship from Bombay for Basrah. "Jackson's narrative of his journey is straightforward... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 140756
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HENTY, G. A. The March to Coomassie.London : 1874
First edition of this collection of Henty's dispatches from the Second Anglo-Asante War, his sixth book overall. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 130013
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LAWRENCE, Henry Montgomery. Essays, Military and Political, written in India.London : 1859
First and sole edition, uncommon on the market, comprising six essays originally contributed to the Calcutta Review between 1844 and 1856: "Military Defence of our Indian Empire", "The Kingdom of Oude", "Mahratta History and Empire", "Lord Hardinge's Indian Administration", "The Indian Army", "Army Reform". ODNB remarks that "throughout his career Lawrence... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 129532
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(CHINDITS.) Collection of material relating to Wingate's Chindits and their campaigns in Burma.1940s-1980s]
Superb collection of material concerning the Chindits, includes Wingate's Report on the Operations of 77th Brigade; the original MS of the Hedley's book Jungle Fighter; a number of SEAC Chindit publications; a small trove of pieces from the collection of a serving Chindit officer, including intelligence reports, some excellent press photographs, and... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 65880
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LA PÉROUSE, Jean François Galaup de. Voyage Autour du Monde,Paris : 1797
First edition of "one of the great documents of French exploration in the Pacific Ocean. In addition to a detailed account of the expedition itself, these volumes contain invaluable scientific information, observations on the natives that were encountered, and a wealth of geographic and cartographic data. The beautiful Atlas, with its finely engraved... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 75897
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ADYE, John. The Defence of Cawnpore.London : 1858
First edition. "Gives a detailed account of three days of battle during which Cawnpore was defended, preventing the creation of an enemy outpost in General Havelock's rear. Author defends General Windham's actions. Includes dispatches" (Ladendorf). A long-serving artillery officer, first commissioned out of RMA, Woolwich, at the head of his class in... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 133264
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WILKINS, H[enry] St Clair. Reconnoitring in Abyssinia.London : 1870
First and only edition, uncommon: nine copies traced in UK libraries, just five other complete copies traced in commerce in the last 50 years, this a remarkably clean and fresh copy from the celebrated travel library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, with his pencilled initials to the front free endpaper. Wilkins "commanded the Royal Engineers throughout... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 119294
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DUNCAN, Adam, Viscount. A Collection of contemporary materials commemorating Admiral Lord Duncan and the Battle of Camperdown.1797-c.1800
As the French Revolutionary War drew to a close, four naval heroes were commemorated for their great naval victories in what turned out to be merely the first half of a major world conflict - Howe for the Glorious 1st of June, 1794, Jervis for the Battle of St. Vincent, 1797, Duncan for the Battle of Camperdown, 1797, and Nelson for the Battle of... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 44566
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STRANGE, T. Bland. Gunner Jingo's Jubilee.London : 1894
Second edition, as stated on the half-title and by a short note at the end of the preface remarking, "in correcting this Second Edition, I have to thank my old comrade, Major-General F. T. Whinyates, R. A., for his kind correction of many slipshod mistakes, but much slang has been left for which he is not responsible"; first published the preceding... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 140439
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(BEWICK, Thomas.) LINGARD, John. The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church.Newcastle : 1806
First edition of the first work of John Lingard (1771-1851), Roman Catholic priest and historian, "a work which reveals him to be a moderate upholder of the Catholic cisalpine and Gallican tradition of historical scholarship. In this work he sought to oppose the errors of a generation of protestant Anglo-Saxon scholars who argued for an English church,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 121264
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(AUSTRALIA.) Report from the Select Committee on Transportation.London : 1812
First edition of this uncommon and important paper, providing the only published documentation relating to Macquarie's earliest years. After Bligh was deposed in the Rum Rebellion of 1808, questions were asked about the real value of transportation to New South Wales, and in 1811 a Parliamentary Select Committee was called to inquire into the system... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 114355
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MAYNARD, Frederick Pinsent. Letters on the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission of 1896 under Captain A.H. McMahon, C.I.E.Calcutta : 1909
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon: OCLC has British Library and University of Nebraska only. The Afghan-Baluch boundary from Domandi to the Persian frontier was one of the last sections of the borders of India to be officially demarcated (see Davies, The Problem of the North-West Frontier, 1890-1908, p. 162). Maynard - who was to become one... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 111533
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(GATLING, Richard J.) Report of the Board of Officers … on Gatling Guns of Large Caliber for Flank-Defence - with two autograph letters signed to Edgar T. Welles.Washington : 1874
