Edited by Somerset De Chair. With a special preface by M. Gerard Hubert. Pp. liv+606, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 2 plates, 4 maps (2 folding), appendices (including a folding table), index; handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised..... More
Napoleon and the first world war 1792-1815. Pp. 374(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations (some full page), 10 maps (2 double and 1 full page), bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, foxed on reverse; endpapers and edges of leaves foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1989. First edition. *From the library of Sydney..... More
Illustriert von Horaz Vernet. [Text in German] Pp. [vi](half-title page, frontispiece and illustrated title page)+904, illustrated throughout by Horaz Vernet; roy. 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards ruled and decorated in blind, edges worn, short split in lower joint towards top edge; ownership name stamp on..... More
A biography. Pp. [xii]+740(last blank), 15 plates (one double page), double page map, battle plans, sources, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper; a couple of leaves lightly creased, edges a trifle soiled; Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. First edition. More
Pp. xxxii+350, 15 plates (one double page, 6 coloured in full or part), 3 maps (one full, two double page), notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle sprung, with 2 small bruises to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper; Weidenfeld &..... More
Pp. [viii]+216, 8 plates, genealogical table, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, foxed on reverse and flaps; foxing to endpapers and top edges of leaves; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1986. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown. *..... More
The history of four days, three armies and three battles. Pp. 352, coloured illustrations and maps, some full and double page, pictorial endpapers, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; top fore-corner of a few leaves lightly creased; Williams Collins, London, 2014. First edition. *From..... More
The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Pp. xii+228, 8 plates, text illustration, appendix, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lower fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper; Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, 2011..... More
From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. In six volumes, totalling approximately 3,000 pages, with frontispiece portrait to Volume I, plus 55 plates (maps, battle plans), appendices; cr. 8vo; school prize binding by Relfe Brothers in full calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, with gilt..... More
From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814. New Edition, Revised by the Author, with fifty-five maps and plans. In six volumes, totalling approximately 3,000 pages, with 55 plates, appendices, justificatory notes, replies and counter remarks in Volume VI; nineteenth century full calf, the spines decorated in gilt compartments between..... More
Translated and Edited by T. Jones. Pp. xxiv+200, frontispiece, 3 text maps, chronological table, appendices, biographical notes, select bibliography, indices; demy 8vo; boards with overall spotted fading; dust wrapper, edges browned and worn; leaves browned and foxed; Longmans, Green, London, 1969. First edition. Military Memoirs series. *From the library of..... More
now the 1st Battalion Princess Louis's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders). Pp. xvi+414(last colophon), frontispiece, tissue guard, 16 plates, 14 folding maps, appendices; demy 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, short split at foot of spine, boards and edges lightly marked or bumped; t.e.g., others uncut; some light foxing;..... More
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington 1769-1852. Pp. xii+308, 8 plates, 5 text maps (one double page), index; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, the backstrip a trifle faded; Macmillan, London, 1964. First edition. *'A background to the major events of British history from 1780 to 1850, taking..... More
A triangular friendship. Pp. x+170, 30 text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, sources, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper, lightly browned on reverse; Alan Sutton Publishing Limited, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1994. First U.K. edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label (lightly offset) on verso of upper..... More