A Guardsman's Letters in the Crimea, 1854-1855. Pp. 32, coloured frontispiece and 17 black & white plates, bibliography; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt insignia and blind rule border to upper board, a little worn; leaves browned and foxed; Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1933. First..... More
The Peninsular War reminiscences of General Sir Thomas Brotherton, CB. Pp. 84, text illustrations; small demy 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly browned, foxed on reverse; upper endpapers lightly offset; The Regimental Association 14th/20th King's Hussars, Chippenham, Wilts., 1986. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label..... More
Letters and Diaries of Major the Hon Edward Charles Cocks 1786-1812. Foreword by David Chandler. Pp. 256(last blank), 8 plates, text illustrations and maps, pictorial endpapers, appendices, sources, references, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; Spellmount, Tunbridge Wells, 1986. First U.K. edition. Spellmount Military series. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile..... More
Battlefields of the Peninsular War. Pp. 176, 40 colour plates plus numerous black and white text illustrations, including several maps, appendix, index; roy. 8vo; head of spine a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, front panel lightly scratched, head of backstrip slightly creased; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Spellmount, Staplehurst..... More
A History of the Peninsular War. Pp. xiv+558(last blank), numerous illustrations and maps, appendix, references, select bibliography, index; thick med. 8vo; dust wrapper, verso a little browned and lightly foxed; edges of leaves lightly browned; George Allen & Unwin, 1986. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine..... More
The letters of George Hennell from the Peninsular War 1812-1813. Edited by Michael Glover. Pp. [vi]+382(last blank), 12 plates, text illustrations and maps (some full page), appendices, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, lightly browned and foxed; endpapers lightly offset, edges of leaves foxed; Heinemann, London, 1979. First trade edition. *From..... More
A life of General Le Marchant 1766-1812. Pp. xii+212, frontispiece and 8 plates, text illustrations including maps, bibliography, index; price clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly worn and split, foxed and browned on reverse; endpapers offset, edges of leaves browned and foxed; Oxford University Press, London, 1968. First edition. *From the..... More
The sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809. Pp. x+278, 8 plates, 4 full page text maps, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; top edges of leaves red; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges worn and a trifle split, one small and one 5cm closed tears from bottom edge into front panel, backstrip slightly sunned; endpapers..... More
Edited by his son James Tomkinson. Pp. x+356, frontispiece portrait and 2 plates, 3 folding maps, plus endpaper maps, tables, appendix, index; black cloth, lettered and decorated in silver, light bruise to top edge of upper board near spine; top edges silver (slightly flecked); price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly discoloured..... 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 Soldier's Wife. Introduction by Elizabeth Longford. Pp. xiv+1786, 8 plates, 2 full page maps, appendices, manuscript and published sources, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; text block slightly browned; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987. First edition. *The story of the marriage of Kitty Pakenham and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of..... More