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A COLD-BLOODED BUSINESS. Foreword by Lord Tedder.
London: Staples Press Limited, 1958. Hardcover. Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. The dust-wrapper is very slightly worn at extremities; else an excellent copy without inscriptions.
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A commemorative silk programme. Quo Fata Vocant.
1914. PROGRAMME of the Presentation of Colours to the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. (5th Regiment of Foot.) By His Excellency The Right Honourable Charles, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst., G.CB., G.M.I.E., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., I.S.O. on the 15th May 1914, at Sabathu. Two printed silk leaves (four pages), the spine bound with the regimental colours. Some light crease-marking; else very good.
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A JOHN COMPANY GENERAL. The Life of Lt. General Sr Abraham Roberts.
Bognor Regis. New Horizon, 1983. Hardback in unclipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like wrapper. Pencil ownership name of 'Essex Barter-Spencer 1984,' on front endpaper, with a pencilled note beneath: 'Reference to my great-grandfather, Tom Roberts. page 151.'
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A MONODY to the Memory of Admiral Hyde Parker, who was lost in the Cato of 64 guns, in his Passage to the East-Indies. By S, Whitchurch, Late of His Majesty's Navy. [Price One Shilling.]
Bath: S. Cruttwell, for the Author; and sold by Pratt and Marshall, and all the Booksellers, in Bath; Brown and Son, Bristol; and R. Baldwin, Patr-noster Roe, London, 1785. 20 pages. Simply stitched without wrappers, probably as issued. Approximately: 25 x 20 cm. Horizontal crease where folded; some light soiling; uncut. A very good copy.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE NAVAL PART OF THE EXPEDITION TO PORTUGAL, under the orders of his Imperial Majesty, Dom Pedro, Duke of Braganza... With a Vindication of Himself, against the Aspersions of Vice-Admiral Sertorius, and his Secretary, Captain Boid.
London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1833. Xv, [1 blank], 353, [1 blank], 1 Errata] pages. Illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece and three other plates. Contemporary, half calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. First edition. Lacks half-title; some foxing at start and end; plates browned; binding a little rubbed; else a very good copy of a scarce work, rarely found with all its full complement of plates. The author, captain Mins, mounts a defence of himself to the change of misconduct.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS of his Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean, and the combined Fleets of France and Spain, from the Year 1741, to March 1744. Including an accurate Account of the late Fight near Toulon, and the Causes of our Miscarriage:
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A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE.
Toronto: Thomas Allen, No date [circa 1916; inscribed 1919]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original buff pictorial cloth. Octavo. First Canadian edition. Inscription on half-title which is a little worn at the fore-edge and has a short tear; else a very good copy.
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A SOLDIER'S WAY. An Autobiography.
London: Hutchinson, 1995. 643 [646]pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs. Original boards, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First U. K. edition. Very slight age-toning to top edge; else a fine copy in a fine wrapper. The book has not been read. Signed by Powell on the title-page.
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A SYSTEM OF NAVAL TACTICS; combining the established theory with general practice, and particularly with the present practice of the British Navy. Illustrated by Coloured Figured, distinguishing the different columns or squadrons in every evolution.
London.David Steel. 1797. Engraved emblematic frontispiece. [4], [1], 2 - 188pp. Illustrated throughout with engraved diagrams finely coloured by hand. Relatively recent half calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. First edition. Some light spotting; frontispiece off-setting to title; possibly lacking half title; bookplate; else a very good copy of a rare work.
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A VOLUNTEER'S SCRAP-BOOK. By the author of "A Cambridge Scrap-Book".
London: Macmillan and Co, 1860. Hardcover. 27 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout. Oblong. 19 x 28 cms. Cover edges and corners slightly worn; very slight browning to endpapers; else a very good copy.
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A YANK IN THE R.A.F.
London: Nicholson & Watson, No date [1942]. Hardcover. Pictorial Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. 192 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Octavo. Dust-wrapper torn at bottom edge of front panel and repaired with tape from the back; light spotting to fore-edges; else a very good copy.
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ADKIN'S TRETISE ON THE MILITARY BAND in Three Parts. Part I. Instrumentation. Part II. Arranging. Part III. Training and Conducting.
London & New York: Boosey & Co., Ltd, 1931. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xi, 253, [1] pages. Illustrated. Original red cloth, gilt. 4to. First edition. Very slight fading to spine; name on endpaper; else near fine.
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ADMIRAL MATHEWS'S CHARGE AGAINST VICE-ADMIRAL LESTOCK Dissected and Confuted.
London: John Millan, 1745. [2], 56 pages. Octavo. Bound in modern boards. First edition. Half-title present. Bookplate. A very good copy.
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ADMIRAL VERNON AND THE NAVY. A memoir and Vindication. being an account of the Admiral's career at sea and in Parliament, with sidelights on the political conduct of Sir Robert Walpole and his colleagues, and a critical reply to Smollett and other historians.
London.T. Fisher Unwin. 1907. xx, 322pp. Illustrated with fifteen plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Joints at endpapers repaired; library label removed from rear endpaper; some spotting; bookplates; evidence of a small label having been removed from front cover; else a very good copy.
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ADOLF HITLER Bilder aus dem Leben Des Führers. Herausgegeben vom Cigaretten/Bilderdienst. 1301-1400 tausend.
Hamburg. Bahrenfeld. No date, 1301. 135 pages. Colour frontispiece and mounted photographic cards throughout (all cards present). Original cloth-backed boards, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Folio. Residue of tape-marks on front free endpaper and blank verso of last leaf, from where the dust-wrapper was once covered in protective paper; front endpaper glued a little clumsily; wrapper a little worn at head & heel of spine; else a very good copy of book rarely found with its original dust-wrapper.
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AIRCREW UNLIMITED. The Commonwealth Air Training Plan during World War 2. Foreword by Lord Barber.
Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Limited, 1993. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Slight creasing to top edge of wrapper; small address label on endpaper; else a fine copy.
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AMERICAN NAVAL BATTLES: Being a complete history of the battles fought by the Navy of the United States from its establishment in 174 to the present time, including the wars with France and with Tripoli, the late war with Great Britain and with Algiers: with an account of the attack on Baltimore and of the battle of New Orleans. With twenty-one elegant engravings, representing battles, &c.
Boston.J.J. Smith, Jr. 1831. [iiii], v, [vi], [7], 8-278, (2)pp. Illustrated title page and 21 full-page engravings throughout. Recently rebound in green boards with new endpapers. Octavo. First edition. Paper quite browned and marked throughout with some staining; small paper repair to title where there had previously been a burn-hole - not affecting letterpress; clean tear in page 101/102; bookplate; else a good copy only of a scarce title.
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AN ACT FOR PUNISHING MUTINY AND DESERTION, and for the better payment of the Army and their Quarters. With an Index. Also, Rules and Articles for the better government of all his Majesty's forces.
London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1808. 221 pages, plus 83[84] pages. Lacks half-title; Disbound at some time and tipped into plain paper wrappers. Some light spotting and soiling; else a very good copy.
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ARMS AND ARMOUR In Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a descriptive notice of modern weapons. Translated from the French of M. P. Lacombe, and with a preface, notes, and one additional chapter on arms and armour in England.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1874. Hardback. Original pictorial brown cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition.
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ARTHUR INNES ADAM 1894-1916. A Record founded upon his Letters. With Illustrations.
Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1920. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. [6], 253 pages. Illustrated with 6 plates. Original cloth, gilt. Original printed dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Dust-wrapper a little worn with some short tears; else a fine copy.
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