First edition. Engraved bookplate; "Compliments of the Acting Chief of Ordnance, U.S. Army" to the front pastedown. Two 2-page autograph letters signed on Gatling Gun Company stationery from Richard J. Gatling to Edgar T. Welles, son of Gideon Welles Civil War Secretary of the Navy, and secretary and treasurer of the Gatling Gun Co. In the first, dated... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 82902
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ADYE, John. The Defence of Cawnpore.London : 1858
First edition. "Gives a detailed account of three days of battle during which Cawnpore was defended, preventing the creation of an enemy outpost in General Havelock's rear. Author defends General Windham's actions. Includes dispatches" (Ladendorf). A long-serving artillery officer, first commissioned out of RMA, Woolwich, at the head of his class in... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 92657
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BÖHM-BAWERK, E. von. Kapital und Kapitalzins.Innsbruck : 1884-1889
Scarce first edition of the chief work of Böhm-Bawerk's life, a copy with a marked provenance. First owned by Philip Wicksteed, with his ownership inscription dated 1886 on the first leaf and with his bookplate. The volume subsequently passed to the British Library of Political Science, from there to the Armstrong College Library in Newcastle, and... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 97505
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FAIRFAX-ROSS, Thomas. Well-compiled, and handsomely presented personal photograph and ephemera album covering service in World War I, at the Supreme War Council, Versailles, and at Chanak, 1922.1908-24
Fine narrative album recording the career, from school days to marriage, of Thomas Fairfax-Ross (1896-1960), with particular attention paid to his military career which took him from the Western Front to Chanak, via Versailles. The album opens, perhaps rather portentously, with a card embossed with the Royal arms, mounted recto on the front free endpaper... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 132252
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BURTON, R. G. The Revolt in Central India 1857-59.Simla : 1908
First and sole edition, 1, 500 copies printed for official use only, this copy stamped "415" at head of the title page. "General Sir Archibald Hunter when inspecting the Jhansi Brigade in the winter of 1906-07, suggested that 'all officers should be made acquainted with the details of the operations within the Brigade area, especially those leading... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 140748
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HENTY, G. A. The March to Magdala.London : 1868
First edition of this collection of Henty's dispatches from the British Expedition to Abyssinia, and his second book overall. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 130014
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DU PONT, Samuel Francis. Extracts from Private Journal-Letters... while in command of the Cyane, during the War with Mexico, 1846-1848.Wilmington, DE : 1885
First and sole edition, "privately printed for his family by his wife after his death" (Streeter) in a putative print run of around fifty copies that were not offered for sale; with a familial presentation inscription at head of title: "Louise Evelina Du Pont from her Father, 5th May 1900". Louise Evelina (1877-1958), heiress and preservationist, was... Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 131483
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FREMANTLE, Edmund Robert. Services of Capt. the Hon. E. R. Fremantle, R.N.,[No place] : [1874]
First and only edition, rare: Copac locates only one copy in British and Irish institutional libraries (Cambridge), OCLC adds no further copies worldwide.
A familial presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Mr. W. Baird, from his friend, Lord Cottesloe, April 1874". Thomas Francis Fremantle (1798-1890), first Baron Cottesloe,... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 113559
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ADYE, John. Sitana: A Mountain Campaign on the Borders of Afghanistan in 1863.London : 1867
First edition, uncommon. One of the few accounts of the Ambela (previously known as Umbeyla) campaign of 1863 against the hostile Pushtun and Bunerwal Wahabist sympathizers of the Ambela valley in Swat, which remains a contested area to this day. As Adye remarks in his preface: "the campaign... though short, was a very interesting one, both in its military... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 74080
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FORSYTH, Sir Douglas. Autobiography and Reminiscences …London : 1887
First edition of this posthumously published memoir of service in Asia, touching on the Great Game. Forsyth was deputy commissioner at Ambala during the outbreak of the Mutiny and quickly secured a supply of grain and transport for the Delhi Relief Force. He proudly recounts how he was one of the first officers to execute a rebel, and after the relief... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 118098
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![[Three maps:] The British Empire at Bay on the Western Front. A visualised map compiled by Albert Close [with:] Index to British War Cemeteries [with:] The Naval War Chart of the North Sea. Compiled by Albert Close.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/122291.jpg)
(WORLD WAR I.) CLOSE, Albert, cartographer. [Three maps:] The British Empire at Bay on the Western Front. A visualised map compiled by Albert Close [with:] Index to British War Cemeteries [with:] The Naval War Chart of the North Sea. Compiled by Albert Close.London : 1922-23
A group of three very scarce, imposing and fascinating maps, the principal two covering in remarkable detail the complexities of the Great War on the Western Front and in the North Sea, compiled by the Canadian-born cartographer Albert Close. The Western Front map (dated 15 January 1923 and November 1923) - published as a companion piece to the Naval... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 122291
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WALKER, Thomas Nicholls. Through the Mutiny:London : 1907
