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984 Falconer (William). An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: or a Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements and Military Operations of a Ship, new edition, corrected, T.Cadell, 1789, twelve uncoloured folding engraved plates, some spotting, 20th century ownership signature to front pastedown, contemporary calf, old reback, rubbed and some wear, with upper cover detached, 4to (1)
988 Welcher (Frank). The Union Army 1861-1865, Organisation and Operations, Volume I: The Eastern Theater, 1st edition, Indiania University Press, 1989, original cloth in dust jacket, a little sunned, large thick 8vo, together with Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 4 volumes, reprinted Castle, circa 1980, numerous monochrome illustrations to text, all original cloth in matching dust jackets, large thick 8vo, plus other modern military history, mainly relating to the United States and the American Civil War, all modern publications, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, VG (approximately 130 volumes)
£150-200
985 Hitler (Adolf). Mein Kampf, 2 volumes bound in 1, Munich: NSDAP, circa 1940, bound without half and main title to volume 2 but divisional title present, adverts at rear, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original(?) red crushed morocco gilt with raised bands to spine, rubbed, large 8vo
(6 shelves)
989 Oman (Sir Charles). A History of the Peninsular War, 4 volumes, reprinted, Greenhill Books, 1995, original uniform maroon cloth gilt in dust jackets, thick 8vo, VG, together with Thomson (Captain Mowbray), The Story of Cawnpore, The Indian Mutiny 1857, reprinted, Tom Donovan, 1995, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, VG, plus Hamilton-Williams (David), Waterloo, New Perspectives, The Great Battle Reappraised, 1st edition, Arms & Armour Press, 1993, monochrome illustrations, orginal black cloth gilt in dust jacket, 8vo, VG, and other mostly British and European military history, all modern publications, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, generally VG (approximately 130 volumes)
An undated deluxe edition on good quality paper. £200-300 (1)
986 James (Lieut-Col. F.H.). History of the 1st Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley’s), 1st ed., 1938, colour portrait frontispiece, folding maps, illustrations, a little light spotting, bookplate of 1st Battalion Rajputana Rifles, original green cloth, 4to, with another copy of the same (2)
£70-100
987 Johnson (Thomas M.). Collecting the Edged Weapons of the Third Reich, 5 volumes, mixed editions, Columbia, 1982-85, numerous monochrome illustrations after photos, all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with Norman (A.V.B.), The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1460-1820, 1st UK edition, Arms & Armour Press, 1980, colour frontispiece and monochrome illustrations, original black cloth gilt in dust jacket, a little rubbed and one or two short tears, plus Gardner (G.B.), Keris & Other Malay Weapons, edited by B. Lumsden Milne, Singapore, 1936, monochrome illustrations, original cloth, some light marks, limited signed edition 34/150, with an original typewritten letter from the publishers dated 22 April 1936, presenting the volume to H.G. Collins of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, attached to front pastedown, 4to, and others on swords and weaponry, including Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-hilted Swords, Boydell Press/Royal Armouries, 2005, Richard Bezdek, Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland, Boulder, Colorado, 2003, H. Gordon Frost, Blades and Barrels, Six Centuries of Combination Weapons, Walloon Press, 1972, Geoffrey Tweedale, The Sheffield Knife Book, Hallamshire Press, 1996, John R. Angolia, Swords of Hitler's Third Reich, 1969, limited signed edition 227/500, George C. Neumann, Swords & Blades of the American Revolution, 1973, etc., all original cloth, 4to/8vo (18)
£150-200
(6 shelves)
£150-200
990 Murray (Archibald K.) History of the Scottish Regiments in the British Army, 1st ed., Glasgow, 1862, 47 maps and plates, most colour, scattered light spotting, original red cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed and darkened, small 4to, together with The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918, by Lieut.-Col. Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg, 3 vols., 1st ed., OUP, 1928, 27 folding maps to volume III, one-page typescript presentation letter from Colonel Hill, Commanding, dated 1951 pasted at front of volume I, original blue cloth (spine ends a little rubbed), dust jackets, a few chips and losses, 8vo, plus five other Scottish regimental histories including Lawrence Weaver’s The Story of the Royal Scots (the Lothian Regiment), 1915, Captain D. Mackenzie’s The Sixth Gordons in France and Flanders (with the 7th and 51st Divisions), 1921 and R.R. Thompson’s The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918, 1923 (9)
£150-200
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£150-200