Category: Military

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A Circumstantial Narrative of The Campaign in Russia, Embellished with Plans of the Battles of Moscow and Malo-Jaroslavitz. Interspersed with Faithful Descriptions of the Affecting and Interesting Scenes, of Which the Author was an Eye-Witness

Price: £45.00

Publisher: The Strand, London, Samuel Leigh : 1815

Seller ID: 016441

Condition: Good

Second edition, considerably improved. Two engraved folding maps in good condition, octavo, pp viii, 412, very light foxing, the hinge after the title page cracking but without any weakness, very sound internally, full calf with gilt lines, the spine nicely decorated in gilt, a little wear to the joints near the spine head, a little wear and scuffing, but a good sound copy, WITHOUT the map at the frontispiece. [The French invasion of Russia.]
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Royal Army Medical Corps: Training Pamphlet No.3, (1944)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, The War Office : 1944

Seller ID: 015020

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with line drawings and several coloured plates, small thick 12mo, pp 360, an army stamp on the title page and the rear endpaper, a bit used throughout, corners bruised, paperback, covers a bit worn and marked.
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, (Number 35305), FRIDAY 17TH OCTOBER, 1941

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Published by Authority : 1941

Seller ID: 007129

Tall quarto, pp (35), stapled and without covers as issued, a little worn, soiled creased and age-toned. This paper has been stored folded for much of its life, and so has a horizontal crease throughout. [VERY SCARCE. Despatches received by The Secretary of State from General Viscount Gort, Commander-in-Chief, British Expeditionary Force (France and Belgium 1939-40). With much on the early history of the war, the move to the Belgian Frontier, the Saar Front, the Dyle and Escaut Plains, first phase and second phase operations etc, and, of course, Dunkirk.]
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Canada - In Flanders

By: Aitken, Sir Max

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Toronto & New York, Hodder & Stoughton : 1916

Seller ID: 015494

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Seventh edition. Illustrated, small thick octavo, pp xx, 243, (4), very slightly age-toned, fore-edge slightly marked, red blind-stamped cloth slightly marked and worn , the spine a little faded, still a good sound copy. ("The official story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force").
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The Illustrated Military Hand-Book: Giving a Familiar Description of a Fortress, the Method of Besieging it, and an Explanation of All Military Terms. [By an Old Soldier]

By: An Old Soldier

Price: £275.00

Publisher: London, H.G. Collins, 22 Paternoster Row : 1855

Seller ID: 004467

12mo, pp 25, (3), + 4pp publisher's adverts. Double-page map of Sebastopol Harbour, double page map showing the Crimea relative to the seat of war, 9 engraved plates (of which three are double page), showing the exterior of a casemated battery, plan of a modern fortress with siege works, profile view of a bastion, 24 pounder siege gun, an embrasure, a 15 inch french mortar, shell case-shot grape-shot & round shot, a fascine & a gabion, Minie rifle & patent revolver. All the plates are waterstained, the contents are very slightly weak, neat stamp of a former owner (T.W. Pickard, Glynde) in thre...
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The Sky Suspended; The Analysis of a Flying Experience 1940-1945

By: Bailey, Jim

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1965

Seller ID: 016713

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Octavo, not illustrated, pp 166, slight foxing to the fore-edge and the top edge, a small neat signature on the front endpaper, otherwise extremely clean internally, maroon cloth in very bright condition; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is slightly soiled on its lower cover and a little foxed on the fore-edges, but otherwise only very slightly worn. A much better than average copy.
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The Horses of Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance, from the earliest monuments down to the XVIth century

By: Berjeau, Ph. Charles

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Dulau & Co : 1864

Seller ID: 019589

Binding: Soft Cloth

Condition: Good

Quarto, pp 20 + 60 plates (of which one is coloured), clean internally, original printed soft cloth, bruised wrinkled and marked, the spine fraying and lacking a portion at the base, with a small hand-written totle label. The Hartland Library copy, with labels and manuscript notes attached to the front endpapers, and stamp on the verso ot the title page. RARE, and equally rare to be found in any better condition than this. [The Library was formed by Edwin Sydney Hartland, and was a diverse, but major, collection of herbals, archaeology and anthropology. It was donated to Gloucestershire Count...
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The Hop and Its Constituents: A Monograph on the Hop Plant.

