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
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
A History. Pp.x+880, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, vignette title page printed in red & black , index; small f'cap. 8vo; limp maroon leather, lettered and decorated in gilt, slightly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed, spine slightly faded and lightly worn at extremities; t.e.g.; ribbon marker; bookplate of Benjamin Tindale..... More
Pp. xx+496, further reading, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corners of boards lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, the backstrip browned, edges lightly rubbed and split; name in ink at head of upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, a little..... More
Volume 1: The Rebel 1890-1944; Volume 2: The Ruler 1945-1970. In two volumes. Pp. viii+616(last blank)+x+640, 48 plates, notes, bibliography, indices; thick med. 8vo; black boards, spines lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrappers; ownership name on upper free endpaper of Volume I, occasional marginal scoring; Collins Harvill, London, 1990; 1991..... More
France in the Pacific 1695-1995. Pp. 320, text illustrations and maps, sources, index; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Heritage Press ,Waikanae, New Zealand, 1997. More
France and the Foreign Legion. Pp. 352, 16 plates, text plus endpaper maps, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Grafton, London, 1986. First edition. More
Pp. xviii+110(last blank), chronology, notes, sources and short reading list, index; demy 8vo; olive green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle bowed; dust wrapper; endpapers slightly offset, a little faint foxing; Macmillan Press, London, 1984. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his..... More
Letters from his Aide-de-Camp. Translated with a preface by Georges J. Joyaux. Foreword by Bruce Catton. Illustrated by Gil Walker. Pp. 318(last blank), half-title page vignette, text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, notes; boards slightly scuffed; top edges orange; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; edges of leaves faintly foxed;..... More
A life of Madame de Stael. Pp. xii+486, frontispiece, plus 14 plates, bibliographic notes, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, the spine extremities and top fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled; bookplate of Benjamin..... More
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Twenty volumes. Totalling over 7,000 pages, 120 plates with lettered guards, the title pages printed in red & black; tall demy 8vo; green cloth, printed paper title labels (discoloured) on spines, the cloth lightly flecked and/or rubbed, occasionally slightly mottled, a couple of fore-corners bruised; t.e.g., others uncut, sometimes partly..... More