First edition of this uncommon and colourful memoir, given over largely to the Indian Mutiny but also covering a certain amount of game hunting. Walker (1837 -1903) joined the 60th Bengal Infantry in 1854 and was promoted lieutenant in 1856. In 1866 he was a captain with the 2nd Bengal Fusiliers before joining the Staff Corps as a major in 1874, ending... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 140300
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MORTON, [Boyce William Dunlop], Lieut.-General. Some Indian Experiences.Cheltenham : 1913
First edition. Morton joined the 30th Bengal Infantry in 1848 in the aftermath of Chillianwala and served in India until the 1890s. He was mentioned in despatches for the Cossyah and Jyntiah Hills Campaign, 1861-3 and from 1864 to 1884 was in civil employ acting as Deputy Commissioner in seven districts successively, including Darjeeling, 1867-73. Slight... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 140373
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(HARNESS, Sir Henry Drury.) COLLINSON, Thomas Bernard, & Charles Edmund Webber. General Sir Henry Drury Harness.London : 1903
First and sole edition, based on Collinson's privately published Memoir of 1883. Harness (1804-1883) served as instructor of fortification at the Royal Military Academy; secretary of the Railway commission; deputy master of the Royal Mint; commissioner of public works in Ireland; director of the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham. "On the outbreak... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140721
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HILL, R. B. A Cavalry Manual for the use of Officers of the Bengal Cavalry.Simla : 1869
Rare, unrecorded Indian cavalry manual; this copy with a fine military provenance, inscribed at head of the title page, "G. H. Elliott, 3rd Bengal Cavalry" and with a number of emendations in his hand noting updates to general orders. George Hambley Elliott (d. 1931) was gazetted ensign with the 91st Highlanders in July 1867, transferring to the 93rd... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140765
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HAYTER, Charles, Lieut.-Col. & Captain Harvey Kelly. Manual of Packing and Loading Drill;Bombay & Calcutta : 1883
First and only edition. Rare. OCLC locates the BL copy solely, apparently a copy in the National Library of India, together with an otherwise unrecorded edition of 1886; but no copy traced at auction. A remarkable photographically illustrated handbook for transport officers serving in India at the turn of the century. "In issuing a Manual on Transport... Learn More£8,250.00Stock Code: 115295
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STANLEY, Henry M. Coomassie and Magdala.New York : 1874
First US edition. After covering Hancock's and Sherman's campaigns in the American Midwest, Stanley persuaded the New York Herald to employ him as special correspondent on the British expedition to Abyssinia, and was in Suez by January 1868. "Having joined Sir Robert Napier's forces at Annesley Bay, in the Horn of Africa, he marched with them for two... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119273
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DURHAM, M. Edith. The Burden of the Balkans.London : 1905
First edition of the author's second book, describing a tour in the Ottoman provinces of Skodra, Monastir and Janina, which together cover parts of modern Albania, Macedonia and Greece. Durham (1863-1944) was nearly forty when she first visited the Balkans, then rarely visited by outsiders, and "described her experiences in a series of vivid and forthright... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 121049
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SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich. Five large original photographs of excavations at Troy (3), Mycenae (1) and Samothrace (1) - from the private collection of Heinrich Schliemann, with his holograph annotations.Troy, Mycenae, Samothrace (present day western Turkey and Greece) : c.1879
Fascinating, unpublished and extremely scarce archive of four original photographs from Schliemann's pioneering excavations at Troy and Mycenae, and another of Samothrace, where work was conducted by Schliemann's compatriot Alexander Conze (1831-1914). The three views taken at Troy (1871-73) show the massive outer walls of King Priam's city on the left... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 121338
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HAMILTON, Robert Edward Archibald. Diary of a Journey in Central Arabia (1917).[No place : c.1918]
First edition, privately printed and remarkably scarce: we have not been able to locate another copy in any institutional library, either in Britain and Ireland or internationally; only two copies have appeared at auction. The official version, which was printed for the British Government in May 1918, is of comparable scarcity: Copac cites only the... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 124525
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MACPHERSON, William Grant. Handbook of the Medical Services of Foreign Armies. Parts I-VI.London : 1908-11
First editions of these uncommon official publications. Print-runs were 2,000 for each part, but there are just a scatter of complete sets institutionally (10 recorded on OCLC). The individual volumes deal with France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium. They represent a revision of the Handbook of the Medical Organisations,... Learn More£1,575.00Stock Code: 67260
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MACGAHAN, Januarius Aloysius. Under the Northern Lights.London : 1876
First edition. Uncommon, with just 10 locations on Copac. An account of the voyage made by Sir Allen William Young "with the object of assisting the government Arctic expedition which set out in May 1875 under the command of George Strong Nares. Young took his steam yacht Pandora, with a crew of thirty-one men, to Baffin Bay. He tried to make the north-west... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 109127
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(NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.) The Risings on the North-West Frontier.Alllahabad : 1898
