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CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED.
Cassell's History Of The War Between France And Germany 1870-1871.
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell And Company Limited, 1894..
2 Volumes. large 8vo. pp. xii, 576; xiv, 574. with half-titles. text in double columns. profusely illus. (some full-page; incl. maps). original black & gilt-stamped cloth (light wear to spine ends, paper lightly embrowned).
$200 USD Book Number: elala3396 Order / Enquire

[CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl & WALLER, Edmund].
The Case Of The Hanover Forces In The Pay Of Great-Britain, Impartially And Freely Examined: With Some Seasonable Reflections On The Present Conjuncture Of Affairs.
London: Printed For T.Cooper, 1743..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 83. with half-title. disbound. uncut. First Edition. Goldsmiths' 8028. Kress 4645. Rothschild 599.
$179 USD Book Number: MHEe[CHE33 Order / Enquire

CLAIRAC, [Louis André De La Mamie] De [c1690-1750].
L'Ingénieur De Campagne, Ou Traité De La Fortification Passagère.
Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, 1757.
4to. pp. xxiv, 248. 36 folding engraved plates by C. Ch. Riolet. engraved headpiece by Felipart l'aîné after Cochin fils. woodcut title vignette & ornmanets. contemporary mottled calf, gilt back (front joint starting to split). Second Edition. A nice copy of this classic instructional text on field fortification. Author Clairac, French historian and engineer, served with distinction in the campaigns in Flanders, was wounded at the siege of Philipsbourg, and obtained in 1748 the military rank of brigadier. A second part was to have been published but Clairac died before it could be finished. The first edition was published in 1749. cfSpaulding & Karpinski 294-295.
$1217 USD Book Number: MAIInCLA18 Order / Enquire

COCKBURN, Sir George [1772-1853].
Buonaparte's Voyage To St Helena; Comprising The Diary Of Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, During His Passage From England To St Helena, In 1815.
Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, And Holden, 1833..
12mo. pp. xi, [1], [13]-123 + 8(ads). original cloth, printed paper spine label (joints cracked & frayed, internally fine). First Edition. Printed from the original manuscript in the handwriting of Cockburn's private secretary, which had come into the possession of J.S.Brookhouse of Salem, MA. The first UK edition of Cockburn's diary was not published until 1888. Rear-Admiral Cockburn was tasked with conveying Napoleon to Saint Helena on board the Northumberland in 1815. He remained for some months as governor of the island and Commander-in-Chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station.
$450 USD Book Number: elala5609 Order / Enquire

COYNART, Raymond De.
Note Sur Les Conditions Générales Des Transports De Troupes Par Les Chemins De Fer. Extrait Du Journal Des Armes Spéciales Et De L'État-Major.
Paris: Librairie Militaire.De J.Correard, 1856..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 37. with half-title. uncut & unopened in original printed wrs. First Separate Edition.
$77 USD Book Number: MYNteCOY62 Order / Enquire

CROSS, G.E.
Jonah's Feet Are Dry: The Experience of the 353rd Fighter Group during World War II.
[Ipswich]: Thunderbolt Publishing, [2001]..
folio. profusely illus. (some colour). biblio. index. bds. dw. (edges of dw. with short tears). Very good copy. Signed Presentation Copy. First Edition, Limited to 2,000 copies.
$150 USD Book Number: dola2328 Order / Enquire

CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC. MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR.
Lidice Cin Krvaveho Teroru A Poruseni Zakonu I Zkladnich Lidskych Prav.
Prague: Ministerstvo Vnitra, Obdor Pro Politicke Zpravodajstvi, 1946..
4to. pp. 122, [1], [3 leaves]. 2 plates after drawings by Toyen & numerous illus. on 15 double-sided plates. wrs. dw. (light wear to edges). First Edition. Relating to the destruction of the Czech village of Lidice by the Nazis in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
$250 USD Book Number: elala3756 Order / Enquire

D'ASSIGNY, Marius [1643-1717].
The History Of The Earls and Earldom Of Flanders, From the First Establishment of that Sovereignty to the Death of the late King, Charles II. of Spain. Being a Relation of many Remarkable Actions.more particularly the late Wars with the French, the Trea
London: Printed for D.Brown, S.Crouch, J.Taylor, and A.Bell, 1701..
8vo. pp. 8 p.l., 306, [14]index. with half-title. folding engraved map of Flanders by Herman Moll. contemporary paneled calf, rebacked (very short repaired tear to map - no loss, small rust-hole in V6 with loss of a few letters). First Edition. Prefixed to the history are lists of English field-officers and colonels who fought courageously at the storming of Namur and in other late campaigns in Flanders and of the principal officers who lost their lives at the most notable battles. The fine large folding engraved map of Flanders, which is on sturdy paper, is dated 1700 and was apparently issued and sold separately that year (a note on the map indicates that it was available for sale from C.Browne at the Globe.
$961 USD Book Number: MASeD'AS89 Order / Enquire

