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Manchester: J. Gleave, 1816. 8vo, later boards; additional eng. title, four plates, one Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£130Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£130Status:Closed Lot 85 Bowyer, Robert A Campaign of Waterloo. Bensley and Son, 1816 [paper watermark 1814]. Folio, sometime rebound in half leather, spine with paper lettering piece; pp. [2 (title, verso blank)], [1]-34, [1]-10 (explanatory text); 6 coloured aquatints on four plates, 2 eng. port. plates, 1 eng. map. Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold Lot 86 De Negker, Jost Two woodcuts despicting German Landsknecht troops returning from the Emperor Maximillian's triumphant sack of Rome, c. 1530, framed and glazed. The Landsknechte were popular subjects for German illustrators of the period owing to their elaborate feathered, slashed, ruffled, knotted, puffed, padded and ringed clothing styles and insouciant attitude. They were most infamous at this period for their involvement in (and driving of) the sack of Rome - rich and Catholic, unlike the poo Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£200 - £300Status:Not Sold Lot 87 Schoen, Erhard Sheet from a mural series showing Landsknecht troops, c.1530, framed and glazed. Estimate:£150 - £200Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£150 - £200Status:Not Sold Lot 88 USAAF 381st Bombardment Group Final watch logbook from Ridgewell air force base, 7-8-44 - 20-6-45, later bound in cloth; pp. c.110. This log book records the flights through Ridgewell in the final year of the war, up to the point the group left the base for good (including final message from the Air Traffic Center, Uxbridge ''We quit!'' A detailed, though focused, track of the movements of men and materiel through Essex and a fascinating survival. with Mackay, Ron, Ridgewell's Flying Fortresses, Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£500Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£500Status:Closed Lot 89 A Staff Officer [Wilson, Thomas] The Defence of Lucknow. Smith, Elder, and Co., 1858. 16mo, org boards (lacking spine but still attached); pp. iv, 224, 16; folding map. A sharply contemporary account of the brutal siege of Lucknow (the siege had been lifted a mere two months before publication). Published anonymously for 'military reasons', Wilson's diary records daily life in the middle of the punishing fire and ends with appendixes of casualty lists and further reports on events. Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£130Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£130Status:Closed Lot 90 Davidson, Maj. H. History and Services of the 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) 1793-1881. Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1901. 4to (2 vols). half calf over red boards, upper boards with central gilt crest, spines with contrasting morocco lettering-piece; all illus, maps, plans, lithographs as called for. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£160Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£160Status:Closed Lot 91 WWI letters home to the Stokesley and District Parcel Fund A number of letters dating from c.1917-19 to the Parcel Fund, often care of its secretary Mr G Henderson. The letters come from a wide variety of Regiments, Services, locations and ranks. There are members of the RAVC and the RAF, a Lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, the Company Sgt-Major of North Camp, Ripon and some writing from military hospitals. These are thank you letters for food parcels and money sent often as Christmass gi Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£160Status:Closed View details Estimate:£150 - £250Sold For:£160Status:Closed Lot 92 [Cox, General Sir Herbert] Historical Records of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis. Devonport: Swiss & Co., [1909]. 8vo, org. leather-backed boards (spine lacking), upper board lettered and decorated in gilt; 15 plates; provenance: gift inscription from Lieut.-Col. L.C. Dunsterville and the officers of the 20th to General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox. Cox was an officer in the British Indian Army and spent five years commanding the Punjabis. At the point of this inscri Estimate:£100 - £150Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£100 - £150Status:Not Sold Lot 93 Macdonell, Ranald and Macaulay, Marcus A History of the 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles 1857-1937. William Blackwood & Sons, 1940. 4to (2 vols). Org. green cloth, upper boards with central regimental badge in black, spines lettered in black, pictorial endpapers; 28 plates across both vols, numerous maps and illus to text, 11 folding maps loosely inserted in pocket rear of vol 2. Subscriber's edition, no. 171 of 250. Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£280Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£280Status:Closed Lot 94 Menpes, Mortimer and Dorothy The Durbar. A. & C. Black, 1903. 4to, decorative white cloth, t.e.g.; 100 colour plates with captioned guards after Mortimer Menpes; provenance: Baron Greenway (founder of Anglo-Persian Oil, his armorial bookplate on upper pastedown). Signed limited edition, no. 505 of 1000. Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£120Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £150Sold For:£120Status:Closed Lot 95 British Indian Army A collection of books relating to the British Indian Army and the Indian Mutiny inc. regimental histories like Watson, King George's Own Central India Horse, 1930; The History of the Guides 1846-1922, 1938; Hennell, The Kali Panchwin, 1927; Graham, History of the Indian Mountain Artillery, 1957; and Bamford, The Sikh Regiment, 1948 and others such as Compton, European Military Adventurers of Hindustan (Adventure Series) with 12 others [18] Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£300Status:Closed View details Estimate:£100 - £200Sold For:£300Status:Closed Lot 96 Military History A collection of books on British military history inc. Stewart, The History of the 2nd Argylls Malayan Campaign 1941-42; Orpen, Prince Alfred's Guard and An Onlooker in France 1917-1919; and Galtrey, The Horse and the War with eight others [12] Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£40Status:Closed View details Estimate:£60 - £80Sold For:£40Status:Closed Lot 97 Liverpool Postal Censorship The Mail-Bag. Being the work of members of the staff of the Postal Censorship at Liverpool. Daily Post Printers, 1919. 4to, org. wrappers; 7 plates (2 coloured), illus to text, and numerous laid-in ephemera and annotations relating to the compiler's work with the Censor. The additional ephemera includes Cinderella stamps (e.g. US propaganda stamps), a handbill about the sinking of the Lusitania, a handbill decying the land seizures in Ireland and MSS notes headed 'Gem Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold View details Estimate:£80 - £120Status:Not Sold Lots Per Page 122448 <<|1|>> Previous 1 Next