First edition of this extremely useful chronological compilation; it is certainly uncommon, the print-run extending to 1,000 copies only, the printer's code reading "No. 15817-2-981,000"; an expanded second edition of 500 copies was printed in September (printer's code "No. 133230-9-98500"). Among British and Irish institutional libraries Copac cites... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 111298
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Charge of the Light Brigade.[London] : 1855
First separate edition, extremely scarce in this format, one of 1,000 copies published for distribution to the troops in the Crimea, with a note in manuscript at the foot of the mount: "My father Col. Adolphus Burton C.B. was in the Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. G.D.B. his eldest daughter, Grace, whose married name was Grace Denys-Burton"... Learn More£42,500.00Stock Code: 111544
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CAPPER, James. Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt,London : 1783
First edition. Capper was educated at Harrow and joined the army of the East India Company "in His Majesty's Train of Artillery in the East Indies, First as a soldier cadet and later as an officer. He was then for a while a free merchant in Bengal before becoming in 1768 a captain in the Madras army and in 1769 senior writer for the presidency of Bengal... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 88377
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MACDOUGALL, Patrick Leonard, Lieut.-Colonel. The Campaigns of Hannibal:London : 1858
First edition. Uncommon and interesting account, just seven locations on Copac. Carefully compiled account of the "operations in which Hannibal was personally engaged", drawn from the "best ancient and modern historians and essayists, including Livy, Polybius, Sir Walter Raleigh, Niebuhr, Arnold, Guiscard, and Vaudancourt" (Preface). The author spent... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 95270
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BROWNE, Edmond Charles, Major. The Coming of the Great Queen,London : 1888
First edition. Attractive and authoritative contemporary account, the Army and Navy Gazette considered that the "chapters on "The Commerce of Burma" on "Dacoity", and on "The Native Races of Indo-China" are of great and permanent value", while the Saturday Review thought that the story of the Third Anglo-Burma War "by river and land, of the taking of... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 96838
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LAWRENCE-ARCHER, James Henry, Capt. Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49.London : 1878
First edition, uncommon just 6 locations on Copac, OCLC adds 15. "The objective of this work is to supply from original and official sources, information on some points of interest, which have not been fully explained either in the Despatches relating to the Punjab campaign, or in other sources also reviewing the current of events from the death of... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 106999
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NORBURY, Henry F[rederick], Fleet-Surgeon. The Naval Brigade in South Africa during the Years 1877-78-79.1880
First edition. Uncommon, COPAC has just the BL, NLS and Cambridge copies, OCLC shows twelve copies only. Norbury was Principal Medical Officer of General Sir Charles Pearson's Column being present at the Battle of Inyezane and during the Defence of Ekowe. He was afterwards Principal Medical Officer of the Naval Brigade with General Crealock's Column,... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 59622
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BIDDULPH, M.A., Captain. Assault of Sevastopol. Two Topographical & Panoramic Sketches,London : [1855]
First edition. Uncommon and attractive visual memoir of the famous siege operations at Sebastopol in the Crimea. Only 4 complete sets on COPAC, with OCLC adding just 3 more. Biddulph was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1843, and served at various stations including Bermuda, promoted second captain in 1850. On the outbreak... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 50552
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(INDIAN ARMY.) History of the 4th Regiment, Punjab Infantry.Calcutta : 1894
First and sole edition of this rare regimental history, this with a particularly enticing provenance: neat marginal pencil markings at pages 28, 30 and 31 draw attention to a Jamadar Jowalla Singh, who during the storming of Lucknow was mentioned in despatches when he "distinguished himself considerably in leading on his men to the capture of a gun".... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141000
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CHAPELLE, Howard I. The History of American Sailing Ships.New York : 1935
First edition, limited issue, number 115 of 121 copies signed by the author, and with a real etching signed by George C. Wales as frontispiece. Chapelle was Senior Historian in the Department of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution, and was internationally renowned for his knowledge of the naval architecture of America in the era of... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 74438
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians.Melbourne, London, Toronto : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 72239
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SMITH, Dodie. The Hundred and One Dalmatians.London : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 88962
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DRU, Léon & Saint-Just, & Louis-Georges Mulot. [Patch label on front cover:] Matériels & Outils de Sondages pour les mines & les colonies (Materials and Survey Tools for Mines and Colonies).Paris : [c.1890]
A handsomely presented and apparently unique album of 21 striking original albumen prints showing test rigs and drilling machinery, largely for use in artesian exploration, assembled for one of the leading French engineering concerns of the period, Mulot & Dru, described by a contemporary as "acknowledged in France to be masters of the art of boring"... Learn More£12,750.00Stock Code: 123046