By: Chapman, Alfred C.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, The Brewing Trade Review : 1905

Seller ID: 017040

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates, octavo, pp (4), 99, slightly used internally, green cloth, very slightly worn, the fore-edge of both covers a little stained. A red stamp on the front endpaper shows that this was a second world war gift of the British Red Cross Society; a further stamp shows that it ended up at Oflag VI-B, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizerlager), 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of the village of Dussel (now part of Warburg) in northwestern Germany. The camp was the setting for two remarkable escape attempts. Also with the pencil signatur...
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Under the Borneo Sun - a Tawau Story

By: CHUNG, Nicholas

Price: £14.50

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, : 2005

Seller ID: 005107

ISBN-13: 9789838121088

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

Illustrated, pp 116, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [This is an account of an ordinary man's life set against extraordinary times before, during and after the Second World War in British North Borneo (now Sabah). It charts the history of Tawau and the hard struggle of the author's family enmeshed with events leading to the birth of a nation as seen through the eyes of a son of poor Chinese immigrants. It gives many interesting insights as to how the locals and imperialists (both British and Japanese) interacted in this era. This is also a personal story of hardship, deprivation and heartbrea...
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The Birth of the Bomb - the untold story of Britain's part in the weapon that changed the world

By: Clark, Ronald W.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Phoenix House Ltd : 1961

Seller ID: 016671

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Frontispiece, octavo, pp xiv, 209, slightly used internally, brown cloth slightly worn, the spine with a vertical crease, binding leaning, a "Boots" library copy with the label on the upper cover.
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Tales of Talbot House, Everyman's Club in Popenringhe and Ypres, 1915-1918

By: Clayton, P.B.

Price: £21.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1919

Seller ID: 017500

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Colour frontispiece, small octavo, pp xii, 169 + publisher's catalogue, lacks the front endpaper, front hinge cracking, otherwise clean internally, blue cloth very slightly worn, the spine a little faded. The scarce first edition. [The story of Toc H, and its original London home.]
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Food is Where You Find It - a guide to emergency foods of the Western Pacific

By: Cranwell, L.M.; Green, J.E. & Powell, A.W.B.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Auckland, Auckland Institute and Museum : 1944

Seller ID: 019079

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Fourth impression. 12mo, (measures 105mm x 132mm], illustrated with line drawings, pp 72, (4), slightly used internally, paperback, the covers slightly worn and creased. From the library of the botanist F.R. Irvine and originally gifted to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh with their small stamp inside the front cover. RARE. [Prepared for the wartime use of castaway airman and military. A guide to useful plants and useful and harmful sea creatures. This fourth printing has a four page supplement on coconuts, toddy, making foot protection and fish spears.]
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How to Survive the Nuclear Age - what the Government will not tell you !

By: Ekins, Paul & Frings, Peter (editors)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Ecology Party

Seller ID: 014539

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Not dated - c. 1979 ? Small slim quarto, pp 22, paperback, slightly worn. SCARCE. [Postage will be reduced]
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The Gun

By: Forester, C.S.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, John Lane - The Bodley Head Ltd : 1938

Seller ID: 007985

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

'Cheap edition' . 190 pages, a little foxing internally, mainly to the fore-edge, private bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally. Cloth very faded on the spine, and very unevenly faded on both covers, but otherwise very sound. SCARCE. [The author of the popular Hornblower series writes on Napoleon's peninsular war. This 1933 novel was the basis of the movie The Pride and the Passion (Cary Grant, Sophia Loren and Frank Sinatra).]
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Traumas and Heroism - the European Community in Sarawak During the Pacific War and Japanese Occupation 1941 - 1945

By: Gin, Ooi Keat

Price: £26.50

Publisher: Sabah, Opus Publications : 2007

Seller ID: 004723

ISBN-13: 9789833987023

Binding: Cloth

Condition: New

NEW. Illustrated, pp xvi, 278, a very good copy in dustwrapper. [From the landings of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) on the shores of Miri in December 1941 to the liberation of Batu Lintang Prisoner of War and Internment Camp in September 1945 by Australian Kuching Force, Traumas and Heroism offers a unique account of the Pacific War and Japanese Occupation in Sarawak, drawing from a series of personal documents (journals, diaries, letters, notes, etc.) and semi-official reports. Allowing the participants to tell their story offers readers a first-hand account of the traumatic experiences of...
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Lawrence and the Arabs

By: Graves, Robert

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape : 1927

Seller ID: 018477

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Third impression. With illustrations edited by Eric Kennngton, maps by Herry Perry, octavo, pp 454, very slightly age-toned, the title page very slightly foxed, otherwise clean and tight internally, brown cloth slightly worn marked and faded, but still a good copy.
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Kinabalu Guerrillas - an account of the Double Tenth Rising against the Japanese invaders in North Borneo

By: HALL, Maxwell

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Kota Kinabalu, : 2009

Seller ID: 008222

ISBN-13: 9789833987153

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Small 8vo, pp vi, 101, paperback, a very good copy. [The Kinabalu Guerrillas were the group of people of North Borneo (now Sabah) who carried out an attack on the Japanese invaders of their country on 9 October 1943. Originally published in 1949, this book was the first published account of the uprising. The book begins with the arrival of the Japanese in North Borneo in January 1942, and an account of life for the local people during the Japanese occupation. A detailed account of the uprising is followed by a description of the Japanese retribution for the attack and the capture and execution...
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The War in the Crimea

By: Hamley, Edward

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Seeley and Co. Limited : 1891

Seller ID: 000138

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small 8vo, pp viii,312, red cloth, a reasonably bright ex-library copy, with labels at front and rear endpapers, stamps on title page, white shelf number on spine. The spine is fraying slightly, otherwise a reasonable copy.
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