DAVIDSON, Major H.
History And Services Of The 78th Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) 1793-1881 Compiled From The Manuscripts Of The Late Major Colin Mackenzie And Official And Other Sources.
Edinburgh & London: W. & A.K.Johnston, 1901..
2 Volumes. 4to. pp. xviii, 231; vi, [4], 203. tipped-in errata slip. 43 plates (incl. 9 chromolithographs of uniforms & colours & a mounted tartan sample). 16 maps (1 folding). title vignettes & 2 text illus. original half calf, top edge gilt, others uncut, gilt crest on upper covers (spine ends of Vol. I chipped, corners worn, otherwise very good). First Edition. The 78th Highlanders, which was raised in 1793 by Francis Humberstone MacKenzie, served in the Napoleonic Wars (defence of Nijmegen, 1794, Battle of Maida, 1806 and the Alexandria expedition, 1807), India and Pakistan (Battle of Assaye, 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, First Anglo-Afghan War, 1842, Battle of Khushab in the Anglo-Persian War, 1857, suppression of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, re-capture of Cawnpore, reinforcement of Lucknow). The regiment won eight Victoria Crosses during the last campaign and its role at Lucknow was commemorated by poets John Greenleaf Whittier and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
$1200 USD Book Number: elala5586 Order / Enquire

DELAFIELD, Richard [1798-1873].
Report On The Art Of War In Europe In 1854, 1855, And 1856. (U.S. Govt. Document, 36th Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives).
Washington: George W.Bowman, Printer, 1861..
4to. pp. xxiv, 277. 24 lithographed views incl. additional title (most tinted, some folding, 2 with some hand-colouring), & 57 folding maps, plans & plates. numerous text illus. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with new endpapers (chipping to edges of covers, text foxed, some of the folding plates torn but with no loss of image, library rubberstamps on titles & front paste-downs). In 1855 Major Delafield of the American Corps of Engineers was appointed to form a commission to visit the Crimea and the theatre of war in Europe for the purpose of gathering information regarding various aspects of their military systems: the organization of armies, furnishing and distributing supplies, medical and hospital arrangements, kinds of arms, ammuniition and equipment , including the Lancaster gun and rifle cannon, the construction of fortifications, methods of transportation, &c. The plates include numerous lithographed views of Sebastopol and fortifications there, the military hospital at St. Petersburg, the Turkish Barrack at Scutari, used by the English Army as their general depot hospital, and as a residence by Florence Nightingale, folding plans of fortifcations in Paris, Cherbourg, Sebastopol, Constadt, and other cities, and plates showing weapons, hospitals, batteries, storehouses, military structures, &.
$749 USD Book Number: MLApoDEL68 Order / Enquire

DENISON, George T[aylor] [1839-1925].
A History Of Cavalry from the Earliest Times With Lessons For The Future.
London: Macmillan And Co., 1877..
8vo. pp. xxii, [2]plate list, 567, [1]. with half-title. index. 11 maps & plans (3 folding). A nice copy in original cloth (spine bit faded). First Edition. Denison, lawyer, senior police magistrate of Toronto (1877-1923), and prominent figure in the Canada First and Imperial Federation Movements, succeeded his father in the command of the Toronto cavalry; this militia unit, Denison's Horse (renamed the Governor General's Body Guard), was raised by his grandfather in 1839. He saw active service in the Fenian Raids of 1866 and in the Northwest Rebellion in 1885, and wrote two important works on military subjects, Modern Cavalry and A History of Cavalry. The latter study, which includes chapters on the revolutionary wars of America and France and the American Civil War, was awarded a cash prize offered by the Russian government for the best history of cavalry. Although it received mixed reviews on publication, "it has since been hailed as the definitive work in its field" (Norman Knowles, DCB XV p. 272).
$400 USD Book Number: elala5759 Order / Enquire

DEUTSCHLAND. DER REICHSMINISTER DER LUFTFAHRT UND OBERBEFEHLSHABER DER LUFTWAFFE.
Schüleratlas Für Den Gebrauch An Den Schulen Der Luftwaffe. D. (Luft) 1227.
[Berlin:] January 1943..
folio. pp. 2 p.l., 56. numerous colour maps (1 double-page, 3 folding). cloth-backed wrs. (wrs. discoloured, 1 corner chipped away, several maps loose).
$350 USD Book Number: elala5122 Order / Enquire

DOYLE, Sir A[rthur] Conan [1859-1930].
The Great Boer War.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1900..
8vo. pp.x, 554, [10]ads. 5 folding coloured maps. original cloth (extremities bit frayed). First Edition, Eighth Impression. Green & Gibson B1a.
$250 USD Book Number: elala3693 Order / Enquire

EHRENKREUTZ, Baron Von.
Beschreibung des letzten Russisch-Türkischen Krieges.
Coblenz: F.Hölscher, 1831..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [vii]-viii, [2], 216, [2]errata. folding lithographed frontis. of Adrianople, 2 folding lithographed maps & 3 lithographed portraits. contemporary bds. (spine scraped & worn, some foxing throughout, library rubberstamps on title, front flyleaf & verso of frontis., short tear in frontis. fold - no loss). Second Edition (first published the previous year). Account of the Russian-Turkish War of 1828-29 which ended with the Russian capture of Adrianople.
$749 USD Book Number: elala3694 Order / Enquire

FAIRMAN, Lieutenant [W.B.].
A Letter Addressed To The Right Honourable William Windham, The Late Secretary At War, On The Expediency Of Allowing A Drawback Of The Duties Upon Wines For The Consumption Of The Army. Interspersed with Observations on the Insufficiency Of Military Pay,
London: Printed For Messrs. Carpenter, 1803..
8vo. pp. 88. with half-title. disbound. Second Edition. Goldsmiths' 18685.
$154 USD Book Number: MIRLeFAI32 Order / Enquire

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